Another 10 Year Reunion

This weekend we had the chance to get together with my girls from college and their families. I can't believe it's already been 10 years since our freshman year. We missed you Tyra and Meghan!

To My Grandma

LaDean Sproul Snow January 21, 1926 to September 6, 2008

As the oldest grandchild and probably the only grandchild for awhile some might say I was spoiled. I might take issue with that, but in one way I was spoiled and that was with memories of Grandma and I have the most for which I am grateful. I have the most before she was sick and the lovely woman that she was.

Time with Grandma meant homemade bread with chunky peanut butter and honey.

Time with Grandma was getting a big bucket of KFC and going to Liberty Park.

Time with Grandma was left-handed journal typing and left-handed grocery list writing. As a child I never noticed, I knew my Grandma’s arm was not right, but I never really noticed until the sixth grade when one of my friends asked me what was wrong with my grandma’s arm. I said, "What do you mean what’s wrong with my grandma’s arm?" It is such a tribute to her that she adapted so well to such a traumatic life experience. She drove me everywhere, she wrote in her journal and she lived her life even though she was missing most of her right arm.

Time with Grandma meant chewable Vitamin C’s were a treat and you can eat them like candy and nobody cares if you get 300% of our daily value.

Time with Grandma meant playing games and it meant competitively. Grandma liked to win just like anybody else. We loved to play the pop-o-matic Trouble with her and land on people and send them back to home. We also loved to play Phase 10 and Grandma would like to say if she wasn’t winning "honest to Pete" I can’t believe I am losing this game and it’s just a favorite memory of mine that she wanted to win and she spent time playing with us.

I think most of all, time with Grandma was the stories that she told.
She told about saving the frosting off her cake and Uncle Kay swiping it at the end.
She told about working as a phone operator for Sears only making 5 cents an hour.
She told about her first date with Grandpa. She made him fish, which he hates.
Most of all she told about her story of Little Black Sambo and he ate 169 pancakes. That story has meaning to our family as it woke Steven up from a coma when he remembered that story.
I think Grandma showed us her love through her time. We honor her and love her for her sacrifices to us.

I just want to close with a scripture (Ecc. 3:1-2, 4-8, 10-11).
"To everything there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stone, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace. I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

I just wanted to say we love you Grandma and we thank you for your time.

Family Fun

So a couple of weeks ago my Aunt Paula and Uncle Brad brought the family of eight, minus one out to Utah. We enjoyed the favorite fried chicken picnic and some games in the park. Matt was in heaven because all the cousins are tall and what better thing to do with tall cousins then to play volleyball. I think all the tall people ended up on one team.

Here's Aunt Paula "smiling" for the camera.

Brother and sister disagreement? Who is going to win Samuel or Camille?

Andrew and Michelle chilling out. Michelle had to get all the rest she could as she was heading off to college at BYU. Yeah cousins thanks for inviting us to play.

Layton High Class of 1998 Ten Year Reunion

Hear ye, Hear ye, August, 16, 2008 was my ten year class reunion. Here's the good news I went to the picnic and ran into all these cool people you will see below.
Becca Steggell, now Becca Mark. See her cute son and husband in the next shot.

Matt Mark and his son Brady. Do you think they know that they both have two first names?

Lisa, Zariph, and Boston Price. Lisa and Zariph just adopted Boston and he keeps getting cuter and cuter.

Heather Buelo now Bennett and her hubby. Matt was happy to see Heather because they are volleyball buddies.

Shelee Kunzler and family. Sorry I can't remember Shelee's married name. Seems like I can remember one name or the other, but not both.

Cody and Lisa Sims. I was happy we ran into them and could share the "No Kids Yet" table.

So the bad news is the class officers we elected. For the record I thought we shouldn't elect them because they wouldn't be able to pull together a reunion and unfortunately they proved me right.

My two biggest gripes:

1. We paid $22 a plate for dinner which consisted of taquitos and mini taco salads with no meat. I told Matt that the entire class was vegetarian, but I don't think he believed me.

2. I thought the money might have been used for cool prizes. Nope. There were prices, but they were not cool. Ask Lisa and Cody who received a cheap plastic lunch bag.

Despite the expensivo dinner I was happy to see some of the people again and remember the good times at good old Layton High.

Threes

I stole this from the Wildens blog because I thought it was cool.

*3 Joys*
My husband
My young women
Reading

*3 Fears*
Spiders
Speaking in church
Losing a close family member

*3 Current Goals*
Be more organized in my calling
Get a new job
Take Matt to Disneyland

*3 Current Obsessions*
Watching the Olympics
Cleaning my house
Dr. Pepper

*3 Random Facts About Myself*
I am addicted to HGTV and TLC whenever there is cable/satellite around
I think 80's pop music is the best thing since toast
My toenails are bright red right now!

I am supposed to tag five people now, but I am pretty sure only five people read my blog, so if you read this tag your it!

The Best Two Years

No I did not go on a mission, but I did want to announce that Matt and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversay on June 29th. Some may say no big deal, but to them I say I work in a divorce office and it is a big deal. I can't believe the number of people that don't make it that long, enough said.

This year for our celebration we went to Tepanyaki, feel free to check it out http://www.my-tepanyaki.com/. The food was fabulous and we enjoyed the live cooking show. Just in case you are wondering Matt did catch the shrimp in his mouth and I did not attempt it as I don't eat seafood.

Honey, I just wanted to say thanks for the best two years I love you.

Nauvoo--The City Beautiful

We will have to start the Nauvoo post with the conclusion of our trip because it is the best family picture of the whole gang. Here we all are after all the site seeing whirlwind. We decided to venture out for a more rousing activity a la go-carting. Notice how great our hair looks after a few laps around the track.

I swear I can't take them anywhere, nevertheless here is my family in Nauvoo after driving approximately 22 hours. Here is the sign out front of the Nauvoo temple built in this century. The temple looks gorgeous from the outside and even lovelier on the inside.

Here's Spencer expressing his excitement for this trip, notice the money in his hand. You'll never guess how much he paid for a steamboat pencil sharpener, so I'll tell you--$4.00. Ahh, tourism.

Here's what I do best--check off everything on the list, okay so maybe I am the itinerary nazi.

Melissa loves this game, can't you tell?

Stick pull anyone?

Melissa, Spencer, and I making rope in the Family Living Center.

This is our favorite missionary, Sister Jones, we got the tour from her at the John Taylor home and the Wilford Woodruff home. What a cool mission!! We sure appreciated her enthusiasm and willingness to put up with our endless questions.