"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well"

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!

September 20th marks the 12th year anniversary for Eric and I. I am the luckiest woman in the world to be married to such an amazing man!

I wanted to do something that we haven't done yet so I was planning a surprise getaway to Wendover. I booked a hotel and then booked a comedy show to see Wanda Sykes @ The Peppermill, I thought that would be way fun!! So, I planned all of this and I told Eric, "I have a plan for our anniversary but it was a surprise, I'm not going to tell you". He was like "OK, you cant keep a secret" HA!! A week later, Eric said to me "you know, lets do something we haven't done yet, lets go to Wendover" LOL 
So, we will be headed to Wendover this weekend, pictures will follow.






Kitty Kitty

I would like to introduce you to the newest family member, Cappi! She is a beautiful cat and he was my mother-in-law's cat but was unable to take it to Oregon during there move.

He is lots of fun and VERY lovable!!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010


2010 Sadie Hawkins Invite


It is so much fun having teenagers in the house. Its Sadie Hawkins time, so Jessica wanted to ask Kaimana to the Sadies dance! So we bought a chocolate cake(Kai's fav) and put on the cake Sadie Hawkins ?? We also bought 15 balloons and on each of the balloons had a letter that spelt J e s s i c a R e a d. First name was in red and last name was in blue. Kaimana had to spell her name out to see who the invite was from and just in case he couldn't figure it out, we added her cell number on one of the balloons. This was so much fun to put together with ALL my girls!!
PS: we are waiting for an answer


Here are so pictures of us adding the letters to the balloons in the Walmart Parking lot LOL (PS: the paint marker take a few minutes to DRY).



Monday, September 13, 2010

Birthday Fun

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONATHAN"



17 years ago (Sept 13, 1993) my son was born @ 8:33am in San Diego California. WOW, how time flies by so fast. He is such a amazing young man it often brings tears to my eyes on how lucky I am to be his mom! He is so thoughtful, responsible, self disciplined, determined, driven and very athletic and he teaches me how to be a better person every day.
So, to let him know how much we LOVE him, I snuck to his school and decorated his car. SHHHHH, he doesn't know its me :) and he NEVER reads my blog

School Projects

Yes, can you believe this, school has just started and already "big" projects to do. Jessica has to do a project on "Angles" in her Geometry class. She has to know and show 11 different angles and she chose to do this by presenting 11 different angles on cars. WOW, she is a fantastic job!!


Jasmine had a project on "which brand of paper towels is the most absorbent?" We had to gather 3 different brands of paper towels and 3 glasses of water and put the paper towels in the water and then let them absorb and then turn over the glasses to see what paper towels didn't absorb the most. She needs to include a graph as well.


PS: Brawny paper towels are the best out of the Value brand and Bounty.


Here are some pictures on there great projects.


Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Labor Day Weekend!

What a fun filled weekend we had! Friday night FOOTBALL ~ Timpview VS Alta Hawks!! WOW~ what an amazing game this was. Jon didn't play because of his surgery :( We ended it with Timpview 41 Alta 27. Friday Sept 10 will be our homecoming game @ home against Mountain View. Saturday morning we left for Sand Mountain(the dunes) until Monday. There was not too many people there, it will hot Sat and Sunday and on Monday it cooled down allot. Our friends brought a pool and a slip in slide. The kids had a Blast!! PS: you must wear clothes while you are sliding on the slip in slide WHILE your in the sand dunes IF YOU DON'T, you will suffer a very painful "sand burns".
I love these long weekend get aways with family and friends. The part I HATE is the cleaning of the motor home and all the laundry! Happy Labor day Everyone!!

Friday, September 3, 2010

My Life



I am so grateful for this life that I have been blessed with. I have a great and loving husband, wonderful kids and family! So many people have touched my life especially my dad and my brother. How lucky am I to have had the best father and brother in the whole even though I didn't have them as long as I wanted to? I say, dang lucky! :-)

Good Times~~

I was looking through my pictures and I came across some awesome memories with my parents! Memories are what keeps me going! I have attached a few grateful moments in my life! The blue picture is In 100+ feet underwater in a submarine in Hawaii
GOOD TIMES!!

Moab Baby!!


Beautiful, isn't it? Moab is breathtaking! Our good friends Deborah and Andrew invited us to Moab, this is our 1st time ever here.
We went there for a car show and had a blast. Thank you Deborah, Andrew and Isaiah for showing us around and showing us a great

time.......

Brandon-


This is my other nephew(Brandon). He is my brother's son. He just turned 19 this year. He came to Utah and spent a few weeks with us this summer. I miss him too as he also lives in California.
I love you Brandon!!

My Sister~~


Look at the beautiful faces! This is my sister and my niece(Alexxis) and my nephew(Garrett). They live in California. My sister is coming up on Sept 17th, I am so excited to see her. She is the only sibling I have left. My brother pasted away, almost 13 years ago(in Nov).
I just wanted her to know how much I love her!
I love you guys and I miss you!!

