PRESIDENTIAL EDUCATION AWARD

Courtney received the Presidential Education Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement today at her awards ceremony. I was so proud of her! She is an excellent student and I hope this encourages her to work hard every year. She also earned an award for being on the Student Council and for being on the "Respect" team. You go girl!

ARROW OF LIGHT

Dillon received his "Arrow of Light" Cub Scout award last night. This is the highest achievement in Cub Scouts. It is a lot of hard work to receive this award. We are proud of Dillon and all that he has accomplished! On to Boy Scouts and the trail to Eagle!

I'm Bored Today

Just changing up the template...

I'm loving BLUE lately, so here it is!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DILLON! (FINALLY)

HOW BAD OF A MOM AM I?

Dillon's Birthday was way back in April! I am finally getting this post done on May 15th?

We were having a hard time getting a time when we could all be there to celebrate, we finally decided on May 5th - and still Jessica had to miss it. Dillon chose to go out to dinner to The Outback, then we came home to open his presents. Dillon was so patient to wait that long for them, don't ya think? He's such an awesome kid and we love him so much.

I am so grateful that he is my son and that I get to be his mom!

New Rollerblades!
New "Under Armour" who knew?
And a Brand New Bowling Ball!

Dillon loves late night bowling with his dad!

Courtney Loves Majors Softball

Courtney has had a really fun year playing softball. Her team is the Mariners. They have finished regular season play and are number 2 going in to the tournament! They have a by tonight, so their first game will be on Friday night at Quail Run at 6:00 p.m. Hopefully, they will have a good game and then the Champtionship game is on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. The #1 team has not lost any games though - they are really tough! At least their pitcher is - too dang fast! Here are a couple of pictures from her last couple of games. They are not that great because I have to hold the camera down low so it doesn't look like I'm taking a picture. (I always seem to jinx the kids when they know I brought the camera.) And then there's the fence in front - but here she is, hitting, running and playing 3rd base.

Thirsty? Watch this "Twilight" Movie Trailer

"Twilight" the movie will come out in December, but here's a teaser for ya! Got it from my sister, Kristen.

My Birthday Post from Kristen

This is a post that my sister, Kristen did for me on her blog on My birthday! It was so nice of her to do that and I just wanted to be able to remember it, so I copied it over to my blog.

This picture is from Dave's b-day party.

Today is a great day cause its the birthday of two of my faves in my life. My OLDER sister :) Shawna, and my awesome husband (also older, ha ha) Dave. This post will be in honor of my sister, Shawna!

I totally wrecked this picture back in the day.... should have put those on me, I suppose :)

Shawna is 6 years older than me, so most of my pictures of her start at about, well, 6! I don't even have many of those. I remember my whole life looking up to Shawna. She was beautiful, talented, popular, had tons of boyfriends, etc. etc. I just thought I wanted to be just like Shawna. My greatest memories, of which I've already shared but will again..... are cruising in her car. Shawna was always great to take me cruising around in her camero, in Lehi, listening to Pat Benetar, REO Speedwagon, Olivia Newton-John, Billy Idol, and then soon came Bon Jovi!!!.... Of which her love was strong and has stayed that way since!
This is Shawna and her daughter, Courtney, and husbannd Chris,at the latest concert, just a few weeks ago, she had like front row seats!! The picture of her hand up is right after being able to "touch" Jon's hand.... ooohhhh!!!

Shawna had the coolest of cars, why I don't have pictures, I'm not sure, but wish I did!!! She had a Camero that she and my brother shared that had a crazy paint job that was sooooo cool back in the day (I guess, ha ha), then she got a ZX. This is the car that she let me borrow to get my drivers license. I LOVED driving this car and if she was ever leaving somewhere I'd beg to borrow it and always promise to bring it back washed. She'd always let me, and I felt so dang cool in that car. I loved hanging out with Shawna and her "boy" friends. I was such a red-headed, freckled, chubby, tag-along.... (bless my heart) but she always let me. Two's company, three's a party they'd say.

She always had the coolest hair!!!

Give me a break!!! Just look at that hair!!! She's got an awesome husband and the cutest family!
Happy Birthday Shawna!!!
Love ya tons and hope you have the best day EVER!!!