Moberg Family

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Once everyone receives their new pajamas, we all run and get them on and always pose in front of the tree for a picture. Emmet and Weston had about had it by then, but they were there! Taylor looks a little concerned because she hates it when her nephews cry, but she wanted to make sure that her shoe, "Elaina" was in the picture.
Always one of my favorite pictures of the evening is when I tell everyone to do a funny pose and what they come up with. Love what the parents do with the younger children! Do you think that their true personalities come out for the picture? I'll let you decide!
Mom, Kendra and Scott. They were brave to pose with me with my "Well Bred" pajamas on!
I always pick all of the pajamas for the family except mine. Corbin has learned or informed by his daughters, that he must get his wife some new pajamas for Christmas Eve like the rest of the family. You never know what he is going to come up with. I guess he was pretty excited about the ones for this year and ordered them way ahead! I have never had a "horse" on my chest before and if I have been "well bred", you can thank my parents! The pajama bottoms are cute! Corbin is such a nut! Thanks, hon.
You would think that I am a cowgirl, but I'm really not, although I do like to listen to country music! The pajamas are comfortable, though!

The cute Walters Family. Ryan and April had already put their youngsters to bed. They had had it! Conner and Jace were still going strong!

Mom with her horse pajamas and Taylor in her High School Musical pajamas! Taylor also got a High School Musical robe! She can sing all their songs and tell you all about their movies. She also plans to marry Troy!

If she can't have Troy, she doesn't mind hanging out with her big brother, Scott!

Scott with the youngest member of the family, Jace Jackson Walters. He is 6 months old and this is his very first Christmas!!

This is the second annual "Round About Mount" put on by the boys. Check out Ryan or Stephanie's blog and they can explain it to you! Makes a Mom proud, huh!

Taylor gets so excited about putting out the cookies and milk for Santa, along with her letter to him before she goes to bed. Her Dad makes her very nervous because he always tried to eat and drink it before she gets it on the tray and I have to promise her that I will watch it and won't let Dad touch it! Corbin, quit stressing out your daughter! It's Christmas!

Annual Christmas Eve Dinner with friends!

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I can't even remember how many years that we have been doing our annual Christmas Eve Dinner with friends, but it has been quite awhile. When you don't live close to family, it helps to find friends that help fill this void, especially at the holidays. To me, holidays aren't holidays without family or friends around. I love a full house! We started inviting friends over for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve quite a few years ago and has now become a tradition. Most the time the friends or neighbors coming over are like us, famlies without our own families close by to share this time with us. These friends become like family to us.

We have a pot luck dinner with lots of great food and then do a white elephant gift exchange before everyone goes home to do their own little Christmas Eve traditions before going to bed.
It's always fun to see the newest family come with their white elephant gifts, because they are usually always the nicer white elephant gifts because they have not figured out yet that the rest of us usually give more cornier, cheaper items. These new white elephant gifts become the wanted gifts by evenings end.

Usually every year we have had the Daniels-Brown family, Secrist family, and Donovan family- until they moved to a different ward and started their own tradition of dinner and gifts, we still miss you every year! This year we had the Walker family join us since their California trip did not quite work out. It's always great to have new families, return missionaries, and college kids visiting with us again. Corbin is always great to help me clean up, after we have refused to have the families who came help clean up, even though they try every year. It doesn't take long. This wonderful evening always give us many memories and helps form those special relationships that will last forever!! Here are a few pictures of our evening this year!

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Zach Walker with his new ears that he just received. Hopefully he'll be able to listen to his parents better, not that he doesn't already!
Us girls relaxing after playing the big white elephant game! So nice to have all of us girls together!!

Conner said "forget the white elephant gift game, I want the white chocolate cereal mix!"
Playing the white elephant game and trading those not so exciting presents for the better ones!

Myself and Corbin enjoying all of this delicious food.

Emmet looking at his mirror that he just opened. Ryan looks more excited about it than Emmet. Ryan is probably wanting to borrow it!

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April must of decided that her boys needed her help at the little table. You do look cute at the little table, though!

Stephanie and Kritt sharing a chair to eat their delicious meal!

So nice to have the Walkers join us this year! They were suppose to be going to Disneyland for Christmas this year but with the awful blizzards that we have been having, they decided not to chance it and stay home instead!

The teenagers at the big table. Nice to have a few more boys here this year than before! Funner for Scott and Kendra!

Taylor and her sweet friend, Tyra Walker. Love those redheads!

Some of our dear friends over for an always delicious meal provided by everyone. Dave Secrist's prime rib is "to die for" as Corbin always amazes Dave on just how much of it he can really eat! I am not really a "beef" person, so I go more for Corbin's delicious salmon and fried turkey. Evelyn's potatoes are always a hit and the many salads, rolls, cheese ball, appetizers and desserts always leaves us all feeling very full!

The famous little fisher price table that we have had for ever. Taylor always makes sure that we bring it up for the little kids to eat at. It looks like Taylor has graduated from it this year and left just the Grandsons to dine at it!

Jess and Kellie just starting to eat, I hope since Jess's plate is still empty!

Kendra and Kylie doing that girl pose! Kylie is just getting ready to move to Utah for work and then eventally more school once she gets her Utah residency. That out of state tuition is a killer! Love that Secrist Family! Just found out, though, that they are moving to Utah in the Spring, which makes us all very, very sad! He will be working for the church with their dairy and cattle industry. They came looking for him and when the church calls and says that they have heard and prayed about you and you are their man, it's hard to turn that one down! What better employer could you have, though, than the church. David will do an awesome job but we will miss their family terribly!! They have always been our regular "families without families" in town for Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve!

Logan Secrist and Slade Walker probalby talking about what Santa Clause is bringing them tonight! It looks like they have graduated from the little table as well this year!

Baptizing Taylor!

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When Taylor turned eight years old on July 20, 2003, we were not sure if we were going to have her baptized. Physically, she was eight, but mentally, we did not think that she really understood why we would be doing this and maybe would even scare her a bit. We talked
this over with our Bishop, and with his help, decided that she did not need this ordinance at this time. We would of been doing it because we wanted it, not because Taylor wanted it.

Last year when Taylor was about to go into Young Woman's, doing baptisms for the dead at the temple came up and I asked our bishop if Taylor would be able to participate in that if she has not been baptized. He was not sure and would check on it for me. We both soon forgot about it. Taylor is now in Young Womans and in November, they were asking for volunteers to do baptisms for the dead the first week in December and were trying to give all of the new Beehives this opportunity. I was there in Young Women's during this annoucement and watched as Taylor raised her hand to volunteer. I knew that it was now time to find out if she could do the temple work that she was raising her hand to do and that probably to be able to do this, she would first have to be baptized herself. Corbin and I talked to the bishop and after looking into it for us, he did confirm that she would need to be baptized herself, in order to do this work. It was at this time that we decided it was time to have her baptized, this time not for us, but for Taylor and after explaining things to her and that to do temple work, she would need to have to have this done, she completely understood and was excited to get it done. We realized that we would have all of the kids here for Christmas and what better time to have it done, than with everyone home! Plans were made, schedules changed and the special day arrived! We asked Taylor if she wanted Scott to baptize her and her Dad confirm her and she said, "Yes." Scott was so excited, he wanted to cry. This would be the first baptism that he has performed. What better one to do first, but his little sister's!

The evening was perfect. The Primary room was filled with dear friends and family. Our sweet Bishop Gubler conducted. Our good neighbor and friend, Evelyn Daniels-Brown played the piano while I led the music. Opening song was "When I am Baptized", followed by a very special pray by Taylor's big brother, Ryan. Stephanie then gave a great talk on baptism. With Corbin and Kritt, Taylor's brother in law, as witnesses, Taylor was then baptized by her brother, Scott.
Scott did have to baptize her twice because it looked like her left hand did not completely get submerged. When Scott told her that he needs to do it again, she looked at him and said, "Okay." She was so ready.

After she had dressed, we were favored with the beautiful hymn, "I Stand All Amazed", sang by family friends Breanna Haddigan and Dana Bergeson, accompanied by Janet Bergeson. Jess Walters, Taylor's brother in law, then gave the important talk about the Holy Ghost and how it will help and guide Taylor throughout her life. I appreciated so much the time and effort that Stephanie and Jess put into preparing and giving these talks for Taylor. Taylor was then confirmed to receive the Holy Ghost by her Dad and a group of other great men. As soon as Taylor got up, she started hugging all of them. I know that she knew that this was a special night for her. The bishop then closed with some very special remarks. This night was not only a special night for Taylor, but she got baptized on Joseph Smith's birthday as well as the Bishop's Dad's birthday, who had passed away just a few years ago. The closing song was, "I Am A Child Of God." Closing prayer was given by Taylor's sister, Kellie.

We appreciated so much everyone that came to participate in this evening and event for Taylor. The spirit was so strong and everything just felt so right. I look forward to going to the temple with Taylor and to watch her experience those special blessings that only the temple can provide. Thank you Taylor, for teaching me the importance of life and why we are here. You have always been such a special blessing to our family! We love you so very much!

December 23,08 Taylor's Baptism!

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It was such a special, spiritual event and evening! So nice that the whole family could be there for it, at least all of her siblings and their spouses and nephews. We would of loved to of had grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins there, but with it being such a last minute decision and the night before Christmas Eve and with the horrible winter weather that we were having, we knew that we just had to get it done. She had many friends and their parents from the ward come, which made it extra special! Don't I have such a cute family!!
Taylor was just giggling and so excited before she was baptized. She loves her family so much and was so happy to have Scott do this important ordinance. She gives the best hugs!

What a cute brother and sister at such a special time. As soon as they put on their white clothing, I was ready to cry! They were both so ready for this day!

A quick picture with Stephanie before Taylor's baptism. Stephanie wanted Taylor baptized when she turned eight and was practicing with Taylor on how you do it and was sad when we decided to wait. I thought that it was appropriate for Stephanie to give the talk on baptism because she has been wanting this for Taylor for so long and also because Stephanie loves to gives talks.

The proud parents with the soon to be newest member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints!

Taylor with two of the men in her life. Scott, thanks for being worthy to baptize Taylor and Corbin, thanks for being worthy to confirm her! I am so proud of all of you!

Scott, Taylor and Dad looking at the font, preparing Taylor for what is about to happen. Taylor already seemed to know. She was so relaxed, excited and happy! She was so ready!

Girls Trip to SLC!!

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The weekend before Thanksgiving us girls planned a trip to SLC to visit Stephanie and to celebrate Kellie's 24th birthday! Since having Conner almost two years ago, Kellie has not been away from him or Jace and we decided, along with her great husband, Jess, that she needed a few days alone with her Mom and sisters! Jess did a great job taking the boys, along with his Mom's help and we flew out on a Friday evening and flew home that next Monday. We had a blast! We stayed in a motel just across the parking lot from where Kritt and Stephanie live in dowtown Salt Lake. We flew into SLC from Spokane and after arriving in Salt Lake, we rented a car and checked into our motel room and found Stephanie waiting for our arrival in her cute little apartment. We went out to eat at a favorite spot called, Cafe Rio. Taylor was quite stressed and upset that they did not have grilled cheese and fries, her favorite thing that she orders at every resturant, but after Cafe Rio, we did go to Chili's for dessert and Taylor did get some grilled cheese and fries there, so she felt much better. Kellie had never been to Park City, so the next morning, we took off for Park City and the outlet stores. It wasn't very crowded that day so we were able to do lots of shopping and found some really good deals. We worked up a appetite and ate at another favorite place, Panda Express. Taylor loves orange chicken, so she was good with that stop!

The evening consisted of a little more shopping at the Gateway Plaza, not far from Stephanie's apartment and then going to see "Twilight". It had just opened that weekend and Stephanie was lucky enough to get tickets for us that evening. Kritt was going to go, but he got a better invitation to go and watch BYU play U of U football game at his cousins house. BYU lost, darn!
We loved Twight and can't wait to see the sequels!! We ended up buying stuff at the store to eat that night at the motel since our feet were killing us from all that walking! Stephanie and I did not have on the most comfortable shoes! Thanks Stephanie and Kendra for helping to explain the movie to us since Kellie and I had not read the books yet! It helped alot and now I need to read the books as well.

