Mama Jo and the fam!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I didn't know I could be a puctuation mark!?.,:'";!...

You Are a Comma

You are open minded and extremely optimistic.

You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything.

You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests.

You find it hard to turn down an opportunity, even if you are pressed for time.

Your friends find you fascinating, charming, and easy to talk to.

(But with so many competing interests, you friends do feel like you hardly have time for them.)

You excel in: Inspiring people

You get along best with: The Question Mark

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Friday, September 19, 2008

Ending the week...

Wow... It seems like I've been celebratng my birthday all week! It's a LOT of years to celebrate, so I guess it takes more than one day! I started celebrating it last weekend at the cabin with the whole fam, then I went to lunch with Teresa and Ty and a quick little shopping tour in downtown Mesa. Ya have to check out Bella Fine and the little shops around it. Oh and ya have to eat at Sweetcakes. It's a cute little sandwich shop. Then I went to dinner with Kristin, Jaron, Krislin, Jadon, Mason and Braxon at Serrano's. Always yum there. And of course they took a silly picture of me that I'm SURE will probably show up on a BLOG somewhere! And if you're wondering where Mike was during all this partying... he was having a grand time in Ohio at a fiberglass factory! So... Mike and I took Friday off and did whatever I wanted to do ... so we went to downtown Glendale ate lunch and went to a bunch of antique shops til we were tired of that. Then we went to Cerreta's Candy factory and HAD to buy some chocolate candy. Then went went to the Biltmore fashion Park to see how the rich people shop and THEN we ate dinner at Steamers Seafood there. Way nice, way yum and way pricey... but hey... it's my birthday week! Thanks to everyone who wished me Happy birthday and for the fun and not to mention the presents! Now on to Saturday and the reality of cleaning and catching up on laundry. Ahhhhhh such is the good life!!!

Sweetcakes

Antiques... This is at the Apple Tree

Cerreta's Chocolate

Biltmore shops

Steamers

Monday, September 15, 2008

Back from the great cabin adventure!

We are back and recuperated from our great family cabin adventure! This past weekend we were all able to get together at the Gunnells cabin (Thank you Gunnells) and have some family time before Brandon leaves. We had lots of yummy food, went crawdad hunting, had a picnic, played frisbee golf, did a little quad riding, watched movies, played games, played Phase 10 til 2 in the morning... (yep... I actually stayed up that late, but I don't think I knew exactly what I was doing after midnight), had a really good FHE on Sunday which included the Silly Family Body Parts game, to see how good we can recognize each other and the rest was missionary themed, of course, Krislin did a great talk and game about Brandon, we talked some more and watched a video and concluded with one of Brandons favorite meals... a baked potato bar! AND before we left the birthday buddys (me and Braxon) celebrated with cake and ice cream and presents! The only bad part was the weekend went by too fast and we had to come home. It is always a fun and funny time with the fam! Check out the slideshow!

September birthdays!

It's another month of birthdays!! The 18th for me and Braxon... the 21st for Aimee... and we always remember little angel Jason on the 19th.

Braxon

Aimee

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Ward campout

Friday and Saturday me Mike and Brandon went to the ward campout. We went to a new place called Mabbs Ranch. We were the first ones there ... so we thought... is anyone else coming?!? But about an hour later later lots of people started coming and we had 26 families... which is a LOT of prople! It turned out to be a really fun camp. Brandon got the assignment to be the camp guide to help people find camping spots. Of course he didn't mind at all... he got to ride Brother Mabbs quad. Our ward has a tradition of having The Amazing Race on Saturday morning. It is a great well thought out and well planned game and is quite involved. It's family against family and is timed. Mike and I did stations, (we did the race last year and almost didn't survive... The two of us and 4 teenagers... Trent carried me on his back the last stretch... so Mike and I decided we would retire this year especially since the course was bigger and higher!) and so we adopted Brandon out to the Lee family. They ended up getting 3rd place! Great trip... As always... there was good food and a good time for all!

Brandon helping Bishop find a camping spot