CONGRATULATIONS Kayli!

At the end of last trimester, it ended Kayli's first year cheering for Box Elder High School. At the end of March, they held try-outs for the upcoming year. Happy Day - she made it again. She is very excited - AGAIN! She feels that the team is a really good one. She is looking forward to being the Historian Captain and is excited to be doing it with Natalie Jeppesen. We look forward to another great year doing cheer.

Kayli & Brady

I took Brady's family pictures and of course Kayli HAD to have pictures taken with Brady. Sandy said "they look like engagement pictures!" That was not the intent (I promise). Kayli and Brady have been dating for a few months. Brady definately brings alot of life to our house. He constantly makes us all laugh with his corkiness.

It was alot of fun to take these pictures - mainly because they were willing to do whatever I asked them to do. The bridge they are sitting on was the most unsafe bridge I have ever seen - it had tons of holes through the wood and then cover with snow. Kayli, I love you tons (especially your spunkiness)!

Bourne Family

This is one of the funnest families I have ever work with - alot of spunk and laughter was shared this day. Sandy wanted family pictures for Christmas. I have to say - they turned out AMAZING!

Fall Update

This has been a really long and hard fall and winter for me and the girls. We have had ups but many many downs. I have a couple of things that are great therapy for me: the first definately is work - I love working at The Peak. I work with some of the best people in the world (couldn't have made it this far without them) and second, I love taking pictures. Our cheer coach asked me to take pictures of her cute little family. She is an amazing wife, mom and best of all friend. These are just a few pics we took this last fall.



Thanks Brooke - you are the BEST! I love you and your cute little family.

Lauren's Birthday Party

Today we celebrated Lauren's 11th birthday at The Peak. She invited several of her friends (Shelby, Tillie, Elise, Hannah, Courtney, Kylie, Ryleigh, Holli, Kenzie and Adia) I think they all had a ton of fun. Not all of the girls are in the above picture.

This was Hannah's first time to jump off the rockwall into the foam pit. It took a little convincing but after Kayli climbed up and jumped at the same time as Hannah - she did great. Hannah is the one staning on the ledge then Lauren, Courtney and Tillie. The foam pit was a hit for everyone.

Happy Birthday Baby. I love you. I am glad you had a fun time.

You know you're poor when...

A couple of nights ago, Kayli was hungry and of course I was bailing out of making dinner. She put a couple of Totino pizzas in the oven. Yes, I have a family of six - and yes, I am counting two totino pizzas as dinner. I cut the pizza each into 6 pieces. Me, Lauren, and Madi Mae each had two pieces. I gave Kayli and Jeff three pieces each. We sat down to eat and all of a sudden Madi Mae asked me if I would cut her last piece in half "Cause I am still hungry and want some more pizza". I asked her if one big piece and two little pieces was more than two big pieces. "Of course mom - cause now I have three pieces like Kayli and dad". Oh how I wish that was true.

The story gets better. Today, I ran to the bank to deposit my paycheck. Madi Mae asked if she could bring all of her coins and change them into dollars. She ended up having $5.41 worth of change. We went up to the teller and she gave Madi Mae a $5 bill and then .41 cents. She seemed extremely disappointed to change ALL of her money in for a $5 bill. I tried to convince her that it was just like have 500 pennies and it seemed to work a little. We ended up going to 7-11 to get a drink and she wanted to buy herself a Slurpee. Now this is where it gets good - She got rich just by buying a small Slurpee because she got 4 $1 bills - Yes, lets count them 1 - 2 - 3 - $4. Now that is alot of money. The 7-11 lady gave her tons more money than the lady at the bank. I wish that is really how life truly works.

Box Elder vs. Bear River

This Box Elder's first home game and boy was it exciting. Box Elder won 17 to 14. I took the girls down to support Kayli. It was a lot of fun watching her cheer. It seemed just second hand to her. I am used to watching her cheer at competitions so it was refreshing to watch her being so relaxed. The mini cheer camp girls performed during halftime and then the cheerleaders did their pom routine. Here are some fun pictures of Kayli during the game. Kayli is the front flyer in this picture.














This is a close up of Kayli. I teased her because in several pictures #49 was looking back at the cheerleaders. I told her that I thought he was checking her out. She just rolled her eyes.

Kayli is the one doing the tuck. I keep telling her that she is up high enough to do a full but I think she is still a little apprehensive. I know it is harder than it looks - but it would be awesome if she would throw a full.

The girls had a lot of fun watching their sister. Lauren was really sick but she didn't want to miss this game. I tried to call my parents to pick her up but they weren't home. She really was a trooper.