Next day was Sunday and was spent going to Stephanie and Kritt's ward which we had told the girls about, but you need to experience it to really understand it. They live in one of the oldest wards in SLC and where there are alot of refugees and homeless people. There are alot of service missionaires in their ward to be able to keep it running. Stephanie and Kritt are the Young Men and Young Women's Presidents and they do an awesome job for the difficult situations they have to deal with. Our hats were off to you and the mission that you are on in your ward. Sure made you appreciate the wards that you have and the lives that we have been able to live. We all have been truly blessed and admire the work that the church does and pray that it continues to grow and touch the lives of people everywhere!

After church we went down to Temple Square and took in the spirit there before going to our buffet, which is on Sunday, but since we were visiting in the area, we justify it that way. If they would change it to Saturdays, we would go then instead, I am sure! It was nice to see Scott and James, who did finally make it there after sleeping in that morning since they were up so late the night before. Try and get some better sleep, boys, okay!!

We did go that evening to see Eric and Amanda and family. Kellie had not seen them for a couple of years. Wish that we could of gotten over to Tara's as well. Too many places to go and not enough time. Tara, you are on our next trip! It was nice to talk to Tara and we did see her when we were flying out because she stopped by with a very nice and soft blanket for me for my birthday, along with some treats! You are great, Tara! The other place that I wish that we would of gone to was Stephanie's work place. She is a nurse in the Medical ICU at the University of Utah Medical Center. I have been wanting to see where she works and meet some of her coworkers, but we didn't think about it until it was too late. Next trip!

The morning before we flew back out on Monday was spent at two craft stores. We couldn't of gone to any others because there was not anymore room for anymore stuff! Love craft stores and especially Tiapan(spelling?) and Rod Works!! I could stay in those forever!! Taylor wasn't so excited about the craft stores and her and Kendra were ready to go way before we were. It was fun because we all have the same taste in decor and what we like. Afterwards we grabbed a quick lunch at Applebees and then off to drop all of our stuff at Stephanie's for Scott to bring home in his car, before we took off for the airport and our flight home. So much fun and again we thank our husbands and Dad who let us do this fun girls trip. Well needed by Kellie and her boys and husband survived quite well. Happy early Birthday Kellie and I look forward to finding another reason why we must take another girl's trip and like I said before, April, you must go on this next one with us!!

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Too many outlet stores in Park City and so little time!!
The girls! The only one missing was April, who was in Washington with her family and my cute grandsons. We planned this girl's retreat for Kellie's birthday before Ryan decided to send April and the boys home with us from Grand Cayman. Next girl's trip, April, you are in!!

James, Kendra and Scott in their "Thug Apartment" t-shirts that Kendra designed and made for them and their roommates. Great job Kendra. So nice to have creative children!

Cousin, daughter and son sporting the Thug Apartment t-shirts! Quite intimidating, aren't they!! They are really nice kids once you get to know them.........Love ya you crazy kids!

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Taylor with her completed High School Musical Build a Bear. She had been pretty bored shopping at the Gateway in SLC until we stopped here. Then she became excited. This is probably her 5th Build A Bear. It helps to be the youngest, since none of her sister got that many! Nice of her sisters to help her create him.
Taylor with Mom who paid for the Build a Bear!

Watching Taylor fill her Build a Bear!

A happy Taylor after making, dressing and naming her Build a Bear!

It looks like you girls have done some serious shopping! How are we going to get all of this home since we flew? Good thing Scott is coming home in a couple of days for Thanksgiving and is driving his car!! Thanks son for bringing all of this home for us and thanks husbands and Dad for letting us purchase all of this stuff!! We loved the outlet stores in Park City and the Gateway Plaza in downtown SLC and Tiapan (spelling?) and Rod Works! Taylor quite hated the craft stores and vows to not go back. Hopefully we can convert her to them someday!

Beautiful Temple Square at Christmas time!

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I have always loved the SLC Temple. I love every Temple, but SLC has always been one of my favorite, especially at Christmas time. They decorate Temple Square with more lights than you could ever imagine with the a manager scene that helps you to remember why we celebrate the Christmas season. We were a week early before they turned on the lights, but you could see the lights ready in all of the trees and all over. Luckily we were able to see the manager scene and a new white ceramic Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus that was placed on the reflective waters just in front of the temple. So beautiful. Just what we wanted to experience. Love the pictures that I took on Temple Square, especially this one of the temple!
The Conference Center. Another one of my favorite things to do is to actually go to the Conference Center for General Conference. We went a couple of years ago and hope to go again this Spring since Scott and Stephanie and Kritt all live in Utah right now. I was able to go this fall with Stephanie and Kylie, her sister in law, to the General R. S. Women's Conference, which was also very neat to be right there among all of the great leaders of our church!

The white cermic stable scene that looks like it is sitting on th reflective pool right in front of the temple.

Wow! Love Temple Square!

You can't go to Temple Square without going up to see the sculpture of Christ. When we started going up to see it, Taylor all of a sudden remembered that "Jesus is up there, huh!" She loves it too and it was so cool to see that she remembered being there.

Kritt braved the day and hung out with us girls! Thanks for letting us have a girl's weekend in SLC and taking your wife away for most of the weekend. You were a trooper!

Kritt, Stephanie and Kellie enjoying Temple Square and the warmth of the Visitor's Center.

Us girls in front of the reflection pool and the beautiful SLC Temple. What a fun weekend it has been!

They had this cool new stable scene where they use to have a different stable scene. Really liked this one so we had to get our picture in front of it. Sure wish that we could of been there when the lights were on. Kendra and Taylor have never seen the lights at Christmas time. Maybe next year. It's a must!

Leaving the Visitor's Center

It is so nice having girls who are creative and talented and can curl my hair! Thanks girls for trying to keep me updated!! I am very lucky to be your Mom!

Favorite brunch at Little America in SLC!

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The happy family after eating all of that good food at the our favorite buffet. You always leave there so full!! Good thing they don't weigh you going in and then out!! Missed the rest of the family!
Love this picture of my two youngest girls! They must be happy because they have been eating chocolate!

Me with my oldest daughter Kellie, whose birthday it is that we are celebrating on this girl's trip to Utah! We have talked about this buffet to her and Jess for a long time. Glad that she could finally experience it. Next time it will be Jess's turn to feast!!

My three youngest kids. Aren't they adorable! Thanks for being such great kids!

Scott and his fun and crazy cousin, James, who joined our girl's outing at the buffet. They were a little bit late that morning. It couldn't of been because they stayed up until 4:00 that morning, going to IHOP and whatever else they do there in Provo at that time. No, that couldn't of been why they were late!! Glad that you could make it and thanks for taking care of each other there in Provo! So nice that you cousins can all finally be around each other more. Those memories will last forever!

Be a Better Blogger!

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I have been such a bad blogger! I was stuck in a hurricane in Grand Cayman for over two months and it was really only 2 days! My goal is to be a better blogger and get things blogged maybe even before my kids do!! It just nags at me when I have things or events that I want to blog, and I don't and then I get behind. The past 2 months have very eventful and I want to share them with everyone, so keep checking because over these next few days, I will be caught up! My blogging about our fun, crazy trip to Grand Cayman to see the kids and the great Iron Man event Corbin and Scott was blogged backwards, so if you want to follow along easier, start at the bottom and work your way up. It will probably make more sense that way. I will try and post things better from now on! Hang in there with me! The best is yet to come. I love reading other people's blog spots and keeping up with their lives, so everyone else, keep yours up too!

Cousins reunited after a year of seperation!!

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Proud and great moms with their cute boys! These four adorable grandsons are all going to be turning two, one and 6 months this month!! So nice to have the cousins together again!
Weston finding and loving the toys! He can't remember being here since he was only a month old when he left, but it was so cute to see Emmet walk in the door and look around with that look, "I know that I have been here before" and in the house he ran!

What a pair!

Like two peas in a pod, only one is dark and the other light. It is so cute to hear them talk their own language to each other and seem to understand exactly what they are saying. They are both so into cars that they started playing together right off.

Sometimes they maybe wanted the same car...............

The cutest picture ever! I can't believe that Conner is the tallest so far since his parents are sooooo tall!! Weston is probably going to pass them both up before long!

Big hug for the cousin! Not sure if Emmet was ready for that one, but they soon were both hugging each other!

My three grandsons. Jace will be up and going with them soon! Hopefully sometime there will be a few granddaughters to spice things up!

Leaving Grand Caymand and going home!

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The boys doubling up in their stroller for the long trip home. They were troopers and flew well. the hard part was getting our stuff on and off the planes when we couldn't check it all the way through the first day. We didn't do bad for having 6-7 bags, stroller, two beds and car seats! We left Grand Cayman and spent the first night in Tampa Bay and then on to Washington via SLC.
Waiting for the shuttle to our first motel for our first night back in the good old USA. April was sure glad to get back to "America" and so were we!

Saying good by to Ryan at the airport. It was strange and hard to leave him behind, but we knew that he wouldn't be far behind us and studying for these last boards and finals were pretty important. He may just enjoy the peace and quite for awhile, as long as a hurricane doesn't hit again and then he may need his mama!

It was rainy but fun. What an adventure. Not too sure about that driving on the right side of the roads! Glad that we could get there before they left to experience that island! I think if I would choose a tropical place to go again, it would be Hawaii!!

The cute Rasmussen Family soon to be reunited again! Thanks for letting us come and visit

Party after the storm!

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Since the hurricane delayed our flight home by 2 days, we tried to find a fun place to eat the night before we left. We are bringing April and the boys back to Washington with us so that Ryan and finish up these last few weeks with his important boards and have the time and quiet to study. It will fun for April and the boys to visit with family longer, since she has not been able to for over a year.
Trying to get the family to all pose and look at the camera. Somtimes quite the feat to do!

One last party in Grand Cayman before we go back to life in Washington. Thanks Kellie for keeping down the fort back at home and watching the girls for us!! Thanks, Jess, for letting her!

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It was hard to find many places open the day after the hurricane, but we finally found this place to eat at before we all leave the next day. Good cayman food and company. The people are very nice here. Alot of them are from Jamaica. Love their accents and their laid back attitudes for life! Here is Ryan and April enjoying their last dinner together until they meet back up in the states!
Grandma and Weston! He is such a happy, smiley kid!

This is the auto place where Corbin rented the car that we hope that they came and got because if they didn't, then someone else stole it! Locked up tight and no one one around to ask!

Grandpa and Emmet walking to dinner!

I may of posted this picture already but such a cute pic of the family leaving their apartment!

After the storm!

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Drove past this huge mansion that was being built right on the beach and had to take a picture. It is going to be massive and beautiful. There are beautiful homes right next to shacks. No zoning here!
Beautiful. Not in the budget!

Checking out the damage after the island was spared by the category 3 hurricane! Corbin and I drove Ryan crazy with our excitement of being in our first hurricane, but maybe that kind of kept everyone from freaking out. Being on the first floor, if it really hit, we probably would of had to of gone upstairs and gotten to know the neighbors! Kids slept right through it! Amazing how strong the wind and rain was. Now I know what they mean by torrents of rain or rain coming down in sheets. I would of tried to get pictures, but didn't want to get my camera wet!

The chairs that use to be around the pool, now in the pool after the storm.

Motels, resturants all boarded up and sandbagged. Sure know the need of being prepared and food storage!

Ready for Hurricane Elaina!

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Downtown all boarded up and sandbagged. Felt like a ghost town. They put a curfew on the island.
Already flooding on the roads. What on earth are we doing still driving on them?

How much more water can this island hold?

More flooding.

They move most of the vehicles to higher ground on the island.

Flooding before the Hurricane!

