Bethany

She is here!!! My sister had her baby on Saturday November 6th, 2010. I had told her that she could have her baby on my birthday, but she didn't want to work with me I guess...I still better be her favorite Aunty since my birthday is the closest to hers!!! Here is proud big brother...or does he not really know what is going on yet?? This is at the hospital and he probably didn't have a clue that she would be coming home with them!! Also in the picture grandma and one of the other aunts...not the favorite, that would be me!!!

Seriously...how long after the birth was this taken? cuz she looks really good doesn't she??!!! I don't know cuz I didn't even take this picture, I stole these pictures off of facebook!!

9 pounds 8 ounces, 20 1/2 inches long...my family doesn't make them small in case you didn't know!!! I don't know when I will be able to get up there...but hopefully it will be soon so I can get my own pictures and hold the precious little one!!

JAZZ GAME

Thursday afternoon my friend called me and asked if I wanted to go to the Jazz game with her. She knew that I was probably already planning on going to the game...but she knows how much I love and appreciate my JAZZ...even when it is a hard thing to do...and her brother's friend had gotten seats on the 2nd row and there were 2 extra if I wanted to go with her...so I called the friend I was planning on going to the game with and asked her if she would hate me if I ditched her...it wasn't all bad though cuz I offered both of the tickets to her so she could still go and just find somebody else to go with her...when I told her the reason she totally understood...I will just have to make it up to her later in the season and go to another game with her so she can enjoy a game in my presence!!! We got down there around 5:15 and got a parking spot right across from the arena without having to pay a penny...anyway, the ticket included dinner at the 100 Club which is a restaurant on the 6th floor of the arena...I was in 7th Heaven!! the meal was good and it was so cool!!! I ended up taking a few (ok 88) pictures of my amazing night!!! This is the first time I have ever been able to look up at the jumbotron...but where I was sitting I didn't even need to look at it...I was able to actually watch the action on the floor!! My camera isn't the best and with some of the pictures you can totally see that...but some of the pictures aren't too bad!! I won't make you look at all 88 pictures, just a few of the best ones.


line-up for the national anthem

YEP...we were that close...even though our ticket said row 2 we were actually 4 rows behind the Phoenix bench...but still...WOW...

I thought this one was kinda cool showing the action even if it is kinda blurry...especially the head of the person right in front of me!!

I thought 22 on the other team was kinda cute...so I have a few of him!!

I have a lot of shots of the Phoenix team...I don't love Phoenix...but it was REALLY cool to be so close to so many NBA players at one time!! And I decided that Grant Hill is my favorite Phoenix player (especially since Raja came back to Utah).

there he is again...#22...oh wait, I think I took this picture because it is a pretty good shot of "the new guy". that is my excuse anyway... :)

this is a shot from my seat on Thursday night, up to my season ticket seats...it's WAY up there... it isn't on the top row but it isn't too far from the top!!

Jazz huddle...I had to try to get at least one picture of that since I had a few of the Phoenix team...it is just too bad that we weren't sitting on that side...but I can't really complain, the ticket was free!!!

I had to try to get a couple of close up shots of this guy...he is one of my co-worker's favorite players...not!!!

this is really her favorite player...that is why I had to try and get a good shot of him.

I don't think he (Nash) played at all in the 2nd half, I wondered if he got hurt or if they really didn't want to play him too much because it is still preseason? or is he just getting too old to play as much??

I had to take this picture...even though he spells his name wrong, it is still a good name!!! he played pretty good too...the few minutes he actually got to be on the court.

the final score...

after the game on the court...we had to wear our ticket all night...it got us into the dinner and snacks at half-time in the 100 club...where we had a good visit with the Laydens. I was waiting for Laura and trying to find a seat to wait for her and this lady said I could sit by her. She just started talking to me and she was really friendly. Then they started talking to Scott Layden on the half-time show and she said that's my son...I couldn't believe it was her...and then Frank came over and Laura showed up so the 4 of us had a grand old conversation...funny....

the both of us. Thank you Laura for thinking of me...and thank you Lane for having a friend that has connections!!!

and then after we finally left...this cute guy is walking towards us...I thought should I take his picture...or should I ask him if it is ok if I take his picture...I decided I should ask him...and that was a smart choice because then he was looking and smiling right into my camera!!!

What an amazing night...I have to bask in it and remember it forever...cuz I don't know that it will ever happen again. The price on the ticket was $504...there is no way I will ever be paying that much for one ticket...it is more than I pay for one of my entire season tickets...

Oh and one other person of note that we saw when we were walking around the bottom level trying to find our seats...one of my all-time favorite Jazz men...Jeff Hornacek...why didn't I think to ask if I could take his picture?? oh well...the other 88 pictures and my memories will have to do!!!

