Monday, December 29, 2008
Phoenix Visit
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Here are some pictures of our visit with Savanna and her family yesterday. We took Jocelynn and Jenni to the park, it was a little cool but they both had tons of fun!!! My favorite so far is when Savanna ask Jocelynn if she picked up her playdough this morning and she said "yes, my little cousin helped me!" As we all know Jocee is the "little" cousin, it was priceless! I am very happy to report that Jocelynn is actually talking to me and she will let me play with her! This is a huge step, over the summer when they came to southern Utah to visit, she would ignore me and run the other way whenever I would get close! I am really enjoying our time with The Borden's, it is coming to an end very quickly though.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow!!!
It started snowing around 9:00 am yesterday and didn't stop until sometime after I went to bed this morning (after 12 am). I was surprised that there was this much snow still left on the ground this afternoon at 3:30pm. Usually anything that we do get is long gone by noon, but not this time, they closed the schools (silly!) and all of the kids (big & little) had tons of fun in the snow! I did check the School District website and school is on for tomorrow!!!! I am sure that everyone will not be remembering there snow day when they are making it up during spring break!!!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
And next comes Dating....
As I am typing this post Mikie is at {MORP} with {Aubrey}, a girl he goes to school with. They started off this afternoon with 'brunch' and decorating {Gingerbread Houses} with some friends. (Major {brownie points} earned on that one! We all know how I love gingerbread houses!) George and I were both gone when she picked him up, but Jenni was home and she gave Aubrey {2 thumbs up}!
Thankfully Jenni's recital was a short one and we were able to be home before they met up again this evening for the {dance}. It was pretty funny when she asked us if she needed to have him home by a certain time!!! LOL... When I asked Mikie about their {'Day Date'} he mentioned that they had gone to the St. George Town Square and taken some {pictures}, he assured me that I will get copies. (More brownie points!) Rest assure, I will share when I get them!
Christmas Recital
Jenni had her Christmas {dance recital} tonight. There are 9 classes starting with 3 year olds up to 16 year olds. Jenni's class danced to {Santa Clause is coming to town}. It was a great recital, each class danced one dance and then they all danced in the finale'. Last year they all danced 2 dances and needless to say it was a tad long! It was great to see how she has {improved} from her last recital last spring.
Ward Christmas Party!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Thanksgiving Weekend
Monday, November 24, 2008
Mikie
Twilight
(Not knowing is WORSE than knowing right?) Coming out of the theater there was a clear knowledge that there are
NO {FENCE SITTERS} on this one, no one was saying, "Oh, it was ok. I didn't Love it, but I didn't Hate it either." You either {LOVED} it or you {HATED} it. I wasn't disappointed (like millions were) that they didn't fully explain all of the Cullen's backgrounds, the kitchen wasn't the same color as in the book, or that Edward's room wasn't large enough. I mean COME ON!!! I am sure that future movies will go into more detail of the {Cullen's} history and who know if they are reading all of the comments out there they may have a kitchen makeover where they paint those cabinets and Edwards room may suddenly seem larger the next time we all go visit. (I can't even remember the {color} of the kitchen, but apparently it was the wrong one!) Honestly the thing that surprised me the most was how many people loved Jacob. My perception of him was positivly different than most. I know he hasn't {changed} yet, but he seemed awfully small to me! I can't wait to see how they manage that for {New Moon}, oh yes I will be one of the firsts to see that one as well. Jacob was my only 'disappointment' and can't really say dissapointed. For what my opinion matters to anyone, I for one {{{LOVED}}} the movie! I am planning a return trip to the theater very soon, and it is a definate DVD purchase. So, if you haven't gotten out and watched Twilight yet, get off your duff and go! If you come out disappointed you can {yell at me} then.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Ginger Bread Houses!
We finished off this crazy weekend with our
Annual Tradition of decorating Ginger Bread Houses.
Every year we get together with friends and decorate a family Ginger Bread House. We started off with a great lunch of soup, salad and scones with honey butter (this year was Turkey Soup, YUMMY!) if we start with full bellies more candy actually ends up on the houses!!! George usually does most of the decorating with the rest of us wandering in and out to help out. We display our house in our family room until the first of the year and after that it is fair game.