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We took these pictures from our rental car of the flooding even before the hurricane hit. All of the rain had no where to go. We had a rental car until the rental company came to the aparment and "just picked it up." Not sure if they tried to call Ryan's apartment to let us know that they were coming to get it. It wasn't due to be dropped off until the next day. We found out when we tried to go to the rental place to make sure they had picked it up verses it being stolen and the rental place was totally shut down and all of the cars had been moved in the middle of the island to higher ground. The place never did open before we left so we were never really sure that they took it back, but we assume since we have never been charged for a car from Grand Cayman that that is what happened. I always wondered what it would be like to go out to get into your car and it is gone. I guess we found out. Good thing it wasn't our car!
Most of the home and businesses boarded up their windows and doors with boards or steel shutters, like these.

A road that was already flooded.

The sky before the storm!

This was the flooded bar area at the apartments after the hurricane missed the direct hit to the island.

Sites on the Island

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There are lots of cemetarys on the island and most of them are close or on the beach, which is surprising. It was interesting how they are most above ground and in cement vaults like these.
Eating out the night before the hurricane is to hit. Pretty quiet around town and hard to find a place open, but we did!

The family going for a stroll at their apartments.

There was fresh fish everyday on the beach for people to buy.

St. Matthews University Medical School!

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Inside of one of the medical buildings of Ryan's school on Grand Cayman.

Wanted to get some pictures where Ryan was going to school. We went there while he was there, but he was in class. Their uniforms were white polos and beige shorts.

At this Residence Hall first semester students usually stay to get accustomed to the island. You could not be married and live there. Proud of you son for all of your hard work and studing to get you this far. Keep up the great work! It will be worth it in the end!

The LDS church in Grand Cayman!

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I was determined to find the LDS branch in Grand Cayman and on one of our drives around the island, I could see a steeple coming up and just knew that it was a LDS church and there it was. It was bigger than I thought it would be. Hoping to see some missionaries on the island, but never ran into any.

Took this picture for my Dad. He is always pointing out the cows everywhere he goes and is always amazed, especially, if he finds them on an island and wonders how they got them there. Here you go, Dad. They even have cows in Grand Cayman!

Having fun with Grandpa!

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Emmet loves to go swimming in the pool. He is like a little fish. Good thing Grandpa practicing swimming with his Ironman!
What characters!

Wave at Grandma with the camera! At least there was one day we could go swimming and snorkeling and some sunshine while we were there, but it only lasted one day!

Corbin and the local swimming pool iguana up there on the rock to Corbin's right. Ryan says that it is a pain because it will poop in the pool. It's pretty amazing just to see it sitting up there.

Closer view of the local swimming pool iguana!

The view right off of the beach from Ryan's apartment

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This is a pirate ship that cruises around with people. Pirate theme is a big thing on the island. They were suppose to have a big pirate celebration while we were there, but the hurricane canceled most of it.
Grandpa getting ready to go swimming in the pool with Emmet. Emmet still sporting his sunglasses!

View right from Ryan's beach. Condos in the back. Ryan's is off to the right.

A nice lounge on the beach next to the ocean! Great unless a hurricane is coming!

Cruise ship that you can see from Ryan's beach. I need to go on another cruise. Anyone game?

My birthday in the Grand Caymans 11/5/08

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Getting to spend a birthday in the Grand Caymans sounds like a good idea! If the weather would of been better, it would of been perfect. A fun day, though, after all!
Corbin had ordered me this cake and West and Emmet were enjoying it even before we started cutting it. It was hilarious how fast they dove into that cake! Thanks hon, for the cake and the day!

Me with my usual eyes closed but enjoying the boys enjoying the cake!

Emmet wasn't shy about diving in!

Go, Emmet, go! Weston wasn't far behind!

Birthday dinner at Hard Rock Cafe in Grand Cayman!

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Ryan, that is not the "yeah buddy" sign again, is it? Emmet enjoying his water!
Ryan, April and boys at my birthday dinner at the Hard Rock. Always a fun place to go!

Enoying the grandkids!

Corbin and me for my birthday dinner at the Hard Rock. Thanks hon for dinner!

Here comes the rain. It rained almost nonstop and then the hurricane came!

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Lunch with Grandpa and Grandma at the Paradise Cafe. Eric and Amanda ate here with Ryan and April and boys when they were here on their cruise. Great food right next to the ocean.

Ryan still doing his "yeah buddy" with with his mother and cool looking son.

Scuba diver amidst all the fish coming up to the window of our boat.

Scuba diver saying hi to Emmet. Emmet still sporting his sun glasses under water! No sun here, buddy!

Emmet saying "wow" when he sees all of the beautiful tropical fish!

We missed you April and Weston!

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Our deep sea underwater adventure ride. Emmet wasn't nervous at all, going down to look at all of those fish. Ryan and I got a little seasick, but not bad.
Leaving the apartment to go downtown for my birthday! Emmet loves his sunglasses!

We took these pictures right before it started to rain. It rained pretty non stop after this moment! So much for coming to the island for sun!

Emmet with Grandma! This is the area of Grand Cayman were the cruise ships dock and let the tourists roam. It caters very much to the cruise ship tourists. When the cruise ships are gone, this area pretty well shuts down.

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Emmet trying to teach Grandpa how to play chess
Our first night out on the big island!

The cute little couple waiting for their lobster!

Ryan sportig his "yeah" buddy sign with Weston

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Emmet and Grandpa checking out the Igauna on the wall at the resturant we went to the second night for dinner. It was all you can eat Lobster. I don't eat Lobster and Corbin tried to convince April and Ryan that they like it, but I think the only one that really enjoyed it, was Corbin!
Does Emme know that Iguana is behind him on the wall. Good thing it isn't alive!

Caught Ryan putting a "huge" spoonful of mac and cheese in his mouth at their apartment. I threatened him that it would go on my blog spot. I keep my word, Ryan! How big is that mouth of yours, anyway.............

Cute little Weston, waiting for his lunch. Hard to believe that the last time I saw him he was only a month old. Man how time flies!! He has got the prettiest blue eyes!

Florida Ironman 11/1/08

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Our crazy Ironman Husbands with their not so crazy wives! This is Corbin and Ryan's second ironman but the first they competed together. The Cornia's moved to Walla Walla last year so Corbin lost his training partner and I lost a dear friend. We miss them alot and would sure like to get together with them alot more than we do. If this is the only way that we can get together, then more Ironmans or marathons, it is!
Corbin, Scott and myself with Corbin's parents who to a road trip across the states to get here from Sundance, WY and his cousin who lives here in Florida. Thanks for being there for them. It meant alot! Always nice to get together!

The three muskateers, oh I mean, Ironmen!

It was cute because each one of them took a leg of the Ironman. Scott beat them in the swim. Ryan beat them in the bike. Corbin beat them in the run. Quite the threesome! This is the morning after the big event. They look a little better than they did last night. Scott could of gone out and partying with Michele and I, but Corbin and Ryan were looking for their rooms and beds! It helps to be younger, doesn't it boys! It's always fun to watch them the next day go up and down stairs!

My Ironmen!

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Proud wife and mother with her two "Ironmen" As you can see, it is dark. All three of them finished within the 12 hour mark. Ryan finished first. Corbin followed and then Scott. Scott did look the strongest crossing the finish line. Corbin and Ryan looked like they were just glad to be crossing it. It's a crazy thing to push your body for over 12 hours like they did. Scott was the youngest competitor and the first 18 year old to finish. A pretty cool accomplishment, son!

It was an honor to be there and support you both, even though, sometimes I complain when you are gone so much with trainer. The goal certainly makes it all worth it!
The three Ironmen!

Corbin getting ready to cross the finish line! It was so dark that most of my pictures at this point did not turn out. Corbin's finish time it 12 hours and 30 minutes!! It was cold for us observers at this point!
Here is what the entrance to the finish line looks like not in the dark!

This is what the finish line looks like not in the dark!

The 26.2 mile run to finish up the IronMan!

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The signs of encouragement that Michele and I made for our Men the day before the big event. I am sure that they inspired them, if they saw them......... oh well!
More inspiring signs!

Scott looking strong after his first lap of the marathon. After we saw them make the first lap, we tried to get a place at the finish line to watch them cross the finish line, even though we knew it would still be a few hours.

Corbin with a big thumbs up after his first lap on the marathon.

Ryan Cornia still looking strong and still in front of the pack.

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Scott had some trouble with the seat of his bike during his ride and here he stops to tell us about it, just as he is starting his run. What I liked about Scott is that he really enjoyed his first Ironman and just took his time to take it all in. At the transition stations he would take his time and talk to other athletes or the people helping out and also stopped to talk to Michele and I both times as he passed us in the run. Ryan and Corbin were more in the "hurrying" mode at the transition stations and did not really stop to talk to us as they ran by. I was worried that Scott would be bummed when he found out his Dad and Ryan were ahead of him in the run, but he wasn't. He was just having a good time. Way to go, Scott!!
Scott just starting his marathon portion of the IronMan. It was nice to see that he was okay after the bike. Once a mom, always a mom and worrying is what I do best!

Corbin, excited to be starting his run or else he is trying to hit the lady ahead of him! You never know! Nice compression socks, Corbin!

Ryan just starting his marathon. He finished first out of the three off the bikes. Way to make up time, Ryan. He has always been a good biker.

The 112 mile Bike Race!

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Corbin getting help with a device on his bike that keeps his wheel on. His bike was fine when he placed it in the guarded parking lot the night before the race but when he went to start to ride it, the back tire came off. Someone had taken off whatever the thing was that held it on. Corbin could tell you. Anyways, he yelled for one of the repair guys and he helped him wheel it to right where I was standing to take pictures of them and ran and got a new device to keep his wheel on. At least I got a chance to talk to Corbin and find out what was going on. Who and why would someone do that?? I guess it happens quite ofen someone told me who was standing next to me. Rough start for Corbin, but he makes up the time later.
I'm here asking Corbin what happened. At least he is still smiling!

The nice guy who is helping Corbin with the part that is missing on his bike. This is when I asked Corbin, when I saw him running next to his bike, "Aren't you suppose to be riding it?"

The back of Scott with his BYU riding uniform on, taking off on the bike portion of the ironman. He was too fast for me on take off to get the front of him, so you get the back instead! Go Scott!

The "Peelers"

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After the 2.4 mile swim, which was out and back twice, you run through what is called the "peeling" station. You can't call it the stripping station, but that is what it is. You come out and there are people yelling at you to come to them and with gloves on they yell at you to lay down and then they peel your wet suit off of you as you get up and then run to your biking transition station. At the dinner the night before, they reminded everyone to make sure that they wore something underneath their wet suits because there has been times when people have forgot and when their wet suits were peeled off, they were naked!
Never could really find Scott, Corbin or Ryan after the swim started. Michele, Ryan's wife was down on the beach watching for them, but I wanted to be up higher to take pictures. I am sure they are in there somewhere. Scott finished his swim first, then Corbin not far behind and then Ryan.

A swimmer being "peeled". I left soon after this shot to try and find them at the transition station with their bikes.

The 2.4 mile swim!

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Taken from my balcony. Hard to pick my men out from everyone else!
Swimmers begin. The competive swimmers went first and then the rest of the pack. Corbin always say that this is the worse because everyone is crawling or swimming over everyone else. It is usually better to hold back a little bit so that you don't get caught in this first wave of swimmers. I was worried more for Scott this time because it was all new to him. I am hoping that his Dad will make sure he is okay. Corbin later told me that once it starts, you are lucky to see each other again. Fortunately Corbin and Scott found each other soon after the start and again on the second lap. I guess Corbin threw up most of the first lap the ensure he had drank just before going in. He felt sorry for whoever was drinking in his water next to him! As soon as the first lap was over, Corbin felt better. Weird, those athletes!

It looks like a school of fish!

Here are the competitors finishing their first lap and then going back in to the ocean for their second lap while the other athletes are still out in the ocean. There are boaters, divers, ect.. out in the ocean to make sure that nobody drowns. Comforting!

Ready, Set, Start the Ironman!

