8 years ago...

Wow I can't believe that 8 years ago I was miserable and wanted the baby that was growing inside of me out~Now I can't get him to hold still for 2 minutes!! I guess time flies when you are having fun! Some of the things that Tanner likes~ FOOTBALL, he is playing Soccer so he can be a better kicker for FOOTBALL.He loves to play the xbox. He is really excited to be baptized on his Birthday.. April 7th! We sure do love this little Guy in our home!

Also this weekend was wonderful on Saturday the weather was beautiful! We listen to conference and Spent time outside! Sunday was great with wonderful Messages from all our church leaders! I think we ate enough candy For a while {well at least a week then we will be ready for Easter Candy!} I love church at home!!

What a Weekend..

This weekend started with Mark taking the Boy Scouts{ & Tanner}to Camp Williams. they got to stay in the Barracks and Go to the Virtual shooting Range. Tanner had a lot of fun. Mark enjoyed showing the boys some of the things he does out there.

Saturday~ Started with a 5k race at 8am. I finished in 35.35 not to bad for not going out and running. After the race Mark and Tanner returned home and I got Tanner ready to got to his friend Ethans Baptism. Then Jordan and I went to a mother daughter Picnic with my Mom at the Elks lodge in Provo. It was fun to go with them and we won a few prizes. Then Jordan and I raced home and met up with some ladies in our Ward to go to the General Young Women Broadcast. It was lots of Fun we ate at the Garden Restaurant onto of the Joesph smith Building. then we went to the Conference center! We got to sit 3 rows from our Wonderful Prophet! I don't know if we will ever be that close to the prophet again! All of the speakers had great messages to share! We finished the night at JCW's for Ice Cream. It was a fun and Busy day! Glad its Sunday and I get to Rest!

Another Week!

Well we didn't have much going on this week, Which is nice. I did attend a Caucus Meeting. I have never been and Since we were encourage to go and Support I decided go with our Wonderful Neighbor Michele Bolke. We had no idea that we were going to be there with about 500 other people! It was a Mad house. We did find our other Neighbors { Terry & Lynette Norton} and had a great time at the Caucus.
Yesterday Mark & I were talking to our Neighbor Dan Bolke about his projects he is doing. He had out his video camera so I asked him if he was going to keep a Blog about his projects. He said no, but told me I could. So I will try and add updates of what we see going on next door. right now all I can tell you is more and more Cars/Vans keep showing up for Parts!! more to come. ..

A new Adventure

Well I should have kept my Mouth closed, I wanted to go to girls camp a few Years back. The Camp Director in our Ward has been doing camp for about 9 years I think. I thought it would be lots of fun to go with her, Since she know what she is doing. well they called her to the Relief Society, So a new Camp Directors was called. I kept my mouth Quite but now 2 years later I go the call! Girls camp Assistant. It will be fun we are going to Heber Valley Girls Camp where they stay in Cabins have showers working toilets! I guess not really camping!! Lets just pray that the snow doesn't stay til June, or decide to come in June since we really haven't had a winter! this is also Jordan's first year to go to Camp so it will be fun to go with her! Also My sister in Law Ruth is in our stake and just got the same Calling! So there will be people I know! I will post again I am sure about how things went!

Our Daddy is Home!

After being gone for 16 days Mark is home. Its is so Nice to have him home. He wasn't suppose to be home until Friday at 10. but much to my surprise he came home Thursday night for a few hours. Then had to go back for the night, When he left it was snowing alot! Friday morning when I got up there was at least 5 inches of snow. So I got the kids up for school and headed out side to clear the Driveway and walks to the kids that I watch could make it to the front door and I could take the kids to school. After about 15 min of moving heavy snow, I was very happy to see Mark come around the Corner. He finished the Drive way and took the Kids to school. Then he broke out the 4 wheeler and went off to clear the neighborhood. It is really nice to have him home!


Some of the other happenings of our week were.. We took pictures on Sunday before Church that I thought turned out very nice. Jordan spent the week helping out a neighbor who's husband was also out of Town. She has three kids under the age of 7 and just found out she is pregnant. Jordan had a good time and it kept her and Tanner from Fighting! Jordan as Had New Beginnings this week. She is Loving being in Young Women's and I hope that she keeps loving it and loves doing personal progress. I really enjoyed Young Women's and the experiences I had, I really Hope that she will too!

