Back to School!

Happy Father's Day

In honor of Father's day I am posting pictures of all the dads in my life.  First, my dad, who passed away 5 years ago and who I think about and miss every day.  The first picture is from when I was 4 years old. Don't ya love the 70s groove we have going on here?  Oh and I love the 'fro my dad is sporting :D

The other picture of my dad and I is from his wedding to Shelly in 2004.

The next dad in my life that I want to honor is my hubby, Jason.  This picture is from when I went to visit him in Seattle for his birthday.  We went to The Tokyo and had a wonderful dinner.



The next dad that I would like to honor is my father-in-law, Guy Wilcox.  He is always willing to help with getting my girls picked up or dropped off.  He loves spending time with us.

Look, It's Me!!!

Updating

I am making it my goal to write on this blog at least once a week.  I have another blog that I've recently restarted and that one is a personal blog to keep myself going on my Project 365.  I am doing really good with keeping up on that blog and have been writing in it a couple of times a week since I restarted it.  So that is my goal with this blog too.  I will update this blog at least once a week, more if I have more that I want to share.  I will also continue posting my pictures as scrapbook pages from Creative Memories Storybook Creator 3.0 plus.  So tonight I will post this, a little post to get myself going again.  If anyone is still out there, thanks for taking the time to take a glimpse into our crazy, crazy life.

Jason's Crazy Idea

2nd look for Back to School Pages

I need some input from my friends and family. I really like the look of the pages I did for back to school, but I found a template on the Scrap it Digital blog that I think is super cute too.  So here's the question...do I use the pages that I posted in the last post or these pages in our family scrapbook? 

Back to School

On Monday August 23rd, my girls went back to school. B'Elana started 4th grade at Fox Hills Elementary school magnet program. She has been going to school with most of these kids for the last 3 years and was so looking forward seeing all her friends again.

Deanna started her 9th grade year. Her schedule was a mess, so she had a bit of a struggle the first couple of days, but she thinks she may finally have it figured out. She's going to take a couple of classes online, swim for Skyline, skip Chinese for this semester (hopefully we can get her into a class for next semester) and take Seminary. It will be a busy and fun year for both girls. I'm hoping they both do their best and have a great time.

Our poor ignored blog

Life being the crazy thing that it is, our family blog has been completely ignored. I read back through some of the posts and realized that I had intended to make blogging more of a priority. Then we went to Las Vegas for cheer, Jason broke his ankle, school ended, Jason started working in Seattle, Washington, the girls had a full and fun summer and now school has started again.

Starting over again on blogging, and hoping to keep up again. Let's see if I actually can do it this time :)

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day this year, we got the girls their traditional small stuffed animals, a cookie, a pencil and some Sweethearts. The dog got some Sweethearts too, but only because she stole them! Jason got a gorilla that was holding a heart. It said "Let's monkey around." Jason and the girls got me a dog with kisses all over. I wanted to name him Kisses, but Jason said he had already named him Rufus, so I went with that. We decided to have a heart shaped pizza for lunch and went to our favorite pizza place, Pier 49. I think that will become a new Valentine's Day tradition. We had a great time!

B'Elana's Birthday

B'Elana went and had a birthday and turned 9! She had been looking forward to her birthday for at least a month! I think she had a pretty good birthday. We got her some clothes just before her cheer pictures with Hazen. We also got her the Chef Duff (from Ace of Cakes) cake maker. Now we just need to remember to get batteries! She also got a craft kit so she can make window art. Of course we took treats to school. We got cupcakes from Harmon's and a couple of cupcakes from my friend that makes gluten free stuff for B'Elana's friend Zoie that can't eat gluten. After cheer we went to see our play at Desert Star. Jason kept telling her that we didn't have a chance to tell them it was her birthday. She believed him right up until the time they actually announced her birthday, LOL! And the announcer said her name correctly! That NEVER happens and she was pretty excited about that too :)

We are planning a big birthday blowout when we are done with cheer. Happy Birthday Baby Girl! We love you!

BRACES ARE OFF!!!

Deanna got her braces off today! She is so happy. She has been counting down on Facebook, she even created a ticker. Her smile is so beautiful and she has been using it all day long. Tomorrow she gets her retainer. We are hoping that she doesn't loose or break too many!

February

February is here and with it comes a birthday, a trip to Las Vegas, the Superbowl and a baby shower (for Kelsie who was Deanna's dance coach and B'Elana's cheer coach until last year). Almost forgot: Valentine's day! It's a little weird that it's on a Sunday this year, but it still should be fun. Bring on the busy-ness!

Fun times

During the winter break from school we went to a University of Utah Women's Basketball game. We got to sit where ever we wanted and found some great seats in the front row. Swoop (Utah mascot) came and visited us, and B'Elana was invited to be part of the halftime entertainment.

New Year's Resolutions....

I don't usually put too much stock in New Year's Resolutions, but I am going to make a couple of them this year.

1. I will complete one scrapbook page per day. (I joined a Facebook group to help me with this one)

2. I am going to make sure that my health and the health of my family is more of a priority this year.

3. I am going to keep up better on my blogging, LOL!!!

I hope all of my family and friends have a happy, healthy 2010!

Holiday Stuff

I hope everyone of our family and friends had a great Christmas holiday. We had a fun and busy holiday season...complicated a little by my limitations from recovering from surgery. Oh and Facebook has my kept my attention a little more than it should LOL!

Updates

I've been thinking I need to update this for a while. We have been busy, busy busy! Since the last time the blog was updated, we have attended B'Elana's and Jason's football games, Deanna's swim meets, made a trip down to Cedar City for Shakespeare team, celebrated Halloween and Thanksgiving, had cheerleading start heating up again and I had back surgery. Seems like there is never a dull moment in our family. Also, I managed to sell some of the page prints from D & L Photobooks, so Deanna and I have been exceptionally busy with that. That has been made harder by having to send my computer in for repairs more than once. Luckily I have a very generous husband who bought me a computer ( I think mostly so I would quit asking to use his!) I will post some of the tons of pictures I've taken later today or tomorrow. Then I will attempt to do all the holiday posts :)

First Day of School

On August 24, 2009 Deanna started the 8th Grade and B'Elana started 3rd grade. As usual it was bittersweet for me. I love seeing how grown up my girls are getting, but I always miss having them around. Good luck to both my girls this year. I know it will be a year of changes and challenges. I love you!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!?

Today was the first day of practice for the 2009 season, and B'Elana's first day of real practice. Today was the last chance for her to make a final decision on if she really wanted to play or not. When she came back to us after, she still wanted to play. Notice the outfit....even if she is playing football, she's going to be all girl (pink shirt, pink shorts and pink butterfly cleats). Here's to my little girl trying something new.

13 and Fabulous!

Our baby girl turned 13 on July 10. Happy Birthday to our beautiful baby girl. We are so grateful that you are in our lives.

Here she is at one month old:


Dimples and curls...irresistible!


5th Birthday Picture


Christmas 2001


First Grade


2nd Grade


Deanna with little sis and Grandpa. (Grandpa's 60th birthday party, March 2005)

July 2007


August 2008


Deanna with her birthday buddy Violet.

Forever Farmer

There was an Open House held on Granite High School' s campus as a last blast for the alumni. It was bittersweet to walk through the building and remember all the good times we had there. I will always be grateful for the experiences I had at Granite High School. The school definitely had a impact on my life and I am so glad that I had the opportunity to go through the school one last time.
GO FARMERS!!!