Daddy Daughter Pinewood Derby

Kayla got to participate in here first daddy daughter pine wood derby. She was to excited to decorate her own car . She didn't win but I thin her care looked the best.

Lagoon

I finally gave in and took my kids to Lagoon. They have been wanting to go for quite a while now. I am a Disneyland person myself and Lagoon just doesn't match up.....the last time I was there was in 1989. My friend had some discount tickets so I decided to take the kids. (Except Anna who was at YC with Craig.)
The kids had a good time...especially Zach who loves the thrill rides.

Mandy was too short to go on most the the rides so me and her did alot of waiting for the other kids. Can anyone explain why you have to be 46 inches for the bumper cars? Once again Disneyland is alot more family friendly.

Kayla is not quite at brave as Zach and sat with me and Amanda while the others went on Wicked.

The Rocket was Zach's favorite ride.

This is the last picture of Zach with his glasses on .....because he lost them in the rapid ride. So my nice cheap lagoon day ended up costing me an extra 200$ to replace Zach's glasses. Who would have thought you would need to remove your glasses for the rapid ride. Even though he couldn't see the rest of the day he still had a great time.

TVG reunion 2009

The 1988-1989 School year at BYU was my most favorite year of college. I had the best roommates every. We named ourselves the TVG as a joke. (TVG stands for The Very Greatest.) This comes from Jayne and I. When we were kids we would write letters back and forth and we always signed our name TVG. Over the years is stuck. We even had our adopted roommate Alicia's brother make us sweatshirts that said Club TVG on them. Carrie, Jayne and I had come back to the dorms for our second year because my cousin Amy wanted to live with us but also wanted to spend her first year on campus. So we stayed another year. Jen and Holly were randomly assigned to our apartment.....as you could say it was a match made in heaven. They fit right in with our crazy sense of humor. We had so much fun playing practical jokes on other apartments....I can' remember a time that we had a fight. So after about 20 years through the wonders of facebook we arrange a reunion. It was just like old times except there are now husbands and kids involved. There was a lot of laughing and remembering all the crazy things we used to do. It was so great to see everyone and I really hope that it is not another 20 years before we get together again.

Me,Carrie, Jayne,Jen, Holly and Amy

This was the reenactment or our Christmas card picture from 1988.On the bottom is Holly, Jayne, Rob (Jayne's Husband then was her fiance) and Carrie. Next row is Amy and then myself and Jen on the top.

This is all of the spouses and kids that were able to come. We were missing about 10 people.

I had to have a picture of Carrie and I. We were best friends and were always together until she met Allen and got married that next summer. That is Holly behind Carrie....I guess we won't ever grow up!

The White Platform

Zach has been working his way up to a back flip off the top platform at the pool this summer. He finally got the courage to try last week and ever since he has wanted me to come video him so that I can put it on my blog. So today I went over with him to film it. He LOVES the attention he gets everytime he does it. When I flipped the video because it was sideways it cut of the top a little bit but that is Zach. Zach would appreciate any comments about how amazingly cool his is! If you listen to the talking at the beginning you can hear a girl say "look at the kid on the white...." this is what he lives for.

Kayla's Birthday

I can't believe my cute Kayla is 9. She is always so excited for her birthday....she is always wanting to be older than she is...I keep telling her not to wish away her years and that she will be old soon enough.

Happy Birthday Kayla!

Youth Celebration

Anna was able to participate in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Youth Celebration. She picked to be in the dance number for our stake. I was lucky to be able to schedule my time to help with the choir. This was an awesome experience for both of us. The youth performed at the Conference Center for President Monson. The music and dances were so good...you could tell that all of the kids were having a great time.

This is a picture of Anna and her friends from our stake dressed up in their costume right before we left for the conference center.

The Wish to have Straight Hair

No one understands better than myself the desire to have straight hair. Now that Zach is getting older he is wanting his hair to have the shag look that a lot of his friends have. I have told him that first of all no matter what he does his hair will never look that way (believe me I have tried!)..and second of all girls like the curls. But Zach was not convinced. So I tried to straighten his hair with my straighting iron. The results are shown below. His hair was not long enough to get it to lay down but Zach liked it anyway and had no problem showing up to soccer practice with his hair like this.

Hopefully he will come to the conclusion that curls are cool and everyone can have a shag haircut but not many can have a Fro!!!