Jr. Prom

First high school dance!  I had a really fun time at Prom and was super glad I was able to go.

A boy in my ward, Matthew Slack, asked me to prom.  We were in a group with his brother, Hyrum, and a group of kids from band.  They were a super fun group to go with and they were all super nice.

Matthew asked me a couple weeks before prom on Brooklyn's birthday.  After Brooklyn's birthday party, my dad gets a text and asks if I've been asked to prom. I told him I haven't and asked him who asked.  He told my our neighbors the Slacks asked.  I then thought oh boy.

Later that night, while I was in the backyard, Logan yelled from the house that the door was for me.  I opened the front door and found a poster with a box of noodles on the porch.  The poster said, "Emily-  What's the 'pasta-bility' you'd go prom with me? Find my name in the pasta."  In the pasta I found the name Matthew Slack.  I then sent my response a couple days later.  My poster said, "There's a big 'pasta-bility' I'd go to prom with you. Find my answer in the pasta."  I made a bowl of pasta and hid my answer in the pasta.  The answer of course was yes!

On the day of the dance for the day date, our group went and played laser tag at the fun park in town. It was lots of fun.  We then got some ice cream at Macey's.

That evening Matthew picked me up for dinner, pictures, and the dance.  When he picked me gave me a really pretty corsage and I gave him his boutonniere.   We then went with Matthew's brother to go pick up his date.  When Matthew's brother, Hyrum, went to the door to pick up his date, the first thing his date noticed was that he wearing the wrong color tie. I think he did it on purpose because, when we went back to Matthew's house to get Hyrum a better tie, we found out that the boys had prepared dinner there.  We had a delicious dinner at Matthew's house.  The boys were such gentlemen and served us dinner that they made, pasta, chicken, bread sticks, and salad. We also has Martinelli's.  It was super fancy.  After dinner we did pictures.

We took the picture up at the USU campus.  A lady in our ward took them and did a really good job.  The pictures were fun and they turned out really good.  Matthew is super tall and I am short and the pictures definitely showed that.  We took lots of different pictures, ones of the whole group, couples pictures, and girls and boys pictures.  I liked the ones we took outside.

We took a spinning picture that was fun to do.  

We took a lot of pictures. My favorite pictures are the one of Matthew and I outside, the group pictures we took outside and on the stairs, the ones with just the girls, and the pretty picture of all the girls' corsages together.

In our group starting at the top left was, Hyrum and his date Megan,  Matthew and me, middle row, Karston and his date Tyler, Miles and his date Rachel, and in the front, Zack and his date Ashley.  I don't know them too well but they were all really fun.

After some fun pictures it was time for the dance. Almost... When we got done with pictures, the dance had just started and all the girls did not want to get to the dance early.  We wanted to be fashionably late.  So we all had the boys drive around a bit before we finally decided what the group wanted to do.  We then decided to got to Macey's again and get some more ice cream.  At Macey's we ate our ice cream and hung out. We saw our bishop and his daughter. We also saw a girl from our ward who as working there that night.  While we ate our ice cream, Matthew and I talked about marching band other things.  Finally when we all were done with our ice cream we were ready to go to the dance.

The dance was super fun and there were a lot of people.  I saw lot of my friends there and said hi to them.  There was only one slow song and then a lot of the songs I didn't really know.  But is was still fun.  We were at the dance for about a hour and a half and then we went back to Matthew's house. The dance was super fun and I can't wait to go to another one.

At Matthew's house we had some mini cheese cakes.  We were all really tired.  We went downstairs to watch a movie but we just ended up hanging out and talking.  Hyrum then turned on the kid show, Bluey, for fun and we watched that for a few minutes.  It was then time to go home. Since I just lived down the street, Matthew walked me home. By that time it was about close to midnight and we were both really tired from a long fun day.

Prom was super fun and I am glad that Matthew asked me to the dance.  It was a great first dance experience and I can't wait to go to another one.  Matthew was a really fun and super nice date.  It was a really fun time.

Baby Animal Days

The American West Heritage Center Baby Animal Days has been a family tradition for many years. This year Tiffany, Emily, and Colby worked there during the festival. Colby was able to hang out for a few hours before he went to work at his first job at the concession stand. Emily also worked at the concession stand and the gift shop while Tiffany sold tickets all day.  

The kids love going and seeing all the different types of animals. They have the baby bears every year, but every time we see them they are sleeping and just lying around. This year, though, the bears were actually up and moving around and growling. The kids loved it. There was a guy who had turkeys and a chicken that were as tame as pets. The kids loved taking turns holding the chicken.  

We had to go back a few times to get to see everything due to it being so busy. Brooklyn was bound and determine to ride the train and ponies. We came back on Saturday early to get in line before it opened and got on both really quick. Brooklyn was happy we were able to ride the train and ponies.  Charlotte is also still able to ride the ponies and she loved it as well.

The next best thing at the end of the day was panning for gold. Logan and Charlotte were able to find little pieces of fool's gold. Brooklyn looked like she peeped her pants because she got so wet from the river water.

 The kids saw the buffalo and asked if we could take a wagon ride and see them. We have never done the Bison Tour before so we thought this would be interesting. We were able to get our hook up with tickets because I knew a cute ticket lady. It was fun seeing the buffalo. They came up and sniffed our hands!

It was pretty cool to learn more about the bison and see them up close.  We love going to Baby Animal Days.

Ogden Dinosaur Park

This year for Christmas the kids got free passes to the Ogden Dinosaur Park. We have never been before, so we took a day during Spring Break and had a fun adventure. 

It was quite impressive for how small the building was. Inside there were life size skeletons of ancient dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. They were quite impressive. There were also many fossils and life sized animatronics of dinosaurs. One room was full of rocks, gems, and geodes. Colby loved the huge geode that was the size of his body.  

Throughout the whole outside of the park, there were life sized dinosaurs replicas. It was a little chilly but we made it through the whole thing. We have been to at least 4 of the dinosaur attractions throughout the state and each one has their own unique way to show off these amazing creatures. 

Of course we had to take some fun pictures of the dinosaurs getting us and being scared. 

The kids had a great time and once we were done we were off to the next adventure, Scheels.

We also had free passes to the Ferris Wheel at Scheels. This was really fun to take the kids on. Brooklyn and Charlotte were a little scared and didn’t want us to rock the seat while we were up at the top. I was okay with this because I was a little scared too. But overall it was fun and they liked it.

We also like wandering the whole store making wish lists. As you can see, Brooklyn wants the little weights so she can get stronger!  It was a great day for everyone.