A Hot Air Balloon Ride

Brad and I got the privilege on July 23 to go on a Hot Air Balloon Ride with his parents and two sisters (Tammy and Kim). We went to Park City and I never realized how high in the air we were until I saw the comparison of the regular balloon to us!!! It was so much fun and we are so appreciative to Brad's dad for inviting and paying for this fun adventure!! (The people in the blue t-shirts weren't part of our family.)

Busy Summer

General Conference Weekend

I wish I would have had the camera. We decided to go up to Salt Lake this past weekend. We grabbed the Lehi bunch and spent half the time with Brad's parents and half with mine. We went ice skating at the Olympic Oval. That place is HUGE!!! The kids had a blast. I realized the aerobics I've been doing 3x a week are doing me good. I wasn't even sore and had the muscles to skate. WOO HOO
You should have seen Bethany. She loved it!! At 2 1/2 yrs old she was skating all over. She had a miniature old person walker thing that she just pushed around the rink. We couldn't tell her which direction to go or touch her. She was excited to be on her own. Very determined to do it by herself. Becca, Bradon and Bo had been before so they were pretty good. It took Darci a bit to figure it out. Jene' (being the little dancer she is) kept trying to go on her toes --toe pick on ice skates. She got better as the evening went on. Harley switched to hockey skates and liked them much better. Brad took a nice fall on his wallet that left a bruise the same size on his buttocks. Lucky him, that was the only time he fell. I took about 4 spills, but it was a blast!!!

Conference was exceptionally awesome and I can hardly wait for the Ensign to come out. My favorite quote: "Your future is only as bright as your faith" --Pres. Monson

I loved that we were encouraged to keep moving forward and to read the conference talks!

someday....

Someday I will get more pictures posted. Life gets so busy. To keep you updated, I am now in the Relief Society presidency. That keeps me pretty busy. Brad got laid off his job in February (he'd been there for 4 years). He is now driving truck and we never know when he will be home. I'm just thankful he is working and we can pay the bills. Bethany is now mostly potty trained at 2 1/2 yrs old.
We are happy for Spring to be here...now if we can get Spring weather. I am still at the same job and love it!
My computer at home is now fixed so I'll try to updated pictures and such.
Thanks for hanging in there :-)

Okay, so my computer at home is slowly dying. Someday I might get it fixed. Meanwhile, I've got to get on Brad's laptop and do some serious updating. So hang in there!!

an update

I've had fun with internet at my house so I'm finally upgrading. So hopefully in the next few days there will be a lot more pictures and this should be updated more often.
Meanwhile, Jene' has turned 6 and so has Bo. Bradon is now 9. Barratt is now 17!!! Brad is now 41... hee hee.
All of these birthdays happened between Dec 28 and Jan 8!
We've had a very busy December between work and Christmas. Our Christmas was very nice. Santa brought the family a Wii and now we can't get Brad off the Rock Band guitar. He also brought us a cool basketball hoop stand. Now that the snow has melted we have finally been able to put that up.
Pictures should follow this fairly soon!