summer vacation

First day of summer vacation for the three oldest starts today. (well really last friday but we were at the beach) it's 11:30 and Brennen is still in bed... Dustin and Caden came down at about 10:30 and decided they would have a bowl of icecream for breakfast. Gotta Love Summer!!!

about the beach... Caden stayed home because of an important baseball game- whatever- the other three boys all got burnt. Brennen refused to put sunscreen on his face, Dustin got the end of the bottle and his back looks like a leopard and dillon I had to chase down, I'm sure all lifeguard binoculars were on us, so he had some spots that weren't protected. (apparently the sunscreen is cold) Dillon has been wearing a bed sheet since we got home on friday. (except for church and at school today) TOGA! TOGA!

do you know this guy?

My sister Nan and I were sure we did. So after being introduced to him we (ok it was mostly if not solely Nan) tried to rack our brains as to who he was and how we knew him. Ricks... USU... we just couldn't put our finger on it. Nan even went and met his parents trying to figure it out. Turns out he was Hyrum in the Joseph Smith story and Alma in the Living Scriptures. He also was in Les Mis on Broadway as Jean Valjean and Phantom in Europe. Yes we are nerds but after we found out just how we knew him we had to get a picture..... this time with us in it.






If you look really close he has a tear in his eye. I think we may be his first Stalkers! He's either so happy it brought him to tears or scared to death. (or the lady that was talking with him before us told him a sad story)
I totally wanted to go up to him and say come on you couldn't have just said Alma or Hyrum instead of letting us make fools of ourselves?!
In case your wondering his name is Dallyn Vail Bayles. He has a cd out but I didn't buy it. I probably should have.

happy birthday to one "green" mom

It was my mom's birthday yesterday. When Dillon came home from school he said mom guess what today is? I said- Grandma's birthday and he responded with- cool it's also earth day.

What a coincidence my mom was saving the planet before Al Gore even thought about how to make a butt-load of money off of it. My mom was recycling by loading the trunk of her car up with newspaper and plastic and driving down to the library to drop it off. We grew up reusing and recycling. However, I have to say that I'm a little lazy and don't do my part but if my mom's in town you know she's pulling cardboard out of my garbage and recycling it for me.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Easter Message

Just in case either on of you who view my blog missed the Easter message by Elder Holland I'm posting it here because I loved it...and it brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFhS0dAduc

no pain no gain?!?!?!

K- I just had a birthday and I'll admit I grew up in the 80's. No one exercised unless they were a jock (which I wasn't) or they danced (which my lack of cordination prohibited- I tried out for drill team, it was pathetic)


This is what exercise meant to me.....



Well my lack of exercise has been showing as I've attempted to do a body sculpting class at the church gym. I almost cried today....I'm pathetic....apparently my core is weak as are my arms. No Nan I'm not joining curves.

track break

to the T to the R to the A to the C to the K to the B to the R to the E to the A to the K come on everybody grab your bikes and sing along...(or something like that)

We have track break for the next two weeks then Spring Break. Track break isn't what it use to be when I would load up the car and head to Utah. This year it's just Dillon. I still have to get up in the morning and take the other boys to school. I know "wtc" kinda takes the fun out of it. I've decided that I'm not going to let this one slip away with a whole lot of tv watching and video game playing so.....what to do? Kinda wishing he was a little more into shopping. We already did Target and Taco Bell on day one and one day is going to be devoted to cleaning out his room. So I'm open for any suggestions for the other 12 days. He does need to learn how to ride his bike...

"nacho" average heroes

Looks like I need to wait for my tech support to make it home from mission prep class, the video isn't playing for me. I know.... the anticipation is probably killing you!!!! (if anyone is out there?)

This was our entry in the ward variety show last night. I was laughing so hard tears were coming out of my eyes. Pretty good for pulling out the camcorder the night before....

My "techy" hooked me up to youtube so I'm attaching a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2HD1Q6MVs but I don't know how to get rid of the clip below.