Family Night at the Fitness Center

For F.H.E. tonight we went to the pool at the fitness center near us. We had a great time.

The "duckie slide" truly was the highlight of the entire trip to the pool. The kids loved it and played for the entire hour we were there on it.


I am not sure if I really want to go down!



Hunter loves that slide!


Hunter loves to splash!

Got to love that duck!

Just a Funny Story

Tonight we went to Grandma and Grandpa Palmer's house for treats and games. Grandma walked outside to find Lincoln hunched over something. When she asked him what it was, he produced a Sharpie marker that he had sneaked out the front door.
All of the sudden he says "Grandma, you shouldn't leave markers down where I can get them." That is so Lincoln, how can you get mad at that?

Indoor Soccer

WE got to go and watch Josh play indoor soccer today. The boys loved it.

All of the guys together.

Caught in the Act!

The other day I came into the kitchen to find that there was pencil everywhere! Especially on the fridge. My mind immediately went to Lincoln since his specialty is drawing on anything that he can find (he once drew on the inside of a knight helmet that we have in dress ups).

I started to get upset with Lincoln for drawing on EVERYTHING, and he told me it was Hunter. At first I didn't believe him.

Soon however Palmer told me that he had taken pictures of the entire thing. Thanks to Palmer, Lincoln was let off the hook. I still am wondering why Palmer just got the camera and took pictures instead of coming and getting me (he is a bit of a tattler lately), or telling him to stop in his nice brotherly way (hitting him).

Nice picture of Lincolns face-up close and personal.

More proof of Hunter's guilt. Don't ask me what he is wearing, we've had a rough couple of weeks apparently.

This is the best picture of all. If you can't tell, Lincoln is trying to wipe it off the fridge with a rag. Pencil doesn't come off as easy as you think. I wonder if he knew he was going to be blamed.

My First Event As Mrs. Utah

This was the very first thing that I have done as "Mrs. Utah." It was a charity event for Wasatch Mental Health. They did a "Dancing With the Stars," night. It was amazing and I was so impressed with the work that went into it. Here I am with Miss Utah, Jill Stephens who participated in one of the dances (I am pretty sure she doesn't always do her make up like that).

Another celebrity couple was Cosmo the Cougar (mascot of BYU for those of you who don't know), and his partner Brittany. Each of the celebrities was teamed up with a pro dancer, most of them from BYU ballroom dance team.

Tiffany Berg was the night's MC, (Mrs. Utah 2007). She is the most amazing woman. She invited me to this event to introduce me to the public. She is one of the most selfless, kind and compassionate people I have met. It was a wonderful evening for a great cause!

Saturday Night Blaze Game

We got tickets to the Blaze game tonight. It was so great. The boys love football.

Michelle and Nathan came with us.


Got to get every last kernal of popcorn.

This kids knows how to dig in.

"A hot dog all to myself?"

I really think that my kids don't think that an event is any fun unless we have popcorn.


The guys.

The Blaze in action. Our kids really love watching them.

Lately Palmer has been resisting my attempts to document his life. What is up with that?

FAmily photo

"Big Budda"was there...how cool is that?

Mrs. Utah United States 2008

This is so crazy! It has been the most wonderful experience I could have imagined. I am Mrs. Utah United States 2008! I have made the most wonderful friends and truly feel blessed to have this opportunity. Here are the only pictures I currently have of the pageant. I hope to get some more later. Love you all! Thank you for your love and support!

A Celebration of Femininity

This is my beautiful niece. My sister has been so sweet to share her with me since I don't have any girls. I sort of feel like she is my little girl. I went to her recital last year as well. I just wanted to get up on there on the stage and dance, luckily for everyone-I didn't.

The very proud family!

Isn't she cute?

Grandma, Michelle and me posing with the star herself

Our little star in action! She did an amazing job, she is so good!

The "Festival"

We went to the funnest "festival" last Saturday. Palmer insisted on calling it the "festival". I just thought it was funny. We have this amazing fitness center by us and Select Health sponsored an amazing event! This was with three members of the Blaze indoor football team. I think Josh was the most starstruck by these guys although the boys thought they were pretty cool. They were really cute with the kids.

Lincoln was only in this picture because I was holding him down. He wanted OUT!

Hunter was really being so brave because all of these animals totally freaked him out!

Our very own celebrity-Hunter would cry and then hug them, it was a little manic but fun to watch.

Here is a better picture of Hunter

Classic Hunter picture pose-Deer in headlights.

This is inside one of the bouncy toys.

