Uncle Lin's Birthday!
At the end of May we went to my uncle Lin's 60th birthday. He is my mom's oldest brother. He dresses up as Santa every year and does christmas parties for different people. instead of getting paid by this pizza place in Park City they just gave him over 200 pizzas for free. So we had the party there and all my mom's brothers and their familes came and we had a mini family reunion. It was so nice to see everyone and to get to visit before we move. My little sister and my Cousin are the same age and they had so much fun together. They are just the best of friends even though they hardly ever see eachother.
At the end of May we went to my uncle Lin's 60th birthday. He is my mom's oldest brother. He dresses up as Santa every year and does christmas parties for different people. instead of getting paid by this pizza place in Park City they just gave him over 200 pizzas for free. So we had the party there and all my mom's brothers and their familes came and we had a mini family reunion. It was so nice to see everyone and to get to visit before we move. My little sister and my Cousin are the same age and they had so much fun together. They are just the best of friends even though they hardly ever see eachother.
Lin and his kids (Lin, EddieLynn and Cason (Casey's baby), Todda, Casey, Quinton)
Me, My Tessa, Josh, My mama
Tess and Maggie
Maggie is always muggin for the camera so she is on the left then my mom, Bruce, Thad ,and the Birthday boy.
Summit Canyon
Around the middle of June we went for a drive up Summit Canyon to have Hobo dinners with Chase, Kenna, Danica, and Derek. We all drove together in Josh's truck and just visited about old times and dreamed about the future. We had so much fun together and realized how sad it was going to be when we all start moving away and doing our own things. The area is so beautiful up there and we enjoyed being outdoors. It was actually pretty cold for being so late in the year andit SNOWED!! The boys went rabbin huntin afterwards and us girls just stayed home and chatted. We love our friends so much and are really going to miss them. :(
Around the middle of June we went for a drive up Summit Canyon to have Hobo dinners with Chase, Kenna, Danica, and Derek. We all drove together in Josh's truck and just visited about old times and dreamed about the future. We had so much fun together and realized how sad it was going to be when we all start moving away and doing our own things. The area is so beautiful up there and we enjoyed being outdoors. It was actually pretty cold for being so late in the year andit SNOWED!! The boys went rabbin huntin afterwards and us girls just stayed home and chatted. We love our friends so much and are really going to miss them. :(
Danica and Kenna covered in Snow!
Me and Joshy
just an example of my amazing photography skills.
Our delicious and gigantic hobo dinners. mmmm
Derek and Danica
Chase and Kenna
Me and Josh again
The girls
Road Runners Game
Chase and Kenna were able to get us some VIP seating right down by the dugout at the St. George Roadrunner's game. Danica and Derek came too and we all got to hang out again. Josh sang "I am Woman" By Helen Ready , a song none of us had ever even heard during a break right out on the pitcher's mound. Derek has an Iphone so he looked it up on youtube and josh was listening to it over and over so he wouldn't sound silly. He did a good job and we won 2 free apetizers at Outback steakhouse. He is so brave. We all had a good laugh. Then Derek got to do a golfing thing and won a cool coupon pack. After the game we all went to dinner at Made in Brazil, a new Brazilian steak house in St. George. It was a little expensive even with our 1 free meal but it was really yummy and a lot of fun. Josh talked the waiter into giving him free desert for his birthday even though it wasn't for a couple weeks still and the waiter talked Josh into singing "i am Woman again. We laughed so hard we almost peed in our pants. It was a great night and we had so much fun with our best friends! Thanks guys!
Chase and Kenna were able to get us some VIP seating right down by the dugout at the St. George Roadrunner's game. Danica and Derek came too and we all got to hang out again. Josh sang "I am Woman" By Helen Ready , a song none of us had ever even heard during a break right out on the pitcher's mound. Derek has an Iphone so he looked it up on youtube and josh was listening to it over and over so he wouldn't sound silly. He did a good job and we won 2 free apetizers at Outback steakhouse. He is so brave. We all had a good laugh. Then Derek got to do a golfing thing and won a cool coupon pack. After the game we all went to dinner at Made in Brazil, a new Brazilian steak house in St. George. It was a little expensive even with our 1 free meal but it was really yummy and a lot of fun. Josh talked the waiter into giving him free desert for his birthday even though it wasn't for a couple weeks still and the waiter talked Josh into singing "i am Woman again. We laughed so hard we almost peed in our pants. It was a great night and we had so much fun with our best friends! Thanks guys!
