not that ANYONE cares but...

i guess i will keep posting every once in a while. it seems like it's just for us, more than anyone, but here are some fun pictures of the past couple of weeks.

we walked up to zach's new school today. he is super excited to start 3rd grade on monday. it'll be quite a bit harder for me knowing that gramps isn't there to help him, but i guess that's life, right?


steve took the kids to the bingham copper mine last week. taylor was in HeAvEn!!!


zach LOVED his first experience at scout day camp! i see a happy, cute little boy in this picture with a humongous underbite which (knowing what we know about orthodontia now....) is going to an even more fun experience to fix!!!



taylor loves his glow sticks so much that he fell asleep with them clutched firmly in his dirty little hand!!!

i adore my family!!!

haircuts out on the deck...always an adventure!!!

zach has loved flying his eagle kite with all of this wind!!!

zach was a perfect "pledge leader" at alex's eagle court of honor

best friends and sisters at oakcrest

ready to run a 5k race together

here is my cute alex all ready to go to work---ab's is lucky to have him!!!

i had a day off of teaching last week so i took the little boys on the trax train down to the gateway discovery museum in salt lake they loved it!!!

eagle scout court of honor

practically perfect day in every way!!!

shhhh...don't tell annie!!!

annie and megan are at oakcrest this week. we found out a couple of months ago that david archuleta was doing a book signing at the brand new slc deseret book. needless to say, annie was a little sad about not being able to get his autograph (although she already has two...) SO.....steve and i spent all morning yesterday up in salt lake waiting in line to get david archuleta to sign his new book. we asked him to put "To: Annie" in it and he did. he sang a couple of songs--we got there pretty early in the morning so we had a pretty great spot to hear him sing. it was at the downtown deseret book which sits right across from temple square. david archuleta even mentioned that he had never had such a pretty background to sing in front of before. perfect weather, perfect company and a perfect idol!!! sigh.

joining the workin' stiffs...

looks like starting next wednesday alex will be joining the ranks of many other men and start working. he got hired on at ab's drive-in and i don't think you could find another 15 (almost 16...he keeps reminding me...) year old who is as excited to start working as alex. he'll be such an asset to the drive-in with his happy disposition and cute little face. i wanted to go into the interview with him and tell the lady that, but alex did NOT think that would be okay. he held his own and got hired an hour after they interviewed him. way to go albert!!!

my cute scouts...

i took these pictures for a little project i am working on for alex's court of honor...how cute are my boys?

fun at lagoon?!?

i know...lagoon is not the most fun for someone as motion sick as me, but me and alex sure had fun with gramps yesterday. he had to go for safety patrol and alex and i decided to "chaperone" with him. the weather was beautiful and we had a great day (with no throwing up!!!)