Time goes by too fast!

I can't believe its already the middle of December! Seriously, time needs to slow down. I can't keep up! Here's an update on the past few months.Dayna went to the Sadies Halloween Dance at her school, it was girls choice. Dayna and her friend planned a double date. They had a great time. Here's the picture.

Ryan turned 12 on October 20th. He invited two friends over and we went to Trafalga. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures there. But here are a few at the house before we left.

Ryan was also made a Deacon. I am so proud of him. We really appreciate all the the friends and family that came to support him.




Halloween 2010. Here are some fun pictures from Halloween this year!
I forgot to take pictures of Jason and Ryan in their costumes. Dayna and Jason both helped out with our city Haunted house, they both looked pretty scary.


Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving was awesome this year! We went up to my sister's house in Idaho. We were worried we wouldn't be able to get there, because of the big snow storm. But luckily we made it there safely. We were able to stay the whole weekend and relax. Malinda always does such a good job at decorating. She makes it look like Martha Stewart was there. The food was delicious too. The kids had fun with their cousins, they played in the back yard and made snow fort . It was really cold, I couldn't believe they wanted to be out there. Also Uncle Ron took them sledding and pulled them behind the truck, they had a blast. Us girls made a cute craft together, it was really fun, even though I have no talent for it. Saturday we watched the BYU , UTAH game, we are huge BYU fans and they are UTE fans, so it's always fun. I made some BYU cookies and Malinda made some red and white floats. We tried not to eat each others treats. BYU should have totally won that game--such controversy. Oh well there's always next year!
Here's some fun pictures from Thanksgiving.

A Halloween Party, a 5K Race & a Wedding

This past weekend was really busy but fun. First Tad and I went to a Halloween Party at the "Mayor's Mansion" that's what we call it, it's such a huge house, and we have been friends with the mayor way before she was the mayor. A long time ago they used to have adult dances in our Stake and this particular group of friends would always be at them. We had so much fun together. We decided to start getting together for Halloween every year. We ate yummy soup and salad and yummy cookies and cupcakes for dessert. After dinner, we played this game called "Curses" it is so fun you get to place curses on people like "every time you talk you have to clap your hands twice and say "Attention Class". Or every time you talk you have to act like you are being attacked by mosquitos. Its so fun to watch everyone, by the end of the game you might have 6 or 7 curses you have to do at the same time. It is HILARIOUS if you haven't ever played this game I highly recommend it. Here are some pictures from the party.




5K Cake Walk Fundraiser

A member of our Stake Presidency, Jim Hughes. Had a cancerous brain tumor. He had it removed and has gone through chemotherapy. He has had other complications also. As you can imaging their medical bills are outrageous, and since he is self employed he has no medical insurance. So some ladies in our Stake put together this 5K race to help them pay for some of these bills. There was a little twist to this race though. They had cupcakes about half way through the race and if you wanted to you could eat as many as you wanted, but they would take two minutes off your time for each one that you ate. Jason and I both ran the race I was pretty sure if I ate a cupcake I would throw up while I was running, so I decided not to. I did sneak one at the very end and so did Jason. It wasn't my best time, but I haven't really been running much lately and the last time I ran a 5k was in June. I was just happy to finish the race. It was awesome to see all the people to that came out to support President Hughes. If you would like to read his story, his wife keeps a blog its www.wendyandpals.blogspot.com Here is a picture of me and the Chick-fil-A cow that was there.

Wedding

My brother Zachariah got married this past Saturday. It's so weird that my baby brother is married, he was only 4 when I got married. They got married at their church building, we decorated the primary room and it ended up looking pretty nice. My sister Malinda gave it her special "Martha Stewart" touch. I played the piano and Zac's bishop performed the ceremony. It was really nice. After the ceremony we visited with family . We had some free time between the wedding and the BBQ so we took the kids and a few of their cousins up to the State Capitol. My boys needed to go there anyway for one of their merit badge requirements. I took some pictures of them on the stairs. We went to the "reception" which was a bbq at the park, the weather ended up being really nice and it was fun for the kids to be able to run around and play. Here are some pictures I took. I really wish I were a better photographer.

Crazy Summer of 2010- Part 2

Ok I had to split this up into two posts, it was getting way too long. Here are some other things we did this summer.Splash ParkI found out about this new splash park in Riverton, it was so much fun. They has a playground that Adam loved and a Reservoir right across from it where Jason could go fishing.

Lagoon
We got to Lagoon this summer, some awesome friends of ours gave us some discount tickets so we could go. I only a few pictures, mostly of Adam since the other kids went off on their own most of the time. Adam loved the cars and he really wanted to go in the big shoe, I kept telling him his was locked, but he wouldn't believe me. Luckily a duck got out of the zoo area somehow and Adam started chasing after it--he forgot all about the shoe.



20 Year High School Reunion

I can't believe it, but I've been out of high school for 20 yrs and my daughter is graduating from high school this year. So weird, I really don't feel that old. I think our minds always stay at a certain age, like somewhere in my twenty's for me, but my body keeps getting older.
So I was really nervous and excited to go to my reunion , I worked really hard an lost about 25 lbs the previous 4 months or so before the reunion. I wish I could have lost even more, but I am still proud to have lost that much. The reunion was at the Rice Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake. It was really nice, they had a catered dinner, a short program and there was beautiful view of the city. When we got there we sat by my friend Laurie and her husband, we've kept in contact over the years, so it was nice to at least recognize someone. Next I saw my friends Kim and Terry they dated in high school. I recognized Terry he looked the same but older, Kim looked way different because she had bleached her hair platinum blonde, she had always had brown hair similar to mine in high school. It was fun talking to her again. Most of the night we went around talking to people and reading their name tags, and trying to remember who they were. Tad actually knew some of the spouse who went to Alta with him. There were some people that no matter how hard I tried I couldn't remember them. I guess they weren't one of the cool "band members". It was fun talking to everyone, but just weird. The next day they had a picnic at the park for everyone and their families. It so crazy that some of us have kids almost as old as we were when we knew each other, and they look like we did, but of course not the hair & clothes.




FUN WITH FRIENDS

We went up the canyon with some friends and had so much fun. They aren't very good fisherman and wanted Tad to teach them how to fish. Luckily they caught some fish and they were so excited they couldn't wait to take them home, I don't think my friend was very excited about cooking them. I don't like to cook or eat fish either. They boys have so much fun catching them though, they clean, cook and eat them and then I don't have to be involved. Anyway we had a nice picnic, my friend and I had a nice visit while the guys were off fishing, we had the younger kids with us and took them for a little walk. Jason was so excited to teach their daughter how to fish, he's had a small crush on her ever since she moved here. She is really cute so I don't blame him. She even wanted to watch him when he cleaned the fish, he thought that was so cool since most girls would think it was disgusting. When it got dark, we roasted marshmallows and had smores. YUM!
Well that's it I think. We had such a great summer, I am so sad it is over. But there's always next year!