It has been 26 years

This blog post is 3 days late, but I decided I better post about it. I got my first Journal, 26 years ago when I was 11 years old living in Thornton Colorado. I got it at a Father and Daughter party and it is white with the word Journal on the cover. I started rereading my journals and let me tell you I couldn't spell very well bad then. I have gotten better at spelling over the years, but I still have trouble with a few words here and there. Right now I am about to read the entry from Jan. 25 1987, when I was in the 8th grade. Let me tell you, I hated Junior High School. I was made fun of a lot and I pretty much took it and I never really said anything about it. I know this happen over 20 years ago, but it still hurts, especially when I reread my journals. Junior High School is another post and maybe someday soon I will tell you a few things about it, but it is getting late right now. I love having a journal and I am so glad that I got my first journal when I was 11 years old

Day at the Park

We decided to go to the park a few weeks ago, something we don't do very often as a family. It was the perfect Sunday afternoon, it wasn't to hot or to cold. It was just right. Enjoy the pictures.

Zach relaxing.

Will pushing Zach in his wheelchair

A rare moment for Ethan and Connor.

Will took this of me swinging. Something I love to do, but don't do that often.

Will throwing a frisbee to Ethan

Connor picking up a frisbee


Ethan always tried to hide from the camera, so that is why he is not looking.

Will and Zach going down the slide


Connor trying to go up the slide

Guess What I Signed Up For?

I know quite a few of you are on FaceBook, so you already so this, but I signed up for my first bike race on July 3 and it is called Tour de Riverton. The race starts at 7:30 in the morning and I know it is 4th of July weekend, but that is okay. The race is 25 miles and I know that is a lot for me because I have never done anything like this before. My husband wanted to ride with me, but I told him I wanted to do the race by myself, so I know I can do something by myself and get something accomplished. Now, all I have to do is start training for the race. That is one of the reasons I decided to do my first race 3 months away, but its actually alittle less than 3 months, but I can do it. The registration fee was only $20.00 and I thought that was so cool that it didn't cost that much money. This is where I found out about the race, the website is called http://www.cyclingutah.com/ and it tells you all of the bike rides and races throughout Utah in 2010. If this race goes well, I may even try some more races, but as long as the races are under 25 miles than I will do it.

I would like one

I wish I had one of these

So I can ride for fun in the sun.
So, I can eventually ride in one of these.

I know it might take awhile to get to the last one, but I think it would be kind of fun to do it. But of course I would need a bike first and hopefully I can get one soon. It has been a very long time, since I have ridden a bike, let alone own a bike. I don't like to run, so maybe riding a bike is the next best thing.

Wondering....

I have been thinking of having a baby lately, but I am scared to death because if the baby is another boy he could have Muscular Dystrophy, just like Zachary. Plus I have back problems and I only have 1 tube, so I am considered high risk pregnancy.



OR

I am thinking of becoming a photographer, but I would have to go back to college. See Below.

I am scared to death to go back to college. It has been 10 years since I have been. It would be great to have a degree in Photography, but school has always been hard for me, but I think I can do it.

Anyway, I just don't know what to do right now. Those are some of the things that I have been thinking of doing lately, but I dont know. SUU doesn't have a Photography degree, but I know some colleges that do. All of my boys want a sister and it would be great to give them one, but that scares me. Connor loves babies and I think it would be great if I had a girl because then she would have 3 older brothers. I just don't know the right path to take and I have been praying about it, but sometimes I feel like I am praying wrong or something like that. That is all for now, sorry I haven't written on my blog for awhile, but I have been having writer's block lately and most of the time I have no idea what to blog about.

SeaWorld 2009

I know this is a little late putting our trip to SeaWorld on here, but here it goes. While we were in visiting my family in California, we decided to go to Seaworld. This is one of my favorite places to go and the last time we went was back in Dec. of 2007. We went on Wednesday Dec. 30 and it was the only day that it decided to rain on us, while we were in California, but it wasn't that bad. It rained quite a bit on the way back to my parents house. If some of you have been to SeaWorld, you probably know that a photographer always takes your picture and gives you a card with a number on it, so when you leave the park, you can get the picture if you want and of course it costs money. We always get that picture and we have 4 different pictures of us from SeaWorld in the house and its fun to see those pictures.

Anyway, we all had at SeaWorld, even Connor had fun. We saw some shows while we were there. We saw the dog show and the sealion and otter show. Those shows were so funny. We also had lunch there and saw so many animals. I hope you enjoyed all of the pictures.

Christmas 2009

My brother Tyler giving some pointers for Zach. I don't remember
what game Zach is playing.



Connor playing with his cousin Laura. They loved playing with one
another.

I know Christmas was over 2 weeks ago and I am finally updated my blog about what we all did. We left for Ramona California on Christmas Eve and we have been every year, since we have been married, except 1 year, when I was pregnant with Zachary. Anyway, we left after 7 am, Utah time and we ate breakfast and filled up the gas tank in ST. George. We ate lunch in Barstow CA and we also filled the gas tank while we were still in Barstow. We got to my parents house, around 5 pm CA time. We stay in a condo while we are there and my dad and I checked us in and then my dad and I put the stuff in the condo. We had a delicious dinner that my mom prepared and then we visited and it was great being there with my parents and younger brother Tyler. We then left for the condo and we would be back in the morning.

Christmas was nice and we got to my parents house around 11:30 am and we started opening presents around noon. We have a tradition that we take turns opening presents. The youngest also goes first, which was Connor and the oldest goes last, which is my dad and then we start over. We have always had this tradition, ever since I was little. I know that takes along time to get through, but its a great thing to do because you get to see what everyone gets. Then afterwards my brother Tim, his wife Sarah and 4 kids came over to open there presents that were under my parents tree. They live next door to my parents. The rest of Christmas was nice and relaxing.

These are some of the other things we did, while in California:

Shopping

Eating good food

visiting with family

playing video games(the kids mostly did this)

Will and I saw "Sherlock Holmes" and I loved that movie.

Will, the kids and I also went to SeaWorld, but that is another post.

Eating good food. Oh, I already said that.

New Year's Eve was nice and quiet, but that is the way I like it. We had some friends over and we played a few games and put the younger kids in bed. My brother and his wife and oldest son were also there, so that was nice too Then we had more good food and it was also nice to visit. We left Jan. 2 to come back to Utah and the weather was good all the way home, which is the best way to go. We had a wonderful trip to California and we don't know when we might get back to CA. It might be this Christmas or who knows when. I hope you enjoyed the pictures.