Shelbi's Piano recital

Shelbi had her first piano recital. It was at a retirement home. She played "Halloween Fun" and they had to wear their halloween costumes. Shelbi was a Zombie Cheerleader this year but we didn't paint her face for the recital. It was hard to get any pictures from where we were sitting so Nate took this one outside afterwards. Nice pose....total cheerleader.


Here she is playing her song. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the look on her face just before she started playing..she was so nervous, but she did great!

Did you say Dingleberry?

Tiff and I went to the zoo the other day. The kids had a blast seeing all the animals and playing in the water park. Here are a couple of pictures.

Any one that knows Tiffany knows that you can't go anywhere in public with her, without getting imbearassed at least once. Sure enough when we were looking at the baboons she started explaining to all the kids how they have hands just like we do and just then one got up and turned around and Tiffany was like, "look at those dingleberries!". Of course one of the kids asked, "What's a "dingleberry"?" So Tiffany starts explaining exactly what "dingleberries" are without even noticing that there was an extra kid sitting there. I turned around and sure enough the extra little girls parents are standing right behind us. They were like, "Hannah time to go!" right in the middle of Tiff's detailed explaination of the "dingleberry". You should have seen the look on Tiffany's face when she realized that there was an extra little girl sitting there. It was hilarious!

An Unexpected Guest

My mom came down the other day and she opened the front door to this while she was here. All the girls were running around screaming and Nate is out there trying to catch it while Mike took pictures.








It's funny, the other day I said that I had never seen one out here and since then I have seen three! Now I just can't get away from these things. My poor mom... I told her a story about Trexton reaching down and trying to pick up a scorpian in his room the other day (luckily I had wipes in my hand already so I swiped it out from under his hand just before he got it!) and then she comes down and this happens...I think she's ready for us to move. It's pretty funny how much excitement a LITTLE spider can cause.

Like father like son

We like to tease Nate a little about his obsession with mowing the lawn. You know how when you go out of town and you have to have your dishes done and your trash taken out...Well Nate has to have the lawn mowed before we leave! When we were landscaping our lawn they told us about this curbing that has a mowers edge on it so you don't have to weed eat...Nate was like "but I like weed eating" No Joke, that's exactly what he said! Yeah, we ended up with the regular curbing, same price I might add. Anyway I couldn't resist grabbing my camera when I saw this going on. So cute he's got a little MOW BUDDY.


Dax's wheels would get stuck so he would just pick the whole thing up and start running to keep up with Nate.




If you need any professional lawn mowing services give this little guy a call!

An update of the past month....

I was so far behind I decided to cram it all into a little slide show. I like to say I've been too busy to blog but really I haven't, I've just been lazy! Anyway, we've gone to the lake a few times, which is where we saw the Desert Bighorn Sheep. We went camping up at Big Lake and Nate and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. Shelbi started 2nd grade and her teacher's name is Mrs. Spencer. School started for me too but all my classes are online.

What's Mine Is Not Yours!

The other day I started painting the bench in my kitchen and my boys found a chair out of the paint can...sure enough they started fighting over it so I had to get another one out of the garage so they could each have their own. Who knew a paint can could be the perfect size chair for a little boy, they absolutley love these things.



It's not just the paint cans..they have to have their own on pretty much everything these days. Here's a picture of the boys doin a little "dance dance revolution". They love to dance!

Roosevelt 2008

Nate rented one of the SRP houses at Roosevelt after the 4th of July so the lake was pretty much empty..We had so much fun! Linde and Luke and their family, Tim and Tori, and Amanda and Kevin all came. I realize now I should have done a slide show for all these pictures but I was already half done and I couldn't pass them up so...

Shelbi doesn't like to water ski but her dad makes her so this is her "I'm Grumpy Face"

She really did have fun fishing, tubing, and hanging out with her cousins!

Here's Linde's boys enjoying smores

Aunt Tori, Harlee, and Kenzi on the tube! Unlike Shelbi, Harlee loves to water ski or tube!

Luke being Luke....

Kooper taking a nap..

Tim getting ready to "Tear it Up"

Nate throwing Kevin out of the boat

Nate showing off..

Tristan, Shelbi, Kason, and Kyron

Amanda and one of her famous face expressions!

Amanda skipping across the water like a little rock

Tim on the tube.....(sort of)

Tim off the tube...