Alec's graduation Perry High School

Alec and Cassidy both had graduation one day apart from each other. We were lucky it wasn't the same day so we could go to both. Grandparents made extra special effort to go to both graduations too. It was a fun time. We had a dinner before graduation at Texas roadhouse and a party after. We were so happy to see Alec accomplish another important step in his life.



The graduate

Me and my baby boy...

Alec Seminary graduation

Alec did three years of early morning seminary and 1 year of 5th period seminary. He will tell you he enjoyed early morning seminary the best he says it helped with his whole day. High school is hard enough but with seminary it made it easier.

No place like the closet???

When Cass and Blake came for Spring Break. We put Jacob down for a nap and we found him in Cassidy's suitcase. Not sure why he felt it was so cozy. We think he just missed his sister and enjoyed sleeping in her suitcase.

Easter 2010

We had a very fun easter celebrating with Bob and Danya. We love living by family!!!

The easter egg searchers....all the kids looked for eggs..youngest first of course. Older children's eggs had money in them. How did they get so lucky!!! Except Cameron found one...way to go cameron!!!!

Looks like Ari has found some eggs.

After finding some eggs...time to chow down!!!

On the way easter egg hunting...basket in hand ready to go...

Easter bunny had eggs in the house and outside.

March 2010 Grammy's B-day

We had the pleasure of having Mama West and hubby here in Arizona for a visit. We had so much fun going to Sedona and spending time with them and really enjoyed it when they came to our house for the weekend. We celebrated mama West B-day and this really fun outdoor restaurant that was just so wild wild west. You ordered then picked up your order with all the fixins then you could get a smore kit and roast marshmellows and make smores right by your table. We had a rootin tootin good time!!!

Alec's 18th Birthday and Blake's performance

For Alec's 18th Birthday we had a huge surprise party for him in Redding. We took him out of school for a few days and had a big party for him at our house on Tilton Mine. It was a very fun party. the theme was American Idol and we had judges and karoke and food. The guest who were brave enough to sing in front of the judges were judged. We had a million dollar chocolate bar for the winner. Alec performed his sign language song, " I can ride my bike with no handle bars". This was a big hit of course. We had lots of family and friends there.
We were in Redding mainly to see Blake's performance in Mulan where he played Shang. He did an amazing job and we sooo enjoyed this production put on by Redding school of the Arts. A very fun but fast weekend.
We had no camera this weekend :(

Busy year...2010

Well.. to all my family and friends who try to check my blog with our coming and goings have found no info here. Honestly I love to blog...really I do but when so many trials come and I am working full time I would rather spend the time with my family enjoying them instead of writting about them but that in turn leaves family and friends very much out of the loop. We are so grateful for you!!! We do enjoy reading of your many blogging adventures. I am going to try once again to catch up on my blogging but won't promise anything because we all know it most likely won't happen but I will try to do better. Thanks for all your love and support in the last few months with these trying times. Love you all!!!