Belated Mothers-Grandmothers Day

Since I really never got the chance to tell my mother-in-law "Happy Mother's Day" officially, I wanted to do a little blog on her. She is honestly one of my heros. She loves my children so much and comes and babysits for us regularly. She has laughed with us and cried with us over the years and I have come to feel so close to her. I don't think that I have ever met a more selfless, compassionate, happy person than her. I love that I can tell her anything. She listens patiently to me and I know she will always agree with me and make me feel better even if she thinks I am over reacting which I do sometimes.

I have been so blessed to have this amazing woman in my life and for her amazing example to my husband while he was growing up. I look up to Josh so much and the very same qualities that I see in him I see in his mother. I hope that my boys gain them as they watch both of these two in the years to come. I feel that she is one of my best friends and I am so grateful to her.

She even drives an hour to watch our 4 year old play soccer. She showed up at his game yesterday and I can't even tell you how much it meant to me. She even had Josh's grandparents with her, which I have adopted as my own. Josh's grandma and grandpa sat through a scorching hot soccer game with smiles on their faces the whole time. Neither have had great health lately and I am so touched they would come to something so seemingly insignificant. I really love my inlaws!

Cute Tag

Thanks Carey for the cute tag. I have never seen this one.

A) pick up the nearest book
B) turn to page 123
C) find the 5th sentence
D) post the 5th sentence
E) tag 5 (or more) people

A)Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star

"Today you're going to stay here at the house with me and your grandmother."

This is really a good book despite the lame sentence I just put in here.

E) I tag Holly, Sabra, Kim, Erica, and Melanie

Six Great Years!

Happy Anniversary Josh!

I wanted to post some pictures of our wedding, but they are in a box somewhere and I don't know where they are! Josh has been my best friend for the past 7 years. We have been married 6 now. We were worried about our anniversary because it fell over my sister's wedding. It couldn't have been more perfect. It was so fun to be in the temple and around a new bride and groom to remember how wonderful that day was for us 6 years ago. It was perfect (and cold), but so perfect in my memory. I remember leaving the temple feeling like I had just gotten the most wonderful husband alive. He has lived up to that in every respect. He is as good of a father as he is a husband. Last night we were at my sister's wedding dinner, my other sister's baby was being fussy. Sweet Josh took the baby so she could eat her dinner. He is so thoughtful!

Josh and I decided not to get each other wedding presents this year because we are currently paying for two houses and things are a little tight. We have been in the process of setting up our non-profit organization and he kept telling me that it would take a long time. He has worked on it night and day and for our anniversary he presented the whole thing to me completed! I was so shocked. We are now official!! It was the sweetest gift he could have given me. I love him so much and I hope he knows how much he means to me and our boys!!!!

What A Morning!

Yesterday as we were almost all ready for church, drama struck. Josh had put the kids in the car and given them each a tic tac to be good so he could hurry and finish getting things together. Palmer thought it would be funny to stick it in his nose. Lincoln thought it would be funny to stick a tic tack up his nose. Josh saw it and immediately ran to find the tweezers. I thought I had left them on top of our dresser. I stood on our bed to check and immediately stuck my head into the ceiling fan! If you had ever wanted to know what would happen if someone did that...I have now experienced it! It hurt so bad! I couldn't get it out until I had been hit very hard three times. Luckily it just hit the edge or I think it would have decapitated me. Now looking back it is funny, at the time not so much. I don't think I have cried over being physically hurt for a long time. I did that time and Josh couldn't help me because he was busy trying to get the tic tac out of the nose. Luckily all is well that ends well. I had a goose egg and nothing more and Josh the magician got the tic tac out. I have no idea how he did that but I am glad or it would have been yet another trip to the ER.

Score!

Sorry I don't have any pictures. We left our camera in Logan at our other house and I haven't retrieved it yet. Palmer is still loving soccer. He is sure they have won every game. They have won only 1 so far. He is such a little trooper. He just runs and runs the whole time. The poor kid has asthma and coughs a ton through the game, but it doesn't stop him at all. In our first game he scored a goal for the other team. He didn't care the goal was the important thing. This past game however he scored a goal for OUR team!!! He was so excited.
I was pleased that he scored a goal (even though I missed it because I was belting Hunter into to some poor woman's wagon, he wouldn't stay off the field and Josh thought it was awesome, so I was the chaser). But he was so proud of his goal. Before the game our friend Jeff asked Palmer if he was going to score 20 goals, Palmer said no, so Jeff asked if he was going to score 40 goals, Palmer again answered "No." Finally Jeff asked how many goals Palmer was going to score. He just looked at him and said "zero." So since we have our sights set so high, I was glad for him to get a goal.
Hunter was another story in the game. He would run onto the field and I wore some ridiculous shoes that made me look hilarious chasing him. He would run onto the field and do a series of sideways summersaults. I didn't even know that he could do that. Josh would just laugh and leave him out there. Then came me flopping around in my horrid shoes. Quite the game.