Way too much fun!

Digging through boxes of photos (we're talking like 11 years worth) is so much fun because of all the great memories associated with the pictures. I should totally scrap book (Ya think! Sheesh!) so my kids can have as much fun as I did looking at all the pictures. Halloween at LDSBC was a really great night for me, I felt like Prom Queen because I was on the arm of the Fraternity Pres. and we looked HOT. We won the costume contest, "Yeah Baby Yeah", and they had us come up on stage and we did a little spotlight dance out on the dance floor. Since I never really had a traditional american high school experience, I imagine it would feel like being crowned homecoming queen. It was so much fun and the pictures just make me laugh.

10 Year Anniversary!!!!

Russia Reunion

It's been 12 years since I went to St. Petersburg Russia to teach English to little kids. I went with a group of really great girls supervised by I.L.P.(International Language Programs). It was quite the crazy experience living there, with dirty water, unsanitary everything, nasty food, roaches and crazy little kids. It was fun to have a reunion after all these years and recall all the fun memories and adventures that we had. I wish I had remembered to get my camera out and take a picture of all the 16 cute kids we all have now. The ladies in this picture are some of the nicest people I know and I feel like the adventure of surviving Russia together has bonded us for life. Russia is a beautiful place to visit as a tourist, but I would not recommend living there.

MAX'S WORLD

Max keeps telling me he wants to grow up to be a photographer and he frequently asks to take pictures with my camera. Normally I delete the pictures because they are redundant and not well thought out. I was however pleasantly surprised by this last set, it seemed to show what his world looks like to him and what he values or finds interesting. ENJOY!

RACING to 34

Rhett's birthday was way back in March but it has taken me this long to find the cord (and time)to download the pictures off the camera. This birthday was the most FUN so far, and it took very little planning on my part. First I took Rhett to the Larry H. Miller Race Track for a private tour of the behind the scenes at the raceway.
My friend from Russia, Heather Neilson Miller married Brain Miller and he happens to manage the track, so she was nice enough to hook us up. It was fun and interesting (Rhett loves the Race Track). Later we had lots of friends show up to race go-carts and it was a blast! The wives all cheered from the sidelines and it was intense.

The top leaders competing for first place were....Rhett (of course), Wade Longman, Nate Simpson, and Tom Felt. The rest of the team put in some real good effort, but seemed to play the role of obsticles to pass.
After the go-carts we raced to CPK and got there just minutes before closing. It was good food and lots of laughs. I'm glad Rhett had a fun birthday because all my past attempts to make it a specail day did not always turn out so well. I love Rhett with every added year and he is worth all my "good intentions"

My Baby is One, Already?

Who said babies could grow this fast? He certainly didn't have my persmission. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in our family when a baby turns 1years old we let them smash a cake so we can laugh at them. It's lot's of fun!

He really liked the big horsey his Aunt Stephanie gave him,

 

and the singing shapes cookies jar from Grandma Longman.

POTTY TRAINING SUCKS!

This is my 3rd attempt to potty train a child and it still sucks as much as it did the first two times. Once you go down this road there is no turning back. Tell me which is worse cleaning a nasty poopy diaper that's caked on because they didn't tell you they needed to be changed, OR cleaning up a poo smeared bathroom where most of the poo did actually make it in the toilet? Ian has eczema on his legs (poor kid) and sometimes pee gets on his legs and irritates his rash. We stuck him in the sink and he liked it, so we took his picture.