CA trip cont.

The first day of our trip we went to Disneyland...and since I have been there a few times now I didn't take my camera. It was a fun day. We found out about the single rider and we were able to go on all of the single rider rides twice except for Splash mountain. I only needed to go on that one once. But by going as single riders instead of saying that we had to sit by each other on the rides we probably saved ourselves a couple of hours of waiting in line. the longest line we waited in was the last time we went on Tower of Terror at the end of the night. (I think that may be my new favorite ride at CA Adventure).
On the second day of our trip we went to visit our friend Amber. She is AMAZING!!!! She has 5 kids who are 2 years old and younger. She has a set of quads and a baby that is 4 months old, so you can imagine how crazy her days and nights are right now. I am sure in a few years it will get easier right...ok so maybe not!!! Anyway these are a few of the pictures I took at her house...and I can see that the boys look different but I never could figure out which one was which one...so I won't even try to pretend like I know. I just know that all 5 of her kids are the cutest kids ever and you can tell that they are very lucky and blessed!!
The only girl of the quads so I think we know who runs the place!!
Then this is the 4 month old. It is so different for Amber to have a "normal" size baby after the quads!!

The women of the household.

Aren't they all just so sweet??!!!! I don't know how she does it, but she really must be superwoman!!!

CA trip

So we went on a trip last week to California. I think it will take me a few posts to get all of the pictures I want to share in here because I don't like uploading so many pictures all at once. So let's start nice and easy!!! This was the sunset we saw at Laguna Beach on Saturday night. I just love taking pictures and I know I take many pictures of the same thing...but the more pictures you take the more chance you are going to have of getting that amazing shot, right??!!

and sometimes I just like to put the camera at an angle to liven things up a little!! I know I am not a professional...and my camera doesn't take the best dark pictures...but I think they turned out pretty good if I do have to say so myself!!

and one more...just gorgeous!!!!

How sad is this...I guess that 3 of my nephews are now taller than me...I am the shortest adult in the family...and now even some of the kidlets are passing me up!!! I will probably cry about it sooner or later...right now I am just trying not to let it bother me...2 months ago when we were together Christopher was not taller than me...but yesterday I think he was taller than me!!!



then my mom wanted Steven to get into the picture cuz this shows all of the grandkids that are 12 and over. Our babies are growing up!!!

Mount Timpanogas

A few weeks ago, I talked a couple of my friends into going up to Mount Timpanogas and hiking up to the cave. I figured since I have lived in Salt Lake now for over 10 years it was probably about time to be getting myself up there. You know me, I had to take my camera and I took over 100 pictures...so here are just a few of them...I wouldn't want to bore you with too many of them...so these are just a few of my favorites. for some reason, I always like to take pictures of the wildflowers...they always draw my attention. I don't know if it is the beautiful colors or what but I love them!

Of course you have to take a picture of the sign so you know where you are at and where you are going or what you are going to be seeing. I actually didn't take this picture til we got done with the hike. I don't know why I didn't take it at the beginning...but I didn't...and I wanted this to be the first picture on the blog...but I still can't get that part of the blogging figured out... maybe someday I will finally become a pro...but I can tell you now it will definitely be a while!!

This is the only picture I have inside the cave that I am including in the blog. I actually uploaded another picture but somewhere along the way I guess I deleted it...so sorry this is all you get of the inside. I am actually quite impressed with my camera I wasn't really sure if it would work very well inside but it really did a good job.

I got several good shadow and shade pictures, and some good cloud pictures...if I do say so myself!!

This little guy came right up to us...he was not scared of us at all...he did kinda worry my friend...I guess she was afraid he was going to attack her. I always thought that the wildlife was more scared of us than we are of them...definitely not the case with this one!!

I am not really sure what my obsession with trees is, but I totally loved how the trees were growing right out of the rocks...so I had to take a few pictures of that and this was one of my favorites.

that little speck in the middle of the picture is the moon...we left REALLY early...but when we were getting done I was glad we had left that early...it was getting hot on our way down and I felt bad for the people we passed that were going up!!

I totally love this one. sometimes I am just amazed with my picture taking abilities...or probably more like the luck I have with getting some really great shots, because I really don't know what I am doing, I have never taken any classes or anything, but this is one really amazing and cool picture!!!

So I would totally recommend the Mt. Timpanogas hike to anyone who wants to do it. It is not a very long hike, but with us out of shape people just make sure to give yourself plenty of time and take it easy. And definitely stay away from the edge you could fall or lose a water bottle very easily!!!