Saturday, September 3, 2011

My Handsome 1st Grader

Holy cow! Is summer seriously over and I now have a 1st grader?! My little Jack is now a big man on campus. He leaves me everyday for ALL day. Okay, not all day, but it sure seems like it. He is so proud to finally feel apart of Eagle Valley Elementary and he sure gets into all the lame fund raisers that they have. I mean, come on, can't I just send you a check?:) Poor kid has very sensitive eyes.

Lily and Ben didn't really get what was going on. They didn't understand that their #1 playmate was leaving them. Doesn't Ben's face look so cute?!

My two little blondies.

This picture of Lily makes me laugh. She looks like a boy standing there. She was really getting into taking pictures and she seemed to understand to smile. Jack is the BEST big brother to her.

Isn't this sweet?! Ben had a hard time letting go of Jack. It made me cry. Jack sure felt responsible for Ben, but you could tell that he was loving all the attention. He kept looking around like, "Sorry guys, I need to take care of my baby brother. I'll just be a minute." So funny:)

And there he is. All lined up for his first day of 1st day. He loves his teacher, Mrs. Abeyta. I got a letter from her the 2nd day of school saying how respectful and obedient Jack is. I'm so proud of him. He will always be my baby, but I won't tell him that:) (He had his first spelling test on Friday. He was so nervous, just like his mom;) He kept saying his prayers about it. He came home all smiles with 100%. "I was so nervous my legs were shaking.", he said. I'm so happy for him:)



Monday, August 15, 2011

Celeste's 80's 40th Birthday!

I know I have a ton of other things to catch up on, but for Dan and Staci I thought I would post this. My Oldest sister Celeste turned 40! Seriously, does she know how embarrassing this is for me? I have to tell people my sister is 40! Now Celeste was in Jr. high and high school in the 80's. Big hair everyday! Really, if you want to know about the 80's just look at my sister's teenage life. She lived and breathed everything about the 80's. So naturally, we had to have an 80's themed 80's party, and it Rocked! Me and Brendan at the end of the night. He is missing his wig and his purple 80's JAZZ sweatshirt.

Me and Matt. We pretty much swept the awards! haha I was karaoke queen and he was the king. I also won Overall Best 80's Babe!

Gary and Amber doing some amazing singing.

My niece Ashton and I. We are pretty much AWESOME!

My parents had another party that night, so they walked in late just in time for some amazing karaoke entertainment:)

Lestie and I rockin out to "Dancing Queen".

No offense Shaun, but you might be a little tone deaf. haha It was great.

Laura and Russ doing a little Tiffany.

This is April dealing with a husband who thought he was in his own boy band:)

The only thing worse than a mullet is a red curly one. Jayme and Brad.

Brendan and his mentor, Matt. They really thought they were the Backstreet Boys. haha

Most of the men. I wish I could remember what they were singing. My favorite was Matt C. He was really livin in the moment, and you knew in his head he was the real thing.

All the women singing "Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun." We look like Sunshine Generation!

The Lady of the night. We LOVE you Celeste. We had so much fun!

Funniest moment of the night. Joe got up to sing Vanilla Ice and didn't know the words as well as Matt would have liked, so he jumped up there and totally took over. It was hilarious! You could tell he had waited his whole like for this moment.

Shaun and Celeste. Shaun is so amazing. I don't remember life without him being in it. He loves Celeste more than anything. These two are such great examples to us.

Matt and April. They Looked awesome, seriously, I almost died when I saw April:)

These are our wind blown pictures, and we all look pretty spectacular! Chantelle!

Matt, he was enjoying that hair a little too much.

Lestie

Ashton.

April. This picture makes my day. It's pretty bad!

Brendan

Me

JoeAmber


Most of the men.

Amber, Jayme and Celeste.

Mckay and Brennan.

I looked to0 amazing not to have a glamour shot done!Ashton looked amazing. That's what you get when you have a mom who knows exactly what she's doing.



Tiffany, who was not "Saved by the Bell".

We had a blast. Shaun did such a great job. I love my family and friends! Maybe when she turns 80 we'll do this again:)























Monday, July 18, 2011

The 4th 2011

Ben and Mommy. He had kind of a hard day. He ended up getting pneumonia a few days later:(

My sweet faced little girl.

She loved the ice cream......

and you better believe Grandpa gave her a lot of it!

Lily loves her grandpa:)

Jack enjoying some ice cream.

Hahaha! Kirsten (baby boy that she loves (hearts!)) and Brendan.

Lily and gorgeous Ashton. I'm so glad Lily has such great girl cousins that are the best examples.

Ben sat on the table the whole time he ate his ice cream, and of course Grandma let him, he's Ben:)

Grandma Elggren and Benner. He was having a tough day:(

Daddy and Lily. So very cute!

It's not the 4th without the slip'n'slide. Jack would just run down it instead of sliding. I thought that was more scary.

Jack getting a good run in before the slide/run.

Lily walking around with Brennan after the parade.

She loves her cousin Brennan.

My kids at the Kaysville parade. It was so hot, before the rain, they just wanted to go home.Benner ALWAYS has his sunglasses on. Inside or out!


Ben and Lil at the parade.

My little family before the festivities began.

Our attempt at getting a cute pic of all three of them. They looked so gosh darn cute:)

We came down the day before for our nieces blessing. Lily at Grandma Done's in the doll stroller.

Grandma Done always has something fun up her sleeve. Madison, Ben and Jack. Cute little pirates.

My handsome, not so little, Jack.

The Saturday before the 4th we did fireworks outside with some neighbors. Ben on his Big Wheel.

Ben, Jack, Will, Aubrey and Brock. We love these friends.

Ben just looking cute. Don't mind the outfit, this is what he loves to wear to bed.


Ben running away from the sparklers. In th end he did hold some and loved it. His favorite were the pops.


Jack with a sparkler. We had a wonderful 4th. I love this holiday. There is so much to do and we are very tired by the end, but we have a lot of fun. We (I) start the day off with the k-town 5k then we are off to the parade followed by a swim day at Elggren's. We end the day with a bbq at the Done's and then off to the fireworks in K-town. I'm am so grateful for this country and the amazing people who fight so hard to defend it. What a blessing our Father in Heaven has given us!