We LOVE Daddy!

Here are some fun pictures of the girls saying goodnight to Daddy before bedtime.

Kate and Daddy

Mayli and Daddy

Madilyn and Daddy

We all love our wonderful daddy! He is so good to us and works so hard! Thank you Mike for being an amazing husband and an amazing father! WE LOVE YOU!!!!

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Well at least at our house it is looking like Christmas. We decided to put our trees up early this year. We love this holiday season and wanted to enjoy it for as long as we could. It makes me so happy to sit in our living room and look at our beautiful tree. Christmas just makes me so happy and brings back so many fond memories why not enjoy it longer? So we put our trees up a couple weeks ago. The kids have been enjoying them and we haven't really had a problem with Madilyn touching the ornaments. (YAY!) Here are some pictures:

This is the tree in Madilyn's room. These ornaments have been played with and taken off but she always puts them back on. :)

Here is the tree in Katelyn and Mayli's room. They love to decorate it with their special ornaments they get each year. It supposed to be pre-lit but 1/2 of them don't work this year. So we strung lights around it.

Here is our tree in the living room. I love to just sit in there a look at the pretty lights. This one is with the flash on because without the flash the picture didn't work well. But it really looks just beautiful when it is really glowing. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

Katelyn Reading!

Katelyn has been working on reading in school and she is doing quite well! It is fun to see the progress she is having! She is getting so big! Enjoy the video!

Halloween Festivities!

Well it has been quite the exciting week and weekend here in the Wright home! The most exciting things started Thursday. Thursday morning was Mayli's pre-school Halloween Party. We had a fun time and the girls got to play lots of fun games and get lots of candy and toys. Katelyn had a Letter P Party at school that day and got to dress up in her pajamas and take her pillow to school. They had pizza, potato chips, pretzels and other foods that start with the letter P. She had a fun day! Then Friday we had a fun time Katelyn got to go to school in her costume and they had a costume parade where all the children got to march down the hall and show off their costumes to the parents. It was fun! That night was the PTA Halloween carnival. It was a wonderful carnival! They did a fantastic job! We had a fun time (of course I forgot the camera that night). Then there was Halloween! The kids got to go trick or treating with Daddy while Mommy stayed home to give out candy. Then they got to go to McDonalds after thanks to Papa and Grandma Wright who gave them a special Halloween treat! They had so much fun! Enjoy the pictures! There's a lot!

The girls before Mayli's pre-school Halloween party

Katelyn dressed up for her Letter P Party!

Katelyn talking to her friends at school

Katelyn sitting in her chair before the parade.

Katelyn marching in the parade

The 3 girls on Halloween night

Katelyn was a witch

Mayli the cute bumblebee

Our little pot of Hunny-Maddie!

The 3 girls with Vampire Daddy!

Homecoming Queen Wannabe Mommy and the 3 girls! I've never gotten so many comments on how pretty my costume was thanks again Kenzie for letting me borrow your prom dress! :)

Daddy and the girls heading off to go trick or treating

The girls getting ready to knock on a door

This is the girls trick or treating at our house after they were all done. We had a wonderful weekend and love holidays! :)

Dodgeball...Best Time Ever!!!

Mike and I have the most wonderful friends ever! I love living here in EM! It is the best! There are so many fun people here and we all have so much fun together! This last Friday quite a few of us couples got together and played dodgeball at a local elementary school. It's nice that even though we had the ward split we still get together and have fun. And because of the ward split we've been able to add new friends to the circle. We had so much fun and played dodgeball for a good 3 hours! We had so much fun! I'm so grateful for our awesome friends and so grateful our Father in Heaven lead us to this wonderful place and these wonderful people. My life has been blessed and changed for good because of them.

Listed left to right: Rex and Lisa, Shannon and Jeff (in the back), Bishop and Sandra, Brian (Jami not pictured cuz she was taking the picture...thanks for sending it to me!), Brandon and Rachel, Dallas and Cindy, Russ and Kendra, Mark and Janis, Steve and Jessica, Mike and I, and Stacey (Jason not pictured because he was getting his camera).

Some of us had on Average Joes t-shirts like they did in the movie Dodgeball. It was so much fun! We will for sure do this again. We had talked about doing it once a year but we might just have to do it more often cuz it was so fun! The best was at our ward party yesterday when no one could move because they were so sore! So much fun!

What I've been doing all week...

Well it's been one of those crazy weeks! Boy I'm glad it is almost over! Everyday has been full and I'll spare you me getting on my soap box and complaining about how busy its been! :) I made corsages and boutonnieres for a wedding and a b-day cake for a friend's little girls b-day party. So I thought I'd post some pictures.

These were the boutonnieres for the men to wear I made 7 of these.

These were the ones for the ladies of the wedding party. They were pin on ones. I made 8 of these ones.

These were the corsages for the sisters they were wrist corsages that they could take off and pin on if they needed to. I made 8 of these ones.

These were all of them in my fridge. I also made the bouquet for her to throw which is pictured below also. (Do you like my tupperware full of leftovers in the background...it adds to the picture I think!) :)

This was the birthday cake. It didn't turn out the way I wanted but it worked. It was quite the day trying to get this done...consisting of me finding cake mixes and crisco from friends due to some mishaps at the house. (Mayli eating part of one of the cakes to name one!) It was my first time working with fondant so it was a learning experience. This is marshmellow fondant and actually tastes good. I frosted the cakes with buttercream icing and then cut the circles and other decorations out of the fondant.

I'm happy it is finally Friday and we get to relax somewhat! Now it is time to go clean up my messy kitchen.

Finally Homecoming Queen!

It's true I was voted Homecoming Queen! YIPEE! I hosted Bunko tonight and because it is close to Halloween we had a costume party. I dressed up as a Homecoming Queen Wannabe. Due to the fact that almost all of my siblings except 2 (1 of which I'm sure will be in it next year) have been in Homecoming Royalty I feel like quite the loser since there are 8 kids in my family and I'm 1 of 2 who haven't been in homecoming royalty. But tonight I was voted as Homecoming Queen and it was a unanimous vote! All for me! YIPEE! It was pretty fun and all the ladies tonight thought it was pretty funny (either that or they thought I was totally crazy and decided to be nice to me and laugh....but hey I still won!) We had a great time tonight! Here were some of the things I did to get my votes!

As everyone came in they saw this sign in the yard.

Then as they came in I gave them one of these. I cut the circle out, laminated it, and hot glued a safety pin on back. So everyone got a Vote for Dede pin when they came in.

I held a vote for homecoming queen and this was the ballot. The small print under the Write in Candidate says: "(Write in candidate’s first name must start with a –D- and end with an –E-. Candidate’s last name must also start with a –W- and end with a –T- !)". So after the vote guess who won....ME! It was fun! So I finally won Homecoming Queen!

Here I am so excited I won! And look flowers!

Here is my pretty Queen wave!

And here is a picture of all of us dressed up! Boy we have such a great time! I love my friends! And notice they are all wearing my pins! :)

Here is one Mike took when we were all not ready for the picture to be taken! :) We always have so much fun and laugh a lot! I love it!