Girl overload....

First we got Keeley just over a year ago

then came Brynlee almost a year ago

next will be Lilly in a few more weeks

and today we found out Bryan and Liz's are having a girl too!!

good thing Katie will be throwing a boy into that mix!!

Shoulder injury revisited.....

Surgery May 12th

let this be a lesson to all...

when your doctor gives you instructions...

you really should follow them....

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner....

YEAH Kimberly is the 20,000th visitor.....

Wish I had a prize to offer up!

I will plan further ahead for 30,000

thanks for playing...

That's what my hit counter

(at the bottom of the page says)

who would have thunk

i would have ever had nearly 20,000

hits on this silly little blog i started several years ago.

Probably half of those hits are me!! lol

when you check in here today....

check the counter at the bottom of the page

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have a fun day!

Our Brynlee is walking.....

Makes me happy, but sad at the same time

how is that possible!?

Went to a little wedding.....

So this last weekend we were privileged to attend the wedding our Our Good friends Daughter.

We have known the Hoyes since they moved here back in 1995 and our kids and their kids played together all the time way back when!

We have continued to be friends through the years and we would not have missed this day, seeing Sarah married for the world!

We have know the Grooms family for years too....

Hayden is great friends with Cory's brother Jeremy.

Sarah and Cory
Such a beautiful bride

Hayden and Jeremy doing what they do best....haha

This is the mother of the bride and my good friend Debbie, dancing with Fokke.
Fokke is their exchange student from several years ago...

he is a member of their family now

and also would not have missed this event for the world!

Hayden and cute little Bethany...

love this girl

(just a friend haha)

Rich and his little Sarah....

Hayden and Bethany

Hayden dancing with the girls....again....what he does best! HA

Taylor and Track

Track season is almost over and i would be remissed if i did not post about it! Taylor is doing shot and disc this season. she is sitting out of the running events to give her knees some healing time before soccer next fall. She is such a determined girl and I love that about her!!! she has not done anything astounding or unbelievable this season in track but she has beat her Personal Record over and over again....and that is what I like to see. We think by the time she is a senior she will have this mastered if she sticks with it!!

YOU GO GIRL!

Happy Anniversary!

There is so much I could say....

but nothing is more important now then to say...

I love you and thank you for being my very best friend

for the last 26 years

you are my world

and I'm so lucky to have you

Hot Action on the salt today....

Today we spent the day on the the salt river

rafting with the exchange students

We decided to take our family this time around

so in our boat we had

Rich, me, Austin, Taylor, Noah, Sawyer,

Taylors friend Bridget and My sister Lynn

and our most awesome guide Brad.

the other two boats with our group were filled

with exchange students and host families

the river was higher this year because of all the

incredible run off we had from the huge amounts of snow

this winter then it has been in any of

the 3 prior years that we have done this trip.

It was very exciting, scary but oh so fun!!

we managed to all stay in our boats all day and did not

get dumped into the river which was great because the water was

COOOOLD!

Sawyer had a smile on his face pretty much alll day....

Special Olympics....

We had the privilege this last week of attending the

Blue Ridge special Olympics this last Friday.

Every Year our school holds their own special Olympics

before the district special Olympics.

Our school has a student club that organizes and puts the event together.

And our track team gets to help out by

being Buddy's for our Special Olympics Athletes.

Austin and Quade got to participate as athletes

and Taylor got to be a "Buddy"

Our school shows such awesome support at this event.

All the classes come out to watch.

They even bus students over from the other school in the district.

Its so awesome that it just makes me tear up to see all the support

this is our parade of athletes

Austin and His buddy

Quade and his buddy

Taylor and her buddy

Quade getting his medal in the 100m dash.
He also competed in the 4x100 relay and the softball throw


Austin getting his medal in the 100m dash.
He also competed in the 4x100, the softball throw and the long jump

Here is the whole group

Next...I want to tell you about the "Bee" incident...some of you know that Quade has a fear of "Dave" Dave is a big inflatable (9ft tall) fireman that the fire dept uses for promotions and such. Quade is very scared of Dave and is always ALWAYS saying....
"Scared Dave"

Well the school has this SMALL inflatable Yellow Jacket. Quade was sooo distracted through the whole event with this little Yellow insect that he could think of NOTHING else....if you notice in the video of him running he is looking at the Yellow Jacket on the side as he runs. Every picture i have practically he is looking for or at the Yellow Jacket...he was sooo scared to go anywhere near him. It was all kinds of amusing..
so finally toward the end of the two hour even I went over and gave the yellow Jacket a hug and stood next to him and told Quade it was all right...finally....FINALLY he came closer...and closer....then ran away. Then it all started again. We went through this several times before he finally came close and stood by him....then touched him....then shook his hand...then would NOT leave him alone!!! Followed him around for the whole rest of the time we were there.

A Mother's Worst Nighmare...revisited!

only this one is worse....it runs!

Wishing you all a Happy Easter....

Birthday fun.....

Ok, So Noah and Sawyers birthday surprise was a trip to Disneyland...

We flew out on Monday (their first time on an airplane)

At the end they said that flying on an airplane

was equally as fun and exciting as Disneyland was!

Just before spring break they boys got a letter from their cousin Dylan. His School class was sending out "flat Stanley" to spend a week with someone and then write back and report his adventures. Flat Stanley went with us....

Pirate Adventure

Monday, After we arrived in California we checked into our hotel and then headed over to a dinner theater called "Pirate Adventures" It was alot of fun and because we were there on a Monday night, it was not crowded and the boys got picked to be in every opportunity that the kids were given to participate.

This first video is of our Pirate Ben Blue fighting for the princess





These next two are of Noah taking the Pirates Oath



This is of Sawyer getting to row a boat around the big shiphe is the one in the front with the black pirate vest on



They got to dress up at the end and overtake the pirate ship

This was the ships captain and his wench....

This was the princess and "our" Benjamin Blue (we sat in his section and got to cheer for him)

he won over the princess in the end

so it was a happy ending!

Disneyland

Our second day we spent at Disneyland

with the passes we had we were able to get in an hour early (and it WAS early, 7am)

but because of this we were able to hit ALL the big rides with NO lines...

it was nice to get those out of the way and then be able to take our time and relax the rest of the day...going on everything else and getting fast passes to ride the big rides again that we liked the most...

The boys both had Birthday buttons on and everywhere we went the employees would call them by name and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! that was sooo cool and they really loved that~!

Tons of fun on the tea cups

Noah was not enjoying having his picture taken

Indiana Jones

This was Noah's Favorite Ride

Sawyers favorite was Big Thunder railroad (Rich's too)

Sawyer's second favorite was Autotopia

Finding Nemo Submarine

Looking for Nemo

A little toon town action.....