Fun times & relaxing times

The Felix's for Family Night

Our good friends the Felix's live up in Hyde Park which is just next to Logan, came up on Monday to have dinner and FHE with us. It was so nice to visit with them and see their cute family again.

Playing Dead

The boys were out on the deck playing guitars and just chatting when down runs this chipmunk off the side of the cabin, right next to where they were sitting. It see's them and drops on it's back and plays dead. It stayed there with it's legs up in the air and eyes wide open for about 3 minutes, long enough for everyone to see it. Then after everyone quit looking at it, it rolled over and ran off. It was so funny!We warned all the kids when we went to the cabin that there would be lots of pictures taken. There was to be no covering of faces or hiding. Trav had a hard time with this he doesn't like getting his picture taken. You'd think all of our kids would be natural models with all of the pictures we take of them.

Bear Lake

We went up and stayed in the most beautiful cabin up in Bear Lake. My parents, while on their mission, met Sister Redd. They have been building some things for her at her cabin and as a trade she has allowed us to stay there.

2004 flashback

On our way back home from Denver, CO we stopped at Aunt Trudy & Uncle Craig's house. It's always fun for the kids to be able to ride their horses.

I grew up as a child going to visit family in Meeker and always looked forward to milking cows, feeding bottles to the baby lambs and just playing around on the ranches. Life always seemed so much simplier.

Kaitlin Farnsworth

We always teased Kaitlin about being Kaitlin Farnsworth. Because she spent as much time at their house that she could. The Farnsworth girls have the best imaginations. I always knew if Kaitlin was playing with Abby that she was having a great time. They played the "good" old fashioned way, tea parties, school, they wrote plays, and went square dancing.

Final Destination UNKNOWN

We are on our way to a new adventure. We will temporarily stay at my parents in Leamington, UT while we look for a new job & place to live. We surely are sad about leaving Cedar City again but we know that we are being led to new opportunities. I'm excited for this new step even though we thought that this would be our final destination. That just reminds me that there is a bigger picture and that we are not in charge. I'm grateful for all the friends and experiences that we've had here. Now were off to making new friends and having new experiences.

Neighbors/Friends

We have been able to live in a wonderful neighborhood here in Cedar City. We couldn’t have handpicked better neighbors & friends. They would be there in a heartbeat if we ever needed them. Whether it be to watch our dog while we’re out of town, giving priesthood blessings in the middle of the night or bringing over yummy treats, you could always count on them. We will miss everyone!

Tyler's Buds

Tyler has made some wonderful friends here in Cedar City. He has spent this past week spending as much time with all of them as he possibly could. Tyler loves adventure and adventure is what he got with all of these friends. Fishing, building forts & tree houses, spying on deers, going on recon missions, and working at the local pet store so that he could play with any animal imagined. He will miss all of his friends but will be back to visit.

Am I crazy?

Have you met Indiana Jones Jr. (or Indie) for short? This is who Tyler got after his snake blaze died. What is he you might ask? A Ball Python. Yep, one of those. He really is quite a neat snake. He will get big if we make his environment bigger. This happens to be pictures of dinner time. Indie eats every two weeks. His diet consists of baby mice called pinkies or fuzzies, baby rats.

Garbage Can

With moving and all we have had quite a mess around here. Every room has at least 1 if not 2 garbage cans in them. Bella came out of my craft room the other day adorned in the garbage can lid. It was very cute.

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

Flashback Kids

I always loved when Kaitlin wore this slip. This was at Brett & Andrea’s wedding reception and she was tired of her dress so we took it off and she danced around on the dance floor in her slip. It’s a good thing she was only two.
Than goodness my kids liked posing for all of my pictures. So Cute!!!!

Good Memories

We had our last Hoorah for Roberts yesterday at a luncheon at the Pizza Factory. I can't believe that Roberts is gone here in Cedar City. I sure enjoyed working there and learned lots. Working at Roberts was the first job that I had worked since going to college. I would go shopping there and always think that being a designer at Roberts would be a dream job. Once the kids were all in school I went and applied. I started out over department 2, the floral area which entailed putting out product and straightening shelves. Janet would let me do a little here with the floor displays. Then I got to start painting some of the wood items and also got to decorate some of the Christmas trees. Debbie who was the class/events coordinator decided to quit so I was asked to take over her spot, with a little reluctance I decided to do it. I was incharge of all the classes and teachers, making announcements, (which I absolutely hated) , doing demos, preparing make-n-takes, and putting on all the EVENTS, ie., "Ladies night out", 50's week, Fright Night, Christmas openhouse, etc, etc, etc,. I was able to work side by side with Waylene, the store designer. Waylene trained me as we worked together with all the in's and out of decorating story boards and making the page of the month. Waylene then decided to retire and after some sweet talking to Janet I was able to become the store designer. I had a blast!

I really enjoyed working at Roberts. I worked with some wonderful women and John. We had lots and lots of laughs. I will miss everyone.

Opening night at the ballpark

Kirk was selected as an SUU alumni to get free tickets to the Bees opening night game. While we were waiting for the TRAX to arrive I was putting on my lipstick and the boys wanted me to kiss them on the cheek and take a picture so that they could see what it looked like. I'm glad my boys still like kisses from their mom.
We all got free t-shirts and then they had a BBQ dinner for us. The kids all brought baseballs and a sharpie so that they could get some of the players autographs.


It was such a beautiful evening even though we lost by one point.
We got to enjoy an awesome firework show after the game also. At the game they have these RC Willey recliners that a couple get to sit in during the game. By the time the fireworks had started the people had left so Derick hopped in one and Tyler and I in the other one. What a way to watch the fireworks.

Vegas part III the finale

Tyler talked Grandpa into venturing out at night to go see a few of the night time sites.. So off we went with the “GARMEN” in hopes that we would find our way back to Treasure Island. We saw a volcano erupt on our way to the Bellagio. Tyler humored me and walked through the Bellagio to see the conservatory "Gardens". We then went outside and watched a few water shows. Those are so much fun to see and the evening was just perfect. Then we found our way to the OLD Vegas strip. I remember when I was young and visited Vegas that it was so amazing to drive down the strip, it seemed to go on forever. I talked it up to Tyler telling him how amazing it was and that we couldn’t go without seeing the spectacle. Well it lasted a whole minute to drive down. Tyler said “Was that all?” I guess it doesn’t compare to the new part of Vegas. Maybe when he’s older and takes his kids to Vegas there will be a “Newer” part of Vegas. And his kids will think that the “Old New”to him is not very exciting too. We went and we saw and made it back to Treasure island and only got a little turned around in our directions.We had such a great time on our little get-a-way with Grandma and Grandpa Evers. I'm so glad that Tyler invited me to be his friend and to be able to enjoy this with him and my parents. Thanks Mom & Dad.