Some of the Kids pics

Twice in 1 day!

Just some of the Pics I took of the kids today!

A week in Review

With Mark being away here are some things that have kept us busy..
Monday~ I ran a 5k for the Lehi Literacy Center~ it was the Green Eggs and Ham 5k. I finished in 35.52 and it was super cold. It was 19 degrees at the start of the race. But It was fun in the end. The kids were out of school today for Presidents day. So while I ran in the cold they played inside the legacy center. They had bounce houses, face painting and balloon animals. All in all it was a good Day.

Tuesday~ Back to school, After school Jordan had hunters Safety this was her last class before her Test. She is enjoying it and I think she will do just fine on the test.

Wednesday~ Tanner and Jordan both had to visit the Orthodontist today, Tanner just for a check to see what his teeth are doing and Jordan had to have her wires changed. She wanted her braces so bad~ but now she is rethinking that a little. Jordan had her hunters safety test and PASSED! now she can go hunting! As soon as she was done with her test she wanted to go to Young Womens so we made a mad dash across town so she wouldn't be too late. Tanner and I decided we would hang out and watch the Skits the YW/YM were doing. They were pretty fun and very creative.

Thursday~ Finally a day with no big plans~ When just got homework done and Went to Dinner at Purple Turtle { Jordan had a Free Shake coupon for wearing her Othor. shirt to the orothodontist} So we couldn't just go for A shake we had to have dinner! After we got home we got on the computer to Skype with Mark and decided to go pay him a visit! It is fun to be able to go out and visit since he is so close.

Friday~ Jordan had a birthday party to go to so I took Tanner and his Friend Ethan to the Swimming pool and then let them have a sleep over. Jordans party was a sleepover but she doesn't like to sleepover so at 11pm I made her come home so I could go to bed.

Saturday~ Bowling day! Today the kids bowled in the City Tournament and they both did very well. Tanner got a 86 86 & 95. which is really good since his average is only 54. Jordan got a 91 84 86 and her average is a 62. Very proud of them!

And now its Sunday we just have to make it thru this week and then Mark will be home!

Mark is Away..

Well Mark Left this week for Training with the Army. He will be gone from Feb. 16-March 2. He has only been gone a few Days and Tanner has already called him and Started crying because he misses his Dad. Which in turn makes me sad, and then I cry. Lets just say its going to be a long couple of weeks. There is a positive part, Since he is only out at Camp Williams which is about 20 min away. We can go out and see him , we can call him and also Skype with him. So tonight after church we are going to go see him and we can't wait! We are proud of our Dad for working so hard for us and Being our Hero!

Hunters Safety

Jordan is taking Hunters Safety and Yesterday she Had her Shooting Test! She PASSED by the skin of her teeth. It was a little nerve racking, since her Dad was away at with the Army this weekend and she has only shot her gun one other time. She did get to take it with 2 friends. {Lexi and Laynie} Here are some of the Pics!





Shooting standing up! One of the hardest ways to shot~ your arms start to get tired.




















Shooting Prone {Laying Down} I think she did the best!









The Girls were very nervous~






























I am glad that part of the Hunters Safety is over. Now she just has to Pass the Written Test and she can Hunt with us this year!






Lonni Being the Supportive Dad! Tanner was on the other side of the glass making faces!

Hmm...

I asked Mark this Morning, What we had done this week so I could put it into my blog. His reply was {You have a Blog}. I said Yes and he then said well put in it we were here! So I guess this last week we were here! Not a whole lot going on. Mark has been busy at work and The kids have been good this week. Oh Jordan started Hunters Safety so she can put in for a Hunting permit this Year. She is pretty excited~ we will see if she is still excited after 7 days of a 3 hour class! Well that's about all for us this week!

Very Proud!..or Maybe not!

