My poor baby...

What's up with 2 posts in a day, and like 4 in a week? Yeah, I know... weird... but this just happened to my baby boy about an hour ago... Trampoline incident... quite the goose egg... we will have to watch how this thing colors nicely... Joey

Tyson the writer...

So I just have to post a bit from Ty's email a few weeks ago.... He has a gift for writing, which was apparent clear back in elementary school... Mom used to be so proud of anything that he wrote, and would gush on and on about how it is in his genes... his grandpa Linton was a gifted writer as well.... anyway, she used to always tell him that's what he should do when he got older... and he would just kinda shrug his shoulders...
anyway... it looks like he may finally be realizing what we already knew... who out there is dying to read this "Brotherhood of the Cloak" besides me???? Anyway, I know his Grandma Jeri is bragging him up to anyone up there with her who will listen... you know how she was... ;)
and sorry about his typing skills... he is obviously much too busy to proofread...

i dont remember if i told you about this or not, but when iwas with elder griffin i started to write a story.. Elder Griffin lovedstories. I started doing it with my extra time at night and during lunchsometimes. Its called the brotherhood of the cloak. It really wasntanything big... but then elder griffin loved it, i mean, loved it. Hewould always beg me to write more story. Anyway, he loved it. THen hegot transferreed,and the story stopped. I didnt think much about it. Well, about 2 weeks ago i mentioned it to elder cooper and he said hewanted to read it. And guess what.. he loves it too. REally. Not onlythat, he read it all, and now the rest of my district is reading it. I know its hard to imagine me actually writing a book, but it comesreally easy, i just sit and write.. and i dont even like to read books.ha. i know, it doesnt make much sense.. but im using a standard schoolnotbook.. like the one with lined pages..and im on page 168 right now!ha. Again.. i know .. its weird.. but they love it. THey all talk aboutit and even quote it. its pretty funny. so i guess i may have to keepwriting a little more and see what happens. Thats what we did for thelast hour of Pday last week, read the BrotherHood of the Cloak. ha. theweird things that happen in a missionaries life... i love it.

Weekend with the nephews....

So how cute are they? We had Payton, Tate, and Brock for the weekend while Mike and Angie went to Park City for a credit union convention.... (I had to swipe this photo from Angie's blog cause these boys didn't hold still long enough for me to take many pictures....)
Brockie thought it was great fun to sit under the tramp and throw rocks up at Tate while he jumped...


Jordyn and I took Tate and Brock to McDonald's one night while Payton went swimming with Colton and Cameron...

So much energy in two little boys.....

Jordyn is trying to get Brock to go up to the top, but he said it was scary.... scary? I didn't think Brockie was scared of anything.... turns out he changed his mind, and was up at the top within minutes...


TaterBug waiting with great anticipation for me to get his happy meal toy open....







Nightime fun on the tramp....





That's a lot of bubbles for two little boys... they giggled, and they giggled... and then giggled some more.... how cute is that?










Uncle Eddie took the boys up to the reservoir (half a mile up the road from our house at the mouth of Settlement Canyon) to throw rocks in the water... they came home filthy, but very happy... Tate was very impressed by our close proximity to the canyon, and must have told me a million times that I lived in the mountains... this is very, very impressive to a 4 year old....

Sunday we took the boys to church. After sacrament meeting was over Payton asked me if we were going home now... I told him no... he said "We have to go to class?" I said yep, and got a big "Oh man!" outta him.... but he survived the ordeal.... didn't ya Pate?

Anyway....We had a great time, and I think so did Mike and Ange.... Joey

My new toy...

How fun is that? Way..... Joey

Labor Day Fun....

So take a good look at the jet skis..... this was supposed to be our fun Labor Day.... jetskiing at Utah Lake.... but did mother nature agree? Swearword no.... 62 degrees for the high, with rain, no less.... so what did we do instead?

We went bowling.... yep...bowling.

We did have a good time... though we were disappointed....


So.... it was me, Ed, Troy, Josh, Jordyn, Colton, and Cameron. Don't have many pictures to share, because my children would not cooperate... so just pretend that you see a picture of Josh and Colton. And sorry about the blurry Troy... he was also trying to dodge a picture.... I surround myself with trouble makes, I tell ya...

Oh well.... at least WE had fun.... Joey

Family Night Fun...

Last monday night we went to Melody's for a family night swim party.... Just a few pics of the night....


Thanks Melody..... we had a blast! Joey

Back To School...

