Update 7/27/09

Well it's been a while since i've written but it's been a good summer.  We had a busy June with grandma camp, girls camp, and movies.  Then we went to UTah except for Chris and Zach because Zach made the All Star team (yeah).  It was fun to go by myself, I surprised myself with how good i did.  I will post the info about the trip from the blog.  School started today Sydney is a freshman at Hamilton High School, Zach is in 5th grade with Mrs. Wong and Kyle is in 2nd Grade with Ms. Shaheen.  THey were very excited as was I to have a break from all the fighting.  I will miss them as they are very good kids and we had a fun summer together.    Chris is working at the temple on tuesdays from 3-9 and he enjoys that.  Zach is starting tackle football next week and I'm not thrilled about that the practices are not close and the games are even farther..... not excited but I hope he does well.  Sydney will be 14 this weekend, my baby is getting so big.  She is such a beautiful girl inside and out and I love her so much.

Here are my posts from the other blog about the summer:

Congratulations Zach on a great Season, his very last game was awesome as he hit a home run over the fence and brought 2 guys in and then was named the MVP!!  We love you and are so proud of you!

Our Trip to Utah

This year it turned out that our family vacation was just a partial family vacation.  Zach needed to stay here in Arizona to practice and play with the Chandler All Star team so he and Chris stayed here.  What a great time he had! Especially at his last game, he hit a home run (his first one over the fence) and helped bring in 2 other boys, then he was named the MVP.  We couldn't be more proud of him!     So Sydney, Me, Chloe and Kyle ventured up to Utah on our own as I needed to take Sydney to EFY in Provo.  We left on June 25th and Stayed in Cedar City and arrived in Pleasant Grove on the 26th.  We did many fun things like go to cousin Shelbie's baptism, swim at the Lindon pool a few times, hiked the G, got rained out at Raging Waters, saw lots of movies like Ice Age, Up and The Proposal not to mention all the one's we got from Redbox.  I was able to see my friend Laura and her 2 girls for an afternoon, we also went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house which was very beautiful.  Sydney was able to see her cousins from Oregon, they stayed in a cabin up Provo Canyon and had a great time.  Sydney said EFY was amazing and had a wonderful time and made lots of new friends. We will definitely do that again. Chris and Zach surprised us and drove up to spend the 4th of July with the family and we were also able to go to the Stadium of Fire in Provo.  That was soooo fun!! My brother in law got an email that said all police, fire and military could get in for free so we secured out tickets but didn't get to the gate in time and we thought that we wouldn't be able to get in, but after some searching and talking we got our tickets and we had such a great time.  Glenn Beck was the host and Shedaisy performed and then the Jonas Brothers came out and it was so much fun to see the kids dancing and laughing and having a great time.  The fireworks were so amazing and I've not quite seen a show like that before.  Unfortunately Chris's grandfather passed away while we were up there so we ended up staying until the funeral and Chris flew up the night before and drove back with the kids and I.    It was a great vacation but we were definitely glad to come home and get back to normal.  Here are pictures of our trip.

I'll write again soon.

Cute Sayings 5/31/09

Chloe has said some cute things lately and I don't want to forge them.  She was squawking like a bird in the car and it got a little annoying so I told her to stop and she said "mom I'm just trying to get the bird out of my mouth"!  Tonight she came in and told me that there is a monkey in her throat and I asked how she was going to get it out and she said through her ear.  She often tells me her eye is bleeding because it's red inside and she'll pull her skin down and show me.   She also says her heart is broken.  She loves to smile and just learned how to wink at church today.  One of my favorite things to do is tell secrets with her it's so fun and she says cute things.   

Things were a little busy last week, we had swim lessons with Chloe all week and then I went on Zach's field trip to CGCC to a water festival.  We saw Night at the Museum 2 on memorial day.  Then at scouts on Wednesday 5/27/09 Zach took his shoes off at the church to play kickball and he got his heel caught under the divider in the cultural hall and sliced his heel.  We went to Gilbert Mercy to get 5 stitches.  He also threw up and looked like he was going to pass out....probably not going to be a doctor.  He can't swim or run so he missed his first tournament game the next day and the team lost 11-2 so that made it even worse.  He's hoping to play tomorrow so we'll see. He also gave a good talk today in church on Baptism, Confirmation and the blessings that come from it.  Sydney finished up track and got an award and took 5th in the long jump out of 8 schools.  Kyle finished his baseball season yesterday and had a great time.  We are busy with scouts as well.  I'm a den assistant with Shelly Gardanier on wednesdays and Chris still has his scouts on fridays.  Exfuze is going great, I've had a lot of people I've given the drink to and I'm hoping for some great results.   School is out this week and it will be nice to not have anything to do.  I just need to keep the kids busy and happy.  We'll be heading up to Utah the end of the month which will break up the summer a bit.  I'm soooo dang proud of my kids for all they do and accomplish, they are the best!!  I'll write again soon.

05/19/09

Things have been busy.  Sydney went to the semi formal dance at santan with her friends and had a great time they went to a movie afterwards called 17 again.  Zach had a great baseball game on saturday and caught a dive ball and scored the winning run and had a triple.  He is a great baseball player.  Kyle has done extremely well  with baseball and has had a great season.  I have to write some of the things that Chloe says to me before I forget them.  "Mom, I ask you sonthing",  when she prays she says "Heddy Fadder",  one day in church she had flaky boogers coming out of her nose so I quickly got them and flicked them on the floor and she looked at me and said "you can't put boogers in Jesus's house"  it was so cute!  Taught me a lesson.  Work is going well for Chris well at least it's getting better, thank goodness.  We are getting ready to give our Pilot back and look for a new car, hopefully we can find something soon.  The kids will be out of school in a few weeks and we are gearing up for summer, it will be nice to have a break.  I'll write again soon.   

