Jarvis Family May Birthdays

 We celebrated May Birthdays and Mother's Day on Saturday, May 10th. I thought it would be a low key dinner but my mom surprised me with fun decorations, a sash, and a framed 1985 poster. It had random facts from 1985. It was a really fun party with good company and yummy food! 

James was at Morp so he missed out. 

Lily and I are the May birthday honorees. It is fun sharing that with her.

Tree Present

 I got the best present for my birthday and Mother's Day. I got a new tree for the front of our house. The old tree was much smaller and died. We replaced it with a taller, more mature tree. I love it so much!

Two Brothers, Two Games, Same time, Same Place

Kade and Tag had games at the same time and the same place. We had this last year with James and it was really fun! This was the same way. Marshall was at Lynnlee's game so he missed out but I got to stand in between and cheer for both. Both teams won so that was exciting too!

Morp

James got asked to Morp from Payton Evans. She is in our ward and James has known her since the 3rd grade. He was excited to go with her. 

They went paddle boarding for their day date. He said it was really run. He had a nice sunburn to prove he went :)

They went to R&R BBQ for dinner. They took pictures by Utah Lake. 

As you can tell the dance had a western theme. After the dance they went to Sydney's and hung out. It was a fun date for James!

Sienna's Highlights

Sienna loved the way Tag's hair turned out so much that she asked for highlights too. I had enough in the kit to dye her hair too so I dyed it late one night.

It's so hard to see it in the pictures because her hair is already so blonde. I think it turned out great! She was very happy with the end product.

Ninth Grade Award

Lynnlee was invited to 9th Grade awards where she was recognized from her Spanish teacher and being on the high honor roll. We thought she had a 4.0 too so we were surprised when she was given a medal for having a 4.0. We found out later that she didn't get a A in her online PE class so that took away her 4.0. That's ok though! Her grades are still very impressive! She works very hard!

We went out for ice cream after to celebrate. James had something so he didn't get to go with us but we got ice cream for him and took it home.

Rose is 40!!!

 My 40th birthday was on a Wednesday. I was a little stressed as it approached because I really didn't want a surprise party and I was worried Marshall was going to go against my requests. I calmed down once I realized it was going to be a chill day. My only birthday request was a nice bike ride. I went running in the morning and that was huge because I haven't been able to run because of my hip/IT band problem. It was a true gift being able to run again. 

I told my family not to worry about all of the normal birthday stuff like breakfast because I wanted to wait and celebrate on Mother's Day. Plus, everyone had stuff that morning like early morning seminary and such so it was easier not to worry about breakfast. Once everyone went to school, I did some school work and then went on my bike ride once the temperature was warm enough for a short sleeve shirt. It was a fun bike ride. 

I did school work through the afternoon. I kept taking pictures to see my 40-year-old self. In some ways I feel old and I notice my wrinkles, in other ways I feel the same as when I was 25-years-old. 

We didn't do anything special for dinner either because of the same reason. Everyone had soccer and such so it was too crazy. Plus, eating out is no longer fun with being gluten free. I was just excited to celebrate on Mother's Day. I was happy to combine the two into one big celebration.

I did want a birthday dessert. The Pavlova didn't work out but thank goodness Twisted Sugar has yummy gluten free cookies. So that is what we had. It hit the spot. Marshall gave me this beautiful bouquet.

It was go go go all day. Finally at 9:00 everyone was home. We did dessert and presents. James gave me a candle and a cute flower pot with a pen flower for my desk. Lynnlee made me a jewelry tray in her ceramics class. She also gave me some coupons. Kade gave me a grand piano....the size of a laptop. Tag and Sienna made me cute cards. Tag also gave me some yummy candy. 

The best surprise was a book of kind birthday words from family and friends. Marshall gathered messages from my friends and family. They were so nice and so thoughtful. Marshall, James and Lynnlee took turns reading the messages and I tried to guess who they were from. I cried because they were so nice. I felt so loved! I feel very blessed to have such amazing friends and family!

Kites

This year our church is at 1:30. We don't have time after church to do anything. We had stake conference at 10:00 so I bought food to have a picnic lunch up South Fork in Provo Canyon. The forecast was scattered thunderstorms and when we got out of church it was looking very stormy. The forecast also said there would be lightning so we decided going up South Fork wasn't safe. It was windy though so we flew kites instead. Lynnlee got to drive on the freeway the first time and she did a great job! 

The kites are the big fancy ones from Costco. Sienna's was a butterfly, Tag's was a pirate ship, and Kade's was hawk.