Anniverary trip to SLC

I just got back from our 4 day trip to SLC for Joel and I's 10 year anniversary. We went and saw The Killers...it was so great! I'd rank that concert right up there with the Police concert. This was the first time Parlee went to a babysitter. My sister jess had the 4 kids for almost 5 hours and they did great. Jess had a Halloween project for them and movies to watch, Parlee did great too. Sunday we took Joels brother Marc and Dan (who works for us) to the SLC temple. We watched the Joseph Smith movie (and I cried and cried like I always do) and we toured our temple square, we actually spent about 5 ours there and still didnt see all that temple square has to offer. All in all it turned out to be a great weekend.

how would you answer the phone?

This morning as we were getting ready for school the phone rang, I asked Taran to answer it. He picks up the phone and says 'Dear Heavenly Father" then he realizes he said the wrong thing and was laughing so hard he could hardly say hello. We all thought it was pretty funny.

Happy First DECADE!

Today is our 10th anniversary. It's funny how 10 years ago I thought that making it to 10 years seemed like FOREVER. But the time flies by much too quickly! So how are we celebrating? Oh, Joels in SLC, so I guess we wont be celebrating together. But tonight Joel is bringing two of his nephews to a Rancid concert and I am going to be enjoying the second half of the book 'The Time Travelers Wife'. However on Saturday we did buy tickets to see 'The Killers' concert in SLC for our anniversary.

Well here is to 10 years and many more decades to come!

RODEO!!

It's rodeo time! I love this time of year, filled with reunions, hot dogs, parades (oh yeah I can't claim that one this year, it's the first year i slacked and didnt put my kids in the children's parade), family, cowboys, and everything else. I just love the rodeo. This year we had a family game night at my house, the best part was the MY TEAM WON!!! We had the Foremaster family reunion on Saturday, they had this geneology poster....or I guess you would say wall hanging, (it was huge) that traced the Foremaster family back to the early 1500's. Grandpa (and Uncle LaVar) rode in with the past Lions presidents on a carriage pulled by huge Priefert horses (bottom picture, grandpa is 2nd to the left and LaVAr is on the right). The rodeo was windy and rainy, I think the worst weather we have ever had at the rodeo. we were all so windblown, the picture of Parlee...or the teeny bit you can see of her is how she spent the entire rodeo. Even though the weather was frightful we still all had fun!

what going on....

Wow, as usual we have been going a million miles an hour. The last few weeks have been eventful, Joels grandpa who had colon cancer and given 6 weeks to live only lasted 3. I was glad my kids had a chance to play with 'the silly grandpa' one last time. His funeral was wonderful, he was in the military so they had a military funeral, I just love those! We had fun in SLC for the funeral playing with cousins, having a game night with the adults and just enjoying the cooler weather. After returning from that I spent the next week preparing for the big stampin get together I do ever year. Preparing tons of samples for display boards and preparing presentations to get new stampers excited about there new hobby. It's tons of work, but lots of fun. Then on Sunday was Parlee's baby blessing and a brunch at our house. The blessing was beautiful,even though the Bishop told me that the deacon holding the microphone was a little more concerned about folding his arms then holding the microphone up to Joel. So needless to say that sacrament room got REALLY quite fast as we all struggles to hear Joels voice. The brunch was great lots of waffles, breakfast casseroles and fruit. I think we all ate more then we should have! ;) After that I have spent the last few days sewing, sewing and more sewing. I made tons of cute flower luggage tags for Jill. Mom helped me sew Nephite costumes for sharing time on Sunday...I still have two more Nephites and and Angel left. So Im almost done preparing for my 10 minute lesson :) And to top everything off I think my camera has now officially broken :( So I ended up with No pictures of the funeral, the blessing, the new projects or anything. Bummer! We'll I better get back to Nephite costumes!

Ky

Kyler has done some pretty funny things this week. Okay so most should make me a little upset,but I cant help it I find some of his 'capers' down right funny!

The other day I found a towel in the toilet, I thought it was odd but I just washed it without giving it too much thought, well this morning Kyler was in going to the bathroom and I find out that he had used a towel instead of toilet paper...I guess from now on if there is a towel on the ground in the bathroom I may need to assume that it's been used as a premium toilet paper :)

A few days ago Kyler was taking a bath, I hadn't put his bubbles in yet...I walked out of the bathroom for a few minutes, and I see Kyler naked running from the fridge to the bathroom. I go in and he is adding Hershey's syrup to the tub, I guess he figured it was a good substitute for bubbles :)

New School!