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The view of the beach where the swim will begin just outside our motel. This was taken from our balcony. The motel was not the nicest inside, but being right where everything was happening, but worth it.
The bikes waiting in the parking lot. The racers had to have them in the parking lot the evening before the race and then it was closed off and guarded until the big race. Lots of money right there in those bikes! Corbin, Scott and Ryan all rented their bikes this time since it costs so much to ship theirs and have it assembled. The bikes that they rented were alot nicer than their ones at home, so also a nice reason to rent them.

Their bags waiting at the transition station between the run and the bike. It will become a very busy place soon.

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The three soon to be Ironmen!

Scott and Corbin sporting their wetsuits taking that final picture with me before the official start of the Ironman. Yes, it is still dark out there, but not for long!

Pasta dinner before the IronMan!

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Florida Panama City Beach Ironman!

Like Father, Like Son!

Me with two of the men in my life!

Corbin and Me

The dinner table with Cornias, Sam and Kendra from Ephrata, Grandma and Granda Moberg and Scott with a thumbs up! Not sure if it was for the dinner or that he is ready to race!

Catagory 3 Hurricane!

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Paloma has now been upgraded to a category 3 hurricane just before it is hitting Grand Cayman "head on", as the weather channel is updating us. Great to still have some communication with the world so we know what is about to happen. Ryan is getting pretty nervous. Glad we are here to try and keep things calm or I think he would be going somewhere right now; anywhere but here!! Never have been a direct hit for a hurricane. This should be interesting! Update you when I can! Corbin just announced that he is out of cheetos so the real emergency is on!

Hurricane Paloma in the Grand Caymans!

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Nothing is ever boring in our lives!! Currently we are on the island of Grand Cayman which is about to get hit by a category 2 or 3 hurricane around 1 a.m. tonight. Not sure how much longer we will have power, but decided to try and blog quickly while I still could! We already have to change our flights home from tomorrow until Sunday night, getting into Florida and then leaving Florida on Monday for home. Sorry Kellie, you get to play Mom a few days longer than planned.

Our son, Ryan's condo is right on the beach so watching these waves come in is pretty amazing! They should only get higher. The whole island has shut down. This sure convinces you the importance of being prepared and food storage! Man I miss my pantry right now!! I hope to be blogging again soon to let you know how we weathered Hurricane Paloma!! This was suppose to be a vacation of sun and fun. It's been fun and exciting, but no sun! We send our love to all of you! Glad that we could be here with the kids so they weren't alone or else we would be worrying about them! Keep reading for further updates!!

Ironman and Grand Cayman!

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I was hoping to a blog a few more of the events of September and October before I left for the Ironman in Panama City, FL and then a week in Grand Cayman to see the kids! Those things will have to wait until I get home. It will sure be nice once I get caught up with everything, but then others things will always needed to be done! Never ends.

Just a peek - the Ironman that my husband and son, Scott, along with our friend, Ryan Cornia and Sam Barnes, from Ephrata, WA went well. Many fun pictures to follow! Michele and I, along with Corbin's parents, Curt and Linda were great "Ironmates"! It is amazing and fun to watch.

We are now in Grand Cayman visiting Ryan, April, Emmet and Weston - our kids and grandkids!! It did rain all day the first full day there, so I am kind of worried that it will do this all week, but I sure hope not! We want to spend some time on the beach and other places! Ryan is here in Medical School and doing really well. We will be bringing April and boys back to WA with us when we leave here on Saturday. I will blog all about our adventures as soon as I am home - or at least, soon after! Kellie is a trooper and holding the house down, along with her two cute boys and her two adorable sisters! Thanks Kellie!!

Little America Sunday Breakfast Buffet!!

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If we are ever in SLC on a Sunday, traveling home, we usually end up eating at Little America's Sunday Buffet which is to die for!! It has anything and everything that you would ever want to eat and it even tastes delicious. Sometimes at those, it looks good, but doesn't really taste that good. Well, Corbin talked us into eating there again before we left after checking on Scott at BYU and going to the BYU football. We invited Stephanie and Kritt, the Mitchell boys and Eric and Amanda to join us. Eric and Amanda live in Kaysville, so not far from SLC. Here is a picture of the "full" group after the delicious buffet! We have got to get Jess and Kellie and Ryan and April here sometime!! You guys would love it!
Corbin looks tired or maybe drinking more than diet coke, (ha, ha), but oh well, I posted it anyway!

Kritt and Stephanie enjoyng the food and setting. Everything is done up so well.

The older married couples! Eric was just finishing his chocolate covered strawberries. The desserts here are all so delicious. It's hard to choose, so we don't. We eat them all.............Corbin still looks like he is tired!

Is there enough food for these hungry young men? Bring it on!

BYU Cougar Football!!

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Go BYU!
Go Cougs!

Waiting for the team to come on. Corbin was amazed that everyone was so nice and calm. No one was swearing, throwing things or spitting on the team. I'm not sure how they do things in Wyoming, but welcome to my world!!

Stephanie and her Dad waiting to get into the game!

Scott and his cousin, roommate and friend. Starting on the left is David, who is a friend of James's from Roosevelt ,who isn't going to school here but was up visiting. Next is James, Scott's cousin and roommate and then Scott and last is John, another roommate of Scott's from the Odgen area. Nice looking group of young men!

I am sure that Corbin never dreamed of wearing a BYU shirt and going to a BYU game!! It brought back alot of old memories for me. It has been years, (yes, I'm old!) since I was at

BYU. Loved the school and area! I even roomed my first year with my sister, Julie, and then after she got married, I roomed with my good friends Trudy and Cindy!

Like Mother, Like Daughter!!

The Moberg Family sporting the BYU Quest shirts!! We were pretty pumped for the game! BYU ended up winning pretty easily. Go BYU!!!

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This ended my very busy summer, which most of it I was able to blog, but not all of it. Missed the pictures of taking the girls to girl's camp in June. Taylor's first year!! Kendra went as a 5th year YCL and I went to make sure Taylor did okay and also to help certify the 3rd year girls! It was a new camp over by Seattle and it was lots of fun, despite having car trouble!! The girls in the Stake were awesome with Taylor! She would of done just fine without me!

Once we got home from everything, we soon had to get kids ready and off to college and school!!
Where did the summer go?

Off to School!

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Taylor heading off to 6th grade! This is a bitter sweet year for her and us. She leaves Garden Heights which was her elementary school for the last 7 years!! She had such a great experience there with such great teachers and a special one on one helper! They will all be hard to replace. Not sure if we are all ready for Middle School and after the first few months now of school, I don't think that they were quite ready for her either, but hopefully with some more hard work, Middle School will start to fall into place. Trying to integrate a special Education Student is a lot of sweat and tears and we will get there. She has such awesome friends who are trying their best to help her out. We just won't give up on you Taylor!!
Kendra heading off to her first day of school and also as a new driver! She got her driving license right before school started. Scary!! She drove the Dodge Neon to school the first month or two.
She wasn't thrilled about driving stick shift and killed it at least 12 times getting to and from school, but she finally figured it out. Now she drives my old car, the Ford Taurus, since I got a new Dodge Durango, so she is much happier and so am I. I will have to admit, that she is getting better and it is nice having an extra driver again!

Kendra, first day of school as a Junior at MLHS!

Scott heading off to college at BYU, Provo, UT! Can't believe he is leaving home! He is sure excited to get to Provo. He is rooming with his good friend and cousin, James Mitchell, so that should be lots of fun. James is going to UVU and then his twin brothers, Jacob and Matt will be there along with James's older brother, Doug and his wife, Shauna. You then also have Stephanie and Kritt and his cousin, Ben, in SLC. He'll have more family around there than we do here! You will be dearly missed! Scott is going to BYU as a Junior. He was able to take his last 2 years of High School out to the Junior College here called Big Ben. The program is called Running Start and they end up graduating with their high school diploma the same time that they graduate with their AA from the college. The best thing about it, is that it is basically free. We just pay for the books and some labs. Quite the deal! We love you, Scott! Make us proud!

Sturgis and Sundance Wyoming!

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Taylor and her two cousins, Leah and Robin. What cute girls all three of them are!

Scott, Corbin, Linda, Taylor, Curt and myself. It seemed strange just having Scott and Taylor with us visiting with Corbin's family, but it was nice to finally get up there to see everyone.

Our smaller family with Corbin's parents and brother, Jeff and girls. Robin is in the pink and is a Senior at Sundance High School. She has sure grown up and I can't believe will be graduting this year! Leah is in the blue and is almost as tall as her sister. She keeps her Dad in line, which is a hard job to do! Fun, great girls! Jeff, you aren't so bad yourself. Good thing you have such a nice wife! Wish you were in this picture, Yvonne. She was at work.

The two Moberg boys. Linda, you must of had your hands full with those two at home!!

Moberg Family!

When Corbin and I were first married he use to tell me about this town near where he grew up that every year all of these bikers came from all over the world to gather for a week and all sorts of things went on during this week. I use to think, yeah, sure, lots of bikes..........................

The first summer we were visiting his family during "rally" time, I came to realize quickly just how many bikes and how big this Sturgis Rally Week really is. There are motorcyclists all over the place. Mount Rushmore is not far and they are all over there, along the roads, highways, camping everywhere. Some of the bikers ride their bikes all of the way there from whereever they came. Some haul them there and then ride. Most of the bikers are professional people. It was amazing to say the least. It's always held the first week in August which is always a good time to go because it falls right around Curt and Linda's birthdays. We made it up to Wyoming again this year just in time for the Rally and to see Corbin's family who we had not seen for awhile. Corbin's parents come to Washington at least once a year but we had not seen his brother Jeff and his wife, Yvonne and girls for a few years. I missed getting a picture of Yvonne while we were there, sorry Yvonne, but here are a few to share. It's always fun to visit Corbin's family in Sundance. They have a beautiful home in a beautiful area with all sorts of fun things to do while you are there. We were even able to stop in and say hello to Corbin's grandma, Elizabeth and his Uncle Floyd.

Sturgis Bike Rally, Sturgis, Wy 08!

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Corbin always wanted me to become a biker "babe." If one day on his parent's trike counts, then I was a "biker babe!" It was a fun ride, though. Do we look like bikers? We did wear helmets when we were actually going.................!

Jeff, David, a classmate of Corbin's from Sundance, and Corbin. It was David's birthday that day. I won't mention this, but Corbin is wearing his Mom's wranglers!! He did not bring any long pants on this trip and needed some for this bike ride, so he got to borrow his mom's. Thanks, Linda!

Here are the biker's in Sundance. Their big thing is called the "Burn Out." They put the bikes on this big ramp and rev them up and see how long it takes to burn up their back bike tire. It's very loud, smokey and rubber smelling. I can't believe that people that turn out for this. Pretty amazing. I don't think that bike tires are all that cheap, either! Before they built the ramp, they use to just do it on the street, which wasn't good because it would make big holes in the road.

Devils' Mountain. It's quite amazing in person. This was a picture that we took when Corbin and I borrowed his Dad's trike and went on our ride with Jeff and his friend to Hulett, Wy, during the rally. The surrounding little towns around Sturgis each kind of take a day that they have something specific going on that day to attract the bikers. It was quite fun if I must say so myself. Beautiful scenery and Corbin is a pretty good driver! It was nice because our helmets had microphones in them so you could hear each other talk without yelling. That was great.

Bikes park everywhere!

Downtown Stugis during the rally. You would never believe how many bikes there are that come to this area. This year they even said it was down quite a bit due to the gas prices. It was such a hot day that it was hard to stay outside for very long. On the right is Grandpa Moberg, Scott, Robin, Taylor, Leah, myself and Corbin. We had to buy some sturgis shirts!

The Buffalo Chip is a big open arena type place with a big stage where they have these concerts in during the Rally. They get some pretty big stars performing here during that week. At this one you could pull your motorcycle right up in front of the stage if you wanted which alot of them do. It can get a little crazy in there if you aren't careful.

Corbin was so excited to go and see Z Z Top. I am sorry but they looked so old and scarey, it was sad. Even Corbin was surprised. They had a few songs that we recognized but not a whole lot of anything else going on. They were after my favorite, Sugarland, so it was already after 10:30 p.m. and we were all getting pretty tired. I was ready to go home after their first few songs but stayed for the whole things. Corbin's brother Jeff and a few of his buddies rode home with us. We all agreed that Sugarland was the best!

