WE ROCK!!!!

We had so much fun at the 80's prom last year that this year we had an "80's hair band party" for Troy's birthday. I had to work the day Dave went shopping for our outfits so Jen and Marcy helped him out. They picked out my whole outfit together and I have to say that they did a really good job. We met at the Jensen house to get ready together which was a little crazy because we were in a big hurry, but fun. (Dave looked AWESOME..he should have been in a band!) Then we loaded up and headed to The Turf Club.

Ready to rock!!

Abbie, Troy and I. Abbie and I ended up wearing the same shirt and tights, just different colors. (I was going to say that great minds think alike, but then I remembered that I didn't pick them out...dang it)

The groupies

Nikki Sixx, Slash, Axel Rose

Clyde and Becky looking good.

Sarah and Heather looking very 80's

We had so much fun at the party. It was a really fun theme, and almost everyone dressed up. We danced all night until they kicked us out.

Dave was pretty tired by the end of the night. He did say though that he was ready to go dancing again soon because he had so much fun. Thanks Jensens for such a fun party....it's our turn next year!

Track Stars

Both Lindsay and Brooke took track this year. I'm not sure Brooke really liked it, but she did appreciate all the excersize. We were inspired by Colton not drinking pop all during basketball season, so we decided that during spring volleyball and track we would not drink pop. It was actually not as bad as we thought, and we have cut way back on our pop drinking even after track was over. I am not a big fan of track meets...I think track is the least fun spectator sport! I think it's mainly because it always seems to be freezing at track meets! I took the camera to their last meet to get some pictures, but my batteries quit after just these three photos. (Luckily my mom was there and she took a bunch for us...thanks mom) When I got to Kimberly it started raining...all the kids got back on the buses. It quit raining so they started again, then it started hailing. This time they just kept on going. It was COLD. Brooke did the discus, the long jump, the 100, and the 200. Lindsay did the long jump, the 200 and two relays.

BRRRRRR!!

My mom and Jeff came because my girls and my neice Mikayla were all running that day. Lindsay and Mikayla ended up running the same leg of the same relay against each other which we thought was really funny. Our biggest laugh though was at Brooke. As she was running the 200 she kept looking at the other runners. When I told her not to look at other people and just run her fastest she explained to me that she had to look at them so she could see if she was last. If she was last she would run her fastest, if not she would just run hard!!

Stairs

Two years after we built the add on we finally have "real" stairs out of the back door!! Troy brought his equipment so he could help us get this project done. Troy is really good at what he does and we were so glad to have him, Jen, Marcy and Perry there to help us. Perry and Dave carried all the wood

The girls supervised the work!

We decided that we would all sign the concrete before we covered it up.

Dave and Perry were taking bolts off with little tiny wrenches....Jen had to show them how a professional does it!!

At the end Troy let all of us have a turn putting in some nails

Even Lindsay came out and got in on the action.

In an amazingly short time our stairs were finished. We are so lucky to have such awesome friends that would give up their Sunday morning to come and help us. Thanks guys...we love you.

Night in the Desert

We went to the desert outside of Gooding one night to hang out and have some fun. Just getting there was an adventure because the road is very rutted and the sun was just going down so we couldn't really see the road that well. Once we got there we built a big bonfire, hit golf balls (and almost a golf club!) into the lake, roasted hot dogs, lit fireworks, and danced. After a stressful week it was fun to just relax and let loose a little bit. My only problem with the night was at the end when I was running to get in the truck and I tripped over a railroad tie and fell flat on my face! The whole rowdy group

"Six pack is where it's at"

The girls

Easter

We decided to go to Burley for Easter this year. Lindsay wanted to fly kites so we walked from Tonia's house down to the Heyburn Elementary School. Lindsay has a six foot kite and we got that up pretty easily. We weren't as successful with our other kite. We could get it up, but only for a few seconds and then it would fall. All of us took turns running with it and trying to get it to stay up. We never could get it to work so the kids made up a game where they would go out in the grass under the kite and then try to not get hit when the kite dive bombed to the ground! It was great entertainment!! Jake almost got hit several times. The funniest thing of the day though was when Dave was running with the kite and tripped right over the cement guard around the swings and fell into the gravel! Lindsay and Jacob

Diane, Dave, Tonia

Taylor and Brittney playing tetherball

The rest of our trip

Ok, it has been a really long time since I posted, but I wanted to finish our trip so that someday in the future when I finally scrap these photos I will have some kind of journaling for it. On Friday we went to a family fun center just down the street from our hotel. The first thing we decided to do was the go-carts. We had fun chasing each other around the track in these carts.

McKenna

Lindsay wouldn't drive the first time we did the track. She was scared that the cart would tip over around the curves, or that she would crash. The second time we went I told her I would ride with her and she had to drive. Of course she loved it and wanted to go again, but we had used all of our tickets for that ride.
Then we went to the miniature golf course. We haven't played mini-golf for years so it was fun spending some time doing that. The weather was perfect and it was nice being out in the sun.

On Saturday we got up and headed towards home. We decided to see Bryce Canyon on our way home even though it was out of the way since we didn't know when we would ever be that way again. We stopped at another museum full of animals that was a lot bigger than the other one. It had all kinds of animals, bugs, spiders, butterflies and even fish. The owner had been collecting for years and had finally opened his own place. The kids really thought it was cool and once again the girls took tons of pictures! The weather in St. George had been awesome, but out by Bryce it was a lot colder and there was even snow on the ground still. Bryce Canyon is totally different than Zions. It was incredible, but kind of freaked me out a little bit because of the heights. Along the path there are steep drop offs and of course that made me really paranoid.

Marcy and Perry at our first stop.

McKenna and Brooke on the path. Brooke kept going over by the edge and trying to scare me...which it did. I didn't like that part of it, but it really was amazing being right there by all those awesome rock formations.
So we finally headed home. We ended up on a scenic road that I can hardly begin to describe. First we were in the rocks...more rocks than I have seen in my entire life. For miles upon miles upon miles of nothing but being in the middle of rocks. We were rounding curves that had no guard rails and nothing but drop offs on both sides. As far as we could see there was nothing but rocks. It was really cool, but a little scary. When we finally came out of the rocks hours later, we went into the forest. We climbed, and climbed, and climed. I couldn't believe how high we were. At one point we stopped in the road to see two wild turkeys cross the road. Right down the road from that we stopped to watch a herd of elk that was only 30 yards away from us. I kept telling Dave that I couldn't believe this road and how crazy it was that we were on it. Usually when you drive in the mountains you stay mainly low and there are mountains high around you....not on this road. When we reached the top there was nowhere else to go to get any higher...we were at the very top. We could look out across the valley and I swear CLOUDS were lower than us! It was insane. Dave made us all get out of the car so we could document the moment!

We had driven for hours and in all that time we had only passed two cars going in the opposite direction, and we had passed only one car going in our direction. We drove forever even after this picture looking for somewhere to eat and stay. We kept coming to little towns, some of them that didn't even have gas stations, where there was no fast food places, and the ones that did actually have a restaraunt were closed. We were all starving and tired. We stopped finally at the first town that had a decent motel and a Burger King! The scenery on the road was absolutely incredible and I am glad we went that way, but it is a little freaky being that far out in the middle of nowhere. I told Dave that we werent in BFE, we were in BFFE!! Sunday we made it home. We had a really fun trip and it was fun going somewhere we had never been before. It just wasn't that fun coming home to the cold!