A Music Concert

One of my friends from High School

Joshua James, is now a popular singer.
He had a free roof top concert in Provo
for families along with some other singers
& artist. My parents are good friends with his
parents & lived in the same ward with them for

9 years. Josh & I went to seminary, highschool,
& the first year of college together.
The concert was a lot of fun, and our good friends,
Paul & Nicole met us there as well. We all had
treats to share & the kids loved staying out late.

Morgan & Jackson loved jumping & Hallie loved dancing to the music.

Landon was really good the whole night. He sat there and listened
& would get up and dance every once in a while.

I remember one day in highschool, one of my friends had all of us fill out a questionaire
of where we thought we would be in 10 years and where we thought those around us would be.
I knew that Josh always played the quitar and could sing, but I had not idea he would
make it big like he has. I think it's really cool. The funny part, is all the funny memories
I have of Josh. I remember him saying "Word" all the TIME in our church class on Sundays.
I am sure he drove our teachers, Sis. Bybee a woman full of class & propriety & also a famous opera singer who sang at the Grand Metropolitan & her kind & proper husband, Bro. Ford crazy! For the rest of us, it was entertaining. Whenever they asked a question Josh would always respond with "word". Which to them, I don't t

hink was even part of the proper English language, & of course it didn't make sense to us either.
Josh always had his skateboard with him, caught his apartment on fire-well, a small fire,
& told me he would kiss me right on the steps of my apartment in college because he was surprised I hadn't kissed anyone yet, and was even more shocked when I said I wanted to wait until I really liked the guy.

What a fun journey life has taken him on. He is so unique & has such a funny sense of humor. I love his billboards & pictures around because it reminds me that the best part of being ourselves is being different- the way we were meant to be.

Landon's Hand-Eye Coordination

Landon loves putting things in boxes, wholes, containers,
anything he can think of. He loves putting things together
& is really smart with how things work.
He kept putting his drinks in the box & played
Peek-a-boo with them.

He always got so excited when he opened it and his drinks were still inside. :)

Then, he would take a drink from each cup and put it
back into his treasure box. I love how kids get entertained
from the simplest things.

Jackson is 6

One of my favorite pictures of Jackson. I still need to edit the rest of all the pictures, but for now wanted to at least get this one on here. July 16

Jackson's 6 year old pictures

We took the kids to Heber for our cousin (Justin's) baptisim. We decided
to stop at the Heber Creeper and take pictures of Jackson & the kids
for Jackson's 6th birthday. Landon was not too happy because he had
barely fallen asleep when we had to wake him up, but the others thought
it was really cool taking pictures by the train.

First Week of 2nd Grade

Morgan wanted to try on all of her clothes

the night before for a fashion show.

Hallie didn't want to try on her new clothes

until she saw how cute Morgan looked, then

we couldn't take the clothes off of her.

Jackson wanted to model his new school

clothes too, and before we knew it,

we had a little gangsta on our hands.

I probably shouldn't post some of Jackson's

pictures on here because his hands are

making so many different signs & I don't

want to offend anyone.

Where he got it, I have NO idea!

Yeah, Jackson's clothes ended up being a

little too big for him. Maybe that's why

the crazy Kung Fu kid came from out of him.

Hallie was excited for Morgan to

go to school. Hallie put on the same

outfit as soon as she woke up.

Morgan on her first day of 2nd grade!

I remember Morgan's first day in Kindergarten &

she was in tears because she didn't want me to leave.

(one of her outfits from the night before)

Here she was though, on the first day of 2nd grade

ready to start in a different place with no tears!

She has loved her first week of school. I think

because there hasn't been any homework yet.

However, we have heard about a ghost, or 2 or 3

ghosts that were at her school. I asked her if

she and her friends actually saw the ghost in the bathroom

and she said, "A girl saw a person in the corner

by the ceiling with a white sheet on it & she came

and told me and my friends."

My response, "Morgan, if that same girl came

and told you it was raining chocolate syrup

outside, would you believe her?"

I could see the light clicking in her head- "No!"

and then "Oh"

Yeah maybe we shouldn't believe that girl.

There hasn't been any more mention of ghosts. :)

Here we go 2nd grade!

A Fun Summer Day

We have been so busy this summer, that we haven't had much time to just play. So, one day, when things were finally slow, we played.First we went to visit Grandpa & Grandma Nuttall. Jackson loved playing a game with Grandpa where they were shooting each other with rubber darts. Jackson definitely made Grandpa & Grandma smile with his rules for the game.

Then we went to the BYU Bean Museum to look at all the animals. The kids loved it! Morgan felt bad she didn't bring a notebook so she could write about & draw all the animals they were looking at. So we took pictures instead.


You can tell who my calm kids are, and which kids have lots of energy. I think they resemble the animals they are standing next to very well. :)

After the Bean Museum we went and got ice cream cones which was Landon's favorite part. I think we need to have more days like this, especially when the kids say, as we're driving home, "Mom! You're the best Mom ever!"

Summer Mornings

I love not being rushed to get the kids out the door on summer mornings. I love taking it easy & just playing or watching Curious George. On this morning, Landon was being so funny so we took lots of pictures of him & Morgan posing. Kids make the morning fun, until they say, "I want to eat!!!" Then its time to get back to work being a Mom.