Tuesday, September 29, 2009

School Pictures 2009-10 / September 2009

Brittyn-3rd grade just turned 9 Robbie-Kindergarten just turned 6 Beau-age 2 (Don't ask....it was on of those days! It is a laugh and cry smile!!)

Monday, September 28, 2009

Park City

Trent had a wild hair on Saturday morning...insisting we do something fun! My reply was...."ok, what is that?" Park City...so that's what we did! Loaded a cooler with food for a picnic...which was super fun and yes that is my kids playing fetch with each other! Robbie having a moment...he was mad at his sister....go figure! That never happens! Haha....
My kiddos...my Robbie hates his picture taken so Beau has learned to follow! Urgg!!
My cute hubby...keeping tabs of the monster!
The TRAM....


Awww......
Alpine Slide....woot woot!!! So very fun! Have not been on this in years! My kids LOVED it! T took Beau (so they went the fastest) Robbie went with me and Brittyn rode alone. She was so funny. I came down behind her and had to stop because she was so slow! But at least she did it and more then once.

The "WICKED" coaster....that's what Brittyn called it! Only she and T went on this one.
So....Robbie did the jumpy tramp thingy. He even did a back flip!!! He was so proud of himself! Good job Tiger! But of course I did not get that picture! Urg...
It was so so fun! My kids loved it and I loved spending the day with all of us! Not very often that T has a full Saturday with out work....we loved having him to ourselves!

The little brown barn....

Trent worked in Park City for a lot of years and he always loved this barn. So Saturday when we went up with the kids we took advantage and snapped a few pictures. This is not even half of what we took. They turned out very pretty. Brittyn took a few for refection's which is this next month at school. The theme is BEAUTY IS....









Monday, September 21, 2009

My cute little man....

Make sure you push stop on my music to listen to my sweet tank! This is me tryin to have lunch today. He makes me laugh....hard and often!! What would we do without or little ones! Life would be dull!!

My girl turns 9!!!

September 16th was Brittyn's 9th birthday.....it has been her birthday all week long!!!! Trent took her flowers and a balloon into school. She thought that was super cool. That sat at her desk all day. Made her feel pretty special. When I ask Brittyn earlier in the week what kind of cake she wanted she said.....a chocolate Halloween one!! Ok...so this is what I came up with and it turned out pretty cute!
Opening presents....crazy for ICarly....I don't get it! But whatever I am just the mom! She has been interested in yoga lately so I got her a kids yoga DVD and outfit! She has done it every night scents! Kind of cute! Of course we had to get some American Doll stuff....roller skates for her doll! They are so cute! I am living my love for dolls through her....they are so stinkin cute!
Friday after school she had a friend party at Aunt Randi's dance studio....Randi is Trent sister and she is a fabulous dancer. She has opened her own studio this last summer. She taught the girls the Hannah Montana dance from this last movie...it was so cute and the girls had so much fun!! THANKS AUNT RANDI.....YOUR AWESOME!!!
Brittyn and her silly friends and then Brittyn with her aunt Randi.
Ok....so like I said it has been a birthday all week long...Weds., Fri., and then Saturday we had a family party! I know I am a crazy lady!
More American Girl stuff from family and lots of other fun things! Everyone know what Britt loves! I so appreciate all the love and support our families show for my kids! It makes them feel so special!!! It is always fun to have us all together!
So to my princess....I love you bunches! You are growing into such a beautiful, fun, smart young lady! We are so extremely proud of you!!!! It is so crazy how time flies by!! I wish it could slow down just a little! It truly seems like yesterday that I had her....I went to a movie with Jenn and Jill (my 2 older sisters) it was a stupid movie with Gwyneth Paltrow. Anyway...I was having regular contractions through out the movie and after it was over we walked the parking garage at Jordan Commons. Good times!!! Well....once I got home at like 11:30pm it was getting bad. Called the hospital and they said to come it. Well....Trent had to take time to shave his face!!! Holy crap!!! True story!!! We got to the hospital around 1am and I was at a 7 when they checked me and hardly had time to get pain meds!!! Wowza!!! She came right on her due date...crazy huh? They say that only 10% of babies do deliver on their due date with out induction. So fun!!!I had her at 5:05am and my life changed forever.... in the best way!!! I love you buggy!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Trip to DC....longest post ever....you are warned!!

First of all this post has taken me all freaking day....blogger has been so slow!! Second of all...this is the longest post ever so feel free to skip it if you would like! A thousand pictures and this is only a hand full of them! DC has so much history and I felt I needed every part I could get! Everything feels so alive there. It was an amazing trip and I am so lucky that Trent and I got to experience it together! The Eternal Flame....the Kennedy's grave site in Arlington National Cemetery. WOW! Arlington was wonderful. It felt like such an honor to be there. It is so very beautiful, powerful and extremely big!! Pictures don't even do it justice! JFK's headstone and right next to him is his wife Jackie.

