New Camera and Dance Recital

Jackie's been wanting to take up Photography and so we bought a nice camera. It is amazing how much more clear pictures are now with it. It is fun taking shots from long distances and close up shots. We are still trying to figure it out and maybe we will take a class. Here is the first shot we took.This picture is from Mother's Day. We all had dinner at my Mom's. Cohen and Cayman just love playing with each other.

Last night we went to Cayman's first dance recital. She is so funny. I think she needs to start acting. She is so imaginative and has such a personality. She had us all laughing.

Here is us after.
Little Cooper

Coop having fun on the swing.

Here are two of my favorite people in the world, my Grandparents. I am so lucky to have them. It's been so great for Jackie to have Grandparents again. We love every minute with them.

Happy Anniversary

It has been a fun FOUR years!!!

Last Week

Last Friday, Candice told me that Dallas was going to be racing MotoCross out at the Larry H Miller track. I told her we wanted to go. It ended up starting later than she thought and since she was on her way, she stopped at our house first. Cohen made quick friends with our neighbors and drove around in their jeep. He wasn't happy when it was time to leave. He was having too much fun.

Here is us chilling while we waited for the races to start.

My nice camera skills, I did a good job of cutting off Jackie's head. It was already dark outside and so our camera didn't work very well.

Here is Cohen watching Dallas at the starting line. Dallas did great and got the hole shot both times. It was fun to watch and I couldn't believe they had 4 year old's racing.

Here is what the track looks like.

Saturday we headed up to the U of U's Red and White game. It was a perfect day outside and it was fun to get out and watch their scrimmage. There were about 10 thousand people at the game, which is great since it is only a practice.

The Red team won. The Utes looked good and I am way excited for the upcoming football season. We went with Cory, July, Cayman, Cooper, Ryan, Amber, Luke, Logan and ended up sitting next to Uncle Steve and my cousin Spencer.

After the game we headed to the Johnson's for Tim's 30th birthday party. We had a good time there and then Jackie stayed for Girl's craft night with her mom, sister's and cousins.

Here are a couple of pictures of our front flower bed. The tulips started to bloom this week.

So much for Spring . . . . . . .

I think the April Fools joke is on us.

Our poor flowers................

NCAA Tournament

This year they are having the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games here in Salt Lake. I was debating whether or not to buy tickets to the games. I thought it would be fun to go. I was talking to a friend at work and he said we should go. Anyway an hour later he called and said he had 4 tickets to Thursday's games. So 3 of us from work went and Jake's cousin.

Both games were really good. We saw a #1 seed get upset which was fun. The second game between Xavier and Kansas State was awesome. I think I read there were 13 ties and 17 lead changes during the game. It was really intense and went into double overtime. It was a lot of fun. Wish the stadium would have been more crowded though. Large crowds at sporting events always make them more fun.
Jackie took our nephew Tyler on a date while I was at the games. They went to California Pizza Kitchen and saw Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightening Thief. They both had a lot of fun hanging out and Jackie now wants to read the book that the movie is based off of.

On the way to the game I hit 100,000 miles on my car. I thought as long as I have the camera, I might as well document this momentous occasion. I have had this car from the beginning and have had many fun trips in it. Anyways I thought it was cool when it was at 99,999.....

And then 100,000

Shelves

We have a small storage room in our house and have talked about adding shelves for the last ten months, but have just never got around to doing it. So everything was just stacked in there. We finally got around to it this weekend and it looks a lot better. Here is the before picture.
Terry was nice enough to come up and help us. I'm not the best at this kind of stuff, but it's great that he will take the time and help me with these kind of projects.

And here is the after picture. It actually didn't take that long to build. It gives us a lot more storage space.

After finishing the shelves we went to Camille's ballet recital. They performed Swan Lake and they did a really good job. It's always fun to watch the little kids dance that have no idea what's going on and they just twirl and run around. Camille did an awesome job, we are so proud of her.

Spring Has Sprung

C.J. and I were getting home from a walk tonight and C.J. said, " Honey, Look! Our tulips are blooming!" We have about 6 that we are able to see coming through our terrible dirt! We are both very excited that they have started blooming and it was of course a picture worthy moment for us as this is our first attempt at gardening. We, and when I say we I mean I, have been anxiously awaiting their arrival. All that hard work we did last October will be worth it once our beautiful garden is in full bloom. I love Spring.....I just hope the snow that is bound to come doesn't kill my beautiful flowers.