Disco Alyssa

Last weekend one of Alyssa's friends hand a Disco birthday party. There was a costume contest. Alyssa had found an old pattern at a yard sale from the 1969, so we sewed it up, found some huge sunglasses, and some platform shoes at Goodwill. The shoes were originally black, but she wanted white, so we spray painted them and the outfit was set! Outta' sight!!!

Whoa!!! Look at those shoes!

Truth be told, she didn't do a lot of disco-ing in them, she was too unstable!!!

Well the first month of the new year has already passed and spring is trying to come early in the Panhandle of Florida. We had a nice quiet family Christmas and a nice new year. My sister Geneva Chugg, her daughter Hanna, and baby boy Cole, came to visit the week of the Martin Luther King holiday. We had a great time with them and she took lots of great pictures. I'm just not smart enough how to access them. You can see a few of them on her family blog site. Yesterday was the last day of January, which is our Grandma DeSpain's birthday. While she's up freezing in her Minnesota home we had a Primary Presidency and Bishopric get together at our house. It was a backyard picnic. We grilled burgers, and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over coals in our fire pit. Then when it got dark, we added wood to the fire and the adults sat around it to chat while the kids got bored of playing in the dark woods and watched WALL-E instead. It was a fun night and we wished Grandma could have been with us to share in our fun. Below are some pictures from the event.

Master of the grill and fire, takes a break!

Toastin' marshmallows over the bed of coals. Audrey probably toasted a bag herself...though she shared them!(Alyssa sitting on the far left, Audrey to the right of her, Andrew standing, our EQ president sitting to the far right)

Several of the primary girls making a "brew" with leftover rain water in our wheelbarrow, they added all sorts of interesting things they found in the small patch of woods attached to our backyard.

Several of the little kids "rocked the boat" literally. On our upside down canoe they jumped and rocked it back and forth trying to get each other to fall off. Hope the canoe's okay!!! :)

Several of our guests chatting and fixing plates. Notice Ken's BYU hat and chair...not only is he a proud alumni, a proud dad of a co-ed too!