Memorial Day other wise known as Cameron's Birthday #11!

Memorial weekend we went down to Delta and stayed over at my parents house.  They have been living in Springville for the past year so we haven't been down there.  The kids had so much fun rediscovering everything.  We also put some manly flowers on Kollins grave and then headed down to Milford to put flowers on both sets of my Grandparents graves.  We ended up in Beaver to go fishing. Cameron's favorite thing to do ever and our favorites place to camp.  I don't think our family have really been anywhere else to camp.  We love it there!  

All the kids and Gramp crossing the damn at Kents Lake to get as far away from other people as possible.  We sometimes can get a little loud, imagine that!

Birthday boy fishing! nice form!

The best Grandpa! always willing to get the poles ready!

 

WOW! what a group of cheesers!

Cameron, Amy, Reese, and Luke

Amy fighting with Luke over a fishing pole!

Reese.  just the other day the kids were telling me where they would like to live, Tyson said Spirit Lake and Reese said that she wants to live in the mountains!

Just beautiful

amy, luke, grandma, tyson, carson, cameron and grandpa

SLAMMA-JAMMA Spring Break!

We had a great spring break!  Probably more fun than Disneyland!  I know," impossible! "some might say.  But for us it was really that much fun!  We started out by driving down to the San Juan river, which is just out of Bluff, Ut.  We camped out Sunday night at the BLM river put-in.  It was freezing cold!  We got up monday morning and got our boat all rigged and loaded and we were off!  We took all our kids plus our friend Kyle Hooker and his 4 boys, so we had 2 rafts and a kayak.  We had just a 3 day permit but you can go for as long as 6 days.  The San Juan river is very mellow, class 2 and a couple of 3 if you do the 6 dayer but mostly just easy going mellow.  Beautiful red cliffs, indian ruins, and petroyglyphs that you can hike to.  The kids loved it!  I was a little worried about Reese, especially at night.  But she was the best and she slept better in the tent in her little sleeping bag in 35 degree cold that at home in a comfy bed at 70 degrees, go figure!  The weather was perfect!  Although a little cold the first 2 nights the 3rd night was almost a little to warm.  The days were in the high 70's, perfect!  We really lucked out!  SO FUN!  

Then we headed directly for Steamboat Springs, CO ( not even a shower yet! gross!) Sean and I love Steamboat, if there ever is a employment opportunity there we would go for sure!   The ski hill closes on Easter day but they have a great deal called" springalicious" were you can ski for $33! what a deal!  I conned my sister Amy into meeting us there so she could ski with Tyson and Sean skied with the big boys. It even snowed a foot thursday night to make for some sweet runs friday.   Reese and I lounged in the condo and caught up on the laundry from the rafting trip.  We ate at our favorite restaurants and drove up to Rabbit Ears pass where we used to snowmobile, swam in the pool (outdoor!) and relaxed in the jacuzzis, the kids played lots of monopoly and uno, watched a couple of movies, it was just great!  We will definitely do this again next  year!  Reese will be able to ski too! yay!

TAGGED!

1) post rules on blog

2) answer the six "8" items....

8 Fav TV shows: 

1.  24

2. Life

3. The Office

4. 30 Rock

5. Law and Order- all of them

6. Lost

7. American Idol

8. Biggest Looser

8 things I did yesterday

1. woke up at 4:50 AM to go do Cross fit! ( my day, after waking up so early, is a bit foggy)

2. straightened up the house

3. did a couple batches of laundry

4. walked kids to school

5. tried not to take a nap

6. watched biggest looser and AI

7. went to the gym with Sean

8.  finally went to sleep

8 things I'm looking forward to:

1. seeing the results of working out!! I better see results soon!

2. rafting!!!

