Tennis Camp

Jordan has been attending tennis camp at the high school, his skills are getting better and he is loving it.

Cousins, Cousins, and more Cousins

Chad's brother Shaun and his family came for a visit and pretty much we swam the whole time. Once again, it is too hot in Texas to do any other activities-- 100+ degrees plus humidity. We had a blast! It was good to see everyone again.

In between all the swimming, we went to Let's Jump. Which is an indoor play area.

Ethan hanging out on a old boogie board from our California days.

The girls: Alex, Sara, Hannah, and Alena.

Visit from the cousins

On the 19th of June Chad's brother Jody and his family came for a visit. Since it is unbearably hot in Texas right now, we did a lot of swimming. Below you will find Chad with my swim shorts on his head, what a weirdo! This is Alex, Jordan, and Christian

Another fun thing we did: Chad borrowed his friend's Cessna 172 airplane. We all took turns going for a ride in the plane. Well, I did not go up for a ride, or else we would be steam cleaning the plane if you know what I mean. Blah, Blah.

This is a helicopter that Chad flies. We all went to Chad's work and took a look at all the different aircraft that he flies.

Summer coins

Last week we started our summer coin earning. Each child has a container that holds their coins. They can earn coins for doing extra jobs which I have made up small cards for, examples are: cleaning baseboards, light switches, washing walls, cleaning kitchen cabinets, polishing wood furniture, etc. They can also earn coins in non job ways like reading a book, doing a book report, crossword puzzles, a Faith in God activity, doing a puzzle, memorizing a scripture, etc. They use these coins to buy time on the computer, watching tv, going to a movie or playing video games - 1 coin equals 15 min of time. I can also take coins away when I find their stuff on the floor, when they are rude, do not do jobs when asked, or if they bug me too much. I think this is the 4th year we have done this and so far it works out pretty good. At the end of summer or when we go on vacation they can cash in their coins for cash, one coin is worth 25 cents.

Jordan NHJS

Jordan got accepted into the National Junior Honor Society. Here are some pictures of the ceremony.

Alex goes from elementary school to middle school

Friday was Alex's 5th grade promotion. Alex received, the highest adverage for social studies, math and language arts awards in her 5th grade class. The award she is most proud of is the athletic award which the PE teacher gave her. We are proud of you Alex! There were parents crying in the audience, I am proud to say that I was not one of them! It is only 5th grade, High School may be a different story.

Schools out, lets party!!

Today we celebrated the last day of school. I let the kids each invite 10 friends to a party (of course not all could come). Ethan's friends came from 1-3 and then Alex and Jordan's friends came from 4-7. Lame me, I did not get any pictures of Ethan's party. They jumped on the trampoline, ate pizza, swam, played video games, had a water balloon fight, and did the slip and slide. It was a lot of work, but the kids had a lot of fun.

Ethan

Two big things in Ethan's life. First he lost his two front teeth, this makes eating corn on the cob very hard. Second he was picked to try out for the T-ball all star team and made the team. Go ETHAN!!!!

Rapelling with the scouts

While I was in Houston with Alex and Ethan, Chad took Jordan on a scout camp out. The boys had a fun time rapelling. Then after the trip they had the wonderful task of removing ticks.

Jordan rapelling
The canyon in Oklahoma

Jordan

The boys and their leaders

Memorial Week End

Memorial Weekend I took Alex and Ethan down to my sisters house in The Woodlands, Tx. Chad and Jordan were on a scout camping trip. We spend one day with my sister and then went to her in laws house on Lake Livingston, Tx. It was a fun time but, to short of a trip.

My Niece Kaylee

Alex and her second best friend, Brax.

Don't swallow the brown water!

Ethan and my Nephew, Koy.

Alex, Ethan and Koy

Ethan with a treasure he found (a stick)

My Dad's Wedding

Saturday, May 14th 2009 my Dad got married to Tami Hewlett in the Provo temple, his brother was able to perform the ceremony. It has been quite an experience going from my Mother passing away to my Dad getting married again. I am truly happy for my Dad and am excited to get to know Tami better. Tami seems like a wonderful lady, she has read the Twilight books and has seen the movie, so I know she has good taste. She has a strong testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ and there is a good spirit about her. I believe that my Mother would approve of her. I think that we will be blessed to have her as part of our family. I was able to attend the wedding while Chad took 4 days off to take over my Mom job.

My Dad and Tami outside of the Provo Temple.


My Dad and his two sons, my brothers. What a handsome bunch of guys.


This is a picture of our family. Myself, three sisters, two brothers and my Dad and Tami.

I love my Sisters they are a great bunch of friends as well as family.

Alex meets Jonathan Horton

On May 21st, Jonathan Horton, the Olympian gymnast, visited Alex's gym. He spoke to all the gymnasts and then signed autographs. It is nice that Alex looks up to great gymnasts instead of movie or rock stars. Here are some pictures.

Happy Birthday Ethan.

May 9, 2009-- Today Ethan turned 7 years old. Since we do not have parties every year for our kids, they are allowed to pick any activity they want to do as a family and then invite one friend to do that activity with us. Ethan decided that he wanted to swim in our pool and go to the local park. Then his dinner choice was Subway (he is easy to please). Some of the things we love about Ethan are: He has a very vivid imagination, he loves to learn and already knows his timetables up to 10, he is creative and loves to make things out of junk, he is a good friend to those around him and kids are drawn to him, he loves sports especially football and baseball. We love him and are blessed that he is part of our family.

Photos of us.

We have a church friend that is a photographer, she took these pictures for us and did a fantastic job. Here is a peek at some of the photos.