Utah State Gymnastics Pre Season

Team Retreat at Bear Lake

  "F-R-E-S-H-S"

(freshmen)

Go Aggies!

check out video, you can see ashley on beam!

http://www.youtube.com/user/USUGymnastics?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/MUS91mwBF1o

Fall pictures

September Stats!

I'm going back to BYU to finish my degree (finally after 25 years!) and one of the classes I have to take is Statistics!  Much rather would be in Northern Baroque Art but instead I am hanging out in the statistic lab asking really young people how to solve statistic problems!  After thinking I was the oldest person on campus I did see a lady who was definitely a grandma, which i am not yet!  Even though it is hard I am very grateful for this opportunity to be able to finish something i started long ago!  So here are the Follett Stats for September!

Kelsi and Stephen 99.999% still the most in love newlyweds I have ever seen, working hard with school, work and they come over every Sunday Evening!  It is awesome to have married children, we just love them!

Ashley-25% competing for Utah State University Gymnastics team, she made the Beam lineup and will be the starter(that's a baseball term not a gymnast term but it works for us folletts)  Ashley is loving USU, she is loving having a cousin (spencer) up there with her and not just because he has a car and even though he became a true aggie before her!  She loves her roomate Susie and is doing well is school, not too stressed out about 77%, which is good for ashley, this is her in study hall which all the athletes have to log in time each week!

Nick-30% school, 60% football 10% work.....notice 0% time for girls!  I love football season!  He is doing great, and started off the season as one of the linebackers but now they need him on defensive line which is interesting!

Jackson is about 50% school...Thinks Junior High is really cool!  30% church friends, scouts, calling, temple baptisms, and 20% soccer, new team and is struggling to make his mark but he will!

Emma 82% loves her new teacher, 86% loves dance class and choir, 98% loves to drive her brother nuts!

Lily-75% is cleaning or organizing something!  86% playing hard non stop moving! 2% sleeps

Kenny 100% done with Woodbadge Requirements!  congrats for all the hard work!  Got to celebrate with ceremony and family with his mom in town!

My hand is still 90% swollen and i am about 65% left handed now!....lots of medical tests and the Dr's are 100% sure none of them know what is wrong!!!!!  look how fat my fingers are! i can't open or close my hand...kenny says i walk around like the bad guy in the Fugitive with the prosthetic hand....not funny!

My stats professor would be so happy and I can't wait until December for the class to be over!

Lily learns to ride a two-wheel bike in seconds!

by far our easiest kid ever on a bike!  thank goodness cause we are old!

UTAH STATE....GO AGGIES

just dropped off ashley for college!  can't believe that im that old to have 2 kids out of the house!  we will definetly miss ashley in our home....now i feel very surrounded by boys all of a sudden....lots more burping. farting and survivial shows in our house.....ashley was a nice buffer and i miss her as my enforcer, helper and friend!  of course she is excited to be at college and only a couplke of hours away so she can talk her sweet cousin into driving her down when she gets homesick!

Now we are officially Aggie fans....GO USU GYMNASTICS....i guess this is how the gymnastic team gets around campus!

JULY"S jitterbug! and AUGUST'S Awful Spider

if you look closely at wedding pictures emma is kind of absent and pictures that she is in she looks miserable!  that is because she got a nasty bug the day before, high fever, couldn't eat, horrible cold sores, one nasty virus!  since we had so many wedding guests staying at our house and didn't want the bug to spread we had her sleep in our room!  the dr said it was strep but never gave her a culture, just looked at her mouth and it was so bad he gave her an antibiotic. about a week later, i started to feel extremely exhausted!  then came the body aches, high fever, sore throat....went to dr and my strep culture came back negative. (i dont think emma had it either) he gave me an antibiotic anyway because i had a ear infection and something nasty going on in my mouth.  after about a week and a half of being in bed i began getting the cold sores and for about a week i could not eat!  i recovered faster from giving birth then from this bug!  it completely wiped out my immune system and i was left with several weeks of no energy!  i would clean a bathroom, and have to lay down!  thank goodness for big kids who can go grocery shopping, cook, and clean!  and little kids who take such good care of lily!  emma has been amazing!  i really did not want lily to get sick so it forced us to get her to sleep in her own bed all night (yeah) and im so glad none of the other kids caught the bug!

i cant say that for kenny!  unfortunately he came home from work and suffered through the bug for about a week, missing work which he never does!  he had to suffer through the next week being sick, fighting a nasty mucus cough and like 4 days of non-stop hiccups at work!  we were a mess! 

the biggest bummer is that because he missed so much work, and how this bug leaves you with no energy, he had to miss the 50 miler he was planning on going with nick and jack!  he was so bummed!  he did go up one day and met up with them and had a great time! ......pictures of boys coming home from 50 mier!  he did go up half way through the week with some other members of our ward to cook the scouts some hamburgers after eating backpacking meals for a few days it was very appreciative!

so just as im feeling kind of normal i woke up with my wrist feeling funny...almost like i slept on it wrong...as the day wore on it got worst...the next day my whole hand was sore and in pain...i have had arthritas before in my wrist from a car accident many years ago but it would always flare up when the weather turned cold so this was different.  i began to ice it, take advil but no relief from anything.  the pain got so bad i had to go to ER...my hand was completely swollen and hot to touch!  the dr looked at sun spot i had and  saw a dark spot in the middle and said it looked like i was bit by a spider and gave me an antibiotic...2 days later, no change except more pain....no sleep because it is to painful at night to sleep even with kenny's stash of vicadin!....back to dr and they took some blood work to see what i wrong...another week off my life!  blood tests came back...not rheumatoid arthritis or gout, and other blood work normal!   so its been 3 weeks of not being able to use my right hand!  Our summer has been quite boring for the kids but they have been a great help to me!

What a blessing it is to be healthy and how often we take it for granted!  can't wait to feel normal and be able to clean my house!

Wedding Photos

What a beautiful day, beautiful couple and so fun to spend it with all our family and friends!  We were so lucky to have people come from california, washington, texas, new mexico, idaho and im sure more places! I have such gratitude for everyone who helped with the wedding, could not have done it without you!  Here are a few candid shots that my good friend susie took! 

The Beautiful Couple


Nick was such a help the night before setting up!

Temple Pictures

 Reception Pictures

Photo Booth pictures!

This is my mom's sister and my cousin Lori who came from CA.....it meant so much to me to have them there....i really missed my mom through this whole wedding experience and having my aunt marilyn, lori and my mom's cousins (next picture) there was so great, I really felt my mom there because they came!  It was one of those tender mercies for me!

And these ladies are just a few of really great women who helped me with the wedding...it still makes me tear up when I think how hard they worked and I have only known them for a few short months!  AMAZING!  they are on my all time favorite list!