Happy 31st Birthday, Lasses!!!

The Young Women’s group down in Lexie’s ward mailed these hearts to sneakily put these hearts on Lexie’s door!  I’m super impressed by their planning ahead & thoughtfulness.

It was a hot and balmy 88 degrees today, but Lexie wanted Mom’s chicken & barley soup for her birthday dinner, so that’s what she got.  It’s super delicious, and Mom and I put the fan on us while we ate it so we didn’t break out into a sweat.

Jackson is a very picky eater.  Lexie told him he had to eat some soup if he wanted dinner.  This was his facial expression after she made him eat a carrot!  We were laughing SO HARD!

After dinner, we all had to get our tickets to the kid’s talent “show” that they handed out to us yesterday.

Here’s the excited audience.  We were waiting w/ baited breath for the show to start.

Andrew introduced the show by explaining what would happen.  Here are the other 2 just waiting their turns to show their talents.

Each of them showed us a Lego thing they had made.  Then Andrew showed us how “awesomely” he can shoot rubber arrows w/ “Eye Of The Tiger” playing in the background.  It was hard to keep a straight face, so we just applauded loudly.  Then Jackson needed help w/ his Lego creation while Andrew showed us some sweet dance moves.

I know this picture is blurry, but it’s Autumn doing her talent of singing and dancing.  Again, we just applauded a lot.

Here they are taking a bow.  It was a cute talent show and one that we’ll for sure use for blackmail when they’re teenagers.

For Lexie’s birthday dessert she asked for sheet cake eclairs.  I love this picture of her w/ her 3 boys, and how Andrew is unknowingly “helping” her blow out the candle.  I’m so thankful that we’re not just sisters, but also friends.  I gave her an Anne of Green Gables DVD for her birthday, b/c she loves it and didn’t have it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LASSES!!!