Fall Weekends

We have had some busy weekends lately. Alyssa and Lisa went to a pumpkin patch for a school trip. We went up to Eastern Arizona for a Saturday trip to look into going there for Tara next year. We also went up to A.S.U. for State for Brianne she went up as a butterfly er and also on two relays. Alyssa and Spencer were very grateful that we took them to Greg and Shelly's to trick or treat. Thank you for letting us stay with you for the night. We had fun!! Then this last weekend we went up to Tempe and stayed with Michael and Katie and the went to "Time out for Women." It was great! Thank you Michael for watching Spencer!

School Pictures 2008

We had these taken at Target, they are much better then regular school pictures!

Back to school 2008

I just had to put these pictures of the first day back to school on the blog. Alyssa and Spencer look so thrilled to go back to school!!

Tara's band

Tara's band performed at the Rock. They also went to a studio and had all their songs they wrote put on a CD. So you all know now what you will be getting from Tara for Christmas.

Summer hi-lights

We invited Teresa and Aaron over to our home for the 4th of July. We had a great dinner I have to say with homemade apple pie and played water games out in the back yard and then took them to Marana Firework show. Tara also had a 4th of July party and this is them eating pizza on the trampoline (what a group). It was also great to see Kayla get baptized and see everyone that came down

Super Summer Swimming

Tara was the coach for the Flowing Wells swim team. So we joined Spencer and Alyssa on her team. Brianne joined the team by our home. When we had the finals Spencer came in 1st place for back stroke and won the Gold Medal! We couldn't believe it. Alyssa won the gold for every event (She had a good summer!) Brianne won one event. So we just had to get their picture with all three getting gold medals and then took them out to dinner at their favorite restaurant (In and Out). Spencer also had his picture in the Marana newspaper. How cool is that for your first year of Swim Team.

20 years Married

We celebrated our 20th anniversary. We went to a fine restaurant had the cutest teenage waitress. She was also the friendliest waitress you've ever had. Her name was Brianne and she will just sit and tell you all about her day. This other little guy kept wanting to get in our pictures. Do you know him?

Summer 2008

Spencer trying his hand at the tomahawk. Alyssa panning for Gold at the Pioneer Museum in Brigham and We were invited to a 1900's tea party (lots of yummy desserts) Alyssa and I said yes to everything being served. We had very good manners. Spencer is making pummacin, an Indian dish with dried berries, pine nuts and meat. It was good!. Spencer and his Cousin Maddie at the Tree House Museum in Ogden. What a Place, in the middle of the room they have this fake tree that the kids climb up and near the top is has a twirly slide that takes you back down. They did this over and over. I told Maddie when it was time to go home that they had one more slide. She then looked at me and said how about 32 more slides. Every room was a magical imagination room with many things to do.

Beautiful Northern Utah

We went on this gorgeous hike in Wheeler Creek. It sprinkled a little but a great day!

Hike

We went on a hike with Grandma and Grandpa Murphy and I kid you not two seconds into the hike Spencer falls in a stream right after his Dad told him to be careful and the weather was like 50 to maybe 60 degrees. So we ran back to the car and found a shirt of Trent's and and Spencer's dress shoes and pants from church, because everything else was back at Grandma's. We then start back on our hike and as we cross this same stream then Trent falls in. Fortunately he just got his leg and foot wet not his whole body like Spencer. Anyway we had a good laugh. Like father like son!

EFY

We dropped the girls off at EFY. This is Tara and Heather, and Brianne and Corrine. Looks like Fun!

School's out!

Well Brianne graduated from Carden and now she's moving on to high school! We were really proud of her she received the Curtis Award. Which is a top award at her school and with it a $50 savings bond and plaque for the school and one to take home. She also received an award from her PE coach for President's Fitness and she was the only one to get 100% in every event. Go Brianne! Spencer is now a 2nd grader and won the most entertaining in his class. Can you believe it (quiet Spencer)! His Teacher says that when he thinks she's not looking, Spencer entertains the class, and Alyssa is now a 7th grader Wow she's growing up too!

Tara 's Birthday & Prom Pictures

Tara turned 18, March 27th. We can't believe it! The years go by so fast. We had a Surpise Birthday dinner with the Family and surpised Tara by asking her boss at work if we could come and kidnap her at work on Saturday before her birthday. We then kidnapped her and also asked Sam if he would join us for the evening. Sam is the guy that helped Tara with the drums on her CD. If you havent received her Cd you will get one. Sam asked Tara to his prom. Tara then had a change of plans with Shawn who originally asked her to her prom and then asked Sam if he would take her. So she had prom last week at his school and prom tomorrow at hers. Sam's a very nice guy.

We also bought a new car last week. Tara was in an accident with the 97 van and rear eneded someone and this spurred us on to get a new van. Its a 2006 Toyoto Sienna and only has 30,000 miles on it. So its like brand new to me!

Gaylynne has been tutoring me on posting pictures in my blog so that it will stay in the archives. We are on spring break, but it feels like winter. Alyssa is going to basketball camp all week and then going up to Whitney's Birthday Party, so she's having a fun week! Tara has a friend named Sam who will be playing the drums for her album that she is making on Thurs. Trent also has this week off. Hopefully will get a garden in. He's also pouring a foundation for the shed. It was on wood and rotting with termite's. When he pulled off the wooden foundation we found an uninvited guest that made all the kids come in screaming. Can you guess? Yes it was a rat. Brianne said it was as big as a bunny. I went to look at it, after Trent killed it and it was big, but more like a baby bunny. The picture above if you dont recogize her with all that dark hair is Alyssa being a witch for a school play.