Mother's Day:
For Mother's Day this year, my brothers and I bought my mom a bunch of petunias and vegetables for her garden, and then planted them the night before while I decorated the backyard with crepe paper and balloons. I also stayed up that night preparing a feast for the family in her honor for after they got home from church the next afternoon. We had lemon-herb grilled chicken tenders, tabouli salad, baked potatoes, broccoli salad, fresh pineapple, grapes and strawberries, and lemon and mint infused ice water. I must say the mingling of tastes was near perfection on the palate. For desert, we had blackberry cobbler, which was also pretty good. Lots of fun. After cooking the whole meal and setting up for the party practically by myself I now have a much greater appreciation for my mom and the feasts she prepares for us on Sundays. I still really enjoyed cooking, though, and think I might have to do it more often now!
Sleepovers:
These past few years I started having sleepover parties for the Kennington girl cousins, feeling like it would be good for us to have something fun to bond us together. Our first one was at Grandma's house in the summer. We watched Hairspray in the theaters, ordered pizza and hung out for the rest of the night. Mostly lame, but I did dress up my youngest brother as a girl and almost successfully passed him off as my cousin Treyna from my dad's side of the family to those there (it was pretty funny). Also, as you can see below, we took a picture of us in the backyard to give to grandma and grandpa for Christmas that year.
We had a sleepover last summer at Aunt Lisa's house in Eagle Mountain, where we went shopping, had the best pizza ever, play pranks on her wierd neighbor, gossipped til the sun came up and watched, at loooots of candy, and watched chick flicks to our hearts' content.In October we had a Halloween sleepover in grandma's basement, which I had decorated with many spooky accessories. The girls arrived in costume (I was a nightowl), and we yet again had the traditional pizza and pop, and we then went to the basement. 
Sophie even got in the Halloween spirit. She fully participated in the party until she passed out in a pile of feather boas around midnight.
Sophie even got in the Halloween spirit. She fully participated in the party until she passed out in a pile of feather boas around midnight.I had prepared for us to make one tied quilt per sleepover, so that eventually each girl would have her own quilt to bring to future sleepovers. It was a good activity for us to talk during and watch movies to. I also got all of Tim Burton's kid-appropriate movies for us to watch that night. We actually went through all the movies and tied a total of four quilts that night!
Of course, due must be given to Aunt Annette and Daniela (my sister-in-law) who were pretty much fully responsible for tying the last quilt or two. The other girls were too intrigued by their spoooky makeovers and Beetlejuice and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. 
Of course, due must be given to Aunt Annette and Daniela (my sister-in-law) who were pretty much fully responsible for tying the last quilt or two. The other girls were too intrigued by their spoooky makeovers and Beetlejuice and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. It was crazy! Those little girls were up all night long- waaay past us teenagers and grownups! I had a lot of fun taking pictures this night, because of all the props from the costumes, decor and freaky makeovers. The next day, I took a picture of the 2 little girls fake sleeping in a pile of blankets, and later this year I completely a drawing of the scene, which won an award of excellence at SLCC's art show. I laugh to think that they were totally posing for that serene picture of them fake-sleeping!
This is the morning after, in October! It looked and felt like summer then! We were so tired, the girls on the swing sat there for a very long time, staring off into space and not moving a single part of their bodies. I think that means that they had fun.
This is the morning after, in October! It looked and felt like summer then! We were so tired, the girls on the swing sat there for a very long time, staring off into space and not moving a single part of their bodies. I think that means that they had fun. 
The last sleep over we had was in December. I've always loved the Nutcracker ballet and even collect nutcrackers, so I thought it would be fun to go see the ballet and have a sleepover afterwards, at my house in my studio which I'd decorated for the holidays. The ballet we went to actually sucked, so I felt bad that I dragged all those people to it. But, the sleepover was way fun! I made them little felt stockings, filled with candy for the movies, and some walnuts from our tree and a little $1 nutcracker ornament, as a sort of memento for the evening at the ballet. I had promised the mothers that I would make sure the kids didn't stay up all night long again and I was pretty darn tired, myself, but around 1 in the morning, the little girls decided they weren't tired and they wanted to do crafts. Sooo... I decided we could go ahead and make a huge mess. We made clothespin dolls and then unicorn/pegasus gloves (horse's head is middle finger, other fingers are it's legs).
They spent a while just playing with their gloves and dolls, and then we watched "The Brother's Grimm", which it turned out was muuuch scarier than I'd thought it was. It was especially terrifying when, at 3 in the morning, my 18-year-old bro Casey arrived home and I saw his face appear out of the darkness right before he pounded on the door to the side of the house, also right up again the mattresses the girls were laying on. We scared him pretty badly, too, with our screams, though!Yep, so we've had fun. I'm getting excited for summer, because we can have a little campout in my backyard. Kailey just suggested we have a scrapbooking sleepover to scrapbook our sleepover adventures. I've got lots of supplies from previous stints at scrapbooking, so it is on!
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