park lane house

Sadie Hawkins was in November.  Sadies is always girls' choice so Alex got an invitation from one of the girls at high school.  Aldo got an invitation too but had to decline because he was going to Las Vegas that weekend to a Great Pumpkin Tennis Tournament.

This invitation aka huge chocolate heart showed up on our front door

"It would melt my heart if you went to sadies with me!!"

Rather than melting the chocolate, which Alex should have done, he started breaking the hunk of chocolate apart and found Emma's name in it.

The Sadie's theme was sports

Alex's group dressed up in boxing and tennis outfits

Emma and Alex

Emma and Alex

Bad to the bone, Emma and Alex

Good friends Emma and Alex

Kaylee Snow and Alec Wooley

Joslyn Taylor and Jace Hill

Dallin Kelly and Keena Horton

Edgar Cordova and Meg Whittaker

Austin Kocherhans and Caitlyn Cosgrove

Keena, Meg and Caitlyn

Emma, Kaylee and Joslyn

Alex, Jace and Alec

Austin, Dallin and Edgar

Alex, Jace and Alec showing their huge muscles

Zija convention was held October 19-20, 2012 in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.

There were about 2,300 people in the attendance during the weekend and it was a fabulous party.

Rod is getting ready for the stage.

Alex and Mike Sims.

Rod and I

Swanky lounge for the presenters

Jason dressed up as a Superman for the Supermix introduction. Russ Bianchi doing his part in the presentation

Kelli and I

Rod giving his wonderful speech

I think Rod can do it all.  He is the drummer with the band and playing "Fly like an eagle".  Only a few people knew that he was the drummer and everyone cheered when they realized that Rod was drumming with the band.  It was great fun.

Rod, Tiffany Spratt (suffering from cancer) and Ryan Palmer

Rod, Mike Sims and I at the end of the convention

Gold reception was a hit.

Rod on the stage

Distributors getting recognized

Jennilyn Jorgensen and I

Alex and Brittany Daulton

Barry Daulton, Alex and Brittany Daulton

Ken Brailsford on the stage

Cool pillows in the swanky lounge

The fall break from school was around my birthday in October. I took Alex, Aldo and Carsen with me and drove through Las Vegas to Newport Beach, California. Rod couldn't join us until later in the weekend when he flew to Newport from Salt Lake.

On the way in the car

Dinner in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel.

Buffet dessert for Carsen

Venetian Hotel with the boys

Shuffleboard at the Marriot Vacation Club Hotel 

Shopping at the Fashion Island shopping mall

Dinner in the harbor

Heavy root beer drinking at the grocery store

Knott's Berry Farm

Aldo and Rod in one of the contraptions

Roller coaster "Silver Bullet"

Alex and Aldo at Knott's Berry Farm

Then it was some beach time on my 49th birthday

Boys digging a hole for Aldo

Happy birthday to me!

Rod relaxing at the beach with a good book

Boys are digging and digging

Alex, the gigolo

Aldo is buried completely

Alex at the nearly empty beach

Who are these handsome beach bums?

Selfie

In just a few weeks from now we will celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary.

After the beach, we dropped off Rod at the Newport airport so he can fly home while the rest of us drove to Las Vegas for the night. We stayed at the Bellagio.

Alex, Carsen and Aldo outside of Bellagio hotel with Paris in the background

We were actually leaving Las Vegas at this point.

Pool time at the Marriott hotel in California.

Beach time at Huntington Beach in California