crazy storm

So my parents had a little wind storm at their house Saturday night...you think it was windy where you were?? I don't think so!!! This barn was built in or around 1908...and today it is a thing of the past!!! My mom says that Amy was telling her some of the stuff we did in the barn... and my mom says that she had no idea that we did some of these things...like jumping from the loft down into piles of hay...that has definitely got to be my favorite! so the golf cart and tractor were so close...but were not hit by any of the flying debris...the garage was not so lucky...pieces of wood imbedded into the metal garage wall...broken lights inside the garage...

The end of an era...sad!!! also lots of limbs and branches broken all over the property...and a branch from this tree that was uprooted in the back of the house...broke a window over my parents kitchen table...mom was in the house at the time, heard the glass breaking, looked out the window from her bedroom and saw the tree going down...nobody was hurt at least nobody at their house was hurt...just a lot of fun cleanup in the days and weeks to come...

that is the darn branch that broke the window...

I was able to go up yesterday and see the damage...these pictures are from my mom's camera, we will see if I decide to add anymore pictures from the ones that I took...or if I will just let this do the job!!

Haircut

I know...it has been WAY too long since I have posted anything and you are all anxiously awaiting my blogs...so here is one and hopefully I will get myself going, I have a lot of things I can blog about that have happened in the last year or so that I haven't blogged about yet...and let's start with the haircut!
before and after pictures...so it was time to get my haircut...it has actually been time for a couple of months but I put it off a bit til it got a bit warmer...cold neck during the soccer games...not so fun!!! I know that is what the scarf is for and it will definitely be used tonight...anyway, I decided that I should take pictures so that everybody could see the differences since sometimes I wonder if people even notice when they don't say anything to me!!! so obviously the first 3 are the before pictures and the last 2 are the after pictures.

I had to take this one!!! I won't be able to do this hairstyle now for a while!!! but...

I absolutely love my new haircut!!! I think it is cute and I wonder why I always let my hair grow so long...and then I remember that I kinda like my hair long too...I guess I am just lazy... and so I don't get my hair cut as often as I should...but when I grow it as long as I do, I can send it off to locks for love and it might actually help to make a wig for somebody that loses their hair because of cancer or whatever...

I have an awesome hairstylist, thanks Stacie!!! you ROCK!!! if anybody wants to try her out let me know and I can get you her phone number.

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!!!