So, it's that time of year again... woo hoo!!! Sorry kids... can't help it. You will one day understand my rejoicing....until that happens, accept my apologies... ha. Anyway, Jordyn and Colton started school on thursday the 21 of August. I know... thursday... weird. Anyway, Jordy is a sophmore, and Colton is a mighty 8th grader... big man on campus. 9th grade is in the high school in Tooele County. I was at Education week when the big day came... so they were very helpful, and took their own pictures by the front door... tradition, ya know?


















I know, I know... they are very cute... and very accommodating to do this for their crazy mother... which is exactly what little miss Jordyn said... ok mom, but you are crazy. Whatever...
Ok, so now about me, and my fun week....
We stayed in the David John building at Helaman Halls. This is always fun for me, since I stayed in Helaman Halls as a freshman at Byu... always brings back lots of memories. In fact, my first roommate at BYU stayed with me in my dorm on sunday night....that was fun... just like old times...She lives in Spokane, Washington, so I don't see her often...love ya Dawn...
Anyway, Education Week is always an enlightening and spiritual week spent with the best friends in the world... The day starts early, and ends late, with no stops in between. Classes start at 8:30 in the morning, and the last class ends at 9:25. The only way to have a lunch or dinner break is to skip a class, or eat as you walk from class to class... we took a break each day to either have a good lunch or dinner with each other... the rest of the time we packed snacks with us to get us through.



This is Toni and I at a class entitled "Humor in the church." This class had us laughing so hard by the end, because the instructor was anything but funny.... he was actually pretty droll...which really cracked us up...but it was a good diversion for an hour... the class we had attended the hour before had us in tears...








Toni and Kori in the same class....










Me, Suzette, Kori, and Toni in a class about deciphering the words of Isaiah... this class amazed me. The instructor broke it down verse by verse... you should see my scriptures... marked up like crazy... I went back and read those chapters again later, and thought, "I never would have gotten that..." Isaiah for dummies.... perfect... ;)


Toni, me, and Suzette in a class about Revelations. This class was taught by David A. Christensen. This is the cutest older man alive.... personality wise... he was so funny... but made those scriptures make sense as well... not quite as marked up as Isaiah, but almost. I hope he is a presenter again next year, but I hope he teaches a new topic... I would love to sit through his classes again.



I wish I could make this picture a bit larger... I tried. It just gets blurry. It is Kori, Suzy, Chantelle, me, Toni, and Colette at Los Hermanos. Chantelle was one of our young women in the 19th ward. She is now in her junior year of college at BYU. We have remained close with her, and took her to dinner. She is putting in her mission papers this October. She is an amazing young woman. Colette on the end was just baptized a member
in May. This was quite an experience for her. It was fun to see her learn and grow. But I think we wore her out. She suffers from Fibromyalgia... so this was quite alot for her to handle. I hope you recover from your week Colette...

This last picture is of us at Stevenette's Malt Shoppe.... which is a college hangout that I wanted to revisit...just for old times sake...Wednesday was Kori's birthday, and Miss Heather Park (Martin) drove down with the kids to have lunch with her mom. We ate at Mimi's Cafe. I wish I would have remembered to take my camera out and get a shot, but nope.... had it with me though, if that scores any points...Happy Birthday Kori... ;)
Anyway, I am home now, and pretty tired...but it was well worth it. Til next year ladies! Joey

Happy Mom...

So here is a picture of a VERY happy mom, who is leaving her clan behind for a very much needed break at BYU education week!!! I needed to take a before shot, because I will look exhausted by the end of the week.... yet will be rejuvenated and ready to tackle the world... see ya next week... Joey ;)

WOW how time flies....

So my good friend Suzette did a fun thing on her blog.... she just had her 19th anniversary, and posted a few pics of their wedding..... and I was thinking.... my bad... I just had my 23rd anniversary on July 26th, and didn't even mention that in my update... so I thought I would do it now....just for fun.... ;)
So... I have been married to the crazy man I married for 23 years.... can you believe it? Time flies... and we still like each other and everything (most of the time).... so here are a few pictures to laugh at.... ( I know... we were babies)...




















The picture in the middle makes Ed and I laugh.... it was my mom's favorite.... she thought I looked so innocent...but Ed thinks I am thinking about things to come...not so innocent... who knows... it was forever ago....
Anyway, Happy Anniversary honey.... I still love ya... Joey

MY BEAUTIFUL GIRL!

So my baby girl finally has her braces off!!!! And just in time for school pictures.... whew.... she was really hoping.... ;) Anyway, she is a cutie, isn't she? Joey