Fremont Homecoming '08

James putting Ashley's corsage on.

Ashely putting on James' boutonniere.

Ashley & James

Austin, Maddy, Ashley, and James

This is a tad bit late. But oh well. Ashley went to homecoming this year. Her date's name was James. Guy said that he seemed like a very nice kid. I didn't get to meet him because I was down in Cedar City with my family after the marathon. But here are a few of the pics that Guy took when James got to the house to pick Ashley up. She said that she had a good time. This was her very first date. Doesn't she look beautiful? :)

Museum

Saturday afternoon my sister-in-law and I took our kids to the Hill Aerospace Museum. I don't think I had ever been there before. Pretty sad to say seeing as I've lived in Utah my whole life and I've lived 7 miles from the museum for the last 3 years. Between the two adults we had 7 kids with us. My two boys, my two nieces, and my sister-in-laws three nephews. The oldest two were 7, then two 5, two 3 and a 18 months. It was kind of fun. We saw some really cool planes there. Both of the boys had such a good time. And the best part was it's free! If you haven't seen the museum I suggest taking a trip up to Roy to see it. I'd like to go again with my Grandpa who served in the Airforce so that he can tell me what all the planes are.

Four of the 7 kids. Caden, Alexia, John, and Zach.


Caden in an ejector seat. I didn't get one of Zach because there was a dad with his kids standing by us and as soon as Caden got out of the seat one of his kids got in and wouldn't get out until he had his picture taken and the mom was in another building with the camera. The dad wouldn't even make his kid get out. I was annoyed.

Caden & Zach in front of "Blackout". Caden thought the helicopter behind them looked like the one from transformers. LOL

St George Marathon '08

The fearless runners Lance, Jenica, Debbie (mom), Vic (dad)

First off BIG CONGRATULATIONS to my mom, dad, sister and brother for running in the St George Marathon this weekend. It was a rainy cold weekend, and only the 2nd time in the 32 years of the marathon that is has rained. My mom blames that on my dad as he tends to have the worst luck in the world. But I digress. They awoke very early Saturday morning to catch one of the first buses at 4 am! It was warm when they got off the bus, and by the time they got up to where the race starts it was raining, cold and windy. They all started running into a head wind, that was driving rain right at them.

My dear sweet dad made it to mile 13 running with pnemonia. When he stopped at the aid station they told him he was getting hypothermia and going into shock. He was shivering so bad he couldn't talk to the nurse there.

My crazy brother Lance ran the entire way, he said that he didn't walk once because he was afraid if he did he wouldn't start again. He finished in 4:09.

My mom bless her dear heart hates the cold more than anyone else I know (except for my Grandpa), she wasn't going to run, but her friend and running partner told her she had trained to hard to not finish. So she ran the marathon for her 2nd (and she says last) time and finished in 6:11.

My sister Jenica didn't train as much as she should have (although she should've learned from me that is not the way to do it). A little back story when I "ran" the marathon in 2006 I didn't train at all, and ended up walking most of the way. Because of that I finished at almost the very end. My family started getting worried about me so my brother Jeremy and Jenica started walking back along the raceway to find me. They found me and walked with me for about the last 1.5 to 2 miles. It was great that they pushed me like that. So anyway, we hadn't seen Jenica so Jeremy and I decided that we would walk back and find Jen. We found her at almost the same place that they had found me two years earlier. We walked with her to the finish line. She finished in 6:45. Six minutes faster than my time of 6:51. Here's a picture of me and Jen after we found her.
We had a good time staying in Cedar City for the weekend at the wonderful Holiday Inn Express.

Picture Tag

So my friend Theresa tagged me. What I am supposed to do is go to my computer and find the 4th file and the 4th picture in that file. Well I have a few different places that I keep my pictures so here goes. This first one is from my Aunt Cyndi's house. My sister Jenica and I went there in June of 2004 to see my cousin graduate from high school. My mom hadn't been back to see my Aunt's house so I was taking pictures so that I could bring them home and show her. This one happens to be of the addition that my aunt was adding on at the time.
This second one is of Easter 2006, this was just after we had gotten home from church and I wanted a picture of all the kids, so I had them stand in front of the only flowering tree we have in our yard. Caden did not want to be in the picture, he usually doesn't. Zach got his glasses in his Easter basket. And poor Megan her heels kept sinking into the grass. It was quite funny. :)

So I tag Ashley, Angie, and Becca. Come on girls I know that you have some great pictures to share.

Twilight Soundtrack

So as I'm surfing the net at home tonight I went to Stephenie Meyer's website. She has posted a single from the upcoming Twilight movie soundtrack. It's a new song by the group Paramore called Decode. It is so good. You should all go and check it out! That's all for now. I was just so excited I had to share. :) Happy Listening.

Interesting Find

So over the weekend Guy and I went down to his parents house. His dad is getting a wheel chair and we helped to clean so that he can get from one end of the house to the other. My in-laws are packrats to put it nicely. They throw nothing away. I love them to death, but their house is a mess. So as we were cleaning we came across this picture. It is from a photo-booth, it's Guy and his dad when Guy was about 9 I believe.

I can't believe how much Caden looks like his dad. This is a picture of Caden from Guy's family reunion in August. You can definitely see the resemblance.

10 Years

On Wednesday Guy & I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Sometimes it's really hard to believe that we have been married for 10 years, others it seems like it has been much longer. I asked Guy what he would say our first date was, he looked at me and said did we even go on dates? I said I can only think of a couple. We started out as friends, I thought of Guy as the big brother I never had, then one day his sister said wouldn't it be funny if you two dated. So one thing led to another and a year and a half later we were married. The last 10 years have been crazy, I can't imagine spending my life with anyone else. Even though we sometimes argue and drive each other nuts, there is no one else I'd rather be with. Last Monday Guy asked me about iPod's, I let Jake take mine on his mission because it doesn't play video so I have Jake's, mine was a cute little blue nano, Jake's is a huge black 30GB monster that has absolutely no battery life. So anyway Guy asked me after using Jake's for the past 4 months which one I liked better? Did I like the little nano or the big one. I told him that I liked the nano the best, and then I told him about the cool new nano's and how they had a purple one (I'm somewhat obsessed with purple), and all the things they did. So on Wednesday after we had dinner, I said "Hey we could go over to Best Buy and get me an ipod", He says "They don't have one", I said "well Kari said she saw a purple one at Wal-Mart", he says "nope they don't either", I said "How do you know?" He says "I drove all over trying to find you a new 16GB purple ipod and couldn't find one anywhere." I turned and said "Ah you really do love me."

I feel so lucky to have Guy in my life and to have the 5 kids that we have. I couldn't ask for better kids. Jake, Megan, and Ashley are the best step-kids in the whole world and I love them so much.This is Guy and I on our first anniversary. We were sealed in the Manti Temple.