Happy Birthday MOM!!!

I know, I know.... I can't believe it either. It's your birthday again. I swear you were just 29 wearing your cowgirl shirt with tassles and boots with your big brown hair, wearing your exclamation perfume - ready for a night out dancing! Haha! Happy Birthday! You are truly the greatest Mom in the whole wide world. I look up to you so much. You are so beautiful, smart, and fun. I know it's cheesy, but I really hope to just be at least as half as good as a mom to Avrie as you were to me. Now stop playing on the computer and take yourself out to whatever you want! Do something that you love to do and haven't done in a while. Avrie said she will get her ears pierced for your birthday - hahaha. I can't wait to come up and celebrate at Sundance this weekend! I love you!

Shelby's last year of Drill Team - She is the best dancer ever!

My sister in law Shelby is an amazing dancer. She is a senior this year and competes at region today for her last time! Good Luck.
Shelby at a dance compition in Richfield
Shelby and Avrie
North Sanpete Drill Team


Kevin, Taylor, and Josh enjoying the dance - haha
Taylor and Shelby - I love this picture!

Her biggest fans!
Josh and Taylor
Linda and Shelby. Linda is so so sad her little girl is growing up.
Shelby and her coaches.
I had to put this picture on because her facial expression is so funny.
Shelby and Ken. Ken's favorite thing in the whole world is to watch Shelby dance. It's a good thing Avrie is in dance too!
Avrie gets so excited to sit with Grandpa Jungle and watch the dances.
Another dance - this one was at half time of the boys Varsity Basketball game. They did great!

Avrie, Cheyenne and Jorie

Shelby, I just wanted to let you know that you can't ever stop dancing. Watching you dance and all the fun trips to your dance compititions are some of my very favorite memories.

Bowling with Johnny Rock!

My dad took a bunch of us bowling. We had a blast!

I love Avrie

I have the cutest daughter ever. She takes such good care of me. If you didn't know I am a diabetic and when I get sick, I get sick. Two days ago Avrie got the 24 hour flu. She threw up all night long. She is so tough, she never complains. One time when she was throwing up she stopped right in the middle of it and remembered she had a present for me that her and her Grandma Linda had wrapped earlier. She had to go get it to give to me. She handed it to me and said hold on. She finished throwing up and said ok you can open it now. Ha ha it was a little book with primary songs. Anyways, I caught the flu from her. It hit really bad at about 2:00 when I was at work. I came home and laid down. That is when Kevin and Avrie set in. I didn't start throwing up until 6:00 and when I did Avrie brought in a table and made Kevin make me soup and brought me in a diet pepsi, a cold rag, my insulin and sugar tester, a book, my cell phone (she said if you need me to I will call 911), tweezers ha ha, and asked me if I needed a massage. A few hours later I was getting way worse and she came in and said how about a prayer. Part of her prayer consisted of - Heavenly Father please bless my Mom and Grandma Linda (who got the flu too) to get better, they are great women they shouldn't be sick. It was so cute. She also said if she gets better I promise I will take her to McDonalds. So cute. She got one of those syringes that you give infants medicine with and was feeding me water. She kept bringing me in different things and asking where I wanted them. When I felt half decent this morning I came out of my room and she had cleaned my house for me. I love her. I feel so much better now. It was really scary last night. At one point I threw up 16 times in one hour. I was on the phone with the nurses from the ER all night. Kevin was on the internet trying to figure out different ways to hydrate me. I have been in the hospital before for this, but we got through it. He was so proud of me. From yesterday morning to this morning I lost 17 pounds. Crazy! It will all be back tomorrow no worries. I am just praying for a cure for diabetes. For now I am so thankful for such a wonderful husband and daughter. They are the best!

Other random pictures of the past little while...

This is a ghost town (Calico) that we went to on the way home from Disneyland. It was really cool. We had a really good lunch there and went through an old mine cave.
This was Avrie's favorite part. The homemade chairs.

Avrie loves to do the "Shelby" face. haha

Little Avrie

SEAWORLD

We loved the sharks.
Shamu

They waited 2 hours for this ride.

Avrie loved jumping into the puddle.

Avrie loves dolphins!

DISNEYLAND!

Avrie and Minnie

Avrie's favorite - Tinkerbell

She begged and begged for this hat. I think she wore it a total of 10 minutes the whole trip.

Vern and Shelby

Ken and Linda on the new Toy Story Ride.

Avrie and Grandma Shelley
Grandpa Joey, Avrie and Grandma Shelley in their cute hats!

Avrie, Kaden and Kamree

In front of the castle! I want to go back right now.

HA HA Vern is going to hate me for posting this. I love it. We gave him a mohawk.