Well...

So at least once a week I get on the computer and read my friends blogs.. I love to see all the fun things my friends are doing in there lives~ the good times, the sad, and all the pictures that go along with it~ I always hope that everyone has updated there blog so I can read it... Some times I am dissapointed! ( Jana E.)!! But do I ever look at my own blog that is never up to date??! Thats Right I want everyone else to update and I am not doing it myself! I always have the best reasons.. We haven't done anything worth writing about~ or My I haven't down loaded any pictures of What we have done~ Well the other day I was having lunch with some great friends~ And we were talking about how you can make a blog book of all of your blog and how fun it will be for our kids to look back on all the fun things we did as a family! It's almost like a big Journal! I know that I should really be keeping a Journal for my kids..but since I am not this should count for something!! So Here's to a new year!! I will be better at updating my blog atleast once a week! Hope you enjoy are family blog!

Busy Couple of weeks!

We have had a busy last couple of weeks~ here are some fun things we have been up too!! Jordan sang at the Festival of trees and we went out shooting our guns in the freezing cold! It was too cold...Jordan and I stayed in the truck!

Tanner Shoting Moms Pink Gun!! He Loved it!

The Gang.. Mark, Ruth, Houstin, Joshua, Lyman,Jane.

Jordan Dancing to Rocking around the Christmas Tree!

They did a great job!

My Grandma~

Betty Benton Mann 1926 ~ 2009 After 83 wonderful years on earth, Betty Benton Mann returned home to her Father-in-Heaven, the Savior, Jesus Christ, many loving family members and friends, and her beloved husband, Ray, on December 4, 2009, nearly two years to the day after Ray's passing.Born July 3, 1926 in Boise, Idaho to Mamie Thompson and Otto G. Benton, Betty was the fifth of nine children. She was raised in Boise, Twin Falls, Idaho and Redondo Beach, California. From the day she first walked herself to services as a young child, Betty was a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). As a teenager, she was president of her ward Golden Gleaner organization and helped plan and run the first ever LDS Youth Conference in southern California. After graduating from Redondo Union High School, she moved to North Salt Lake to help her oldest sister, Wanda, care for her children, and it was there that she met her future husband, Ray Elwood Mann. Betty and Ray were married in the Salt Lake Temple of the LDS church on May 4, 1948. They settled in Bountiful, Utah where they raised three daughters and two sons, while she also worked as a dental assistant for many years. Betty was active in the PTA in Bountiful where she ran the Halloween Carnival for three years and served as PTA president for two years. After their youngest children graduated from high school in 1975, Betty and Ray spent an adventurous year in 1976 in West Germany for Ray's employer, Chicago Bridge & Iron. The next year, Ray was transferred to world headquarters in Chicago where they lived until 1984. During their time in Naperville, ILL, Betty filled an eight-year volunteer assignment with LDS Social Services working with out-of-wedlock mothers, including serving as a counselor to birth mothers and transporting newborns to adoptive parents. She also served for a time as a member of the Relief Society presidency in the Glenbard Ward in Illinois. Betty and Ray moved to Sandy, Utah in 1984 where they made their home for the rest of their lives. In Sandy, Betty served for 18 years in the LDS church's Data Entry Program in the Canyon View Stake. She and Ray also served a one-year LDS Service Mission in 1994 near Bakersfield, California for the Home Management Department. Betty was preceded in death by her parents, five siblings, her husband, and one son, Clyde. She is survived by four children, Linda, Pam (Harold) Egginton, Todd, and Allisha (David) Politis; 18 grandchildren (evenly divided between boys and girls); and 14 great-grandchildren. A viewing will be held at Mountain View Mortuary at 3115 East 7800 South in Cottonwood Heights, Utah from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tues., Dec. 8, 2009. The funeral will be held at the same location at 11 a.m. on Wed., Dec. 9, preceded by an additional viewing from 9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Interment, on site, will follow immediately after the funeral. The family extends its heartfelt thanks and admiration for all of the fantastic doctors and medical providers who worked with Betty in addressing her health concerns during the past few years. In addition, Betty (and Ray) loved living at South Towne Ranch in Sandy, Utah where they made many wonderful friends. Betty had a sharp mind and wit her entire life, and she loved studying the gospel of Jesus Christ and learning about LDS church history. She was a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grand mother and friend, and although she will be missed, we are happy that she has "graduated" from this life to be reunited with her husband and best friend, Ray. Goodbye for now, Betty.

Go Cougars!

Today while we watched the BYU vs. UTAH game the kids thought it would be fun to start a little war with the nerf guns! After about 15 min of shooting back and forth Mark sais ok thats enough. Jordan answered back with "it's not over til the Old man Cry's" oh the things kids say! Its so funny! Well back to the game half time is over! Go Cougars!!

I Think this will be my last birthday!

So Since I am never going to turn the Big 30~ Novermber 23 was my last Birthday I am going to Celebrate!! I see no reason to turn 30 so I will just stay in my 20's for a while! At work people asked me how old I was and I asked them to guess! I got a range of answers from 22-25! So I would just stay Yep. Some people started to catch on to the fact that I do have a almost 10 year old, I have been married 10years, So then they said I would have to be a little older. But I am still not going to turn 30! It has been a great 29 years thou.. I have great parents,wonderful brothers, a great husband, and two lovely kids who I would not trade for anything. I also have great friends who are so sweet! This year for my birthday we went to the Mayan Resturant, the kids had lots of fun watching the cliff divers and the food was ok too. Marks sister Ruth and her husband went with us also it was great. My friends at work also threw me a party and we had lunch. They spoiled me with lots of gift cards since they know how much I love to shop and how I love clothes! I can't wait to go spend them and get some fun new stuff! I have been spending too much time on my black friday ads that I haven't spent them yet! Thanks to everyone who made my birthday great!!

