Simply Beautiful

As I promised, more Senior Carlie.
Josh Bloom was the photographer and I think he did a super great job.










Here's to Carlie the graduate class of '09!!!

Milissa and Edward

I work with a super cute girl who made reading the Twilight series so much fun.


She thought Edward was such a dream boat she had him tattooed on her ankle.

Milissa is so pretty, so fun and incrediably talentd.

Scandia and America

For New Year's Eve Eve the youth in our stake and surrounding stakes get to spend the night at Scandia (an amusement park) for their end of the year dance. Julie and I have started a tradition of driving these fine kids and then she and I go on a hot date. So great times are had by all.

I think all these kids are super great. Here's to a new year!!

New Subject:
One month has passed since I have put anything new on my blog. One reason is I am discouraged. For some reason when I upload a picture, the only thing that shows up on my computer screen is a very lengthy code. Which means it's really hard to talk about the cute pictures because I can't see them. It is very sad for me. I may have to break down and get a new blog. That makes me sad too, because I don't know how to preserve what is on this one.

A Great Subject:
I wanted to add a post on this historic day. President Obama was sworn in as the new President of the United States today. I wanted to let you all know I feel so blessed to be an American. I feel so blessed to live in such a great land and beautiful land with wonderful people who strive to make the world a better place. I love the beautiful flag that represent our amazing country. I feel so blessed to be an American.

Senior Carlie

Isn't she beautiful.
Josh, a friend of Carlie's who graduated last year offered to take her senior pictures and he did an awesome job. We met him at the University of Redlands and he worked his magic. I'll show you more of "senior" Carlie later. This is the one that will be in the year book.

Tah Tah for now.

Blog Master

Julie is my blog master and helps me with blog things. Apparently she also makes comments on my other daughters blogs in my name....and I wish it didn't make me laugh so much. So here's to ONE of my favorite daughters.

M & M Party

Welcome to the M&M Party.
What does M&M stand for? Marshall Miner...and he's turning 16.
There was lots to do for the big event, starting with the M&M invitations.


First thing - we're off for a fancy shopping trip at the .99 store.


After lots of silliness the girls found the perfect presents and had a great time doing it. Notice Shelley is holding a Mr. Incredible pez dispenser...I think it was totally fun that Shelley joined us for our M&M weekend. She even made M&M cookies to help celebrate the big day.


After the fun shopping trip the girls got down to business and started writing a different girls name on each of the 150 hearts, then the hearts were taped onto skewer. Shelley brought her baby name book so we could use some of the crazy girl names from it.


After our 2AM heart attacking and sidewalk chalking we went to kidnap Marshall for breakfast at 7AM. I think the front yard looks awesome. We found out later that Brother Miner watched us do the whole thing and was so impressed with how quickly and quietly we worked our magic. The whole process took all of 8 minutes!


About a month ago I called Sister Miner and told her I had a weird question to ask her..."what time do your automatic sprinklers go off?" Then like school girls we giggled as I described the plans. So when we got to the door at 7AM on the dot, Sister Miner seemed to be as excited as the girls were.


The next set of plans was to go in Marshall's room (which his mom spent the day before cleaning) and shake his bed and say, "happy 16 birthday!!!!" They worked the plan exactly but he didn't move. So they said it again and this time he recognized the voices. The reason he didn't move the first time was because he thought it was his sister's friends being silly. So when he finally rolled over he was surprised, shocked and happy. We found out later that his alarm was set to go off any minute. What perfect timing.


The girls didn't want him to see the heart attacking stuff yet so they blind folded him and we were off to IHop for birthday breakfast.


The girls had all their presents wrapped so cute and he seemed surprised that there was more to the morning. He was such a great sport and posed with each gift.


Kellie got him some special presents and she was all giggly when he opened them. He got 2 ties, a John Deere ornament (a story about that later) and some "Curve" need I say more!!!!


The waitress was silly and gave him ice cream 'cause he was the birthday boy.


After our yummy breakfast we were off to the park. I can't believe they went on the spinny thing right after they had eaten. I could barely take the picture.


Kellie was showing us her old circus moves. Totally awesome!!


Of course when you get girls together you always need to take the classic chearleader pose. The funniest part of this picture was the set up. A little bit of pain but lots of laughter. These girls are all so much fun and super cute!


Marshall was so good at being willing to take lots of pictures. This was the poster the girls made and it says, "We're all so glad you are finally 16!"


This GQ pose was Shelley's idea. And let me say again, he was such a good sport.



After we dropped Marshall off Kellie went to a marching band compitition. She did well going on about 2 hours of sleep. After the band performed she got ready for more Birthday celebration. His mom had planned a surprise party for him before the stake dance. So this is him coming home to more surprises...and he thought the day was going to be a bit dull.


Happy 16 Birthday!


I love this picture of Emily and Kellie. They are so beautiful.



To conclude this totally fun day (I had so much fun helping plan and execute the day) the kids were off to the stake dance...which I hear was the best dance ever!!

Tagged 8 things...

Caleb, my son-in-law tagged me about an "8 Things" Survery. I don't have time to finish all the aswers, I'll get back to it soon.

8 Favorite TV Shows--
Grey's Anatomy
Life
Sesame Street (when the girls were younger)
The Wonderful World of Disney (when it is on regular tv)
American Idol

8 Resturants--
IHop
BK Subs
Old Spaghetti Factory

Things that happened yesterday--
I saw lots of marching bands.
I saw an electrical pole that had fallen on a street due to a heavy rain down pour.
I took Kellie to a party.
I read from The Last Lecture book.
Ate a delicious funnel cake at the band compitition.
Laughing and being silly with the other band parents.
Having the band kids get together and buy all us parents pins that say,
"Band Boosters are better then Athletic supporters."
Did some laundry, dishes, and general house pick up .

Things I'm Looking Forward to--
Grandbabies
Seeing Holly, Caleb and Julie in December.
Kellie turning 16.
The weekend of the 15th...a little heart attacking going on and b-day fun.

Things I love about Fall--
The leaves changing colors.
The crispness in the air.
Carmel hot chocolate.
Taking my girls to Oak Glen.
Raking leaves and having the girls jump in the pile.
Making apple pie.
Perfect weather for cuddling.
The anticipation of Christmas.

Things on my wish list--