More 2014... Spring and Summer

 The Incredible Sara McNames!

Audrey's 12 Birthday... A Summer bash with friends!

Audrey as Flounder in "The Little Mermaid" at Chief Kanim Middle School.

Spring 2014

Audrey and her friends right after the spring choir concert.

Cousin Eleanor's 1st Birthday. Audrey did a great job on this cute little cake for her.

Our new addition to the back yard. I can barely keep the kids off of this tramp even when it's raining. They love it sooo much! Three months with no injuries and counting.

Joey's eighth grade Science project... Mouna Loa the Volcano. This is completely 100% Legos. Even the infrastructure inside. 

Many of you may already know, but through many tender mercies and prayerfully seeking the Lord's will, we "adopted" a young woman into our family this spring. Her name is Carissa, and she is wonderfully sweet! We are very happy to have her be a part of the McNames family. 

Shortly after getting Carissa moved in and settled I took her and Audrey on a special "Girls Trip" to Salt Lake City to see the live session of Women's Conference. I had this trip planned for a long time knowing that Audrey was turning 12. It was the perfect boding experience for us three girls. 

Temple Square was gorgeous.

While in Utah it worked out that Karli's finial production as a Senior at BYU would be the role of the incomparable Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. It would be an understatement to say that Pride and Prejudice is me and Audrey's favorite book. It was meant to be is all I can say!

I love you Grandma!

Ok, here goes 2014...

So we waited until Christmas died down a bit and Quinn had a big group of his friends over for a "Disney Infinity Party"!

Because Disney Infinity is so new, we pretty much had to come up with everything on our own. Joey did the drawings on the white board for me... he actually helped a ton with this party,

This cake/ cupcakes was one of my all time favorites to do. Joey sketched the characters, and then I made them out of fondant. So fun!

Goody bag treats.

Stella started gymnastics. This is one athletic little girly girl.

This year's Valentines Day cookies. I think we had a record this year between the four kids classes, it was well over 150 cookies.

Quinn's first Pinewood Derby. The Bat-Mobile.... classic!

One of many many many Scout camp-outs. This was at Ape Caves. Joe went with Joey so we got a couple of neat photos of that place.

This beautiful owl is some of the wild life we see every day up here on the ridge. This was on a walking path about 1/4 mile from our house.

Dad's turn with Quinn, but this time it's the..... SOUNDERS!

This is a cake I did for a little girl in our ward. She was having a "My Little Pony Party".

Winter 2013

Husky game for Dad and Joey!

Joey with his friends at his Choir concert.

Audrey's winter piano recital... knocked it out of the park!

Christmas morning... Sara and Daddy both got new Brandi Carlile t-shirts. More to come on what happened to that t-shirt 6 months later.

Christmas wouldn't be the same without a visit to our special Santa in Lynnwood.

Quinn turned 8 on December 23rd. and it was wonderful to have so much family in town for his baptism!

A very special day for our family.

Townes turns 2!

Again.. he has to inhale that cupcake.  :)