Just for you baby sister

Someone (ahem) has been texting me all
morning, bugging me to put up Randa's cheer pictures.
OK OK!!
Here's my "Pootie" on her first football
game ever, being a cheerleader. ( I still say GAG!)
But I have to admit, she was pretty cute,
and she did a good job.
sigh.

Randa wasn't the only one performing Friday night....
Taylor is playing in the pep band. Nothing like having your son, surrounded
with a bunch of girls. Hmmm...
not a good sign.
But like the little stud that he is,
he played his heart out, and smiled away.

Some of our friends.... Lisa (rock on mama!) and sweet Amy.
Gotta love the sax players!

... and ANYTIME I can take a photo of Baylee - it's MY lucky day!
xoxo love you B!

So, I came home at half time, Brin and Stock
had enough of football at that point,
and I drove in and saw this ...

I thought to myself,
"NOT a bad view at all from my backyard!"

I think I'm going to like having this as my backyard. I really enjoy my view.

LOVE being able to check out my horses.

Maybe we will survive Wyoming??

I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN TO MY DAUGHTER.......
I've never seen so much purple in my life.
GO CATS!!
(first game tonight. more pictures to come later, after I gag!)
;-)

Ok, so I still haven't REALLY posted on our summer...
I will, I will. I just need to get this house finished! Ugh!

So, a couple more phone photos so that it doesn't look like I've fallen off the face of the earth again!

first day of school, (Bryan's phone, I had the real
camera, I just need to upload!? Grr!)

This was taken about a mile
from our house. Keesa & Trevor came up
with Trevor's family this first part of August.
All the boys, (and Trev's sister!) went
fishing by our house. Taylor and
Trev were the only one's who caught anything.
Nice fish, huh?
Yeeehaw Taylor!!

Ok, behind our house is a HUGE
mountain of dirt, courtesy of the basement.
Living in a 5th wheel all summer, the
kids kinda got bored, (can't understand
why though?) One day, one of the
projects happened to be digging a tunnel
through the whole mound. I'm SO glad I
wasn't there for this one.Thanks so much Bryan
for letting our kids have fun.
THEY COULD HAVE DIED!
I guess that's why dad's are
cooler than mom's.They did have a good time.
I was away on a photo job, and got
this picture text right in the middle.
To say that I freaked out is an understatement.

So I've been offline. I need to spend a day updating and uploading photos of our summer. But until then, here's a couple recent things....
I was goofing around with the kids one day in the park, ended up with this.
I love it.

I took this Sunday night with my phone. It was my last picture of my baby actually being my baby. Monday morning, she left for the big world of Kindergarten.
TALK ABOUT SAD!

This was tonight, again with a cell phone, in a dark parking lot,
mmmwhoohaa.
Actually, it was our family anniversary today. This is the day that Bryan and I
went on our first date, 9 years ago,
WITH ALL OF OUR KIDS.
So we celebrate every year, by going out and getting ice cream.
The photo documented the occasion.

So there's a little taste of us. Just barely a nibble.
I will blog more tomorrow!!
YEEHAW!

I'M ON THE NET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

Quick update

So here we are at Pageant.
This is a minimal update - as anyone who really
knows me would notice - I take SO many photos
of Pageant, it's impossible to put
them all up here.
But these are a couple of my favs so far......

~Maranda against the sunset~

~My Favorite Red-head~

~Taylor, Conner & Kaden, (the 3 Josephs) BEFORE haircuts...

...and AFTER!~

~Brinlee with 3rd Nephi, (although we like OUR 3rd Nephi better!)~

~Uh... Stock is the "Henshaw Child" again....~

~This is a cool shot I did, I caught
Taylor as Joseph, Maranda as Emma
and the Temple, all in one. I love how
it looks like 3 different photos though!~

~My Taylor as Joseph~

~Behind the scene of Randa as Emma~

~Nothin like having your kids go bug one of the Apostles, right?~

~It was actually very cool to meet Elder L. Tom Perry.
Nice perk for doing pageant, right?~

~Imagine hanging out here every night for 3 weeks. Doesn't get
much better. I love it here!~

It's pageant time again for us

I HAVEN'T BLOGGED IN FOREVER!! We packed up our rental, moved out, and traveled down to Ephraim Utah to live for a month - and in the process, I've neglected my blog. This month gets really busy though with all the practices and performances, so I'm not sure how dedicated I will be......

We love this time of year. This year is no different. Even though we've traveled 8 hours, we're living in a "camper" for a month, and I'm away from my sweetheart, it's worth every struggle to be here. This week has been practice in the church.

These are just a few shots (of the many, of course!) of us,
our friends, and many others that we love from our wonderful
Mormon Miracle Pageant.

All the kids love to show off for my camera.... especially our friends
that we see on a yearly basis.
Nice one Daniel!!

Gotta love my Ellen. *cheese*
(one of the directors)

Stockton as the "Henshaw child" ...... again.

The "CIA" scene. Sheesh there's a lot of people this year!
Actually the largest cast they've ever had!

Um.... need I say more? Director Judy, gotta love her too.

YEAAHHHHH KELLY! Such a stud.. He wants to
dedicate this to his awesome hot wife, Mimi!
(yes, he actually said that!)

My sweet kids, and their friends. (sigh)

Director "Swens" telling our friend Devin what to do, where to go......

Ok, so we come all the way from Wyoming, and Taylor ends up being best friends with our landlord's nephew?!! FREAKY! Taylor is portraying Joseph Smith this year, and Derrin is his Angel Moroni. Big turds. They cause the directors to laugh quite a bit.

Sexy little Randa in her dance.

We love Laren (Swens)
As the director, he has to put up with a LOT. But he does it with such class.
LAREN ROCKS!!

Ahh.... Dakotah. No words to express......
love ya!

Marla, and BRINLEE in Angel practice.

Devon, another friend, is Samuel this year. Yeahhh!
He get's to stand on the wall of the temple! How cool is that?!


Ok, I got busted. This is our friend Marla, (who came down
from Wyoming with us)
she was using my other camera.....
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to give it to her???!!!

Ha ha! but I get the last word Marla!! SWEET THREADS!!!
She makes one HOT Nephite!

So....
On with the pageant! Good times ahead!