All because two kids met on a small town saturday night!

I was looking at pictures and wanted to go back and look at how the boys looked near Olivia's current age of 1 & 1/2. They all have some similar features, but also definately have their own distinctive look.

Then I wanted to compare them to now. They definately are growing up, changing and maturing.

Looking back made me think about all the fun times we have had as a family and I look forward to many more. All because some crazy, small-town boy saw a new girl drive into town for a dance on a saturday night. That crazy boy chased her down, literally, in his truck, then stalked her at the dance until she realized maybe there might be more to this. This led to that, and that led to this:

All because two kids met on a small town saturday night!

We finally got a new home!!!!!!

We sold our home a few months ago, thinking it was a buyers market and would be easy to get another. Not so!!! Sure, there are many homes for sale and many that look like great prices, but they are all bank owned or short sales (sellers with multiple mortgages trying to get the banks to agree to let them out of them for less than they owe, the bank controls this one also). With the help of my good friend Alyssa as our agent, she took use to dozens and dozens of homes to look at. So many of them looked good on paper, but then looking at them they were all stripped. People literally yank out their cabinets, shutters, ceiling fans, basically anything of value and sell them before they are kicked out. It was somewhat demoralizing. We had a couple of deals not work out. We bid on this one almost 4 months ago and it finally went through. And it actually was not stripped at all.


The boys and all of us plan to spend a lot of time here in the pool.


We are happy to be able to move into a place we hope to stay for the rest of the kids schooling and childhoods. We love our area and this place was just a few miles away. The kids will finish out the school year in their current school before moving to the new one next year.


We are happy to find a place, but moving means we will be in a new ward at church and have to leave our current one. We have loved our ward and the friends we have gained and grown attached to. We don't want to lose any of them.

Students of the month!!!!

The School year has started. The boys are busy with their classwork, scouts and city soccer. Josh and Thomas were both recently students of the month at their school.

They have an assembly in the gym where the kids get announced and given their awards. Then they get a special lunch with mom. Anthony and I are very happy that we have boys that are respectful and behave in class, all while exceling and making many good friends.

Fall Saturdays Part 2

Fall saturday afternoons and evenings are full of ASU football. Anthony and his dad have been going since he was small. Our boys now love to go. They don't plan on ever stopping this tradition.

Fall Saturdays Part 1

Saturday mornings all fall are full of Soccer. This season all three boys are old enough to play, and Anthony is coaching Josh's team. Add in keeping track of Olivia and it makes for some very hectic 3 game saturday mornings. But the boys love it, so we do it.