Jr. Jazz

Today, Noah had his last Jr. Jazz game. He has had such a great experience and has really grown to love basketball. He has really gotten to be a great player. Kent coached this year also and it turned out to be a great experience for both Noah and Kent. The parents and kids really liked Kent and a lot of them told him that they wanted him to coach again next year. He was very positive and fair with the kids. We only picked Zach Mccleve to be on the team and the rest of the kids were just random but they were all good players. We had a pretty good team and only lost 3 games.

Noah, Zach and Tyler






The whole team

Happy Retirement Part 2

This past Friday night was my Dad's 65th birthday. In honor of his birthday and retirement, we all went to the temple and did a session. It was so awesome. All of my siblings were able to come and my sister in law Cherish was able to come too. It had been a long time since I had been to the temple. It was such a wonderful, beautiful experience. I hope I am never without a temple recommend again. After the session, we all went to Lonestar Steakhouse for dinner and to celebrate my Dad's birthday and retirement. After dinner, we went back to my parents and got all the kids together and had cake and ice cream. It was a really nice day.
This is all of us siblings outside the Jordan River Temple

Happy Retirement Part 1

So my Dad is officially retired. He had his big retirement party with his work today. All of us siblings were invited to go and have lunch with his coworkers to celebrate his retirement. He has worked at various places over the years (all for the government) including Tooele Army Depot and Hill Air Force Base but his last 15 years have been at the Bureau of Reclamation in downtown SLC. The luncheon was at Little America. It was great food. All of the siblings were able to go except Kenny. We missed ya Ken! It was so fun to meet the people he has worked with for so long and to hear some of the things they had to say about him. All of them really seemed to like him and kept saying how much they were going to miss him. They gave him a little scrapbook and a bunch of golf stuff. My Dad also stood up and introduced each of his coworkers and told what their job title was. I was so impressed he remembered every ones name. There were about 20 people there. He seemed to be very well liked. I love my Dad so much and am so proud of him. He was always such a good provider for our family and taught us all the value of hard work. Congrats Dad!! You deserve it. I'm sure he'll be doing plenty of golfing(:

They knew what a big BYU fan he is so they gave him a BYU golf towel along with money and gift cards to a golf store. They know him too well.
After the luncheon was over, I opted to go back to my Dad's office and see his desk. I had never been there before and wanted to see where he had been working all these years. Better late than never I guess. They had U of U confetti all over his desk to tease him. They also had picture up all over in his cubicle telling him happy retirement.

Girls Weekend

This last weekend I got the chance to go see my sister, Tara, who lives in Las Vegas. Thanks to my other sister, Kristi, who came also. She was able to give me a buddy pass. We flew out there on Friday night and then drove back to SL with Tara and her boys on Sunday. Tara was coming to town for our Dad's bday/retirement party. We thought it would be fun to have a girls trip and go see her house and then help her drive back. It was a fun time. We went shopping and out to dinner and had some good chats. Her house is so beautiful. They just moved in there a couple of months ago. We had a great time. I didn't really get any pics. The only picture I took was of my cute nephews, Drew and Luke. Sometimes its just a drag to have to deal with the camera. Raleigh was good to watch the kids while we went shopping and out to dinner. I'm already for another girls trip.

Nostalgia

A few months ago, I reconnected with a long lost roommate from Ricks College (aka BYU Idaho) on Facebook. We have talked for quite some time about getting together and finally found a day to work it out. She invited me to her house for dinner. They live in Layton. It was so good to see her and her cute family. It has been so long. we were trying to figure out when we saw each other last and we think it was at our other roommates funeral. (Our roommate, Christy, died of Cancer about 7 years ago) We don't even live that far from each other but life just gets so busy that sometimes you just have to slow down and make time for things. We had dinner and then had a nice time visiting and talking about old times. I can't believe it has been 20 years since we were roomies at good old Ricks. It was nice to visit. We are talking about doing a little roommate reunion some time this summer if we can get all of us together again. I was really lucky and had such great roommates and it would be a lot of fun to see all of them and their families again. On the way home, I stopped and showed Noah the house I lived in when I was a little. It was off Bennett St. in Layton. Layton has changed so much that I couldn't find it without calling my mom to help me with directions. It was weird seeing that house again and remembering some of the things from when I was really little. We only lived there until I was 7 but I still have a lot of memories of that house. I made Noah get out and I took a picture of him in front of the house. It was dark so the picture isn't that great but it was so strange to think its been 30 years. I couldn't believe how small the house was either. I also showed him the school I went to, Lincoln Elementary. Talk about nostalgia. This is me and my roommates 20 years ago. Yes, I'm blinking in the picture. We had a running joke that I always blinked in the pictures.



