Kate Dance & Welcome Sandra

Well here we are, the end of the summer and the beginning of the school year. We end the summer with Kates last dance class, arent they adorable? And we start the school year with AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM GERMANY! Willkommen nach Amerika Sandra Stellmacher! This pict is of Tara and Talia right after Sandra came off the plane at the LV airport. Its late at night and 5am her time and she had been in airports for over 24 hours because of plane problems and switching flights around, so she was pretty tired. But anyway - we are excited to have her here and we hope that we dont teach her to many BAD things about Americans..... I warned her that we dont watch football, or baseball and thats the American sports, so if she wanted that experience she's in the wrong family. She's not sportsy so she really has no clue what I was talking about. She has good english but she cant understand us, we talk to fast. When I slow down to talk to her I talk really loud and have to remind myself she isnt deaf!! She often says, "i dont understand." and we explain it a few more times. When I asked her how her flight was, she used charades and made sounds to explain it. We just laughed. The language barrier thing is very interesting. Well, thats all for today.... Toodles!

Hi there!

So here are some more picts that I took. The girl in the photo with Tara is Ploy. She is an exchange student from Thailand. We had her for 4 days until she was put with another family permanently. But we have another student now. Her name is Sandra Stellmacher and she is from Germany. I'm going to post this and then start a new post because I really dont understand why it puts the new pict on the top of the post and not at the bottom. So..... TTFN

So I got a few lessons on photograpy from a lady in town that owns a studio. She's totally cool and doesnt mind sharing her knowledge. So what do you think? Feel free to use my awesome picts as screen saver or whatever, I'm cheep for now. And judging by what she taught me and what she tried to teach me about lighting and shutter speed, I have a lot to learn. Enjoy!

I cant beleive its over ~~

All the stress, preparing, planning, packing, and shopping (whoa, the shopping, yowza!) are all over! I cant beleive it. It was so fun and the only regret I have is not spending more time with my Tara. Well, that and being behind the camera, you never get your picture taken with your daughter, because you always have the camera....

Dad - thank you thank you thank you so much for driving all the way to do what you did. You were awesome and the girls loved you..... I'm so sorry you were so sick while you were there, I wish we could do it all over again and you could feel good. I enjoyed my time with you and I wish we could have had a dance out there so you could swing me around the dance floor like the good old days.

For the record, Keven dug his own grave last year...... He has this giant 5 gallon pressure sprayer thing he has used in the past to soak people and this year, they got him good. They surrounded his truck and drenched him every time he tried to get to his sprayer. I just sat by the fire and chuckled everytime he came back to camp all soaked. Eventually he got it but it was late and everyone was done so I guess what goes around comes around huh? Good Times.... Good Times.....

Summer Is Half Over???

Oh dear, when Shari posted to her blog it reminded me that I have one too! Where has the time gone... Summer is half over around here and we have survived EFY, Scout Camp, Youth Conference, Drill Camp, a backpacking hike in the High Uinta's, the Mesa Visit, and even a visit from the Dorians.. Now Girls Camp is this next week. Whatever will we do after that? I know what I'll be doing..... Packing in the miles in 100 degree weather, ouchy wa wa........

Here are a few of the latest fav. picts. REally I could create slideshow after slide show of all the picts I've taken...... Dont you love Tara's new glasses? I thought this pict of Kate pointing to the temple turned out kind of cool with the Angle of the temple and stuff. If anyone wants any of the picts I took of them in Mesa, let me know. I think Darren and Hank have them all but I can email them to you individually if you want.

Tah Tah For Now

Kate's Bday

Well the day came and went and its all said and done. She is 5. I cant beleive I am so old that my baby is 5! That makes the rest of you ancient, right? I mean Shari was telling me about Rachel not being in YW anymore and that's weird too. All these little mile stones we have to go through, they kind of stink but they are kind of cool too.

Cant wait to see everyone for Emilee's wedding!

Summer Vacation Laziness

Thanks Darren for telling me how to make a video. I'm totally excited!!!

More picts in a minute

Well, its taking forever to download the video....... maybe I did something wrong....