Time Flies when your havin fun!

Wow where does the time go?? I really need to be better at up dating my blog! Lets see what have we been up to?? Well we had halloween~~ Mark and I dressed up like Fred and Wilma, Jordan was a AF cheer leader and Tanner was a dirt bike rider.. I will post pictures but I am on the wrong computer. The kids had a good time Trick or Treating, Tanner was a little scard and cryed a few times..he is such a wimp! I am probally to blame When he was little he got scared really easy and It was so funny! Guess I am not going to win mother of the Year! I seems like the month of october and November came and went so quick I can't believe December is just around the Corner! I love this time of year~ it's one of my favorites. I get to shop alot and I love to do that. Also I love to take the kids and go to Temple Square and see the lights! It's just a great time of year!

The Deer Hunt! ( pics to come!)

This is the deer I was wanted to see this year!! I was all ready to shoot A Big Buck! Most years we leave our kids home on the opening weekend of the deer hunt. This year there was no one to leave our kids with, Marks parents had plans to go hunting and Kims mom had a total Hip replacement and was not up to watching kids all weekend! So we asked Kims sweet niece Mariah to go camping with us and watch the kids while we went hunting! This year we drew northern tags~ we really wanted Central tags so we didn't have to go far, but that was not our luck!

We put in with our friends to hunt together so we all loaded up the campers and went hunting! It was Rob, Leslie, Chanse, Rock, Coleman, Kayden. Oh and us Mark, Kim, Jordan, Tanner and Mariah! We got up on the mountain Friday afternoon and set up camp! Then we went looking for a good spot to hunt in the morning! Well we found what looked to be a great spot, So at 5:00 am we got up and set out to find a Buck. Well after much hunting all we found was more hunters and no deer. Later that day Mark, Leslie, Rob, Coleman went on a hike to see if they could see a deer and the one they did see... Mark Couldn't shoot because the sun was in his scope and he didn't want to shoot. About the time he decided to shoot anyways he heard a another hunter shoot and the deer was gone. This is how the restof the weekend went. we saw a doe or two but no bucks! It was very disappointing to not see anything. Maybe next year we will see something~ I don't feel too bad Noeof our friends got a Deer this year~ They must be hiding out!

More of Our fun!! Disneyland!

Disney land!

I dont think that I will ever finish my posts for Disneyland I am just going to add a bunch of the pictures from out trip! we had such a fun time and can't wait to do it again!

Sunday in Cali! WE went to Six Flags! as soon as the gates open we were on a run to the X2 I guess if you wait the line gets super long so we wanted to go there first! I tired to talk Jordan into not going but she said no way! All I can tell you about the ride is that it was dark! Oh but maybe that is because I had my eyes closed the whole time! Jordan asked me if I saw the fire.. I said I felt it get hot! Again my eyes were closed!! We didn't want to ruin our camera so there are not many pictures of this day! But we did get really wet on the log ride and lucky for us we were not on the ride that Joshua( Ruths Husband) threw up on! all in all it was a super fun day!

Jordan. Tanner, Haley with Tweety!
This is when I am tellig Jordan we can get off and we don't have to ride!!

Mark and Steve!

Meeting up with everyone. We got to Cali on Saturday everyone else flew in on sunday and then drove to Six Flags and we me them there!

Getting in line to park! Making sure everyone has there tickets!

Disney land~

I guess I better start blogging our trip to Disneyland!

We dedided to go to Disneyland about 2 years ago.... Marks family goes on a family reunion every year, we usually go camping. But 2 years ago Marks mom decided it would be fun if we could all save our money and go to Disneyland!! So We all went, Dennis, James, Michell, Ruth, Joshua, Austin, Houstin, Judy, Weston, Huxley, Kianna, Baylon, Amanda, Haley, Steve, Mike, Jane, Lyman and US!

The cheapest we could find for airline tickets was about $500 plus then we would need to rent a car about $400. So we decided it would be cheaper to drive! Marks brother Dennis lives in Hurrican so on friday we headed to his house. We got a late start leaving out house so we didn't get top his house until about 10:30pm. We chatted with them and decided we would get up early and Head to Vegas! (These pictures are backwards) The kids wanted to go to M& M world. Well we left a little too early so we had to wait for it to open! When marks was little and they went to CAli. They stopped at Calico Ghost town! so we thought it would be fun too! Tanner wasn't too sure if he liked the whole ghost town idea.. Until we explained what a ghost town is! Here we are in Jail..Tanner looks so sad!

Here the kids are being school kids, in the back ground you can kinda see the school.

Tanner was feeling a little dirty, So we paid the 5 cents for him to take a bath!

Here we are waiting for M &M world to open! The kids loved seeing all the different colors of m&ms!

Good thing it opened at 9 and not 10 it would have been a long wait!

This is just part of our adventure more to come!

Disneyland

If you can't tell we are going to the happest place on earth!! More to come we leave on friday!