04/29/09

Today kids have been sick. Zach has a fever, cough, cold etc... and chloe decided to throw up today... so fun!  Sydney has allergies and Kyle is good, thank goodness.  We are busy trying to buy a minivan for our family as our Pilot lease is ending.  Daisy bit Mia on the eye  and totally jacked it up, it's so gross and I hope she will be okay and be able to see out of it.  There is a terrible swine flu going around the world and we are really trying to be careful to stay healthy (except for today) and hopefully they can get it under control.  Sydney took 2nd in the 2oo and 4x100 at her track meet yesterday, we are very proud of her.  She is a good girl and I'm just very nervous for high school and hope that she continues to make good choices and do whats right-high school is tough.  Life is good and busy and I love it.  Super proud of the kids and I love them so much!

04/20/09

We had a good weekend together as  a family.  Zach and Kyle had games on friday night they both won and then Chris took the boys to the Fulton Carnival and Sydney was at Megan Chapples Birthday party.  Saturday it was a soccer game for Sydney and Chris, Sydney tried to be goalie but didn't like it much so she went back to defense.    Julene Barth and I went shopping for the Silent Auction Basket for CNLL and then we were off to a Peleteros game. Zach pitched in this one and Chad and Randee and the kids came to watch , it was fun.  Chris and I then went to dinner with the Gardanier's and the Yocum's and then we went to the adult session of conference.  Sunday we went to Stake conference and they did it differently and had to broadcast to our church building so we didn't have to all cram into the stake center.  I love sunday afternoons when we can rest, take a nap, play games and enjoy each others company.  Kyle showed us his dancing side last night and did the macarena for us in his bedroom, he was very good apparently they do it at school alot!  I thought it was so cute.  Chloe has taken to the barbies and loves to play and make a huge mess with them!  This week Sydney is off to California with the band for the weekend, they get to go to disneyland (lucky).  I'm going to SLC for an Exfuze conference with Pat, I'm excited to see what they have to say and hopefully get her motivated and moving along in this business.  I'll write again soon.

04/07/09

We celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary this past week!  It was a normal day but it just felt special to me and I remembered our wedding all the events that went along with it.  That morning mom came for piano and she brought gifts, she likes to do that.  She brought a necklace for me from hayley, bed sheets, tie for Chris, book on cd for Chris, and she had our wedding video put on dvd which was so nice!  Mom and Hayley also did their dance for us again to the UB40 song and put it on you tube for us to watch, it was so sweet.  We had a game that night so on thursday the 2nd I got us a couple's massage and then we went to dinner at Hong Kong Bistro.  It was a nice anniversary I can't wait for the next 15.  Things are busy we had a super fun weekend.  Friday night Zach had a game and it was too cold for me to take Chloe so we just stayed home. Saturday we had Sydney's soccer game (they tied) then I had to go do taxes, then it was grocery shopping and home again.  Chris went to Priesthood that night (it was general conference weekend) and caught 2 guys looking into cars in the parking lot, I don't know what it is people always breaking into cars at our church's.  Then that night our neighborhood had their annual easter egg hunt, they were divided into age groups of course and they get their candy filled eggs to put in their baskets.  The fun part about it was that afterwards they showed a movie on a 16ft blow up movie screen.  They showed an easter show then the movie Bolt. It was so fun to get the pillows, blankets, sleeping bags etc... out for the kids and let them stay up watching the movie with their friends.  The Moore's and us had dinner on their front lawn and just talked, it was soooo fun!  I love our neighborhood and the great activities we do, it's a wonderful place to raise our children.  Today is tuesday and we have another one of Zach's games tonight I hope they win.  Kyle had one last night and they won by a long shot.  He loves to play.  Life is good, we are just taking things easy and being careful with our money as the economy is terrible right now and things are slow with Chris's job.  I'll write soon.  

15th Anniversary 04/01/09

Well we had our 15 year anniversary yesterday.  I woke up and made Chris breakfast in bed (omelette) and then mom came over for piano and she brought with her some gifts.  She told me to look on my email and there was something from Hayley, a you tube clip??  So it was  of them dancing to the UB40 song that they danced for us 15 years ago.  It was so sweet.  We got new bed sheets, I got a cute necklace from Hayley, Chris got a new tie and a book on CD and then mom put our wedding video, reception video, etc...on dvd.  It was so sweet.  We were grateful.  I can't believe I've been married for 15 years!  As i think back it's been a wonderful life.  We've definitely had our ups and downs and sorrows and happiness but we are so blessed and I wouldn't change any of it.  I'm very happy.  Kyle had baseball practice and Zach had a game (they came back and won 18-9)  We are actually celebrating today by going and getting  a couples massage-Yeah!! We could both use it.    I have an Exfuze meeting right after, hopefully it turns out well.  I went to the computer store to get an adapter for our old laptop so I could get the pictures off of it, it was so fun to look at them and see how much the kids have grown.  My goal is to get them all on disk and off the computer and put it on the mac.