Rodeo

About 1 year ago from now, Dev tried out to sing the National Anthem at The Dixie Roundup Rodeo, and she won. She did so awesome! I videoed it while crying and when we got home we were watching it and my 3 yr old DELETED it! I cried for days!! Well this year she tried out again, and won AGAIN!! That means I have the chance to TOTALLY REDEEM myself and catch that special moment again!! I am so proud of her. She had to write a paragraph both years on why she would want to sing the National Anthem. They said that is a huge indicator on the winner. She wrote That she loves how she feels when she sings it. And that she loves living in America and being free. I wish I had a copy! (the judges kept it, I probably could have asked for it, had it crossed my mind). So...come out and see her sing her little heart out at the Dixie Roundup Rodeo on September 16th. It's the first night of the rodeo.

Chicken Little

We recently moved up the road about a mile..into the country! We are in the same ward, but it feels like a whole new world. It's exciting. Our redneck dreams are coming true. We are able to have animals and we decided to start out with chickens. The little chicks started out living in our office then out to the garage for about 6 weeks. Joe and Dex spent the last couple Saturday's building an awesome chicken coop, which I am quite impressed with!! I do have pictures of them building it, but these ones were funner to edit, so here are the kids helping the chickens get used to their new home.

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Coca -Cola Tribute

To my Dear Grandma Leany whom I miss and love dearly! And she LOVED Coca Cola!

Back to our Sunny Days!

We are loving the warm weather!! I love to just sit outside and feel the sun kiss my face! And the smell of the fresh air... and the grass...awwhh! (I am enjoying them now, because in a few months, I will be allergic to the whole outdoors!)Anyway here is how our March has started out...
Devyn has started soccer. She practices twice a week, and her league is pretty intense. Dex tried out for baseball to be in the “major league” and he nailed it! He drove both pitches out to right field..very impressive. Kamryn and Maggie are great spectators and love to cheer for their siblings, until of course they find the playground, then the rest is history.

I Must Have Loved You Before

Happy 11th Anniversary to My Love! I truly Must Have Loved You Before.






I Must Have Loved You Before

Written by Jason Deere and John Bettis

Maybe we were flowers
Soaking up every ray of sun
To grow one inch closer to one another
Or maybe we were songbirds
Flying high upon the wind
And every night in the trees I’d sing you to sleep
Whatever the truth is one thing’s for sure

I’ve got a timeless place for you in my heart
How I could love you this much I don’t know
But there’s this ageless feeling that tells me more and more
I must have loved you before

Maybe I was the ocean
And you were the sandy beach
And every minute
I was falling at your feet
Or maybe you were the moon
Oh and I was just the dark
Living in your sweet light
Thanking God I was where you are
They say love is eternal and I guess they must be right

I’ve got a timeless place for you in my heart
How I could love you this much I don’t know
But there’s this ageless feeling that tells me more and more
I must have loved you before

Cause whenever you kiss me
It feels like coming home

I’ve got a timeless place for you in my heart
How I could love you this much I don’t know
But there’s this ageless feeling that tells me more and more
I must have loved you before

Listen to this song here

I am tired...Leave me alone!

The most popular song ever, in our car, is hands down "22 Hours" by Due West. Maggie has caught on to the excitement of it. She will sing it loud then when it's over she says, "again"! So cute! So just her and I were in the car ( a rare occasion, I know) and I was blasting that song. I kept looking in the rear view to see her reaction, and she just gave me this look, that was saying, "Mom, I am tired, leave me alone! At the next stop light I snagged a photo, and when I looked again, she was OUT!

New Post..Old Car

My mom saw this car on her long drive home from work. On her day off she was tending my neice Iyrlend, so we drove out to the car and did a little photo shoot.

Looking Back....

At MY Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!


