Simone and Kids

Regan: His Eagle project and graduation!

2009-06-30T06:35:00.000-07:00

His eagle project was putting labels on all the chairs and tables at our new church building.

If you squint you can see them on the backs of the chairs. We promised the scouts pizza and rootbeer and they showed up to help!

Regan graduated!! We're so proud of him and his accomplishments. Many times he wanted to quit his SLCC Biotech course but he stuck it out and ended up with a 'B'. Yipee!

Graduation dinner- Regan is so exhausted from his 12 years of schooling he couldn't stay awake. . .

What a guy. . .looks a lot like his Dad.

The proud mother and handsome son!

Our family with little Emery.

2009-05-31T17:15:00.000-07:00

Me in my waitress costume for the performance!

Me again

Me doin a way cool trick!

Another way awesome trick!

Heres me spinning

Twirling again

Spinning/Twirling AGAIN!

Me and cute little Zeusy!

Zeusy and me again

In this pic Zeus is wearing my apron! Silly puppy!

For the last 4 months the Oquirrh Mountain Temple District, which includes like 10 stakes, has been practicing for this celebration. The celebration was held at the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake. In the celebration there was dancing and singing mostly for the prophet. Thomas S. Monson and Henry B. Eyring were there to watch our hard work in celebrating the temple. There was an enormous choir that sang throughout the program. And there were a lot of dances. It was like a history of utah that started with Native Americans (that dance was my favorite) then went to pioneers(there were lots of those dances), then Immagrants, then 1920's to 40's to 50's, there was a military tribute, then polynesian, latin american, and asian dances (asian was my favorite too!), then the choir sang again and it ended. I was apart of the 1950's dance! I was told that it was everyone's favorite! I was a waitress which explains the pink outfit. I also had rollerblades with my costume but i wasn't wearing them in those pictures. It was a really neat experience and i had a lot of fun and met some new friends! There was a backdrop of a mountain behind the dancers on stage and there were stairs that went up it. Anyway, at the end when the choir was singing the last song "Come to the Mountain of the Lord", the Oquirrh Mountain temple rose up at the top of the mountain peak covering it up. It was so cool! All of the practices paid off for the final performance! It was so spiritual and it was awesome! I thought i did pretty well too! Well i'm getting a DVD of the performance in a month or something so whoever wants to watch just come on over or tell me! I hope you like the pictures :)

Hannah Montana!

2009-04-30T12:34:00.000-07:00

Zeus get's the best of both worlds

Allyssa is just bein Miley

Hailie isn't perfect

My mom can't wait to see you again

Hailie went to the Hannah Montana Movie premiere on Friday and Miley Cyrus came... she got a Hannah Montana wig and a book. We thought we'd try out the wig...

Bingham awards banquet

2009-04-29T07:21:00.000-07:00

We are BAD bloggers... Until something new comes up I'll put up these pics...

These were taken at Bingham High School. It was the awards banquet for golf and football- aren't those kids cute? They're all grown UP!

Coach Brad Bevan is an amazing man- he has been so good to Regan.

Allyssa's Fun Hair Scare

2009-02-17T20:54:00.001-08:00

So I had a fun week. I wanted to dye my hair red and wanted to do it for cheap so that means I had to do it myself, it didn't go so well..........

First I had to dye it blonde and this is how it turned out haha

Then I put the red on and it was cute

Then I washed it and it turned ugly pink

Then my friend Bethanie does hair and she fixed it for me, it's brown now

Noah's Weekend Visit

2009-02-17T20:44:00.000-08:00

This weekend Noah came into town for a valentines day visit! We had a blast, on Saturday we went bowling with the fam and Noah won of course. Then we went to the Draper temple, then downtown to dinner and we went to a laser light show at clark planetarium. Then on Sunday we went to the singles ward and then to dinner at Grandma's and he got to meet all the family which was awesome! It was a short but fun visit, hopefully he comes back again soon!

We got to be the guest weather people on channel 2... hopefully everyone saw us on tv

We also hit up mars

Here we are at the laser show

Draper Temple

New Years

2009-01-03T23:31:00.000-08:00

New Years with the fam was tons of fun! We played lots of Rock Band and ate lots of fondue!

Christmas!

2008-12-26T11:56:00.001-08:00

Christmas was fun... YAY!

Carson's Song

2008-12-24T01:22:00.000-08:00

Annual Tea/Gingerbread Party!

2008-12-24T01:09:00.000-08:00

This years party was lots of fun.. except Mikelle couldn't come. The girls had a blast and we let a couple boys come too! Next year grandma says she wants to take everyone to lunch and movie instead... we'll see.

We made a sick fort!

He's a cuddly little guy

I LOVE him!

Pretending to sleep.. I don't know why

The frosting tastes like elmers

Look at them gingabread houses

Ha ha, they are so cute!

Cheers

Is that EZ cheese on bread?

Fun in the great outdoors!

2008-11-12T08:09:00.000-08:00

Allyssa's friend Noah (the one she met in Alaska) came from Indiana to visit for a few days and she showed him all around Salt Lake. She even got to take him horse back riding (thanks to Chad).