Derek golfing for a prize.
Road Runner mascot with Josh and Briggsy boy
The dugout
getting ready for the singing of our national anthem
Briggs and Me
Joshy and Briggs. He was sleepy.
The happy family. They got a road runners shirt for briggs and had the players sign it.
Josh's 23rd Birthday!
Josh turned 23 while we were stayin in Cali. I had to work all day so we couldn't go to Disneyland like we planned. Instead we fiound this great deal at a comedy club called the Ice House. You and a guest get in free on your birthday so we decided to go to that. It was a lot of fun. There were 5 different comics and they were all really funny. One guy was the creator of the Chapell show and another guy was pretty popular and had performed for the troops and stuff. I can't remember their names but they were good! Marie Callenders was having a special on whole pies for $6.99 so I bought Josh a coconut cream pie and surprised him. It was nice to spend the day together but we missed our families. Happy belated Birthday Josh!! When we got back to Cedar we hurried and changed our clothes and went up to Panguitch lake to do some camping with Josh's family for a couple days. His Grandma Noza and Poppy were there with Che and his 3 kids. Shelcy and DJ were also there with Rick and Stephanie. We went fishing and had a campfire and had lots of fun. The kids went snipe hunting with Josh and made a lot of noise. They thought they were pretty funny with their fart machine in our window. Steph smacked me right in the face trying to figure out what was going on, I wasn't thrilled. Josh says i'm an onry old woman haha. It was fun to spend some quality time with the fam.
Me and my baby
Chelani and Chaz and che's belly
Rick and Stephanie. Aren't they cute?
Joshy and his whale, i mean trout.
Standing outside the Ice House after the show.
taking pictures before the show
Joshy with his birthday beads
Swimming Instructor!!!
While we were staying in California house sitting for Janet and Cary I was able to work for them teaching swimming lessons at the highschool pool. They own a company called Foothill aquatics and they have year round swim teams and do private and group lessons and stuff like that. They do summer swim lessons through the city and one of the girls that was going to work for them was going to Hawaii for a family vacation and they needed an extra person. I was so excited because we were going to be there for 2 weeks and were going to be missing out on our jobs here so it was nice to have an income. I taught the beginners and a couple advanced beginnner classes. It was so funny because I have never had formal swim lessons so I didn't really know what I was doing but I learned fast and had a good time. The first few days were hard because the kids were all scared and crying and SCREAMING. I thought i was going to have to cry myself but then they finally came around and ended up just loving it. One little boy that had been so terrified he just screamed and cried the entire 30 minutes for the first 3 days told me on the second to last day that he loved swimming and he wished that he could spend all day with me at the pool. It was so rewarding to watch them improve and gain confidance and get excited about swimming and learning new things.
one day we did a safety lesson outside of the pool and I accidentally left this poor little boy in the pool. He was kind of slow and couldn't get himself out so another teacher got him out. I was so mad at myself and the mom complained so the next day I apoligized to her and he told me in his little funny speech impetiment voice " um teacher will you not leave me in the pool today? Cuz yesterday you did and I couldn't get out so you need to help me today okay? haha it was so cute. Well that same day a little girl told me she had to go pee after she already had her life jacket on and she was wearing a 1 piece. I thought she was just trying to get out of jumping in so I told her no and she just started peeing down her legs right there on the side of the pool. It was really sad and I felt soo bad but I just tried to pretend it didn't happen and made her jump in anyway and then just splashed pool water on it. haha gross I know but I was new and didn't know how else to handle it!! Then, to really top it off, this little boy got scared and said he was going to throw up but his teacher was like "you are just fine don't worry you aren't going to throw up" well guess what, he did. right next to me. I was so sicked out I almost threw up too. it was horrible. That was really a bad day but 1 bad day out of all of them was pretty good. I had a great time. Hopefully I can do it again when we move there.
