Bobby's Trip To Seattle

Bobby took a trip to Seattle one week after my trip to Seattle... I know, we should learn to plan better :) Anyway, Jeff got them tickets to the MLS Championship game so he couldn't pass up the opportunity, especially because Real Salt Lake was in it. Lisa Pett told me that going for a soccer game was way less embarrassing than going for Twilight, but that's just crazy talk :)

Bobby served his mission in Seattle and he was able to go see a few things. This is one of the apartments he lived in.


He said that it was red when he lived there so it has been re-painted, which tells you how long ago his mission was, haha


Of course they went to Pike's Market. It was weird seeing his pictures because it was stuff I had just seen myself.

Jeff's friend Brandon, Jeff and ?


Bobby and Jeff on the Ferry to Bremmerton.


I told Bobby that he had to get some good pictures of my boyfriend (Mr. Beckham) while he was there and I think this is a pretty good angle.


They made some awesome signs to cheer on the boys.


RSL WINS!!!!!!!


They also got to attend the after party which was by invitation only. I guess it pays to have connections. This is Bobby with Kyle Beckerman from RSL.


The Championship Cup


They had a great time and are looking forward to next season, Go REAL!!!

New Moon Party!!

We did it again! We rented a theater for the next installment in the Twilight movie series, "New Moon". It all started way back in April. I told my sister Rachel that I knew someone who already rented a theater for this movie and was already selling tickets. She couldn't believe it because it was 6 or 7 months before the movie! After talking about it with a few people she decided to call the events coordinator who helped us on the last movie. She told her that not only have people already been renting movie theaters for New Moon, but they were already almost sold out for opening day! Of course she went ahead and reserved our theater and that started our crazy 6 month journey of selling tickets and preparing for our private New Moon screening. We had a blast! There is something about watching a movie with a theater full of people you know, or at least know love the series. We ended up selling EVERY SINGLE seat in the house! Which made it even more fun.

The sugar cookies were such a hit last time that we decided to do it again, I know , I look super hot in this picture :)




Don't I make an awesome Bella?


The movie was awesome!!!! I loved it!!!!





We had an after party at my mom's house. It was great to sit and chat about the movie.


My old neighbor Deann Thaxton made these cool cupcakes.



We had a great night and are now looking forward to "Eclipse'', which comes out in June!!! We hope to see you there :)

It's Official: I'm one of Those Girls

I think it's safe to say that if you know me, you know I'm a pretty big "Twilight" fan. Well, I have always thought of myself as a fan but not one of those super crazy chicks who go way overboard. I can no longer think of myself in that category because last weekend I went on a girls trip to Forks Washington. So I have officially joined the crazies. The thing is, it ended up being one of the most fun times I've ever had. Maybe that's because when you go crazy surrounded by other equally crazy people it just seems normal. Plus when your on a girls trip how can it not be fun?

Anyway, we started our trip normally enough, we spent our first day in Seattle. I've never been there so it was really great, we spent the morning walking around Pike's fish market which is an experience in itself, let's just say you can't work one of those booths if your shy. So then we had lunch at the Space Needle which was awesome, a little pricey but totally worth it. Just look at that view.


Me, Rachel, Keri, Julie and Priscilla. Priscilla lives just outside Seattle so she was our tour guide, she also put us up the night we arrived, she was a lot of fun.


My sandwich was about as big as my head, but I didn't let that get in my way.



After lunch we dropped Priscilla off and mad our way down to Port Angeles. It was about a three hour drive so we passed the time quoting our favorite "bad" lines from the movie version of "Twilight". If you've seen the movie you know we were not lacking for inspiration. Mostly we made fun of Kristen Stewart's awesome acting. It was really fun.


We saw this sign on the door of a little shop and it made me laugh. See this is what I meant about it not seeming so crazy when you're surrounded by it :)


While we were in Port Angeles we went to dinner at Bella Italia where Bella and Edward have their first date. We all ordered the mushroom ravioli except Keri who doesn't like mushrooms.



After PA we made our way through Forks and down to La Push where our hotel was. It was about midnight when we arrived and it was pitch black outside, so we had no idea how incredible our view was until we woke up the next morning. We knew we were supposed to have an Ocean view, but that could mean you can see the Ocean in the distance. So I was completely blown away when I looked out our sliding doors and the beach was right there. It was incredible, so beautiful, I decided it reminded me of Hawaii except in grey tones. For those of you who are fans we were basically staying right on First Beach.


There was sooo much driftwood, Julie was looking around and randomly stated "You could make a lot of paper with all this wood." I'm still laughing at that one.


Julie and Keri sitting on so much potential paper.


After spending some time on the beach, it was time for the truly crazy/fun stuff. First we stopped by Jacob Black's house where you can see his motorcycle parked right out front.


The treaty line between La push and Forks.


We're here!!


Pretty much every business in Forks had some kind of "Twilight" reference. This one was pretty funny.




Bella's Truck is parked outside the Chamber of Commerce.


We stopped by the church, just for fun and there happened to be a funeral going on, and they asked us if we would like to come in and eat with them. Those Mormon's are so nice :) We didn't stay to eat but it always feels like a little piece of home when your inside a church building.


The Swan residence. It must be so weird for the people who actually live there.


Forks High School. Originally Rachel was doing a cheer pose too, but she changed at the last second so now I just look silly, oh well. I'm sure that was the only time I looked silly on this trip hahaha


The Hospital has a parking spot for Carlisle, I wanted to go in and donate blood because I think that would be funny, but we didn't have time.