I'm not too sure about those beards!!

Sugarland was soooooo good. We had standing/seats right up front, so that was fun so see them that close. I play their songs now all of the time and had to go out and get their CD's!

She does a great job! Love their songs! Great entertainer with a somewhat "rough" crowd.

We also got to see Kenny Chesney the night before this but I forgot my camera. We were at a different venue for his concert and not so close but he went on for hours! It was great! Love him, too! Corbin quite liked his concert as well. I think that he is reforming!!

A few more photos from the Family Reunion Weekend 08!

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Taylor loves going to Driggs, Utah and Oregon and playing with her cousins. She would probably stay there forever, if you would let her. Love this picture of her with Elizabeth and Alesha. Behind Taylor, in the driveway is the motorhome that she tried to drive that day!
It's so fun to have cousins around your age. Kendra, Ashley and Aubree are three of a kind! Funny that we have a redhead, blond and brunette all about the same age. Kendra and Aubree are both Juniors this year and Ashley is a Senior. Kendra has gone with Ashley to EFY the past two years and this year is going with Aubree. Aubree has never been to EFY before. She is going to have an awesome week! EFY week is one of the best things tha you could ever send your teenagers to. My kids who have been able to go count it as one of the best weeks of their life!

Mom wanted pictures with them with the girls since we hadn't done one of those. (Us Wade's like to take lots of pictures, me included!) This one we were suppose to pose funny. It looks like Jana, Julie and Dad listened, but the rest of us were pretty straightforward. Love the tongue, Julie!

Here's our happy pose! Dad with his girls!

Mom with her girls!

Iron Man Bike Training!

2008-10-26T22:55:00.000-07:00

After our big weekend of family reunions and anniversary celebrations and after we dropped Kendra off at EFY in Rexburg for the week, the rest of us were heading off to Sundance, Wy where Corbin's family lives and go there for a visit. It had been a few years since we had been there and we decided that this would be a good time to go. Corbin had the bright idea that riding bikes from Jackson to somewhere in Wyoming would be good Iron Man training for him and Scott. They are both training for an Iron Man on November 1st in Florida. An Iron Man involves a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and then running a 26.2 mile marathon. Corbin has already done one over a year ago in Courd'Alene, Idaho. This will be Scott's first one. He is the youngest one signed up for this Iron. We hauled their bikes on the back of the suburban and on the morning after our Wade Reunion drove them up to the top of Jackson Pass at 6 a.m. so that they could start their adventure. I would get Kendra off to EFY on Monday and then Taylor and I would start heading that way and pick them up somewhere, depending on how it would go. Sounds fun, doesn't it! I don't think Corbin and Scott had any idea how hard this was going to be. They made it down to Jackson and then over to Togadee (spelling?) pass, which had construction on it and no shoulder to ride. They ended up carrying their bikes for some of it and it was alot more up hill than they thought. They made it that night to Dubois, Wy and were exaushted. They sounded awful on the phone. The next day they did make it to Riverton, Wyoming where they waiting there for me to pick them up. They were not going any further! They did admit that it had been much harder than they had imagined and the wind going into Riverton, was awful. The East and West sides of the state of Wyoming are beautiful, but the middle, I must say, is pretty ugly and barren. It was good to see them all in one piece when Taylor and I found them in Riverton!

Road trip via bikes!

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Getting further and further away. I sure hope that they make that first big corner!!

And they are off! I wanted to drive down the road a little ways to make sure that they made the first corner because they were going pretty fast, but I didn't! I decided that I would just have to try and trust that they knew what they were doing. (What was I thinking?)
The view from the top of the Teton pass overlooking the beautiful Jackson Wyoming valley!

Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Always a fun place to visit. It's only about half an hour drive from my home. Worked over there a couple of summers during High School, cleaning motel rooms with my friends and sisters. We were scary drivers going over that pass those early mornings on our way to work. Sorry about that Mom and Dad!

My adorable son, Scott! You are growing up way too fast! He just graduated from High School this year and will be going to BYU, Provo this fall as a Junior! He plans on being there for a year before going on a mission. He turns 19 on May 28!

Corbin, my crazy husband who does all sorts of wild and dangerous things for a hobby!! What am I going to do with you? Now you are getting our son to follow along!

Father and son ready to ride down Jackson Pass and head towards Sundance, Wy! Taylor and I will be trying to find them in two days after I have dropped Kendra off at EFY in Rexburg. Wish us luck!

Scott making sure that his bike doesn't need adjusting!

Corbin eyeing the long, winding road down toward the beautiful Jackson Hole, Wy, valley.

Hauling the bikes

What are we doing this early in the morning?

Lester Wade Family Reunion 2008

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Every two years, my Dad's family tries to get together for a family reunion. Most of the time they have held it the end of May. I have never been able to make it because up in Washington our kids are still in school and memorial weekend is always the big celebration in Moses Lake called "Spring Fest". My Dad's family, or should I say, Julie, was in charge of it this year so we were able to plan it around my Mom and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party and our own family reunion. It was held out to the fair grounds by Driggs and had a great attendance. It was so great seeing so many family members that I have not seen for a long time. Couldn't believe everyone has kids and grandkids. Here are some of the fun pictures that we taken. I have always been very proud to be a "Wade"! The next one will be in two more years and Fred and Edith's family are in charge. See you all again in two years!

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Brad made some delicious homemade rootbeer for the Wade Family Reunion. Corbin is trying to pretend that he helped, but I think that he just added some dry ice and called it good. It was might tasty, though! Thanks Brad! Brad is married to my younger sister, Jana.
Me with my cousin, Kendra. I was lucky enough to have three cousins my age. Kendra, Wendy and Ray. Kendra and I were able to spend some great weekends together with me usually staying with her in Idaho Falls. Her and her two sisters were all on the Bonneville H.S. drillteam the same time me and my sisters were on the THS HS Drill Team. We were a smaller school so we could rout for each other's teams and not get in trouble. Kendra know lives in Pocatello, Idaho and I never get to see her much. It had been a long time since we had seen each other. It was fun to catch up on things. My red headed daughter, Kendra, was named after her. They finally got to meet as well.

Me with another two of my favorite people, Neil Hillman and his wife, Deon. Neil and Deon were both a year older than me in school. Neil is my first cousin and the son of my Aunt Margeret and Uncle Clair. We all did alot of things together since Teton High School was such a small school. Neil and Deon dated in high school and after he returned home from his mission, they got married. They live by Blackfoot, Idaho where they are both school teachers. Neil also has taught driver's ed for years. Deon has a sister, Wendy who is my age. What a cute, fun couple, who would do anything for anybody! It was so great to see the both of you and catch up. It had been a long time as well. Neil has had some tough health issues these past few years and has recovered quite well. You both looked great and I wish you always the very best!

Almost all of Lester Wade's family. Missing were my two oldest kids, Ryan and Kellie and their families who also have the only great-grandchildren in my family. I am also the only Grandma so far of mom and dad's kids. (Does that sound old?) My son, Ryan with his wife, April and their two sons, Emmet and Weston live in Grand Cayman right now going to Medical School. Kellie with her husband, Jess and their to boys, Conner and Jace live in Pasco, WA which is about 72 miles away from us in Moses Lake, WA. We get to see them quite often since Jess's family lives a block away from us. Julie's husband Hal and her son, Mathew was not in this picture. Nor was Tony's wife Julie who was in Oregon. I think Jana's kids were all there, except Megan who was working. Eric and Amanda and five kids were not there due to their daughter, Olivia playing in an important tournament in Kaysville. We missed you guys. See how much bigger this picture would of had to of been?

Krista, Julie, Jana, Dad, Mom, Tara, myself, and Tony. The only one missing of my Mom and Dad's children, was my baby brother, Eric! It takes alot of work to get everyone together! That is why you cherish the moments when you do!

Uncle Billy, Uncle Max and Dad. Uncle Rex could not make it. Max and Rex are my Dad's half brothers who were born after his Dad remarried Adeline after his mother died. Adeline had three daughters when she married my Grandpa Wade.

Uncle Max and Aunt DeAnna Wade's family. I think that there was one child missing. Max and Deanna live in Rexburg, Idaho. They were just getting ready to put their mission papers in. How exciting!

This is my Aunt Lynette Wade and her grandson with three other relatives that at this time I can't remember what their names were. I'll get them from my Dad and change the blog then. Sorry about that. Lynette was married to my Uncle Dean who was my Grandpa's brother. Dean passed away a few years ago.

Some of the Breckenridge family! Their son, Ray is my age. Saw Ray at our class reunion. Where were you today, Ray? It's always a pleasure to see you and talk about our younger days! Dale is a cousin to my Dad. Dad helped out on their ranch when he was in High School.

Some of my Aunt Margaret and Uncle Clair Hillman's family. Margaret was my Dad's only sister who died of cancer over 10 years ago. They grew up in Darby and we spent many a day out to their house for holidays, parties or whatever. With Aunt Margaret being the only girl, she kind of watched out for her brother's families. She was one of my Dad's biggest fans when he coached basketball all of those years. You are truly missed!

My Dad's brother Billy with his wife Joyce and their three daughters, Trina, Kendra and Janeen. Some of Janeen's family is with them in his picture. Kendra, the second from the left was my age and my daughter Kendra was named after her. We had alot of fun growing up. They lived in Idaho Falls.

Some of the family members of my Dad's brother, Fred and Edith Wade's family. Fred died quite a few years ago. They had the biggest family of all of Dad's siblings. Wendy was my age who is the girl third from the right. A fun family.

Wade Reunion 2008

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August 2008 was not only the big 50th Anniversary party for my Mom and Dad, it was also
our annual Wade Reunion. The day after the anniversary celebration we met that morning at Mike Harris Camp Ground by Victor, Idaho for breakfast. When my Grandma and Grandpa Swainston were alive, they use to like to camp there and often we would meet them in the morning for a delicious breakfast. The Wade Reunion this year was centered more around memories that us kids had from growing up in the Teton Valley. Camping and eating breakfast at Mike Harris Camp Ground was one of them. One of the other events we did was go to the Spud Drive -In Theater. How many places are there that still have a drive in theater? We still have one in Driggs and that was the big thing to do on the weekends was to go there with our friends and families. You would get a Gladys Burger to eat after they called your name over the intercom to come and get it. Now you can set up chairs and blankets and sit outside your cars and watch and listen to the movie because it is played over a radio station instead of the speakers that we use to have to set inside our car windows, which lots of time they would not work. I made some caramel popcorn with Reese's pieces in it, for everyone to eat and fun was had by all. We watched the new Indiana Jones movie, which I don't think was as good as his others. I hate to say it, but I think that Harris Ford is getting a little too old for those kinds of movies. I like Harris Ford. Kendra, Taylor and I even went up with him in his airplane five years ago when he was takinig kids for flights in the valley, which was very cool, but he did look a little old in this movie.

Anyway, we had a great day. Some of the teenagers tried to climb Table Rock ,which I have done a few times. They left too late and weren't wearing quite the right shoes to really make it. Maybe next time. Some of the kids floated down the Teton River, which was always fun to do.
That evening we grilled hamburgers in Mom and Dad's backyard before going to the movie. Taylor put into gear the motorhome that was parked in the driveway with other cousins in it. Luckily, Tony's nice big pickup was behind it and stopped it from going out into the street or hitting other cars. Never a dull minute with Grandkids!!

Wade Reunion @ Mike Harris Campground

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Mom, Dad and Me!
Dad with his two sons!

Mom with her two sons!

Corbin comparing his hair to his nephew, Ben! Ben is one of the most sweetest guys you will ever meet. Right now his fro might kind of make you nervous, but it just fits his personality. He has been encouraged to cut it, especially by all of the women in his life, his Mom, Grandma, Dawn, but he's just not ready yet. Someday he'll probably show up and his dreadlocks will be gone. Corbin, don't get any ideas!!

