What we've been up to...

11 things that have happened to us all since Mom last posted/or that was not mentioned before:

(brought to you by Nicole)

1-We all went to California for Grandma's 70th birthday-where the highlights were the great party, spending time with the family, riding in a limo and the delicious cake aunt Faye made!

2-Dad, Megan and Abbie all went to Youth Conference... Mom and I went to dinner and Harry Potter!

3-Megan got her beautiful pix taken for the yearbook in her lovely senior dress/drape/type thing

4-Mom was brave and took all of us girls on our annual voyage to Moon Lake since Dad had to go out of town for business that week.

5-Megan got her DRIVERS LICENSE!!! And has loved driving around!!

6-Megan and Abbie are currently at Girls Camp-with Mom and Dad there for a couple days!

7-At camp Abbie is participating in the 4th year-2 night-backpacking hike. She is such a tough girl!

8-I work every day at Fortified Financial, my first real grown-up full time job! And-I really like it!

9-I appealed my lifetime parking ban at BYU parking services and.... I'm only on probation!!! YAY

10-Last Saturday we celebrated my Grandma London's 90th birthday party at a great bash planned by Aunt Debbie and my Dad. It was SO much fun and so nice to be with everyone.

11-For the first time, in a long time, I believe the ENTIRE family is excited for school to start. Abbie is excited to go to high school, Megan is excited for VE and her senior year, I'm excited to live in my apartment and see all my friends again, Mom is excited to get back to the library and Dad is excited because if we're all in school we aren't out spending money! ha ha

For the mean time though-we are loving the summer!

NYC and a Quick Trip to CA

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Happy, Happy Birthday!

Well Someone in our home is 50 today. A hint, well it is the only male in our home, yep you guessed it Shane is 50 today and this is what we did. Slept in, went and saw Angels and Demons, visited Shane's mom, and went to dinner at Market Street Grill... yum, yum! Then watched 30 Rock as a family! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY, YOU'RE NOT GETTING OLDER YOU'RE GETTING BETTER!!

Daughters

Well, we basically have the very best daughters ever!! While Shane & I were in Boston and NYC our creative daughters took sister pictures, and this is just a brief sampling . They then developed, and arranged a wall downstairs with their pictures! Thanks Girls! It was a fun welcome home surprise for us!

Time Flies...

Okay, so it has been forever since I blogged and many have given me grief about it...so here goes! First I will start with the end of March, March 30th Megs turned 17, I now have 19,17,& 15 year old daughters and I am feeling kinda old. For Easter weekend we went to So California for Choir Tour, Shane and I both chaperoned this year and it was so fun having him there with me. The kids did an awesome job performing (as usual) and their Mass was incredible! We had a great time, and Nicole and Abbie had a great time together at home!

May was the usual, Mothers Day, birthday, end of school stuff! Mother's Day was awesome this year. Besides breakfast in bed my girls surprised me with a great DVD Slideshow that Nicole had been working on of our family life. I watched it with tears streaming down my face, it was beautiful!

Next came Spring Concert, and Pops Concert. Megan had tried out for Vocal Ensemble, and we recieved word that she made it...YEAH Megan!!! She was introduced at Pops Concert and also named as Choir Historian, we are very proud of her:)
I was asked to be the Choir Mom for 09-10, so that will keep me busy and be alot of fun!

June was filled with school ending, a trip to Boston & NYC (for Shane & I)


Trinity Church reflected in Glass


Boston was amazing for me, I hung out with my friend Kathy while Shane had the whole conference to attend, so he didn't get to see any of Boston. Too Bad...now we will have to go again, ha, ha. The best part of the trip was going to NYC no conference there, just FUN,FUN,FUN! We found our little hole in the wall Italian Restraunt (we ate there twice), went to Magnolia Bakery, Serendipity, South Pacific, and The Lion King, (which was the most amazing show), we walked 5th Ave and took a carriage ride in Central Park. The most amazing place we went was the Temple...WOW, you would never know that you are in the middle of a busy city, and it was so beautiful and peaceful, I didn't want to leave! Thanks for the great trip honey, we both really needed it!