This is a tradition that every family should have...
it is better than the Christmas Tree!!!
Jenni's Day Spa & Salon!!!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!! I couldn't have done it with out you!
Jenni had her 11th Birthday Party on Saturday afternoon, it was Great Fun!!! We held it in the cultral hall and the kitchen at the church. We set up foot spa's in the kitchen (close to the water!) for Pedicures and a Parfin Wax Tub for our manicures. Then in the cultral hall we had 4 tables set up.
1 - Hair
2 - Mud Masks & Cucumbers
3 - Nail Polish for our hands and feet
4- Our Craft Table of course!!!
(Our Mud Mask & Cucumber Table turned into our Make Over table for make up after we cleaned and moisturized)
First we took before pictures of each girl, then we split the girls into two groups. One group went into the kitchen for pedicures and to wax their hands. The other group went to the mud mask and cucumber table. I have to share this picture it is my favorite!!! This is one group of girls chillin' with the mud masks and cucumbers. After both groups had thier turns with soaking their feet and cleaning that green stuff off of their faces we moved on to hair/makup and our craft. The girls did their mak up and a craft while waiting for their turn to have their hair curled by Kim & I. After curling each girls hair they had cake and Jenni opened her gifts. Then we took a after picture of each girl and Finished it off with a couple of great Group photo's.
Our craft was a two page scrapbook page layout. I came home and printed pictures... for hours!
Each layout has a spot for individual 'before' & 'after' pic's, two "action" shots and a group photo. I have all of the pictures printed and about 1/2 of them trimmed and mounted. As soon as i get them all done Jenni will take them around with a thank you card and bath salts!
Here are the pages that I made for them to go off of...
they are 8 1/2 x 11, I do 12 x 12 so I will build ours up to that.
They each made changes and came up with unique pages!
It was a great party, I think that all the girls had a great time!!! I just have to say, it is Kim & I's turn for a spa day, and thank goodness birthdays are only once per year!!!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Jenni's Birthday
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Thanks Trista
I have been tagged!
This one is called 6 on 6's (or something like that)...
6 TV shows I like to watch:
1. The Biggest Loser
2. Amazing Race
3. Survivior
4. E.R.
5. The Mentalist
6. Samantha Who?
6 Restaurants I like to eat at:
1. Olive Garden
2. Chilli's
3. Red Lobster
4. Sub Way
5. Famous Daves
6. Brazilian Restraunt at Jordon Landing
6 things that happened today:
1. Church
2.Played in Nursery!!!
3. A Great Nap
4. Eating Fresh Home made Donuts
5. Realized Jenni's Birthday is in ONE week!
6. Got Tagged!
6 things I am looking forward to:
1. Maria & Family coming for Thanksgiving!
2. The Cool Air!
3. Christmas
4. Ginger Bread Houses
5. Soup Season!!!
6. Getting used to Mikie having his Driver's License
6 things on my wish list:
1. Have Mikie sealed to us
2. Be Debt Free
3. Go to the Stampin Up Convention '09
4. A Cruise
5. House Payed Off!!!
6. A Stamp House
6 people I Tag:
1. Bobbi
2. Kacey
3. Peggy
4. Maria
5. Emily
6. Kim
Thursday, November 13, 2008
It is Official!
Given the option to leave and come back or sit as long as 3 hours for the smallest chance that the computers will be back up and running so that they can get the long awaited Driver's license...... Can you guess what a 16 year old would choose. Now, if you are waiting in line for more than 10 minutes at the pharmacy for a life saving prescription, or sitting in the Emergency room for a siblings broken arm, they would say "Let's Come Back Later". But this is Life ALTERING, Time honored and of course 3 hours is well worth the wait!
Thankfully..... It didn't take 3 hours! The Computers were only down for about 30 minutes. (ALOT of people chose not to wait!) So when the workers said to form a line Mikie was the FASTEST and got in spot Number 1! It took about 2.2 minutes from that point and we were out the door. We left the house thinking it would be at least an hour if not two, arrived to think it would be even longer and more likely than not we wouldn't even accomplish anything, but it turned out that we were really only there for about 45 minutes Tops!!! Now you can't beat that!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
New Adventure!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Deer Hunt
George didn't bring the big one home this year! I am sure that he will be planning next years trip before the month is over!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Crazy Day!!!!!!!!!
