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.
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.
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?
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!
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
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.
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.
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!!!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
We went to the Shark Reef Museum later this day and were able to see all sorts of animals. It was neat to walk through the tunnels with all the sharks swimming around us. There was a spot where you could walk on the glass directly over a shark, Tyler was pretty nervous about it thinking that it would break. I walked over it to show that he would be perfectly fine. They had these radios that you could carry with you and then you would just type in the number that was on the window you were looking at and it would tell you about the animals/fish.
That evening we went to the Luxor buffet to eat. WOW! You can easily get lost in there. There dessert bar was amazing. Our favorite dessert was called panna cotta. Tyler and I decided that we would eat it at the same time not knowing what it was going to taste like. It was absolutely delicious!!! I think we ate about 7 of them together. I definitely will have to try to make it again.
