YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is the loudest shout I can give!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm am so excited and ecstatic I want to shout from the roof tops!!!!! Phil's sister is FINALLY getting to move back to UTAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has been an ugly divorce and custody battle stuck in California!!! But she just called and the courts granted her permission to move to Utah!! She will be here in two weeks! She will be staying with us for a bit till she can get on her feet and I'm so happy!!!!!!! I know the Lord watches out for people, and he has been watching out for her! I LOVE YA Amanda! (She is single and would love to go on a date.......)

Truth or Dare

Our ward is awesome and our home teacher Brother Lohmeyer is fantastic! He always brings us brownies or some other goody when he comes to visit. He has 4 teenage daughters, so family night can be pretty crazy. Their family found it best to do family night on Sundays, rather than Mondays. With that little preview, here is the story.....
Knock on our front door. Phil answers to find Bro. Lohmeyer dressed in a short (knee length) skirt and a very attractive green cropped sweater (shirt was on underneath). Behind him are two of his girls laughing and holding a camera.
Phil: "HI, can I help you?"
Bro. L: "Our family is playing truth or dare for family night and they dared me to come down dressed in a dress to the Ware's. Is your family here?"
The kids and myself were in the basement watching TV. I come upstairs and start laughing my head off. Then the girls asked if they could take a picture of their dad with our family. (Sorry didn't even THINK to get a picture of my own.) After the pic, they asked us for an idea for their mom for a dare. Naturally, I come up with a suggestion. We have quite a few leftover Christmas trees on the curbs in our neighborhood, so why not tree someone? Brief explanation, Treeing is placing the "relocated" trees on someone lawn, so much to the extent that they look like a dead Christmas tree lot.
"The Hymas' tree is out on the curb. Make her put it on someones doorstep, ding the bell and run."
"That sounds like a great idea."
7 minutes later at our house....
"Ding-Dong..."
The pictures tell the rest.

Never in MY lifetime....

For those of you that know me well, know I don't have a great fondness of cheerleaders. (Sorry!) I teased them and made fun of them ALL through high school and even to this day the girls on my track team that are cheerleaders get tortured. So in MY lifetime I would never allow my daughter to be associated with cheerleaders......So when a YW from the ward, who is a cheerleader, called and asked (begged) for Jaycee to do Cheer Clinic, I swallowed my pride and gave in. It KILLED me, but she had a blast and I'm hoping that she will get it out of her system now, so when she is in high school I won't have to endure the thought (or admitting) that she is a cheerleader.
This was at practice. She thought she was one hot momma!

Performing at halftime at the boys basketball game. She did a great job and had fun!

The year at a Glance

I thought I would recap our year of 2008. It has been one of adventure so here is a brief month by month.

January: Phil turned 30!
February: Went to Hawaii for the 4th time, and unbeknown to us, our last time.
Gavin turned 6!
Started my 4th year of coaching track and Tooele High.
March: Went to California to see Phil's sister Amanda and her new baby, Mason.
Received my 1st misdemeanor charge for a barking dog.
April: Jaycee turned 3!
Officiated my first college track meet with my Dad!
May: Phil's dad came and stayed with us for Memorial Day!
Gavin started his first year of Little League Baseball, and informed me he won't be doing THAT again.
Phillip finished our basement!
June: I was Stake Girls Camp director and went to girls camp 36 weeks pregnant!
July: On the 24th, Kyson was born! He is such a great addition to the family!
Phil bought himself a scooter!
August: Gavin started 1st Grade and Jaycee went to Preschool.
Sat on my butt and savored every moment of watching the Olympics!
September:Became an official domestic housekeeper and started babysitting 2 kids!
(Whom I love!!!)
Went to Body Worlds and LOVED IT!
October: Took the kids to Southern California. We had a blast at Sea World and Disneyland.
Grandma Dori moved home from Hawaii!!!!
November: Did the Polar Express with the kids and spend Thanksgiving with family and
Phil's Dad!
December: Had an amazing Christmas with family!!!!

We kinda fizzled out at the end, but we were still busy!!!! Hope you all have a great 2009!

Tribute to Disney

I know that people who view this blog are thinking "what the hey?!" with the playlist. But this is my tribute to Disney. I love how they are redoing the songs like Cruella and Kiss the Girl. Love it!!!!

Which Princess lives there?

Tuesday Phillip decided to be sick from work and we headed to SLC to see the lights at Temple Square. We get there and park on the street by the conference center and start walking over to Temple Square. As we walk in, Jaycee turns to me and says, pointing to the temple, "Which Princess lives there?" It was so cute! She was mesmerized! I turned to her, and being the spiritual mother that I am said, "Well, You. At least I hope one day it will be you." She was so happy and said, "Me!" Then she tells Gavin and Phil, "That is where I am going to live. That is my castle." Then we precede over to toward the tabernacle and she says, "Mom, this is Ariel's house, because it is round like the one in the movie." I had to laugh, but it only gets better. We walk around to the Assembly Hall and sure enough she pops off, "This is Snow White's house." Can you tell she is a little obsessed with Princesses? It was really cute and the whole rest of the night she couldn't stop talking about her castle. I always love to see the lights and it was actually a relatively warm night and not crowded. I told Phil that we'll come see the lights after Christmas every year if this is how nice it is. Our other funny that night dealt with Gavin. We are watching the nativity program and it concludes with Pres. Hinckley talking. As he starts, Gavin turns to me and says, "Mom, this guy is dead and he's talking." I started to laugh and said, "Do you know who this is?" He says, "Yeah, it's Pres. Hinckley, but he's dead." My kids keep Phil and I laughing.

Sledding

Since the kids our out of school for 2 full weeks, (YUCK), we have had to come up with things to do. No, we can't play webkinz or the DS ALL day. Anyway, they wanted to go sledding. Phil was working, so it was all me. I must say I needed to plan a good 45 minutes, just to get everyone in their snow clothes! Kyson was a little tricky. I had a snow outfit that was for 6 months, and we squeezed the fat butterball in, but he couldn't even bend his legs. However, he was as happy as pie, like always. We drove down to England Acres, a little park just down from our subdivision. Kyson fell asleep, which created a new problem. How was I suppose to help the kids sled with a sleeping baby? So, I put him back in his car seat and packed him up to the hill. Gavin was a trooper and helped his little sister out. He would push her and take her down the hill. It was cute and for once, they weren't fighting! Kyson woke up shortly after and I took him down the hill. He laughed and had a great time. I knew it was time to go when little Miss Jace decided that instead of sledding, she would rather lay on the snow and eat it. Red flag, go home! We had a lot of fun and the next day Phil took them while I stayed home with the baby.