The Jarman Fam: April 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

TEILA TURNED 9!! LET'S PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(sample craft the girls got to create. Eddie disliked the color a lot. We got looks and comments in Home Depot it was embarrassing. But it just confirmed to me that it was PERFECT!)

Wow- so we had a party for Teila. I told her to invite any one she wanted. Although, when I had already sent out the invitations and she wanted to invite her new friend from the sand box I told her no. I had to draw the line somewhere. So 21 cute little girls were invited. What did we do? Good question-

We had Mom Jarman paint some amazing masterpieces on their cheeks. They really were incredible. She is very artistic and just doesn't get to use her skills enough.

A good friend Heidi Selover (who Teila sits with nearly every sacrament meeting with) painted nails along with Auntie Beth who had just gotten back from taking Teila out of school to go shopping for her birthday. They came back with 2 beautiful dresses from The Children's Place and a matching one for Annie. Oh just wait till you see the pictures. They are REALLY cute.

Anyways,
I had made around 150 sugar cookies (my first time) and enough pink and purple frosting to last a year, for the girls to decorate.

And they did an incredibly cute craft thanks to Laura Richins (her idea) and Eddie because he cut and sanded all those wood pieces.

The theme: PINK! PINK!! PINK!!!

It was fabulous. It turned out really well. And I could not have done it without all my help. Auntie Hannah Jarman was in charge of the craft table, my station was sugar cookies and entertaining my mom, Grandma J- face painting along with wonderful cousin Hiedi Engler who was so sweet to come and help me do whatever I needed her to do. Auntie Beth who helped where needed at craft and nail painting and Heidi Selover who did nails and a great job at that.
Thank you THANK YOU!!!!

Am I so proud of my self that on my blog I actually take a picture of her invite and then post what is said?!! Heck yeah! Don't mess with me... This party rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's true we invited 21 of the cutest sweetest girls!. 10 of these girls are on her softball team.

Teila felt no need to hurry with the unwrapping. The girls were trying to help her and I couldn't even keep track of everything...

Good thing Heidi Selover helped me by taking notes. It was close to a bridal shower. But nothing is too good for our little Teila. Plus I totally flaked out by not having a party last year. This party is all she has talked about for a year... I'm not exaggerating. Ask any one of her closest friends.

Wondering about sweet Savanna Harris? She had her tonsils out on the day of her party and couldn't come. We were all really sad about it. But she assured me that I could send anything home with her sister Kacie. And we did!! This is Teila and Savannah at a cheer performance they did at a Carson basketball game during half time. It was REALLY cute and Teila is quite the little mover. Ask her to do it for you, she'll show you her moves with the counting to 8 and everything. Pom poms here we come!!

Teila's party

More pictures from Teila's birthday!

The FAMOUS Miss Serena on the left and her wonderful 2nd grade teacher Ms. Erb (who Teila threatens to tattle tell on me and Eddie too. She has assured me that Teila forgets by the next day. Whew!!) Miss Serena is Teila's aide. She has introduced Teila to so many things. Top of the list is Twilight. In fact, she got a Twilight key chain from Miss Serena as her gift. It's hard to be beautiful, hip and SOOOO cool. We hope Miss Serena will be her aide again next year. She really is fabulous!

Teila and friends Mercedes and Faith getting their nails painted by Heidi Selover and Auntie Beth.

Sami and Belle Rowley. The second cutest twins I know.

Macy Tingey and Emma Dale. Sweet girls that are very kind to Teila. We love them!!

Mom/Grandma Freestone and Ms. Erb. They talked the whole 20 min. Teila took to unwrap her presents. They are both teachers...

Saturday, April 4, 2009

These are some pictures I WILL NOT be blowing up and framing!!!

This day we took these pictures it was REALLY cold. We were a bit unprepared. Joey of course fell asleep in the car and so he was grumpy when we woke him up. It's just so typical. Then Annie was so happy that she didn't want to sit and smile, just run around and laugh and I didn't have any candy to bribe her. But after all the tears, we got a few good ones. Thank you BETH!!!

Thanks to Beth, this little beauty(below) was copied and given to grand parents and great grandparents. I wasn't upset at first because her and Lydia convinced me it was one of the best and I was resolved. Then I actually looked through them and I have to admit I can't totally appreciate Beth's sense of humor. At least my hair looks good. FYI, I was signing 'please' to Annie to come and sit in my lap. At least I was trying to be a patient mom.

More pictures of the fam

Eddie and Teila

Our little Annie... happiest when she could do whatever the heck she wanted.

John and Teila... at least they were pretty happy during the photo shoot.

Beth took these as well. I'm going to copy what she said on her blog...

"This would be the cutest picture ever..."

"If you didn't know there were 4 siblings"

Annual Jarman cousin pictures Summer 2008

Thanks to Auntie Beth (Eddie's sister) we have a fabulous very talented photographer in the family. These are the grand kids on the Jarman side taken in July of 2008. Everytime Iris comes Beth wants to take these. If you could only see all the pictures she actually takes or be there while she takes them. It is ridiculous. Half of them cry in most pictures (different halves mind you), if they aren't crying they aren't looking. I give them candy to be happy and then it drips down their faces. I usually have one (cough Johnny), that is suddenly shy and won't even look at the camera. If you taken pictures with kids hopefully you know what I'm talking about. Beth does a great job. And after 100 pictures taken in a 30 minute period, this is what we got.