This picture appeared in today's Deseret News article online. Cool!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
BYU/Ole Miss Game
Craig, Jared and I went down to Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday for the BYU/Ole Miss football game. What a fun day! Craig co-chaired the BYU tailgate event before the game. I helped out by offering face painting! We had a great time and BYU won in a very last minute push to score two touchdowns. Go Cougars!
This picture appeared in today's Deseret News article online. Cool!
This picture appeared in today's Deseret News article online. Cool!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Girls Camp 2011
Three weeks before Girls Camp began, the state park we camp at called to let us know that due to recent heavy storms, their pavilion and a couple of cabins were struck by fallen trees and they could no longer honor their upcoming reservations. So after 2 1/2 days of many, many phone calls to every facility within three hours of the Memphis area, I was able to find a great girls scout camp in Grenada, Mississippi. My incredible staff swiched over all our plans and made it work for the new location. We had a fabulous week, with lots of little miracles!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Noah and Matteo visit!
The bad news: Japan was hit with a major earthquake and tsunami a few weeks ago. Besides widespread destruction to many of the northeastern areas, damage to a nuclear reactor plant threatened radiation poisening to the entire country. Our friends in Tokyo, the Briscoe's, opted to take advantage of the voluntary evacuation offered by the US. They flew to Chattanooga, TN (5 1/2 hours away from us) to be with family there.
The good news: We got to have Noah and Matteo spend the weekend with us!! Last Thursday, JoAnn and I both left our places at the same time and 2 hours 45 minutes later met in a little church parking lot off the side of the highway in Nowhere, Alabama. Noah and Matteo jumped out of their car and into ours. JoAnn and I spent 10 minutes catching up and then turned around and went back to our respective homes!
Bryce and Jared were thrilled to have the Briscoe boys for the weekend. They stayed up late playing video games, basketball outside, and paintball in the forest. Today we all went to church together and then Craig took all four boys on the long trip back to that little church parking lot in Alabama!
We pray for all the people in Japan and for a country that we visited and fell in love with last year!
Bryce and Noah - padded and ready for paintball action!
Matteo tries to hit them as they run through the forest from one side to the other.
Matteo and Jared get hit on their turn -- once is enough!
The good news: We got to have Noah and Matteo spend the weekend with us!! Last Thursday, JoAnn and I both left our places at the same time and 2 hours 45 minutes later met in a little church parking lot off the side of the highway in Nowhere, Alabama. Noah and Matteo jumped out of their car and into ours. JoAnn and I spent 10 minutes catching up and then turned around and went back to our respective homes!
Bryce and Jared were thrilled to have the Briscoe boys for the weekend. They stayed up late playing video games, basketball outside, and paintball in the forest. Today we all went to church together and then Craig took all four boys on the long trip back to that little church parking lot in Alabama!
We pray for all the people in Japan and for a country that we visited and fell in love with last year!
Bryce and Noah - padded and ready for paintball action!
Matteo tries to hit them as they run through the forest from one side to the other.
Matteo and Jared get hit on their turn -- once is enough!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Spring Break!
For spring break we took a road trip from Memphis to New Orleans to Houston, to San Antonio, to Austin, to Dallas, to Conway, and back home. Phew!
Day one: We drove down to New Orleans and walked the French Quarter. Very dirty and not what one would call 'child friendly', but fun to experience. Jared did not like the smell of Bourbon Street! We ended the day with beignet's and hot chocolate at Cafe DuMonde -- delicious!
...got powdered sugar?:
Day two: We watched as an artist painted us two pictures that we had requested. He was so kind and grateful that we loved his work. We took a horse and carriage tour of the French Quarter which really made it come alive -- what history! Open air shopping along the Mississippi and lunch at the Louisiana pizza kitchen - yummy. A fascinating swamp tour showed us life on the bayou. And we couldn't pass up another plate of beignets to end a great day!
The famous Pirate Lafitte's blacksmith shop. It was a front for his smuggling operations:
A very unusual bug:
Jared thanks the donkey for pulling our big family:
Joan of Arc:
Day three: Drive to Houston. Eat at Olive Garden for dinner near our hotel.
Day four: Houston Space Center. Very cool look at NASA mission control. Kids tired of the museum pretty quickly. We stopped at the Katy Mills Mall for some shopping on our way out of Houston. Then on to San Antonio.
Day five: Sandy Kay met us at our hotel with Ava & PJ, and we all went to Sea World! Fun day. Sandy and the girls stayed with us at our hotel instead of driving home that night. It was one big slumber party!
Day six: Sandy took Alana with her back to Phlugerville (I love that city's name!), while Craig, Bryce, Jared, Tolan and I went to Six Flags. Very crowded but lots of fun. Jared talked me into going on the river raft ride twice where I got completely soaked by the waterfall both times!! Thanks Jared...