Quite the couple!

The Wade Sisters! Not sure why we put Jana in the chair. It looks like she just wanted to be the most comfortable. From left to right is Krista, the youngest, then myself who is the second oldest, Jana, sitting who is just younger than me, then Tara who is fourth and then Julie, who is the eldest! I just like to always let Julie know that she is the oldest. She even turned the big 50 this year!! (Don't worry sis, I'm not far behind you!! )

The Wade Brothers! On the left is the baby of the family, Eric and on the right is Tony, who was finally the first born son, born 5th in the family. Dad never thought that he would ever get any boys in the family!!

Taylor hanging out with her cousin Jesse!

My brother Tony hates smilng for pictures but I tried hard and was able to get a little bit of a smile out of him. I'll keep trying!

Uncle Ben always has a bunch of children hanging out with him. It helps to be cool and adventurous. Here he is with Hailey, Alesha, Olivia, Taylor and Justin.

Corbin was the main cook for the breakfast up at Mike Harris and cooked this big pancake for Grandpa Wade! Here is Grandpa trying to take a big bite. You should of seen Corbin flip it over! Good job hon! You can cook for me anytime and you do!

My two men!

Julie with her two daughters Hailey and Elizabeth. Julie and Hal had six boys before they finally ended up with these two girls. Talk about not giving up and these two cuties were sure worth it! Now Julie just needed to remember what you do with two girls after all of th0se boys!

Me and my awesome husband!

Tara and Dave with their three children, Amy, John and Michael. The dog belongs to Eric and Amanda.

Tara, Amanda and Amanda's two daughers, Elle and Kayla

Uncle Ben again with his fan club!

The Teenage Wade Grandchildren!! From left to right, Patrick, Aubree, Ashley, Kendra, James and Scott. Patrick and James are Julie's boys. Kendra and Scott are mine. Ashley belongs to Tony and Julie and Aubree belongs to Jana and Brad. Quite the crew!

Taylor "just hanging out!" She say that alot when you ask her what she is doing.

Two of the young married couples in the family. Doug and Shauna and Stephanie and Kritt. Doug and Shauna belong to Julie and Hal and Stephanie and Kritt are mine and Corbin's! Oh to be that young again!

The two people that started all of this! See what happens after you get married, have seven kids and then 50 years later.................

The Anniversary Party!

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I made Corbin take a picture with me out in the field since it seemed like such a fun place to have a picture taken. It turned out pretty good, if I say so myself.
My baby brother, Eric and his wife Amanda
Travis singing an anniversary song for Grandma and Grandpa
Looking at the scrapbooks with 50 years of memories!
Krista's family with Mom and Dad

More Anniversary memories shared!

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Moberg family picture with Grandma and Grandpa with whatever Moberg family we could round up. Where did all of my kids go???
Mitchell Family. Missing from the Mitchell family was Hal and Mathew. I finally got to meet Doug's wife, Shauna! Cute couple!
We played a game with Mom and Dad to show what first started with just the two of them turned into a much bigger circle with all of us, all added one at a time as we came along. It was fun to remember when everyone entered into the family. It would of been really big if everyone would of been there!!
I was sharing with mom and dad the scrapebooks I had put together, along with family's and letting them know what fun memories it brought back and how special it was to learn more about their childhood and early years. I learned things about them that I never knew and that I will cherish forever. It was truly a labor of love on my part!
The scrapbooks!

Happy 50th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

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Love this picture of Mom and Dad taken the night of our family celebration of their 50th years together. Their actual wedding anniversary was February 6th, 08 which they celebrated up in Moses Lake because they were up there watching Scott play basketball. We had a big celebration with my family that day, but this summer celebration was with all of their seven children and alot of their grandchildren. Some of the grandchildren and the greatgrandchidren could not be there and they were all missed. We had a celebration at Tony and Julie's house in combination with a family reunion in Driggs. This night was dedicated to Mom and Dad. Married for 50 years! Way to go Mom and Dad! Many memories were shared and great food. Brad worked hard in getting a dutch oven dinner prepared. I had put together some scrapebooks with a bunch of older pictures of Mom and Dad, along with pictures of us kids when we were much younger. All of us kids then put some scrapebook pages together of our own family with Mom and Dad and memories that we all had and will always cherish. Travis played his guitar and sang for Grandma and Grandpa. It was a great evening!
Mmmmm... carrot cake!!
Love this family picture taken out in the field in Tony's backyard.

Congratulations Mom and Dad!

THS Class of 1978!!

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Time to eat!
Becky Beard with Karen King behind her. Hi Becky! It was sure great to see and talk with you again!

Beth Durtschi, Becky Beard and Wendy Wade with Bret Hatch in the striped shirt behind these lovely girls!

My good friends Wade and Trudy Green Treasure with Dennis Beckman

Beth, Becky and Karen

I can't believe that it has been 30 years since the class of 1978 of Teton High School in Driggs, Idaho graduated! Where have all the years gone? I remember my parents going to their 25th and 30th class reunions and thinking, "Man, they are old!" Now that does not seem that old! Age is relative. You are only as old as you feel and right now I feel pretty good. (Fake hips help!) It was nice to see the classmates who did make it. Most of the time this is the only time that we all get to see each other. It was fun talking to everyone. Most of us are Grandparents. Some of us are empty nesters. That seems so weird to say! It was fun trying to recognize each person as they arrived. Patty Anderson Zohner and her husband, Bruce did the dutch oven chicken and potatoes, along with Bruce's dad, Darryl. It was delicious! We missed the ones who were unable to make it. It was great to see Bret Hansen from Oklahoma and Dennis Beckman from Califonia, who most of us had not seen for a long time. I always felt that the THS class of 1978 was an awesome class to belong to. We look forward to the next 5 years. Jana Stull Egbert agreed to take charge for the next one. I look forward to seeing you all again and catching up on what has happened to all of us over these next five years! I wish you all the very best!
Linda Hartshorn Bergeson, me, Trudy Green Treasure, Sara McCulloch and Wendy Wilson
Bret Hansen, Linda, Patty Zohner, Gaylene Thomas Murdock, Ray Breckenridge, me, Jana Stull Egbert
Bret, you were always such a great friend!
Linda, Dennis Beckman and Sara. Linda and Sara picked up Dennis at the SLC airport and drove on up to the valley where they played for two days before heading back home. It was kind of a Thelma, Louise and Dennis! What a fun group to hang out with! We should all get together alot more often than every five years, don't you think!

24th of July SLC Marathon!

2008-10-20T00:45:00.000-07:00

Scott and Corbin participated in the SLC 24th of July Marathon. It's not one of the funnest marathons,(if you could ever call a marathon fun), but since we were going to be in the area the week after for a class and family reunion, and since they were both training for an Iron Man in Florida this November, they decided to use this as a training marathon. I was a little worried about Scott before this marathon because he was on this special iron man diet that I did not think it was giving him enough to eat. Well, they both finished but not in the time that they were hoping for. Scott had ran two other marathons before this and was hoping to beat his time. I think that this diet was too hard on him and did not give him the reserve he needed to do as well as he wanted. Corbin caught up to him around mile 16 or so. Scott had started cramping up and was having a hard time getting it to go away. They finished the rest of the race together. Scott decided after the race that he was done with this particular diet. It was nice to see him eat again after this. The other runners say that this is a hard one to run. Corbin had ran it before 2 years ago and didn't like it then. I am always proud of Corbin and now Scott whenever they run anything bigger than 1 mile, let alone 26.2 miles!! Congratulations!
The runners and their fan club!

Corbin's always pretty wet and stinky after he runs. Oh well, go ahead and hug me, I'll dry!!
Taylor cheering them on!
Here they come after rounding the last corner down to the finish line. It is always amazing watching all of the runners cross the finish line. Some don't even look tired and some look like they may never make it across. It's amazing the different sizes and ages that you see participate in these!! Two bad my fake hips won't let me run anymore, not that I ran much anyways, but still, it would be fun to be able to run a little bit, but at least I can walk!! You appreciate that so much more after you go through a time when even thinking about taking a step, kills you!! Thank goodness for modern medicine and orthopedic surgeons!!
Corbin seeing me taking pictures of them finishing
Looking good boys!!
How neat to see my husband and son cross that finish line together! Proud of the both of you.
The marathon finishers!!

Happy 13th Birthday Tayor!

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Taylor turned 13 on July 20th. It was right before we were leaving for Idaho, so we blew up our water slide and her and Conner went swimming and sliding. The water was very cold, but they did not seem to mind. Going between that and the hot tub seemed to help with that! Taylor you are such a ham! She loves birthdays and any other reason to have a party!
Conner coming in after getting wet and cold!
Taylor loves Hannah Montana!!
Thanking her sister for her present!
Taylor also loves High School Musical and plans on marrying Troy when she turns 22! She knows all of the songs by heart and dances better than some of their dancers!
Time for cake and ice cream!
Happy Birthday sweetie!
Taylor with her great sister and brother!
Taylor helping Conner make it up to the top of the slide!
Conner loves the water and doesn't mind getting wet! Brrrr.................

4th of July in Las Vegas!

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After Kendra's dance competition in Las Vegas, we stayed for a few days over the 4th of July. The girls had never been to Vegas, so we decided to show them around. Corbin and I had been there a few times. We had alot of fun. It was too hot to go out much during the day, and still pretty hot in the evening, but we made the most of it. We stayed at a place called Desert Rose, just half a block off the strip not far from New York New York. We walked alot which Taylor was not too fond of, but with all of our walking around we ran into this guy here named something Jackson, who is a competitor extreme fighter, I think. Anyway, he was in town for a fight the next evening and we ran into him in the lobby of the Mirage. He asked Taylor if she could howl, because I guess that it his trademark and boy did she ever howl for him. He was quite impressed. Well, after the howling we were able to get his picture. He did end up losing the next night.
Corbin and I over looking the strip from New York New York. It was the 4th of July and everyone was waiting around for the fireworks, but there were no fireworks to be seen. You think that they would have some impressive ones in Vegas, but no. Oh well, we had a great time anyway. We don't gamble, but the shows and food are great!
Kendra and Taylor at one of my favorite things to eat, M&M's and the M&M store! Any color or flavor you ever wanted was there! Much cheaper to buy them at WalMart, though!
Kendra was bound and determined to find the sign that says "Welcome to Las Vegas" like she has seen in all of those movies. One morning when Corbin went on a run, he found it, so we drove them there for this picture. Now our trip was complete!!
Corbin was a great husband and dad and got Kendra and I tickets to go and see Phantom of the Opera at the theater that was just made for it here in Vegas. It was awesome! Thanks hon! While we were there, Corbin took Taylor to Circus, Circus. After Phantom, Taylor decided that she wasn't too scared to see Phantom anymore and now wanted to see it, even though she did have fun with her Dad at Circus, Circus. Maybe next time, Taylor. She is such a character!
Love this picture of Kendra!
The girls!
We ate one evening at King Arthur's Court and the roundtable. You eat while a program is going on. It's lots of fun and the food is not so bad, either. Our table was suppose to rout for the bad dragon. Taylor said that it was okay to do this, just this once!

Today's Generation Las Vegas Access Broadway!

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First week of July, Kendra's competitive dance team, Today's Generation, went to Las Vegas for Access Broadway competition. It was very hot, over 110 degrees everyday that we were there, but the girls and families had alot of fun and great memories. This was bitter sweet for Kendra and for us since we knew that this was her last year in dance. She and Taylor have both been dancing with Today's Generation since the company was first started, eight years ago. Taylor is not in the Jazz club who competes, but she loves to dance, as some of the next pictures will demostrate, and the girls and teachers have all been great and let her dance away. This dance group has great girls and dancers in it who always do very well everywhere they go. They are very fun and amazing to watch. Their hard work pays off every year as evident in their routines and it has been a great ride! Thanks for all the memories that Stephanie, Kendra and Taylor, along with their family, have all enjoyed throughout these eight years in dance with Today's Generation! We wish everyone the best of luck and we will be there watching and cheering you on!
Kendra and Taylor after Kendra's final performance.
Taylor up on stage with her sis!
Proud mom with her dancer! The name on Kendra's shirt goes along with a dance her group did. Everyone had a name of someone on their shirt that had been abducted, killed or abused or both. It was called, Prayer of the Children, and each girl learned about the story behind each name they were given. Usually there was not a dry eye after the performance, including the girls doing the dancing. Great job ladies! Very touching! It impressed everyone, as well as the judges.
Sisters!

