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Stitches for Halloween

See that big mole under Ben's chin....

He got it removed on Thurs.

He was very brave.

Back to school

Can you believe Ben is already in 4th grade and Roxy is in 2nd. I can't.

Lil' slugger

Baseball season actually ended at the end of June, but these pics are so cute I thought they were worth sharing.

Mom- I have a 5x7 for you, I just have to get around to mailing it.

24th of July celebration

At the face painting stand Roxy wanted tire tracks across her face.

Our ward primary had a float, Ben rode his bike along side it. If you click on each picture they get bigger.

Do you see Roxy kind of squished in the middle?

Me, my mom, and sisters Robyn and April walked the 5k in the morning. April is the one in the tank top and she is 5.5 months pregnant with a girl.

Last Christmas...2009

POST em!

Hello!!! Where are the hawaii pix?

Benji"s pinewood derby race!

Tonight was Ben's first pinewood derby race. He won 2nd!!!!!!

I love the intense look on both Ben and Roxy's faces.

Ben's car is the one in the middle, you know the one in the front :)

If you click on this picture and make it bigger, you'll love Ben's face.
Getting his certificate, not only 2nd place, also "most sleek".

Cute Baby

So I know I sent you guys this picture but I wanted to post it on the blog so you can look at it as much as I do! Is he cute?? What a good profile. Dad said with all these pictures he is going to come out saying "Paprazzi"!! I have another appt today but I don't know if she is going to do another ultrasound or listen to the heartbeat or just check me out. I don't know, I have just been so blessed to have such a wonderful Dr that takes such good care of us!

This is what 40 years'll do to you!

Watch out!
Oh, my goodness! It's the same hair-do!!

Here are my beauty queens with me.

Daddy/daughter Ball

Last Sat night at the kids school there was a daddy/daughter Ball. We were house/babysitting for the Trapnell's at the time, so these are pics of Roxy coming down their stairs to meet her daddy.

Doesn't she look old? If you click on the picture you can see it bigger.

She had a matching tie for him and he had a corsage for her. So cute!
She is showing him that the tie matches her dress.

hoarders

I don't see the promise pictures of the hoarding. How is there going to be an intervention with no evidence??

Gobble, gobble

Pretty please

Would somebody please share something from your life with me?

Katie, pix of your house, Am, halloween pix, anybody?

Halloween

This is what the kids wore to school. They were studying vikings and egytians, can you tell. We bought Ben's vest in the ladies dept at Target. Funny huh?

Here are our pumpkins, and the neighbor kids who carved with us. Ben's is the first one, it is a witch's face in the moon, and roxy's is the bat.
These are the neighbor kids with us, we drove to the nearest bunch of houses, since our street is so spread out.

On halloween night ben choose to be the Joker, his costume from last year instead of a viking.

Trick or treating at my moms house. They wished they could have also gone to Grammy and Papa's.

It's not even Halloween yet...

and it's already been a busy week.

These are pics from Blaine and Roxy's big date night on Saturday. They went to a place called Cornbelly's. It is a little Halloween carnival thingy at Thanksgiving Point. They had a great time.

What a great shot of her on the blow up tramp they had!
They had to wear these glasses in the fun house they went into. I love Rox's expression in this photo.
The same night, Ben and I went on a big date to a dance show called Thriller. It was really fun. He even got his pic taken with a zombie!
It was at the U of U in a place without very good parking, so we took the train up. He loved the ride, it turned out to be a major part of our date. He thought of Papa often while on the train :)

I think we look really alike in this photo.
On Mon and Tues of this week Benji got to spend the day with a group called the Young Americans. They are a song and dance group that travel the world performing for kings and presidents and such. They had a workshop at the school and Ben got to miss class and then on Tues evening they put on a show. It was fantastic. I can't believe the number of songs and dances they learned and put together in two days. 

At one point they had dance solos for select students, this is a shot of Ben break dancing. He even did a back flip, he was AWESOME! He performed in front of so many people.
He also got to say a line, he introduced the upcoming performance. Keep in mind there were almost two hundred students in this show and he got TWO individual things to do. Some people only participated in the group things. It was nice for us that the Young Americans recognized his natural talents.
The next two shots are of some of the group dances they did. 

He is in the middle of this one (in case it's hard to tell)

This girl is one of the cast members of Young Americans, during the training process she and Ben really hit it off. After the show we were looking for her in the crowd to take a pic with her and Ben, but when we found her, before we could ask, she asked for one, and her friend took a pic of them together for her to keep as well. Ben really has an amazing personality. These dancers meet so many people and kids, the fact that she wanted to remember him personally, really says a lot about Ben. They exchanged addresses and will be pen pals. Yeah, she is like 20 years old. 
And sadly, that brings us to today. 

This sad, sad pic was taken during the time Roxy was waking up from her surgery. You can see the fear and confusion in her face, I hate seeing her like this.

She was at the Orem hospital, they were great. You can see how they gave her bunny bear all the same treatment she had. When it was time for them to take her back, they wheeled her back in a wagon to make it fun. They even brought me a blanket and pillow while I waited for her. I thought they had tremendous bed side manor, then when we got home and I was looking through the paper work, I found a get well soon card, signed with a personal note by all the nurses who worked with her. How great is that?

Well, tomorrow Ben has dental work to get done, then all the Halloween stuff is coming up this weekend, so I'm sure I'll be posting again soon.