steele 'aiga (family)

The END

2009-06-02T07:56:00.000-07:00

I regret to inform you, there will be no more Sam and Sara so there will be no more Steele blog. Thanks for all your prayers and such, but, I need to close down this blog and end this chapter in my life. I might set up my own blog... but until further notice, this one is done.

SARA

BABY

2009-05-13T15:30:00.001-07:00

so... My sister FINALLY had her baby. And since it was a surprise, we were really excited to get down there, and see what it was. It was a boy! Chandler Linden Newman. He was born on Monday, at 5:51 pm, and was 9 lb's and 11 oz, and 22 1/2 inches long. BIG BOY!! And he was 11 days early... So we are so glad he is here. Mom and baby, are doing GREAT. If you want to see pictures, click HERE

Easter

2009-04-14T11:21:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a nice Easter, and I hope that during all the festivies you remembered the true meaning of Easter. I am so thankful for Easter and all it means in my life.

For Easter this year, it was actually kinda quiet. My parents had my nieces and nephews over on friday night for their Easter hunt... and then on Sunday my sister and her kids came over, and we had Peach Pancakes... My favorite! And we played outside and threw a football around. It was nice and just very relaxing. I hope everyone else had a nice Easter!

New Headers I made!

2009-04-04T15:31:00.000-07:00

This is for my ladies!

And time to retire this one!

California

2009-04-04T11:15:00.000-07:00

So we took a girls trip to California to see my paternal Grandmother, who has a condo down there for the winter. And it was in the 75-85 degree range. It was so nice. While we were there, there was a blizzard here. We slept in, layed by the pool for hours, ate whenever we were hungry, didnt answer to anyone, and went to the street fair. We all stayed at my Grandma's condo, which is in a retirement community. So it was quiet, and no kids. It was so much fun. I got a nice starter tan to start off my summer. It was not very fun to come back to a blizzard here. Anyway, here is some pictures
Me, my mom, Rachel, my sister in law Katie and my sister in law Angie all went.

Grandma, Rachel, Me, and Katie

Grandma, Katie and Rachel in the pool

Look at that clear sky!

At the street fair was this cool guitar purse! no I didnt buy it!

Katie and Angie

My new sunglasses!

Sara and Angie, these are golf hats with fake hair on top lol!!!

Layin out by the pool. Angie and Sara

Sara and Rachel at PF Changs for dinner

Sara and Angie with Rachel tryin to be in the picture!

Rachel and Katie... both are pregnant and ate all the food... see pic below

Katie and the empty plates!

Rachel REALLY wants Katies Town dress... she even slept talked about it! lol

Rachel, Katie, and Angie, waiting for lunch... and notice my awesome photography with water comin out of Rachel's head! lol. I didnt even plan that!

Sara and Angie after lunch sittin in the sun!

An old man walked by and said let me take your picture, cuz I was tryin to do it myself. And I said ok. He was like, this is how I get all my camera's! He was way old , and it was kinda funny..

That was our trip. And It was so much fun. I didnt want to come home, I could have stayed there another week. I hate our weather here! But thanks Grandma for letting us come and crash at your place. It was fun, and we are making this a yearly thing!

Family Birthday Party

2009-04-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

We had a family birthday party for me and Sam. We went to Murray Park and went swimming, then came back to get in the hot tub, and had pizza and cupcakes. That was with my family, and then on Sunday we had a party with Sam's family. We played games, and had my favorite red velvet cake! Here is some picutres... photo's taken by my talented husband Sammy! Love you boo!

Taylor and Uncle Richie

ME!

Some of the Fam

Taylor and his daddy about to get spilled on

ME in the slide

My 5 year old niece Abi is giving me a piggy back ride, and my 5 year old niece Kaylee is giving Beka (17) a piggy back ride!

ME...

ME and Sam blowin out our candles (with Abi and Kaylee)

Now for our party with his family....
US

My cute doggie Toa

It was a fun birthday! Thank you friends and family for spoiling us! WE love you

Happy Birthday!!!

2009-03-21T12:48:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to me today. I am 25. Wow, I feel old. And in 6 day's, it will be Sammy's Birthday! Here are some pictures of our together party last night with my friends, and tonight we're having a swimming party with my family so more pictures to come of that.
I just want to say, I have the best group of friends, we get along fabulously and have so much fun together, and since we've all gotten a little older, its kinda hard to hang out as much as we would like, but we are always able to pick up right where we left off. I love you Tonga's and Tiatia's, and Justin Lord! We had so much fun last night doing friend therapy, and it was so fun to be with great friends for my birthday!
This birthday party was at PF Changs in Orem, and it was for me, Sam, Melissa Tonga, And Vao Tiatia. Since our birthday's are about 2 weeks apart from eachother. It was so much fun

Sammy and Sara waiting at the restuarant for everyone to show up. Everyone was on polynesian time!

Birthday Girl

Sammy...he was looking right into the sun

Justin

Vao and Shauna Tiatia

Sila and Melissa Tonga

The birthday couple

The whole gang

Alaska

2009-03-15T14:29:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, Sammy travels for his job. I can't get into it on here, but if you were wondering what he does, you'll have to email or something. Anyway. so sometimes I get to go with him, and we went to Alaska. We left on Friday the 13th and came home today, Sunday the 15th. Granted we left here on Friday at 9 pm, arrived in Alaska on Saturday morning, at 12 am. (which was 2 our time). We went and found our hotel and slept in late. We had all day to kinda walk around town, but Sammy had been sick the last couple of days, and so we just went out for breakfast, and came back and hung around the hotel and took a nap. Then we woke up and went for dinner ish, and after that he was feeling a bit better, and we decided to see where the ocean was. We kinda didnt really know where Anchorage Alaska was, but we found out it was on a penninsula. A really nice guy at Subway kinda pointed us in the direction of the water. Mind you, it was probably 24 degree's all day, plus a blowing wind. But we kinda ended up CLOSE enough to the water, that i got out and ran as far as I could with out being too cold to run back to the car, and I snapped a picture. I ran back, and Sammy wanted a picture of the car we were driving and the roads, uh, they dont plow ALL the roads out there. And when they DO plow, they just kinda do it in the lanes. The dont plow the WHOLE road. That was interesting. So it was like ice, and snow and packed snow, that we were driving on. It was kinda scary. After the park, we decided to see what else there was to see in Anchorage. After a while we ended up downtown, and we wanted to see the mall, it was huge, it had 5 stories, but for some reason, they were closing it for the night. It was only 8 pm people!!! So we hurried and got some pic's inside the mall, and since it is so cold there, they have walkway's down town. That are above the ground and you can kinda get around downtown that way.So we took some pictures, and then we had to drive back to our hotel and get our stuff and leave.On our flight back to SLC, we REALLY did see the northern lights. The one we saw was faint and green. It was soo cool. So then our flight left on sat night/sun morning, i think our flight left at 1 am (so that would be 3 am utah time) and we flew thru the night, and we got in about 730 am. Sammy and I only slept about 2 hours on the flight. Bein in first class they keep asking what you want to drink, and they bring you sandwhich, and all sorts of fun stuff, that you want to be up for. Anyway. We're back and here is some pictures.

Sammy's Surprise

2009-03-15T14:15:00.001-07:00

So, I came home from my trip to Arziona on thrusday, and I came home pretty late. And I walk in the door, and I am looking everywhere for Sammy. I am yelling his name, and I can't figure out where he is. Then.... I see him.... Coming in thru the door from outside, and what do my wondering eyes behold.... THIS!!!

The best part of the whole thing, is, it covered his HIDEOUS tattoo that he had before. I love that part. But now, I get to deal with a HUGE arm tattoo. I was so mad he did that while I was gone. I was so surprised and upset about it, that I cried. I cried for about 20 min. I hated it. I was so mad, I wanted to go back to Arizona! I hope it grows on me.

His tattoo has the south carolina flag and the samoan flag, and then some tribal that his best friend Val (his art work to the right) drew up for him. I just wish it wasnt a sleeve. We had talked about him covering up his first tattoo mistake, but I didnt know it would be a sleeve. I thought it would be a shouulder piece. But wow, needless to say, I was shocked!

I'm Back!!!

2009-03-13T14:32:00.000-07:00

My mom, me and my mom's friend Sharon all drove to Arizona. We left on Sunday night about 7 and we drove part way to Kanab.

Monday, we slept in and ate some breakfast, and left about 10 am and drove the rest of the way to Mesa. We dropped of Sharon at her daughters place, then we drove on to our neighborhood. We first drove past Kino where I used to have my swim meets. It has TOTALLY changed. Then we went to our old neighborhood, and drove passed our old house. It basically looks the same, and that was great to see. Then we drove over to our long time friends the Albrights. Their daughter has been my best friend from growing up. And we talked and caught up some, then we went to dinner at Cafe Rio. After, we went to see their oldest daughter Lynessa. She looks exactly like my cousin, but it was great to see her and her kids. She has 5 now! WOW. She used to babysit me when I was younger, and so it was different to see us both so grown up. We visited for a while, and then we drove over to my Best Friends house, Lindsey. I was going to be staying at her house until wed night. So we went in and looked around her house, and then we visited for a while, and then they left, and Lindsey and I sat up and talked for a while.

Tuesday
We woke up and she went to the gym, so I slept in a bit, and then I ate some breakfast and watched some TV. Then I showered and we decided to go to the mall when she got back. We left about 1230 to go to the mall, and it was Champ's nap time. So he was kinda grumpy. But we shopped a bit and had some lunch in the mall, and tried to shop more, but he was grumpy so we went home and put him down. But that didnt last long, he pooped and was up in 45 min! So then she started to make some dinner, and I showed her some of my friends on Facebook, and she showed me some of hers, and we ate. After, we decided that we wanted to have a movie night. So we rented a movie, Nick and Norah's infinate playlist, which was so dumb, we couldnt even get into it! lol!

Wednesday
Woke up and she went to the gym again, and I facebooked a little and showered and watched some TV till she got home. And we decided to have lunch at home and have Champ take his nap AT nap time so he wouldnt be so grumpy! So we just watched some TV and did some gossiping. When Champ woke up we decided to grab a costco hot dog, and head over to her parents house where my mom was staying. Which was so sad, because I had to pack and that meant I was leaving... this was our last day together of my short trip! So we headed over, and hung in the front yard, and I said, "Lets go visit Staci!" she was our other great friend growing up! So we put Champ in the wagon and headed around the block. I think we totally surprised her! But it was so great to see her, and her cute little family. We walked back, and got ready to go out to dinner. We went to Tia Rosa's which is a Mexican Restaurant that Lindsey's aunt owns. It was great food! And then we had to say our goodbyes. Lindsey was going home, and I was going to stay with my mom at my grandma Donna's house. Because we were going to leave pretty early, and Lindsey lives about 30 min away. So I decided instead of making her drive really early in the morning, I would just stay with my mom that night. So on our way home from the restaurant we stopped by our other old house, we just lived there for about 10 months, before we moved to Utah. Then we went to Grandma Donna's house and went to bed.

Thursday
Woke up and showered, and I was taking my luggage outside, and I hear what I think to be poice yelling in a mega phone, come out with your hands up, and neighbors please stay in your house. I was yelling for my mom to come listen. So we pack up and leave, and I am like mom, lets find out where we hear that. And we went out on the main road, and there was swat and police surrounding this house with BIG guns and 3 people handcuffed on the ground. It was kinda cool. We went to pick up Sharon at her daughters and we were on the road about 930 am, and we arrived home at 930 pm. So I think we made great time, with just a few stops for lunch and dinner. And of course a stop at Lake Powell.

That was our vacation, and it was so nice to be away from the snow here in UTAH. Thank you Lindsey for letting me stay at your house. That was fun to see you, and I will continue to work on getting Sam to move down there. Love you!

Arizona!!!

2009-03-07T15:08:00.000-08:00

Thats right folks. I am finally going on vacation! I can't wait. I am going with my mom and we are going to visit some of our very best friends the Albrights (or Naegle's since my best friend got married) And I can't wait. I haven't been to Arizona for a vacation in about 10 years. I saw my best friend Lindsey about a year ago in may, and that was only for about 4 hours. But now I will be there for about 4 days. I will post pictures when I get back. We leave tomorrow evening. And drive half way, and then arrive on Monday. I am so excited.... But I will miss my hubby. He has been gone travelling since last tuesday, today is his first day home since tuesday, and now I will be leaving. Thats ok tho, cuz distance makes the heart grow fonder. (is that it??) I will also miss my cute doggie Toa. He's had an ear infection for the past week, I think that is my fault. I took him out for a run, and then I hosed him off in our bath/shower, and I may have sprayed the water in his ear, and the poor guy had in infection for like a month before we even figured out why he was so itchy on his head! Poor dog. Its okay, we've gotten him all straighted out.

