{ROCKY POINT} 2015

 We did it!

Our annual trip to Rocky Point did not disappoint this year. 

It was WONDERFUL.

Perfect weather, perfect company.  Very relaxing and most definitely not long enough!

So grateful my parents put forth the effort every year to make this happen.  

In no particular order.....lots of sand; lots of water; lots of eating.

And yes.  I recognize that most of these are of Ivy.  

She's my last baby.  

It's inevitable.

 

Kate decided she wanted to be a surfer and gave Em her first lesson.

 

Em rode this slide no less than 3,000 times.  

It was exhausting.  

For Clint.  ha!

I attempted to take beach pics to use for our Christmas card this year.  

I should have taken them on our very first morning there, instead of our last.  The girls were exhausted and sun burnt and just not happy campers.  Their eyes were basically swollen shut.   Ivy was especially crabby.  She was a pill!  Oh, well.  Next time.

I didn't even photoshop people out of the pics.

Ivy finally started smiling and cooperating when I handed the camera off to my dad and danced around.

October Conference

 I always look forward to conference.

It's hard with kids to focus during the entire weekend of talks, but for the most part my girls do great.  As always, we set up our tent and prepped our activities with coloring and writing and snacks.  It lasted about ten minutes.  Basically a waste of paper.  But whatever.  

There were so many talks that were meant for me this time.  I cried.  A lot.  I felt the spirit a midst my kids climbing all over me.  I felt physically pained watching our sweet prophet struggle to remain upright as he spoke to us.  I love that man.  I am so grateful for my Savior and for the gospel.  I'm so grateful for a living prophet who gives us inspired messages straight from our Heavenly Father.  I always feel so rejuvenated and inspired after conference weekend, and I am grateful.

{Charly}

Our little C is awesome.  

Despite her extreme mood swings that seem to occur more and more frequently.  

When she was at QCE, her teacher informed me she was to be student of the month- but we moved schools before she could get the award.

Her first month at ALA, and she was awarded student of the month there.  What a little champ!