Tug of WAR!!

On one of these lovely hot Alabama days our electricity went out for a couple hours. And when the electricity is off so is the air conditioner! We decided that it might just be cooler or at least less stifling outside than inside so we enjoyed a pretty summer afternoon outside. We did a little boxing (I'm not quite sure where we got the boxing gloves..), jump rope, AND tug of war! It was a good way to spend the afternoon- participating or just watching in the shade.

Cake :)

To Papa: Thank you so much for my birthday cake! It was beautiful and fit my sweet 16 birthday perfectly! It was one of my favorite yet. Thank you so much. Miss you! Wish you were here.
Love Grace

More Party Pictures

Okay, more pictures :) These include some of my guest.. Do some look wet to you? That's because they were-the water balloons got a little out of hand and I got put in the little water pool(not part of the plan)!! That is why I look kind of scary and wet in my pictures! There is my beautiful and tasty all chocolate cake. And then there is one of me unrolling a roll of toilet paper-it was a genius present that I got that had money(!!) rolled up in it- it had me a little confused at first but I figured it out sooner or later...

SWEET 16 :) Guess Who...

My actual birthday is on Thursday, July 8th-but since I was having several friends being gone at that time I already had my Sweet 16! And it was a blast! So here are a few pictures of the decorations and before the party! My cousin Shauna came down and helped tremendously with the decorations! The yard looked fabulous and the whole luau theme rocked :)

Time To SHINE!

Last week, Mom and Clari participated in Stake Primary Activity Day Camp. The girls learned about following the Savior. They had a modest fashion show and learned about eating right, listening to good music and planning Family Home Evening. The girls had a great time, Mom was tired and glad it was over.

The Jacksonville Board Walk- Smokin' HOT

On our very last day in Jacksonville we HAD to do something! So we went to the Jacksonville boardwalk-on the Saint John's river. It was really hot and we didn't see a manatee but pretty enjoyable, as long as we didn't stay too long!

More Zoo pictures...

Mom says we have a million pictures of us at the zoo, and that we shouldn't take so many, especially of the animals.. but none of those seem to be printed off, or anywhere except somewhere on a forgotten memory card so here are more pictures of the zoo. Haha so there momma! :P

The ZOO..

While at Grandma and Papa's we went to the zoo! It's kinda of a tradition:0 We had a lot of fun.. the only thing was that it was super hot after about 10:30-typical Florida weather. Fun never the less. It was pretty neat that morning-when it was still sort or cool, because we saw some of the animals doing stuff we had never seen, and we were one of the few people that were there. Ahh I love that zoo :)

Grandma and Papa's House :)

We love to go to Grandma and Papa's house, who doens't? All the snacks and junk food, being around some of our favorite people, swimming, and just being at "Grandma's house"! Everybody was gone this weekend, just to different places. Half the family was at one set of grandparents, and the rest were at the other set. We did a lot of swimming a the Barnes' except for the afternoon thunder storms.. We had a blast.

I SURVIVED High Adventure-and had a lot of fun too!

I really don't like girl's camp-never really have so I wasn't sure what I was going to do about high adventure this year. I had heard it was a lot of fun, and different than regular old girls camp and I was going with my best friend,so i was hopeful. And I had a LOT of fun. We stayed in a picturesque cabin in north Georgia. We did tomahawk throwing, some shooting, archery, white water rafting, and even a little hiking-up to Amicalola Falls. I saw lots of pretty sights and had enough fun that I want to go back-to bad it is only for 4th years!