Ben and Jackson turn 11!!

So Ben and Jackson wanted a friend party for their birthday and chose the Krista Macauliffe Space Simulator. What a great time we all had!!! Do ya think we could at least stop long enough for a picture?!????!!!!
Here's the crew!!
We had to get our mission plans and get debriefed on our orders


And we're ready to go into the Simulator
Ben, our fearless Engineer! Morgan.. our Operations Officer
Captain Jackson
Our birthday boy!!

DJ, our fabulous 1st Officer
Koby, the Communications Specialist
Mitch, was the Pilot
Jacob, left, was our Ex Officer.... Captain Jack.... and DJ on the right

What a good lookin' crew!!

New moon ~ Finally!

The 5th grade Wax Museum

Martha (Becca Hansen) and George Washington (Ben)
(yes, it's the most embarrassing thing to have to stand next to each other ewwwwww!)
Albert Einstein (Jackson) The mustache had faded by this point
Sacajawea (Kenya Rodriguez) (Love her!)

George Washington~ Ben Stewart

Blue and Gold CubScout Banquet

Ben and Jackson finally got their "Arrow of Light" award. I got the mother's pin, but, Sam did all the work!!

I love my kids.

We have a great group that pulls off pack night every month.

We all help get the place rockin'!

The Science Fair

Ah, yes, another science fair under our belts.
Ben chose to do his project of the different temp of colors, and,
Jackson chose to do his on ... what happens when you pour salt and Pepsi in a bowl....

Huntsman Cancer Radio-a-Thon 2009

"Shot Gun Jackson" from K-Bull 93.3 about to talk to Mr. John Huntsman for the Radio-A-Thon

Me and Jaymie manin' the phone lines while good people called in their pledges.

Photo op! (Our new friends Jose and Jon behind us)

Jaymie and Connie. Truly, the girl can make a friend anywhere we go!

Jaymie wanted a friend to go with her to the South Town Mall and I'm so glad she chose me! We had a great time raising money for Cancer research.

Let's go COUGARS!

Oh say can you see~

DJ and his second mom, Jaymie.

Ok, so Sam's cousin is the head coach for the BYU Women's Basketball team and we go support to fam ..... and the team! It's a great time to be had!

Lets go to the Zoo

The weather was perfect, the kids were pumped, gas prices are down, so... let's go to the Zoo.

We went with Behka White and her cute kids.
It was a great day.

It's Hedgehog Day.

My friend that I taught with for a couple years moved to Kindergarten and she still does her Jan Brett unit with the Hedgehog....
So, once a year I borrow the neighbors critter and it goes on a field trip to school. It really is a fun thing!

So, for New Year's Eve we went to Jaymie and Michael's home with some other friends, it was a great night with lots of food and good conversation.
So, we lost at every game, well, I did, but I'm glad we went, because.....

It is a known fact that I do laugh at others misfortunes,








and when Michael had Jocie on his shoulders and she puked down his hair, shirt, glasses, and himself, it was good. Making memories my friend! Making memories!

Piano piano piano

The boys' cute piano teacher, Daphne, had them play at a senior

center during the Christmas break with all their stringed instrument students too. It was a good experience for them. Mom did alright too.

Bar BQ Anyone?

Ok, so, Sam wants a steak for dinner. It's all good. Until I realize that he got the SNOW shovel and cleaned off a patch, got the grill going, and cooked up a good steak.

I did grab the camera and catch the FLAMES!!!

It's about 10 degree's outside with

3 feet of snow.

But, the sad thing is, well, maybe not so sad, is that I can't enjoy steak any where else because Sam cooks it perfect for me. I love the man and his cooking!