In the Spring of 2009, Joe had just got a new job. He had some training meetings up in SLC. At the time we only had one car. B, our friend with downs syndrome, lived with us. He had been having issues that day. He was threatening to run away, so I slept in the living room on the couch to monitor the door. As he got up twice to leave the house, I was awake enough to catch him both times. Unrelated... at about 4 in the morning, Kamryn starting crying like she was hurt, so I run to see what was the matter and she had fallen off the bed. When I picked her up, her head was bleeding like crazy...mind you I didn't have a car! ...so, I cleaned it up and wrapped this bandage around her head. I called my sister, bless her heart, at 4 am! She told me she would come get us if I thought it were bad enough. She mostly just comforted me. So of course I couldn't go back to sleep as I worried about her.
So with my lack of sleep, Dexter,9 years old, was also very concerned. He offered to stay home from school to help me. What a sweet heart. The day went pretty good, I kept a close eye on Kam all day, but as you can see in the picture, she was totally fine!




When B got home from work, and was all worked up... I went to his room to console him, then I hear another crash and crying...I go in and Kam has fallen off a stool now and has a HUGE shiner on her eye...I was at my ropes end! I was so grateful Dex had stayed home, so he could watch the baby!! I grabbed her and ran to my neighbors house, whose husband is a doctor, who must have totally thought I was nuts...I was bawling and didn't know what to do..She told me to watch for throwing up and other signs of concussion...feeling much better, I go home to find...B, GONE!! He ran away..I had no car! So I hoof it, and it wasn't far, but I could not convince him to come home. He had a bad day at work, and wouldn't let it go...about an hour sitting next to him on the curb. I finally got him to walk home with me!
And that my friends, was my Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad day! Not a day I like to remember, but definitely a day I will never forget!

Sing Star

As some of you already know,my 8 yr old girl had the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at the Dixie Round Up Rodeo, which is one of the biggest, no I think it is the biggest event in St. George, 75 years running! I heard an add on the radio that the Lions Club would be having auditions for this. I asked her if she wanted to, and she said yes, so I taught her the song, she practiced, and the next day she auditioned and won! We were all surprised, and happy! Then one month later, was the rodeo. It was the opening night of the 3 day event. She was so brave that night! They had quite the production. Military tanks and men, tons of kids with flags and horses and a big giant flag, then out walks little D. She looked so small, but she belted out that song, flawless! I was so proud of her. I had tears rolling down my cheeks behind the camcorder I was holding! ( when we got home my 3 year old erased the video, so I had tears rolling down my cheeks for 2 days!!) Then about 1 week later, her elementary school asked her to sing it again during an assembly ( I did record this too..and still have it! ) That evening our neighbors invited us over for their daughters birthday party. We later played a game on their play station, called "Sing Star". It is like a Karaoke game. It was fun! My daughter when we got home said, Mom, I sang in front of hundreds of people at the rodeo, and you can't even sing in front of the neighbors! Boy did she hit that right on the head! I sang alright, but no one could hear me!! I sing in the privacy of my own home, thank you very much. I LOVE to sing, but it is SCARY! I am amazed at the bravery and confidence that my daughter has! NICE JOB DEV!!

Blog-na

I can make up all sorts of excuses, but the fact is, I am not good at keeping up to date on my blog! It is a goal of mine to stay caught up..for me! I really do love the idea of the blog, and I love reading all of yours!
Here goes..The Beginning of our Labor Day Weekend 2009! We went swimming at Sand Hollow on Friday. Saturday we went to a parade in Hurricane for Peach Days.. Joe was in the parade for his work, Zions Way. We had Navajo Taco's!! Yum! My favorite~ Sunday after church, Joe made a fabulous Mexican fajita meal! The best I have ever had, actually. Then after my Sunday nap, the kids and I made squeeze Fudge. It is 1/2 bag of powdered sugar, 1 stick of butter, 1/3 c of cream cheese, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 tsp vanilla..put it all in a zip lock bag and pass the bag around for everyone to squeeze for about 20 minutes, or until it's done! It was surprisingly pretty tasty! Then after we ate the fudge, us girls gave ourselves a pedicure!

I figured you are tired of looking at "Ketchup" so I decided I would "Catch up" !!

Mike And Christina's Wedding











December 30th was Mike and Christina Harding's wedding. I know, you are all thinking, Mike?? Yep Mike found someone and she is quite a catch at that!! :) It really was a nice wedding, I loved it!

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Still Catchin' up...Christmas 08

Here are some pictures I took of my kids for Christmas cards. They were pretty good sports for the most part, but as you can see they really weren't as thrilled as I was.


M's twin cousin Allie came all the way from Baltimore to see us for Christmas! We went to the mall to see Santa.


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