Jacob Soccer

Jacob was in a soccer tournament recently which determines who's the best of the best in the state. After 3 very long days, consisting of a tie, a win which was from a shoot out which Jake stopped everyone and on to the final day where they were playing for 1st place. It was an intense game with the other team scoring on a ball that bounced in a silly way so Jake missed it. Oh how Jake was frustrated. We came back to score a goal and then to have the other team come back and score another in the last 5 minutes of the game. So we are still proud to annouce that we took 2nd over all. Great Games Jake!

Jacob as Goalie
The Team with thier medals and trophy.

Lauren Bday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE "L"

My baby girl turned 5... oh how the time is just slipping away from me. We had her Birthday party before the fireworks on the 24th. Aunt Angie, got her a great HannahMontana blanket and cookie. Which was perfect since we want to have Hannah Montana as our sister at our house.

Grandpa did Great and got Lauren a Hannah Montana Backpack for school! Thanks Grandpa

All the cousins got to be there for the party. Which lets be honest Lauren was so excited

Happy 24th of July

Grandpa and the Spinetti's came over for a fantastic firework show.

We had a hard time keeping the sparklers lit!! What is with the sparklers these days? Whatever happended to the big huge fat sparklers that lasted long enough to write your name, your best friends name, and the boy you loved that day!! The kids just enjoyed being with their cousins that they don't get to see that often, so we had to have the classic on the front porch pictures for the year!! It was so good to see Brian, Angie, Riley and Nick. We love them so much and so sad to see them going home. It means summer is coming to a close and the kids will be back in school soon. I miss my family so much......... Time for my mom to come home!! Love you!




Playing around




A little smokey


Famous Front Porch Pic!

Just Clowning Around

Lost a Tooth

Lauren lost her first Tooth. And she really did loose it! She dosen't know where it went so we had to write a letter to the tooth fairy to tell her she lost it and to please still leave some money. That night she said her prayers and she said "let the Tooth Fairy know that if I find my tooth I promise to give it to her, but please have her leave me some money" So cute.

Downtown/Gateway

While Angie was here we rode trax downtown to temple square to see the Temple, pretty flowers and eat some yummy food at the Lion House. Oh how I love those homemade rolls. Oh so good. The kids thought it was great to ride Trax and although the scenery on the way is not that great the kids thought it was fun to try and stand up every time the train started again and try not to fall down. And note to self do not bend over and tie your shoes on the stairs on the train those doors shut soooo fast your liable to lose something!!


The Pretty flowers with some darling children

Beautiful view of the Temple

Oh hurry!! The fountain is finally up!

Some Eating at The Lion House





Gabe Building his Turtle at Build a Bear

Cooling off at the Gateway, or should we say getting SOAKED!

Thanks for such a fun planned day Angie!

Lake Powell

Well I braved the 103 degree weather non stop for 5 days straight in Lake Powell. It was so much fun to relax and enjoy friends. We laughed A LOT, water skied, wakeboarded, kneeboarded, floated on rafts, pushed rocks off cliffs and cliff jumped. Can't think of a better way to relax. I was so happy to have my 3 good friends with me Loni, Amanda and Surgey to just be able to sit and laugh and laugh and laugh at everything. They are like my sisters now since mine are so far away from me.

Surgey, Me, Loni and Amanda

Amanda and I cliff Jumping

Just Floating around

Awards

Emma and her best friend London received an award this year at school for the most improved students of the year. Emma was so surprised to be called and what was even better for her was her best friend also got the same award. Those two were so happy to walk up with each other you couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces. I am so proud of Emma for getting this since she has worked so hard this year in her school work. It doesn't come easy for her, so I was so happy for her to see her results. Way to go Emma!

Cancer Free Now.

Well I had my surgery on my Thyroid and it was cancer so they removed the whole Thyroid. I was a little upset to hear that it was cancer because i realized this is something that you can not control. I had every blood test run that you can imagine and every single thing came back just healthy as can be. So to hear that I had a tumor that was cancer I felt a little angry that this is something I could not stop. Now that it is out and I have started my medication I feel soooooo much better!! Oh my goodness I have energy and I am not eating every 2 minutes. So I guess it was a blessing in disguise that we found it so that I could start on a medication that could help me. I have recovered very quickly and had so much help from neighbors, my Mom and Kevin of course. Here is a picture of how big my incision was.