Yeah!! I still know how to Blog!!!

A couple of weeks ago I turned 40!!! Yes the big FOUR ZERO!! My kids love to tell me I am old and mean. (I cherish the mean comment). We had a ton of friends over for New Years and my birthday. Thanks so much to some great friends who made this party tons of fun. There were some "old" friends and some "new" friends, and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

Thanks to Ray--I love you!! Kim, I am posting this cuz you give me such a hard time about not posting on my blog. My blogs are not nearly as interesting as yours and KyAnn's but I will try to do better.

First week of school

Finally here we are the end of the first week of school. The boys are all getting so grown up, it makes me feel old. Here is Dalton, I don't get very many pictures of Dalton(he hates his picture taken), but I made him do this for me. Dalton started the 10th grade this year. I hope he has a ton of fun in High School. I keep telling him that High School will only be as fun as he makes it.(Dalton just rolls his eyes) He has some fun classes this year--I love you Dalton!!

Connor is in the 6th grade this year. His is very excited this year to "rule the school" He has a great teacher and lots of friends at school. Connor is very smart (when he wants to be) and usually does very well. I am so proud of you Connor--Love you

And last we have baby Gavin. Gavin started the 1st grade this year. He decided he didn't want to go to the charter school again, so he is going to the same elementary as Connor. Gavin is most excited to ride the bus, eat school lunch and NOT have to wear a uniform. Gavin is such a happy kid and loves school. He makes friends wherever he is and will do awesome.. I love you buddy!!

Hair today---Gone, gone gone!!!

This is Connor and his beautiful hair. He has been growing it for quite some time and has been very possesive of it. Ray bribed him, with football camp coming up and the football season to start we told him that he needed to cut it.

He is not real sure if he likes it or not--of course we love him no matter what his hair looks like.

Fruits (or vegetables) of our labor.

Here is the first "harvest" from our garden. Ray planted a ton of vegetables and this is the spinach. We have a ton!!! We or rather Ray planted tomatoes, peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, spinach, onions, zucchini, pumkins and watermelon.

Hopefully the rest of the garden does as well as the spinach has.

Happy 43rd Birthday Ray!!!

Today is Ray's 43rd birthday. I know I tried to make the "boob" cake last year, but since I am not very creative it didn't turn out very well. This year I had my friend Holly make it for me. She loves to make cakes and had a ton of fun with this. I am not sure who had more fun, her husband watching her or her making it, he is a little jealous she has never made him a "CAKE"

It is real hard to see but at the top of the bikini bottom is a "tattoo" it say's Raybeau!!! I hope he likes his cake. Happy Birthday honey, I love you!!!

Computer troubles

My computer has been down for about a month now, we finally got it up and running, but we had to take all my pictures off and delete everything on the computer. Hopefully I will figure out how to put my pictures back on and start blogging again. Hey Melissa I did change my background!!!

Happy Birthday Rayleigh!

Happy 17th birthday to Rayleigh. It is hard to believe she is 17, when I met her she had just turned a year old. Time sure flies. Rayleigh is super smart and a beautiful young lady. She is real sweet to her brothers, and always good for a laugh. Happy Birthday we love you.

Happy Birthday Melissa

Here is my baby sister Melissa on her last birthday. That was last time she could truly say it was her 29th birthday.

Melissa and I weren't real close growing up, I am 9 years older than her. I remember she used to follow me around everywhere and drove me crazy. I love her soo much she is my best friend.

I hope that Melissa has a great birthday, 30 is the new 20!!!!!!

With old age, opening the water bottle becomes much harder.

How was your Monday morning?

So this is how my Monday morning started. I was taking Dalton to school, I was stopped waiting for traffic so that I could turn and WHAM!!!!!!!

We were hit from behind by a 16 year old kid. Poor kid he was so upset. Luckily no one was hurt and most of the damage was to his 1991 Lexus. He called his mom and she came over to the scene. First thing she said after she asked if he was okay, "well you are now, wait until your dad sees this."