Me, Marie and her husband, Mark

Our old house (it still looks the same as I remember it)

Meeting A Jazz Player, Sort Of

During the Jr.Jazz program, the kids get an opportunity to meet a Jazz player. They don't personally meet him but they get to go the the Energy Solutions Arena and listen to the player talk and run drills. This year the player they got to meet was Paul Milsap. Noah was pretty excited. He was really hoping to meet Deron Williams but he was still happy to be able to see Paul Milsap. They called all the 4th grade kids down to the floor at one point and ran some drills. Milsap kept walking right by Noah's group so I got a couple of pictures.

A Very Long Post

I now have a child in double digits. Noah just turned 10. It is so hard to believe. He is such a great kid and really lights up my life. This year, he was with Kent for his actual birthday so on the day before his birthday, I took him to dinner at Red Robin (his choice). At school, for his birthday he wanted me to bring in Little Ceasers pizza for the class. So I bought a few pizzas and took them in. The class loved it. The Friday after his birthday I let him invite a friend to Nickelcade. He invited his friend Juan from school. They had a great time. Not my favorite place to go but of course they loved it. They had pizza and played video games for a while. Sunday we had the family party. Everyone came over for dinner and cake and ice cream. He seemed to have a great birthday. He is growing up so fast and turning in to such a great kid. He's always trying to be silly and make me laugh. He is a pretty well rounded kid. He likes school and really likes to read. He also likes sports and really enjoys watching Jazz games. The rest of this post will probably be pretty boring but I've seen other people put on their blog the story of their child's birth. I realized that I don't have this documented anywhere so I'm going to try and remember the best I can. Feel free to stop reading now. This is mostly for me to have this written down somewhere. I have also included tons of pictures in this post. They are of some of my favorite pictures of Noah growing up. Okay, don't say I didn't warn you.






The night of January 5, 2000, Kent and I went to the hospital (Cottonwood) so that I could be induced. We thought my due date was December 31, 1999 but every time I went in for my checkup, nothing was happening at all. Everyone kept telling us we were going to have a New Year baby or a Y2K baby but that didn't happen. When I arrived at the hospital, they had me get into a gown and then the doctor came in and placed a medication called cervadil (unsure of the spelling) in my uterus to help induce labor. Not long after it was placed, I started having severe stomach cramps that I'm assuming were contractions. I called the nurse for some pain relief and she gave me 2 percocets which didn't do anything so they gave me some morphine which helped. They kept coming in and checking me constantly and at one point had to give me oxygen and a shot in my arm to help the babies heart rate. The next thing I knew, they were placing my epidural and I was going into full labor. I pushed for about 2 hours and was getting so tired. My legs felt like jello from the epidural but that epidural was a wonderful thing. The doctor said if the baby didn't come out soon, I would have to have a c-section. Then a few minutes later and with the help of forceps, Noah was born Januray 6 at 9:29a.m. weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces. It was actually a pretty smooth delivery and I was so happy there weren't any complications. I think I had a harder time postpartum then I did delivering the baby. I had a lot of pain and couldn't sit down without my "donut" for a long time. I also had a catheter (long story for another time) for approximately a month after I had Noah. He was such a good and easy baby. I remember him sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old. He definitely is a cool kid and I'm proud to be his mother.

Newborn photos


1 year old


2 years old


3 years old


4 years old


5 years old


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9 years old