I can't really think of anything else thats new thats going on at our house. Sam has a sleep test on March 16th because he has really I mean REALLY bad sleep apnea! And he will have to sleep with a machine all night on his face forcing oxygen into his nose all night, so he will breathe enought at night. So we are kinda anxious about that. More info coming when we do that test. Other then that, I will post pictures of my trip to AZ!

MaRcH

2009-03-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Today is the begining of march! I am so excited, it is my birthday, my husbands birthday, my dog's birthday, and best of all, its SPRING!!! That to me means that no more cold weather, (I mean EXTREMELY cold weather) and that it is almost summer, my VERY favorite season. But spring is beautiful, the flowers come out, and you can almost roll down your windows with out getting frozen. Also, at the end of the month we are going to California for a small vacation. I think all together March will be a GrEaT month! so Happy March everyone!

Draper Temple Open House

2009-02-26T17:57:00.000-08:00

So my Sam and I and my family went to the open house for the new draper temple. It was so much fun. We went and met at a church, and my nephew Taylor was runnin all over the place. But he was still cute. And then we went and got on a bus which chartered us to the temple. It was so neat to be there. It was cool to see all the different temples and how they are layed out and I love the stain glass! In the bride room, (ya know, where the brides get ready to go get married) and it was beautiful. The light fixtures were silver with crystal danglers. It was beautiful. Afterward we went to a chapel for refreshments. Then after that, we went for burgers. It was a fun night out. And the new temple will be beautiful. We can't wait for the Oquirrah Hill's temple to open, because my sister in law katie, her father is a glass cutter, and he cut all the glass, stained and otherwise for that temple. He does temples all over the world, even some in the Salt Lake temple. But if you haven't had a chance to go to the Draper, you really should go.

Proud of you

2009-02-20T11:23:00.000-08:00

So I nanny my niece and nephew quite often. And I had them yesterday. Kaylee (she's 5) has dance on thursday's. While she is at dance I usually take Taylor to the park. And we usually go to the same one, and he always looks longingly at this slide that is soo tall, its the tallest one on that play set. And he never goes on it. He says its too scary. So I dont know what happened, but he was like, sara, I'm doing the big boy slide. And he gets in and goes down. He was so proud of himself. And we were in the car going back to get Kaylee from dance, and I said to him, "Taylor, I am so proud of you for going down the big boy slide. You were so brave!" And he said, "Thanks Sara, I am really proud of you too."
I dont know what I did that made him so proud. But I though tthat was so funny, and so dang cute! What a fun job I have.

Earlier when we were at the park, he found this little boy, and he just saw him from across the way, and he said "Sara, there's my friend!" And he runs over there, I know he has never seen that lil boy before. But Taylor just loves friends. And they were following eachother around, and it was so cute. They kept calling each other friend. And then Taylor was just standin there, and all the sudden his eye's start watering, and I am like what are you doin, he says," My poopin". I started laughing so hard. And then his lil friend came over, and Taylor asked him "do you have poops too?" his lil friend said, "no, I didnt poop." I was laughing so hard.

I love listening to litte kids. They have the cutest little conversations. you can learn so much from them about giving compliments, they think everyone is beautiful and funny. Oh, to be a child again.

Valentines Day

2009-02-15T13:22:00.000-08:00

I think we had a really great time this year. Since we dont have any kids, we could kinda do what we wanted. So I got Sam a massage for friday night, then after we went to PF Changs. That was my first time there, and boy was it delicious! After, we just came home and watched a movie from Red Box. On Saturday we woke up and my mom came down stairs and she brought in this huge vase full of flowers. Take a look...

She stressed to me that they werent from her. So I read the card, and they were from my sweet husband! What a sweet heart. Yes, ladies and gentlemen this is 12 pink roses and 12 star gazer lilies! my two favorite flowers!! I love you honey! We went to go see my little brother kick some butt at his basketball game. And then I made waffles (for the first time mind you) for Sam. I wanted to cook something for him. They turned out really good! I was so excited. After that, we just cleaned the house. Then we went to get a small dinner at Training Table, we didnt want to spend much because we went out to PF Changs. Then we went to a dollar movie. It was the best date. Every one and there grandma went to the dollar movies that night too. Good thing we got in line about 25 min early!! We went to see 7 pounds with Will Smith. If you havent seen that movie yet, I think you really should. It was so touching and a great show!
And That was our Valentines Day. We spread it out for like two days. Oh PS if you live in Utah County, or you dont mind driving there, we have this friend that seriously is the BEST at doing massages! so let me know if you want her number. She does it out of her parents house, and it is just there in American Fork. And I would recommend her to anyone.
I hope that everyone else had a great Valentines Day! Love you all!!!

SUpeRBowL SuNdAy!!!

2009-02-04T13:44:00.000-08:00

If you know my husband very well, you know that Sam lives for football. Whether he is playing, or college games, or NFL, or a pick up game in the rain. ALL OF IT. He can talk about it forever. So of course, superbowl sunday is like the best day ever for him. Its a party all for football! So I had gone shopping for so much food to make. There was foot-long sandwhiches, there were chicken tenders, there was bean dip and drinks. Plus a lot more. Just look below. Sam is usually a Steeler's fan, (also they are kinda our name sake) and he has loved them forever. And I am originally from Mesa Arizona, and so I had to go for the Cardinals. And sam actually decided to go for the underdogs. He mostly just hoped for a REALLY good game. Which you all can agree, it was a very good game. Anyway, We are sad the Cards lost, but really happy the Steeler's won! Here is some pictures.
Spencer, Richie and Angie

Beka and Jeff with Sam in the background

Sam watching REALLY intently

Food!

Our puppy Toa

Bob MarLey's BiRthDAy!!!

2009-02-04T12:45:00.000-08:00

So this weekend it Bob Marley's birthday. And if you know anything about us, we love Bob Marley. He was born on Feb 6th, and that would be this friday. He passed away on May 11th, of cancer. His last words were to his son Ziggy, and they were "Money can't buy life!" I think that is so true. One thing that he said, that I think is so true, becuase it will be my children's life, "I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."
He was born to a white father and a black mother. And my children will be born to a white mother and a brown father, and I have been wondering what my children will think about that. And so that was good to hear Bob's stand on things.
Some of our friends are "playing tribute" to him this friday at a club in park city, called Harry O's. on Friday Feb 6th. The band is Natural Root's. All is welcome to come at hear Reggae music and celebrate Bob Marley's life.

To hear some of the songs, just go to there myspace page. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54936874

What we've been up to!

2009-01-26T20:51:00.001-08:00

We have been kinda busy around here. Sam was working up at sundance, and he was able to meet a few stars! That was pretty cool, but there wasnt that many up there this year. Alot of them were boycotting utah because of our stand on prop 8. So that was pretty sad, and quite a few were up at Obama's inaguration, and inaguration parties! So Sam was working nights, he worked from 5 pm until 6 or 630 am, and then he would sleep from 7 ish till 230. Then he would grab a bit to eat and get ready for the day up at sundance. So I saw him for probably 1 1/2 hours a day, then he'd leave about 4 to drive up there. So I didn't get to see my husband very much. And then since he worked so much, his immune system got so bad, he got the flu! And he was so sick! He still isnt very well! So that is what we have been up to!

Hilarious

2009-01-19T12:59:00.000-08:00

So my last post was so cute it made you cry. Here is some that are so hilarious you'll laugh till you cry!

They are the same person. I dont know why he wants to dress up as a girl to do these funny routines. He is hilarious! His name is Paul Hunt

This is going to make you cry

2009-01-15T18:12:00.000-08:00

http://www.connietalbot.com/

just watch these. It is seriuosly amazing. I love her little voice. She makes me cry!

Pictures

2009-01-13T19:02:00.000-08:00

Here is some of the pictures I promised from the Utah football game in Lousiana

The looooooong drive

Dinner before the game

Kick off

Celebrating one of the touchdown's

Just some pictures, I dont know the order, here they are tho

This is in the 4th quarter, when the Bama fans just knew they werent going to win, so they left.

Bourbon street after the game

The 27 hour drive home. It was a very long drive

When they got home, this is when the whole ordeal is over

K so I can't get sam to blog about the trip, So if you want to see the account of everything, just look here It is from the words of my brother in law Jeff who drove with Sam.

Facebook

2009-01-13T18:46:00.000-08:00

Can I just say how much I love facebook. I have been able to re-connect with some of my friends from WAAAAY back. I have reconnected with friends from north carolina, Florida, and my BFF from Arizona! It is so cool. If you are not on facebook, well, you should be!

GO UTES!!

2009-01-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

27 HOURS DRIVING

8 SACK'S

3 TOUCHDOWNS IN THE FIRST 6 MIN

3 INTERCEPTIONS

GOING TO SEE THE UTES WIN THE TITLE

PRICELESS

*PICTURES OF SAM AT THE GAME COMING SOON

Hello 2009

2009-01-02T12:34:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Here's a little survey about my 2008...

Kissed someone new?
Nope. I only kiss Sam (and sometimes my nephews and nieces)

Done something you've regretted?
Hmmm...yea didn't pay my car off

Lost someone?
yes, 3 people actually. ( my very good childhood friend heather, my neighbor Lindsey, And my dear sweet grandmother)

Tripped over a coffee table?
Uh, hello. you know me, of course i did. Prolly more then once too

Came close to losing your life?
No, but I felt like I was going to when I fell off the cliff in lake powell and broke my ankle!!

Read a great book?
I read the Twilight series, and a series called fishers of men (its an LDS series)

Grow apart from anyone?
Yes...sadly

Did you change at all this year?
Yes, I became a smother, and got fatter, lost some of the weight and now here i am!

Did you get your hair cut?
YES! And I love it, and wish it wouldnt grow so fast!

Were you in school?
No-

Did you get good grades?
N/A

Did you have a job?
Yea!

Did you own a car?
Well, I don't own a car, but I have one that I make payments on. :)

Did you move at all?
No!

Would you change anything about yourself now?
UM, YES! I'm gonna work on that in 2009 baby!

Do you think 2009 will top 2008?
I know it will!

Any big plans for 2009?
shhhh, not telling

What did you love the most about 2008?
Settling in with my new little family

What did you not like about 2008?
The Economy, and the gas prices!

On that note! Happy New year. So far this new years has been great. Sam got to drive for 27 hours over to Lousiana for the Sugar bowl, and watched them totally kill Alabama.

Goals accomplished/dreams acheived.
~If you know who we are, then you know the BIG thing that happened to us.
~We got to meet and start being with Omini. That has been fun and challenging all at the same time!
~read 50 (+) books cover to cover!
~went to all the home Utah Utes football games! (and sometimes ended up on the field!!)

Some goals and dreams I would like to try to accomplish this next year
~Read the book of mormon cover to cover with my husband
~Attend the Utah temples once a month
~ read 50 more books
~and anything else I deem possible!

Merry Christmas to all.... And to all a Goodnight!!!

2008-12-27T11:36:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We sure did. We got spoiled. And pictures to come, here is a quick run down of the past week,

Tuesday we had my grandmothers funeral, and if you remember, it was a blizzard, snow was coming in sideways! It was freezing. I did take some pictures, but maybe they are too personal to put on here. The funeral was nice, I actually said the obituary and life sketch! Uhh for those of you who don't know, I NEVER EVER speek in church. So that was a HUGE accomplishment for me! And I think I did rather well!!! We also sand Silent Night, that song will never be the same, and we also sang Away in a Manger. We also did a DI run... read why below

Wednesday Christmas eve!! This day we kinda woke up exhausted from our week with Grandma. But we were having a huge family party tonight, so I was running all the errands for my mom for food and stuff. And getting some last min. gifts, because I hadn't even thought about gifts since last wednesday... and our dinner started at 6. (Last year my sister -in-law Angie decided to come in a "Christmas Sweater 80's style" so we all decided to pick up on it this year. We all got into our sweaters and vests and had a very nice Christmas Sweater Christmas Eve dinner! It is now a tradition.

After dinner, Santa came. He comes every year, and brings everyone a gift. We all take a turn sitting on his lap

and after that usually everyone with kids go home, and those of us with out kids, stay and play games into the wee hours of the night. Sam got Monopoly and we decided to play that all night, when I say all night, I am not joking. He and my brother Spencer went to bed at 4 AM!!!