The first days of school at Vista...well the temporary location at the Dixie Center. The kids all look so nice in their uniforms! Joely loved the first day of school and Taran did too, he did tell me however that 'he only had to cry twice.' Me in my kind mother advice told him 'Buck up buddy, your in first grade now'

The kids will ride a bus to the Dixie Center. So for the first two days I pu them on the bus and followed them to the Dixie Center to make sure they got to class and then also came to the school after school to make sure they got on the bus again and I followed to the bus back out to Ivins.

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Taran Bo Baran

Joely Bowly

Parlee at one month

More of Parlee.





A couple of weeks ago my sister in law took some pictures of Parlee at one month old....boy time goes by a little too fast. I love the pictures and I love our little girl!

Parlee's tutu dress

Here is the tutu dress I made for Parlee's 1 month pictures. I loved the little hearts on the bum :)

iS tHiS nOrMaL??

This is Kyler's newtest thing to be funny. Him with his booster seat strapped to him walking around the house.

Quilt block #1

I have signed up to make some quilt blocks and exchange them with people across the US...and even some are going to other countries, in return I will be getting a block from them, everyone is doing the same patterns, the 'scrappy hedgerow block' and they are all to be done with christmas colors or fabrics, so at the end we will have different blocks that we can make our own scrappy christmas quilt. It has been fun preparing to make my blocks, the pictures of unfinished blocks, those are mine. The picture of the two finished blocks and the 'stuff' was the first one I received. When I checked the mail today I had a little package I quickly came home and opened it, it was from Lynda in Maine, and not only had she sent me the two quilt blocks but she had also included a postcard , key chain and pin from Maine along with a card and a fat quarter of Christmas material! What a fun surprise, I cant wai to get more and get mine sent off!!

Joely's a golf cart driver!

Joely just called me....she is up in SLC for the week with Joel. Anyhow today Joel took her golfing and she got to drive the golf cart, she told me she almost drove of a little cliff and almost ran into two fences :) So if anyone if looking for a caddy and golf cart driver, Joely's your girl. She wont ever officially wreck, just 'almost' wreck!

The Beach

I am finally posting our SLC pictures...at the time we came home from our second trip to SLC, Parlee had spent half of her life in Salt Lake! I guess she better get used to traveling in the car, because she was born into a family that seems to always be going! One of the things we did was go to the beach! For as NEATO- FREATO as I think splash pads are I think the beach's in SLC may just be cooler! The night before this picture was taken we had taken the kids t the beach in Herriman, but the one that's in Daybreak and only about 4 blocks from Tawnis house (these pictures were from Daybreak) was just a way cooler beach! It has two docks that the kids can jump off of, they have tons of beach sand for building castles, and the water is not too deep, so people like me dont even have to get in the water!!!

I did it!

While in SLC I was seriously missing my sewing machine..2 weeks apart was hard :) So I borrowed my neices sewing machine and made Parlee a dress, it had several mistakes, but I didnt have a pattern, I have never made any clothing item before, and it was my first time using elastic thread...so all in all I was rather proud of it. I later made a black and white dress for her, I'll post that when I take a picture of her in it.

Grandpa Wille

While we were in SLC, Joels grandpa was diagnosed with colon cancer and given 6 weeks (they said that was being generous with the time) so we spent some time with him. He has some of the best stories and is always being silly with the kids, I hope this isnt our last time visiting with him.

New Temple

I dont even have the slightest clue how to spell the name of the new SLC Valley temple. It located just a couple blocks from Tawnis house, and it's beautiful. We werent able to make it to the open house, due to being pregnant and having a teeny little baby.

Copperton Park

While in SLC we went to Copperton to BBQ with Tawnis family....They had the BEST park there. I am thinking that a great park is one that has old toys that as a parent when you look at them you think 'Man, a person could really get hurt here!' Thats the requirements of a fun park! Tawni, Joel and I slid down the old metal slides backwards and had races....just about anything that the kids said we 'wouldn't' do because we were to 'old' well we DID it, and had a blast! The BBQ was great, frisbee was fun and the park was completely entertaining!