Tucano's

For all the May birthdays', Erik's graduation and Ethen's June birthday, we met at Tucano's in Orem for dinner. The food was fantastic. The kids all played at the fountain outside for a while before we went to the Legacy Center to swim. Of course we all got barely wet before it closed for POOP!! Man, parents that don't obey the two diaper law make me mad. Koy, Rebekah and Ethen
All the fam
Rebekah helping Ches feel the water
Sam didn't want to pose with the fountain

The Wedge

For Memorial Day we took off for Price. Our intention was to go camping up Huntington Canyon, but there was snow. It rained most of the weekend, so we pretty much bagged camping. We did take a day trip out to the top of the Swell. We met Scott and Marissa for some shooting and four wheeler riding.





The kids were really impressed with The Wedge. It is like a mini grand canyon. The drop off is huge so Ethen didn't like the fact that he had to stand rather close to mom as we walked out to the overlook.

When we got back to the house, we set up our HUGE new tent and slept in the backyard. That was pretty cool in itself

Rebekah's Last Day of School

Rebekah wanted to look nice for her last day of school because she was receiving an award. BIG surprise. She got student of the year last year, so I knew it was going to happen again.
She received two this time. Her teacher gave her the kindest award and then she got an award for an accelerated learning class she attended most of the year.
Miss Marchant was the best teacher for her. She made sure that Rebekah always had something to challenge her. She assigned her extra work and had a small group of the advanced kids to research projects in the library to continue their learning. She was Awesome.
After school was over Miss Marchant told Rebekah that she wanted her to be on the Knowledge Bowl team next year. Miss Marchant is the captain and said that Rebekah would be great at it. I had already thought about having her participate so it was nice to get an official invite. It is like a spelling bee, they compete with other schools.

Ethen's Last Day of School

Kindergarten isn't allowed to have a graduation in Alpine School District, so they do a carnival for the last day of school.
Ethen had a blast playing all of the little games.
I stayed to help, which was awesome because Sam decided that he needed to eat all of the suckers we were giving out for prizes. He had about 10. SUGAR RUSH.

Mrs. Davis was awesome as Ethen's first teacher. She was so patient with him when he didn't want to go outside for recess because of the wind and really helped him to learn a ton fast. She was Wonderful. Ethen cried when we got home and he realized he would "NEVER see her again". I told him he could visit her and that seemed to be alright.

Ethen School Program

Ethen's class did the bug program this year. Of course each class had to pick a different song to sing and then they all had to dress up like bugs. Ethen was ecstatic when I told him I could make him a spider without much difficulty. They sung Itsy Bitsy Spider and the Ugly Bug Ball. I tired to upload the video but it took to much space. Ethen kept smacking the person in front of him with his extra arms. It was hilarious.
He was so proud of himself. He kept asking me what I could give him for doing so well. He didn't want the ice cream we got afterwards. He wanted something that was really special to me.

Rebekah's Program

For the end of the year program, Rebekah's class did the Second Annual Second Grade Dance Festival.
Each Class was given a different country to spotlight and choose a folk dance from there. There were some great ones.
Rebekah's class got Sweden.

Fabulous Read

This weekend was a sad one for me. Despite my Stephenie Meyer obsession and my connection with Twilight Moms, I was unable to attend the signing at Thanksgiving Point. To make it even worse, TM's kept emailing me and asking me to help out with stuff. Rub it in why don't you!!!
We did go and see Prince Caspian with the kids. That was a great show, even with the deviations from the book. Even the kids noticed. The bonus, other than seeing a great movie with my family was that I got to see the Twilight Trailer on the big screen. I have seen it about a hundred times on the computer, but there is nothing like sitting it the theater with a ton of people and being the only one cheering when the trailer comes on. Bryon was probably glad that he wasn't sitting near me at that moment.
Anyway, because of my disappointment at not being able to hang with a ton of Twilight wierdo's I threw myself into The Host and finally finished at 2am last night.
On Good Things Utah last Friday, one of the girls asked Stephenie which of her books was her favorite. She told them she was really pleased with The Host and liked it best. I have to agree. I liked it the best of the four that I have read.
I know that this comes as a shocker to most of you. I talk about the books all the time. I check my 5 website and email about 30 people each day updating them on Twilight news, my office is completely covered in Twilight paraphernalia (with a movie poster soon to come) and I am saying I liked the one about aliens better?
Fickle Woman!!

You know you are old when...

Thanks to Emilio for the laugh of the week. I kiffed this from her blog.

How you know you are a child of the eighties.

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE".
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that "WOAH " comes from Joey on Blossom.
8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock ".
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side. 17. You played the game "MASH " (Mansion, Apartment,Shelter, House)
18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM " in Kindergarten.
21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing " and all the Ramona books Ramona completed in 1st grade.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took Lunch Pails to school.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
29. You still get the urge to! say "NOT " after every sentence.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
32. You thought She-Ra and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. (and like 24, probably in neon colors, too)
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I? " 36. You remember "I've fallen, and I can't get up "
37. You remember going to the skating r ink before there were inline skates.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. You remember Popples.
43. "Don't worry, be happy "
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do... getting yelled at by "younger hip" members of the family)
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK "
47. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
48. You remember watching both "Gremlins " movies.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!! "
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales
51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell ", the ORIGINAL class.
55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THRU THE HEART.
56. You just sang those words to yourself.
57.You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
58.You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
59. You remember when mullets were cool!
60. You had a mullet!
61. You still sing "We are the World "
62. You "Pegged " your pants ritually. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head aren't you!!!
63.You french rolled your jeans.
64.You owned a bannana clip
65.You owned garbage pail kids.
66.You wore leg warmers.
67.when the berlin wall fell, you wanted a piece.
68.The Snorkles were the best next to fraggle rock n smurfs.

Shout out to the Beckers

Bryon said it was great to see Ben at the train the other day. I wish I knew how to get a hold of you, so Beckee when you check this next, email me so we can hook up.
Happy Blogging.

Happy Mom's Day

My parents came over for dinner (thanks to everyone else who bummed out on us). Grandma gave Sam a knife and he spent the entire meal "cutting!!!" his food. It was a pretty piece of artwork when he was done. I don't think he ate any of it.

Ethen's Presents- Picture frame made of sticks and a book about mom.

Rebekah's Presents-origami rose and note

Bryon and Sam gave me two gardenia plants for the front yard.

And once again the most awesome ward we lived in gave every mom a huge chocolate bar.

Anyone Else Concered????

Ethen and Kenney. This is the second time I have taken a picture of them like this.

Thanks to Uncle Sam

The Kids went to my parents house over the weekend. When they came home, we told them we had a surprise but they had to find it. It took them about 10 minutes to finally look in the back yard.

We used some of our rebate check to get a tramp. Both Rebekah and Ethen said it was "the best day of their lives!". Man do they need to get out more.
The jumped all day and didn't have a single fight. YEAH FOR MOM!!!! Bryon told them that they could sleep out there with him. It took a really long time to get things set up because they kept playing. They ended up settling down though.
I went out to check on them when it got dark and saw a square shaped glow from Sam's window. Bryon had hooked up the laptop with an extension cord and they were watching a movie!! Now that's roughing it. I was surprised that they stayed out there all night.

And YES! I jumped too, but was quickly reminded that I have given birth to three children. I did managed to show Ethen how to do a knee flip. I am cool once again!