Just my type of parade....
no overnight camping or place saving.
Walk up and sit down and enjoy.
Girls that I know marching as cheerleaders.
Hometown band carrying a tune.
And over in an hour.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Manti Temple Pageant
Kelsi and I went to the Mormon Miracle Temple Pageant
in Manti Utah with Faith and Kyle.
We knew that Manti was famous for
growing, processing and selling turkeys.
While we were driving we saw lots of barns that we thought had turkeys growing in them.
We were so excited to see this barn open
and the turkeys spilling out.
Look at this mountain closely.....
yes that's a M for Manti and Michelle!
Soon all these chairs will be filled with people like us who come to Manti for just these 2 weeks to see the pageant.
I don't know this lady but she had the right idea so I had to take her families picture.
She dressed her kids in their pj's.
The pageant does not even start until 9:30.
If I had gone with small children I would have done the same thing.
I love this picture of the temple with American flags in front of it. Kelsi and Kyle are walking in.
We found the best place to park just across the street
and in an older couple's yard.
It was very close and we were
the second car out of the pageant!
With the clouds around us and the wind blowing
we settled in for a great show.
By the time the pageant started we experienced our own 'miracle' and the wind stopped blowing and the clouds were gone.
Luckily we took blankets and coats.
We needed them.
We got the greatest seats...on the end and on the 2nd row.
We needed them.
We got the greatest seats...on the end and on the 2nd row.
Thanks for sharing the pageant with us and
taking us Faith and Kyle.
taking us Faith and Kyle.
We had the best time.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Father's Day is Easy When You Have Such GREAT FATHERS
My husband is the greatest Father! How easy it is to honor someone who is great. He is the go-to-guy for my kids and he can solve any problem. He is always been able to be there for them in a calm relaxing manner.
I admire my father in law. He is a hard worker who is very kind and giving. He is skilled to be able to fix things and he stays busy helping people in his town. How easy it is to honor him who is great! In fact, I called him on Fathers Day to wish him a great day and Kim didn't!!!!!
My own father, I hope had a great Fathers Day. He was in Alaska on Fathers Day with no cell phone coverage. He is in the early days of retirement and he has earned that! How easy it is to honor him who is great. He taught me how to work,be organized and to be cheerful at all costs. He taught me the joys of living the gospel and to live it's teachings. He has shown me love my whole life and he is the greatest!
Monday, June 13, 2011
He is done (almost)
My oldest son is done with college at Central Washington University. Saturday he graduated with a major in information technology and administrative management with a specialization in web design and database management.
He has a minor in communication and coaching. He just has to take 2 classes over from his freshman year when he got so sick and had to come home for a while.
Colby finished high school at Kentlake High School in Covington Wa and got accepted to CWU in Ellensburg Wa on a track scholarship. I was so excited to have him enter this next phase of his life.
School began for him in September and in December of that year our family left him behind in Wa and we moved to Utah.I had never not seen him run in his races so that was one of the hardest things about having him so far. Luckily for me, my other son, Jake is running for UVU and I love, love, love to go and watch him run.
We traveled to Boise Idaho to watch Colby run indoor track that first year and I remember when I saw him I just cried. I was afraid to go over and talk to him as he was gathered around with his friends. I just grabbed my husbands arm and said there he is. Of course if you know Colby you know that he has always been so nice to me and he thought I was dumb and said mom come on over. This is a picture of him as a freshman at that track meet.
Through the years we have welcomed him home by air and by car for the holidays and for summer. He made the holidays brighter and the summers more relaxed for us by bringing friends and his cute dog and telling us the funniest stories.
While he was a freshman he got really sick and he had to drop out for one semester and come here and get better. It is because of that illness that he is not quite done with his schooling and is doing summer school. He's just got to finish those 2 classes he dropped as a freshman...but a senior taking freshman classes should be easy, right?
This is him going back for his last year.
It has taken him 5 years to get this education and he has worked so hard, lived on his own away from family and really achieved alot. He has delivered phone books, refereed so many basketball games, given tours of the campus and pretty much anything asked of him to make money and pay his way. We have sent him care packages, cards, money and grandparents have taken him to lunch and visited with him on their way through and then called and given me a full report! Once my sister ordered him pizza and because of modern technology she "watched them make it and deliver it" via the computer. He loved that.
We can hardly wait for him to get here and be done with school. (6 more weeks)
He has a minor in communication and coaching. He just has to take 2 classes over from his freshman year when he got so sick and had to come home for a while.
Colby finished high school at Kentlake High School in Covington Wa and got accepted to CWU in Ellensburg Wa on a track scholarship. I was so excited to have him enter this next phase of his life.
School began for him in September and in December of that year our family left him behind in Wa and we moved to Utah.I had never not seen him run in his races so that was one of the hardest things about having him so far. Luckily for me, my other son, Jake is running for UVU and I love, love, love to go and watch him run.
We traveled to Boise Idaho to watch Colby run indoor track that first year and I remember when I saw him I just cried. I was afraid to go over and talk to him as he was gathered around with his friends. I just grabbed my husbands arm and said there he is. Of course if you know Colby you know that he has always been so nice to me and he thought I was dumb and said mom come on over. This is a picture of him as a freshman at that track meet.
While he was a freshman he got really sick and he had to drop out for one semester and come here and get better. It is because of that illness that he is not quite done with his schooling and is doing summer school. He's just got to finish those 2 classes he dropped as a freshman...but a senior taking freshman classes should be easy, right?
