Vacation at the Lake

With everyone coming for Tami's wedding, we decided to get together at the lake for a little family fun. Most everyone came, Mark & Holly, Kirk & Kari, Lisa and Barry, Tami, & Reed. Chad had to be flown into PHX on Friday night because of work, Bret was finishing school and Becki was getting ready for a big craft show. They let us have Kingston, which was great. Barry has a nice boat and the water was perfect for wake boarding!

We had J'net and Bryan and Uncle Denny and Nan come on Friday and we have fun on the big plantoon boat.

Kirk and Kari had the longest drive from Utah and they beat us to the lake on Wed.

We had to get a picture of all of us there!

Reed playing with his nephew, Kingston!

Mark and little princess, Milea!!

Kaemon and Gpa having chips and salsa!! Yummy!

I was under orders to keep Kingston in a life jacket at all times!

Marks family having fun on the tube, they loved it!!

Three of my adorable grandkids having fun at the lake! Bubbles!!

Tami & Ryne's Wedding Day May 9th, 2009

What a happy day we had on Sat. May 9th! Our baby girl got married! She was a beautiful bride! The day started out a little rough, we had some glitches and bumpy spots, but it was peaceful and wonderful once we were all inside the temple and watching this special couple get married! They make such a cute couple!!

The proud parents!

Here's all the groomsman and bridesmaids!

This picture was so funny of Kingston & Kaeman, they were not happy!

I made all the bow ties, cumberbands and dresses! That was fun!!

I didn't get a very good picture of Rynes family. His sister Taylor wasn't there, but TJ and little Dallin on the right. Ryne's dad, Shawn, mom-Jocelyn, sister Britney, and daughter and husband.

HAPPY DAY/ WEDDING DAY!

OPPS!! These pictures are exactly opposite of the order I wanted to post them!! Sorry!! Tami and her brothers! Holding their baby sister!!

Tami and her sisters! My 3 beautiful girls!

Tami & Ryne with her siblings! They all were there, that's quite a feat!

The whole gang on the steps of the Mesa AZ Temple!~ It was so hot!

If you look really close in the back right corner, you will see Nanna & Pompa staying in the shade, they were waiting for someone to call them to the pictures! They are the reason we are all there at the temple and they aren't even in the pictures!!

The beautiful bride and groom!

California trip!

The 22nd of April was our last day of finals so my brilliant girlfriend Natali had the idea to go to Disneyland and Six Flags as a reward for our long and strenuous year at school. Boy was it a great idea. We ebayed our way into half price tickets for both parks! We stayed at Natali's sister's future in-laws house for two days and then stayed with Mark and Holly for one. Holly and the kids treated us to an awesome day at the San Diego Zoo to finish up our trip.

In explanation of the slide show "California Ducks" video...Natali and I were walking around 6 flags when we saw a guy chasing some geese. The geese flew away and he yelled "I didn't know ducks could fly!" Haha...we had to film the Californian ducks for the funny memory. Unfortunately the camera wouldn't zoom out so you get a couple great up-close looks at my attractive mug :).

The other video is of me eating a turkey leg that Natali and I devoured while in line for Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland. Natali thinks I make a great caveman :).

P.S. Thanks to Mark and Holly for letting us crash at their house and hang out with them, it was a blast!

Kari Graduates from BYU!

Dad and I headed up to Provo for Kari's graduation from BYU on Thurs. April 23rd! It was a great day and we are so proud of Kari and her major accomplishment! This a before picture of Kirk and Kari in Nan & Denny's beautiful backyard! Such a cute couple!

Kari was one of 6200 graduates and the Marriot Center was full and it holds 22,000 people! It took 40 minutes just for the graduates to file in! Elder Nelson and Elder Uchtdorf spoke and it was a really nice ceremony!

Here she is, an official BYU graduate!!

Kari wanted a picture at the entrance to BYU that says, "Enter to learn, Go Forth to Serve"

Kari smaller graduation!

On April 24th Kari had her smaller graduation where she actually received her diploma! She graduated from the School of Family Life and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Family and Consumer Sciences Education. She is so excited to already have a teaching job for next Fall.

These are a few of the 12 girls that graduated with the same degree as Kari. She was the only one with a job so far!

The proud parents! We are very happy for you Kari and know that you will be a great teacher!

Tami's Special Day!

On Sat. April 25th, Tami went to the St. George Temple to receive her endowments. It was such a great day! We stayed at Reed's friend's house, Natali, and her family was very good to us. They put LaVerl & I, Kirk & Kari and Chad in their guest house. Reed slept on the tramp with her little brothers! They fed us breakfast, then a great luncheon afterwards. It was a little windy and rainy, but still a wonderful, happy day!
Here we are in the wind and cold, trying to get a family picture!