Rachel and I Handcuffed in front of the Police station.



that night we made a fire on First Beach but we didn't stay long because there was a big storm rolling in. The storm was crazy, very windy and rainy it we didn't get much sleep because it was so loud. I think Julie willed it because she was so worried about a Tsunami the whole time we were there, she kept making evacuation plans until we finally decided that if there was a tsunami, we were pretty much goners.

It really was a great time, we all had so much fun together, we laughed almost constantly. Thank you so much girls I love you all!!!! Let's plan another girls trip very soon.

A Field Trip and a Birthday

This year I have Milli in a neighborhood Joy School and last week was her very first field trip. They have been learning about community helpers so we took them to the Lehi Fire Station. They loved it and they even got some cute fireman hats to take home.

Lauren got to come with us so she was a happy camper. She gets pretty mad whenever I drop Milli off without her.

Milli and Lo inside a fire truck.

Bobby's Birthday was yesterday, I think he turned 29 (which makes me 21). We had a little family get together for him and the kids got him a new Wii game. I hope you had a happy birthday babe!! We Love you!!!!!!!

Halloween Fun

Halloween is always a fun time for all, especially the kids. At school the kids can only dress up if they choose a person from history and write a little report on that person. Stacia is always on board for dressing up so she picked Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and she had a lot of fun with it. Grandma Lemke provided the cardigan and I had the sunglasses, scarf and pearls. I think she makes a very cute Jackie. I kept bugging Landon to pick someone to be until he finally said "do I have to do it?" and I said "no, but I think it will be fun" and he said "ya but do I have to?" So that was pretty much the end of that. I did ask him one more time the day before the reports were due and he said "no thank you" and walked away. He is a funny kid.


We grew our own pumpkins this year -well, Bobby did I am not very helpful with keeping plants alive- so we had an extra good time carving them.


Stacia loves roasted pumpkin seeds so she made sure to pick them all out of the goo, with Lando's help.


Landon made a bat

Millie poked a bunch of dots

and Stacia made a cat, they all did a great job.

Bobby carved this one and when our neighbor said she liked it I told her I was expecting to see a pumpkin on their porch with their name on it. Their last name is Gotfredson... haha

I helped with Stacia's class party this year, and they did this cute little play about different fairy tale characters. Stacia was Puss in Boots, from Shrek. what a cute little kitty.

Since I was there, I sneaked into Landon's class and got a picture of my cute boy.

Ready for Trick-or-treating

Ninja Landon

Sorceress Stacia

Strawberry Shortcake

and Tinkerbell.

The kids had a great night, Bobby drove them around on his golf cart and they thought that was the best thing ever. What a fun dad :)

Summer

We had a lot of fun this summer, one day a bunch of us took the kids up to Bridal Veil Falls. We had a picnic and then let the kids play at the bottom of the falls. They had so much fun, at one point Landon came up to me and said "this is awesome, it's just like a splash park." It really was fun, sometimes I forget to utilize all of the natural resources we have here.

We got to spend the 4th of July weekend at the Zoll cabin which is always a good time. Stacia was like a little monkey. She kept climbing higher and higher on the rope swing.

Everyone had fun playing with this big tube, even the "big" boys :)

On the 4th the kiddos all looked super festive, Kamree and Makayla didn't care to be photographed.

We went to a parade in Mt. Pleasant.

Then we went fishing.

There was also a fair in town (not a very good one) so we took the kids and they found this dog who they fell in love with.

One of the men who was in the rodeo let the kids sit on his horse which was really fun for them.

And of course you have to have fireworks. The mt pleasant Firework show was really awesome, I highly recommend it if you happen to be there on the 4th.

We ended the summer the same way we started it. With a fabulous camping trip. We went to Flaming Gorge where we floated the green river. The boys did a lot of fishing, the kids did a lot of exploring and I did a lot of eating, but I don't feel guilty because that's what camping is for right?

We had a great summer and now it's already time to start thinking about the holiday's. Time goes by so quickly, I need to remember to stop and notice all the wonderful things and people who surround me.

Happy Birthday!!

So, I am ridiculously far behind on my blogging duties. I have excuses, but what it really comes down to is, the farther I get behind the less I want to attempt to catch up. I've decided that it's now or never because there are going to be a lot of blog-worthy events happening in the next little while so here goes...

Milena, Landon and Lauren have all had birthdays!!! Milena turned 3 on June 18th and her birthday was extra special this year because she got to share it with her Grandma Ginn who's birthday is the same day.

Grandma took us to McDonald's to celebrate and of course the kids had a wonderful time.

There was this crazy dude there dressed as an alien, so we told Milli he was there for her birthday which she thought was awesome, she wouldn't go anywhere near him, but she told everyone all about it afterwards.

Milli also got to have a party with the Lemke family.

She had been asking for a Mickey Mouse cake for months so, since I am such an awesome mom, I made one for her :)

Landon turned 6 on July 13th. He was so excited to have all his friends over. I was a little worried about Sage because she was going to be the only girl. So I made sure to get some "girl" prizes for BINGO, but when she won, she asked me if she had to have a girl prize and when I said no, she picked out one of the race cars which is awesome, I guess I didn't need to worry at all.

Landon loves Transformers so I drew Optimus Prime on his cake which he thought was the greatest thing ever. Hopefully it will be this easy to make him happy when he's 16.

Lauren turned 2 on Oct. 16th and I am having a hard time with her growing up so fast. She is supposed to stay a baby forever! We had a little family party and she had a blast. What could be better than eating lots of cake and getting lots of presents?

So, this is the first installment of my catch-up attempt. Hopefully there will be more coming soon, but I know myself too well so we'll just have to wait and see :)