Intense Video of Tornado

The next video gives you more of a visual of where they were. Crazy!
What a neat guy to shoot this footage and help those around him. My heart goes out to them and all they have had to endure and will endure in the upcoming months and years.

Via Laughing Squid

An update...

I am just going to summarize a bunch of stuff that has happened over the last few weeks/months because time to post hasn't been on the top of mind lately.






We had some Easter.



We did a little performing at rest homes. Ellyse danced too, I just got a video of her is all, not a still pic.

During the 1/2 hour of sun we received that ONE day, we played on the trampoline.



Oh hey, we spotted Elvis at The Pie while visiting with long time friends. That was interesting. Turns out Elvis orders pizza's under the name Elvis and drives a mini van just like we do. See, he's just a regular guy like all of us.



Allie ate a bit too much of her birthday cake.

And we played around with some iphone apps.

Time hasn't been too easy on Jason or Lance or Brent for that matter.


oh okay, me neither....


Got some cute haircuts for the girls. Yay! Was just going to have her cut Allie's hair only but when Ellyse saw how cute Allie's was, she wanted it done as well. I guess no more long hair for my girls for a while. It's sooooooooooooo 100% easier to do now! AANNNd it stays styled a lot longer too! Bonus! I'm a happier momma with hairdo's that look and stay cute longer.




That's all for now. I'll get A's birthday up soon.

Weber High Flashback time.

A while back, an old chum of mine and I got together and had a girls night out. We started out at good 'ol Weber High. I'd been back to the school for a few of my neices recitals but didn't walk through the whole thing. A bunch of memories came flooding back as we did.
- Warning - these pictures are quite boring to those who don't have a fondness for this school - Um, anyone else owe their math skills to this wonderful woman? You guys, she spent hours upon hours with me and helped me shape up my math skills that had been ruined by past sub par teachers.

Hours. And. Hours.

I owe so much to this lady! She will always have a special place in the mathematics part of my heart. :)

Here we have the door to the choir room. So many fun memories of choir and friends were made in this room!
Here is the room where I had to take the S.A.T. test or at least the practice test.
In this room, I took History as a sophomore to fulfill the stupid history requirement early. I hated history so I was getting this subject out of the way. Most people took it as Juniors so I was the only sophomore in the class. I got deemed "Egon" - from Ghostbusters - from a guy in this class. My Maiden name is Egan so, I'm sure that had something to do with it but I remember Egon being the brainy, nerdy fellow and I was far from smart about history! At least it made me sound smart, right? I got asked to my first dance by a guy in this class. Plus, the teacher was a cool teacher and made it as much fun as possible; considering it was history.
The Senior Hall!! Needs no words.

The Warriorette room. Oh, the memories of not feeling good enough and all the sparkles and sequence. Oooh, the sparkles and sequence.
The big gym! Basketball games, dance class, crazy insane warriorette practice. Oh, and a little thing called graduation.
Just a cool thing to see.
In this room, I had my favorite class of all. I can't remember exactly what it was called but it was set up like a real life business office. We had to trade off being the front desk person for a week and had projects with due dates, learned shorthand, and had meetings in the meeting room that was to the left of the photo. (not shown) It was such a cool class! It pushed me at times but I really liked that. It's also the place where I received my first flowers from a boy other than family. :)
The small gym. I remember trying out for sophomore class officer and we had the assembly in here. I was sooooo out of my league! Also, cheerleader tryout clinics were held in this gym. I lost the election for sophomore class officer and decided cheering wasn't for me. Dancing was my thing.
And to finish out our tour, here is said chum. We met at this school and I thought she really disliked me at first but turns out we had a special relationship that is still there today. So glad I was able to attend this high school and have such good memories.

Clearfield Easter Egg Hunt

One Saturday before Easter, we headed to Clearfield for their Easter Egg hunt. We liked that one because it started at 10 instead of 9. :) I liked this one a lot because they had several acres worth of hunting going on and each one was blocked off to a specific age group. No crowding as well! Plus, inside some of the eggs were tickets for prizes and Allie ended up having one. It was a fun but extremely cold morning!
Ellyse and dad were together down there somewhere. Allie and I were together. I did the best I could with the camera. Sorry Ellyse.

Allie putting on a temporary smile for me in the frigid temp.'s!

Cuteness!

Have you ever taken a photo of your kid just because they're cute?

Reflections Contest 2011

Back in the winter, (I just uploaded a bunch of photos that were on my real camera recently and am catching up.) Ellyse got a Merit award for her 3D picture that she submitted. The idea had to be hers as well as the work so we were happy with the results. The theme was Together we can... and she chose to do a picture of a sheep with the caption of Together we can go to the farm.

If daddy had his way, - which he almost did - she would've been doing a "Together we can defeat the Zombie Apocalypse" paper with toothpicks used as Zombie arms sticking out of the page. You guys, the man is obsessed with Halloween. OBSESSED!

Here are all the participants. I was surprised at how many didn't participate. Ellyse is the middle looking down.

Valentines day 2011 part 2

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in February, I made these. I used the wrong kind of chocolate. They didn't turn out as good as others but the girls sure liked them.
Sorry about the lack of turning the photo. Laziness is all I can blame. :)