I don't know if he was upset from the accident or because he knows what his dad will say when he sees what happened. The officer was real nice and told the poor kid, no big deal I have been in tons of crashes. As long as no one was hurt you will be fine. I would sure hate to be that kid at home tonight!!! Oh wait! I have been that kid I was in a couple of accidents when I was 16, I think the thought of what could happen at home later is alot more upsetting than a little fender bender.

Happy Birthday Gavin!!

Happy Birthday to my baby Gavin. Gavin turned 6 years old today. I asked him this morning if he felt different now that he is 6. He said that he felt way different, cause now he is big!!!!

I can't believe that he came into my life only 6 short years ago. I don't remember what life was like before he was born. He has always been such a sweet momma's boy, I hope he stays that way forever.

Gavin is having a birthday party this weekend with some of his friends. He has never had a "friend" birthday party before, he is very excited. So am I, because I will not have all the kids at my house, we are going to lil flippers gymnastics. It will be so much fun, they entertain the kids for an hour or so then we go to the party room for the goodies. The best part is they clean it all up!!!

So Happy Birthday my sweet boy!! I love you very much and I am very proud of you!!!!

Volcanoes and Soccer games

We are a little out of order here, but I needed to post these. Gavin played his last soccer game of the fall season a couple of weeks ago.. He loves soccer and is very good at it. He scores every game and usually 5 or more.

He is already asking me when spring season starts, he still wants to play. As for mom I need a break from all the sports between soccer and football, I am exhausted.

These pictures are backwards. Connor had to make a working volcano for his 5th grade science class. I hate projects like this, but we did have fun. We made a ton of salt dough to make the volcano. My nephews were at our house while their parents were in Hawaii, and they had tons of fun helping to make the volcano. Ray painted the volcano and added the dinosaurs (i thought this was Connor's project). Ray did get carried away with the dino's, so I had to hide the rest of them, otherwise there would have been 50 dino's on the volcano.

Connor took the volcano to school and they got to make them erupt.. He didn't want to use the diet coke and mentos method so we used old fashioned water, baking soda, and vinegar. Also added a bit of dish soap and red food coloring to make it look real. Connor said that his volcano was a hit.

MINI BOWL CHAMPS!!!!!

Yeah!!! Football is finally over. Connor's team the West Haven Grizzlies are the Jr. Pee Wee champions 2008. Gavin and his friend Brooklyn were the half-time entertainment!!

Connor played a great game as did all the kids. We are so proud of all that he accomplished this year. The game was played at Weber State University- Stewart Stadium. The kids all had a great time and played their hearts out.

The final score was West Haven 34 and Plain City 8. CONGRATULATIONS GRIZZLIES!!!!!

Here is a great picture of Connor with his coach Mike Meacham. Connor got to run in the plays to the quarterback. Thanks to Mike and all the coaches for a great year!!!! Hope to see you all next year!!!

GO GRIZZLIES!!!

I know it has been a long time since I posted--I have no excuses, I am a slacker!!!! Today Connor played his football game at Weber High School. It was the semi-finals for his Jr. Pee Wee team! Connor plays in West Haven and is on the West Haven Maroon Jr. Pee Wee team. This season has been a blast. Connor's team has fantastic coaches, and he has learned so much, and I am not just talking football.
This season the West Haven Maroon Jr. Pee Wee has been undefeated. The boys all work so hard and give it everything they've got. I am not a big football fan, but when it is my son out there playing I absolutely love it!!! Connor is #19 this is the first year he has ever played, and he loves it.
MINI-BOWL here we come. Connor's team won the semi-final in the playoffs and are off to the mini-bowl next week, which will be played at Weber State University! I am so proud of Connor he has worked so hard and really accomplished more than I could have imagined!!
Good luck Grizzlies!!! and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Happy Birthday MOM!!!

