For my mother....

Buddy got to try out his fancy new soccer equipment today....

We're pretty awesome, we actually put the equipment on the right way before practice today (errr, shin guards just make more sense on the outside, but that's just me....perhaps against the rest of the soccer world)! Anyway, I've been doing some serious "churchy" things lately (that's in the Danni scale of playing wallflower). I would like to give my thanks to this lady right here....

That's my friend Jenni (with Buddy's BFF in the back, since Jenni happens to be his mom)...it's almost scary how you can download someone else's picture with the click of a button isn't it... somehow when you're friends with Jenni, she announces to people you don't have callings and then asks you to give a devotional at girls camp. When it came to giving the devotional, I called my mom and even my nieces several times to go over what I was going to say since Buddy and Shane are about on the same level when it comes to talking about church (well, actually Buddy is better about it). Anyway mom, these are for you. First my cards that I gave the girls.....after an awesome story about the Sneetches of course....

Then later....much, much, much later, I gave out these pictures compliments of my friend who donated his awesome picture to my cause....http://www.alanfullmer.com/blog/

Of course when I printed it, I (meaning Shane), used photoshop and printed "I am Divine Royalty and this is my castle" in the corner.....I had a little bit of a grammatical error, but when an agnostic is doing your LDS handouts, there is no complaining from this peanut gallery! I didn't do as great with the devotional as I had hoped, but I'm still alive, so maybe I did, since I guess my biggest fear is death by public speaking.
Next up are my "goodies" for my ladies in my district that I'm visiting teaching supervisor for. I found this cute saying and then decided I needed to print and frame them cause I thought they were that AWESOME...

It says "Don't forget to be awesome   everyday" although when I gave one to my VT companion she thought it said "don't be awesome" and she was excited to have it finally in writing....and it's still giving me the giggles hours later! Then I was looking for some sort of reminder, but seriously, we're grown women, I don't need a "do it/done" sign like I kept finding all over the Internet, so I found this to be a little bit more apropos...

I photo shopped it myself and then made it into a magnet...yay for printers, cause seriously, I love mine (thanks mom)! Then since you can't think of Relief Society without thinking of food....oh, is that just me, did I just answer my own internal questions about why my arms jiggle? I added this....

Which I did find online, but it didn't turn out quite as cute as I had hoped, but who cares when there is a peppermint patty underneath? Anyway,  there it is mom....now you can gush about how much of an evil genius photo shopper I am! The rest of you, at least, are on notice to avoid Jenni at all costs.....just kidding, she's tons of fun, even if she does see through my wallflower rouse! So all in all a super fantastic, wearing our shin guards correctly, day!

Boys....

After dinner the boys climbed up onto the roof to watch the sunset per Buddy's request.....

I guess you can never have too many binoculars, walkie talkies.....or fancy rooftop poses....

Next time I'm sending up my stunt-double, but that may just be my fear of heights....more specifically my fear of falling and splatting head first onto concrete... talking. So all in all a super fantastic, sun setting day!

Stuck.....

This morning Buddy got stuck in a box, thankfully the TV was on, and perhaps more thankfully the TV was on a kiddie friendly show..... Hmmmm, I'm assuming if he minded too bad he would've moved around and somehow escaped.....or yelled loud enough to wake me up......errrrr, I did wake up, just not sure if there was yelling involved prior to my waking! So all in all a super fantastic, stuck, day!

Going local....

Last week we won a silent auction at Buddy's school for some ATV tours around Waipio Valley. Let's just say it was more than super fantastic. I mean seriously with a driver like this.....

it's bound to be good. Plus, Buddy even found a stage....

Thank goodness Buddy has been perfecting his one-man show for years, since there is only room for one on Buddy's "stage"! And seriously, if the stage weren't enough,  the views were none too shabby either....

So all in all a super fantastic, ridetherim, day!

The making of a super hero.....

It takes a lot of work and effort to be a super hero. First you have to make sure your super eyes are still, well, super.....

Then  you have to make sure your super "golden" power shoes fit you to a tee....

Combine those two awesome powers and that my friends, makes for one fantastic super hero.....

Too bad his spelling super powers are currently on the fritz.....(translation for his front should say Buddy
reading, I'll just give him kudos for having a school related super power since all the other kids picked things like soccer, swimming and karate). So all in all a super fantastic, blind as a bat, but still kicking strong, day!

The Midas touch.....

Soccer season starts tomorrow for a certain little Buddy boy, which means tonight we picked up some necessary gear for our budding soccer star...

Ummm, I guess you don't have to be fashionable to be a soccer star....

Or maybe you do! Let me assure you that those golden cleats are perhaps the golden ticket to being awesome!!!!! I'm thinking perhaps the whole family should invest in some golden cleats to take the family from super fantastic to a whole new level of super wicked awesome fantastic! Yep, the cleats are that much of a hit! So all in all a super fantastic, soccer playing, day!

Tuckered out.....

My sweet little peanut pie put himself to bed tonight without the usual whining, sneaking and complaining... Perhaps he wore himself out at school getting an OUTSTANDING AWARD....

Who knew a tiny piece of pink paper would make a 7 year old all kerfuffley all over. Trust me, he showed EVERYONE his "award" on the way out of school. Or perhaps he was exhausted because after he begged and pleaded for a while, I finally broke and let him do this, this evening.....

Or perhaps he was so tired, because I worked last night so he stayed up all night reading books to himself. Errrrr, I want to pretend it was one of the other choices, although Shane said he was still reading when he went to bed last night! Nice parenting skills on that one. Oh well, GO LITERACY! So all in all a super fantastic, totally exhausted, day!