True Love!!!

Last night Alecia asked if she could start walking before her shower each morning. For those of you who don't know she wakes up and takes a shower at 4:45 am. Now who in their right mind is going to allow their 15 year old daughter to walk by herself at that time in the morning! (Sigh) Yeah and I am a sucker for my kids, I just love them sooo much and I want them to have every opportunity. So what do I say.... I told her that I would get up with her at 4am and walk with her!!!! Am I NUTS!!!! I told her she had to wake me up hoping that she would sleep in and not want to walk. But nooooo my dedicated sweet wonderful daughter woke me up and then when it looked like I was going to go back to sleep she said, "come on mom, Mind over matter." Eeeek that was her Dad coming straight out of her mouth. So of course I roll out of bed and go walking with her. It is a good healthy habit but come on 4am is crazy.

My very busy week! The next 6 posts!

The next 6 posts were all posted today because I was kind of busy while for the last week. Between roofing, basket ball games, zoo trips, fishing trips birthdays and weddings I was really busy. I hope you enjoy reading about my week. I sure had fun living it.LOL

Roofing?!?!

Michelle and Robert needed to re-roof their house that they are renting so they came down to get it done. Brandon and I helped them and their son Casey. I didn't do much but I figured what I was able to do was something that they didn't have to do. Brandon was a big help and worked really hard and played some too. LOL Yes I did get on the roof and yes I did help. I helped get the original tiles off and then I helped pass the shingles and cut shingles. Michelle while on the roof!
Michelle and me getting the shingles up!

Casey bringing up shingles.

Brandon working on something. Robert is in the background it looks like he is working on the metal stuff that goes next to the house. Hey I didn't say I was a roofing expert (HeHeHe) only that I helped. We worked hard from Monday until Thursday and managed to get it all done. YAY!!! I love you Michelle and Robert. I am glad that I was able to help and I can't wait to see Ya'll again.

Deep sea fishing??? Opps no bayside fishing!

David managed to get a deep sea fishing trip set up for last weekend while Robert and Michelle were down. He was very excited and so was everyone else. We all had an excellent time however the weather wasn't being nice and the wind was too high so the waves were really big on the open water so we had to stay in the bay. The guys did a lot of fishing but not a lot of catching. LOL Brandon caught a sting ray and David caught a cat fish. Both had to be turned back in the ocean as they were not edible. All in all we had a great experience and loved being together. Thanks for the memories everyone!Michelle and me, friends for eternity

Robert

David

Casey

Brandon fishing

Brandon and Casey enjoying the ride.

Brandon with his sting ray!

Alecia's 15th Birthday!

Alecia turned 15 April 24th. It is so hard to believe that my baby is growing up! She is such a joy to be around. She is very talented and loving and just the best daughter and sister that she can be. Happy Birthday baby.When Alecia came home from seminary Friday morning the kids attacked.

I took Alecia and Michelle out to lunch for their birthdays. Michelle's birthday is the day before Alecia's and she was down to fix her roof so I was able to have fun with her while she was down. I love you Michelle!

The Birthday Girls!

Jared and Jessica's Zoo Field Trip

Jared and Jessica went to the zoo last Wednesday. I went as a chaperone and just had them and one of Jared's friends to keep track of. I thought it was quite easy but still a lot of walking. I took a ton of pictures and had a hard time picking just a few so we will just browse a while.Jared Jessica and their friend.

Jessica liked to pose for pictures.

Jessica and her two best friends at school.

Jessica and her teacher.

Jared, his friend and their teacher.

The kids loved to look at the animals and were so animated it was cute. They saw.....

Ducks,

Lots of aligators and crocodiles.

Two white bengal tigers,

porcipines,

Snakes,

Turtles and much, much, more!

Our Cheerleader, Katie

Katie, was a cheerleader last year and this year. She really loves it and wants to continue on into Jr. High Cheerleading. The Elementary cheerleaders only cheer for about a one week period and that was last week. Here are a few pictures of KatieThis is one of my favorites!

Katie, some friends, and her coaches.

The group cheering.

The cheer squad minus a few and another coach.

Trey and Stephanie's Wedding

My oldest nephew, Trey, was married Sunday, April 19, 2009. Here are some of the photos that I took . Trey before the wedding!

Stephanie before the wedding! Sandy helped her with her hair and makeup.

R.D. and Michelle, the proud parents!

Momma, this was her first grandchild to be married.

Trey and Stephanie cutting the cake. The cake was a combined effort of Momma, Sandy, and me. Momma baked and then iced the cakes. I made the frosting and put shells around the edge of the cake and Sandy added the finishing touches with flowers and making it beautiful. I think it turned out beautiful!