Thursday CHRISTMAS!!!! We woke up, and drove down for breakfast at the Steele's. Yes, we drove in the blizzard. What should have been a 20 min drive, was now an hour and a half, and we ended up late.... I got stuck TWICE!! It was so scary, they didnt end up plowing the roads until about 130, so we were getting more and more snow on the roads. It was so scary to drive in. I hate driving in snow. We got a great gift from the Steele's.... Food storage, which we will need to start adding to. Oh, on the way to the Steele's Sam stopped at grabbed Omini so he could spend some Christmas with us as well. And we had Omelet's for breakfast, played some games, then decided we better head home, because it was still majorly snowing, and we didnt want to get stuck in another HUGE snow storm. So we got home around 4 which is opening gift time at my parents. So we all gathered in the living room, around the Tree and we take turns opening gifts in our stockings... I got great lotion and shower stuff, and then we open our other gifts. Sam and I were so lucky, my parents got us our VERY OWN COMPUTER!!! So Sam has been setting that up the last two days!! We all got an outfit from my grandma's... Thank you! Then after opening gifts we eat our traditional peach pancakes! They were delicious. While we were all playing with our new games and gifts and toys, it started to snow, and before we knew it, My brother Scot and family got snowed in! They live about 30 min up north, and it was a blizzard. So they slept over, and we had fun and watched a movie!

Friday We woke up, and there was so much snow, that we decided to go sledding. I didn't go, I just wanted to relax. Then they came back, and we decided to go see a movie. After the movie, it was time for Sam and Omi to go to the Jazz game that I got them tickets to go to. That game was a lot of fun, and Sam finished setting up our computer!

Whew, what a week! Today is Saturday, and we are just going to be taking it easy today, and maybe play some of our new games.

I hope everyone had a very nice and safe Christmas. I hope we all thought a little bit about what Christmas really was, and remember the special gift we all got soo long ago.

Merry Christmas to all..... and to all a goodnight!

Catching up on December

2008-12-20T22:56:00.000-08:00

Here is some pictures of things we did in December. We went to the Live Nativity down in Alpine. It is a really cool experience.

Abi and Kaylee

Taylor and Jack (Jack is in the black ski mask)

Sam and me on the Sleigh ride over to the place they put on the whole Nativity

Mom and Dad on the hay ride as well....

So at the live nativity, they have camel's, and they had "roman's" riding around on horse back, looking for Baby Jesus. They have a place in a barn where you go around and look at stuff they used to do back then, how they made shepherd crook's, they made clay pots, they had weaving baskets, they had a girl weaving a blanket, they also made bread that was in a little oven... that is where sam and I got our picture taken

And some animals

And in another barn, they had Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. With carolers singing out side the barn door. It was so magical and beautiful. All the kids ACTUALLY thought it was baby Jesus, it was so great to see their face.

Then we took our picture outside the barn

Then we rode a horse trailer on the way back to our cars, and here is some pictures of that...

HAHAHA Sam and Scot are big nerds!

We also went to Temple square to look at lights
Taylor HATES getting his pic taken!!

All the grandbabies

Everyone had to take their picture wearing this hat... Its Richie's from the mission

US!!

All Because Two People Fell In Love.....

Passing away

2008-12-18T20:19:00.000-08:00

Today has been a sad day for me and my family. This afternoon at 3 my grandma (who has lived with us for 4 years this passed thanksgiving) passed away. It was very sad, yet happy. Now she is no longer suffering and she is with her husband that she lost a year and a half ago. She had demensia, and was pretty much bedridden for the last year. Since I live in my parents basement, I have had to opportunity to take care of her, when my mom needs a night out. I have gotten really close to my grandma with her living here. Well, her and my grandpa, its sad they are both gone now. But they are so happy where they are, and we are happy they are there. We just miss them while we are here, but we will all be together again soon.

Festival of Tree's

2008-12-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

So yesterday (friday) me, my mom, my sister rachel, and my niece Kaylee went to see the festival of tree's. I love going to see all the tree's, and the different kinds that people make up. There is always some beautiful tree's, and it is just so fun to be there. This year, they even had a few Twilight tree's! Lol! So of course I had to take some pictures of it. And there was even ginger bread houses, and of course in Utah, someone had to do the temple, and then there was also twilight houses. And a huge castle, take a look!

This one is made out of glass!

Cute Gingerbread tree...

Twilight Tree 1... sorry kinda blurry, I was trying to snap a pic in a hurry before someone got in my way, cuz it was so crowded. Wait it is every year!

This is the Cullen Christmas tree, this one acutally made it in the news here! lol
sorry, its blury too, people were pushing to see this tree...

That's all the tree's I took, and here are some pic's of the Gingerbread houses...

This is supposed to be a twilight house...

Take a look at this huge castle!!

This is one I took for sam, his idea of Christmas!

The SLC temple!

This one is supposed to be downtown NYC Times square, notice the twilight poster on the side of that building!! LOL

family pictures part 2

2008-12-02T10:36:00.001-08:00

These are our "stevens" family pictures. The ones are of my lil Steele family, and the other one is of me and my siblings. I had one of my whole family, but it was too big of a file to put on here.

Thanksgiving, and Vegas

2008-11-30T23:10:00.000-08:00

We had Thanksgiving a few days early, and celebrated my fathers birthday, and here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving dinner, and of Vegas!

Thanksgiving, with a plant in the way, I wonder who the photographer was!

Off to Vegas, for my little sister Beka's soccer tournament, and some fun!
We played catch at half time of Beka's games, and they threw me the ball, and let me join in... If you know me at all, I am NOT I repeat NOT athletic in any way, shape, or form. Uhhh, check out my throwing stance. Do you think they would draft me for the NFL??

One of the nights, we went out on the town...

Thanksgiving!

2008-11-27T08:09:00.001-08:00

I love Thanksgiving. It is a wonderful time of the year, that you can just sit back and think about all the things you are thankful for. Just to name a few, I am so thankful for my wonderful husband. He does so much for our family, and he is just awesome. I am thankful for my mom and dad and siblings. We get together every other sunday, and we have made some special friendships that go beyond being siblings. I thankful that Sam and I both have job's right now. A lot of people are getting layed off but we both have our jobs. I'm thankful for my sister Rachel who is my employer. That she has a job, and she can pay me! Also because I have the best job. I absolutely love my niece and nephew, and the one she has comin on the way!!! I am thankful for our pet Toa. He has brought so much love and happiness into our little family. I am thankful for Sam's son Omini in our lives again. Its great to see how much he has grown and how fun he is.

We had our Thanksgiving last sunday, along with my dad's birthday, (even tho my dad's birthday was yesterday) and it was fun to be around the family, and hear what they are all thankful for. So today, we are actually headed down to Las Vegas for an adult trip. No kids allowed. So we'll be sleepin in and stayin up late! And going to my little sisters soccer games in between! But we are excited to get out of town.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving. And tell your spouse or family how thankful you are for them! I am also thankful for all of you reading my blog, that means that we are friends and family. And I love and appreciate all that you guys do for me and my family. Love you all!!

CRAZY WEEKEND!!

2008-11-26T08:32:00.000-08:00

My weekend started on Thursday...

We started by celebrating my cousin, Emily's, wedding by having a dinner at my mom's. Most of my aunts and uncles were there and we hosted Emily's new in-laws. *Fun fact* The maternal grandfather of Emily's husband, Michael, served his mission (in Africa) with my paternal grandfather. My grandfather passed away while my dad was young. I never met him. It was fun to hear stories and see old pictures.* Anyway, it was a delicious meal and good company. I went down at 9:30 and stood in line with my hubby, no he didn't see it, he was just so kind to keep me company till my sisters could arrive. The rest of my sisters finally made it (Steph included) trickled down to the theater later that night. It was a mad dash into the theater, way to go Steph for knocking people over and elbowing a 13 year old out of the way. We got really good seats!!

The movie was fabulous! I am not going to give an entire synopsis here, but I can't wait to see it again. I got home at 2am and had to be to work early. I was groggy, but it was worth every second.

Friday...

Now here is the really sucky part of my weekend. I had 10 tickets to the Celine Dion World Tour. We have had these tickets for A YEAR!! The concert was SUPPOSED to be on Friday night at 8. She cancelled the concert because of a throat infection. Here is the really terrible news. They rescheduled her concert for a Sunday in February. I am so upset that I can't even think straight. I am still searching for a place on her website to complain. Who schedules anything for a Sunday in Salt Lake City??? Ugh.

So I had to finish making those pages for Emily's reception, see side where I make the advice books. I have now made 6 of them!!! And I had to run them down to her house in Alpine, mind you I live in SLC which is like 30 min away. I am hauling butt, because at this time, it is 415 and at 440 she needs to leave for the church to get her dress on, and get pictures taken before the reception. So I finally get there, I also went to do her nails too. When we were done, my aunt wasn't quiet ready, so she's like Sara, please take her to the reception place and do up her dress. Which was a corsett back! What THE! I don't know how to tie those!!! Anyway, I took her and did my best to make it tight and the bow sure did look great. Mind you I am not ready for the reception, because I wasn't expecting to take her to the reception place, any my family was meeting back in SLC for dinner before we all headed to her reception together. So I book it home. I make it in the door at 605 dinner was supposed to be at 6. but my mom and sister in law angie waited, then we drove together. I seriously changed into my dress in 5 min. Then we ate and went back down to the reception!

Saturday...

GAME DAY! First Sammy played an awesome joke on my mom, who is a BYU fan, but only because she did her nursing school there, and then she thinks its funny when her and Sammy battle it out. Actually on thursday, the day of my cousin emily's family shower, my mom and little sister stuck BYU stickers all over our cars, those of us who love the UTES! anyway, sam didnt' get to go to the reception last night because he was working security, and when he got home, he stole my mom's phone, and we have this pen that sings the Utah fight song, so he recorded that onto my mom 's phone and then at 2:30 AM he was sneeking into my parents bedroom and it scared my mom. she woke straight up. And sam was in the middle of his army crawl thru my parents room. And my mom was like Hello? Who's there! My mom was scared to death that someone had broken into our house and was in her room. It wasn't funny then, but I just sit and laugh now! anyway, he slid the phone under her bed and ran downstairs into our part of the house, and he hurry's and jumps into bed. It woke me up, so I got up to go to the bathroom, and i hear people walking around upstairs. I was like do you hear that. someone is walking around up there. I had no idea what he had done. So I brush it off, and go back to sleep. Well he set his alarm to wake up every 30 min, and he would call my mom's phone and it would go off full blast under her bed. It was funny, so none of us had very much sleep that night. Then we got up all early to go to my cousin's sealing in the SLC temple, and my mom's phone was still going off. It was on vibrate lucky enough. Then after that, we came home and got ready for the game, because Sammy, Jeff (my bro in law), and me and my cousin Zac, all got tickets to the Utah game. So we had to leave part way thru my cousin's luncheon to make it to the game. We were in Alpine and had to drive all the way to the Utah stadium. We made it just in time! It was so much fun to be there. After the game I sure did go down and jump on the field. It was awesome. And Sammy is "in" with the Whitingham family and so we got to go into the press conference right after. It was such a great game.

Sunday

This was my dad's birthday and Thanksgiving. Both were early, my dad's birthday was yesterday. So after church we came home and were making the Thanksgiving dinner. I was in charge of Jello and stuffing. The whole dinner turned out really well. And my dad loved having everyone there for his birthday! Then right after that Sam and I had to go on a transport together. We went to San fran that night and slept over.

Monday

So after we got done with the work, we ended up in St George. So we went to visit Sammy's cousin Ryanne! And she was such a great host, and thank you Kristin for dinner! It really was delicous. Anyway we also went to Twilight again. I love that movie. And we just hung out with her and her family all day.

Tuesday

We went to lunch at a great poly place there in St George. And then we finished working and went home! We got home so late! It was such a crazy weekend!!!! I felt like that weekend went on for about a month!

Now we are just relaxin and can't wait to go to Vegas on thursday!!!

Twilight!!!

