Broken

Johnny tore his knee in three places while playing football and Natalie spranged her ankle helping the Fyers move. With these two at the end of summer and K'Lee braking her hand at the begining of summer it was a long painful summer indeed.

All because of a peach!

That's right the entire thing is over a whole bunch of peaches!

Mom and dad in their Tye-dye sure made a bit of noisy especially during the first 57 entries.
Dawnell and Doug had to come in separate cars since Doug was in San Diego just 3 hours before the parade. Little bit of culture shock if you ask me.

It was so ROCKIN' AWESOME to have all of us there this year. Thank you Stephanie for venturing out on your own and sharing Peach Days with us!!

Cierra, K'Lee and Sausha on the curb in their tye-dye.

Micheal and his little brothers joined us.. He walked from his house in Perry pushing those two little guys all the way too North Brigham just to be with us. Micheal you are the greatest! Johnny you look like animal from the Muppet's when you do that face.

Sarah, April, and Brandon (Aprils Beau) came from Provo.

I LOVE BEING WITH MY SISTERS. Not to many other things makes me quite as happy.

Stephanie and Natalie are looking fabulous. Vonda and Heidi are in the background. The rest of the Crapse couldn't be there cuz James is battling cancer. We are praying for you James. We love and missed all of you.

This is Reese after we held him down for the picture. You sure are cute Reese.

This is a group shot of us at the Peach Days Parade. It sure was fun being with everyone and screaming at the entrees.

Daniel and Karolyn. Dan wore his Tye-dye socks....that was cool.

Cierra and K'Lee

When I watch Cierra and K'Lee it just makes me smile. These two have been such good friends ever since I can remember. I am sure glad they have each other.

Happy Birthday K'Lee

I cannot believe you are now 11 years old.
You were so excited about your birthday. It was exciting to see you sparkle.
You had lots of great friends and family celebrate with you. Natalie and Jessica were all smiles.

The candy bar game was a little different with your brother licking all of the candy wrappers he wanted. It still was fun even with Johnny's saliva all over the candy bars. Thanks for being such a great little girl. You will always be my "Pookie Bear" no matter how old you get:)

I CAN DO HARD THINGS!

The last day of my math class I came home to this fantastic poster on the garage door. I was so thrilled to have my sweet kids recognize the fact this was a hard task to complete.

My math teacher gave each of us a book mark during one of our classes. On one side of the book mark stated, "I can do hard things." and on the other side it read, "Strength and struggle go together. The supreme reward of struggle is strength. Life is a battle and the greatest joy is to overcome. The pursuit of easy things makes men weak. Do not equip yourselves with superior power and hope to escape the responsibility and work. It cannot be done. It is following the lines of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked." This quote by Ralph Parlette has stuck with me. I hope it will inspire others like it has inspired me.

19 Years later

John took me to the greatest little bed and breakfast for our 19th wedding anniversary. It was a castle. Here he is being my handsome prince.
The gardens were so beautiful...they had water falls and lots of plants.
This was our private terrace off of our room. We got to eat breakfast here, all alone.

I kissed a few toads and ended up with one amazing prince....lets hope for happily ever after now.

The Birthdays of July

We spent the United States birthday with the Fryers.. A wonderful BBQ and lots of great company.
They had a whole bunch of fire works for the kids after the ones at the park.

Jacob and Micheal sat by us.

So did Jessica.

Kylee and Natalie put tons and tons of 4th of July tattoos all over themselves, they looked festive.

A'leese turned 18 this year. WOW can you believe it?

She decided she was going to stay 17.... can't wait until shes forty wonder how she'll take that?

John turned old like me :) at least for a couple of months.

John is one of those things in life that get better with age!!!!