JOSH GROBAN

For Mothers Day Steve and the kids got me tickets to see Josh Groban. Steve knows how much I absolutely love Josh, as well as his music. The concert was Saturday the 25th in Anaheim We had the best time, and I have to say I was sad when the concert was over. Josh (I consider us close enough to be on a first name basis) put on an amazing concert. I will forever be in love with Josh Groban, and my husband for taking me. Thank you Steve...it was a night I will always remember.

Family Reunion in Picayune Mississippi

We recently returned from a family reunion on Steve's mother's side. It was her mom's 80th birthday so the whole reunion was planned around that. Thank you Grandma Floretta for having a birthday and giving us a reason to get together. The birthday party was really fun. Steve's mom and her two brothers wrote a song for their mom and sang it---they are an extremely musically talented family. It made me wonder what happened to Steve and his siblings (his brothers told me that they chose to accelerate in sports instead of songs). However I was pleasantly surprised on Sunday when the family, including Steve got up in Grandmas church (she belongs to a non-denomination Christian church)and sang a worship song. I teased Steve and told him that he's been holding out on the ward choir, so anyone reading this---get Tricia on him---I think he needs to join the choir! ( I video taped the whole thing---maybe I'll make a you-tube video and post it on my blog).

Steve's mom is from Mississippi so Steve grew up spending a lot of his summers in Mississippi until his family moved from Colorado to New York (at age 10). Anyway, to spare you a lot of boring details---he was able to meet FIRST cousins for the first time on this trip. Isn't that crazy? The rest of his family still made a trip once a year to visit Grandma and attend family get togethers, but this was Steve's first trip back to Mississippi in 19 years. I tried to post pictures of everyone in Steve's immediate family---We had a great time with them.

New Orleans

We just returned from a family vacation to New Orleans and Mississippi. We were out there for a family reunion and to celebrate Steve's Grandmothers 80th Birthday. I will post pictures form the B-day Party and Reunion later (they are on Steve's computer). These pictures are from the Swamp Tour we took in Slidell, LA and from the time we spent in New Orleans. We had such a good time on this trip. The swamp tour was really neat. We kept our eyes open to see Shrek.=) The kids as well as the adults loved seeing the alligators in the wild. After the swamp we went to New Orleans. It was so much fun. We just walked around, went to tourist trap shops, ate at a nice restaurant, went to a 3D ocean movie, drove around Hurricane Katrina sights, and went sight seeing. All in all it was a very relaxing vacation.

How many kids can we cram into the car??

Last week we were swimming at our old pool. Lori left early to take Chase home to take a nap, so I offered to bring Megan and Zach home after we were done swimming. Christy was without a car that day so she rode over with Jessica. Jessica left to take Owen and Brock home for naps---I told Christy that I would drive her home if she wanted to stay longer and then I told Jessica to let Paige stay and swim and I would bring her home as well. When it came time to leave, Christy and I had to laugh because we only had 7 seat belts, but 10 people that needed buckled. On top of 10 people, we had 2 huge inflatable pool toys to shove in. It was quite comical. Taylor would not be in the pictures because her hair was not combed, so just picture one more face shoved in the chaos.

Tagged!

Jobs I've had:
1-a Nanny
2-Roberts Crafts
3-Golf Driving Range
4-Sundance Summit Club
5-Janitor at the MTC (5AM-9Am)

Movies I'd watch over and over:
1-Top Gun
2-The Count of Monte Cristo
3-Anne of Green Gables
4-Adam Sandler movies
5-Phantom of the opera
6-Pride and Predjudice
7-movies with Reese Witherspoon

Places I've lived:
1-Am. Fork, UT
2-Greenwich, CT
3-New Canaan, CT
4-North Salem, NY
5-Provo, UT
6-Laguna Niguel, CA

Favorite TV shows:
1-American Idol
2-The Biggest Loser
3-48 hours mystery
4-Dateline
5-Oprah (which I haven't seen in years, but I love late night re-runs)

Favorite Foods:
1-Italian food
2-sweets of all kinds
3-fruit
4-bread
5-sorbet

5 places I'd rather be:
1-Hawaii
2-on a Mediterranean Cruise
3-Lake Powell with my family
4-Greece
5-out of my nursery calling (did I say that out loud)?

Tagged:
1-Andrea
2-Cindy
3-Angela

Parker turns 5!

Earlier this month, Parker celebrated his 5th birthday. We were in Utah, so we had a family birthday party with cousins and grandparents and then when we came home he had a pirate birthday party with his best buddy, Zach. The party was a lot of fun for all in attendance. The kids had a cannon ball (waterballon) toss, made their very own parrot (feathers and all) for their shoulder, walked the plank, ran around looking for where the tic-tock sound was coming from and went on a treaure hunt to find treasures. We also had a suprise visitor come. Our local pirate---Jenny Tucker. The kids loved her. She painted their faces and Taylor and Megan helped her give them all tatoos. All in all the party was a success. Thank you Lori for sharing in another great party---a party for 2 is a lot easier than a party for 1.