2008-11-21T07:40:00.001-08:00

I had the utmost pleasure to see twilight last night! It was so awesome. It was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. Sometimes the movie after a book, is not so good, but this movie was so good. I personally thought that Emmitt was by far more hot then Edward, and Edward is supposed to be the most beautiful thing! Anyway, I got to the theater at 945, and I was the 3rd person there. I was holding the line for my family. Then they trickled in and we had to wait on the floor until 10:30 till they let us line up on the stairs. So pretty soon, a lot of high school kids came and totally waited like a foot in front of the stairs, and when we were standing there I got yelled at! But so they cut us in line! no fair! anyway, we still got the seats we wanted, and we needed 6 in a row. But we had to wait on the stairs from 1030 until 1130. And it was just me and Beka on the stairs, and we were wondering how we were going to save 4 seats! Then my older sister Rachel, told the natzi lady at the bottom of the stairs she had to go to the bathroom, and then on the way back, she got in line with us. Then the same happened with Steph. She "went to the bathroom" and got in line with us!!! So now there was 4 to save 2 seats. It was so exciting! Anyway, the movie was great, I wont say anything here till more people have seen it. But it was great, and I totally want to see it again.

TICKETS

2008-11-14T15:13:00.000-08:00

I just got my tickets for Twilight. There was 10 tickets left, and I got 6 of them!!! I am so excited to go. The movie better live up to my expectations! I know it wont have everything, but it better have all the good parts. I am excited to hear Bella's song!

Twilight!!

2008-11-12T16:48:00.001-08:00

Does anyone know if you should buy tickets ahead of time or just show up the movie theater earlier in the day to buy tickets?? Anyway, I am so excited for it! I can't wait to go to the movie. All of you Twilight fans, I have the song from the book, the song Edward made up for her on the piano. Scroll to the bottom of my blog and look up my songs, it is the last one. I just downloaded it. I personally love it, and I think that it fits exactly right. Tell me what you think!?!

SAVINGS

2008-11-10T09:20:00.001-08:00

So like I have said before our friends from down south the Tonga's have got us started on this coupon kick. It is a website, called pinchingyourpennies.com. you can find the link there, you go there, and sign up. Its for free, and then you can get started. You can find the store near you, and print out coupons, but you do have to do your work too, For the last month, Sam goes on Sunday's to a gas station and he buy's 3 newspapers. And we sit together and cut out coupons, and I put them in a divider. So this past Saturday, we decided to make our first trip. We went to the website, then went to screaming deals by state, found utah. then you look at the "threads" and you can click on the different stores, we usually shop at Albertson's. So we look for a thread about albertsons, This past week, there was a HUGE sale there. So we went and printed the coupons on the products that were ALREADY on sale! So we took our coupon's and headed to the store. We did all our shopping on the 10 for $10, or 5 for $10, or whatever, then you have coupon's and get it for even more off!!! It was awesome, needless to say, we went and had 2 shopping carts and before they rang up our coupons, it was 350.00! WHOA, then we gave our coupons, and out the door..... Are you ready??... its huge.... We paid out of pocket, 150.oo, with our coupons we saved 200 dollars! holy cow!! We do have cereal and cake mix coming out our ears, but we got soup, febreeze, gogurt, pizza rolls, and lots of stuff. It was awesome. I am sorta starting my food storage with this. Its awesome. If you want to learn to do this, leave me a message. And we can talk! For those of you out of state, it works for states other then utah, you just have to find your state when you go to screaming deals by state. It seriously saves you so much money. You will be standing there giving coupon's for what feels like an hour, but it is all worth it!!

Utah VS TCU

2008-11-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

This was one of the most AMAZING games!!! The score was 10 to 6 for TCU. And in the last 2 1/2 min. of the game, the Utes finally got it together, and made a touchdown. If you didn't see the game, it was a "Blackout" game. We all wore black to the game... all the Utes fans. And it looked really cool! I am so glad we won! Here are some pic's the game!

Sarah, Toby, Sam, and ME

Sara in the midst of it all!

Sam and S.Smith

Spider Man Fights Cancer 2

2008-11-07T08:32:00.001-08:00

My neighbor boy who has leukemia was on the news last night. Here is the clip....spiderman. It is so sweet. We are having a 5K run tomorrow, if anyone can come and help support. Or just look at his website here. It is gut wrenching and so sweet at the same time. Please help this family out!!

whats this about

2008-11-04T08:23:00.000-08:00

I found this on the KSL website. And it actually scared me, and now I'm thinking I'll go private. I dont want anyone to find out about me or my family. I dont feel threatened now, but what will happen in the future?? Read this little part I found on the website of how people are just pretty much throwing out information. I post a lot of pictures of my niece and nephew, and of things that are going on in my family, countdowns, and pictures of me and my hubby, things about his work, and stuff like that. ummm yea I pretty much will go private now.... But I am really torn. I love just looking around at people i went to high school with and look at there blogs, or friends of my friends, and see how people scrapbook stuff, and other things people are doing, but this seriously makes me RE-think this whole thing...READ THIS

I would like other people to read this and tell me what they think about this. Does this make you want to go private, or just not post things that are private?? I dunno... But I want this to be like a journal and I dont really want to hold back, so I guess I might have to go private.

Moving Home!!

2008-11-03T12:35:00.001-08:00

So this past weekend, acutally we were told on Halloween, that

KEVIN AND KAYLENE AND BOYS ARE MOVING BACK!!!

We are so excited. They are moving back somtime in november. I can't wait to live closer to my sister in law. We are really close friends and sisters and now this will make it even better. I am so glad the boys will live near and that they can see their cousin's more often. I am so excited for you guys!!!

A Tragedy

2008-10-29T11:51:00.001-07:00

When I was younger I had the most amazing Young Women's president. She was so easy to talk to, and so much fun. She moved away right after I got out of young womens, and turned 18. She moved to Alpine. It was sad when she left. I have since seen her and her family a few times. For my wedding, for my neighbor's wedding, when my friend Amy came home from her mission, and lastly, when my dear friend Heather passed. We sat next to eachother. Then I get the news.....
From the Deseret News website

LINDON — A rear-end crash on I-15 turned deadly Friday night in Lindon.
A car slammed into the back of a semitrailer while heading south at about 8:30 p.m.

The car's passenger, Lindsey Sandstrom, 16, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The car's driver was flown to University Hospital with critical injuries, said Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Steve Winward.

According to the police report, prior to the accident the vehicle had suffered mechanical problems that caused the car to swerve into the adjacent lane, where it collided with the semi.

From the KSL Website
Fatal accident shuts down southbound I-15 near Lindon
October 24th, 2008 @ 11:15pm
(KSL News) All southbound lanes of I-15 near Lindon were shut down for a few hours tonight as police investigated the scene of a fatal accident.

The accident happened around 8:00 this evening. Police say a Honda Civic was headed southbound when it slammed into the rear of semi truck.

The passenger of the car died at the scene. The driver was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition.

Police do not yet know a cause for the accident.

This is all a shock and a terrible tragedy to happen. What ended up happening is, Lindsay's sister Kaylee was driving, and all the sudden the car started shaking, and flew into the next lane, which had a semi in it. And the semi ran over the passenger side of the car, (which Lindsay was sitting in) and killed her on impact. The eye witness that saw the accident stopped, and her and her husband ran back to the car, and held Kaylee's hand till the Paramedic's came. They had no clue that Lindsey was in the car as well. Because the wheel was on Kaylee's arm, they couldn't see into the other side of the car. Meanwhile, Their father was returning from a motorcycle trip down to Moab, and their mother went to go pick him up at a friends house. (the mother was my dear Young Women's president, and great friend, Tami Sandstrom) She was at home waiting and waiting for the girls to arrive home. They never came, so she decided to leave and go to get her husband Mike. She went to get on the freeway which was closed due to the accident. So she went around, by the time they got back, there was a sheriff and their bishop waiting for them at their home to tell them the news. It was so sad, and very tragic.
Kaylee, the driver, was in critical condition but has since come home. The first words out of her mouth were, I just killed my sister. What a sad thing to think of. It was not her fault, but she totally takes blame. Needless to say, I have a funeral to go to on thursday, and see my dear friend again. I feel so horrible for their family, I pray and hope that Kaylee and the family will be okay, and make it through this tough time in their lives. I love you guys...

Lindsay Dawn Sandstrom

Lindsay Dawn Sandstrom 1992 ~ 2008 Our sweet Lindsay returned into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father and awaiting family members last Friday night as a result of a terrible car accident. Lindsay started her mortal journey on April 18, 1992 in Salt Lake City, joining her parents Mike and Tammy Sandstrom and her sister Kaylee (who she literally and figuratively has always looked up to). She lived in Holladay until 2002 when her family moved to Highland. Lindsay attended elementary schools including Crestview, Legacy and Freedom. She attended Mountain Ridge Jr. High and was currently a junior at American Fork High School. Lindsay was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had a firm knowledge that she is a daughter of God. Her mortal life was a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ and she confidently shared her testimony with everyone. She was an excellent student and challenged herself with honors classes. She especially loved seminary, choir, and child development. She often developed close friendships with her teachers and she in turn, wanted to teach children. Lindsay always loved performing and was a confident speaker. She was the organizer of many shows, play school, tea parties and dress ups. A hug and a kiss were always available from Lindsay and her relationships knew no bounds. Lindsay had a special love for children and they were drawn to her. She had a way of seeking out the lonely and down trodden and buoying them up. Lindsay had a sweet tooth and could always be found with candy and had plenty to share. She was a talented pianist and loved music. She loved spending time with family at Lake Powell, the Elba Ranch, Park City and Pinto. She loved working at Liberty Land (the rides, the kids and co-workers). Her warm infectious smile, bright eyes and kind heart have captured and influenced so many. She loved friends and they loved her. It was easy to love Lindsay. Lindsay is survived by her parents Mike and Tammy Barker Sandstrom, her sister, Kaylee, her brothers Connor and Parker, her grandparents John and Judy Sandstrom and Ruel and Kay Barker, many Aunts, Uncles, and cousins that she loved dearly. Lindsay was blessed to belong to an incredibly committed, supportive and loving extended family. Lindsay will be sorely missed. She is separated from us all for a while and we know she is doing the work of our Heavenly Father. We know there is a plan that allows families to be together forever. Our family will hold on to this belief until we are together again. Lindsay Sandstrom memorial fund has been set up at Wells Fargo. Gifted funds can be designated for the family or, in lieu of flowers, the family requests a contribution to benefit the AFHS preschool, seminary, and choir programs in Lindsay's name

Our newest family member

2008-10-21T15:54:00.000-07:00

So last friday Sam and I were just out doing some errands and we had some time to spare. So I said, lets go to the humane society and see if there is a dog that speaks to me. (I was thinking I wanted a dog, a small dog mind you!!) So we walk in, and I am just wandering around, and Sam got a phone call, and headed out. I was still walking around. And then I saw it.... a German Short Hair. Which my husbands favorite dog. I came out and was like Sam they have a German Short hair. He IMMEDIATELY wanted to see it! So I say, hey, I think they let you take them outside. So we went and asked. And we got to take him out. And he was such a good dog! He is 2 years old. And we decided to put him on hold and Sam, Toby, Sarah, and I went to go buy some birds to see if the dog would point. (its a hunting thing) so we came back the next morning, and brought the birds. And sure enough, he pointed right away! It was great. And the good thing was, he was only 40.00 dollars with tax and everything! It was great, and one of my BFF's Emily, had a dog kennel which she isnt using cuz her doggie is trained. So we borrowed that. And right after we got him, we had to put him in there, cuz we had to go to the U game! WE LOVE TO SUPPORT OUR UTES! When we came back, my parents had him out, and they really like him too. And the is AWESOME with my niece and nephew, he never barks or jumps on them. He'll lay down and let them pet him. He lets my nephew lead him around by his ear. We picked out a name... its Toa. (toe-uh) it means Warrior in Samoan. He is already responding, and doing great. Here is a pic

He's not really a puppy anymore. He is about up to my knee. If you want to meet him, come on over!!

Tonga's house

2008-10-14T16:53:00.002-07:00

Every once in a while, we get an urge to get outta town! So we headed down to spanish fork! That is the extent of our Vacay's!! But we go down and have a fun time with Sila and Melissa and their two beautiful daughters, Makensi and Mylee. But this past saturday Mylee had fallen and broken her arm. So we went to see how she was doing and waited to see her get her pink cast. These are some pictures of us just messin around.

Sila (mylee took this pic)

Yes that is my adorable husband Sam!!

Mylee with her broken arm.

A close up Mylee!!

OH and we saw this on the way back, and thought it was so funny, I was hanging out the window trying to take the picture. So it is sort of fuzzy. But if you can't tell, it is a halloween joke. They have a fake arm shut in their trunk. Hilarious!

