I believe I have some aunts and a mother to blame for my cat's new favorite hangout spot

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Another little Sawyer. Harris thinks he's really good on the wii.


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Our newest attempt at being pet owners. This is Kibbles we hope he lasts. We hope Cory lasts. Last night as Kibbles was whining at our door I wasn't sure.


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Provo

We’ve had a pretty eventful couple of weeks here in little P-town! First let me start with a little story from Sunday school. We teach the 5-6 year olds. So it went like this. Me: “i’m going to ask you a question and you tell me if it’s a wise choice or a foolish choice. Drew, say your prayers?”                                        Drew: “wise”                                                                                            Me: “Kaleb, say a bad word?”                                                                                 Kaleb: “oh shit”                                                                                                                         I know i shouldn’t laugh but what can you do? i’m just waiting to get a call from his parents asking me to explain why i asked Kaleb to swear in class. I’ll just turn that around and act totally appalled that he would even know that word.

I refinished my table! i’ve been wanting to do this forever and i finally got around to it. Yay! it was just a light pine on top and the legs were green with some striping on some parts. Mom thinks it was way cooler before but i ignore her. i didn’t really intend for it to have the distressed look but i’m not the most even sander so i guess it’s a good thing that’s in right now eh?

 

Adam and T came to visit!! this picture of Adam he took himself. We went to a funeral for a girl we knew back in Issaquah, went to In-n-Out, took a beautiful drive up the canyon, hung out with Ryan and Jackie Beecher and watched a lot of “Better Off Ted”. It was a great weekend!! the boys had a great time playing and watching Hercules together.

Yesterday was my Dirty Dash in Midway. It was so much FUN! My good friend Cassie Smith (many of you may remember her) came up from Arizona to run it with me. I was totally nervous before the race, however if i had had any idea how hard it was gonna be i would have been way more nervous! It was the longest 6 miles of my LIFE! The obstacles weren’t even the hard part. that was fun. it was the freaking hills and marsh that killed me. But i would do it again tomorrow. So awesome!

    

Here’s most of the team before. the second picture is about half way through. we had to climb over 3 walls. i slipped right onto my booty jumping off the second one, hence the butt shot. And here we are at the end. Oh so filthy! Our shoes weighed like 20lbs by the time we finished. we ran through so much mud! The only thing that would have made the whole experience better is if it had been a 5K instead of a 10K haha! If any of you are interested of learning more about it so you can run it next year go to dirtydash.com. DO IT!

Sorry- it's huge

Our pool and Condo- for some reason these didn't transfer from my phone

Could you have a more beautiful view?


A little bit of Paradise. Jane models our beauteous locale.

Sawyer stepped off a step and over his head and then walked down the little gradual grade to over his head all in one day (a vigilant mommy rescued him both times) and it made him very leery the rest of the trip.
Our little Ellyn was swimming (yes, really swimming with occasional help from the bottom of the pool) all over the place. We had to be sure we were completely ready to leave for the pool before we put on Ellie's swimsuit because once we did it was "Go" time. I mean it, "Go, go, go, go," repeated over and over with growing frustration. Our girl was so awesome on this trip.

Our little Sadie mermaid. The girl was made for water.

Kenn and Barb- THANK YOU!!!!!

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Vacation, San Diego 2010

Last December Kenn offered to let us use their time share this year for Mike's fall break. All those months ago it seemed a long way off. Suddenly it is here and gone. But...we had a wonderful time in beautiful San Diego. Our week of Heaven. The entire purpose of this vacation was to have A VACATION. While we love going to Washington for every single break we get we come home exhausted. Trying to fit fun activities in with both of our families leaves us running a million miles an hour. Also, our kids are off with their cousins and we don't get that quality time with them that we crave.

This trip was perfect. We stayed at the Lawrence Welk Resort (I felt that maybe we should have been at least 50 before arrival but it all worked out). We spent our days alternating between activities in San Diego and just lounging around our condo and the pool. We ate sooo much; yummy treats, awesome Mexican food, sugar cereal (you know how I feel about sugar cereal). We packed lunches for our days out and about. We spent a day picnicking at Balboa Park and visiting the Mormon Battalion Museum and Old Town San Diego, a day at the San Diego Zoo, a day at Sea World, and the rest swimming. Marnie came up to spend the day with us on Tuesday, a swimming, game playing, eating day.

Along with our low maintenance trip, I did not worry overly about taking pictures. I knew, however, that I would REALLY regret none at all so we took a few.

Mormon Battalion Museum- Monday.

The pic they take there.
The family panning for gold, I had high hopes!
Jane finally doing some laundry!
Water, need we say more?


Sadie was chosen to dress in the Soldier Uniform.

San Diego Zoo- Wednesday. Mike had never been to the San Diego Zoo, neither had the three youngest. It is such an excellent zoo and I was so impressed with our kids' stamina throughout the entire day. Although we rented a wheelchair for Ellyn (she doesn't fit in the strollers anymore) she walked most of the day. We used it to spell off Sawyer and Sadie occasionally.

Sadie, a little nervous on the Sky Ride.

This baby gorilla and Sawyer played together for several minutes, it was darling.
Of course anything that involved water received Ellyn's complete attention.


Sea World- Thursday. The kids loved the entire day. You can only imagine how enthralled Ellyn was with all the water, how much the kids all loved the Dolphin, Sea Lion, and Shamu show, how absolutely great a day we had at Sea World.








The kids loved the rides right before we went to see SHAMU.


Sawyer being a shark after viewing the awesome shark exhibit.

What's Sea World without a pic of Shamu?

Happy Belated Birthday, Alicia!!

I just stole this pic from Cortney's blog. So many of you went to the John Mayer concert together! How fun. Alicia, I hope you had a wonderful birthday. 31? 27?

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Cory's new home office. I guess he didn't think he could be super productive in the pink and purple room. He says the brown is for the earth to keep him grounded, the blue is because the sky is the limit and the green is the color of money of coarse. Something I'm sure we'll be rolling any day now! That's not really why we chose the colors these are just the extras we had hanging around our garage. Not a bad combo aye.





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Happy 21st Birthday Ashley!

Since my mother is out on her lovely "Sister's Vacation" I am in charge of doing Ashley's Birthday Post.
This was Ashley moments before she got married back in August.
Oh, so that makes her 20 years old correct? Ashley, you got married at only 20!? "I will never get married that young!"...(she would say.)
*This is what she told me when I was getting married at the ripe age of 20.

Ashley last year at her birthday, she is beautiful!

Anyways....Happy 21st Birthday you already married women!
We love you very much, enjoy your day!

Invitation

With the Aunties on the way to my house as we head down to San Diego I want to tell each of you how welcome you would be to come stay with us. We have had so much fun with Jess and Tony and each of my siblings and their families. Our house is kid friendly, a little crazy, and very open to each of our loved ones. We are only here till next summer, so....


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My bread my peaches and my baby girl!



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3 Years Ago Today

I would live anywhere in the world if I could be there with this guy. I love you Burt.