Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2009

Sadie Hawkins Dance

Mariah and frineds decided to have a superhero theme, Batman. Notice Mariah and date are the only was "off" from the rest of the group. He had quite the fun personality to match Mariah's. They had a lot of fun.
Mariah likes to be the "center" of attention, even in pictures!!!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

NEW AND UPDATED POSTS - YEA!!! Can you believe it?

Yes, I know it has been awhile since I posted anything. Life gets so crazy busy! I will try to catch up so things will be out of order (pretty much like my life)! Enjoy!
BEAR LAKE
I really needed to get out of town for fall break. Our wonderful friends, Nick and Annette Ivins (and Ryan) offered their family condo in Bear Lake. Who can pass up Bear Lake? We just relaxed the whole time and had a blast. Thanks Nick and Annette! The scenery was absolutely stunning with the autumn colors and smooth blue lake.
This is the position Nick and Brock were in about 50% or more of the time. What were they doing, you ask? Wii and Playstation 3! They were in heaven.

There were games to play for the rest of us too!
Every night was movie night.
There was an indoor pool...
Craig was so thoughtful and did the dishes and started the dishwasher. The liquid soap did say "dishwashing soap" on it. Um...but it didn't say for dishwashers on it, hun. I hear from the kitchen from Craig, "I think we have a problem" as the suds spilled out onto the floor.

We decided to play tennis...I have not laughed that hard in a long time. I sat out at first to record the play and it was a comedy. Craig was serving from behind and hit Justine in the bum. Mariah either didn't have her contacts in or there was a hole in her racket because she just was not connecting up. Craig again hit from behind Justine, the ball hit her racket, and then bounced back and hit her in the forehead. I have never seen that before. She thought it was pretty funny. Brock didn't hit the ball so it hit him, right where it really hurts. He was on the ground crying while we were all rolling on the ground laughing.
We were terrrible at tennis. We spent more time hitting each other with balls and chasing balls then we did actually hitting the ball to each other. Oh well, it was good exercise and fun.
You can't got to Bear Lake without getting a raspberry shake!!!
ANOTHER NEW POST ON THE NEXT PAGE....FOOTBALL INJURY AND DRAMA

Football Injury and Drama

Brock's team was playing their first playoff game and they were excited. About 10 minutes into the game, Brock made a great tackle but ended up hitting his head on the ground. He came out for a few plays and then went back in. Another great play and another hit on the ground with his head. This time he was crying with pain and didn't get up. An ER nurse on the sidelines checked him out and his neck hurt so she said not to move him. The ambulance was summoned and they went to work on him. Knowing how much ambulances cost, I thought we should have just thrown him in the back of the car and taken him to be checked. I kept that opinion to myself as I didn't want to look like the unconcerned mother. LOL
They totally taped his head to the backboard and strapped him down. He couldn't move even if he wanted to. That backboard later became a "sore spot" literally for Brock later on. I felt like someone in a very bad parade riding in the front of the ambulance and waving to people as we left.

The doc wanted to make sure everything was okay so he sent Brock for a scan.


Brock's teammates were very upset that Brock was hurt. He is usually the guy leading them in their cheers and pumping them up. There were some tears but they dedicated the game to Brock and came back to win.Because we waited so long to take off the neck brace, it actually started hurting Brock the most. He was so glad to get it off after finding everything was okay and also glad to hear the team won.
We appreciate the many phone calls and inquiries into Brock's welfare. What a great bunch of people we get to call friends.




Thursday, July 16, 2009

Leland Liu gets baptized...

As many of you know, Lacie has been dating Leland since the beginning of the year. He has many member friends and neighbors, but really looked into the church last year. He announced to us just the week before, out of the blue, that he was getting baptized. He had been attending church meetings and reading scriptures with Lacie. Suddenly, he realized he actually did have a testimony. It was a sweet day. Leland's older brother has been a member for 14 years and waiting patiently for others to join. Below (r to L): sisters Lori and Lora, ing-ing (Chineese version of Grandma, but I have no idea how to spell it) who does not speak English but is so cute, Leland, sister-in-law April marred to brother, Loren. All the little kids belong to Loren & April. They are a very nice friendly family.
Our family was so excited to have Leland join the church (for many reasons, wink, wink)!
I would say Lacie was the most excited this day!!!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

We are off to San Diego...

Yea, we are packed to the ceiling!

Monday, July 13, 2009

San Diego and setting sail...

The girls are getting ready to go to church in San Diego.Justine does not want to get out of bed...so what's new?Brock is ready.
Trying to check in for the cruise.
Justine is thrilled to find the unlimited self-serve soft chocolate ice cream!!! The Jones family definitely ate our moneys worth of ice cream on the trip.
We are excited to get under way.
The lifejacket drill is always so fun...not! The girls actually got sent to a different station because their room was down the hall. We met some recent high school graduates from Beaver and thought about introducing them to Mariah.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

crusin' day #2...Catalina Island

We took a small boat to Catalina Island. The sky was overcast and the temperature chilly. That didn't stop us!!!



The birds were quite friendly.

This bird decided to take a bath in the drinking fountain.Mariah would love to take her driver's test in the golf cart. It would be a whole lot easier to drive and park than a big old Suburban.

Our morning was booked to go paragliding off the back of a boat.




The kids had us go first...it was a little cold, but so awesome. They took us so high and we could see all over the island.

At first Justine said she wanted to go by herself, but then she decided to go with Lacie and Brock. Justine went back and forth between excited and crying.

Lacie was sporting her NY Yankies baseball cap and the captain of the boat gave her a hard time of that. While she was in the air, we told the captain she had her whole room decorated with NY stuff (a fib). In the spirited of rivalry, he dipped them into the ocean up to their waistes. They all loved that and said the water felt warm.

Next came Mariah and Kali's turn. They too were dipped into the ocean and loved it. We all thought paragliding was the highlight of our trip and something we had all wanted to do.
Formal night...what a beaufitul family..




Cruising...3rd day

One of our ports was to be Ensenda, Mexico, but because of the "swine flu" that port was cancelled. The ship did go near Mexico and we could see it, but otherwise, we just did circles out in the ocean.Even though it was a little chilly, we were determined to enjoy the sun! Good thing there are nets to catch all our stray volleyballs.
While waiting for one of the shows to start, they had Bingo. Brock was called up out of the audience to make sure all the Bingo ball were there. For his participation, he received a "piece of ship on a stick" as they crew call it. Brock was way excited.


I guess the show was not that entertaining for Justine or she was just exhausted from all the eating.