We look like city-slickers!

Allyssa is HOME!

2008-10-09T17:46:00.000-07:00

We're so glad that Allyssa is home from Alaska! She has really changed too! She has matured and she seems so grateful to be here and that is sooo nice! Zeus got all dressed up for her...doesn't he look sweet!

Hailie likes to put Zeus in dresses too. Good thing they don't have a little brother...He'd be going through the same thing!

I've been tagged by more than one person....

2008-09-09T13:23:00.000-07:00

4 Random Things I Want In a Husband (yes I changed the ?)
1. A man who has feelings.
2. A man who changes out of his church clothes on Sunday.
3. A man that doesn't already have cancer.
4. A man that doesn't mind 3 extra kids.

4 Movies That I Can Watch More Than Once
1. Pride and Prejudice (the 5 hour version)
2. While You Were Sleeping
3. The Bachelor (with Chris O'Donnell)
4. Anything with Russell Crowe in it!!!!

4 TV Shows That I Watch
1. Ace of Cakes
2. Moonlight
3. Suite Life of Zack and Cody (yuck)
(only because Hailie is always watching)
4. So You Think You Can Dance/American Idol

4 Places I've Been
1. Cancun
2. The Carribbean
3. New York
4. Hawaii

4 People Who Email Me Regularly
1. The Bluffs HOA (like 5 times a day, ugh!)
2. Amazon.com
3. Daybreak 1st Ward
4. Kimberli

4 Of My Favorite Foods
1. Pasta
2. Pizza
3. Mexican (Cafe Rio)
4. Ice Cream

4 Places I Would Like to Visit
1. France
2. Greece
3. Monaco (Grace Kelly was the queen)
4. Any happy place, even if it's just in my head.

4 Things I'm Looking Forward to In the Next Year
1. Allyssa coming home!!!!!!!
2. Regan's graduation (I'm sad for me happy for him)
3. Hailie's braces coming off
4. Our basement getting finished!!

4 People I Tag
1. Emery
2. Landon
3. Lizzie
4. Carson

The Jackson's

2008-08-16T06:13:00.000-07:00

We had a great time at Kellie and Kelsey's for dinner on Sunday... from left to right is: Connie, Reg, Brent, Jen (bottom row), DeAnn (Dave's cousin), Brittney (DeAnn's daughter), and of course Hailie.

Carrie got in this picture! We had a great time and we're so glad to be a part of this great family! Brent is really good at Jazz Hands...

BIG Babies!!!

2008-08-10T15:13:00.000-07:00

Emery is growing up so fast and I was telling Lance and Adri how fast Hailie grew. I finally found this picture of Hailie when she was 18 months old. She was always a big baby, the only thing I wrote down from her Dr. appointments was her 4 month check up. She weighed 18 pounds and the Dr. told me she was the size of an average 8 1/2 month old. Good times!! She sure is skinny now!

Murray Park 4th of July 1997. Parker is so cute too...(oh yea, so is Kenny).

My baby is all grown up, but not too grown up for me to still hold her (ya, we're a little weird).

24th of July

2008-07-25T22:36:00.000-07:00

Another FABULOUS 24th..... some of the highlights are as follows:
1. Our day began with a great breakfast as Lance and Adri's along with delicious confections purchased by mom at the oriental bakery (we thought she was going to get kicked out of the store). Hopefully we won't be banned from that awesome parade spot next year.
2. We got to do a lot of people watching at the parade. Pretty sure the lady on the grass next to us is hooked on meth, we made friends with a lady and her 5 kids who needed the break provided by the shade we were hogging, and the lady selling water had no idea how big her backside was and kept bending over right in front of Lance....Ahh what wonderful memories we are creating.
3. The movie Hancock came next- that Will Smith knows how to make them movies!!! Jason Bateman wasn't bad either....the swearing at the beginning burned Hailie, Parker, Paige and Rachels ears. Oh well, Hailie and Paige are going to middle school in a month and they will get an ear full just walking down the hall (I'm not excited, but home school is not an option).
4. The annual mortuary fireworks show. People are showing up that I don't even recognize- we might have to start charging admission, especially because Dad has gone over the deep end and forgotten that he was once a volunteer fireman and is now purchasing illegal fireworks (which were awesome by the way). The kids ran around playing games, many of them tripped and fell so there was blood, fire, sweat (90 degrees outside), and tears. You can't beat any of that!!! WHAT A DAY.

A CUTE Baby!

2008-07-19T10:32:00.000-07:00

We got to tend Emery on Tuesday.....

She is the cutest baby ever. Soooo easy to tend and love!

Even Zeus loves her....JK....he was actually very jealous that something else was taking attention away from him, but he did give her foot a kiss (well a doggie lick).

The Great USA!

2008-07-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

Murray 4th of July parade....

Regan with the "Dave" look on his face. Blake came with Derek, Ted & Kristy were there with their kids and Buster their puppy. Lance, Adri and cute Emery were there too!

He's having the time of his life..don't let the scowl fool you!

Cutie pie!

Happy family... but we miss Allyssa soooo much!

Happy 4th and 24th everyone!!