Mormon prom.

Emily had the chance to go to the 'Mormon prom' on Saturday night. We went to Macy's last week to find a cute formal dress. We found this adorable one that was tea length and had a pink satin sash across the waist.



Emily didn't have any shoes that were formal enough, so naturally, we had to go to the Nordstrom kids section to find some. (What almost 17 year old has to wear a size 2 1/2 in kids?) All the cheap places to buy shoes didn't have anything fancy enough for her dress. . .so she got these cute shoes.



She had so much fun with her friends and she danced the night away! Now she'll have a dress for her senior prom! Hey, we killed two birds with one stone!

Spring Burst 5K.

Last Saturday, I participated in the Spring Burst 5 and 10K. My good friend from church, Rochelle and our friend Bethany participated also. We drove together and got there nice and early, but it was FREEZING! (And windy, so that didn't really help.)

Before the race! We're freezing our pants off!

Rochelle got the camera out and shot a picture of me crossing the finish line. . .yeah, I pretty much passed that guy on the left. :)

Next was the awards ceremony. I totally didn't pay attention, because I mean, look at me. . .do I really look like I could get an award at a race? They got to the 20-25 year olds and read off 1st place and then 2nd place, (mind you, I'm not listening at this time) and then I heard "Sarah Rayner." I pretty much had no clue what they were talking about! (The thoughts going through my head, "Is there another Sarah Rayner? Is there a 'chubby person who can run the entire race' award?") I went up there and got my red ribbon, and Rochelle and Bethany were like, "Sarah! You got 2nd!" I couldn't believe it. It made my day!



We waited around for the rest of the results and Bethany got 1st place in her age group! Totally awesome!


And then we had to have at least one funny picture.

Idaho -- Part 4.

I think this will be our last Idaho post, but we saved the best for last. (And there are a huge amount of pictures to go along with it!)

We all ended up at Ethan's house to just hang out and talk. We pulled out the camera to snap a few pictures of the family.

Philip, Kaylee and Baby Kayden.

Ethan, Linda, Andrew Max and Mikaela Rose.

And, as usual, we wanted to get pictures of the four kids. Yeah, that worked out real well. . .



We were trying to be serious in this one. . .everyone but Ethan pulled it off. He tried really hard, but failed.


And then we were making progress. Each of these pictures would have been great except for one person. I think we can all guess who that person is. Yes. The one in the grey shirt -- second from the left. Yes, I'm talking about YOU Philip! (You can click on the pictures to make them bigger -- so you can clearly see what I'm talking about.)

Great picture, except for Philip. Seriously. It's always Philip. He's been this way his entire life. Could he just be serious for one second?

And then I climbed on top of my brothers and sister. They obviously liked it a lot. He he.

Then, Andrew and Mikaela felt they needed to climb on. It was a family affair!

We just love our family. We would go to Idaho every month if we could afford it!

WalMart -- Idaho -- Part 3.

We not so regretfully have to interrupt our blogging of really cute children and not so cute brothers to send you this story. . .

Isn't it sad that the cool place to be in Idaho Falls is WalMart? We sure made the best of it, though! As we were checking out, Kaylee noticed one of those carts with an additional seating place for children. The cart read "For children and adults -- Weight limit: 200 lbs." Okay, children AND adults? No way! We hopped right on and headed for the door. Several workers were watching us, but who would stop two adults and say, "Um, excuse me. It looks as though together you weigh more than the 200 pound limit." We went right on outside; Emily pushing with all her might. Our family kind of ditched us, so Emily started running. Once they were in the parking lot they heard the sound of a giant shopping cart on asphalt. . .going full speed. They all turned around and started cracking up. I probably would have peed my pants from laughing if I saw it. . .oh wait. . .I did pee my pants from laughing with Kaylee on the cart! (Just kidding.) (But I almost did.) :)

Kaylee, these are SO going on Facebook once I'm done with the blog!