The darling couple, Ryne and Tami outside the Temple!

Swiss Family Robinson

If anyone was wondering whether or not I actually go to school here is a little project that I headed for one of my Civil engineering classes. We had to design something and we chose to design the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House. It was really fun and I think it turned out great. It was actualy a lot harder than it looks.

Birthday!

Just in case you all forgot on Sunday I turned one year older and wiser too!

So on Saturday Chad, Natali and I went to Tucanos for lunch and had some Brasilian food. It is amazing. I got to eat all my favorite meats like picanha and fraldinha and also ate some Abacaxi (pineapple that they grill with cinnamon). Then for my birthday they had me get up and do a dance while they played the drums and sang "Parabens" for my birthday. I did a little jig as you can see in the movie below.

Then on Sunday (my actual birthday) I went to church and then Natali made me some Shrimp Scampi! It was really good. Then for dessert we had Cheesecake. MMmmmmm. Then later Chad, Kari, and Kirk came over and we played some games. It was a great b-day.

He liked it, so he put a ring on it...

OH, oh oh, oh oh oh ooooo........... finally.
For the past 11 months I have been dating the greatest guy. He is a stud muffin. He treats me like a princess (lets be honest here, he spoils the crap out of me) and he holds me when I cry (which has been a lot). He has put up with me crazy stressed out from school and thinks I look hott in my teal baggy scrubs. He adores that I am dramatic and fiesty. Opposites do attract and we are great example of this. He is so funny. (this is not an opposite cuz I am hilarious). Everyone is in love with my guy. Its true. I'm not sure my Pomp would have talked to me again if things didn't work out with Barry and I. He is just solid and consistent. I love his squishy gutz! I am the luckist girl in the world cuz he asked me to marry him.

I got taken out during a fast break in a hospital b-ball tournament (made the lay up in case you were wondering). This bought me an x-ray, a day of crutches, a week of Percocet, and a month away from running and b-ball. But I think I'll be okay.

OUCH!

Day 1

Day 8

Sunday Easter Outfits

Our Backyard Spring Flowers

Dyeing Eggs

The Post-hunt Spoils

Conference Weekend 2009

This conference I spent time in Roosevelt with M&D, B&B and kiddos. I do love when conference time rolls around. We are so blessed to have prophets and apostles who constantly give us direction. I am so grateful for the words of ever encouraging FAITH!! This time that concept is what touched my heart. FAITH. Move forward with faith. Doubt not, fear not. (Kari taught me that). I loved every word. I love Elder Eyring!

I also loved the chance to do some fun things with family.

Whats missing??

Yep, you got it. DAD's mustache is gone. Now that Mom and Dad work in the temple, he found it appropriate to give the 'stache a break. I have NEVER seen my father with out a mustache. It was quite the shock. I think he looks younger and more like grandpa Crosby. What a handsome guy.

Check this out Dad!

Hey Dad- Kirk just showed me this website that I think you would like. It is called ldslastdays.com
It has a bunch of talks and stuff about that last days. You should check it out!

Call me Mrs. Kinsey!

So hey family, guess what! I have some great news... I got a job! I'm talking a real, grown-up job! I've had a couple interviews these past few weeks for teaching jobs, but wasn't too enthused about any of them. That is, until this Wednesday. Wednesday I had an interview at a school called Channing Hall. It is a charter school located in Draper. It is a new school, only 3 years old, and nice and small. I had an interview and toured the school and the principal offered me the job right afterwards! I was shocked because I know a lot of people who have applied for that position. I feel really excited about it. I will be teaching 7th and 8th grade CTE (career and technical education- which includes business, technology, and home ec.- should be interesting!) and also FACS exploration, which is  basically an intro to cooking, sewing, fashion, interior design, etc. The pay is higher than public schools, the class size is smaller, I get full benefits and retirement, the building is new and nice, and the faculty is very friendly and helpful- What more could I ask for?! I haven't formally accepted the job, but am going to on Monday.  I really feel so blessed to have a job when jobs are so short and before I have even graduated. It saves me a  lot of time and stress and gives me all summer to prepare. Pretty cool huh?! I am like officially a real grown-up now?!

Flat Iron

Barry, Jon and I piddled around all morning on Saturday and after feeling completely unproductive decided about 1:00 to go hiking, so we did. It's a hike in the superstitions called flat iron . DAD, you really have to hike this, you'd like it. It was really quite challenging. I'm not exactly in as good as shape as I would like and getting over a bad cold so my lungs and legs were burning. We ran out of time to make it to the top and I'm hoping I could have make it. But I liked the challenge and It was wonderful to be out enjoying life. I was certainly in a slump from being all cooped up. FUN DAY. GOOD WORK OUT