And the winner is...

our fabulous Caden!

Caden just stepped out of his comfort zone, in a BIG way, and ran for President of the Sophomore class! His motivation was getting some more things to put on college applicatons:) Yesterday he came home and announced that he won! We are super excited for him and what a great experience it will be.

Friday evening found us gathered around the kitchen counter creating posters:

And here we were finishing up on Sunday afternoon:

Kami and Caden decided that it would be a good idea to put pictures on his posters to make sure that everyone knew which Caden in the school was running.  So Kami took it upon herself to get a good picture of him.  However, Caden HATES to get his picture taken, felt silly, and just kept pulling faces instead of cooperating.  We decided to use the pictures anyway!! They show more of the personality we see around here, afterall....

Wednesday morning, the day of the voting, Shawn, Caden and I stapled candies to hand-outs: Lifesavers on the papers that said, "Be SAFE! Vote for Caden."  Sour candies on  "Don't be SOUR; Vote for Caden."  And Riesen candies on "There's no RIESEN not to vote for Caden!" Not the most creative or original, since we thought of it that very morning, but I guess it did the trick:)

A funny little story: I told Caden not to be surprised if some of his pictures came up missing from his posters - especially that "normal" picture at the very beginning of this post. (I've heard, from Kami, that there are some girls that have crushes on him).  Sure enough, when we collected his posters after school on Wednesday, one of those pictures was missing:)

And now I am off to think up a super fun party for me and the girls tonight, because the boys are leaving on the Father and Sons campout!  Maybe we will make something - skirts? Food? Both? A movie? We shall see.

Also, I will try to forget about the super-disgusting email that just arrived warning me that Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease is reported at our Elementary school.