Now and Then, what a difference 5yrs makes!

I found these pictures of Jon and I
on our honeymoon and noticed they're much like now, minus the hair and we look 5yrs younger. =0)

Fall is here!

So there's Pumpkin Patch's , and Halloween, and fun times when Fall comes. I feel like I've been behind in my blogging so here is my chance to catch up. Landen is growing like crazy, riding dragons and smiling all the time. Tristens been playing football and has done great (it's over now but I'm pretending it's not) Maddy just turned 8 and is getting baptized. Hannah is Hannah not much changed when we see her. And me well I've turned in a black cat as you can see. j/k.

Happy 8th Birthday Maddy Girl!

My baby girl is officially 8. As usual we had a big Halloween birthday party for her and it was a hit. For 3hrs we had music, games, and hyper children everywhere. The place was scary with Halloween decorations, and we had black lights so everything and everyone glowed. And we couldn't have a successful Halloween party without scaring the kids with a good scary story and Jon going outside with a scream mask jumping out in front of the window. It was great and we got it on video, unfortunately it's too long to post, but it was great! Our goal is to make it more scary every year.

Tragedy at Work today

Some thing horrible happened at work (Orem Jr. High) today. One of our students was hit by a car this morning by another one of our students that was driving when she shouldn't have been. It is said she was afraid of being late to school so she took her aunts car. It was in front of a bus stop so a group of students witnessed it. We had a lot of sorrowful, sad students this morning but by lunch time it was announced that she had died. This is a sad tragedy and I please ask everyone that reads this to pray for this little sweet girls family, and also for the family of the girl driving because she too is a victim in this story. She has no record, has never done anything wrong, always came and said hi to me with a smile. She only made a bad decision that she will have to pay for now. It is very hard to handle for me and for everyone at my school that really care for our students, so please take time to pray.

Happy 5th Anniversary!

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Ok so we finally made it! It's a big deal to us because we didn't make it that far the first time around. It's all down hill from here, right? Nah, we are very happy and look forward to the rest of our lives together. We went on a cruise to Catalina Island and Ensenada Mexico. It was fun but mostly it was nice to have some peace and quiet and not have to worry about going anywhere or doing anything. A vacation together well needed. The last picture is Jon's uncle Gerald that we hadn't seen for a while so that was nice. Anyhow, we vouched to take the kids the next time we went on a cruise because we know they would love it. Umm, maybe when they're older. :0)

Camping again!

Jon just loves camping, so last Friday he took Tristen and Maddy and invited some friends to go camping. Real camping! No bathrooms, no cabins, out in the woods and a tent camping. I thought Landen would have a hard time so I stayed home with him, but they had a good time. The last fun thing before school starts!

Landens first real haircut

So I thought it was about time Landen went and got his hair cut by a professional, so since I needed a trim I took him to my hair stylist. Not too drastic just evened it all out but he looks so cute. At least it's not all long and scraggly everywhere anymore. He's so handsome don't you think?

My boys at Boys Scouts!

Jon and Tristen have been busy this summer almost every weekend with boy scouts. Jon is a scout leader and Tristen has been in scouts since 8. They've gone crawdad fishing, gone on a 50mile bike ride, got there swimming merit badge, did a 5 mile hike, and have gone on numerous camp outs. It's been a great father son experience for both of them, and for that I am grateful. Here are pictures of the last hike they did.

Happy birthday to me.

We had a fun luau for my 33rd birthday this year and had good food and good fun. Man, I can't believe I'm 33, still so much younger than Jon but when I've got Tristen around I can't get away with looking in my 20s anymore. Darn!

The scariest lighting storm ever!

Last night were awoken by loud house trembling thunder, and lighting that started behind our house then moved north. It was hard to sleep through this lighting storm we were in the middle of. Make sure you go on our blog to see the video and turn the music off so you can hear the thunder.