Ping Pong Tournament

Ryan and I love playing a game of Ping Pong whenever we get the chance. We are both equally good, but I would say Ryan is a bit better. I do beat him, just not as often as he beats me. But we love it. In fact, a lot f times we tell people we built our house around our Ping Pong table. We decided to do start an annual Hodges Ping Pong/foosball tournament! We had such a great time and a great turn out. David Branvold came in first place for singles, and Josh Hutchinson and Jeff Bowman came in first place for doubles.  Don Hill and Shawn Willsey took first place in the Foosball. It was such a fun night! Great food, great competition and great friends! The only thing that could have been better is if Ryan and I won...but alas, we didn't. 

Family Pictures

My sister, April has always taken our family pictures and she does such a great job. We literally took these pictures in 15 minutes. It was so cold outside and we wanted to get back for dinner and a football game so we rushed around this college arts building snapping pictures. As I was setting up one kid for poses April was taking pictures of the first kid I set up for posing. I think they turned out great in only 15 minutes of snapping. Thanks April!!!

Hula Hooping

We had a ward talent show tonight and our girls both wanted to sign up and hula hoop for everyone. They did such a great job! I was seriously so excited, nervous and shocked to be honest. Our girls are pretty shy and reserved so when Avery said she wanted to do it for everyone I was so surprised. Then Madisen said she would do it with her. They each took a minute and performed their own little routine and tricks with the hula hoop and the crowd was cheering and the girls were smiling from ear to ear. They didn't drop it once and everyone kept telling me afterwards that the girls stole the show! 

They had games and face painting and all sorts of fun activities for the kids. We have a ton of talent in our ward and it was a fun night. I am so proud of our girls for getting out of their comfort zones and preforming for everyone. I will always remember this night and their expressions. It was seriously priceless. 

2016 Halloween

The Halloween school parade. Emily was a roaring 50's girl, Avery was the cutest doctor (later changing into a pirate) and Madisen was a hip witch. Simple costumes this year; actually that's every year but who's counting.  I like Halloween but just don't get into it as much as other holidays. The girls love dressing up and pretending like they are someone or something else for the day though.