Times have sure changed!!!

Never in a million years did I think that my children would love to wrap snakes around themselves!!!  These are some pictures from our neighbor's/friend's birthday party.  WOW - children's birthday just aren't the same any more!!!  They had everything from scorpions, spiders, turtles, and GIANT snakes- it was so much fun.  Lexi is begging me to do this for Kaden's birthday - funny how she plans it all out for him!!!

School Has Started!!!

Our little Lexi is officially a second grader!!! She loves school and learning comes very easily to her!! She made Mini Stars at the Winner School - (and thank you Lisa Bunker!!!) she is doing AWESOME!!!!   She keeps me so busy - as I have somehow found myself as Treasure of the PTA  - not my first choice of things to do but . . . reluctantly I still do it . . .  and then I am on the Parent Committee for the Winner School - I wouldn't know what to do with myself without these two kids!!!
My Kaden has started 3-year-old preschool!!  He is back at the Little Gym in his sports class - and karate too!  He has been learning a karate routine that is to music with the older winner school students and will be performing with them in Mexico in October.  He loves his "karate dance". Our family will be going and both kids get to perform and spend a week with their friends in the Mayan Riveria!!!

Time to bring the boat home!! Last Powell trip for the year!!

Last boating trip for the year!!!  We took my aunt and cousin - yeah she is the skinny one!!!!  It was fun - we had a ton of laughs!!!  

REMISSION!!!!!!

It has been a long 6 months for John's dad, Steve . . . but he is finally in remission with his Leukemia!!!!  We celebrated with a big "CHEMO" party on Saturday and we are hoping every 4 weeks that his tests will remain clean!!!  We love you Grandpa!!!!

Dance Attack

For all you fans of So You Think You Can Dance . . . the Winner School does a Summer Dance Attack every year and this year Lexi got to have teachers such as Nick Lazzarini, the Season 1 Winner, Travis Wall, Season 2 runner-up, Sabra, from last year, and Kameron, also from last year!!!  It was such an amazing experience for her.  Nick and the "Money" dance was her most favorite!!! 

I am totally retarded because I left my camera home, but I do have a picture of her getting ready at home!!!!   DUH - i know

How amazing to be this young and have such COOL teachers!!!!!   

Happy 7th Birthday Lexi!!!

Lexi turned 7 on July 28th and crazy me . . . I took 16 kids swimming!!!!!  She had a blast so it was worth it but . . . WOW!!!!  Our favorite part was the water slide!!!  Thanks to all our friends!!!  We love ya!!!!! 

A special thanks to our family for the amazing things they got her!!!   

Back to Lake PowelL for the 24th

It was a little cloudy on Friday, which was actually great because it wasn't so hot!!!!  Check out Kaden with my dad - a moment I treasure!!!!!  They played trucks in the sand and walked on the rocks "hunting" for something cool!!!!  John, Christian, and Colby didn't feel so great.  They all had some sort of stomach bug, which was not fun down there, They were troopers!!!!

LAKE POWELL

These are a few shots of our trip to Powell!!!  We went with 4 boats - Dad, Collin, Us and Mario's.  The kids had so much fun!  It was a little cold at night but we would go to Antelope Pointe for pizza and coffee and it worked out so great!!!  Note Kaden shooting his rocket fishing pole!!  Poor John would get it all ready and he would keep launching it!!!

ON THE CRUISE!!!!!

We had so much fun!!! What an AWESOME cruise!!! We swam with sea turtles on the reef off of Cozumel - Saw fighting salt water crocodiles and we drove a Yamaha Rhino on the beaches throughout the island. The cruise went out of Fort Lauderdale, Key West, and Cozumel.  John even won the BELLY FLOP contest on the ship!!! TONS OF FUN!!!  John . . .Thank you for a wonderful 30th Birthday!!!   I love you!  And . . . Happy Anniversary!! 

Funny Pictures from our cruise!!!!