Spoiled!!

I am so excited about our new Motor home(RV) We got this back in April 2010....its a 2009 Tiffin~ Allegro Open Road with 4 slides. Its a beauty! Now this is the way to "camp". I need to take some pictures of the inside, is beautiful. Lots of cool features. I will post more pictures of the inside later, stay tuned!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

I Miss you......


Everyday that passes, I miss you MORE and MORE. My heart hurts. I hurt. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of you. This picture is from our Hawaii trip that we took with my parents. This is one of my favorite pictures of my dad!
Even though my heart is heavy with grief, I still pray to God every night for comfort!

Dedicated to the ones we love!


During our Canada trip(which I will post later) both of my boys, Justin and Jonathan, wanted to get a very special Tattoo. Jonathan's tattoo was in remembrance of his grandpa that passed away this past February. Justin's tattoo was in remembrance of his mom that past away last November. I have posted a picture of Jonathan's tattoo, its his grandpa's initials and both of there last names, in old English letters A. V. Ghosoph. This is probably not the best picture because Jonathan is angled so it doesn't look straight. But you can get the gist of it. Justin's tattoo is on his left side of his upper chest. I don't have a picture of his. My kids really don't like me taking pictures, so any picture I can "Steal" makes me HAPPY!

Canada~ July 17-25, 2010

For our "BIG" 2010 Family Summer vacation we took a trip to Canada. Justin, Sara and Britin went as well. All together there were 10 of us. This was not just "any ol' trip" either, it was a special trip to see "family" that we never met and to reunite family. That's allot of work to schedule passports, airfare, rental cars, etc......We flew into Seattle Washington(lots cheaper), rented 2 vehicles and drove to Vancouver Canada. WOW, what a beautiful world we live in. We met up with the kids grandparents(Audrey and Martin). Audrey and Martin are amazing amazing people. I LOVE them!! We stayed in downtown Vancouver for the night and the next day we went to Harbour Centre Tower where you can see the whole city! It was beautiful! Then we took the Horseshoe Bay ferries to Langdale. The from Langdale we drove for about an hour and took the Earls Cove ferries to Saltery Bay then we drove a few more hours to Powell River. The ferries are amazing. I never been on anything like that before. The waters were breathtaking. The kids were so excited to get on these ferries! Powell River is beautiful quiet place. Audrey and Martin rented us this cute cottage in Powell River. Day after day we had fun filled, action packed days! Did I mention they had the most amazing Fish & Chips that I EVER had in my life?? I think I ate them like 3 times for dinners. LOL...... We left Saturday morning from Powell River to head over to Nainamo(on a ferrie , of course)...I love this place too! It was more of a city atmosphere but beautiful!!

Justin, Audrey(Grandma) and Jessi
Martin(grandpa) Justin, Jessi and Audrey(grandma)
Jasmine and Utah(goat)
Here comes the ferry!!
Pure Beauty!
Our Vacation lasted from July 17th- July 25th and we cant wait to go back!! Thank you Audrey and Martin for the love and excitement you have given us!

Me and the love of MY life

Lagoon


Cant go through a summer without Lagoon fun Park! This year we decided to camp at the camp grounds next to Lagoon. It was a beautiful camp ground with allot of tree's. We will bounce back by Sept 19th and camp again. Nice little get away.

An Artist in the HOUSE!

We are so proud of Jessi who won the drawing contest for the DuneRates competition this summer. She won $100 and they will be using her work to design some t-shirts and stuff. I will try and get a picture of this drawing from my Facebook page!

School Begins....



Yikes, the summer has just flown by! It almost seams unfair! Jenna is now in the 6th grade, this will be her last year in elementary school :(, Jazzy is in the 5th grade, Jada is now in 1st grade. I am very excited about that because that means LESS DAYCARE $$!! YAHOO.......

Jonathan started his Junior year and Jessica is now a Sophomore. Yikes, I'm feeling pretty old. I was not able to get a picture of Jessi and Jon, they don't think its cool and from the looks of it neither does Jenna or Jasmine!!

Surgery.....

We had an unexpected surgery on Jon in the month of August. Yes, I know right, at the beginning of FOOTBALL Season.....NOT GOOD!!! Well he got hit on his lower leg and was diagnosed with compartment syndrome. I found this out because I took him to the Instant Care in Orem because he had alot of pain in his leg and his foot was going numb. I have never even heard of such a thing.....So, we took him to a sports medicine doctor and he confirmed the previous diagnose and scheduled the surgery for the next day. They went in and cut his Fascia to relieve the pressure. The surgery went well, it only took an hour. The doctor put a soft cast on and we had it removed on Aug 31st. He is now in physical therapy and we hope to be playing football by Sept 17th for the Orem high School game. Here are a few pictures.....