Skates

This post is for Sam. Lately he has been telling me about how he can skate on the sidewalk all by himself now,so I was telling him that next time he came to my house to bring his skates so we could go skating together, then so he asked me if I would put a picture of my skates on my blog so he could see what they looked like. So here it is Sam.

Tour De St. George

On the 28th of March Kassie, Aaron, Jared, Che', Dad, and I all rode our bikes in the Tour De St. George. We all rode in the 30 mile ride. It was so much fun to take a weekend off and have fun spending time with family.

Me and Sam just hanging out waiting for everyone else so we could go to dinner.

Kassie and Aaron

Jared and Che'.

Mom and Dad waiting for dinner at the pizza factory.

Just out side the Pizza Factory Sam and Garret found this old fire truck. They had fun playing on it while we were waiting to get our table.

Sam and Garret

Sam and his dog Rosebud. Sam didn't go anywhere without her. It was so cute.

From left-right- Me, Aaron, Garret, Kassie, Dad, Che', and Jared. This was all of us right before the ride.

Dad and I.

Jared and Che'

Kassie and Aaron

Me and Kassie

All of us just after we finished the ride. It was so much fun riding with everyone.

Aaron and Garret running through the water.

Garret playing in the water. He was so funny the day before this picture he was riding in the car with me and my parents while we were driving the course. He kept saying that he didn't want to be in the car and he just wanted to go back to the hotel and go swimming.

Mom: We're going to go back to the hotel soon pumpkin

Garret: I'm not a pumpkin I'm just a "big kid"

It was so funny.

Sam looking like a stud in his cowboy boots.


This is my favorite picture of my dad and Garret walking back to the cars.

Helping Kassie out

After Kassie had surgery on her foot my mom and I went down and helped her out. It was really fun to have my mom there to have fun and help me out since I couldn't do a ton because of school. It was also really nice to have my mom there because I got really sick and slept for like 2 days straight.

Aaron had to work all night the night before one of Kassie's appointments so I got to take her. After the Doctor left the room we hurried and took a few pictures of her foot before she got her cast on. Its pretty sick.

Kassie in her wheel chair. She got to where she could get around her house really good. She was also able to spin some pretty good doughnuts.

Since Kassie couldn't really do much we did a lot of puzzles. We actually did five puzzles but I don't have a picture of the fifth one. It was really fun doing these puzzles. Kassie would stay up really late and just have fun laughing and talking while doing puzzles.

During the Saturday session of conference it rained a lot. Sam had been asking to go jump in the puddles all day. So that night while Aaron was at the priesthood session Sam, Garret and I went puddle jumping.

Sam and Garret would go up and down the gutters saying march march march, and would march like soldiers. It was so much fun and we went inside soaked.

This is all of us after a fun time puddle jumping.

Sam and Garret really like to make cookies. One day Kassie asked me to make some cookies for something she had to go to. So Sam and Garret had fun helping me. If you ask my mom she will tell you that Kassie is addicted to sugar (even though we didn't even have very much sugar while we were there.

One day we were at a fabric store and saw these masks. I had my camera in my purse, so I had Kassie take pictures of me with all of them on.


Hillary Clinton
John McCain
Barack Obama (our new President of the USA)


These are just a few fun pictures of Garret that I got while I was there. He is such a funny boy and has such a funny since of humor.



Garret with a really big smile

I think this is one of my favorite pictures of Garret. He really likes to play cowboys and super hero's. I took this picture one day while he was in a cowboy mood.

One night I went into the boys room at around 10:00 and found Garret wide awake and sitting at the end of his bed. I thought It was pretty funny.

When I lived in Aztec New Mexico as a kid we lived on MORRIS DR. I thought it was the coolest thing having our road named after us. Ever since we moved away I've been wanting a picture of it so when I was there this time we got a picture of it.

I thought I would get a picture of me by the sign.

On our way out of town we stopped at my favorite place to get ice cream, the "vanilla moose". This place brings back such good memories from my childhood. I remember going to this place to get ice cream cones for FHE. They are so good and huge.

LOTOJA

I thought I would play catch up and post pictures of the LOTOJA. At the beginning of September my brothers all did the lotoja bike race. They started in Logan UT at 7:30 in the morning and rode 206 miles and over 3 mountain passes. In the first 5-10 miles my brother Jordan got in a crash with a bunch of other bikers. They all finished, some with cuts and bruises and others with really bad helmet hair.

This is me and Jordan the night before the race picking up their packets.

Aaron, Gary, Jordan and Jared right before the race started.

All of the girls were the support crew for the boys. We would go the the next stop and have fresh food and water for them. We had fun driving all day and some of the night watching them ride. Kassie made a ROMO (rogers morris) Racing team logo. She put it on some iron on paper so the girls could make shirts.

This was me on top of the last mountain pass playing with Kassie's crutches. We stopped to take some pictures of the boys riding past.

I took this picture of Jordan's bloody knees at the first stop. They looked pretty bad. He also bent the rim on his front tire, which he rode with most of the race. At the last stop that we made with them Jared traded tires with him.

More Pictures from New Mexico

Sam making a silly face

Sam and Garret relaxing after a long day at church

Sam sleeping with the sword that his uncle Jared made for him. It was so cute, for about a week he wouldn't go to bed until he had his sword in his hand

Trying on "Papa's" glasses

Garret is always trying to get every last drop of ice cream out of his bowl.

Looks like he got most of it out of his bowl. Whatever isn't in his tummy in on his face. Silly boy.

Garret getting loves from his "mama"
My grandma has this apron and chef hat, and Garret loves to put it on and play "Cooker Man"

This is a picture of me after giving blood. I did really good while I was giving blood but after I was done I got a little bit dizzy and passed out. I did a pretty good face plant so I hear.
This is garret playing cowboy before we went to a rodeo. I'd have to say he's the cutest cowboy I've ever seen.