3. Jennie having her baby!

4. Jill having her baby!

5. Monica having her baby!

6. Emily having her baby!

7. Carlie having her baby!

 8.  Reese getting potty trained! ( this is really #1)

8 fav Restaurants:

1. Red Robin ( French onion soup! mmm)

2. Dragon Star (best chinese in Heber if not the world)

3. Bajios

4. Wing Stop! oh baby!

5. Cafe Chulo 

6. PF Chang

7. CPK- pear gorgonzola pizza so yummy

8. Claim Jumper (in cali)

8 things on my wishlist

1. be more organized

2. laser eye surgery

3. lipo

4. my kids would stop growing up so fast

5. I could run like the wind

6. go on a long vacation maybe to Italy or Greece

7. my house was clean all of the time

8. catch up on scrapbooks! big time!

8 people I tag

1. Monica

2. Jill

3. Emily

4. Lisa

5. Carolyn

6. Mike

7. Cheryl

8. Garrett

# SEVEN!!!!!

My little sister Sara is going to BYU Law school (I know! smart).  She just got back her first semester grades and she is # 7!!!!! in her class of 156.  After weeks of stress and a lot of pep talks from her family she finally knows what we all knew all along, she is AWESOME and smart!! and that law school is not just a hobby!  Way to go Sara!! We are so Proud of you!

Wacky Reese!

Our life has been turned upside down since Reese came into our family.  We sure love her!

GO JAZZ?

Reese got some make-up for christmas.......

You would think by looking at her that she must watch me put on make up every day, which she usually does but I never wear eye shadow or lipstick!  How does she know these things?

Happy Birthday to ME!

Old! that is all I have to say!  Anyway, my super-terrific-wonderful neighbor offered to watch Reese and Tyson so Sean and I could go skiing for my birthday.  It has been a long time since we, I mean "I",  have been anywhere without kids.  We went to Deer Valley.  It was really, really fun.  While the film festival is in town the resorts are dead and I mean DEAD we had the mountain pretty much to ourselves on some of the runs we were the only ones going down.  I'm not the best skier so I got to really practice and not feel the pressure of the hoards of skiers coming down behind me.  Fun!  To top it off we went to Bajio's and got our fav Green Chile Chicken Nachos so so good and huge!

DEAD!!

My cute instructor

 I D.A.R.E. you!

The fifth grade classes graduated from the DARE program this last Thursday.  The kids had to write a report on the DARE program and what it had taught them.  The police officers and teachers read through the reports and chose a boy and girl from each class to read their reports at the DARE graduation assembly and Cameron was chosen from his class.  He did a great job!  He wasn't even a bit nervous.  Although I do have one issue to take up with Cameron.  Thursday morning he "just remembered" he had to read his report and "am I going to be able to come?"  and "I have to wear just a nice shirt, like one with a collar, but not like a church shirt and nice jean are o.k. to wear."  Well probably 99% of the girls had dresses on and most of the boys had on khakis and ties some were even in suits!  I fought Cameron to even wear a dress shirt!  I had to let him wear a t-shirt on under it so he could take it off when he was done!  What a Stinker!!!  We are proud of him anyway!

Here is his report:

The DARE program helped me to learn about drugs.  It changed my life.  It helped me understand how to protect myself against drugs.  I learned lots of facts about marijuana and tobacco.  Like that marijuana is illegal in the United States and tobacco has more than 200 poisons in it.  I learned that there is strength in numbers.  I learned that if I don't hang around friends that smoke or drink I will not smoke or drink.  I learned that the DARE decision-making model helps you in life.  I learned how to avoid peer pressure situations.  These skills will help me later in life.  I learned all of this in DARE, which is a great program.

Marijuana has more tar in the smoke than tobacco smoke.  Smoking marijuana causes breathing problems.  There is lot of nicotine in cigarettes.  People who do drugs get sick more times than people who don't do drugs.  Over 400,000 people die each year because of drugs.  All of the skill I've learned will help me in my years in school, and when I'm in college and have a job and a family.  I'm looking forward to it in 8Th grade when DARE starts for me again. 

All the skills that I've learned will help me because it helps me keep my body healthy and keep me from doing drugs and smoking cigarettes.

I pledge to never do drugs as long as I live because my Uncle was killed by a drunk driver who ran into him.  I know the sadness of those who lost people because of drugs and alcohol.  The DARE program will help you learn these things so you can be safe from drugs.