Family Time.

To start with, I love this picture of us all eating ice cream. It's just so... Us. Monday night is Family Night as we all know. For dinner Joshua made everyone hamburgers. We ate together as a family on the top level of the backyard. It was so gorgeous outside, the sky was such a perfect blue, with a splash of purple. As soon as Maria and I where done with our hamburgers we started to play "HORSE" with a basketball. Maria said I lost, but I disagree... hehe.

After shooting hoops for a while with Maria and Joshua I decided I was in the mood for ping-pong. I played for a couple minutes against Maria and Peter before we went up to the school. My sweet Mother took Peter, Mara, Joshua, Maria, Gabrielle, Emma and I up to Wasatch Elementary School to work on Joshua's Eagle project. I think we got quite a bit done.

After we finished up at the school we walked home and were only there for a few minutes before we all got into the van to drive over to Maceys (the grocery store). They were having their yearly "Retirement of the Flags" type of deal. They had about 8 flags that one by one they set on these two tables and burned. It was nice to be able to go and hear what they had to say. Here is a video, not the best, but this is what I got recorded;

After the ceremony Mom took us to get ice cream cones.
Gabrielle asked for a medium sized cone, usually the mediums are given to you in a cup. But they didn't do that with Gabrielle.
She stood for nearly 35 seconds trying to put money back into her wallet. I watched just waiting for her ice cream to fall off the cone in her hand.
After about 7 seconds I warned her it would fall. She seemed to ignore me. Until 42 seconds had passed and her ice cream fell off right when I was going to turn and talk with Joshua.
I saw it in the corner of my eye, and not expecting to catch it, I still stretched my arm out, and to my astonishment my hand was freezing! Chocolate stained my hand with stickiness.
In panic, still in shock of what had just happened, my arm shook as I tried to fit it back onto Gabrielle's cone.
Everyone was laughing, they were so surprised that of all people I, Leah, had caught it. I am still surprised I caught it as well.

After that the night was pretty much over. Just a car ride home, trying to see who could eat their ice cream the fastest. When we got home everyone was just relaxed, watching movies, television, reading, and online. Monday was a good day. I love Family Night.

Memories.

Things have been a bit... full lately. Everyone has been in and out of the house, doing our own things. Here are some pictures of
what some of us have been up to lately; (P.S. Sorry it's sooo sloppy!)

(UP:Kaytlyn, Car, and Maria's... Leg. After we bought shirts from Downeast we were running out to the car, because it had been raining. I was trying to figure out what flash was best and this is one of the pictures I got.)





(Me. I have this habit of trying on at least 3 pairs of sunglasses at every store that has them. This was one of my favorite at Downeast. "Bug eyed Standout Orange Sugn glasses.")




(Maria, and Kaytlyn. As we begun our shopping at Downeast Maria was very... Thrilled to be there, I suppose... She was leaping all over the store. It was quite the site.)







(Me. We got our skirt for Davids wedding at "Urbin Trends". Such an adorable girly store in the Provo Town Center. It's very small, but very cute. The outfit behind me in this picture is one of my favorites, that I still would love to get.)

(Me. I love dresses. I would rather wear a dress then a skirt. Kaytlyn had me try on this dress to see how it would look. Obviously it didn't look that good cause I didn't get it. Oh well.)











(Kaytlyn took Mara Maria and I shopping to look for a wedding outfit for Davids wedding that is coming up. We went to Downeast Outfitters to find a shirt. While Maria tried the outfit on, Mara and I went to try random things on. This was a jacket we found. This 'Jacket' cost around $200.)

(Coins. I've been collecting change for the last few months. I have a reason for my change collecting, but it doesn't seem to be working out so well. The other day as I counted my change, I started to mess around and make shapes with it. In this picture I put my hand in the middle and put the change around it.)





(Maria and I have this huge craving for Maceys grocery story Ice Cream Cones. We finally convinced Kaytlyn to take us by Maceys to get some, along with coco powder to make cookies. Kaytlyn took Mara Maria and I to get ice cream for; Emma, Gabrielle, Maria, Joshua, Mara, and myself. It was a pretty crazy car ride home but we made it!)



(Left: Kaytlyn. We went to the mall to buy our skirts for Davids wedding. We had quite a bit of laughs. I've been spending a lot of time with my sisters lately. I'm loving it!)











(Me. Joshua got a hold of the camera last week. I was on the computer and watched him take pictures of me, Mara, himself, as well as nearly everything else in the familyroom. Including the clock, wall, cabnints, couch, etc. Within 15 minutes after he started to take pictures, he fell asleep on the couch.)