Aloha!

I'm almost current on my blog and I'm doing it with scrapbook pages. Yeah!!

On Labor Day, we flew home from Dallas and then picked up the girls and took them to a Luau at Thanksgiving Point. The long lines moved quickly and the food was yummy - fresh fruit, salad, chicken, pulled pork, rice etc! It was crowded so our seats weren't the best, but the show was still great! They performed traditional dances from each Polynesian Island ending with fire twirling! The girls got to go on stage and learn to shake their hips too. Lots of fun! What a beautiful place for a luau too!

Dallas Trip ...

I already blogged the game in Dallas, but wanted to post the pages I did. :)

The 6th Floor

Steve and I had the chance back in 1996 to go to the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas when the BYU Band went to the Cotton Bowl. Despite the fact that it was a rushed tour, we came home absolutely enthralled with JFK and all the theories surrounding his assassination. We read all we could and watched all the movies we could find on it. So, this time we took our time reading and seeing everything in the museum. President John F Kennedy was assassinated and despite the conspiracy theories, Lee Harvey Oswald is blamed as the lone gunman, firing 3 shots from the 6th floor window of the Book Depot. We weren't alive to experience that part of history, but we wanted to wanted to understand and feel the impact of that fateful trip to Dallas.

Jess and her most recent MESS!

Jessica just walked in and she was covered with BRIGHT PINK sidewalk paint ... and soaked with water. When I asked her WHAT HAPPENED? She told me she didn't know who did it. I told her I knew she had done it and not to make up a story about it. I asked her how she got all wet and she told me she wasn't sure. I asked her if she tried to wash off and she looked up at me with this innocent little face like she was waiting to see if I was going to get grumpy or not. :) She knows me too well! I didn't though! But I didn't think to take pics until after I had taken her in the laundry room and stipped her down... so here are the pics of the culprit, the project and the results!

Culprit: Crayola BRIGHT PINK sidewalk paint.

The Project: Decorating a rock in the backyard

The Result: Her khaki colored capris COVERED in PINK!

My Birthday!

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most, live the longest!!" - Father Larry Lorenzoni

My birthday was a Sunday this year and I was very anxious all day. The last 3 birthdays I've had have been marked by the loss of a pre-term nephew, a fatal accident to a teenager neighbor and a serious accident to a business partner. One can understand my worry. But Steve wanted to make it a happy day for me, so after church, he took me and the girls for a picnic up at Squaw Peak in Provo. When we got there, it was a bit windy but that proved to be a good thing because there were 4 paragliders waiting to take off. It was fun to watch them take off and fly around above us. I learned a lot about paragliding too. These guys were hoping the winds would carry them up to 17,000 feet and clear to the Point of the Mountain Flight Park! It was a fun treat. Then after our picnic we went for a little hike. When we got home, the kids played out back a bit and then they went with Steve over to visit the Taylors while I talked to my brother on the phone. When I went over to visit, the Taylors, Chilcotes and Hansons surprised me with a yummy chocolate cake and an ice cream grasshopper cake. A fun, happy, safe birthday.
YEAH!!

Capital Day

Not my favorite pages ... they are kind of crazy looking, but it was a fun day. The Utah State Capital hosts an annual Capital Day. They invite the public to come tour the Capital Building and participate in a variety of events - games and crafts for the kids, a scavenger hunt/Bingo game, a variety of vendors, concerts, etc. We wanted our girls to see the Capital Building so we thought we'd try Capital Day. The kids got small Liberty Bells for playing a game outside then we went in. The girls made towers out of toothpicks and gumdrops (supposed to be learning about how domes are made) and then we wandered around to see the different rooms and find all the items on our Bingo game. They thought the building was pretty cool, but I think only Alyssa understood what the Capital Building is and its significance It was a fun day.

One last day of water fun!

As summer came to a close, we ended by going to the Olympic Fountains at the Gateway in SLC. Steve and I love the history the fountains remind us of and all our memories of the Olympics. And the girls LOVE the fountains. This year was no different.

DigiScrapbooking

I've been able to do a lot of digital scrapbook pages recently and am really enjoying it. I'm not great at it yet, and it still takes me awhile to do a page, but I'm getting the hang of the software and getting a better grip on what elements and papers I have so I know what to use. :) Here are the pages I've done this past week or so. They are all from August ... and I've blogged about them already so they are kind of duplicates, but I wanted to share the pages. And of course, scroll to the next blog entry because that one is new and contains 2 pages I did for Jessica's 1st day of preschool. Sniff, sniff ...

The text in the scrapbook pages is basically what I blogged before ... so if you want to read it, just scroll down to the blog entry. :)