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MOM WHY HAVENT YOU PUT ANYTHING KNEW ON OUR BLOG? NOTHING IS KNEW AND EXCITING ANYMORE ITS ALL OLD STUFF FROM A LONG TIME AGO.!

oh no,
its SUMMER!
school just ended yesterday:{
I am so SAD.:{~
I really miss my teacher!
I think its so sad growing up and being in 6th grade.{for me any ways. lol.}
I feel so old.{lol} i mean com'on im turning 12.
Im just glad its SUMMER!, and im just going to enjoy it while it lasts!.
~Alessia

WOO HOO! SCHOOLS ALMOST OVER I AM SO SO SO SO SO LIKE A MILLION TIMES EXCITED FOR SUMMER!
BUT NOT 6TH GRADE!!!!!!!!,
BECAUSE I AM NOT READY AND I DON'T REALLY WANT TO BE IN 6TH GRADE .
BUT I JUST WANT SUMMER TO COME!
~Alessia

Alessia just started ballroom this year and we have been able to go to two competitions her school has been in. One was at UVU and one was at BYU. She is doing very well and having a lot of fun.

This year I would have to say was one of the best!! I am not sure how we were so blessed with so much fun but I am grateful beyond words. I have so many wonderful friends and family. Thanks to all of you and I hope the best for all this new year!

Sam was asked a couple of months ago to speak at a Shopzilla award event and in return they would pay for us to stay the whole week. So we made arrangements to make it work. Thank you to Stormi, Jamie, and Monica for taking care of our kids and making this vacation for me possible.

So here are some things I learned and things we got to experience while being there...

The buildings are beautiful with so much detail and I just loved that.

Though the buildings are beautiful, they are very old and some look as though they have been in a fire because of the black coloring that covers them.

The window displays are amazing. I could just window shop all day.

You need to make sure your electrical stuff can handle the output of electricity, even with the converter they provide you. Thank goodness I brought a curling iron I did not care about. It was melted into three separate pieces.

People smoke everywhere, even high class business people. It kinda reminded me of the old black and white movies.

They serve blood pudding and baked beans for breakfast. No hash browns:(

The late movie starts at 8:00. There are no later than that. It seemed that after that hour people just hung out in the streets and in the pubs.

Taxis everywhere and it is expensive. We took a taxi from and to the airport, but while staying in London, we chose the bus and the subway, which they call the subway the tube.

Elevators are called lifts.

English people really don't care about their teeth. I have never seen such horrible teeth in my life. Really crooked and very yellow.

Although they don't care about their teeth, they are very fashionable. I loved it because people looked unique and you could get away with anything you wanted. It taught me that you "really" don't have to look like everyone else and wear what everyone else is.

Smallest bathrooms in the world. I think? Most places that had a bathroom were smaller than a bathroom found in a camp trailer. I could barely fit into one that was at a theatre we went to.

People are either really nice or really rude.

Heathrow airport only employs people who have a cold heart.

Sunday traffic is bad.

Really nice cars everywhere, especially Ferrari's driven by middle eastern people. They also have the economical small cars every where as well.

Indian restaurants everywhere. Not one single Mexican restaurant. I happen to love both Mexican and Indian food.

A great place for the Olympics, it seems as though people from all over the world already live there.

We were able to find a clothing store that had great deals. It was so fun, and jam packed with shoppers.

For the most part London is a very expensive place to be. That would include everything. The hotel we stayed at was nice, but old and in US dollars in was $600 a night and it definitely was not the nicest hotel I have stayed in. I think it may have cost so much because it was in the heart of London? Food everywhere was double what it is here.

The squirrels in the park are extremely friendly to the point of actually crawling on your leg if you let them. I had to much fear to let them do it to me. I kept thinking they would crawl right up to my face and bite me and then I would get some kind of disease.

Over all I really had a great time. We took a tour bus and saw the whole city and we were able to see Wicked and The Woman in Black, aand the changing of the guards at Buckingham palace. We were going to watch a movie, and when we realized how much money it cost in us dollars ($50.00) Sam asked for our money back. Why pay $50 when you can watch it for $14 in the US. The park by Buckingham palace was beautiful. A huge plus is that we had great weather everyday! We did miss our flight on the way home and I would rather not leave this blog with a negative feeling so I will leave that story as just that. I loved every minute of our stay there and yet I am so grateful to be a US citizen!

Guarin's birthday was July 27th which we were in Florida at the time so we waited to celebrate with all of the kids.