Taylor would go up on stage for every break and just dance away. You certainly wouldn't call her shy!
Waiting for awards, all of the dance girls would go on stage. Taylor was either on stage dancing with the girls or down on the floor. She danced so hard, she worked up quite the sweat! If I could have that much energy!
Her sisters have got to stop teaching her some of those moves!! I even think she was doing the worm on the floor right after this..................
Thanks girls for always letting Taylor hang out and dance with you! She loved every minute of it!
Taylor was even given a shirt and a medal by one of the guys running the competiton after they saw her dancing up on stage. He watched where she went and sat down and came over to us to give it to her. She was soooooo excited to have "won an award!"

Posing for pictures after many of their awards! Great job girls, as always!
Kendra!
Kendra and Megan getting ready to go on stage.
Mom checking on her dancer backstage! They always have such cute costumes. I have a house full of them after three girls in dance for eight years!
Goofy girls!

Cute hip hop girls!
Practicing before going on stage
Having fun while waiting for the judges to announce the awards. Oh, to be young again!
Nice job, girls!
What fun personalities and friendships!

Stretching out Thumbs up before going on
Another thumbs up!
Buddies!
Dont' ever forget to laugh and have fun!

Kendra turns 16!!

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Kendra turned 16 on June 22nd. I usually let the kids choose what they want for a "birthday cake" and Kendra chose pudding dessert instead. It's one of her favorites. It was nice having Megan, Taylor and Scott here to celebrate it with her. This was on her birthday which was after her surprise birthday party!
Could you tell that she was excited for her new pants!
Thumbs up before opening presents!
Megan has always been a good friend to Kendra! They have a lot of fun together.
When each of my kids turn 16, I give them a surprise birthday party. I surprised Ryan at Chico's pizza with his friends and family waiting. I surprised Kellie at Inca's and then again at home, where more of her friends were waiting. I surprised Stephanie at her dance studio and Scott, I surprised at our house. With each 16th birthday coming, each kid, after Ryan kind of
expect the party, but I have been able to throw them off by having it a little early before their birthday or by where it was held. Kendra kept trying to figure out when hers was going to be. I was able to , with her friend's help, surprise her on the day, but when she arrived at home, no one was watching for her, so when she walked into the house, she kind of figured it out when she heard me telling everyone, "Shh, she is here!" Wish we would of been watching for her to come. Her friends was trying to throw her off, but Corbin didn't catch on. Oh well, she got her surprise party and alot of friends and food were there. Happy sweet 16 birthday, Kendra!!
Eating on the swing set with Breanna and Megan.
Taylor hanging out with her buddy, Lilly!
Girls waiting in the house for Kendra to arrive. Too bad I didn't have one fo them watch for her!
That is about where we were all standing when Kendra walked in. It kind of looks pretty obvious that we are waiting for someone! Scott, I should of had you watching, huh!

For their surprise parties, I usually take alot of their pictures when they were younger and make into posters so their friends and family can enjoy Kendra young and older. It's always fun to look back on the "good old days." Time does go by way too fast!! When we first moved to Moses Lake, Kendra was just going into Kindergarten. Now she is going to be a Junior in High School!!
Happy birthday, Kendra! We love you!
A cute bunch of friends staying warm and watching the volleyball game in the backyard.
It has been nice to have a big backyard to set up and play volleyball and about anything else you want to play.

Corbin, the master chef cooking away for the crew! He makes a good salmon and hamburgers!!

More pictures of Jace Jackson Walters!

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Kellie bought him this hat. He's trying to figure out what she put on his head!
Me with my two Walters grandsons! Now all I need is Emmet and Weston to be here and it will be complete! 4 grandsons already! This is going to be fun!

Love this picture because it looks like Conner is thinking, "Are we really keeping him?"

He is a good big brother to Jace and loves him alot! They will have fun together growing up.
This is for his uncle Ryan. It looks like he already knows the "yeah buddy" sign!!

Yes, I am finally blogging again!!

2008-10-19T22:29:00.000-07:00

For those checking my blog once in awhile,if you haven't given up,
and wondering if baby Jace was ever born, well now you know,
which you probably already figured if you check any of my kid's
blogs!! I FINALLY got on and added my pictures from Jace Jackson
Walter's entrance into this big new world! Kellie was great and
waited until I got everything done that was scheduled and did such
a great job. After she gets the IV and then epidural, it's a breeze for her.
She doesn't really like needles! She's get those babies here just
like the doctor asks! She had a great nurse and a great husband to
coach her. I got to observe again and it is always such a neat
experience. Thanks for being such great kids and making us
grandparents again!

Jace Jackson Walters has been here for over 4 months!!

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Proud parents right after he was born. Would Kellie at least look like she just had a baby! You did great kids!
It's hard work coming into this world, for both Mom and new baby!
Conner is trying to figure this whole new baby thing out!
Proud Grandparents!
What a cutie!!
Jace Jackson Walters, just arrived. He doesn't look too happy about the whole event, does he!
What an experience! Kellie did great. She should have 10 more!
Proud new dad!
Grandma getting to hold Jace for the first time! I go to be there again for the birth. Everything went well and Kellie does so good. The doctor basically just came in and caught the baby and was gone!
Cute mom and new son!

Baby Walters should be here any day!

2008-06-12T00:57:00.000-07:00

I needed to get my blog updated before Kellie has her baby and I'll have more pictures to post
when he arrives. She was due June 8th and was kind enough to let me get through all of the things that I just blogged about and more. Now she is overdue and wanting to have a baby. She will go into the hospital today because her doctor is on call and he will get her going. She was having quite a few contractions for awhile there and is dilated to a 4, so once she gets going more, it shouldn't be too long. I know that she is nervous but anxious to get this over and welcome this new little "Walters" into the family. I'm going to Tri-Cities today, so I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Wish us luck!

Today's Generation Dance Recital 08

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Taylor shaking her glow sticks after the recital. She loves to run up on stage when it is over and keep dancing! Two of Taylor's favorite things are dance and music!
Grandma and Grandpa Moberg were able to stay for the recital which was the day after Scott's graduation. My mom and dad had to hurry onto Oregon the next morning to see James graduation from Sheridan HS in Oregon. James in 2 months older than Scott and Scott and him will be roomates in Provo. They are pretty excited to be rooming together. They should have alot of fun!
The sisters!. All three of them have danced with Today's Generation since they started the dance company. They do a great job and the dancers are amazing to watch. Stephanie was in the Elite dance team and was a joy to watch. Kendra followed not far behind and is also in the Elite team and dances just as well as her older sister did. The dance company is going to compete at Nationals in Vegas the end of this month and we are taking Scott and Taylor to watch Kendra and the dance company compete. They should do well. Taylor is not in the competitive group of the dance team, but shines in whatever dance she is doing. Taylor has been dancing for 8 years. She loves to perform anywhere, anytime and she can sure "bust a move!"
Proud parents of the two "dancing queens!"
Keep dancing, Taylor!

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Love this picture of Scott's sisters leaving the Graduation.

Scott ended up winning the grand prize of $500 at the Senior Frolic last that night at the bowling alley. He was pretty excited when he got home!

Scott's High School Graduation 2008 from Moses Lake

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Scott with his good friend, Ann and her sister Carley. These two girls are great basketball players and took the girls for the first time to the Washington State Basketball Tournament. They ended up playing in the championship game and losing in the last few minutes. Scott was able to go and cheer in "the tribe". What a weekend it was for the school and these two girls!
Scott and Vanessa, also a basketball player on the state team!
Scott and Stephanie. We were so glad that she was able to come up. Missed Kellie, Jess and Conner and Ryan, April, Emmet and Weston!
Scott and Kendra. Kendra will be doing this same thing in 2 years. Hard to believe. They grow up way too fast!
Scott and Taylor!

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Scott with Grandma and Grandpa Wade
Scott with his best friend, Shaun Haggerty
Proud Mom and Dad with Scott!
More friends.
Courtney Earl, Scott and Christine Law

2008-06-12T00:21:00.000-07:00

The graduate! Way to go son! We are very proud of you!

Not only is Scott graduating from High School but a week later will be graduating from Big Bend, the community college here in town, with his Associates. He has been taking classes out to the college these past two years. It's called, "Running Start". He loved getting away from the High School and was out to the college with many of his friends. He transfers to BYU in Provo in the fall as a Junior! He will have three years of college behind him before he leaves on his mission a year from now. Quite the accomplishment!
Scott and his some of his many friends
Scott surrounded by some of his beautiful sisters!
Pictures with the family
Pictures with Grandma and Grandpa Moberg

Graduation Night 2008 from Mose Lake HS

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Scott looking happy to be there.
Principal Balcolm addressing the class
Scott going up to receive his diploma
Posing for the official picture after receiving his diploma!
Waving to the family up in the stands!

Presents at home before Graduation 08

2008-06-12T00:09:00.000-07:00

Scott and some of his graduation balloons
Opening his cards and gifts
Posing with Grandma and Grandpa Moberg
Posing with Grandma and Grandpa Wade. Nice to have both Grandparents there for this big day!
Posing with his family before leaving to go to graduation.

Nasa at the Sand Dunes in Mose Lake

2008-06-12T00:03:00.000-07:00

Nasa was out at the sand dunes a mile from our house testing the rover with two actual astronauts. Corbin took his parents, Taylor and my Dad out to check it out. Taylor got up close and personal!
Taylor and the rover
The two astronauts on the rovers
Interesting that they wear their suits even testing the equipment
Up the dunes they go.

Taylor's 5th grade Teacher and Assistant

2008-06-11T23:54:00.000-07:00

This is Taylor with Miss Garbe, her 5th grade teacher this year. She was great with her. Miss Garbe is moving on to middle school, just like Taylor.
Had to get a picture of Taylor with Jill Backman. Jill was her "helper"
these past 2 years and she has been a joy. She was so good with Taylor to be there if she needed her but helping her to become more independent. She is funny, nice and patient and we loved her. We will miss her!

Taylor's last Garden Heights Spring Concert 08

2008-06-11T23:46:00.000-07:00

Taylor loves singing at her school's concerts. She is usually placed down in front because she can be quite entertaining. She loves to sin and the music teach is quite animated himself. He does a great job and we will miss him when Taylor graduates from Garden Heights.
Always posing!
Does she look like she loves to sing?
She not only sings, she will dance for you, too!
Love watching you Taylor. Thanks for making us smile! Both her grandparents and Stephanie were here to watch her.

Taylor's Talent show at Garden Heights

2008-06-11T23:22:00.000-07:00

Kellie, Conner and Stephanie waiting for the show to begin. Stephanie had just flown into Spokane that day.
Taylor behind her teacher, Mr. Gwinn, getting ready to do the Makarana. Not sure how to spell that one, but I hope that you can sound it out okay.
"Just checking to see if you are all still with me."
Wiggle those hips!
Taylor's final pose. She always has a final pose! She did great and I think could of kept going when everyone else was too tired.

Scott's Pre-Graduation Party - May 30th

2008-06-11T23:08:00.000-07:00

Corbin, the Ballards and Dave Secrist in the cookout area
Scott and his friends
This basketball picture came up instead of another one and I don't know how to get rid of it, so you get to look at it in the middle of the cookout pictures! Sorry. If anyone knows how to get rid of a picture once it has downloaded, I would sure appreciate knowing how!
Kellie and Jess enjoying the night with her cute little pregnant belly!

