Crazy kids

This past weekend was Sweethearts with a Disney theme. Katie went with Lars Anderson, the little brother of her last dance date, Hans. You see, Katie originally asked Lars to Preference in January but he had already been asked...by one of Katie's good friends, Jenny. Oops. You know, the frenzy of "oh no! Everyone is already going to be asked, I need to ask someone and quick, no need to check all my sources first." Just a bit awkward. Lars sent Katie a really sweet sorry-I-have-already-been-asked-but-I-owe-you-a-date answer so here's that date. They went to the Provo Beach resort and bowled and went on the ropes course. Then after dinner they watched a movie and then went to the dance. So fun!

Near the beginning of the year we had a lesson in Relief Society about keeping the sabbath day holy. We have all heard this lesson a million times but this time it hit me a bit different than in the past. Over the last three years with Nelson as the Bishop, Sunday has kind of been up to me. After this lesson, I decided we needed to spend more time together, doing enjoyable or meaningful things. We also decided that there would be no computers and only one thing watched on TV which is usually a movie we all watch together. No facebook, no checking e-mail and no blogging (gulp). We have tried to do things that put us together, not separate us. Is this making sense? Well, it has been a rough change, even for me (no blogging) but it has been more fun and we have made an effort to play more games, write more to Jordan on her mission and do stuff like that. A lot of Sundays are still a struggle, you know, "there's nothing to do! this is so boring!". I think, however we made a huge breakthrough this past week. It only took eight weeks of Sundays for the kids themselves to initiate an activity. Have you ever seen the Mythbusters where they intertwine the pages of two phone books together page by page and then try to pull them apart? Well, David and Caroline tried it.

Oops! Some pages ripped off the end...

...Ok, let's flip back each page, page by page to get them apart...

...faster, faster...ripping, ripping...

...phonebook page angels...

...Katie on the chair foolishly thinking we will have a quiet Sunday, trying to nap...

Whooo-hooooo! This is what two phone books look like ripped apart page by page in case you had ever wondered.

Ok, napping is for the birds, this is more fun!

Whew, now we need a nap. I hope we continue to have some crazy family moments on Sundays.!

Katie has decided to run for student body president with her friend Ben as vice-president. They took pictures yesterday for their campaign posters. They are the Random Tandem. They have put videos on facebook of them doing random things and their posters were pretty fun. The primary elections are this Friday so we will know then if they get to move on to the finals next week.

Thanks to the Cox's for letting Katie use the bike for her photo shoot, and thanks to David and Caroline for taking such fun shots.