I hope they call me on a mission

On May 18th Stockton finally received his mission call! He had waited all month for this, well all of us had been pretty anxious too and even the day he received his call we weren't so sure it would be there since it took all day to get to the house.

Justin and I got the mass text announcing it was there and by the time we got there, cars lined the road. It was amazing to see the love and support he received from friends and family (Several people were holding phones out, so those who couldn't be there could hear it!) because he has been looking forward to this for some time now and he will be the last of his friends to leave on a mission this year.

So we are all pretty excited, especially him and very proud of his dedication to serve the Lord. I think he'll be a fantastic missionary and look forward to hearing all about it after he leaves. Where is he going, well your going to have to check the video to find out!

"Missionary service is not easy, but it is infinitely worth it."

M. Russell Ballard - 2005, Apr. Gen. Conf. "...be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." Peter . - 1 Peter 3:15 Oh and the video is sideways, don't know how to fix that but let me know if you do :)

Play Dough Cookies

Looking for a fun cookies recipe well, try this Play Dough Cookies recipe I found at yummly.com. Yes it is edible and very cool to look at. Ikaika had a lot of fun making shapes with his cookie dough just like real play-dough :) I posted the recipe below

Yummly

Play Dough Cookies

Source: AllRecipes Rating: none

IngredientsServes: 12

3/4cup butter (softened)

3 oz cream cheese

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 3/4cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4tsp salt

food coloring (assorted colors of paste)

24 lollipop (sticks)

Method

1 In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.

2 In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.

3 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.

4 Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.

Mother's are Awesome!

I'm so grateful to my mom and so grateful to be a mom to my son. So with mothers day coming up there are a lot of fun things to do for your mom, one activity we did for young womens was a bath Sunday... check it out! I believe you can find the idea at snickerdoodle.net

If you were wondering what it says:

This very special Sunday,

will leave you felling great.

It's chock full of good things,

even though it can't be ate.

Take it in the bath with you.

Of course don't take a sip,

cause it may look delicious,

but it's made to take a dip.

Happy Mother's Day!!

You're not going to wear that are you?

Just as we were about to leave the house, I turn around to find this...

Floods for pants, a patterned shirt with a different patterned tie and yes those were his church shoes for the day. Needless to day, I think Dad's officially blind at least when it comes to matching. lol! By the way, should I mention before I took this picture that he was wearing a belt on pants with no belt loops. ha ha! Anyhow, Justin and I had a good laugh and Ikaika of course thought he was hilarious.

Below is his new outfit...something that matches :)

Easter Fun!!

As tradition, went to Vegas for Easter, visited with our wonderful

family, had a blast and fell asleep on the car ride home :)

P.S. Check out Ikaika's Easter video, you never know what he's going to do but he always makes me laugh

"Eggs"ellent Easter Eggs

I know this is a little late but for our young womens activity the week before Easter, we had a fun easter egg decorating contest! Unfortunately I wasn't able to get pictures of the all the other eggs, which were pretty creative if you ask me. There was a chicken complete with it's own yellow feather, painted eggs, dyed eggs and eggs custom designed with crayons and stickers.

Just like Daddy

Who knew explaining to Ikaika that his middle name is his daddy's name could be so confusing...

Me"Your middle name is Justin"

Ikaika "So my middle name is Daddy?"

Me "No, you share Daddy's name, it's Justin"

Ikaika "No my middle name is Daddy, so I'm the Daddy now"

I love this kid with all my heart, so proud to be his mama!