Twin Falls Trip

So, we made the trip up to visit our friends the Dilworths again last summer and true to form, didn't take any pictures of them or us all together... We're real good at that :) We were touristy a little and saw Shoshone Falls, and the Snake River. We also saw Toy Story 3 with them and grilled steaks and celebrated Father's Day with them.

{Spring Break '10}

{Vegas Baby! Mar 2010}

{Year End wrap-up ..OR.. I'm tired of playing catch-up!..OR..Totally Random stuff}

She say's she wants to be a wrestler when she's a big girl!

*another way I justify taking my iphone to church*
I am the assistant ward organist at church now and I haven't really played the organ for about 20 years so I take pictures of the settings I think sound right cuz I don't know how the memory buttons work and I don't play every week and I forget :)


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No Pictures, but we had a fun family Thanksgiving with Jim's brother-in-law's family.
We had way too much Thanksgiving dinner though!
I think we will have a different meat this year....I'm still kind of sick of turkey.

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For my birthday I got fancy cupcakes, which I LOVE, which seem to be the trend right now.
Cupcake/Bake shops popping up all along the Wasatch Front.

These were from the Sweet Tooth Fairy in Provo. YUMMY!

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No pictures from Christmas but let's just say, the kids got everything they wanted and more and at this moment they are all basically grounded from all their gifts or could care less about stuff that was the most important thing a month ago. We spent just a little more than we had budgeted so that is progress, but I always feel the desire to return everything around the middle of January :) *Note to self!!! Less IS More!!!!!

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The day after Christmas I drove the kids out to Cali to visit the farm and the fam. It was cooold out there! but no snow!! That's important :) It was a fun trip but I think I've had my fill of California for a little while again.

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Finally!!! Happy NEW Year!!!

Next up! 2010!

When I am older and aloner I am retiring to Mendocino!

My family decided to have a family reunion of sorts back in July and so we drove out to California with all our camping gear and stuff to spend a few days at the beach. Now let me clarify...I drove the kids out to Cali and Jim flew out that night. Not my first 10.5 hr drive with them alone and certainly not my last! We went to the Mendocino/Glass Beach area of Northern California....the COLD ocean, even in the middle of summer! Needless to say, we had some fun, I remembered that I will do anything else in the world to avoid camping ever again, but the kids liked it. Except for the part where it was really cold, and DIRTY! and wet and we didn't bring enough clothes....and I don't like campfire smoke, and..... don't get me started :) but I wouldn't mind living in the town of Mendocino when I'm old, it's beautiful and right there at the ocean and just a cool place.

4th of July Weekend (Part 2)

Next on our trip we of course had to go see the school!

1ST up we ran around the Snow building.

I showed the kids where I had many a humanities and music class.

Next we went to the Hart Gym

Good ol' Thor :)

Found these plaques of my old friend from my freshman yr.

Hall of Famer!!

Checked out our old haunts....

The ever craptacular Riviera apts.

The CAVE!!!!

The new and improved Craigo's....the pizza and breadsticks tasted the same :) Yummy!

Our friends old apts....Ahh Royal Crest and the Bunkhouse

We also toured around the new (to us) gardens.... it was fun but it was getting hot and we wanted to get home in time to watch the Thanksgiving Pt fireworks from our front yard...

All in all, a fun trip!

It was nice to go back and visit and be very happy we are done with school!

4th of July Weekend (Part 1)

July started with a long weekend for us and we wanted to make the most of it!

We kept talking about taking a little trip somewhere but it was really hot and we had limited funds and everywhere we talked about was either hotter or too expensive.

At the last minute Jim looked up some hotels and we were off on a whirlwind adventure north to the land of our meeting.....

REXBURG, IDAHO

We left kind of later in the afternoon and drove to Idaho Falls

{Idaho Falls, Idaho LDS Temple}

We took a scenic drive around town trying to remember where stuff was and seeing what was new in the last 15 yrs or so since we had been there last...

We swam in the hotel pool even though it was about to rain and cold and windy....and remembered how un-fun it is to travel with our kids :)

Everyone was getting ready for the 4th so we saw a lot of people camped out along the street for a parade and there were early fireworks that night as well.

The next morning we headed to Rexburg and made plans to meet up with Jim's bro Nathan who was living there at the time.

{Rexburg, Idaho LDS Temple}
This wasn't there when we were in school!

This was!! :)


We arrived just in time to catch the Rexburg 4th of July parade and found Nathan in the crowd. I love a good small town parade! They are so patriotic and festive! We got lots of candy thrown to us and even school lunch size chocolate milk cartons from one of the floats :)

Next we drove around Rexburg checking out the changes and boring our kids to tears with stories....

Easter/Spring Break Recap

Sorry, the pictures are all out of order...my blogging skills have been lost and I can't find them...

Easter Sunday

Since it was a month ago now, I guess I should give a little recap of our Spring Break trip to California and Easter. We had a great time! It was pretty cold and windy part of the time we were there but we got to visit lots of friends and family and enjoy the annual easter egg hunt on the ranch.

Max on a mission!!

December Recap

A lot happened in December and I need to catch up with the NEW year... here's a recap with

A LOT of exclamation points:

the 1st part of the month we were all sickies and there was pretty much no Christmas Spirit to be found.

Then Sam was Santa's helper in the Jingle Jam at school.

Jim's brother Nathan came to visit on his way home from Rexburg

We made an INSANE trip to INDIANA for Christmas!!

3 days in the car, 4 days to visit, 3 days in the car.

Trip of a lifetime!

Never going to happen again!

Way too much family togetherness!

We found out Kansas is 1 of the worst drives ever!

Who knew that orange muppet was so good??

The midpoint in Kansas is a small town with a BIG name!


and in Abilene Kansas, they like our name and make some pretty good chocolate!


We drove right under this in St Louis

On Christmas Eve I turned 36 and took a pretty bad picture with Max



Max really enjoyed himself with the cupcakes

Our Christmas was pretty good but no pictures were taken to prove it.

We had good weather during the whole trip and no snow which made the drive a little more bearable. We spent a small fortune on new videos for the kids to watch in the car, but totally worth it! I am really glad we have that thing!

We got home to a couple feet of snow in the driveway but were so happy to be out of the car it didn't matter.



Our New Year's Eve was quiet except for the ROCK!

We had to try out the new Guitar Hero we got for Christmas.

Tomorrow is Sam's Birthday.

I am having a lot of trouble with Blogger.

I am CAUGHT UP!

Happy New Year!

After Moochies, BY Historic Park

After we got our food, there wasn't really anywhere to sit the crew to eat so we drove around a little and found this park we had never seen before just a couple blocks from Temple Square.

Brigham Young Historic Park

{photos taken with my cellphone}

the kids really enjoyed climbing on the rocks and statues...

probably in the summer it is even better with the water wheel going, the garden growing and the stream running, but they didn't seem to mind...

A little taste of Philly in the Beehive State

A couple of weekends ago Jim's sister Jen in Philadelphia, happened to call, and they were discussing Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches. She had seen an episode of Diners,Drive-ins, and Dives on the Food Network and Guy did a segment on this place "Moochies" in SLC.

Well we had to go check it out!It was definitely in the DIVE category but the food was DE-LIC-IOUS!!

When you come to visit us we will have to take you there!

So come visit us so we will have a reason to go back! Please?!!