Updating 2009 ... Enjoy the Highlights!

... Ah! It has been way tooooo long since I have posted about my amazing family! (Thanks for the little reminder, Tami, that I need to get posting!)

Here are a few pictures and stories to highlight the rest of 2009 ...

We had such a fun summer! Got to be with cousins Elli and Delaney, go with friends and bbq up the canyon, face paintings at McDonalds... are a few pictured here. Hana's green hair is from her Crazy Hair day during the Rock Climbing camp she did! What a blast!

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As for Amy... I took a job teaching at the private school where Hana has attended pre-school and Kindergarten, Children's Christian School. I teach the Jr. High class, 6th-8th grade. I LOVE it! My kiddos get to be with me all day... Hana in 1st grade and Conrad in preschool. What a blessing!

This collage of pictures is titled "Od to Scott's Baby!" Scott's truck was rear-ended extremely hard while he was stopped at a red light during 4:00 traffic. Sadly, it totaled his truck. We took some goodbye pictures of it before we left it at the junk lot. Sad day for Scottie :(

For Conrad's 4th birthday I did a Mario Brothers theme... as you can see the RAD cake I made! :o) So to add to the jumping action of the Mario brothers, we rented a bounce house... and it happened to be on the ONLY day it rained in September! :( Lame! SO we had a house full of people... friends and family, and wet, freezing kids running in and out as they bounced in the bounce house. As you can see in the pic, the kids are soaked out there, but having a blast!



As always.... GO UTES! Scott and I had fun at all the home games, and took the kids to a couple! Our favorite time together was when Scott and I went to the Oregon game. It was a fun get-away for the two of us!


For Hana's 7th birthday... we had a Pet Shop theme... once again... as you can tell with my RAD cake! :0) Since Hana's birthday is in December we can't do outside parties, so we took a few of her friends to Hollywood Connection... an indoor place with rides and mini golf. They had a blast! Then on her actual birthday we had more family and friends over! Good times!

The next few pictures are highlights of Christmas! I loved being at Nana McKinnon's this year on Christmas Eve.... she is a lot of fun! ;) We were able to spend a little time at G&G Holt's too.

Christmas morning is the BEST with kids! I love it! The pic of Conrad is him, so quietly, sitting waiting patiencely to open his gifts at G&G Mack's house... I think he was shutting down from overload.... it was funny.

Aaaah. St. George family! Silly silly! Love you!

It was a GREAT year of 2009! Happy New Year ... 2010!

The month of May...eventful and very busy...

Boutiques

Injuries

Weddings

Surprises

Trips

Birthdays

Mother's Day

Memorial Day

Here are the highlights . . .

May 1st and 2nd, I had the opportunity to set up a table at Tom and Lucy's ArtShoppe Mother's Day Boutique and sell some baked items from Ar Mel's, my bakery. It was fun! I sold out of everything, made many people smile and nod as they savored the samples, and made some fun friends!

The following week Hana jammed her thumb at school, while playing. She had a hard time writing for a few days. You can see how she has a hard time straightening her right thumb. :) Sweetie!

May 7th - 9th: Scott (and my mom) surprised me with a belated, yet strategically planned, birthday present. Scott secretly planned a trip to San Francisco, CA. for the weekend. However, because I did not know about all of this, and to make everything even more exciting, I had planned to make my cousin's wedding cake for her Utah reception. When Scott found this out, he had to decide how to still keep the trip a secret, and let me know that I couldn't do the wedding cake. Well . . . long story short, Scott hinted enuf that my weekend was taken, beginning with a Friday night date. So planets aligned that Friday, May 8th and I was still able to make the cake and get it delivered to the reception with the help of my wonderful Grandma Holt, make and deliver a Mother's Day cookie cake to a bakery customer, and get home in time for our date at 6:00pm. So as I drove home, after the deliveries, around 5:30pm I was talking to my mom on the phone and telling her how everything just fell into place with the wedding cake, and whatever Scott's surprise was. She chatted and laughed with me, we hung up, a few minutes later I pulled in the drive way, and as I got out of the car, my mom and my bro's and sis pulled in behind me! WHAT!? Scott came walking out the front door and said, "Well, do you want me to tell you where we're going or just what you should pack?"

What a surprise! My mom had been driving up and was in the SL Valley when I was talking to her about the wedding cake, etc. She had come up to watch our kiddos while Scott took me on the surprise trip to San Fran! What a blast! I think I was still in shock most of the trip. It was so fun!!!

Cousin Virginia's wedding cake (reception 2)

Cookie Cake

Below are a few pictures of the FUN we had in San Fran!!! It worked out perfect to be a GREAT Mother's Day weekend as well!!!

We also got to celebrate Scott's mom's birthday on May 17th! Happy 60th Karen!!!


Next... I got a phone call at work one Thursday evening. Scott was on the other end, with crying in the back ground, he reported that Conrad fell off the tent trailer when he and Hana were playing on it (off limits) and fell on his face and is not moving his arm so they were headed to Insta Care. So, I left work and met them at Insta Care. Poor little Conrad, as you can tell from the pictures, had a bloody, swollen nose, really fat lip, and a little bit of a scare. His arm was fine, no broken bones, and no stitches needed.


It was really sweet... After we left Insta Care, Hana and Scott went to get popsicles and Conrad and I went home. As we went in the house Conrad said with his 3-year-old, fat-lip voice, "I think its best if I go take a rest now, in my bed." Also, when I was taking the pictures, on his own w/o any suggestion, he put his fingers by his mouth and lifted his lip a little so I could take a better picture of his lip. Cutie!




Finally, Memorial Day weekend - we headed to St. George! It was the first time we had been back down there since Christmas! It was fun to see Mom's new house and be with my fam. (pictures to come).

Amy's big 30th Birthday Bash ... Decade Do-Over!!!

I turned 30 this year!!! I decided that this is an age I am old enough and responsible enough to have a big BASH!!! Becky helped me think of the theme and we had a blast with some of my best friends and my crazy family!!!

Brad and Kendall got me a WONDERFUL cake!!! It meant so much to me!!! I loved it!!! There were SO many candles!!! :)

I didn't get pictures of everyone's but we had some fabulous costumes --- from so many different decades!!!! What a blast! Every gave great individual presentations as I judged the costumes! haha! I so loved the crazy, fun spirit of the group and the whole night! We had some great prizes for the costume contest winners!!! Becky and Michael tied for 1st place - however everyone's were SO unique and SO cool and individual that there really wasn't a BEST one because they were all SOOOO Great!!! It was just a lot of great fun!!!

The games were hilarious!!! Becks did a great job with them (thanks Becks)! Everyone had such a blast and some great laughs!!! We played a fun game the revealed some pretty hilarious things about people! I laugh just thinking about it!!!! haha

Thanks for making my break-in to my 30th year so memorable!!! Love you all!!! (And for those who couldn't come -- I missed you) Thanks for your continually love and friendship!!!