My Birthday Girl

Fourteen years ago I became a mom for the first time. Arrie came into the the world screaming at the top of her lungs and has never really quited down. She is a true joy. You can't help be around her and not get a smile on your face.

We took her out to dinner last night to celebrate. You can tell she is getting older because she didn't want present and didn't want a party she just wants the cold hard cash that we would have spent.

It's crazy to think that my little girl isn't so little anymore. She will be a freshman in high school in August.

Happy Birthday my little baby girl, I am so glad that you call me mommy. My life would be to quite without you.

Young Love

Kory has liked the same girl since he was in 1st grade. Her name is Shantel. She is a cute little girl. They went to school together until last year when her family moved to Lehi. The romance has not been interrupted even with the move. They both are shy so they don't talk much but they do email each other.
Kory invited her to watch his baseball games on Saturday. She came to the 5:30 game with her mom. It has been so cute to watch them continue to like each other over the years. Kory has gone to some of her dance recitals and now she wants to come and watch him play baseball.
Young love isn't it sweet?

How time flys

Life has been quite the adventure lately. I won't catch up on everything because it's the same old, same old, but I'll catch you up on our fun end of school weekend.

I let the boys have some friends over on the last night of school. They played games in the yard and then when the sun went down we started a fire and roasted marshmellows.

Then they hung out in the hot tub for a while. They had a good time.

Arrie had her 8th grade advancement ceremony on Thursday night. Then she got to go to a dance at her school for just the 8th graders. She had a great time hanging out with all of her friends. On Friday night she went to a swim party with all her friends. I so glad she has such a nice group of good friends.

I can hardly believe the school year is over. It seem like it few by so fast. The kids are growing up so fast. I now have a 4th grader, 6th grader and a freshman in high school. It feels a little crazy.

Aaron's Birthday Party

We had a fun little party last night for Aaron.

(luckily his birthday was the only day this week we didn't have baseball games)

We took the kids to Nickelcade, feed them pizza and cake. I think all the boys had a good time. It was easy for me. All the kids entertained themselves, I guess video games are great distractions. As you can see in the above picture, Aaron had a good time.

Look who has turned 9

My sweet baby boy is celebrating his ninth birthday today. He is so wonderful to have around. When he's not bugging his brother and sister he is truly the most thoughtful and loving child. As anyone who knows him will tell you he give the best hugs. We are so blessed to have him in our family.

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Happy Mothers Day

To all those woman out there, whether or not your are currently a mom, I want to wish you a Happy Mothers day! This is a weird day for me. My mom never really cared for mothers day when I was growing up. She often made comments about it needing to be more of a celebration of woman. I've had years as a mom that this day was not really what people would think mothers day should be. There have been years that I was so grumpy and didn't know why. It has gotten better for me. I do think that I have to echo my moms opinion of this day. Whether or not you have children most woman in the world have a profound effect on a child somehow. I would like to celebrate today the beauty of woman. The strength that we all have inside us to change lives. We rock! I have to thank my own mom for giving me so much strength. She didn't have an ideal childhood and wasn't shown by her mother how to be an amazing woman but she beat the odds and became one. She is beauty to me. She is strength to me. She is love to me. She has been a huge part of why I am now me and I thank her for that.

I love you mom, Happy Mothers Day!

Hope of America

When I got home yesterday I found out that Robert was teaching Kory to mow the lawn. My little boy is growing up and becoming a lot of help around the house.

Kory also got to participate yesterday in the Hope of America program. It is a neat experience. Kids from three school districts preform. It is very patriot. He has been working hard at school to be prepared for the performance and he was looking forward to sharing it with us. There were a lot of cool performances.
Kory was all the way at the top of the crowd. To give you an idea of how many kids where there they filled up one side of the Marriott center.

Here are all the kids. With the different colors of shirts they looked like a living flag.

This was the last performance and it is very cool to watch.