Sadies goes 80's!

Every year Pine View High School does their Sadie Hawkins dance on Halloween and it is awesome! This year it was 80's themed and I had major flashbacks! Shayne's day date was a huge paint war at the high school and then they all went home to shower and get ready for the dance. The girls asked me to do their hair and it was fun going down memory lane. It was TOTALLY AWESOME!!

Jack-o-lantern's

Here we are doing our annual pumpkin carving. Joel always gets to do his, David's, Ben's and helps Josh and Sophie do there's. Mine is Jack the Pumpkin King. Joel's is the the one with the Dallas Cowboys Star on it. You can tell which one is Shayne's. Josh's has the glasses, Sophie is worried, (just like her) Ben's has one eye and David's is traditional. We have this great little ledge to put our pumpkins on but this year we had a big spiderweb in front of it. Once again they were master pieces!

It's that time of year again!

Time to go to the Staheli Farm! Every year each class at our Elementary gets to go to the Staheli Farm to learn about how a real working farm works and to have a ton of fun! Burke Staheli is our principal and his sister lives on and takes care of the farm. All of the Staheli's help out. His Dad was actually there when we were visiting. They have a huge corn maze and a haunted corn maze that I've heard is really scary. I have yet to go. Maybe next year. They also have a small maze for the little kids and tire swings, rope swings, a pumpkin patch, duck and pig races and so much more! The kids love it and every year I volunteer to help out. That way David gets to go too. He even snuck into Ben's class photo. haha

YW in Excellence

It's been a little while since I've blogged be cause I've been sick with a huge head cold. But I'm better and now I need to do some catching up. So here we go with our Young Women's in Excellence night. I am the Secretary in the YW. I calling I have LOVED! I am also beyond amazing when it comes to doing our history because I just print out my blog and turn it in and they think I've done all this work. hehe. Anyway, our theme was Daughter of a King and we all had crowns and talked about the Personal Progress Program and had a great night. The girls displayed the things they've done to pass off requirements for there personal Progress through the year. Sophie and Shayne both did Levi quilts too but I forgot to take a picture of them.

"The Healing Wall"

The city of Washington was lucky enough to have the traveling Vietnam Memorial replica come to our Veterans Park this week. I have always had a place in my heart
for this memorial.









My cousin Susan Smith was happily married with 2 young boys when her husband Jim Chipman, an Air Force pilot, was shot down and never found. Her youngest son Matt was just a baby. During High School Matt and I became good friends and I always felt bad that he didn't get to know his father especially because of the sacrifice he gave us. The summer before my Sr. year I went to Washington D.C. with JoEllen and my parents to see this memorial in person. I can't explain the feeling that comes over you as you walk towards it. By the time a volunteer helped us find Jim and make a rubbing of his name I was in tears. The spirit is so strong there. I have been lucky enough to go a second time to D.C. later with Joel to show him this amazing sight. A couple of years ago the traveling wall came to the Dixie Center in St. George and we took the kids over to see it. Josh was really affected by it and has had a love for the military ever since. I wouldn't be surprised if he chooses to be in it.





Washington Elementary (Burke Staheli) loves to have the kids involved in all things like this, so today when the military had a program in the park to dedicate the ground Burke made sure that his 1st and 4th grade classes where there to sing songs and read poems. I am lucky enough to have Josh in 5th and Ben in 1st so I got to see them both. I think that it is very important for our youth to know of these incredible Heroes who died for them. These veterans should never and will never be forgotten.
If you would like to read more about Jim click here.

David

On Sunday David decided to dress himself for church and he did an amazing job putting on his suit, except he didn't put a shirt on underneath and was strutting around like he was so cool. I told him to go show his Dad how good he looked. Joel laughed and told him to go put a shirt on so he did. Buttoned it up himself and everything!

He looked awesome in sacrament meeting!

After he told Joel he was too hot and they went into the bathroom to change before Primary.

Sloan!

This is my nephew Sloan.



He and his Dad Steve were down here this week for the 4A Golf Tournament. Sloan was the ONLY kid from his High School (West Lake) to qualify to come to state and he is only a Sophmore!


The state championships where a little messed up this year thanks to Coral Canyon backing out at the last second. So 4A had to share SunBrook Golf Course with the 3A Championships. So, there were a lot of groups that didn't get to finish the first night and had to go back first thing in the morning to start up where they left off. Sloan's group was one of them.



Sloan was awesome to watch. The first day I took Ben with me to watch and after Sloan was done he gave Ben the ball he'd been using all day. Ben was in Heaven. He and Sloan are birthday buddies and he really looks up to Sloan. He was so excited and showed it to everyone when we got home.


Sloan ended up with an 88 after the first round. The second round was much better and he hit a 79 and was hurrying to finish before it was too dark. Overall Sloan took 4th in the singles category (High Schools that only had 1 kid). It was a new and fun experience for me. Until now I'd only ever went to a range to hit balls once and that was at Fiesta Fun, not even at a real course. I am really proud of how well Sloan did. He's an amazing kid.

p.s. My pictures turned out really good! I love the second one and the one of his feet watching the ball go in the hole.