Weird Family weekend

After an exhausting Friday at work I made Guy take me to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner. So yummy, I would highly suggest trying them if you haven't already done so. That was actually a nice start to the weekend. The boys were even good at the restaurant, which almost never happens. So then we get up Saturday morning and get ready to leave for Central Utah to my brother-in-laws wedding. My in-laws live in Mayfield, it's a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. :) The wedding was outside at the park there in town, which happens to be across the street from a dairy, the ceremony was short and sweet. The bride looked pretty, they had a kind of western themed wedding. The groomsmen were in their black wranglers with green button up shirts. The bridesmaids and flower girls were in beautiful purple dresses. The reception was very laid back. There were sandwiches, chips, and of course cake. The cake was delicious. After the reception we went back to the in-laws and visited until about 10 pm. We for some strange reason (we were too lazy), didn't pack any over night bags for us. We were just planning on coming back that night. But we were having so much fun catching up with some of the family. I do miss them at times, and us Adair step-moms have go to stick together. :)

After we were done visiting we drove up to my moms house in Woodland Hills, by Spanish Fork, and decided we were too tired to drive home. We spent the night there and hung out the next day to have birthday dinner for my sister Serena. She turned 13 on Friday. So we had taco's for dinner and homemade pies for dessert. My dad makes the best pies ever. Or so I'm told since I don't really like fruit pies.

Did I mention that Ashley was a little ornery?
Caden holding his little cousin Jason
Mommy helping Zach hold Jason

Then we got home and someone had decided to be tremendously nice to us and had brought over some food from Smith's caselot sale. I will probably never know who did that for us. But it was so amazingly generous and self-less. If I ever find out who it was I'm sure I'll be too overcome with emotion to even say anything. It is one of the nicest things that has happened to our family. It's great to know that we are being looked after even if I don't know who is looking after us.

Ashley's 16th Birthday

So this is going to kind of be in backwards order because I put the pictures in wrong. But oh well. So Ashley's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. She is now 16, I'm having a hard time believing that, I think that Guy is having an even harder time. For her birthday her BFF Jackie and I threw her a surprise party. She had no idea until the day before, then through a series of unrelated events she kind of figured it out. But that's ok it was still fun. Then on her birthday her friends Jackie and Chandler came and destroyed, I mean decorated her room, while I took her out to get her license, to get some lunch and to the mall to have some girl bonding time.

Ashley is such a beautiful and sweet young woman. I feel very blessed that I am lucky enough to be a part of her life. She is such a great help around the house. She loves her horse even after he fell on her. She is such a great friend, and someone I love to talk to. It's crazy to me that she is a junior in high school. When I first met her she was such a cute little toddler. It's been so much fun to watch her grow into the the wonderful person she is today.

Ashley's Room after decorating!

Chandler one of the culprits.

Jackie the other culprit

Chandler, Glen, Johnny, Jackie, Ashley, and Chelcee
The kids from the surprise party

Ashley in her birthday tiara!

First Day of Kindergarten

So today was Caden's first day of kindergarten. He was so excited, he couldn't hardly wait to go. In fact since back to school night a couple weeks ago, Caden has been asking me when he get's to go to school. So today I go and pick him up from the sitter's to take him to school. He wanted both Guy and I to drop him off so that's what we did. I think that he is going to be fine. He didn't even care when we left. He just was so happy to be at school. I hope that continues though-out his years in school. Here are a couple of pictures from the day. This was outside before we walked in. The other one, I swear he is not sticking his pencil up his nose, he is just thinking.

So when I picked him up from the daycare. I asked Caden how his day went. He said that he had lots of fun in school and the only name he remembered is his teacher Mrs. Cragun. I guess that' a good name to remember. ;) He's my little trooper I'm so proud of him.

Country Jam

So this past weekend Jenica and I went to Country Jam in beautiful Mack, CO. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's 4 days of country concerts out in the middle of a field. So fun and sooo hot. This year we were able to see the following performers; Colin Ray, Rodney Atkins, Lady Antebellum, Diamond Rio, Clay Walker, Josh Turner, Jamie O'Neal, Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town (my personal favorite), and Sugarland. :)

We had fun hanging out, dancing and listening to some great music. For LBT I bought Jenica Sky Box seats for her birthday. So for that concert we were actually on the stage. It was soo freakin' awesome! Jenica has all the pictures so as soon as she gets them to me I'll post them.

