High 5 Grandma!!

On Monday, Jake and the kiddos and I drove to Provo to be at my Mother-in-Law's place of work. She is a teacher at an elementary school and she works with Special Education.
One of the mother's of the students nominated Lori (mom-in-law) for the KSL High 5 Award and she won.
We were able to be there with other family members to witness the surprise and KSL 5 news camera crew was there.
She had no idea she won this award so it was neat to see her reaction. She got 3 hours at a certain day spa as her gift. She is a neat woman who raised 12 children of her own and now is helping many special children at her school.
Good Job Lori!!
By the way, we will be on the news on Friday AM at around 6:30am. I should expect you all to be up and watching it. :)
Okay, I'm totally recording it and watching it later.

Chippity Chop Chop

Yep, I wanted different............whoops! I went way shorter than planned!
I'm glad hair grows back:) I like it though.


Back view.

This one is for my sister.

Jake posing with my new purse. I was sick of carrying a diaper bag as my purse so I got a large purse.

Bored.

I'm getting bored and I don't want to get rusty with my picture taking................so, anyone with a little baby I can photograph for fun? Breck is getting tired of me in her face.
You will get the cd of pics too:)
I'll take the first two comments of who might want to come over soon! So soon, I mean tomorrow morning around 10:30am or 11. Then Monday or Tuesday too. If you have any cute hats or bows or whatever for the baby, bring them too.
Not that I'm a professional or anything, but I love to keep on shooting my camera.
Okay, that is all for now:) I'll probably do it again though. It is winter........

Warning: Post for Laker Fans, Kobe Fans, or anyone with a sense of humor

This is a funny commercial by Nike.
Kobe is an actor. hahahaha. I laughed when i saw this. Note: funny lines throughout, not-real horse, bubble man, dummy.....

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Most mornings.....

I get to see this out my car window when I drive my boys to school. This was today. :)

Wow! A lot of pictures.

We drove down to CA the day after Christmas. I think I will need a long break before doing that drive again. We went twice within about 30 days. That is a lot of driving. While we were down, we also did a lot of driving too. My brother lives about an hour away from my Mom's and we went out there 3 times. Then we drove to my grandparents home in San Luis Obispo, 4.5 hours away from Mom's. It was worth it though.

Here's a run down of our trip:

We went to a paddle out for our good friend who passed away a few months ago. If you are not familiar with a paddle out, let me explain. Tyler wanted his ashes to be spread over the ocean, he grew up surfing a ton so this was his wish. The paddle out was a short memorial and then many people(friends and family) paddled out into the ocean with the family to spread the ashes.

I had never been to one but it was quite neat to watch. I did not paddle out because I had a cold, and I do not own a wet suit or a surf board. I wish I did though.



Here is a cool pic of some of the group paddling out. They probably went about 200 yds. out.

Here are all of those whole paddled out. They sat on their boards in a circle. It looked cool from the shore.

These are the hands of our friends' sweet mother. She is a fabulous lady.

The boards were set up like this before the paddle out. These were a few.

It was a nice memorial. I'm glad I was able to be there for it.



It was fun to see my girls I grew up with. I love them!


It was great to see my little brother too. He is now up at BYU near yours truly! Finally!

Sea anenome. We love to go to the tide pools at Laguna Beach's Crescent Bay.

Some hot guy I saw at the beach:)

Pretty flower with blurry beach behind it:)

On New Year's Day, Jake, Me, the kids and my Mom all drove up the coast to visit my grandparents in San Luis Obispo (SLO). On the way, we stopped in Santa Barbara, one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. There was a super cool park we stopped at to let the kids play.

My Grandparents. Going on 64 years of marriage!

My kids Great Grandparents:) It was so fun to see them.

We went to Cal Poly SLO to see the animals. (used to do this as a kid). P.U.!!

Jake got flattened by a tumbleweed there. It was a little scary. He is ok though.

We drove out to Morro Bay and saw otters swimming in the bay.

Jake fed a wild squirrel some Taco Bell. He really liked the 7 layer burrito:)

Pretty but stormy Morro Bay.

The seagulls wanted a taste of Taco Bell too. They were all over our car and almost flew in the window.

It was a fun trip.

Wow, that is a lot of pictures I just put on. Haha.

Family Picture's

While in CA, we got the whole fam damily together for a picture.  It has been a long time since we have done this.  Kelly, a friend of ours, is a fabulous photographer and was so kind to put up with us.   Here are some pics below:

The guys.  Jake, Jay(bro), Jon, Andy(bro), Jeff(bro) and Dave.

My family.

The girls.  Shawna, Me, Mom, Robyn(sis) and Melinda(sis).

Breck wouldn't smile for a single picture.  At least she didn't cry, she just stared in the right direction.  hahahaha.

This is my Mom and all of my brother's and sister's and their families.  

I am the oldest of 6 kids in my family.  It was fun to finally get a picture of all of us now that my little brother is home from the mission.

For those of you who know my family..........you know about the famous "lean" my brother's like to do.  This is Jeff and Andy performing it well.

I love my family!