Well..... What we thought would be an uneventful day ended up to be a pretty eventful one after all. I got a call from Washington Elementary School at about 3:00 this afternoon asking me to come over. Jenni had tripped and hit her head on a desk in class and was bleeding pretty bad! Panic mode hit and I rallied up the 3 kids that I was tending. (Remember, Jenni is my baby and she will be 11 years old next month) I am not the fastest at grabbing and loading and unloading, it is kinda like a circus and I am trying to juggle! Thankfully Mia was already dressed for dance practice, it is at the school at 3:30. Once me and my crew made it to school it was about 3:15 and Jenni was not bleeding anymore. Mrs. Jolley had taken wonderful care of her, squeezed the gaping hole in her head together and put a bandage on it. We were lucky, our friend JoLene was sitting with her when I arrived and offered to wait with Mia until dance started and take Noah home with her (lifesaver!). I ran Lilly across the street to her grandma's house and headed to Instacare. Jenni wanted to see her dad first, so I called him and he had gotten home since I had left. We turned around and went home, Jenni cuddled with her dad for a few minutes while I ran around the neighborhood and dropped dinner off to my dinner group, then we headed out. Dropping Mikie off at work on our way we got to the Instacare at about 4:00pm. We got lucky once again and only had to wait for about 5 minutes to go back to see a Dr. He came right in and got to work. Jenni was pretty scared, she has probably only seen a Doctor about 5 times in her life including when she was born. But no fear, dad held her hand the whole time and even made her laugh a little with his corny jokes! We were out of there by about 4:35-ish, (that is a miracle in itself!) with six stitches in her forehead. Thanks to our wonderful neighbor Kurt, (for coming and getting dinner in the oven) we weren't to far behind schedule for such a crazy afternoon! Of course, Jenni had to call and ask her BFF to come over and hang out for a little while, she needed support! Of course they had to walk around the neighborhood and show off her soon to be scar to everyone. I for one am very happy that the afternoon is done, Mikie is home from work, we are all settling in for the night safely at home and this crazy day is almost over!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Way to go Mikie!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Jenni's School Fundraiser
For every item that is purchased, Innisbrook donates up to 50% of the purchase price to her school. She will also earn a prize credit for every item purchased except school supplies. The more prize credits she earns, the more prizes she wins!
Please consider visiting the Innisbrook website and making a purchase on her behalf. A link is included below. The sale will be over soon, so don't wait. Place your order today.
Thanks for your help!
Seller: JENNIFER D Seller ID# R108396D
School: WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL P
School Number: 110777
Click the link below to visit Innisbrook.com and they will recognize Jenni and her school automatically.
http://www.innisbrook.com/index_students.cfm?id1=R108396D&id2=&id3=
If the above link does not work:
1. Click below
2. Enter the Seller ID# R108396D
www.innisbrook.com/id.cfm
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Peaches...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
School Pages!
These pages are also the pages that we will be doing in our September Stampin' Up! Club. You can view the other projects that we have planned on my sassEstamper blog.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Stampin' Up! Convention 2008
OH MY!!! Where to begin! Kim and I headed to SLC on Tues morning July 28th with Stampin' on our minds! It was a whirlwind of activities from the moment we left until the moment we got home on the evening of Sunday July 29th.
We took a detour to The Mount Timpanogos temple on the way to SLC. It was beautiful! Then we headed to Oak's home (Kim's sister in law). We happened to pull up as Oak and her daughter Jenn where headed out for a dinner of ice cream! We managed to persuade them to a Brazilian restaurant at Jordan Landing (OH MY, we found this restaurant last April while attending the Scrappin' USA Expo in SLC) Yummy! Then shopping!!!
