The Graduate

i can't believe that in 11 days corey is going to graduate from high school. i mailed out some graduation announcements and it has really started to sink in that she is graduating. it has been an amazing journey to raise corey and watch her develop into a young women over the last 17 years! she is a beautiful person inside and out! We went to the music department awards today and corey received some awards, but i think one of the neatest awards she received was "most inspirational". the award was voted on by her classmates and what an honor for corey! the graduation will be on june 12 and i will post pictures...
emily is also graduating on june 11th from middle school. she is soooo excited to start high school!!! my mom, my sister and her kids, and my brother with his wife and kids will all be here for the graduations. it will be so fun to be all together for such special events for our family!!

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a fun weekend. We went to Temecula for a baseball tournament with the San Diego Stars, a travel baseball team that Daniel plays on. We were really hoping to win the tournament, but sadly we did not. The kids always love staying in a hotel, especially Julia!!! She wanted to go swimming the entire time we were there but it was too cold! It rained off and on and was windy all three days! We were all huddled under our coats and blankets at the games! Julia had such a fun time with her two friends Kiley and Olivia (sorry Gigi if I mis-spelled Kiley's name). The 3 of them and Aubrey are the big "cheerleaders" for the team!! They have this cute little cheer they do..."Turn up the radio, turn up the radio. Who's on the radio? Stars on the radio!!" It was a great holiday weekend and I even got quite a bit of my book, 19 Minutes, read!!! I hope all of you had a nice and relaxing holiday weekend too!!!

emily made sound unlimited!!!!

well, emily did it!!! she auditioned for show choir at the high school and she made sound unlimited! she is sooooo happy. the auditions started on monday. monday was the vocal audition, tuesday was the dance audition, and wednesday was the group vocal audition. it was a long stressful few days!! on friday night two of the senior "sound girls" came and kidnapped emily... one of the "sound girls" was corey!! they dressed her up in crazy clothes and crazy make-up and then took her with them. they went and kidnapped other girls that made sound; one of them being emily's best friend, hannah pettijohn. they are really excited to be in show choir together next year as they start high school. i can't believe that emily is graduating from the middle school in a few weeks...she is VERY excited to start high school!!! congratulations emily, we are soooooo happy for you. you will be awesome!!!

Mother's Day

mother's day was a lot of fun! we spent the afternoon at the yacht club with pat's brother mike, his wife dena and their kids jackie, trevor, macy and kelvin. the cousins LOVE to be together. they went for a walk on the beach and played and wrestled on the grass (with pat and mike). we sat at the table and laughed and talked for hours! pat and mike are hilarious when they get together. it's always a lot of fun to hear their stories and mike does the best "kip" ever! in fact mike was "kip" before "kip" was "kip"!!!. (hopefully you've seen napoleon dynamite and know who "kip" is!)
after we went to the yacht club we went to patsy's house (pat's mom) and took all of the kids. it had been a while since they had all seen her! we didn't stay too long because the 8 of us wear her out, but we love her so much and we were happy to get to spend some time with her.
the one thing i wanted for mothers day was for all 8 of us to sit and watch a movie together. so, at about 7:30 we all sat and watched "p.s. i love you". boy, what a tear jerker!! I think i cried 4 times!! it's not very often that all of us are home together long enough to sit and watch a movie, so that was my favorite part of the day.
since it was mothers day i cannot end this post without acknowledging my mother and the beautiful person she is. she is a wonderful support to me and to my family. growing up, no matter how bad my day was, i could always count on my mom to be there to talk to me and she is still that way today!!! she is loving, fun, kind, charitable, and a wonderful grandma!! my children love her SO much and are always glad when "grandma's coming to town!" so mom...thank you for always being the mom i needed and for being the mom that i want to be!!!
i love you.

love these pictures!!!

i love these pictures (thanks shelly) of my kids with shelly and her kids in cedar city when we went to tour suu. we had soooo much fun being together those 3 days! it was a really fun trip. we went swimming, watched movies, worked on the computer (hence the blog) and just had fun talking and being together!!! after we left cedar city, corey, emily, aubrey, julia and i spent the night in las vegas. we stayed at circus circus. we went and saw one of the circus acts at circus circus, went out to dinner and then watched 27 dresses...(cute movied if you haven't seen it.) it was a really fun girls only trip!!!