Day seven: On to Austin. The kids stayed at Sandy's house while the grown ups went into the city. We picked up Derek from work and had the most incredible taco's I've ever had. Torchy's is a trailer off the side of the road -- talk about ambiance! We ordered a beef brisket taco with grilled onions, jack cheese and avacado; one with shredded beef, avacado, queso, onion, tomatillo sauce and lime; and a marinated grilled chicken, onion, pepper, cheese, pico de gallo and hot sauce combo. Delicioso!! For dessert, we headed over to a pie stand for some brownie, buttermilk, bumbleberry, and white chocolate pecan personal sized pies that we all shared. We all weighed in on our favorites: mine are the buttermilk and bumbleberry. Yummmmm. We dropped Derek back at work and took Sandy home, picked up our kids and headed north through Dallas to McKinney.
Our great friends Stephanie and Mike Price moved there about seven years ago from North Carolina. It had been that long since we saw them, but we picked right back up from where we left off. Bryce and Emily remembered each other but the other kids were either too young or weren't born yet. That didn't stop them from becoming fast friends, playing with each other all night. Emily and Sarah performed a vocal/piano concert for us, and the little kids came up with ways to play and torcher each other (Tolan loved pulling little Cameron's curls). Steph and I stayed up well past 2am reminiscing about old times and catching each other up on our lives since the moves.
Day eight: After a delicious breakfast of bacon, pancakes, and fresh fruit, we packed up, thanked the Price's for their hospitality and hurried to the Dallas Cowboy Stadium for our scheduled tour. What an amazing facitily! Huge!! The tour took us all over the different seating levels, and behind the scenes to the storage rooms, the locker rooms, the press rooms, and the tunnel that the players take to the field. Great tour! We drove on to Conway, AR that afternoon to spend some time with Craig's parents and watch BYU beat Gonzaga!
Day nine: Woke up, and headed home. Long trip, full of fun times and great memories.
Day one: We drove down to New Orleans and walked the French Quarter. Very dirty and not what one would call 'child friendly', but fun to experience. Jared did not like the smell of Bourbon Street! We ended the day with beignet's and hot chocolate at Cafe DuMonde -- delicious!
...got powdered sugar?:
Day two: We watched as an artist painted us two pictures that we had requested. He was so kind and grateful that we loved his work. We took a horse and carriage tour of the French Quarter which really made it come alive -- what history! Open air shopping along the Mississippi and lunch at the Louisiana pizza kitchen - yummy. A fascinating swamp tour showed us life on the bayou. And we couldn't pass up another plate of beignets to end a great day!
The famous Pirate Lafitte's blacksmith shop. It was a front for his smuggling operations:
A very unusual bug:
Jared thanks the donkey for pulling our big family:
Joan of Arc:
Day three: Drive to Houston. Eat at Olive Garden for dinner near our hotel.
Day four: Houston Space Center. Very cool look at NASA mission control. Kids tired of the museum pretty quickly. We stopped at the Katy Mills Mall for some shopping on our way out of Houston. Then on to San Antonio.
Day five: Sandy Kay met us at our hotel with Ava & PJ, and we all went to Sea World! Fun day. Sandy and the girls stayed with us at our hotel instead of driving home that night. It was one big slumber party!
Day six: Sandy took Alana with her back to Phlugerville (I love that city's name!), while Craig, Bryce, Jared, Tolan and I went to Six Flags. Very crowded but lots of fun. Jared talked me into going on the river raft ride twice where I got completely soaked by the waterfall both times!! Thanks Jared...
Day seven: On to Austin. The kids stayed at Sandy's house while the grown ups went into the city. We picked up Derek from work and had the most incredible taco's I've ever had. Torchy's is a trailer off the side of the road -- talk about ambiance! We ordered a beef brisket taco with grilled onions, jack cheese and avacado; one with shredded beef, avacado, queso, onion, tomatillo sauce and lime; and a marinated grilled chicken, onion, pepper, cheese, pico de gallo and hot sauce combo. Delicioso!! For dessert, we headed over to a pie stand for some brownie, buttermilk, bumbleberry, and white chocolate pecan personal sized pies that we all shared. We all weighed in on our favorites: mine are the buttermilk and bumbleberry. Yummmmm. We dropped Derek back at work and took Sandy home, picked up our kids and headed north through Dallas to McKinney.
Our great friends Stephanie and Mike Price moved there about seven years ago from North Carolina. It had been that long since we saw them, but we picked right back up from where we left off. Bryce and Emily remembered each other but the other kids were either too young or weren't born yet. That didn't stop them from becoming fast friends, playing with each other all night. Emily and Sarah performed a vocal/piano concert for us, and the little kids came up with ways to play and torcher each other (Tolan loved pulling little Cameron's curls). Steph and I stayed up well past 2am reminiscing about old times and catching each other up on our lives since the moves.
Day eight: After a delicious breakfast of bacon, pancakes, and fresh fruit, we packed up, thanked the Price's for their hospitality and hurried to the Dallas Cowboy Stadium for our scheduled tour. What an amazing facitily! Huge!! The tour took us all over the different seating levels, and behind the scenes to the storage rooms, the locker rooms, the press rooms, and the tunnel that the players take to the field. Great tour! We drove on to Conway, AR that afternoon to spend some time with Craig's parents and watch BYU beat Gonzaga!
Day nine: Woke up, and headed home. Long trip, full of fun times and great memories.
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