He just loved his cake and I think I took about 140 pictures. Seriously I was picture happy. He just wouldn't stop being cute. HaHa!!

We are so glad to have this little surprise and can not believe the year went by so fast. He is not walking yet but has stood up a couple of times. He is mostly interested in taking everything out of every drawer he can pull open and smashing his fingers in them. It's a great combination.

I sure hope he stays cute, personality and looks!!!

We all love you Guarin!

This Summer went by so fast I can hardly believe it. It is sad to see it come to an end with the start of school. I guess I am one of those that get all teared up to send my kids away and I wish I could just freeze time because life just could not be more perfect. Anyway....here are some of the things we did during our summer that I did not get time to write about. We shared some great times and I am so grateful for all the friends and family who make our life so full of joy including many who may not be in the photos.

These are pictures of us visiting my Grandpa on Memorial Day. I am so glad we made it a priority to go and visit him. He passed away on July 27th and he will be so greatly missed. He was the kind of grandpa that always loved kids on his lap as you can see from the pictures. When I was a kid he loved to make us laugh and would tickle us for hours. My sisters and I would pretend that we owned a salon and he would let us do crazy things to what little hair he had. He was such a great sport.

One thing, among many, is that He had a way of making everyone feel like they were the favorite. I will forever be grateful for his example and great love he shown toward me and my family.

I guess I have been tagged? I really am not sure about this tagging thing?

Anyway...

What was I doing 10 years ago?

Ummmm? Let's see, I know my oldest daughter was about nine months and we just barely moved into a new apartment in Provo, so I am just going to guess that I was probably just lounging in the sun playing with her?

What is on my to do list for today?

Answer email, clean a little, return some things, plant some flowers, take care of bank stuff, get babysitting arranged for the kids, and all the little things in between.

What are three bad habits of mine?

1. Too much time on the computer.
2. Staying up really late watching usually pointless movies, which leads to...
3. sleeping in

Three things you may not know about me...

1. I get really homesick to leave Sam for even just one night.
2. I have a very silly side to my personality
3. I wish I could be a hip hop dancer with a famous singing group

Four movies/tv shows I love
1. Lost
2.Oprah
3.Design Star
4. latest favorite movie is Prince Caspian

Four books I love
1. How to Win Friends and Influence People
2. The Chronicles of Narnia
3. Quantum Success
4. Putting on the Armor of God

Four Jobs I have had
1. Good old Dairy Queen
2. New World Mortgage
3. Convergys
4. Forever and always MOM

Four places I have lived
1. Salmon, Idaho
2. Klamath Falls, Oregon
3. Saratoga springs, Utah
4. Present-Cedar Hills, Utah

Five of my favorite foods
1. Bombay House- chicken makhani
2. Bombay House- saag soup, pretty much anything at the place is delicious to me
3. Carabas- Pollo Rosa Maria Chicken
4. Dark Chocolate anything
5. Red Iguana- enchilada with the mole sauces

Bloggers I am tagging
1. Stormi
2. Tillia
3. Natalie

Siena had asked me if I had any material that she could have so I gave her some. A little while later I checked on her and she was cutting a shape of a dress. I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was making a dress for herself. I said, "really? Well that is going to take a long time to sew." Anyway she proved me wrong. I think she had it done in less than two hours all hand sewn. She even did the buttons and the scarf all on her own. So we decided to take some "run way model shots" of her new and upcoming line. I know she is my own , but I just have to say, she was absolutley adorable, and I was so pround of her that she did it all on her own!

I m going on a fild trip on may 14 2008 in one week and three days I am very excited it is at the bean musem I have alot of friends. The school year is all most over I will be in third grade and turn 9 I want Miss edwirds I'm glad I finily get a brake of school !!! . My best friend is moving I'm very sad. THE END

Last week I took the girls to Natalie's so we could visit with her and see her new baby. Brinlie is very cute and it is always neat to be around a newborn. Bittersweet for me, since I will be having no more babies myself. We had a good time and the kids loved playing with Pyper and Kazdan. The weather was not so great, but the kids still had a great time playing in the water at this park not so far away from Natalie's house.

The biggest event was when Pyper fell five feet from the swinging bridge to the ground at a different park. Apparently Kazdan scared her so badly that she took a dive off. To my great relief she was ok.

Sorry no pics, I was too forgetful to charge the batteries in my camera.

Ummm, the dog is now named ciela. Sounds like Chayla. This means "heaven" in italian. We are all hoping that she will one day be that. HaHaHa. The name change came about because half the kids could not quite say Scianse and so we decided to make it easier.