2011 Happy New Year

Christmas break was wonderful! I enjoyed the time with the kids and Jeff so much (well Jeff worked alot). It was great to have 2 weeks off work and not feeling rushed all the time. The kids and I got a wonderful/horrible sleep schedule of going to sleep between 2 am and 4 am and waking up between 11 and noon. We watched alot of movies, my favorite of which I think would be Despicable Me. Such a great show!
Christmas was so wonderful and relaxing. I was proud of myself for actually having a couple of surpises for each of the kids. That seems to get harder when the kids get older. For Lizzie I was able to find a killer deal on a memory foam mattress pad. She says now she can stay in bed forever like her roommate :). For Tanner I found a tux. He has been wanting one and I found one at DI I was so excited! Tanner seems to be pretty excited about it. I think he wants to wear the jacket to school sometime.
New Years Jeff and I went to a party with some friends and it was fantastic :) Lizzie went with Deven for a New Years party at Provo Towne Center. Tanner went to a friends house for a while then came home and rang in the new year playing Black Ops.

Graduation

So today Lizzie graduated from Lehi High School. She really has had such a great high school experience! I can't believe how the time has just flew by. It doesn't seem that long ago that she was the little girl getting ready for 1st grade

Here is a video from when she got her diploma :D

School Year 2010

Ok so I know I haven't updated for almost a year. Silly me I spend too much time on Facebook but since I know not everyone is on facebook I thought I would post some pictures from this last year.
First of all know that there are more pictures of Lizzie than Tanner because well she likes having her picture taken.
This year is Lizzie's Senior year and she was/is so incredibly excited for it.


and yes that is her in her locker, the same locker she has had all 3 years at Lehi High.

The first morning of the first day of school we went back to the apartments we lived at when she was little and took a picture of her in front of the tree we always took pictures by in elementary school. She is even proudly showing her 'pack pack' as she use to call it.

Lizzie also got her senior pictures taken (well the ones done by the school) they turned out amazing. She had fun doing the photo shoot. She was really excited for the 'personal interest' one of course it was reading for Lizzie heavy on the Harry Potter.

Tanner started his Freshman year. Normally in our school district Freshman stay at the Jr High but since it was over crowded and there was a new high school (which Lizzie stayed at the old high school), Tanner had the opportunity to start high school a year early.
Tanner's obsession right now is music. He playes the guitar, is messing with the piano and hopefully this coming summer will learn it more. He got a new guitar late summer a Schecter Damien 6SR. He is like a little kid at Christmas that got a Red Rider BB Gun.

For Labor Day we went to Capitol Reef State Park, Escalante and Bryce Cannon. It was fun the kids got to pick fruit at Capitol Reef they thought that was the coolest thing.

Lizzie went to a few dances. I think one of my favorites was Sadie Hawkins, the theme was the circus. So Chance and her dressed up like little kids and his mom made 'cotton candy' for them to carry.

In November Lizzie went to a 'Silent Weekend' at USU for her ASL class. She actually was the only student from her school that attended but she had so much fun. They had a whole weekend where they were not allowed to speak only sign. We picked her up and stopped at Smith and Edwards which is this surplus store that is beyond anything I have ever been in before they have everything army surplus plus almost everything for ranchers, toys, clothes, and a bunch of other just odd stuff. The kids were having fun trying on hats and messing around.

I'm so glad they dont' have a problem being silly kids when it is ok to be so :D

This year one of the things Lizzie has really been involved with is Special Needs Children. She has been a peer tutor in school all year, worked in special needs seminary and proably her favorite is every Thursday night being a youth councilor in Special Needs Mutual, that has been the highlight of the week every week. She has said so many times that se always know it will be such a lift for her no matter how bad the week or day has been that hour and half will make everything wonderful. The girl she was assigned to is Paige here are a couple of pictures from Special Needs Prom

Lets see there was a couple more dances for Lizzie, Tanner listened to music and went to a few concerts with Jeff. They are having so much fun going to concerts together and finding new bands to listen to and like.

I guess to wrap up the year so far would be Prom. Since Tanner is going to one high school (and Lizzie's boyfriend goes to that one too) Lizzie will go to 2 proms. Grandma made the dress we are changing the band at the waist to change it up some. West Lakes Prom (that is where Tanner goes) was at La Callie a very fancy resturant and reception center. Lizzie's best friend wanted to go and asked Tanner to take her. They had so much fun. Tanner had so much fun getting a tux. I will do a slide show for those pictures.

Lehi's prom is tomorrow still don't know how I am going to do her hair for it this time but I know she will have fun.

I can't believe this school year is almost over. The kids have had a good year for the most part. Tanner has grown to be SOOOO tall. He makes me laugh everyday, I have loved listening to his talents explode with music. Lizzie, well I can't believe she is a senior. I am not sure how I am going to handle her graduation in a few short weeks, or how I am going to handle her going to college (Snow College btw). Not sure how Tanner and Jeff will handle that either. Tanner and her have gotten very close and are good friends.