Thanks for the fun weekend Tonga's! Oh and they acutally got us hooked on a money saving idea. There is this website called Pinchingyourpennies.com. and it will show you what store's in your area are having sales (like grocery stores) and you print out coupon's and you go buy. It sounds sorta ghetto to go buy with coupons, but they have over 1,000 dollars of stuff, for only 300 dollars out of pocket. buy cutting coupon's and going to this webiste. It is kinda tricky, and maybe we should have a class if your interested, but it is such a good idea, sam and I signed up and can't wait to start clipping coupons. It is like buying bulk at Albertons's for cheaper then buying bulk at costco! It is such a neat idea, if you want more info, just give me a comment, and I can talk about it further.
But thanks for the games all night long, and for us crashing in the girls room! We love coming to your house and hanging out!

Gardner Village...The Witches!

2008-10-14T16:53:00.001-07:00

Last monday we went to see the witches. We go every year! It is so much fun, you just show up, and they take you on a 3 min. tour of Gardner Village in a horse and buggy, and they tell a little Halloween story. Its very cute. Here is some of our pictures.

Girls in the buggy

Guys in the buggy

Abi and Kaylee

Grandma and the kids

Kaylee and Taylor

Sam and mother-in-law

US

Beka Homecoming

2008-10-14T16:48:00.000-07:00

My little sister, and youngest sibling, went going to her first dance in High School. I was able to do her hair and nails. I had so much fun planning it. You will have to check out more pictures of her at my sister-in-law's website, Angiestevensphoto.com. I took some on my cell when she wasnt around.
Half done

Almost done

Finished product.

Kinda fuzzy, but it was taken on a cell phone. Just go to Angies website to see more pictures!!

Stevens family pictures

2008-10-14T16:41:00.000-07:00

So the Stevens side of our family had our pictures during the two hour conference on sunday. It was so fun, except it was cold. We went up to Silver Lake in Big Cottonwood canyon, and had some pictures. Those are not on my camera, but Omini took my cell and was snapping some pics around. Here is some of Omini's shots....

Nature pic's

His cousin Kaylee

His dad in a blue Utah shirt, that will never happen. But Omini was messing around with the color tones on my cell.

And ME!!!

I think Omini took really good pictures. I love the nature pic's! Good job OMI!

October!

2008-10-04T19:51:00.000-07:00

I love October. It is my favorite month. I love the fall, I love the leaves turning colors, and the leaves falling, and I love dressing up. Every year I have a Halloween party with my family, they have to dress up and we have lots of fun. I love the Trick-Or-Treaters and what they are all dressed up as. The old scary movies are so fun to watch on TV, I just love everything about this month. Ususally we go down and see the witches at Gardner Village, and go on a carriage ride with a witch. I can't wait to do that. I just love this month!!!

Football game 2!

2008-10-03T12:27:00.000-07:00

I have never been to so many games in a row! I just went to my second game. Our friend Toby didn't get to play, because he was there hurt, but he gave us family tickets. It was so much fun. We were about 50th yard line, but like the 50th row up! It was far up, but we could see everything. It was awesome weather, and only started to sprinkle for 5 min at the end. but no body cared becuase hello did you see the score!!! it was awesome! This is a pic of everyone flooding the field! It was such a crazy game, and so much fun.

And this is us so happy at the end. about 5 min before the game ended, we really thought that the game was over with a loss for us, then they just busted it out in the last two mins! it was so crazy and so much fun! I loved it.

Utah Football Game

2008-09-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

Sam and I went to a football game on Saturday night, because one of his close friends is a sophmore this year, and he was going to get to play in the game. It was so much fun. We had 5 row seats right on the 5th yard line. It was so much fun, we were right in front of the cheerleaders, I got to see my friend Ryan who is a male cheerleader. In this pic he is bottom left
This is Ryan and his throwing partner

Then at half time, we went to get a hot dog and some nacho's and we see this guy, who we've seen before and has tricep implants. I did actually see the scar. My friend Whitney Mapson remembers him!!

Then in the 3rd quarter, Toby made his debut! We were so excited of him and so proud of him! It was so fun to see him actually get out on the field.in this pic he is the one with his leg brought up half way. near the back of the huddle

Then after the game, Sam and I were able to go down on the field, and talk to him and give a hug. We were so proud of Toby!

Also what a fun date night sam and I had. It was nice to do something we both like, I like watching Cheerleaders, he likes watching the game, and we're just having fun together.

My hubby

2008-09-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

I saw this on my cousin Liz's blog and I thought I would like to do it too. I always find myself just staring at sam, I always tell him that I have his whole face memorized. Every freckle, every wrinkle, every hair. It is sort of an inside joke betweeen me and sam, and my family just laughes, but I tell him I love him so much I want to take out one of his bicep muscles and keep it in a jar next to my bed and pet it at night, or I love him so much I want to take a vile of his blood and wear it around my neck (like angelina Jolie). Its just jokes, and kinda gruesome, But I do, I love my husband so much I could just sqeeze him to death!!!

1. Where did we meet? Well, the first time, we met at chili's with our friends who were tryin to get us together.

2. How long did you date before you were married? lets see, I think I met him in may, but then we didnt talk again till end of July 2006. So if you count from our dinner in May, a year and 3 months

3. How long have you been married? We got married on Aug 22, 2007, and we are currently working out a date for when we are getting sealed!

4. What does he do that surprises you? oh huh, he always surprises me. He brings me gifts home from his transports, or sends me texts just sayin he's thinking of me.

5. What is your favorite feature about him? Haha, he always laughs at me, but I think its his nose! I love his cute poly nose!!

6. What is your favorite quality about him? I would have to say his sense of humor. He can always make me laugh, and I love laughin!

7. What is his nickname for you? Babe, or hon!

8. What is his favorite color? Lets see, its red, and carolina blue! and sometimes black

9. What is his favorite food? Anything, and I mean ANYTHING poly food!!

10. What is his favorite sport?oh, thats so easy, it would definately be football. But he also loves baseball and softball. And golf!!

11. Who said I love you first? We didnt say I love you for a while, we used to just say alofa, which means love in Samoan. Then just one night he said I love you to me!

12. When and where was your first kiss? OH, that, well, it was at Michelle and Jonathans house on the couch, we were up talking late and who knows where those two went, and he just came and kissed me!

13. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple? We love movies, or going out to eat. And doing fun stuff, like boating, and mini golf and especially Utah football games!
14. How many kids and what ages? well one for him but a step for me, he is 11.

15. Does he have any hidden talents? He can play the piano really well, and he sings really well. He can tune any instrument, I think he has very good pitch, because he just can hear it, and say that its off tune.

16. How old is he? uhh, should I really say?? 31.

17. What kind of music does he like? oh wow, if you know my hubby at all you will know this, it is definately reggae. That is all his plays in the car, sometimes I can get him to switch it up and play hip hop or stuff on the radio, but its mostly CD's his friends make him.

18. What do you admire about him? He is a really hard worker at what he does. He loves to help people in anyway, if your his friend, your his friend for life.

19. What is his favorite past time? football, and South Carolina!

20. Is he going to read this? If I tell him I posted he will!

Love you honey!

My Dear Friend Heather

2008-09-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

My childhood friend Heather has passed away last night. She had a heart transplant when we were 8 years old, and just 2 months ago, she came down with cancer in her lymph nodes. And from all the medication she was on, it spiraled out of control really fast. And last night, we recieved the call that she had passed away. She had done chemo the beginning of this month, and it didnt work, she was already in a stage 4 cancer. She was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks ago, and never came home, they were pretty much waiting for her to pass away.

Heather Lynn Krantz 1984 ~ 2008 Heather Lynn Krantz was born to Randy and Susan Krantz on May 25, 1984. She returned to our Heavenly Father on September 27, 2008 due to complications from Post Transplant Lymphoma. She attended Olympus Jr. High and Olympus High School and received her GED in 2001. Heather was an amazing young lady who survived many trials in her life from birth. She was the fifth child who received a heart transplant in 1992 at Primary Children's Medical Center. She overcame many adversities in relation to the transplant. She was the inspiration for her mother to create the Youth Transplant Kamp sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation for children with major organ transplants. Heather had a keen sense of humor and loved to collect things from beanie babies at a young age to old record albums in her adult life. She was always on top of the newest technical gadget on the market. Heather was wise beyond her years and those who served her learned from her hardships. They often said that Heather was their favorite person. She loved her family, especially her nephew and niece Josh and Addie. She loved going to lunch and running errands with Grandmother. She will be sorely missed.Heather is survived by her parents, her grandparents, Bob and Janet Krantz, and Mickey and Jerry Quigley; her sisters Rachael (Mark) Herrscher, and Amy Krantz; her nephew and niece Josh and Addie and many aunts, uncles and cousins. She is preceded in death by her Aunt Bonnie Quigley Villalobos. The family would like to thank the many doctors and nurses who were instrumental in her care. Particularly Drs. Kfoury, Renlund, Fisher and IMC Heart Failure Transplant Team; Dr. Richard Frame with Utah Cancer Center; Jan and Dr. Katie Carlson at Valley Mental Health Services; Dr. Clara Michael; Beth Barrett; the Intermountain Homecare Hospice and to so many family members and friends for their tender mercies. Special love and gratitude goes to Allen, Linda, Megan and Melissa Harris for without their gift of life, we would not have had the joy of Heather for the last 16 years. It takes a village.

It was also my dear mothers birthday yesterday! Happy birthday mom. I love you! hope you liked the hotel room us kids got for you and decorated for your birthday!!!

I've been tagged!

2008-09-09T20:13:00.001-07:00

Okay, I've been tagged by my cousin Kristi. So here goes....
The Rules: Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.

#1. I love, LOVE blogging. I am always on the computer checking if someone has commented, or if someone posted something new.

#2. I have a guilty pleasure of watching The Hills, on MTV. I am watching every episode, and I watch them over and over. I love the stupid gossip they talk about and all the back stabbing. They think there problems are so big!

3. I like watching football with my hunky hubby! I am a big fan of the Utes! And not so much of BYU. We love the Carolina Panthers, and of course Polamalu of the STEELERS!!!!

#4. I love reading the smutty magazines. I have a weekly subscription to US weekly. It is my favorite Magazine, then people. But my grandma has a subscription to that one, so unless I am desperate I will wait for her to give it to me when she's done. Along with that, I love knowing what is going on in the celeb world. I love knowing who is dating who, and who is cheating on who, and who is giving birth, and so on. I even will check up on People.com once in a while too.

#5. I love looking at homes for sale. We are in no way able to buy one right now with what is going on, but I love looking on line, and looking in better homes and gardens to see how I can decorate my house. I have all my colors picked out for all the rooms, even for the rooms for the kids we are going to have. I know, and we're not even pregnant. But I love looking for furniture, and for cribs, and beds, dressers, and kitchen appliances, and couches, and color scheme's.

#6. I love scrapbooking. I do it online, I do it with paper, I scrapbook everything. Holiday's, birthdays, a get together, or just cute picutres of me and sam. See some of these random examples. I love doing it now that I've found a cute website to do it. ( I use scrapblog.com)

Okay enough about me. I tag the following.... Kaylene, Rachel, Lindsey (in AZ), Jenny Smith, Amy Hanson, and Whitney Mapson! You all get to do this now!!!

