The Sturm Family...

...is moving to Germany!! Their next transfer is to Ramstein Air force Base, Germany. They are leaving in a few months.
The cool thing is that Ramstein is only about 75 miles from Frankfurt, so Gene will definitely be visiting with them this summer when goes he back to Europe!


Yay for the Sturms! I told her I would pass along this fun news on my blog, so there you go!!

:)

Yummy delicious-ness

My very best friend in all of Indiana, Mandee Luke ;) makes this wonderful chicken-alfredo pizza, and I've been wanting to make it for months and months.

So I did.

I made this whole pizza for me since Gene is in CA and the girls wouldn't touch it!

I am a pig, I know.

Anyhow, here it is.. I added a few extra items, mushrooms and artichoke hearts.

It was great, can't wait to eat the other half tomorrow!

:)

love ya Mandee!

Before it was put into the oven.
The final product.
It was fun, I was chatting with Mandee on the phone the entire time I put this thing together and I told her I would post pictures of it!
See Mandee? Told you I would do it!

Another dance, another fun way to ask:

Well, Sweetheart's Dance is coming up on Valentine's Day. It's a "girls' choice" so Chloe had to figure out a fun way to ask the boy she wants to go with. She decided to make him a cake and decorate it and all that fun stuff.

She made the cake and then when it came time to decorate it, I asked her what she was going to place the cake on when she gave it to the boy. There was no way in heck-a-roo that I was going to let her give him the cake in my 9x13 pampered chef....

So after calling almost everyone in the ward, she found someone (thanks Bradley's!)who had a disposable 9x13 foil pan. The cake totally fell apart as Chloe was transferring it to the foil pan!

Ooops!

Oh well, she did a great job at frosting it and covered up all the mess. She also wrote her name on the bottom of the pan, plus, put her name on a piece of paper and stuffed it into the cake.

Then it came time to decide WHAT to write upon the lovely cake.

This was later in the evening, after YW's, and Jaimee Lynn was over, so the 3 of us were brainstorming and laughing and being all silly.... and this is what I came up with:

Yes, I know. What a fabulous brain I have to come up with such cleverness!!

I know, I know... I am amazing....

So this is the masterpiece. I will be bringing it to the high school in about an hour. I am going to have plastic forks sticking up all around the cake so the boy and his pals can eat it all gone without making too much of a mess. :)

Enjoy the cake, Boy.

Warning:

Random Picture:

This has nothing to do with this post:
I just wanted to show everyone how big and fat Socks is getting.
He's a chunky one, that's for sure.

President Obama:

I let the girls go into school about 1 1/2 hours late this morning so that they could witness this historic inauguration.

It was very exciting. I told the girls that they will be able to tell their children that they witnessed this historical day on TV and that this day will be written in their children's' text books! Wow!

Lindsay took this one of me, my mini-me (Nat) and President Obama!
Taking the oath

Girls watching their new president.

Thumbs up to our 44th president,

President Barack Obama!

God Bless America!

I'm still here.... Kinda

Hello all!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's. We were in CA for almost 2 weeks enjoying family and friends. It was a great 2 weeks *sigh* how we miss our peeps in CA.

I've been pretty busy since we got home. First of all, I received a new calling: Sunbeams teacher! I'm very happy about it and love the 5 little ones I have in class. Fun stuff.
The biggest reason for my busy-ness is that I have a job! Two jobs, actually. I am now employed at my girls' charter school, about 1 mile from here. I work M-F, 11-1 as a lunch worker (I am the lunch lady!), and then M-TH 1-3 as the librarian. I am working with my great friend Kristy for both of these jobs and we make a great team. Basically I work everyday, but never more than 4-5 hours, so it's perfect. I'm home when the girls are home, I'm off when they don't have school, it's awesome!
It's going to great having the extra income and I love feeling so productive! This week was my first official work week and I survived just fine. I've been able to do housework in the morning or afternoon just fine and it's all good!

There's a quick update for ya... the girls are all doing fine, back to school and loving life. Gene is busy as ever at work and will be in CA for an entire week soon later in the month....So far we are happy and healthy and are enjoying this new year!

See ya'll later!

Christmas Time = School Performances!

Happy Christmas from the Lawson's!

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings we attended different performances at our girls' school.

Tuesday night all 3 girls danced.

Wednesday Haley had a band concert and Lindsay sang with her kindergarten class.

Thursday night Nat was in a musical theater performance.

Here you go:

Lindsay was a doll for her dance number!
It began by the daddies bringing out the "Dolls" onto the stage.
Look how droopy and doll-like Linds is!
Then another daddy had a big key and "wound up" all the dolls!



Getting ready to be a doll.

This dance was so cute, Linds did a fantastic job. She kept her arms stiff and she really looked like a little doll! A few times she looked like she was doing the Robot!


Next up:

Haley!

Doing a really cool number... very modern!

(I made this skirt. All the girls in this dance came up with their own costumes, Haley and I designed this one)

These girls did such a great job!

Smile!

This kid loves to dance, she's been doing it nonstop since she was 4.


Next up:

Natalie is taking Polynesian Dance. She loves it and loves her teacher (who is in our ward and is our neighbor!)

She is so good. She is great on the poi's.

(hey, I made this skirt, too!)

Very graceful and smooth!

I should have made her skirt fuller!

Next time..

Great job, Nat!

My YW.

I was released as YW's president this past Sunday.

I am not very happy about it! I love these girls so much.

I will miss them dearly and loved having 2 full years as their leader!

These girls rock! Seriously, they are such a tight group of girls, all friends and all very sweet to one another.

I'll miss working with my amazing presidency, too.

:(

Wed. Night:

Lindsay and her pals getting ready to go on stage for their first song.

Look at the cute twins on either side! These 3 totally love each other!

"Silent Night" using Sign Language.

It was very sweet.

Doing such a good job!

Next up:

The flute master!

These guys were pretty good!

I love band concerts!

Did everyone see the moon last Friday?

It was the closest to the Earth in many years and it won't be this close again for another 20 or so years!

It was crazy bright!!!



Thurs. Night

Warning, my camera sucks:

Nat, the little one with a red sweater, white shirt!

This was a musical theater performance and it was awesome!
It was called:

"The X-Mas Files"

Nat sang and danced and did great!

*phew*

That's it!

We had a fun week of Lawson girls performances.

I love our school and all the fun things they have the kids doing!

Merry Christmas!

(Dec. 1 after we got our tree and decorated it!)

:)

Did you know that I have a big sister.....

...... and that she's a grandma?!

This beautiful picture is of my sister Laura and her husband Kari at Kari's son, Eric's, wedding!

Also included are Wendy, Eric's bride, and his brother Greg. My sister's children are Alex, Graciela and Giuli.

Now, a few years after this wedding came a wonderful surprise!

Weston!

That is how my big sister became a grandma! Even though she doesn't look a day over 30! :)

Baby Weston has brought so much joy to this family!

Here is Grandpa Kari holding his first grand baby.

Fun stuff, huh?
Now you know about my big sister Laura!
She is also known as the "Horsie Auntie" since she has 5 acres in CA with several horses. She boards them and has many of her own, even cute, miniature horses. Natalie, of course, loves going out to her property to ride! (Dulce is her favorite)