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So proud!

I just wanted to say Congrats to our nephew Corey for being elected Student body President of Mountain View High next year! He's come so far............. and now he's a straight A student, attends Seminary, stars in plays, etc. There isn't anything this kid cant do!

Family Night

My family and I lived with Jr.s parents for the first 5 years of our marriage, so with out really realizing it, we seemed to always count on them for Family home evenings on Mondays. Since we've moved out and been on our own for a while we haven't been very good or consistent at holding spiritual/meaningful home evenings as a little family unit. Lately Ray has been a little chatter box at school and has had recess taken away from him quite often b/c he doesn't know when to zip his lips. (Again I don't know where my boys get these habits from :-) So recently a lot of our Family nights is talking to him about being obedient in school, listening and being respectful to his teacher.
Long story short, about 2 weeks ago Jr. said to me that he noticed Ray isn't enjoying Family home evening when it's spent scolding him. He doesn't want Ray to grow up hating it b/c it's the time he gets lectured. I instantly had flash backs of Monday nights when I was a kid and realized that I was repeating the same cycle I grew up in. I love my parents so much but as I kid and teenager, Monday nights were the worst for me. I felt like it was "what did you do wrong this week" night. I do realize it's important to address issues with my children and they need the counel and discipline from Jr. and I but I need to find a happy medium and that Family night should be fun also.

Two weeks ago we attended Corey's play for family night. He had the lead role in The Tempest at Mountain View High. He was so awesome. A natural.









The boys had a blast hanging out with Tiera and Kyra. They absolutely adore their cousins.



Leka and Ray have been quarreling a lot lately and I've heard the words stupid, annoying and hate come out of their mouths a lot. So my lesson today was on Forgiveness. We played the Wii as our activity and had a family talk about having a testimony which Jr. discussed with the boys. We acted out silly skits and Leka came up with a human train game of course. This is Ray's crazy skit he and Jr. came up with one night. The upside down face.

It was a blast. I've had several "a..ha" moments in the past couple of weeks. I feel so blessed to just have this time together as a family. Soon my boys will b
e off on Missions and College and I'll never get this time back with them. I'm going to cherish every second of it. I'm still their favorite girl so I better take advantage of it!


I'm SO thankful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and all that it teaches me. I dont know what type of Mother I'd be with out it. I'm so looking forward to Conference this weekend. Cant wait!!

Those Salt Lake people

I have lived in Utah county for about 7 years now and I've grown to love the Provo/Orem area. I grew up in West Jordan and could never see myself settling down in Orem or anywhere in Utah county. But here I am and I honestly love it here. It's weird but there are a lot of stereo types put on people from Utah and Salt Lake county and I'm sure the BYU/Utah rivalry doesn't help it. Jr. and I go to Salt Lake county at least twice a week. Jr. for band practice and we go as a family to visit my family just about every Sunday. Almost every time we go there we are cut off on the freeway or people tailgate us and we'll find ourselves saying "Freakin Salt Lake drivers" or once we pass the point of the Mountain and we see the inversion we'll say " it's so smogy in Salt Lake County" the list goes on and on.

It's so silly to think that Utah County drivers are safer drivers or that the weather here is so much better and the air quality, etc. But we cant help to mention it to each other every time we cross the point of the Mountain. This past Saturday Jr. had a show in down town Salt Lake and guess what we see?!? A carriage pull up to the Carl's Jr. drive thru window. We laughed so hard and said to each other "Only in Salt Lake". Go Utah County!

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Softball time

It's about that time again. Our family has literally lived at the Orem Softball fields the last 2 summers. We're so excited for this upcoming softball season. I (by no stretch of the imagination) am not a softball player. I'm not really good at any sport. No joke! But I've had such a blast playing with my brother in laws, husband and a bunch of our friends and cousins. Jr. is going to be playing on a Men's team and our co-ed team this year. He's been trying to get back to the gym. I've been working out at work with Kristina and Kayla. We're done with HCG. I plateaued at 12 pounds lost which I'm happy for but I dont think I'd do it again.

I'm just thankful that I can workout during my lunch break. I'm never consistent about going early in the morning or after work. Jr. and I stay up way too late to go early in the morning. Then it's so hard for me to be away from my boys all day then come home and go to the gym. That's why Golds gym has me down for 3 visits for all of 2008. That and a million other excuses. So I'm so excited for softball!!! Cant wait! Our first game is in the middle of April. Jr. and I will be in New Orleans but we should be able to be at the rest of them.

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