APML Leukemia

2008-09-08T17:19:00.000-07:00

My Neighbor's boy just came down with this type of Leukemia. It is so sad, he is 3 years old, and trying to battle an adult form of Leukemia. Please, look at his website, his cute smile and personality, will just warm your heart. Please if you have money, or time or kind thoughts please visit his site, and leave comments or give blood, or anything. Or just read it, and hug your kids a little tighter, and keep a constant eye on them. Take a look at lil Austin's bruises, and his symptoms, and keep an eye on those precious little ones. Take a look at his webiste...
http://spidermanfightscancer.com/
Thanks

Labor Day

2008-09-04T18:23:00.000-07:00

So we had a great Labor day. Well let me start with the night before. So we were just in the living room about 9 at night, talking, we had the lights off for some reason, and all the sudden we see someone walking through our yard with a dog, mind you it was RAINING, like pooring out side, why are you outside walking your dog, in the rain I'm thinking. Then all the sudden he's walking through our flowers. I am like what the! Then, he turns his back to us, and his coat says SHERIFF! I was like Sammy that is a sheriff walking with a dog and they are looking for someone. So he runs and opens the door and says whats up guys? They are like we are looking for someone. So he comes in and says lock all the doors! There is a fugitive lose! So we lock them all and we are looking out the windows at all the cop cars in our neighborhood. And then our neighbors are outside, so Sammy goes out to talk to them, and they tell us a story of how it kinda happend.
Well, this "guy" came up to their door, and their little boy who is probably 9 or 10 is walking up to the door and the guy starts yelling is your mom or dad home? so the dad comes up to the door just as the boy is opening it. And he sas can you give me a ride, cuz my car broke down with my family in it. My neighbors wife is yelling NO don't give him a ride. So he says no and slams the door, then all the sudden the police are around. So my neighbor sends his two boys out to look at the next door neighbors house to see if he went over there, cuz they were gone for about a week. So as they are outside, the police stop them, and ask if they have seen this guy and show a picture. They were like yea, he just stopped at my house. So he goes home and tells his parents, and they lock all the doors.
Meanwhile Omini (11) and Kaylee(5) and Taylor (2) are all around and we arent tryin to talk about it, and act normal beacause it is bedtime! And they can feel the excitement! And then my neighbors come over and say it was just a drug deal gone bad up on the busy road, and they caught the guy. so WHEW! But they kids are still excited! Omi and Kaylee have a hard time going to sleep, Kaylee ends up sleeping in with Grandma Peg and Omini wakes up in the night and can't get back to sleep.
Finally everything is in order, and we all fall asleep. Rachel and Jeff get back from New York in the morning, monday Laborday morning, so we decide to head out to breakfast. But before breakfast we had to dress up and get married. This is Kaylee and Taylor.

So we are just sitting at Dee's, Sammy is in the middle of a story, and he just stops and stares. And says, WO, that profile just looked like the prophet. We just kinda laughed and were like where? He was all, comin in the door, we looked and looked, and were like you're just seein things. Then all the sudden the prophet and his wife just walk in the door of Dee's! How stinking cool is that. My mom is all thats because that is the prophet SAM! haha, so I say let me and Omi out, I want to go shake his hand. (plus he is in my stake and so we love to see him and talk to him, cuz he recognizes us) and I said hey, just wondering if we could shake your hand, my lil bro and sister came with me and omi. And Omi was kinda hanging back and was a little star struck, and I was like this is my step-son Omini. President Monson looks at him, and gets his eyes all wide and says to Omini, hey I've got something for you. Leans down to Omini's level and wiggles his ears at him. And says to Omini, I only do that for boys in yellow shirts. (Omi was wearing a yellow one obviously) and Omini was still star struck and was like oh wow. And says, I saw you do that in conference once, wow. Thanks. And we walked away, and sat down to eat.
How cool is that, we got the propthet at Dee's. There wasnt a lot of security, in face he and his wife just came in alone, I am sure there was some around the restaurant bein like normal people so we wouldn't know they were there. But he didnt come in with any secret service, he just wanted a nice lil breakfast with his wife. How cute. As soon as people saw us get up and shake his hand, then alot of other people got up to talk to him. And he took his time with them, and was so nice and caring, he took time to talk to everyone, and pose for some pictures, so I didn't want to bother him anymore, so I just snapped this one from our seat in the restaurant.

Family Reunion!

2008-09-04T14:36:00.000-07:00

So we had a Harmon Family reunion this past weekend, up in Provo Canyon at a park called Vivianne Park. It was Sammy's great grandpa and his sisters, and everyones kids and grandkids and great grandkids and some were even great grandkids (like Omini) it was really cool, to meet aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, and family. It was a fun afternoon. Here is some of our pictures!

Working Out

2008-08-28T10:34:00.000-07:00

So, me and my sister-in-law Angie are working out together. I would like to lose 20 pounds and she just wants to tone up. I have been working out alone for like 3 weeks, and now that I have a partner, we go to the gym on mon, wed, and fri afternoons. And I have already lost 1 pound. I know that isnt much, but for me, it is huge. I have never been a big "working out person" okay, to tell you the truth, I never have worked out, I just always had a high metabolism. But now, my body is changing and I've gained some weight around the middle! I am now not gaining anymore, i am just mainting my weight, and hopefully loosing some! I am so excited to be doing this on my own. It feels great!

Anniversary

2008-08-22T11:17:00.000-07:00

Today is our anniversary. We got married a year ago today. I just want to tell my husband how much I love him, and he is the best husband ever! We have had so many fun times this last year with honeymoons, to transports, to seeing old friends in Arizona, to going to aunts and uncles homes and getting to know them better, and visiting brothers in another state for baby blessings, to just being home in bed laughing. He is always makin me laugh, and he cooks great food, and he tells me everyday how beautiful I am, and how much he loves me. He is the greatest.

As you can see we had a very beautiful day. I loved every moment, and thank you to all the guests that came and those of you from out of town, it was a very special day for us. It has been magic ever since we got married. Here is to many, many, many more!!!

Natural Roots

2008-08-21T14:19:00.000-07:00

Sammy has a friend who is in a band called Natural Roots, its a reggae band. They are awesome, they are out of Salt Lake City, and they sing some awesome songs. This is there website

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54936874

See if you like their songs, I love them, they just came out with 1 CD and working on another one!

dave matthew TICKETS

2008-08-18T17:47:00.001-07:00

So my brother in law jeff is trying to sell his tickets he bought for this AUGUST the 27th. He has two tickets for sell for 50.00 a piece. I dont know the seats or anything, but if you are interested please leave a comment and we can talk about it. It is in the salt lake area, i will get more info if you want to go to the concert, but please tell your friends and family, jeff needs to sell them for the money to go on a work trip. please comment for me. and just so you know first come first serve!!

Lagoon

2008-08-15T18:03:00.000-07:00

So yesterday Sam, Omini, and I went to Lagoon. We wanted to take Omini there before he started school back up. Omini had so much fun, he was running from ride to ride, and let me tell you how NOT busy it was on a random thursday day! I mean there was lines becuase next week is the last week it is open all week, then it will just switch to weekends. I didnt take any pictures of us, I forgot my camera! But we went on spider a few times, and wicked a few times, and we went on rocket, and samuri and we even spent some time at lagoona beach! We went with a lot of family, we met up with Richie and Angie, and Spencer and Beka came for a bit, and Mom and Katie and Abi and Jack came and we brought Kaylee and Omini and Sam and Me. It was so fun to see everyone around the park and go on rides with everyone. Omini is getting used to the family and he is just admiring uncle spencer more and more everyday! It is so cute, because Spencer can see how alike that they were, when Spencer was Omini's age. He is so patient with Omini it just melts my heart. But we ended up having a lot of fun, and we were so worn out by the end of the day.

India

2008-08-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

So as most of you know, I nanny my sisters 2 kids (taylor is now 2 and Kaylee is now 5) and for the next two weeks she is in INDIA!!!

She is in the city called Chennai. Its circled. But she is ALL the way over there! How random, for her job she sets up new hospital's with there radiology programs for X-rays and stuff.
Here is a picture of the downtown. It looks pretty nice...

There are a couple pictures of where rachel is at. She will be gone till aug 24th and left aug 6. she did spend some time in paris that she took some awesome pictures. if you want to see those pictures just click on jeff and rachel newman on my side bar. wish her luck!!

Family

2008-08-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

what was i doing!

2008-08-07T11:12:00.000-07:00

so sam just read the blog, and he said that no one will want to read my blog because it seems like i am just complaining. HUH, i was not. I was just saying how my life was. Just really crazy! Well here is an uplifting blog! I just got my divorce letter from my x husband, so now sam and I are just having temple prep classes while my divorce goes thru. Then we too will be sealed in the temple. How exciting is that. So we will have to keep of you posted so you know when to come. That and..... Sam finally passed all his tests to get into the sheriff's office. He had to do a physical test, a reading writting test, and then a test and answer questions in front of 4 people and if he passed all that, then he can apply for a job in the sheriff's office. HE PASSED!!! so now we are just in the process of applying for jobs! We are so excited for him to start this career in his life. What a great guy! I am so impressed and happy for him and these choices in his life he is making. i love my husband so much. Way to go babe!!!

Winding Down

2008-08-02T19:59:00.000-07:00

So this week has been so crazy! Here I sit on a Saturday night, with the kids I'm watching, my husband, and my step son Omini. I'm watching them play some video game and I am finally getting a chance to relax! I have been running like a chicken with my head cut off. We had the ward camp out last night, and Sam and Omi went for alone time. I stayed here with the two boys and man did they stay up late. We woke up really early and we went up Big Cottonwood Canyon for a breakfast with the ward. After breakfast we went for a hike. The hike started at about 9. Um hello, who hikes that early, especially me! Plus we all know how I do hiking, thats how I broke my ankle. So again here I sit watching these boys and I am so relaxed and have no desire right now to have kids anymore. :) This has been some birth control but it is almost over and now we have some extra money. YAY. I have been reading the Breaking Dawn book, which I only have about 100 pages left, and its not as good as i had hoped. I feel like I have to keep reading to keep up with everyone else. Well, I think that everyone is behind me since I started early. So hurry up people so we can talk about it. Well that's all for now!

Hair Cut

2008-08-01T12:17:00.000-07:00

Ok here it is Kaylene. I cut it off. I know, I should really stop and this picture is really bad cuz I took it with my cell phone. Sorry about that, but you get the idea right??

I'm Reading Breaking Dawn

2008-07-31T07:42:00.000-07:00

And I love it! I am so into it, but I know it is unfair that I get to read it first, so i will not be posting anything on my blog! Its not fair that you all have to read it yourselves and stay in suspense like I have but just so you know, you will not be disappointed! It is just as good as her other books. Sorry I will not leak any information. You will all just have to read it!

Breaking Dawn

2008-07-30T07:30:00.000-07:00

So my sister had to fly over to Louisiana for work and on her way back she had to fly thru the Atlanta Airport. Guess what she saw! Yes, this book out, 2 days early!! So yes she nabbed the book and sat in first class all the way home to salt lake and read it! And the best part is she bought one for me!! I will be able to start reading 2 days early! I am so excited that she saw that! YAY!

Full Plate

2008-07-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

So this week is going to be a very busy week, for me at least. Monday thru Friday, only during 8-5 I'm babysitting a 2 year old boy, Noah. Then during that week, Wednesday, I'll be babysitting the neighbors 14 year old boys. (there is 2, not twins. One's adopted then she had another right after) Will be watching them until next Tuesday. Have to sleep there and stuff too. Then on Monday, Wednesday morning, and all day Thursday I'll have the Newman kids (my niece and nephew that I nanny for) so that is like 2 two year olds, one 5 year old, and two 14 year olds! AHH, and Sam is going to be on transports and not really around. Also Omini is going to be coming this weekend and Sam will be taking him camping for the ward camp out. I am going to be sooo busy! So if anyone is bored and wants to watch some kids, I have a few. The two 14 year olds are a little rebellious! Well, the one that is adopted is. He took his dad's brand new Infinity for a joy ride the other day! Scratched the entire side of the car and the scratch was about 2 feet tall and the length of the car! I hope that doesn't happen while I am watching them! I think they are a little too young to think about sneaking out, but Sam says they probably already do! YIKES!! Then my sister, Rachel, who I nanny her kids, will be leaving for India in a few weeks, for 2 whole weeks. Wow, that is along time to be gone in India. I will be watching the kids when she leaves for that. I am really going to need a vacation in September when this is all done.

scrapblog.com

2008-07-25T17:58:00.000-07:00

this is the super easy place to make your pictures into a scrap page. I love it! look at the cute one I made for the 24th, it seriously took me 15 min.

24th July Spanish Fork Rodeo

2008-07-25T17:11:00.001-07:00

I hope everyone had a safe and happy 24th of July! First my family and I went up the canyon for breakfast and then we came back and most of us went to a movie. Sam was working so I had to pick him up from the airport. Sam and I went to the Spanish Fork Rodeo last night. For me that was only my 2nd rodeo I've ever been to. The first was in Jackson Hole about 5 years ago! It was fun! The only thing was that we were at the top of the bleachers and it was a scary climb because my foot wasn't still up to par. I'm thinking now that it's broken! LOL! Here are some pictures Sara took!!!

Adoption

2008-07-23T09:30:00.000-07:00

So as most of you know my husband Sam is adopted. We think it was a great blessing he was, because him being Samoan and then living in Samoa, we never would have met. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to the courts while my cousin Candace and her husband adopted two girls. They are not able to get pregnant and so this was there only option. These two girls had a really rough up bringing and to have them be adopted by my cousin and her husband will really give them a great new life, compared to the crappy one they were headed for. Their names are Meagan, who is 9, and getting baptized this Saturday (now that the adoption is finalized) and Natalie who is 5. They are so cute! Here are some pictures of the adoption yesterday!

