Memorial Day

"We cherish too, the Poppy red
that grows on fields where valor led,
it seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies."

-Moina Michael

Look on the website below and refresh your memory on why we celebrate memorial day.

http://www.usmemorialday.org

A Toddlers Point of View

The world from Levi's point of view- closer to the ground. As a toddler Levi's goals in life are 1. Explore, touch and get into as many things as possible, 2. Have lots of Mommy-Levi, Daddy-Levi time, 3. Wear his "orrrrrange shorts" everyday of his life.

One of Levi's past times lately has been taking pictures with my new camera. At first he turned the camera around and took pictures of himself, then he figured out how to take them the right way.

If you can't tell, this is Olivia waking up from her nap. Levi ran into the bedroom, woke her up and took some pictures. He figured out that he could get himself and Olivia in the picture if he took a picture in the mirror.

More to come on Levi's favorite past times on a future post!

This may be the LAST TIME...for a long time

On May 15th the family gathered for Hal and Whitney's birthday party. It was a great time to take a family picture since it'll be a long time until we're all together again. Whitney is turning in her mission papers soon and Marc and Courtney are moving to San Antonio Texas.


Levi loves his aunts and uncles! His nickname for Whitney is "Whit". This last weekend Caitlin asked if he could spend the night. He had a great time sleeping in the family room and watching "Finding Nemo". The next morning at 6:30 Uncle Marc walked into the family room and found Caitlin fast asleep and Levi playing outside with Dakota, the German Shepherd.

Caitlin and Dallin with Olivia!

March HEAT WAVE!

Braden and I took a weekend trip to Utah for Brett Heywood's wedding. It was cold, maybe in the 30's or 40's. The day we got home from Utah it was in the 90's here in California. The heat wave inspired the first swim of the year at Ashley's pool. My niece Siena and nephew Jaden came along for the fun.
I think I've truly become a "MOM" because the water was too cold for me to dunk. There was a time in my life where it didn't matter how cold the water was- I'd play in it for hours. I guess I'm not patient enough anymore to wait for my whole body to go numb.

My college career started Summer 2000 at Mt Sac and ended on December 9, 2006 when I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Cal State San Bernardino! Right after this picture was taken Olivia worked the rose into her mouth.

Three schools (four if I'm allowed to count Pomona College Orchestra), one Husband, and two Children later I finally finished with a degree in Liberal Arts with emphasis in music.

Thank you to everyone who helped me accomplish my goal by supporting me, babysitting, and by listening to me endlessly talk about the classes I was taking.

Christmas Eve 2006-Levi and Olivia

Today I was viewing all my favorite blogs and was enjoying all the up-to-date photos-until I got to one that hadn't posted for over a month. I thought, "Boring!"...then I got to thinking...then got to feeling a little guilty...so here I am, creating my own family blog. Because, what's worse than going to a blog with out-dated posts? Going to a blog and finding absolutely nothing!