This is him going back for his last year.
It has taken him 5 years to get this education and he has worked so hard, lived on his own away from family and really achieved alot. He has delivered phone books, refereed so many basketball games, given tours of the campus and pretty much anything asked of him to make money and pay his way. We have sent him care packages, cards, money and grandparents have taken him to lunch and visited with him on their way through and then called and given me a full report! Once my sister ordered him pizza and because of modern technology she "watched them make it and deliver it" via the computer. He loved that.
We can hardly wait for him to get here and be done with school. (6 more weeks)
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
If I lived in "the land of the midnight sun"
I was 12 years old when my family left Alaska and moved to the "lower 48."
I remember it staying light a long time in the summer and playing all day long.
I looked today to see what the daylight hours are in Anchorage Alaska and I remembered correctly!
The sun is up today in Anchorage Alaska from 4:28 to 11:31.
I watched my son at basketball camp. If I lived in Alaska I could have watched him all day!
My friend had chemo number 11 with only one more remaining. I cleaned her house picture perfect. If I lived in Alaska I could have cleaned all day!
Isn't her kid's bathroom the cutest? I vacuumed my way out so not even a footprint was there and I swept the porch. I was so excited to do that for her. I love her and I love to clean. I have some professional 409 and Windex and man o man did it shine!
I remember it staying light a long time in the summer and playing all day long.
I looked today to see what the daylight hours are in Anchorage Alaska and I remembered correctly!
The sun is up today in Anchorage Alaska from 4:28 to 11:31.
I watched my son at basketball camp. If I lived in Alaska I could have watched him all day!
My friend had chemo number 11 with only one more remaining. I cleaned her house picture perfect. If I lived in Alaska I could have cleaned all day!
Monday, June 6, 2011
A public apology for a private person
Friday, on the last day of school, I hurt someones feelings by being quick.
This person can make me smile when I am sad.
This person is always there for me at birthdays, holidays and fun Saturday visits just stopping by with a strawberry lemonade, and is very generous with their time and money and food treats.
This person is my best girlfriend! :)
I missed this because of my rudeness.......I am sorry.
Goodbye Mr Martin
They called up all his teachers and staff who opened Saratoga Shores with him....original employees.
What a group! It was a sad time. We wish him the best.
I feel like a stay at home mom today
It's the first day of summer vacation and I feel like a stay at home mom today!
Alarm goes off at 5:35! (earlier than a school day)
What would make someone on their first day of summer get up this early?
Take Logan to football practice at Westlake
Car drives out and in
Went on a jog outside...no kids out going to school to laugh at me!
30 whole minutes...no need to rush back!
Put in a load of sheets
Took Jake to the bus...summer school at UVU
Car drives out and in
Switched laundry
Took Logan to a basketball camp at Westlake
Car drives out and in
Switched laundry
Put some chicken in to marinade (recipe below)
Done with sheets got Logan's laundry- poor boy had to get shorts from dirty clothes to wear to camp
and for the mother of the year award........
(no clean underwear he had to wear underarmour)
Went and got my hair cut
Car drives out and in
Picked Logan up from basketball camp he gets in the car and greets me with "that was fun, my shot was on."
Car drives out and in
Go and get Jake at bus stop
Car drives out and in
Also vacuumed and unloaded dishwasher
Why is this so great? Because I am usually at work!
I love stuff like this.
I am like the mom's who came into my school and were doing stuff all day for their kids.
I envied them.
I wished my kids weren't all grown up.
I would tell them it goes fast and they do not believe me unless they have older kids.
car count ....6 times by 1:30!
The Recipe
Logan had Foods at school and brought home several good recipes. This is one of them. We have had it like it says twice but today I have chicken breasts marinating and am going to serve it with cheesy rice (Rice a Roni) and am just going to broil the pieces of chicken, no skewers.
Teriyaki Shish Kebabs
combine in a plastic bag
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 tea ginger
1/2 tea garlic powder
Add 1 lb boneless beef sirloin cubes. Refer all night.
Drain beef.
Thread meat, canned pineapple chunks, green pepper chunks, onion chunks and whole mushrooms on skewers. If using wooded ones let them soak in water 10 minutes before filling.
Turn oven on to broil and place kebabs on broiler pan. Cook 7-8 min each side. Serve with rice.
Last Day At School
On the last day of school we have a clap out to tell the 6th graders and the teachers goodbye who are leaving our school.
This year it was so very different than last year because of the people leaving!
Our principal is retiring and at the last minute our secretary is also leaving. She is being transferred to another elementary school closer to her house. They led the parade of students through the halls. In the first picture which is blurry I am sad to say she is in the blue flowered dress and they have linked their arms. Good thing you can't see their eyes as they were both crying.
It was an emotional parade with so many people who I like leaving and they paraded past us, all the employees grouped together waving and clapping to tell them goodbye .....from our leader, to my boss to my girls in my primary class who are 6th graders.
This year it was so very different than last year because of the people leaving!
Our principal is retiring and at the last minute our secretary is also leaving. She is being transferred to another elementary school closer to her house. They led the parade of students through the halls. In the first picture which is blurry I am sad to say she is in the blue flowered dress and they have linked their arms. Good thing you can't see their eyes as they were both crying.
It was an emotional parade with so many people who I like leaving and they paraded past us, all the employees grouped together waving and clapping to tell them goodbye .....from our leader, to my boss to my girls in my primary class who are 6th graders.
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