HOMECOMING!

Homecoming week is always fun.  This one was no exception.  The parade was it's normal goofy self, filled with teenagers trying to look good for the other teenagers, and trying to find their mom's so they can take a picture of them.  Unfortunately, Josh had to work so I couldn't take a picture of my kid.  But I took other ones but can't find my camera that I took them on and Sophie is online and I need to post this so I'll add them later!

Here are the boutineer and corsage that I made for Josh's date.

 Here are some picture's of the Homecoming game that we lost to Dixie.  I'm pretty sure that no one is sad about it.  We all wanted them to win for Jonah Lutui!  Jonah is a Freshman who is a friend of Ben and Emily's.  He goes to school with Em but played baseball and Rugby with Ben.  After the JV game against Dixie on Thursday Jonah passed out and had to be rushed to the hospital to have surgery on his head for a severe concussion that caused a brain bleed.  They shaved his head and had to go in to try to stop the bleeding.  On Sunday they found another bleed and had to go back in and do another surgery.  Our temple has been closed for cleaning but opened on Monday.  First thing Monday morning I called and got his and his parents name on the prayer roll.  He is still in ICU and will be for awhile.  He has about 50 staples in his skull.  But he still has his smile.  He has been up and walking around and his dad is positive and thinks that he is on the mend.  The closely watch him with CT scans to make sure there are no new bleeds.  Everyone at the game was praying for him. 

They lit up the PV at the half.  And I don't remember who the Homecoming King was but the Queen was the Pryor girl.  Sophie, you will have to get details from Josh.

For the boys Homecoming day date they went to hike Zion.  They said that it was super crowded, but fun!  They had 8 couples.  The more the merrier.  George even came.  It was a great memory for those two cousins to have together their Sr. year.

 Then some of them met at our house so I could take a picture before they went to take official pictures.

 We had dinner for them up at the Hazy Building at DSU and while we were getting ready it started to SNOW!  It was so COOL!  It was a freak little flurry that came through just for me.  Then Kyle noticed a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!  It was freakin' amazing.

 JoEllen had made this awesome fruit water and decorated the conference room and we made them Hawaiian Haystacks, green salad and a birthday cake and ice cream for dessert.  It was Kyler Scotts's date's birthday that night and Josh's was coming up so we though that would be ok.   

They all crammed into the elevator and Josh took a picture.  I thought it was clever. 

They ate and left.  They said it was great.  Good bunch of kids.

Here are their official picture's.  They actually turned out really cute.

Josh and Brenda

 Brandon and Dawn

Cuzzins!

 George and Maryanne

 Gonzo and Maggie!

Jordan and some girl and 2 other people we don't know.

 Kyler and Emma

 Riley and McKenna

I love George's face in this one!

STUDLY.

 The next day Taye was ordained to the office of a Teacher!  Yep, on his 14th birthday.  They are growing up so fast.  It's really weird!  Soon he and Ben will be going to Homecoming!

What a Weekend!

This weekend was great!  We had the Round-Up, the TunaCan!

Let's start with the Rodeo p-raid.  It was great.  The biggest surprise of all was the Pine View Middle School Band.  It was HUGE!  It was by far the biggest band of ALL the schools.  It was a complete MIRACLE because all of the kids in the Pine View area had completely given up on playing any instrument because of last years high school band teacher.  He was so terrible, not only at his job but towards the kids, that students were dropping out midway through the school year.  Middle School and even Intermediate School students (Ben) were not moving on because they didn't want to have him as a teacher when they got in high school.  It was so sad.  But, luckily for us Mr. Mees is a smart man and saw the problem and fired him.  Now the up and coming kids are excited and the band is GROWING!  Woo Hoo!  Sophie will be so happy!

 Here is George, He is doing percussion this year!  He was upset that he had to carry the banner for this parade but everyone has to take their turn sometime.  He is also on the student government and in the fall musical at Dixie High School under the direction of Mr. Josh Scott.  It's going to be a fun year for him!  Next was Dustin Mathis pulling the Miss Leeds float with Queen Jess on top.  It was cute, they just wore Levi's with red, white and blue t-shirts.  The Miss Toquerville royalty wore overalls!  They were DARLING!  Only in a rodeo parade.

 Here are our favorite two littles.  Ruby and Henry.  Watching the parade.

That night they went to the rodeo and were dancing up a storm.  That boy cannot stand still when any music starts playing.  It's hilarious.

 JoEllen won tickets to the Tuacahn dinner and a show for 4 people at the volunteer dinner party after the Ironman in May so we went and saw Newsies.  It was Unbelievable!  Brad is mind blowing!  The food was pretty good too.  There was a ton of it. 

Giving Blood - Saving Lives!

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Today Josh and I gave blood at  Pine View High School!  It's been over 10 years since I've been able to donate because I've been the medical field in some sort or another drawing blood or doing IV's so they won't me.  But now it's been long enough so I was able to save a life today!  As I pulled up I noticed the new PVHS sign and awesome banners that were hanging up in the parking lot.  They looked great!


 As soon as we got in the gym we saw our friend, Jess Mathis, laying on the mat.  She had just thrown up, passed out and then thrown up again.  Poor thing.  But of course we laughed at her and took a picture, like all good friends do.  Then I texted it to Smash up at BYU who laughed and texted Jess to see if she was alright.  Then we went in the little booths to be asked all the fun questions, you can see Josh's white shoe, then if was up on the table!

 It was easy, peasy.  If you are a high school student and donated 3 times, the Red Cross will send you a red cord to wear at your graduation.  This was Josh's 3rd time so now we need to go online and fill out some paperwork.  Thanks for inviting me Josh!  He didn't even get extra credit for it.