Scott's Pre-Graduation Party - May 30th

2008-06-11T02:01:00.000-07:00

We had a barbeque pre-graduation party for Scott in our backyard the weekend before Graduation. Kellie is due next week with her baby, so I am trying not to plan anything else
than what is already planned for then, so we had his party earlier. The weather was perfect and the food was good. He had a good turnout and it was fun watching them play volleyball with each other and then be challenged by the Dad's. A bombfire in the backyard was a good way to end the evening. Jess, Kellie and Conner came up as well as many of our own friends. Taylor loved all of the company and the girls were nice to include her. Here are some of the pictures from that evening. I could not get half of them to download, so I will try again tomorrow. Sometimes this blogging can be kind of frustrating when it won't let you download!

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Volleyball with the Dads!

Christine Law, Karissa Sanchez, Ann Noble and Tagen Daniels-Brown
Kendra relaxing with Ryan & Karissa
Conner was enjoying the party while driving around in this car. When he went by, I had to take a picture of his static hair from the car!!

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Taylor, Courtney and Christine swinging. Taylor enjoyed having all of these kids here to hand out with. She loves a party and party she did!

Sitting by the fire once it started cooling down.
A beautiful day for a barbeque and graduationo party!

Happy 18th Birthday Scott!

2008-06-11T01:33:00.000-07:00

Scott is now an adult! His birthday was May 28th. He was born in Fairfield, CA. He was also my colic baby!! Didn't sleep through the night until about 18 months old. I think that he is stating to revert back to that now!
The family watching Scott open his presents.
New running shoes since he has put over 200 miles on his old ones. He also got a new biking shirt, shorts, ect.... for the training he is doing for his Iron Man that he and his Dad are doing in Florida in November!What hams! Here is Scott with his sisters and his good friend Shaun Haggerty.
Blowing the big candle out on his Oreo Blizzard Ice Cream Cake!

Carrie Underwood and Josh Turner!

2008-06-11T01:10:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from the awesome concert that we went to in Spokane on Memorial Day weekend to see Carrie Underwood. Josh Turner opened for her, who also is a great country singer. Carrie was great and Taylor was singing all of her songs with her!
I did not know that she played the guitar!
Closing song, "Before He Cheats." One of Stephanie's favorites!

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Taylor and her two cousins, Hailey and Elizabeth waiting for the big concert to start. Taylor loves Carrie Underwood!
Jess and Kellie both look pretty excited as well for the concert. Kellie loves Josh Tuner and Jess loves Carrie Underwood!
Corbin doesn't really like country western, but he thought this one was good! I'll agree!
Josh Turner opened the show. What a deep voice he has!

Mr. Moses Lake Pagent 2008

2008-05-17T01:33:00.000-07:00

Scott, along with 7 other young men from Moses Lake High School particiated in the Mr. Moses Lake pagent. It was quite the event with lots of laughs, talents and personalities! It is kind of a pagent to make fun of pagents and I think that the boys did a great job. It's also a fund raiser for the high school drill team which Kendra is in. Kendra had to dress up like the 80's. Valaree Roylance loaned her the dress! The following pictures will help you live the event if you missed out. Scott's dance was the hit of the night! Never knew he had it in him and I just thought my girls were the dancers! Now Ryan, it's your turn to bust a move! Scott ended up being 2nd runner up. Ryan Colston was 1st runner up and Garren Bergeson took Mr. Moses Lake. Loved Garren's bright orange tuxedo and enjoyed Ryan's Napolean Dynamite dance. Scott will always be our #1!!
The lovely contestants after the event!
The winners!
Scott picking his question. His question was "What three things would he bring with him if he was going to a deserted island. " He said that he would bring candles, a Barry Manilow CD and Fran! Fran Christensen was one of the judges and also has worked at the High School for over 20 years. She is over the sports programs. She is alot of fun and she is also the judge who Scott threw his sports jacket too, during the fashion show, I am sure, hoping to score more points!
The workout routine! The music was "I'm coming out!"

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Opening number for fitness. Scott looks like he's concentrating!
Tribe wear!
Scott did have a sport jacket on but gave it to one of the judges!
Scott and Ryan Colston modeling their evening wear. Still missing the jacket!
Forgot to post Scott's head stand that he did at the first of his routine. Kendra's drill team is famous for their head stands, so of course, Scott had to try and accomplish that too. He did and he didn't even lose the wig!

Scott's talent, Hannah Montana singing "See You Again."

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Loved the wig and Kendra's old dance costume.
This was the funniest thing ever to watch. You couldn't help but laugh the whole time Scott was dancing. He did a great job as you will be able to tell by these pictures. They don't quite capture the expressions that he had and his cool moves! Good job Kendra in the choreographing! The cutest thing was to watch Kendra and Scott practice it together. Priceless!
Nice ponytails!

Is that a spiderman tatoo on your ab?

Julie turns 50!!

2008-05-17T01:04:00.000-07:00

Julie Mitchell is offically 50 years old!! Can you believe it! I got this cute picture of the family the morning of her birthday before they all went to school. Can't believe that there are only 4 kids left at home, soon to be three! That's the hard thing about getting older! Hal was out of town, so I came up to try and celebrate it with her. I had less than 24 hours, but in that amount of time we went to dinner and saw a chick flick, "Maid of Honor". Very cute movie! The next morning she took me to see some property that they are looking at and then we went out for brunch! It went by way too fast, but was lots of fun, especially surprising her. Seeing her kids faces and then hers when I arrived was priceless! Julie is usually doing the surprising, so it was nice to finally do it to her!
The very cute pictures that her kids did that spelled out MOM with their bodies!
I picked up these balloons in Tri-Cities and had them in my trunk all the way to Sheridan, OR. I was worried that they would pop along the way, but they made it. Aren't they cute and BIG!
50 never looked better, Julie!
Julie and James before we went out that evening. We left James in charge and he did a great job!

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Julie sporting the sunglasses and "your old" gifts for her big 50th birthday! Looking hot!
Julie's kid did the coolest thing for her birthday. After I came and took her out to dinner and a movie, they found a friend to take this picture of them posing in the backyard, spelling out Mom with their bodies. What a cute idea. James then printed the pictures out and then they went and found this picture frame. What a neat surprise. Julie loved it and was very surprised! Great job kids!
"Golden" candles and almond rocha from Julie's girls!
Beautiful flowers from James!
Table centerpiece that will help remind Julie how old she is. I hear that mind goes fairly quickly, so I did not want her to forget!

High School Musical come to Spokane!

2008-05-17T00:45:00.000-07:00

High School Musical came to Spokane and of course I had to take Taylor and Kendra. When it first came out on Disney Channel, Taylor and Kendra could not wait to watch it. Taylor still says that she is going to marry Troy!
Before the play!
Taylor sporting her H. S. Musical shirt and purse!
Waiting inside for the play to start! Does Taylor look excited or what!
What cute girls!

Mamma Mia in Spokane

2008-05-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

Girls trip to Mamma Mia in Spokane. We missed April and Stephanie! It is such a cute play with lots of fun music by Abba!

I couldn't get this picture to rotate, so you may have to rotate yourself, instead!

Scott's 2nd 1st place finish marathon and Senior Project

2008-05-17T00:09:00.000-07:00

Every senior who graduated this year from WA had to do a senior project. Scott's was his first marathon that he did last October in Leavenworth. This is his board that we put together that he displayed at the school along with his fellow seniors. They had to put 20 hours into this project and have a portfolio ect, along the way to explain what he was doing for his. He did great and took first in his age divison. Two days later we were off to Tacoma for his second marathon. The pictures below explain how that went! Great job, Scott!! You know can graduate!

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Proud Mom after Scott's marathon finish!
Already finished half marthon and showered Dad with just finished marathon finisher, Scott!
See, Corbin did run. Here he is taking off from the start. I did capture that on film!
Scott and Dad looking down from the starting line.
Walking from the motel up a few blocks to where the marathon and half marathon is to begin. They both seem a little nervous!

Missed Corbin's finish for his half marathon!

2008-05-16T23:52:00.000-07:00

Yes, this is Corbin reminding me that I missed his finish for the half marathon that he did. He took off 1/2 hour after Scott did for the marathon. He told me that he will be probably be about 2 hours. Well, I went back to the motel and showered and got ready to go back and see him finish, which is only about 1/2 a block away from the motel. Just as I was finishing my hair, in walked Corbin with his medal on and sweating like he had just finished his half marathon in record time!! He had, and I had missed it! I was starting to worry that I might be cutting it close, but no, I totally missed it! Now I know how Michele Cornia, my friend feels because she never saw her husband cross the finish line of his marathon in Logan, UT and we were both at the finish line then watching the runners. Ryan, just ran past us and finished and we never knew. At least we were there that time. I wasn't even at the line when Corbin crossed. That means no pictures of the finish, either!
I made Corbin pose in the motel room with his medal, clothes and sweat, just to prove that he did run today! Corbin was hassled by his running partner, Ryan Cornia, for only running a half a marathon today and I told him that running half a marathon was just fine with me and that it would probably be a nice break for him. Well, he wasn't suppose to go as fast as he did. He finished it in 1:45!! If he would of kept that pace up, it would of a been a new record for a marthon for him, but he should be proud of this one and hopefully will forgive me for missing his strong finish!! Never again will I miss another one of his finishes!!!
13.1 miles in 1:45! Great job, hon!

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Scott and his pacing buddy coming down the finish line stretch. He's looking strong!
Almost there!
Done at last! You even finished just ahead of your maniac marathon pacer!

A few second delay of his finishing time of 3:29! Awesome job, Scott! You shaved off about 20 minutes off from your first marathon. Not bad for a 17 year old!

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Scott taking first in the marathon in his age division. Way to go son!
Looking relieved and feeling very hungry!
"Man, I hate going down these stairs! My legs are soooo sore!"
"Whew, I did another one and even shaved off 20 minutes on my time!"
Scott's maniac marathon pacing buddy. Scott just crossed the line at 3:29!

He was able to stay with him the whole marathon. The pacing guy has been running marathon for over 4 years and has ran 40 something of them so far!! He is a maniac!

Our California Trip 08!

2008-04-23T00:41:00.000-07:00

Corbin, Scott, Taylor and myself went to Southern California the first weekend in March to watch the Drill Team from Moses Lake, which Kendra is a member of, particpate at Nationals in Anaheim. We left 2 days earlier than the drill team so that we could do some sight seeing. Our first stop was SeaWorld, where I have not been for quite some time. Scott and Taylor had never been there. Lots of fun! Stephanie and Kritt met us the next day. They drove with some friends from Provo to get here. The airplane was much faster!! The day after they arrived we went to Universal Studios where Corbin, Kritt and Taylor have never been. Lots of fun there
as well. Our favorite ride was the Mummy ride! Pretty scarey, except the Haunted House was scarier. Stephanie and Kritt took Taylor out. I should of gone with them. I don't like people dressed up in scary costumes jumping out at you and at Universal Studios, they looked pretty
real!
Poor Taylor, though. Our hotel that we were staying at, the Sheraton, where the drill team also stayed, was about a block away from Disneyland. We were on the 9th floor and had a great view of the adventure park. Taylor was a little frustrated that she could see Disneyland, but that we did not take her there for the first 2 days. Once we got to Sea World and then Universal Studios, she had a great time, but kept asking us when she was going to go to Disneyland. She could see it but we weren't taking her there. Poor thing. It was like putting M&M's in front of me and not letting me eat them! She was pretty excited for the day when we told her we were going to Disneyland and was a trooper with all of the walking we had to do. Good thing for new hips!! Last time I was here was two years ago with the Drill Team and I had not had either hip replaced. I was pretty miserable and probably not alot of fun for Corbin! Thanks for putting up with me, hon!
Taylor was also a trooper concerning the rides. She never wanted to go on any of them because most of them scared her, but she would go. We had to sometimes literally push and pull her onto the ride and she usually kept her head down for most of them, but she would go. We would throw a few rides in and then let her go and see some characters or do something that she wanted to do. She was always asking if the ride was going to get her wet or if it was scarey.
She was pretty brave, especially not knowing what was coming up next. She was a pretty good screamer, too, but so was I! We sure missed the Walters and the Rasmussens! Next time!