Rockin' Sunday!!!

Once a month my family gets together for Sunday dinner. This month it was at my house and we grubbed!!! Cody brought over his new PS2 game. I can't remember exactly what it's called but basically it's like karoke but with guitars---that's how Cody explained it anyway. So you have two players, two guitars (instead of controllers) and the notes that you have to play come up on the screen. At the end of the song it tells you who won and what percentage of the notes you hit. Needless to say it was quite the competition!! As you can tell by the look on Uncle Carl's face below you have to concentrate pretty hard & it can get a little nerve racking!!! My friend Missy and I kept on playing after everyone left and finally had to quit about 10pm because our hands were starting to cramp up. We'll be playing it again tonight for FHE if anyone wants to come over!!!

Garage Sale!!!!

Jed's sister Lesa asked us if she could have a garage sale at our house on Saturday----I said "sure---as long as I don't have to do any of the work but more importantly that I don't end up with more junk then I started with.......basically meaning that Jed was not allowed to keep anyting that Lesa brought over. I love my father-in-law but he has cursed all of his children with a terrible habit........being Pack RATS!!!!! For instance......when Jed's grandma died she had saved little bunches of yarn that was left over from her knitting----and yes, Lesa actually took it home!!!---dont' deny it Lesa---it's true! They even tried to divide up her old rusty cookie sheets and I'm all "chuck those suckers!!!" Anyway, I could go on and on about with more stories so I should probably stop now. The garage sale was a huge success. Lesa sold tons and tons of kids clothes.
















I think Kylee was much more excited about the 10 sodas that she sold though. Every time someone would buy one she would come running to me and yelling at the top of her lungs "Aunt Malani (yes she says malani, not nalani) I sold another one!!!!!" As you can tell from the picture ..Chad was just as much into the garage sale as I was!

BENJI WON!!!!!

I am happy to report that Benji won!!! He's a cute little returned missionary that tried out for the show to get over the fact that his girlfriend sent him a wedding annoucement a week before he got home!! As the judge Nigel said after his first performance (which was my favorite dance of the whole show---it was a hip-hop dance with Donyelle) "she'll wish she could come back to you sunshine after seeing that performance!" The picture above is of Benji dancing with his cousin Heidi who got 4th place in the whole show! I have no idea what I'll do on Wednesday nights now that the show is over----------only a few more weeks until the Bachelor starts!!!!

Look who's 60!!!

Here's something kind of funny.....both my dad and my father-in-law turned 60 this week!!! Now that is OLD!!! We celebrated my dad's b-day a month ago when we were all home. We celebrated my father-in-law Lynn's birthday on Sunday. The best part of the whole party is when Grandma Baadsgaard re-lit the birthday candles 5 times so each grandkid could have a turn blowing them out----she's fun like that!














This is a pretty typical Sunday out at the Baadsgaard "farm" as we like to call it. Jed's mom makes grubbin food every week and we all sit around stuffing our faces and having fun. I swear she nevers makes the same thing twice either! Above is Marie, Chad (Jed's brother), Brady and Lesa (Jed's sister). Fun stuff.

Weekend With the Wheelers

So we had a super fun weekend with Sarah and Caleb and their kids last weekend. They came down Friday night and Saturday morning we got up bright and early (9:30am) and the girls headed off for shopping and 7 Peaks Water Park and the boys headed off to go 4-wheelin!!!!! Jed took the boys up a trail called Mona Pole which basically goes up to Mount Nebo. You can see the awesome view behind Caleb in one picture. The other picture is of Jack and Carter at the opening of an old nickel mine. They thought they were pretty brave to go into the CAVE. You should have seen the bath water after the two little boys took a bath----Sarah and I were totally gagging! That night we had a good ole bbq and played games. We had so much fun with the Wheelers and their kids that we're going to do it all over again the first of September at their house---and of course go to the Blackfoot Fair!!!!

Tim & Faith

Friday night I went to the Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Concert. It was seriously the best concert I've ever been to! (and I've been to a lot of concerts I must say!). The stage was awesome---they sounded awesome--dispite the fact that the sound system in the Delta Center sucks--and they just seem like a good down to earth couple. I guess they decided to tour together so they could take their 3 little girls with them. I have my concert best friends which include Missy, Jeanette & Amy but I told Jed the next time Faith and Tim come in concert he is going!!!! (and yes, he just kind of grunted when I said that---he's not such a concert buff--oh well).

So You Think You Can D-D-D-Dance?????

So my girfriends and I are a little obsessed with a show called "So You Think You Can Dance?" We watch it every week religiously and pretty much trash talk the entire time we watch it about how much we either love or hate the dances!---Secretly I think we're all jealous that we can't seem to shake our booties like they do on the show. The dancing really is amazing. There's one kid that's our favorite this year--Benji! He's a cute little mormon kid who gave up dancing for two years to go on a mission. The judges actually refer to that fact quite often--I personally think he's been a great example for our church.
















Riz, Missy, Amy, Jen and Lani all calling in and voting for Benji!!! We are all so happy that Ivan and Natalie got kicked off last night! Next week is the big finale and YES---there will be another girls night for the big event!!!