Way back Flashback 1982

UTAH

Kaitlin had her last school program for the year at South Elementary. It was all about UTAH. There were Indians, and mountain men, Spaniards, and pioneers. Kaitlin was a pioneer, thanks to Grandma Marchant for making her a bonnet. They all did a great job and sang a lot of fun songs. I love the Utah song, I think it's my favorite. I can't believe that school is out tomorrow.

St George Adventure

On our way to the Temple the other day I saw all of these beautiful flowers growing along side the road. Kirk doesn't like stopping once he's going so when the kids and I went to St George I made sure to bring my camera along. It was a pretty site to see these as we drove into and out of St George. Derick has been wanting to get some more driving hours and drive down to St George. We decided that this would be a good day to head down there because Derick needed new church clothes and both Tyler and Kaitlin needed shoes. We stopped at this new burger joint, SMASH BURGER, and have dinner. They had really good burgers.
We had a fun time together and were even able to see Uncle "Bubby" Doug, at the bank.

Git R Done

The boys and uncle Greg went on a walk with Grandpa after his brain surgery. Grandpa had a hard time walking in a straight line, but they made it to the corner and back. They even stopped to make funny faces at me for a picture. I don't think Grandpa knows how to make a funny face.

Memory Tree

Kirk & I went to the Temple today and I made sure to bring my camera because I wanted to go take a picture of the tree that Kirk and I kissed at for the first time. I think that it’s pretty ironic that that is also where we were sealed for Time & All Eternity. I will always hold a special place in my heart for the St. George temple.

1995 Favorite pic

This is one of my all time favorite pictures of Derick. We had planned on having his pictures taken with overalls on but as we, my Mom and I were wandering through Sears we found the fishing gear to add to the picture. Isn't he adorable?

By the way, Derick's nickname was and always will be "Tugboat". How he got that name you may ask? What do tugboats say? Toot Toot. That is what Derick did from the day he was born. He was known for his great TOOTS.

Flashback to Harry Potter

Didn't Derick make the cutest Harry Potter? I just love how these pictures turned out. They were taken in our front yard in West Jordan.

Memorial day 2006

I just completed this layout in a speed scrap with my Sister, Lori's, instructions. It was challenging but I ended up with this awesome layout. I chose to do memorial day pictures since we are coming upon that holiday.

Every year we go to the cemetery with rakes, trimmers, water and of course flowers in hand and clean up around all of our relatives graves. The little kids always have a fun time collecting all of the old flowers that have been blowing around, and then they line them up on top of the headstones.

Flashback 2006 Kaitlin

Kaitlin was so brave when she had to get her tonsils out. She was pretty proud of her cap & gown and when they willed her off she held up her hands and pretended that she was on a roller coaster. She sure enjoyed the grape popsicle that she got afterwords. She did great!

Beautiful Message

What an inspiration this woman is to me today. I'm so grateful to be a Mom, have my health, have the gospel, and to have the challenges that have been given me so that I can grow closer to my Heavenly Father.

Mormon Cricket

We were in Leamington and Grandpa Evers took us to see all the Mormon Crickets. They cover the road in the summer time. Tyler wasn't so sure about holding these giant crickets but he was brave enough to hold one so that I could take his picture.

Road Trip

We had such a fun road trip with the girls up north. We started off with a sleepover at my Parents in Leamington. Then the next morning we stopped at the Young Living Farm the girls paddled on the paddle boats, where Olympia lost her socks and had to go fishing for them. Had a great time exploring IKEA and then went to Joe’s Crab shack for lunch. We ended the day at the mall where the girls did a little window shopping. FUN, FUN

Tyler's book report

This year in Tyler's reading class they had to do a book report. They could either make a cake or make a board game that went along with their book. Tyler chose to make a cake. He did such and awesome job making the Swiss Family Robinson tree.

Happy Happy Birthday Nichole & Michele #18

Today was Nichole & Michele’s birthday. We celebrated with our annual “Balloon Launch”. Everyone wrote their messages and then we sang Happy Birthday and sent our balloons to Heaven. I can’t believe it has been 18 years now. I imagine them graduating high school this year. I’m glad their safe and sound in heaven.

Kaitlin's Thumb

When Kaitlin was three months old we decided that it was time for her to go to sleep on her own. So we put her in her crib, she fussed a little and then that was it. I went in to check on her and she had found her thumb. From then on she slept through the night like and angel. I took this picture of her one day when she had fallen asleep standing and sucking her thumb.

My 3 beautiful kids