My mom and I went and took my niece Kaylee who is the same age as Natalie. The two girls, who are adopted, are holding bears.

Pictures Of Our Trip To Houston In March

2008-07-22T11:00:00.000-07:00

I know that was a long time ago, but my sister-in-law Kaylene just informed me the pictures are up. Here are some from our trip down there!

The Championship Game

2008-07-18T22:33:00.001-07:00

......was lost!! There were some great photos of Sam. Here's just a few!

Lake Powell July 08

2008-07-18T21:56:00.001-07:00

This is our fun trip of the year and it was even more fun for Sammy and myself because his adorable son Omini came. We miss you already Omi! Love ya!

These are some awesome pictures I took of Sam doing tricks on the wakeboard!

Sara's foot. It's still all swollen and I'm going in for an x-ray on Monday. For all of you that know me, I have big problems with my ankles, I was in a boot last year for like 6 months from a car accident and now this is on my other foot. I did this on Sunday on that hike. I fell off a little cliff chasing after Omini. He landed it and I didn't. This is the result!

Memories

2008-07-18T21:54:00.001-07:00

MEMORY TAG!!!
This sounds like a lot of fun and I have had fun remembering memories about all my friends so it is your turn.

1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. I can't wait to see what people remember.

I tag everyone reading my Blog!

Omini

2008-07-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

Well that's right folks, Sam was finally able to see his son this week. We were actually able to take him to Lake Powell. We are still working things out with Omini's mother, to see when and how often we get to see Omi, but he is back in our lives, and yes that makes me a step mother! All gifts and advice would be very much appreciated! Just kidding! We love having his son in our lives and this is an awesome experience for Sam and myself. He is the cutest kid and so funny. He grew attached to my little brothers Richie and Spencer. We had a great time with Omi and can't wait to get to know him more. It has been something of around 5 or more years since Sam last saw him and we are so thankful and greatful to have him in our lives. Wanna see a picture of what he looks like now? I will have another post marked Lake Powell in a few, but just to see his cute face!

Championship Football game

2008-06-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

So on saturday June 27, at 7:00 is Sammy's final championship football game, against the logan bears. I hope that all of you who can and want to, will come to support the utah wolverines! They usually are fun football games, and the louder the crowd, the more pumped up they will be. It is at Juan Diego high school, on about 12300 south and 3 east. you get off on that exit, head east, thru about 3 lights till you see the mc donalds on your right, turn right there, and head straight, you will run RIGHT into the school, park, and find the football stadium. school age kids 3 bucks adults 5 bucks under school age is free! hope to see some of you there, if you cant make it, I will post pictures like i usually do!

Going to Park City

2008-06-27T10:39:00.000-07:00

My dad has a time share here....

It is the marriott right next to the Alpine Slide and also featuring a new roller coaster. We will be spending the next week here, and having a blast with my family. There is 5 hot tubs and a big swimming pool, of course there isnt any snow right now, so it is a beautiful mountain side view! We'll take pictures and post them.

Sam's playoff game

2008-06-22T17:51:00.000-07:00

So saturday june 21 sam had the first playoff football game, against the Idaho Falls Mustangs. The final score was 50 to 37ish we won. It was a fun game, and lots of fans showed up. here are just a couple of pictures
Sam is in the back left, in black and green running

This is a picture of Aly, biggie (joe and whitney's baby), and me.

Our good friend Joe Mapson

Lake Powell

2008-06-22T17:48:00.000-07:00

Sam and I went to Lake Powell, from wednesday till friday night. It was so much fun, here are some pictures from our trip. It was dad, scot, sam, sara, richie, spencer, and beka. It was so much fun, we camped and slept outside under the stars. It was fun, and we cant wait to go back in 3 weeks. When we go back tho, we will be staying in our house boat. We love lake powell!!

Abi's make-up

2008-06-22T16:39:00.000-07:00

My niece Abi, loves to put on make-up. And she decided that she wanted to put it on my other niece Kaylee, and on me and my sister Beka. And these are the results. And just so you know, the lip stick stains and so did the blush....
Sara and Beka

Sara, Kaylee, Beka and Abi

Beka and Nephew Taylor

Lake Powell

2008-06-17T11:51:00.000-07:00

We are heading off to Lake Powell this wednesday till saturday. I am so excited, the water has risen so much, that castle rock is open. Those of you who are big Lake powell fan's know that is an awesome thing. We are going to go camp and spend time on the lake with my dad, and some of my brothers and sister. Then we come back on Saturday morning, and I have two showers to head to a cousin's wedding shower, and a friends baby shower, then dun dun dun.....
SAM'S PLAY OFF FOOTBALL GAME. Those of you who are in the area and would love to come and support your utah Wolverines, please come to the game. We are now in the playoffs and would love everyones support. Plus the games are fun, and with how big the team is, Sam still gets a ton of playing time. He is the defensive end, and plays almost all of the defense time, except when he needs a rest. So it is tonz of fun. Wish us luck if you cant come!

more scrapblog

2008-06-17T11:29:00.001-07:00

Here is another one for ya Linds. And here is one for Fathers day I made for Casey.

more to come of my honeymoon to Cancun....

Sam's last game before playoffs.

2008-06-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

These are the pictures taken the last game before playoff's. Unfortunately we lost in overtime, so that makes the wolverines 2nd place heading into the playoff's. Wish us luck!!

Scrapblog

2008-06-05T12:35:00.001-07:00

There is this cute sight on here that I have found that I am making these pages. I just wanted to so you some of the ones I've made, and since I am putting this into a book, I wanted to save this picture I made, since I'm changing my header!

Made this one for my BFF Lindsey in Arizona this is her cute baby boy. hope you like it!

Here is one I made for Kaylee's first dance recital

Here is one I made for the Newman's easter pictures

last saturday 05/31

2008-06-05T11:17:00.000-07:00

Saturday was a busy day. We had Kaylee's FIRST dance recital, and then Sam had a softball game, then we went to the lake to try out our boat for this season, then a football game. It was soo busy! Here are some pictures of our Saturday!

This is her Tap dance, she is the tall one...

This is her ballet dance...

Some pictures of Sam's softball game!

Memorial day post...a little late i know!

2008-05-30T12:24:00.000-07:00

So this post is about the last week! I know this is like my journal, but i've been busy. So for memorial day, sam had the day off, like i'm sure most people did. And we started off with going to breakfast with my sister...the newmans, and my mom and dad. That was fun, except it was raining, what kind of a day off is raining?? We then went to my sister's house to play mario kart on the wii!! What a fun game, I need to get better because I come in last. Except when I play with Kaylee (who is 4) she comes in last and I come in second to last. We are great competetors! haha. Then we had lunch plans with our friends the tonga's...who at this point are no longer moving. Which that is great! we lunch in pleasant grove because it is about the middle spot for both of us. It was at a great hamburger and shake place, but who wants shakes when it is freezing and raining outside!! Then after that, we came home and got some stuff together, to go to our friends the Mapson's to have spaghetti and play the wii some more. That was so much fun till all the sudden..where did whitney go? Oh, up stairs and went to sleep! That was funny, so i helped her out, did some of the dishes, since she didn't let me bring anything. And we quietly left. That was our memorial day. The day before (sunday) is when my family went to my grandpa's grave. It has almost been a year since his passing... and we all miss him so much. For those of you who dont remember, he died on my brother Richie's wedding day one year ago, june 1st. So it is coming up, I can't believe it. Then on tuesday I got to watch Taylor and Kaylee and we went to our last dance class. That was sad, her performance is this saturday. And on wednesday was school, almost the last day, and she was so sick and throwing up, but I told her to go, because then she is going to kindergarten next year and wont have her cute teacher anymore. Then I was so sick in bed on thursday while sam went on a transport. And today here is friday and we are having a BBQ with our friends the Abram's, (which is my sister-in-law angie's sister and bro in law...small world huh??) well that's been my week. And off to sam's game tomorrow!
If you want to go to sam's game, there is only 2 games left, and they are both home games, at Juan Diego High school. If you want more details either call me or look on the website I have posted on here.

Best Friends

2008-05-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

Lindsey and I have been best friends since we were born. We grew up a few houses away from eachother, in Arizona. I eventually moved up to utah, and she stayed there. We were both heart broken, and missed eachother like crazy. We have been through many things, one of the last times I saw her I was very sick, so we didnt get to hang out very much. But we just had the opportunity to hang out on wednesday night. I went down to Arizona for a transport with Sam, and I called her up to have her meet us for dinner. It was so awesome to see her, her cute husband and very cute baby! We went to dinner at the Claim Jumper and went to an arcade place for games, well into the night. Then Champ got tired and he needed to go to bed, so we had to part for the night. The amazing thing is, that we are such good friends, that we were able to pick up right where we left off, 8 years ago. It was so awesome to see her again, and to be able to meet her family. We have vowed to hang out more, now the we are adults and can do that on our own, and we are so excited to be in eachothers lives again. I love having that special best friend back into my life, I have never met as great of a friend as her, and she said the same.
It was great to be with you Lindsey, I hope you enjoy our slide show! Look at all the Albrights in that first picture! haha! black mail! Sorry about the picture quality, the camera's werent what they are now, but you get the idea! Love you Lindsey! It was awesome to see you again....Till next time, (and I'll bring a better camera then my phone one!)

Another win for Wolverines!

2008-05-18T16:13:00.000-07:00

I am not sure of the score, but it was about 4 or 5 touch downs to 1 touch down they made in the end of the 3rd quarter. Here are some action shots of my honey...

Here is a pic with him getting ready for the game with one of his best buds Paul Fuali'i. (oh and please dont comment about his hair, we are in constant dispute about this... it will be cut!!)

There he is in the back left corner...

Just waiting to go in...nice picture!!

another best bud Joe Mappson, right after he made one of the touchdowns!

Look at my baby's form!!

Number 56 about to go into the dog pile!

cute bum!

Long Weekend

2008-05-18T10:03:00.000-07:00

So this has been my weekend, well, since wednesday till sunday night...........

As most of you know, I nanny my sisters 2 kids.