Some of the kids said really funny things, these are just a few that I remember...
" Umm excuse me, is that life gaurd Michael Phelps?" (obviously it wasn't but it was still hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing)
" My grandma is taking me to Mixed Berry Farm for her birthday, I love the roller coasters!" (for those of you who aren't familiar with Southern California, there is a theme park called KNOTT'S Berry Farm he just got confused. Sooo funny)
A little girl brought a blow up fish to play with on Friday fun day and told me "Guess what I named it!? Sara, after you, and I pretend she is a swim teacher" It was so cute I just melted.
Swimming Instructor!!!
While we were staying in California house sitting for Janet and Cary I was able to work for them teaching swimming lessons at the highschool pool. They own a company called Foothill aquatics and they have year round swim teams and do private and group lessons and stuff like that. They do summer swim lessons through the city and one of the girls that was going to work for them was going to Hawaii for a family vacation and they needed an extra person. I was so excited because we were going to be there for 2 weeks and were going to be missing out on our jobs here so it was nice to have an income. I taught the beginners and a couple advanced beginnner classes. It was so funny because I have never had formal swim lessons so I didn't really know what I was doing but I learned fast and had a good time. The first few days were hard because the kids were all scared and crying and SCREAMING. I thought i was going to have to cry myself but then they finally came around and ended up just loving it. One little boy that had been so terrified he just screamed and cried the entire 30 minutes for the first 3 days told me on the second to last day that he loved swimming and he wished that he could spend all day with me at the pool. It was so rewarding to watch them improve and gain confidance and get excited about swimming and learning new things.
one day we did a safety lesson outside of the pool and I accidentally left this poor little boy in the pool. He was kind of slow and couldn't get himself out so another teacher got him out. I was so mad at myself and the mom complained so the next day I apoligized to her and he told me in his little funny speech impetiment voice " um teacher will you not leave me in the pool today? Cuz yesterday you did and I couldn't get out so you need to help me today okay? haha it was so cute. Well that same day a little girl told me she had to go pee after she already had her life jacket on and she was wearing a 1 piece. I thought she was just trying to get out of jumping in so I told her no and she just started peeing down her legs right there on the side of the pool. It was really sad and I felt soo bad but I just tried to pretend it didn't happen and made her jump in anyway and then just splashed pool water on it. haha gross I know but I was new and didn't know how else to handle it!! Then, to really top it off, this little boy got scared and said he was going to throw up but his teacher was like "you are just fine don't worry you aren't going to throw up" well guess what, he did. right next to me. I was so sicked out I almost threw up too. it was horrible. That was really a bad day but 1 bad day out of all of them was pretty good. I had a great time. Hopefully I can do it again when we move there.
Some of the kids said really funny things, these are just a few that I remember...
" Umm excuse me, is that life gaurd Michael Phelps?" (obviously it wasn't but it was still hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing)
" My grandma is taking me to Mixed Berry Farm for her birthday, I love the roller coasters!" (for those of you who aren't familiar with Southern California, there is a theme park called KNOTT'S Berry Farm he just got confused. Sooo funny)
A little girl brought a blow up fish to play with on Friday fun day and told me "Guess what I named it!? Sara, after you, and I pretend she is a swim teacher" It was so cute I just melted.
4th of July weekend at Quail Creek!
We went to the lake twice over the weekend and played on the Carpenter's boat. We had a blast! We wake surfed, knee boarded, and wake boarded. Josh and I both did 360's on the wake board and Josh and shelcy both surfed with out the rope. It was our first time out this year so we were excited that it came back so fast. Thanks Rick and Stephanie for the fun time!
3 comments:
I loved the long post!! You have such an exciting life!! Love it!!
Oh ya.. GOOD LUCK with the house!! It will turn out the way its suppose to!!! Be sure to keep us posted!!
Loved the update! Hope the house stuff is working out.
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