1st SNOW of the Fall Season 2010

WOW~ Snow already?? The 1st snow was on October 27th, 2010 for the fall season.......It seams like it snows earlier and earlier each year.........
I hope it doesnt snow on Halloween night...........

This picture is from the Monavie parking lot

Pumpkin Carving Time.............

Who doesnt LOVE to pumpkin carve? ME.....Nah, just kiddin........Eric gutted the pumpkins and I was SO surprised on how well Jenna and Jasmine did on there pumpkins. There pumpkins are so COOL!!

Dad working hard gutting the pumkins

Doesnt she LOOK so proud?

Cool Skull

Cool Mummy

Face painted Ghost

Face painted pumpkin

Carmel Apples

This was the first year that I attempted Carmel Apples.....WOW, they are easy and a great activities for the kids. Not to fond of the "clean up" though.......I think I will make this a family tradition for the years to come.

LOOK at the apples behind me LOL

YUMMY, dad wants the plain one.....

Funny Business

 Justin and Britin came over while I was making Carmel Apples with the girls and I couldn't resist getting some funny and sweet pictures of these 2!

ACL SURGERY

Eric really did it this time. He managed to rip his ACL while exercising, of all things. He had the surgery on Friday,  Oct 15 @ the Orem Community Hospital. We were there all day, however the surgery only lasted an hour and a half. Here are some before pictures of him, after, and him in therapy......Let the healing begin and did I mention that Eric is NOT a good patient at all? He doesn't like people to help him- "I can do it" is his main words...... CRAZY

Before Surgery

After Surgery

Surgery was on Fri Oct 15, Therapy started Mon Oct 18th= OUCH!

Its doesnt look too bad huh??

2010 Pumpkin Patch FUN!!

 Took Jenna and Jada to go with me to pick out some pumpkins. We always go to the same place every year right off 1600 North in Orem. The have tons and tons of pumpkins in there front yard!. Getting pumpkins is a true sign of Fall and end of YEAR! Where has 2010 gone??

2010 Pictures are here!

The girls took such great pictures! Gosh, they are growing up so fast. Jon, of course, got out of pictures again this year because of his surgery and physical therapy appointments. Here is a picture of Jessi and Jada. I need to rescan Jenna and Jasmine's in and I will add them in this week.

Jessica- Age 15 Sophomore

Jada age 6 1st Grade

CrAzY hAiR DaY

Today was CrAzY hAiR DaY @ School today. Its always fun to see what kind of "hair" they will come up with. Dad stayed home to help them with there hair while I took my momma to the airport this morning.

Here are some pictures of Jenna and Jasmine- Jada decided that "she thought" everyone would make fun of her hair so she took hers out. She is funny!

2010 Timpview Stats

VARSITY SCHEDULE



Date Home Away Time Score

Fri August 20 Pleasant Grove Timpview 7 PM T-Birds 24 – Vikings 7

Fri August 27 Timpview Highland Idaho 7 PM T-Birds 45 – Rams 12

Fri Sept 3 Timpview Alta 7 PM T-Birds 41 – Hawks 27

Fri Sept 10 Timpview Mt View 7 PM T-Birds 51 – Bruins 14

Fri Sept 17 Orem Timpview 7 PM T-Birds 44 – Tigers 14

Fri Oct 1 Westlake Timpview 7 PM T-Birds 43 – Thunder 20

Thurs Oct 7 Timpanogos Timpview 7 PM T-Birds 41 – T-Wolves 24

Wed Oct 13 Timpview Lehi 7 PM

Fri Oct 22 Timpview Provo 7 PM

BLOG to BOOK

I am so excited about this. I have published my very 1st book about MY life in 2008!!! The book consists of my blog. I found this really cool website called Blurb and I turned my BLOG into a BOOK. I have been so worried that 1 day Blog spot would not be around and I would loose all my info. It is so easy to use. My book was only about 50 pages because I started blogging in 2008 but it only cost around $30.00 to document my families life. I am finishing up my 2009 book. Anyways, I thought I would share this awesome idea and if anyone is interested just follow the link.



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!!

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).

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.

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!!

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!

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