This week we had Parent Teacher Conference. Jordan is doing wonderful in School~ she has always been a little behind in her reading, But I think she finally got it! Her scores were very High and she is reading at almost a 8th grade level!! Her grades all are very good and she loves school! She hates to miss and if she is sick she will cry because I make her stay home. There are a few Times I have gone to the school and get her work so she would not get behind. I hope she keep up loving school as she gets older~ we will see!
Now Tanner on the other hand.. Maybe not the proudest Mom moment at his Parent Teacher! He isn't getting the best of grades and not really applying him self. His Teacher is super sweet and tired to say it as nice as she could, But I am not dumb I could tell she was a little frustrated with him. I think he will be doing better once Dad found out and he found out that he couldn't take his football to school until we got a better report. She did say that when he wants to do the work he does really well and he is a Smart kid. Just playing with friends and Football sound like a better time to him, And not School work! Lets hope this will change soon~ or else its going to be a long 9years of School for him!
The Kids also had bowling again this Saturday and Tanner got a 106 thats 50 pins above his average!
Jordan had her first Young Womens basketball game and the killed the other team the score was 56-18!
Well I guess it's good I had more PROUD moments then not proud!

Another Week

Wow this week would never end and the Weekend went way to fast! {that's how it always goes}
So Jordan & Tanner are on a bowling league that is every Saturday morning from 10-12 They have so much fun and are getting pretty good at bowling. Tanner gets pretty tired by the 3rd game, but he is getting better. Jordan just got her own ball, the girl that she bowls with got a new ball for Christmas and gave Jordan her old one. So now she has to get used to using a nice ball and not a house ball that kids just beat up ;) This week they had to Pre-bowl which means they bowl before Saturday and there scores count like they were there. Since I was running a race and Jordan had been asked to babysit for the neighbor. So this last Saturday I ran a 5K, I have been trying to do 1 a month since last June. I have done pretty good. Missed a few months but trying to get back on track. So I found a race for January and asked anyone to join me. I was about to bail on the race when one of the girls I had asked to join me, told me she was all signed up and ready to run. Now I had to run~Well the weather on friday was like 50 degrees and so nice. But Saturday Morning it was not so nice~ it was raining and while we were waiting for them to start the race it started to hail. Lucky for me and the other runners it stopped hailing. But the rain continued... So off we went to run 3.2 miles in the rain. I kept my coat on because it was pretty cold and wet, Well that was a mistake and I was so hot. It made my time to the finish not the best~ but HEY I finished!

Sunday Again..

We made it threw another week! Today we are getting ready to go bid farewell to Our Niece/cousin Michelle Tidwell. She is getting ready to Leave for 18months on a mission to Germany. We are so proud of her for her choice to serve Our Heavenly Father and Teach the People of Germany. Mark and I would like to plan a Trip to Germany while she is there and Visit her. We will see if we can pull it off. Mark has always wanted to Visit Germany and I am game to go on a Vacation! Good Luck Michelle~ we know you will do great!

This week we have had some pretty nice weather is kinda weird. It should be snowing, Not 50degrees. But I think that its is all going to change. Snow is on its way, Just in time for the kids to have a day off of school. Hopefully there will be enough snow for them to enjoy it. and not just be cold. well off to get everyone ready for Church!

A New Year-

I hope this Year I will be better at Blogging.. I really want to turn this into a book and make it part of our family History. With this year our church being at 2:00~ Yuck! I have lots of Sunday morning time. So I am going to blog about the week at least every Sunday.
This Week the kids were back in School. JORDAN is in 6th Grade and in the Student Council. She also just turned 12 {WOW that came Fast} She gets to enjoy Young Womens now and all the things that go with it. They are Playing Basketball right now, she is enjoying learning new things. She also is still taking piano lessons and has started babysitting for people!
TANNER is in the 2nd grade and Loves football~ and Every thing boy. He love the STEELERS and is hoping they play in the Super Bowl. He is full of energy and is doing well in school. but if he had his choice he would rather skip school.

For Christmas Tanner got a Pump Action BB gun and For Jordan's birthday she got a .22 so while they were out of school we took they out to shoot them. I took some pictures I will have to add later.
I do love having the kids out of school and not having to fight with them with homework and getting them to be ready on time for school. But when they are in school the routine is oh so very nice.
Well I better get onto other things and I will post more later.