R.D., Trey and Michelle. It was a very emotional day for the parents! Yikes! You learn how fast time goes by when you start seeing the kids growing up and getting married.

It's a little fuzzy but I like this picture of Trey and Stephanie together.


The whole clan minus one. Ryan is on his mission we miss you Ryan.

R.D and Michelle with their kids Trey and Stephanie, Riley, Tori, and Wesley

Me and David with Alecia, Brandon, Katie, Krystal, Bethany, Jared and Jessica

Ron and Theresa with Reighn and Becky

Sandy and Jake

Mom and Russell

Family Day!

We had a family camp out planned for this past weekend however there was a lot of rain so David, the kids and I only went on Saturday. There was still a lot of rain but we were able to get a pavilion for our meals and stuff. Mom's birthday was Sunday and we celebrated with cake Saturday night. Sandy and Theresa got cake and presents. It was a lot of fun. Here is some of the pictures of the day!

One Crazy Week!

Well it's spring break and the kids are all home. What a time we have had. I already posted last weekend but let me tell you about our week. It started off pretty slow. Monday we just cleaned house but on Tuesday I remembered about Taxes! Arggg!!! I started working on them at 9am and was still working on them around 1am. No that is not a typo I worked all day on the darn things and didn't get anywhere. So on Wednesday I started working on them again at 9am and then gave up and decided it was time to mail in an extension. Should have been easy right. NOT!! I had to go to David's office about 3 times trying to get them to print so that I could mail them off. I finally bought a printer so that I could print them at home and then finally I was mailing them at the post office. When all of that was done I drove to pick up Krystal and then we went to my mom's house. My nephew is getting married on Sunday and mom and I needed to frost his wedding cake. So that is what we did on Thursday. I'll post pictures of the cake later. I forgot to take some so I will have to wait until Sunday. Anyway the last couple of days have been crazy and the next couple of days will be crazy too. I'll post more later.

Easter 2008 Pictures

We had a wonderful Easter weekend. We managed to fill the day with a lot of fun activities. I have added a whole bunch of pictures to document our fun. However, I want to make sure to mention that all though we had a lot of fun, we still took time to think about the true reason we were celebrating Easter. Our Savior Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins and made it possible for us to return home to our Father in Heaven. May we always remember no matter what the day, is my continual prayer. Okay so now for the fun.

When we got to my mom's house on Saturday the kids went played outside because it was such a beautiful day and we knew that it was to rain on Sunday. Jessica climbed a tree and I just had to take a picture. Isn't she cute?

The kids were able to play with their cousin, Becky.
Saturday night we had an Easter egg painting party! Here are the girls, my 5 with their cousin.
Here is Uncle Russell with Jared!

The Boys! I just love Jared's smile in this one.

Time for the fun! Krytal, Jessica and Becky dying eggs.

The adults got in on the action too! Here is my sister Sandy.

And my sister Theresa.

And my brother Ronn!

We decorated about 12 dozen eggs. I had bought 15 dozen but some broke and we put them into the potato salad!Then on Sunday morning we had our Egg hunt but before they could find the eggs the kids had to find the baskets that the crazy bunny had hid. Alecia found hers.

Here is Brandon with his, my he looks a little rough.

Katie with her basket.

Krystal with her basket.

The crazy bunny decided to make Bethany Jump for hers! LOLBut that's okay because she managed to get it in the end!

Jessica found hers under the table!

Jared found his up in a tree!

Once the baskets were found it was time to hunt the eggs.

Jared liked to find them.

Jessica trying to figure out how to get the egg!

Krystal happy about how many she is finding.

Bethany and Krystal share eggs.

Once the eggs were found and a yummy breakfast of eggs benedict we started to get pretty for church. Here is Jessica with a hair style I found off of Mormon Mommy blogs.

After we all got pretty we went outside to take some pictures.

Katie in a tree. Goodness she is growing up way too fast!

I did I fun hair style on Krystal also. I can't believe that she is 9.

Okay, here is Bethany and man does she know how to pose!

Okay there are more pictures of Jessica but I just wanted to show off her hair style. I was really impressed with myself! LOL

And the other side!

Now here is her smiling face.

I got the girls minus Alecia all together and told them they could have fun.

But I managed to get a good one first!

After Church the whole Crew got together for dinner. Ron made some awesome barbqued ribs.

Here is Trey and his fiance Stephanie.

Mom, Theresa, and Sandy

Bro. and Sis Pinegar

Ray and Chelle, My oldest Brother.

Russell and Riley, My youngest brother and a nephew

After dinner we had our annual cousins plastic egg hunt!

While the girls were hiding eggs and watching the hunt the guys talked gardens. Here they are talking about the blueberry bushes.

All in all we had a wonderful time and then came home. I hope everyone had as great a time as I did.