Late over, swim parties & Libby Lu

This weekend started off with Zoë's 'late over' to celebrate her 8th birthday. She invited her cousins, Primary friends and a school friend. We ate yummy snacks & cake, painted our nails, watched 'Camp Rock' and opened birthday presents. It was a blast!

We were invited to two birthday/swim parties on Saturday and attended both, even though they over-lapped each other. The first two pictures were at the house of a co-worker of Leslie's. Trevor is in mid-air in the first one and Zoë is about to hit the water in the second one. Trevor is having fun singing with Elmo in the 3rd one.

This party was at a house on Sunrise Mountain. Sorry the picture is so dark. I you look close you can see the temple spires (that's probably spelled wrong....) on the left of the picture below the tree. (Yes - below the tree!) We were so high! The pool is through the gate on the right of the picture. It has a diving board and the kids were dissapointed that I didn't get any pictures of them jumping in. I was a little too busy jacking up the settings on Dave's new cell phone while he swam with his kids - it was pay back. He stuck ice down my shirt earlier in the party and it went all the way down out of the bottom of my capris! I also accidentally spilled my cup full of ice water down his back before giving him his phone back. (oops! It was Brad's idea.....) This picture is Trevor wacking the piñata that Susie made. It was a cute lady bug.

Today was Mommy & Zoë day. (Each of them get Mom to themselves one day out of the year around their birthday time. They get to choose what they want to do and where they want to go.) Last year Zoë wanted to go and play the midway games at the NY NY hotel, which was a blast I must say! This year she chose to get a makeover at Libby Lu. She got her hair and nails done, chose a DJ headpiece and rainbow hair piece for her accessories, and made her own 'Sparkle Spa' kit complete with perfume, soap, hand gel, and about 10 other things that I can't remember right now. We went to lunch in he food court in the mall after Libby Lu and then shopped for a new dress for her baptism day. We had no luck at all - are there no dresses out there with sleeves?!?! It was driving me crazy! We have yet to find a cute, fancy, modest dress for her. Hopefully we'll luck out soon.

Sorry to expose you to this picture of me, but I had to show off the necklace that my Dad made for me at Girls Camp this year. Zoë has one, too. Isn't it cute? I think it's just a giant washer with designed contact paper stuck to it, and it's laced up with necklace string and a jewelry hook. I have had so many compliments on it! He made all us girls brown and pink bracelets last year, but mine wore out a long time ago!