A very small piece of Arlington. They said that 20-30 funeral services are held here daily.

The Tomb of the unknown....another WOW!! So very peaceful and powerful all at once!



Changing of the guards. Every hour. It was emotional and very honoring to watch!

Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. So beautiful!!! The marble was so amazing!



This was a picture I took while waking across this very long bridge from Arlington to the National Mall. If you have been to DC you can sympathize! We walked a billion and then some miles! Oh yes and it was done in flip flops!!! We are crazy! DC is so pretty. Everything is so green!

This was at the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

Me and the Washington Monument.

Mr Lincoln....

Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This was insane....so many people and so very touching to see! They had these enormous books you could look up names in and it would tell you where they were on the wall! It was so neat to see this in person. You always see these things on TV....but it is so incredible to actually see!!
Had to take this one....some horses butts! Around the National Mall is this beautiful park FULL of squirrels!!! They are everywhere!! And these crazy loud bugs...??cicadas??? that hang out in the trees. Gross!!!!

WWll Memorial....T given the good ol thumbs up to our wonderful place of residence.

For all of you who really know Trent will sympathize this with ridicules picture! While on a walk with his wife he has to take care of work fires....this piece of technology should be glued to his ear!!! This cute little bird (and I hate birds) sat and watched him almost the entire time.

The one and only motor cad....this was pretty crazy! The windows were down on some of the Suburbans and the guys were totally swat'ed out!!!


The one and only White House.

The Nations Capital

The Smithsonian Castle-front side.

The back side.

Are you guys tired of reading this yet????? I kind of am and it was my trip!!!! Haha....

National Air and Space....very cool!



The grand ol Metro station! So, I am kind of a scaredy cat! My husband who dearly loves me did not pick me up from the air port Monday when I got there (working, of course) but had given me instructions for the metro....I totally had to come out of my box on this one! Scared and not knowing where the crap I was!!! I did make it in one piece with little scaring! With the help of a nice strange very black lady! Oh ya and look at my so very cute new t-shirt!!!

This is the National Gallery Of Art....this is the one place Brittyn wanted us to stop and see. She had seen it in a book about a week before my trip and made me promise we would go! She asked me to take pictures of everything and what I could not take pictures of if I would write a description! WOW.....my child is so sweet!!! I did try to take pictures of everything in there for her down to the drinking fountain. But the way cool stuff....no go! They have guards in the rooms that will basically rip your camera from you if caught taking pictures! Bummer!!



This is all in the Gallery Of Art....beautiful....never thought I could really enjoy these things. But I so did! I hope one day to take my artsy fartsy daughter here!







I really loved this piece....I think it is because of the fat little boy in it reminds me of mine! It is called "Madonna and Child with God the Father and Cherubim" Andrew W. Mellon collection 1480.

Again the Washington Monument...

and us!!!!

The last night we were in town we went to dinner with Trent's aunt and uncle. Steve and Laurie Sowby. They are in DC on a LDS Mission. That was really fun to catch up and visit for a few hours.

But the coolest part of my trip I have no photos of!!! They would not allow camera's onto the air force base! Trent pulled some strings and got the hook up. We were able to take a tour of Air Force One....crazy cool!!!!! This plane is huge big!!! It sits so high...looking out the front window was kind of freaky. It had to have been as tall or taller then the tallest peek on my house. And my house is pretty dang tall. The guy who gave us the tour was telling us stories about the last 2 and current presidents. Democrats are more messy then Republicans. Bush ran really early Clinton and Obama run late. Bush had a tread mill that was in his room and ran while in flight. He was always business. Clinton would play cards with all the people that sat in the back. Just fun fact stuff. Trent even sat in Pres. Obama's desk chair in his plane office and the piolt seat. The guys on base were so nice and easy going. But I was scared to move wrong as the whole hanger is guarded by armed guards 24 hours a day. You move wrong and they will have you on the floor peeing yourself! Getting onto base was crazy....I told T I felt like I was going into a prison. Chain link fence with barb wire, metal detectors...WOW! Bomb smelling dogs....like I said....crazy! Being able to see this certain job was so very cool in it's self! Not every day does your husband work for the President of the United Sates. And might I add....he worked dang hard and extremely long hours!! Hearing threw the grape vine Andrews has 7 more plane hangers that are needing to be done.....really?! Like great for ProTech...sucks for me! Two months without T was hard...very hard! I cried a lot a days! I am so so happy to have him home. It has been a surprise to Beau the last couple of days when his dad actually walks in the door in the evening. Pretty funny! I love and adore you T!!!

I hope I have not put you all to sleep. I just found DC so intriguing! I would love to go back! I started this post this afternoon around 1:30 and it is now 11:00. Really??!! Time for bed!