Autumn Hip Hop Dance 2008

Autumn Is just loving dance. This year she took Hip Hop. She looovvvveeed it. Just about everyone came, Aunt Teri and Cole, Aunt Joan and Jocelyn, Mom, and Brendan, Jeremy and Matt and Jordan. She did a great job and was so cute in her costume. She has decided that dance is the best and next year is taking Jazz/Ballet and Tumbling. I cant wait to see that next year.


Autumn is the one with her leg up.

Soccer 2007/2008

Well I thought it would be fun to really get the kids into sports this year. I had high hopes of going to all the practices and games. Wanted my kids to learn team spirit and all that. Well it was a joke not only did I find sitting in the rain part of the year and the heat the second part a joke in the end its not always fun to watch your kids lose every game.
Could someone tell me why all the teams my kids are on have parents who are the quiet and keep to themselves and why all the other teams have parents that scream at their kids to push them out of the way, knock them down, steal the ball, etc etc. etc. What happened to these people to make their child so mean. Well i think I know its plain Stupidity. We teach our children not to do something then tell them its ok in sports.
Well soccer here is 7 games in the fall and 7 games in the spring. This plan is stupid. You should sign up for either fall or spring or both. All my kids lost interest buy the end of fall and were mad at me for making them go to the spring games. (but lets face it I'm not one to waste money like that). So I made them go like any good mother you finish what you start. Cant let the team down.
Like any good mother I wanted to cheer my kids on and really be there but its sad to see them disappointed week after week. So I'm not a good mother because half way through the end of the spring games I decided to get mean to and when Matt or Autumn got the ball it was me screaming to knock the girl/boy down steal the ball etc etc etc. I may have gone over board when the screaming went on to the very large man I ended up screaming at and then was almost asked to leave. I did learn the most valuable lesson that day, when your child says to you "mom its ok if you just drop me off here and come back after the game" that they really don't like you yelling anything except way to go. So in the end its just best to make the peace and bite your tongue, or in my case drop them off and pick them up after the game.

Cash and Treasures

If you haven't seen this show yet your missing out. Its shown on the Travel Channel and I am addicted. I DVR this program and force everyone in the house to watch it. I'm working on Brendan and the kids to go digging Opals in Nevada on my Vacation in a couple of weeks. The kids are on board but Brendan's not to sure. Hopefully I can talk him into it. But go check out the website under the "Travel Channel" and then "Shows" and then go into "TOOLKITS" and it will show you the last season and this season as well. It truly sounds incredible and I was surprised to see that Utah was a treasure trove of things. If we go look for my pictures and maybe my riches too.

Dad this blog is for you. We wanted to show you how well we love the can opener.
Brendan set this up and he thought this was funny. Took me a minute to figure out why he was laughing, but once I saw it I started laughing. Thanks Dad it really is a cool gift.

Well for those who thought I feel off the face of the Earth, Well I'm back. I took some pictures of the whole family one day while we were playing it was a nice day out and if anyone knows living here in Utah that it seems to be rare this year, Well Brendan and I were talking outside and anyone who has a man in their life knows if you want to have a good talk, talk around doing something else, anyways all of a sudden the whole family was there and boy it was fun.

This has to be my favorite picture. Can you see whats funny about this picture?