Wednesday we headed to the Salt Palace to pick up our convention goodies and visit Momento Mall. We changed our minds on Momento Mall when we realized that the line was a million miles long already! We decided to meet Oak and Jenn for lunch downtown, BIG mistake as there are a million other stampers that are hungry too. (And I thought that they were at in line at Momento Mall!) We drove out of downtown alittle bit and found a quiet Thia restaurant. Then went on a visit to the Salt Lake Temple. After the Temple, getting into Momento Mall and a little bit of confusion we met up with our favorite Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Susan Adams for a Stampin' Up! 20th Year Birthday Bash! Food, Stampin', and great conversation What more could a girl want!
Thursday, we headed to the first full day of convention fun. General Session was amazing as always! Then classes and make and takes to fill the day. Awards Night was awsome, so many accomplishments and Great entertainment! Loved It!
Friday General Session, OH MY!!!!! The partnership with Sizzix!!!! Can you say excitement! I thought that women got excited about Black Friday Sales! Nothing compared to the Sizzix Big Shot for Stampin' Up! with exclusive dies!!! WOW! The remainder of the day was a blurr after that! Well, up until midnight and the Breaking Dawn book release! Did I mention there was not a lot of sleeping going on! I did tell Kim that if we could go get the book, I wouldn't stay up all night reading, I did pretty well.... only a couple of chapters! Friday and Saturday we rode Trax into SLC, so you can guess what I did on Saturday morning! 45 minutes of uninterupted reading!! Morning classes and more make & takes before the Closing Session. I didn't think I would see the Sizzix enthusiasm two days in a row, but I was wrong! The whole of America probably wouldn't understand why we were so excited to see the UPS guy show up, but hey, who said we were normal! The session closed after UPS presented all convention goers with the Ronald McDonald House Stamp set of the Fall Winter Catolog, (Say it with Scallops). Stampin' Up! Donates $2.00 from each set sold to the Ronald McDonald House Charity.
An exhausting week , but well worth it! We are both ready to be home with our families, but to tired to drive to get there! So we stay one more night and head home Sunday! Not to tired to say we wont be back again NEXT YEAR!
1st day of school!
The day has come! Summer vacation is over and school is starting! Jenni has been ready for this moment since about two weeks after school got out! She is so excited that I thought she would burst! She is proud to be able to say she will complete her elementary school years with a female teachers (not counting a few subs). She is very excited about this school year, her last at Washington Elementary School. She has said she will be very sad to be leaving Principal Staheli.
You may notice that there are no pictures of Mikie. It has happened! He said he would rather 'ride' the bus today! The first time I was forbidden from driving him on the first day of school. I guess I shouldn't feel to bad. He is starting 10th grade and after talking to other mom's they were surprised that I was 'allowed' to take him las year! Maybe I will try to sneak a few pictures after he gets home today!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Cedar Mountain 7/27/08
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Summer Vacations!
The kids have started the countdown for the First Day of School! Of course, now comes ---> I need this, I need that! Jenni (now 10 1/2) asks to go buy school supplies every day, I think a week summer break would be enough for her. Mike is trying to hang onto the last days of summer and not think about his first year in High School! I keep thinking how impossible it is, I just got out of High School, didn't I?
Myself, I have enjoyed the summer. This is the first year since Jenni was a baby that I have spent the summer home with the kids and not working every waking hour. We have taken some elaborate vacations this summer if you count the College Road Trip we went on this morning, or the the trip we are planning to Greece (Mamma Mia), Oh yeah Mike took a quick jaunt to Gotham City yesterday! I also went to Scottland with my friend Kim (Made of Honor) and we had several Speedy (Speed Racer) adventures with our good friend Indiana Jones, & our visit to Nim's Island, we visited the creepy house around the corner (Spiderwick Cronicles)! Honestly, the best was that trip that I started to Tuson, and all of the great friends that I met in the Arizona desert. The Host, my new cave family is unforgettable. Next week I do plan on a Twilight visit with my old friends Bella & Edward, (Breaking Dawn)
Jenni has her close friend Hannah Montana stopping by on the 26th (3-D Disney) If that isn't enough traveling for the summer, (no wonder I am so exhausted!) I do leave for SLC to attend the 20th Anniversary Stampin' Up! convention next Tuesday. 4 days of stampin'. George played softball in the Cedar City Summer Games, and is playing in another tournament this weekend.
Who could ask for more?
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