Erin's Graduation

Here are a bunch o' pictures from Erin's graduation. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. I am very proud of her, she worked super hard and will be an excellent teacher.
p.s. my dad was in attendance but scooted out of there before I could get any pictures of him.

Easter 2011

We had a super fun Easter this year. Noah and I traveled to Erin & Trevor's for the Holiday. We sort of crammed a lot into a short period of time. We didn't get our eggs colored until about 10:30 Saturday night. Erin did a super awesome egg on which she drew the pigeon from "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus". The Easter Bunny had to hide the eggs inside the house as it had been very rainy, plus there is the feral cat issue in Erin's neighborhood. I love seeing Noah and Jason together. Jason was just so excited about Noah being there that he could not possibly behave himself. Noah loves Jason so much and is so kind to him. Thanks Erin, Trevor, and Jason for letting us spend Easter with you!

p.s. The Easter Bunny brought the adults some adult-themed beverage can cozies. Say What?!?



p.p.s. Did I forget to mention Jason is French? Well he is, the whole time we were there he sat around drinking espresso, smoking cigarettes, and making disparaging remarks about Americans.

Geocaching Adventure!

Yesterday Cade took Brittany, Noah, and me on a geocaching adventure. I'm sure everyone knows what geocaching is, but just in case you don't, it is a high-tech treasure hunt. You go to geocaching.com and put in the area you want to look in and see if there are any sites around there. You put the coordinates into a hand-held gps and follow it. The 'treasure' is usually hidden (ours was covered in rocks) and in an ammo can or other weather proof container. There is a notebook inside where everyone who finds it logs the date and names, our treasure had been there since 2001. There are little treasures inside and the idea is you can take one treasure and replace it with a treasure of your own. Some people choose to leave a 'signature' item in all their treasures. Cade & Brittany left an army guy, Noah left a helicopter, and I left a silly eraser head. The only prize was taken by Noah, he chose a little frog figurine.

Noah was really excited about the whole thing and did his best Indiana Jones impression. When we started out walking, Cade started to play the Indiana Jones theme song on his phone. Due to time, and the fact that people were out shooting guns around one of the sites, we only hit one location. We definitely look forward to doing it again.

Thanks Cade and Brittany for a fun adventure!

Noah is 7!

I can't believe my little boy is seven already, time really flies. We celebrated his birthday at Pirate Island Pizza. Noah invited his friend, who you may recognize as 'Alien Boy' from a previous post. We got to eat our dinner in the "Smuggler's Cave" complete with water dripping sound effects. After the pirate party we went and saw 'Tron Legacy' in 3D, which was proclaimed "awesome" by Noah and Alien Boy. Noah watched the entire movie on the edge of his seat, sometimes I would lean over and just watch him watch the movie because he was so into it. Thanks to all who were able to come to the party and thanks for all the birthday wishes. I have such an amazing little seven year old.

Christmas 2010

This year we celebrated Christmas at my Dad's house. It was nice to have everyone there. Noah played a prank on Grandpa and gave him a barbie. Anytime a commerical came on for a "girl's" toy, Grandpa would tell Noah he was going to get him that for Christmas. Noah could barely contain himself when Grandpa opened the barbie. He was running around yelling "Oh YEAH, oh YEAH. We pranked you!", it was pretty good, and my dad got a kick out of it too.

Where is Thumbkin?

plus.....a cute feller!!

Halloween 2010

Zoo Trip - 10/01/2010

Harvest Hoorah - 09/29/10

This year I took Noah and his buddy to the school's Harvest Hoorah. We sat outside and listened to some fun stories, Noah's favorite was 'A Soup Opera' which was very fun indeed. They handed out free donuts and apple juice and a fun time was had by all!

09/18/2010

Please enjoy these lovely pictures of my silly family at the golf course. My uncle, Herb, was out here on business and had the opportunity to come spend some time at my dad's house. It was so great to see my uncle and have my siblings together!

My Birthday

My birthday this year (the big 30) just happened to coincide with Payson Onion Days. Dale's school had a booth so we visited him and Noah rode the carnival rides. Oddly enough, I did not see one single onion related item at 'Onion Days'. I suspect some of the carnies were sporting a delightful onion-like fragrance but I doubt it was just for Onion Days. For my birthday most of my siblings got together in Orem, my mom made Hawaiian haystacks and everyone pitched in and got me a ticket for LADY GAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!! As Noah would say, "Lady GaGa is my mom's favorite band".

First Day of First Grade

Today was Noah's first day of First Grade. I can't believe he is a first grader already. He was a bit nervous this morning but he told me that when he got in class he wasn't nervous anymore. I am a proud mama!

Alien Boy & His Captain

Today I had a visit from Alien Boy & his Captain wearing their self-styled helmets!


Alien Boy (left) & His Captain (right)



Alien Boy



The Captain

Kents Lake

Yesterday Sheila, Noah, Little Hayley, and I went up to Kents Lake which is located in Beaver Canyon. We had a lot of fun rowing the little boat around and there was a bunch of fish jumping out of the water catching bugs.

Sweet Skillzz

Now, don't be jealous, but I have some pretty sweet photoshop skills or skillzz. Here is some work I did to turn Noah into Darth Maul from Star Wars, I know you are shocked that is not the work of a professional graphic artist.

BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter Weekend 2010

Well, none of these pictures are very "Easter-y" but I discovered my battery was dead when I went to take pictures of the egg hunt. The pictures are of the street ball game that was taking place and the crazy cranium game we played later that evening.

Buc-ee's

On our drive up to Dallas from Houston, we made a pit-stop at Buc-ee's to enjoy their 'fabulous restrooms'. To call Buc-ee's a truck stop is does not even begin to describe it. It is sort of a self-contained village of sorts, they seemed to have anything and everything, including beaver nuggets! Don't get excited, they were just puffed corn with caramel flavoring. Their restrooms were actually large and clean so that was good too!

Houston Aquarium

Pictures from our visit to the Houston Aquarium. It was raining cats and dogs outside so we didn't get to enjoy the Ferris Wheel, but we did take a chilly shark adventure train ride. Thanks so much to the Staples for hosting us!

p.s. Yes, they do have white tigers in the Houston Aquarium

Noah is 6!!

Here are some pictures from Noah's birthday party. We went to Pirate Island Pizza, it was a lot of fun. Special thanks to Ms. Holly for making the awesome army cake.

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That's my boy! Checking out the bizarre creatures in Nat Geo.