Oh and in case you are wondering a large bag of ice from Wal-mart is 20 lbs. So if you buy 2 large bags you will have 40 lbs of ice and that doesn't fit in a normal size cooler that has food in it. If you put it in the trunk of a Hyundai Elantra for about 2 hours in the heat, it will leave about 2 inches of water in the bottom of your trunk.

Update from Elder Levingston

So it's now been three weeks since Jake went into the MTC. We have received three letter from him so far. It's nice that on his p-day he can get on the internet and email us. He is doing really well. He loves it down there, they get to go to the temple once a week as well. He says that he has also learned to love rice and beans which he hated before he left. It's really good to hear from him. He is very buys, and says that it's really hard, but he knows that he has made the right choice by going.

I'll try to update more frequently. If anyone would like to send him letters let me know I have his snail mail and email address.

High School Graduate

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO MEGAN!!!!!

Megan graduated from Grantsville High School on May 29th as one of the two Valedictorians. Our Megan is such a smart girl! As Valedictorian, she got to give a speech at graduation, hers was great. (I have it on video, as soon as I figure out how to download it I'll post it.) The graduation itself was good, it wasn't too long so we didn't all get bored. ;) Megan had lots of family there to support her. Before the graduation we took Megan out to eat, she picked the Spaghetti Factory. We had lots of fun there teasing each other.

Megan is going to go to UVU (Utah Valley University) in the fall, where she has received a full-ride scholarship. She also received a scholarship for $3,500 from my work. There were 96 applicants for this scholarship and 6 recipients.

If it sounds like I'm bragging on her it's because I am. We are soo very proud of Megan and all that she has accomplished. She is a very self-motivated, dedicated girl. We never had to remind Megan to do her homework, or bribe her to get good grades. It was just something that she did for herself. Megan graduated having only received one B in her entire High School career (and we don't want to talk about the stupid teacher who gave her a B).

GREAT JOB MEGZ!

Missionary Time

Megan, Levi, Jake and Ashley at the airport before Jake left.

For those of you who don't know Jake received his mission call in February of this year. He is going to the Brazil Curitiba Mission. He reported to the MTC in Sao Paulo on June 10th. Yes I know that was three days ago. So let's back up. On May 3rd Jake went through the Bountiful Temple. Wow, that has to have been one of the best days of my life this far. It was such a wonderfully uplifting experience to be able to go through with Jake for his first time. I will always remember how I felt that day and the spirit that was there.

Jake and I at the temple

Then the next week, Sunday May 11th, Jake spoke in our ward as kind of his farewell. He spoke on mothers. His mom came up to our ward to hear him speak and he gave a wonderful tribute to her, and to me as well. I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this kid. I couldn't ask for a more wonderful step-son, and older brother for the little boys. So after Sacrament meeting we came back to our house and had some food, and visited with the family.

Jake next spoke for his "real" farewell as he would say, on June 8th in Stansbury at his mom's ward. Guy and I and our kids went down for the entire block, Jake wanted to go to Priesthood with Guy one last time. A funny thing happened in Relief Society, I went with Megan, Ashley and Melissa. When they asked for visitors, Melissa turned to Megan and said "You have to introduce Melita, I'm not sure what to say". Melissa is Guy's ex-wife, her and I get along just fine. Anyway Megan introduced me as her step-mom and the rest of the meeting was fine. I don't know why I just found it funny. But it guess it would've been weird to say "This is Melita, my ex-husbands new wife". Anyway, during Sacrament meeting Jake gave a wonderful talk on faith, he didn't seem very nervous. He had prepared so well, he didn't even have to hardly read his talk at all. There were a lot of people there to support him. Ok if you know Jake a lot of them were girls. :) It was really nice. After church we went to Melissa's house and had her homemade ravioli, it was delicious. It was nice to visit with all the family that came out and Jake's friends from high school that we hadn't seen in a while.

That brings us to Tuesday and the airport. Our poor little Jake had never flown before in his life, so he was quite nervous to fly. We got him to the airport took some pictures, visited for a while and then sent him on his way through security. We watched him walk all the way through security, and then watched as he went up the escalator and out of sight. We were all teary eyed and we watched him go. Jake has grown up so much, he has turned into a wonderful young man and I'm sure will be a great missionary for the Church in Brazil. I will keep you updated on his progress as I get updates from him.

We do know that he got to the MTC safe and sound. Also if any of you would like his address to mail him a letter just let me know and I'll get it to you. I'm sure that he will love anything he gets from home.Jake at the airport.