hula lula turns 7

The big "purse" party was held on Thursday in honor of Eliza birthday and while the darlings quietly sat around the table making crafts, I confessed for the first time in my life that girls are easier than boys. At least seven year old girl birthday parties. Also miraculously, the purse birthday cake turned out dang cute. Documentation provided for the doubters.

We spent a long and tedious day in Newport yesterday at a wrestling tournament. The only saving grace was that Dustin and Kimberly were there and we got to watch Corbin wrestle (do you call it that at that age?) He wasn't really into the actual wrestling thing, but he was an amazing escape artist. Also, seeing Kimberly's bulging belly was totally worth the drive. Both Corbin and Wilson took first in their weight class. It is still very hard to watch Wilson wrestle, mostly because I feel so sorry for the other kid. I think Wilson thinks you are awarded extra points if you make your opponent cry.

Cooper finally got to spend the night with Grandma and Grandpa for his birthday and this is his report:

We went to Cabbelas and did the lazer shooting. We went to Zips and I got a bacon burrger. we went to a wedding reception
and we had pie. for dinner that night we had Ihop I had 4 pigs in a blanket. Grandma and Grandpa are the best in the world because I got to watch TV almowt all day and we ate fast food.


On a comedic note, Friday Tony and I attended a High Priest dinner in Colfax at Eddie's Chinese restaurant. It was a sparsly attended, but enjoyable activity, so I was in good spirits when Tony discovered he had locked the keys in the car. By some miracle the trunk was open, so all we had to do was crawl through the trunk, worm our arms through the fold down seat and slip through to retrieve the keys. I cannot imagine how bizaree it must have looked to see the arms and legs of two adults wriggling around in the trunk of a Toyota Camry. At one point a car drove by so we lay still and pretended to be dead bodies, because that would have been less weird than what we were doing before. Finally we got the thing unlocked, I crawled through and we went home to change our pants. We'd peed in them from laughing so hard.