We started out with a very FUN primary activity. It was a journey with Lehi and his family as they left Jerusalem. The kids "journeyed" into different rooms where they did activities like Lehi's family did. From the Jerusalem room to the Returning for the Brass Plates to Searching for Food, Building a Boat, Crossing the Ocean to The Promised Land, the kids had a blast being "apart of the journey." The best part was that we had all the kids dress up in Book of Mormon costumes. Most of you know that I'm not very creative, but I was able to throw together a couple of very simple costumes for the kids.
When I asked the kids what they wanted to wear, they said "our dress-ups!" I had to nix that idea right away since we would have had Sleeping Beauty and a pirate at the activity - not exactly Book of Mormon characters. They were a little sad at first, but decided the other costumes would be fun too. 
Don't they look cute? I may be a bit biased, but I think they were the cutest kids there! I had on a costume too, but since I was in charge of the camera, I was able to avoid any embarrasing pictures of myself! After the activity we headed home to have lunch and get some stuff around the house done. After dinner, the boys headed off to a Utah Flash Basketball Game. Zach got the tickets from Junior Jazz and he wanted to take his Dad with him. So Hailey and I decided to have a little girls night out. I took her to her favorite store (Target, of course) and let her pick out some nail polish so that we could head home and paint our nails. She almost didn't want to even stop for a treat because she was so excited, but the the thought of sugar was enough to get her to pause for just a minute. She picked out some gummy bears and we headed home as fast as we dared drive to get painting. This is a picture of her on the couch after I painted her nails.
She picked out some red sparkly nail polish. I was sure it wouldn't show up as much as she would want, but she was determined that she wanted THAT color. If you know Hailey, then you know how determined she can be when she gets her mind set on something.
Pictures of both her toes and fingers - you'll have to look really hard to see the red sparkly polish. 
And despite that it didn't show up tremendously well, she was thrilled with it. I'm sure a lot of it had to do with the fact that she got to choose the color herself. But since she insisted that I paint my fingers and toes as well, I was glad it wasn't anything too flashy.
She and I had such a fun girls night painting our nails, eating gummy bears, and watching a movie on the couch. It was a very busy Saturday, but we sure had fun.
I also couldn't help but include this little video of my Hailey that I took on Friday night. She often runs throughout the house singing some sort of song or bit from a movie. If you don't believe me when I tell you that it's hard to get her to be quiet, let me just tell you that she continued to sing this song for a good hour before she went upstairs to get something and got sidetracked up there. Although, she did keep singing and we could hear her upstairs for quite a while.
(She's doing the "Baby Bop Hop" - yes, way too much Barney, but she loves it.)
She's definitely one of a kind!
4 comments:
Hilarious! I love the video of Hailey Bailey! She is just so dang cute! And the outfits are adorable for the primary activity. I think they turned out just great. However, a pirate and princess would have been funny! :)
I would have laughed if you had sent them in their pirate and princess costumes. There had to be pirates and a princess or two back then right? :)
Wow, fun day! I'm sad we missed the Party!! I think Madi would have loved that.. Thanks for all the hard work you guys do in Primary for ALLL the kids! You guys are great!
I think you are very creative, you don't give yourself the credit you deserve!! So fun to have a girls night out too! Tell Hailey she looks very beautiful in her pretty red nail polish!
Also, with the bday party, thank you so much for inviting us to the party, the kids had so much fun, it was fun watching them! You decided to give Zach a remote controlled truck....I am sure he loves it! I think all of our remote controlled toys are my boys' favorite toy they have, just gotta remember to keep up on charging and updated batteries! See you Thursday!
Post a Comment