Yes, two posts today!!! Today is my mom's birthday. Last night we celebrated with the family, it was a combined party for Mom, Dalton, and Connor. Three birthdays in one week gets a little crazy, and I think everyone gets sick of cake and ice cream. My dad brought the birthday cake, I think we might run out!!!! All the guys went out back and played a game of football with the kids. It was fun to watch them all have so much fun.Naoko's mom Emeko was here from Japan, she is here visiting with Jake and Naoko and baby Ty, her first grandchild. She is such a fun lady, and the kids love her. She has just kind of adopted all the grandkids as her own.

Here is another picture of the "kids" playing football. I hope the "men" didn't get beat up too much!!!! Happy Birthday MOM!!!

Happy Birthday Connor

I am such a slacker mom!!! I am a few days late with this post. Friday Sept. 5 we celebrated Connor's 11th birthday. Connor was born Sept. 5th, 1997 and weighed 8lbs. We didn't get to do much on Connor's birthday, between school and football practice our days are pretty full.
We did manage to go and get pizza after football practice, and I had ran and got a cake so that we could sing to Connor and have cake and ice cream. Connor wanted a skateboard for his birthday, but not a "Walmart" skateboard. So Ray took him to get a custom made skateboard, he was pretty excited.

Connor is such a fun kid to be around. He is full of life, and always keeps us on our toes!! I love Connor very much and feel very blessed to have such a wonderful son. Happy Birthday Connor.
I love you!!!!

Happy Birthday Dalton

Yesterday Dalton turned 14 years old. It is hard to believe how old he is, time flies when you are having fun. Dalton was born at RAF Lakenheath, England. Ray was stationed there from Feb 1994 to Feb 1997. Dalton was born at 10:10pm on Aug. 30, 1994 he weighed 8lbs 3oz and was 21 1/2 inches long.
Here is a picture of Dalton with my Grandpa Dalton. We named baby Dalton after him and I think that it just tickled him to death. My mom and Grandpa came to England when Dalton was born. They were actually on the plane, when he was born. I was so happy to see them.
Dalton has been such a joy to our family. Even though he is a moody teenager now, I love him more and more everyday.
Happy Birthday Dalton. We love you very much. Ray is taking Dalton, Connor, Rayleigh, and a friend of Dalton's to Speedstreet in Layton today, they are going to be go-cart racing all day!!

First Day of School

Here we are on the first day of school. Can I just say I am soooo excited that the kids are going back to school. As you can see Dalton isn't quite as excited as I am, but he was up and ready pretty early. Dalton is in the 9th grade this year at Rocky Mountain Jr. High, he is getting so big.
Connor got up and ready before I even got up, I don't think that it will last long, but I can enjoy it for today. He left for the bus stop at 7:35am and the bus doesn't come until 8am. I am sure by tomarrow he will be back to not wanting to get up and fighting me the whole time. Connor is in the 5th grade at Hooper Elem. They grow up so fast.
And last but not least, here is Gavin. He is sooo excited to start kindergarten today, he can barely stand himself!!! Gavin will be going to Quest Academy (charter school) and yes that is a uniform he is wearing. I will have 3 hours to myself everyday, I have no idea what I will do with myself, I am sure I can find something!!!

Football

I know that I haven't posted in ages, my sister keeps reminding me, so here is a new post!! Connor has started playing football for West Haven city recreation (Hooper doesn't have a recreation department).
Connor has been in conditioning for about 3 weeks and had his first game last Saturday!! It was a blow-out!!! Connor's team, the West Haven Grizzlies (marroon) won their first game against Mountain Crest the score was 40-0. Connor is #19 and did a great job!!!
Here is a picture of Gavin (in the red) holding the banner at halftime for the team to run through
The team that Connor is playing on is a great team and he has a great coach. This same team and coach went undefeated last year and also won the mini-bowl. I sure hope that Connor has as much fun playing as I do watching. I think he is having fun, minus all the bruises he comes home with everyday after practice. GOOD LUCK GRIZZLIES!!!!!!!