And on wednesday she had the opportunity for her anniversary to go to seattle (with her and her husband) as sort of a get away/business trip. so I had the 2 kids sleep over with me. Well, at the same time, my parents decide they would like to go out of town as well, on those same days! Which, at there house, we have a 16 year old girl,and a 17 year old boy, and a 84 year old grandma in diapers and bed ridden at home. So I had all of them, here I am a married lady, with no kids, going to a married lady with a 1 1/2 year old a 4 year old, a 16 year old, 17 year old, and an old lady. Plus I was helping out my neighbor this week, watching her 3 girls on friday night for 5 hours during that horrible jazz game. And during the day some time. That was a little stressfull! But I made really good money since wednesday. by myself, just for babysitting, i made almost 800 dollars. wow!! So this is my week, (this is sort of like my journal, feel free to skip if you want)
wednesday, Kaylee woke up at 7 am, and was hungry right then. So I was up, got her breakfast, and Taylor breakfast, then we headed off for school. After school, Taylor took a nap, Kaylee and i played around until he woke up. we went to the park, and came back. Tonight it mutual, and the older kids will be gone, so i'll just need to get dinner for the littler kids. I get Kaylee in bed around 830, and I'm starting to lay Taylor down. Well, spencer had decided he would like to have a party to watch the jazz game downstairs, where taylors little bed is. So I decide to not have the kids wake him up, I have him sleep up stairs in my parents bed with me and kaylee. But he will not go to bed, he starts screaming. So i lay by him for a while, and he calms down, and i decide to put him in his bed. he screams, and is yelling he is hungry, which he didnt eat very much dinner. So i get him up, give him a banana, and a drink. I ask if he's ready for bed, which he says no, but i say we're going anyway. After a while of laying by him again, spencers friends leave, so i decide i will put him in bed downstairs where he is comfortable. Sam and I lay by him in our bed, (because I was going to sleep up stairs with kaylee in my parents bed, and sam downstairs listening for taylor in the night in our house) He is almost asleep and I decide to move him into his bed, BAD IDEA!!!! He wakes up screaming, SARA HOLD YOU! UNCLE 'AM HOLD YOU!!! I think he was scared. So I ask if he would like me to sing to him, So I am singing for about 45 min, and spencer (whose room is downstairs too) turns on the light when I almost have him asleep. and taylor wakes up 'ight on? 'ight on? I freak at spencer, yell and turn it off, and he starts screaming again sara hold you. uncle 'am hold you? mommy daddy??? Then he starts asking who is asleep gama peg asleep? papa asleep? mommy nigh nigh? jack (his cousin) nigh nigh? uncle got nigh nigh? kiki (kaylee) nigh nigh? i answer yes, and I lay him back down, and this time i am not singing we are both getting hoarse!! so, i just sit there rubbing his tummy. Then out of no where, a toy goes off, FOR NO REASON! it was the loudest noise. I freak again, and throw it out. he starts screaming again, sara hold you! I am really frustrated by this point. It is almost 11:30 at night!!! Sam comes down, and he is like just let him scream you get out of here. and come watch the last few min of the jazz game. So i did, and after about 15 more min of screaming he FINALLY SLEEPS!!! We all go to bed....
Thursday..... about 5;45 am, i hear my parents door open and all the sudden the two dogs jump up on the bed and scare me and kaylee! I didnt want them to wake her, so I am stumbling to get the two dogs, and the cat and get them out of the room before she wakes up, I get them back in there room and go back to bed... too late... she's awake!!! She sits there and maybe goes back to sleep for a while i dont know, cuz i did, then about almost 7 she says I'm hungry. GRRR then I hear taylor on the monitor, sara hold you! so here starts my morning. Great! I get up, get everyone breakfast early, and I am just trying to stay awake. I am also ya know, changing grandmas diaper, getting her up to see the kids, and feeding her, and tending to her too, dont forget about grandma! And in the afternoon my neighbor asks if I will watch some neighborhood kids while they go to lunch, I agree, and she brings over another 1 year old, a 2 1/2 year old and about a 10 month old, and I've got kaylee and taylor, and grandma. at least the older kids were in school, and sam was playing PS3!!! so, its all of them and me. and finally taylor took a nap, cuz he was so tired from the night before screaming, and the little 10 month old would not stop crying! and grandma wanted to come out to see what was going on with all the kids in the house, and sam was hidding! rude!!!! I end up watching them for 2 hours, talk about wanting a break! they finally leave, and Tay is still asleep, and now kaylee's got a primary activity at the church. I tell sam to listen for tay to wake up, and I will take Kaylee. He says be home by 530 so we can go to his softball game! (this was 3:00). So I head out the door with Kaylee, we get to the church, and they are a small ward, and thank me for coming, and ask if I can help! I dont even know these people, I just wanted a break! I end up having to paint the kids feet with paint and help them stand on a tile that says I will follow the prophet, cute idea just not planned out very well. That made me mad, we left finally grabbed a pizza on the way home sam left for his game a lil early to warm up, I was feeding all the kids and grandma, and then trying to get out the door with the kids to watch sam. I finally get to the game, and the other team doesnt even show up! So we head for the playground (to kill time, and just to spend sometime outside). We then head home and start getting ready for bed. I am really nervous because I dont want a repeat of last night. But things went well, I got the kids down, and at 9 headed off for sam's 2nd softball game. wow alone at last!!!!
Friday... This was my glorious day! I had the kids off at noon! Kaylee doesnt have school, and they dont wake up until almost 830! yay! Tired kids. so we get breakfast and play outside, then we pack them all up, and take them to there other grandma's house for the night! YAY!!! Then sam and I come home and watch Ps I love you, (super sad movie, dont watch that one!!!) Then I have an appointment to get my eyebrows waxed, My little present to myself after the days I've had! then I get back, and I have to watch the 3 girls across the street while there parents went to the jazz game! They didnt get back until mid night. oh well, then I go home and get to bed.

On saturday, Sam has a team BBQ before the game for players and wives and families. We go to that get back at 2. Sam needs to do his pre game rest, so I give myself a pedi, and clean up the house a little. Then he needs to go get "dressed, taped, and pads on" for his game. Which REALLY means the team gets together in the locker room at the school, puts music on really loud and dance around in there under armor stuff pre game. You can hear them shouting the words to the songs and yelling and laughing as you pull up to the game. its quite funny. I go shopping at the mall for some me time! Then I barely make it to the game, and have some nice times with my very good friends Whitney and Hana. Then it is home we go! After the game, sam and I are starving!! we decide we would like to eat Training table, BIG mistake. We get there right after a big group of a dance company get there and we have to wait for nearly an hour for our food. there was seriously like 25 kids ordering right when we were. And they were all loud and running around the whole restaurant. it was so annoying. oh well, then home and to bed.

and here we are on sunday morning, and my parents will be home tonight, and sam and I are going on a nice Jeep ride, JUST THE TWO of us!
WOW what a looooong weekend!!!

GAME TIME

2008-05-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

The wolverines next four games are at home, for anyone who is interested in watching my studly husband play a game of football, they are actually really fun to go to, and fun to watch all these men out of high school playing football with eachother still! come and support them. There home field is Juan Diego High schoool, which is about 12300 south and about 500 west, right behind the mall! if you have any questions look at there website on the my page. Just scroll down to it, and go to there page, or you can map quest the high school. Anywho, it starts at 6 (pm) on saturday. It will be fun, and I'll be there!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

2008-05-10T18:51:00.000-07:00

okay, so whatever I did, i ruined our blog kinda. I was just trying to get a cute background from somewhere and it ruined our whole thing, I have to talk to sam's brother and see if he can help me, but we are still here, just under construction.

sorry

Rachel, Jenny smith,Lindsey, and Kristy better look, your tagged!

2008-05-05T20:54:00.000-07:00

Four places I go over and over
- Home
- Church
- Work (rachels house)
- Dianne, my friend across the street

~ Four people who email me ~
- SAMMY (husband)
- Angie (sis-in-law)
- Grandma
- Scrapbook lady

~ Four of my favorite foods ~
- Cheesecake
- Pizza
- Nilla Waffers
- Fresh fruit and veggies

~ Four places I'd rather be right now ~
- Back to Cancun
- Our friends the Mappson's havin a BBQ again
- Actually anywhere on a vacation
- Reading a good book, watching a good movie, soaking in a bubble bath, getting a massage . ...

~ Four movies I could watch over and over again ~
- The Notebook
- My Best Friends Wedding
- Notting Hill
- Grid Iron Gang
-We are Marshall

~ Four people I tag ~
-Rachel (my sister)
-Jenny (friend)
-Lindsey (yes you arizona BFF)
-Kristy (yes you the Sugies)

Prophet at our Stake Conference???

2008-05-04T12:48:00.001-07:00

As most of you know, Sam and I are living in my parents basement apartment while saving money for a house. Which is the house I grew up in, and I had the pleasure to grow up in the same stake as Pres. Monson. And we have watched him go from the qurom of the 12, to the first presidency, and now the Prophet of our church. And today we were having stake conference, and guess who walks in, President Monson. We often get him to come to our stake conference, because he is in our stake, but it was such a strong spirit to have him be the prophet, and still want to come back to his roots, where he still has his house, and join us in singing, our talks, and eventually him at the end talking. Our stake pres. gave him 15 min at the end to just add any comments or anything he wanted to, and he actually went 20 min over time to go! He is such a spiritual man. When he comes to our stake conference he always stands up and tells stories, he doesnt prepare a talk, maybe because he doesnt know he is going to talk or how much time, or whatever. But his stories all have a special meaning. At the end of conference today, he knew everyone would want to shake his hand, and he was so patient especially with the kids, and with adults yelling his name, and with handicapped people that all just wanted to meet the prophet of our church. One of my neighbors actually had to give a talk for conference, and he talked about this magnet my dad made (my dad is the bishop of our ward) about having family home evenings, and at the end, my dad said go give one to Pres. Monson. My dad went into his office to get it, and I went up, and waited my turn, and he looked at me with my hand out, and I was trying not to stutter, or talk fast, and I forgot what I was doing! He started shaking my hand, and I was just sitting there staring! Then I finally said, My dad is the bishop who made these, and wanted you to have one. Pres. Monson said I was wondering how I would get ahold of one of those!! He shook my hand again, and said thank you very much. I was turned around with this big smile on my face, I just shook the hand of the prophet! Sam was able to shake his hand too, but I was too busy feeling the tingle in my hand, to even think about what Sam and he were saying. That was awesome, I mean the talks face to face with our Lord, and he talked face to face with me, and shook my hand! He then was talking to other children of our stake, and one asked if he could play the piano. He said he could, so he sat down, and started playing little notes on the piano. How awesome is our Prophet! I will never forget this day.... the day I shook the Prophets hand. Who can say that??

Missouri

2008-04-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

So sam went on a transport to Missouri, and he asked his boss if I could go too. That was really exciting for me, because I've never been to Missouri, And I was just excited to go somewhere for free! So we headed out there, and for those of you who have never been out there, it is so beautiful. It was lush green, and so many hills, absolutely no mountains which was weird for me, and the best part of all, there was wild turtles that were crossing the highway. If you didnt know, I absolutely love turtles, they are my favorite animal. They were just wild and about the circumference of a mason jar. They are so cute, and they were trying to hurry across the high way so not to get ran over. Then we did the drop off of the child at the most beautiful lake. The lake was surrounded by lush green hills, and big hotels and so much to do if you stayed for a week or so. It was so beautiful, then we caught a flight back to utah, but we had a 3 hour lay over in vegas. Which we were so bored, we tried that oxygen bar, which we felt no different. They are supposed to help with jet lag, and if your tired, to wake you up, and more energy, but i felt nothing, and i didnt like the smell of mine, but hey, that was fun to try something new. And that was so fun to go out to another state with my husband, and travel like he does. I wish we could have stayed longer and just taken in more sights. oh well, i guess i am off to washington with him later this week. that will be fun.

Wolverines vs the Vipers

2008-04-20T20:22:00.001-07:00

Sam plays up against this guy who seriously hates him. He always tries to choke sam, and pull his shirt, grab his face mask, and all sorts of things, this is why they fight!!! Yes, last year in the pre season game, sam was fighting with this guy, and got caught and he got kicked out of the 2nd half of the game. Not really proud of that one, and this time when they played they still fought, but didnt get caught. here are some of my favorite pictures.

Sam's football

2008-04-20T20:18:00.000-07:00

On saturday April 12, the Wolverines played against the Cache County Bears. Sam did so good, there wasn't very many pictures of him. But this is the score and some other pictures. They did win, and "Da Bears" are a hard team to beat, and most importantly they cheat!!!!

Wolverines

2008-04-14T14:27:00.001-07:00

Sam's football team is called the Wolverines. They played this last Saturday up in Logan. They played the Cache County "Bears" and we won 24-17. It was a great game. Sam's teams colors are the dark green and black. His number is 56. Go Wolverines!!

VERY VERY IMPORTANT

2008-04-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

EVERYONE WITH KIDS, AND EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO LOOK, BUT DEFINITLY EVERYONE WITH KIDS PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE OUT. It tells you who is a sex offender in your area. Very easy to use. Just type in your address, city and state and it pulls up a map. You can see for miles who's in your area. AND the best part is... on most of them you can see their picture, there address, and what they were convicted for. Please those with kids check it out. Keep our kids safe....
http://www.familywatchdog.us/ShowMap.asp?frm=0
Love you all!!! and those precious kids.

Sleepovers at 31??

2008-04-07T19:01:00.000-07:00

I guess I should start off with Sammy's best friend, Sila, from years back. He called today to say that he is moving away. We already live so far away from them that it is hard to see them when we want. Us living in Holladay and them living in Spanish Fork (for those of you not familiar with Utah, that is about an hour to an hour and a half away, depending on who's driving!) Now they are moving like 3 hours away from that! They say they're moving the beginning of May. Needless to say, after Sammy heard the news today, he decided that since they are moving in like a month, he wanted to spend as much time as he could with Sila. They both took work off tomorrow and Sammy went down to the Tonga's to play video games all night and have a sleepover. I know I know but they are best friends!!!

The Tonga's have been there for Sammy through everything. It is really sad for us to see them go. We are so close to their daughters Mylee and Makensi. You probably have seen their pictures on here but here's some more. They have just been such an important part of his life. I am so grateful for their friendship to My Sammy. I will miss you Tonga's!! We will visit as much as we can. We love you....

Me and Sam with Mylee the littler one and Makensi

Best friend Sila over Sammy's right shoulder

This is the only picture that I have of Melissa. The lady in blue is Sammy's REAL sister (not adopted) and then it is Sila and Melissa (in pink) and their two girls.