Sunday, February 27, 2011

Alex's Birthday

Alex is turning 13 tomorrow, Monday February 28th. We are so greatful to have her as our daughter. We love her stong will and determination. She loves gymnastics with a passion. She always makes us laugh and does not care what others think. I love that she is not girly and has no desire to be into hair and make up. What a blessing she has been to our family. Alex we love you.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Chad the Super Hero

We left Vegas around 4 pm and were planning on traveling all the way home that night, so we could make it to church the next day, Sunday. Well, it was dark and we were driving north on I-15 toward Fillmore. All of a sudden Chad yells "oh, my gosh" I look up in enough time to see a car rolling down the median between the north and south bound lanes. I am not sure how many times it rolled, but it was quite a few. When the car stopped rolling it was actually partially in the south bound lane. Chad pulled our van over and ran over to the car, while I called 911. It was pretty scary for a while not knowing how many were in the car or if anyone had been thrown out or what. There happened to be one man in the car and luckily he was wearing a seat belt, the seat belt saved his life. Chad pulled the man out of the car and got him a safe distance from the smashed up car. We believe he had dozed of while driving then over corrected and lost control of the car. Others stopped to help and within about 15 min emergency vehicles arrived. The man was taken to a hospital in Fillmore then life flighted to Provo. We are not sure of all the injures, but we do know man had several broken bones and a fractured back. This made me think that you never know when life is going to throw you a curve ball, life can change in just a blink of an eye.

Vegas gymnastics meet

Alex had a meet in Las Vegas. It was a great meet, she did very well. Alex took 1st on bars, beam, floor and all around, she also placed 4th on vault. She has a hard time landing the 10 start value vault, so her vault has been a 9 start value. Way to go Alex!!Bars




Vault



Beam


Floor

If this is Hoover Dam, then where is Amsterdam?

Before we checked into our hotel in Las Vegas, we stooped at Hoover Dam. As we are driving up towards the dam, Alex says "so, if this is Hoover Dam, then where is Amsterdam?" We all started laughing, so funny. Alex makes the most off the wall statements, she cracks us up.





St. George--- The Promised Land

February the 11th we while on our way to Las Vegas, Nevada we stopped in St. George Utah. We absolutely love St. George and would love to move back there someday. When we retire that is where we are headed. This is just one of the reasons we love the place, the beautiful red rock. What you do not see is a cliff that Chad let the kids look over, luckily I was in the restroom at the time. I seem to freak out a little when the kids get remotely close to something I deem dangerous. St. George ROCKS! he, he, get it? look at the pictures.

Alex with a lady bug, notice her lovely calaused hands, those are gymnast hands.

Alex being grumpy pantsThe boysThe girls
The Kids
The parents