Lacrosse Season

Well it's Lacrosse season at our house. This means that we don't see Jason very much because of a two hour practice everyday. Then it's either homework or work at Best Buy that takes him away for the rest of the night. He loves it though, and he is happiest when he is in the hight of the season.

This season has been a little different for us. Jason has usually played on the Junior Varsity team and this year he went up to the Varsity. We are used to Jason playing most of the game and scoring most of the goals. He was the highest scorer on the team last year. This year he is on the second line and hasn't played very much, but he has scored two goals already.

I'm over all the score keepers for all four Lacrosse teams for Lone Peak. This has kept me very, very busy the past few months. Once I get through training everyone and get the schedules set than I can usually sit back and enjoy the games. I'm looking forward to that day!

We love it though. It's a great sport. If your kids are thinking about going into Lacrosse, let them!

(Jason is #18 and in the maroon and black uniform. The other guy is from Murray High)

Our Easton Is ONE! (Already!)

I can't believe that we have had Easton with us for one whole year. It just doesn't seem that long since he joined our family.

He has been such a joy! He has such a different personality than Carter. A personality that reminds me of his Mother's. He is very determined and a go getter but tender hearted. I have the two cutest grandson's, don't I?!

They celebrated by going to Chuck-O-Rama for dinner. Easton loves to eat and so everybody went for a pig-out. Unfortunately I had to miss it because I got sick. It made me even more sick that I had to miss Easton's first birthday party!

After eating they all went to Christine's to eat cake and ice cream. Easton would hardly touch his piece of cake that Christine put in front of him. The frosting must have scared him or something because this kid usually will eat most anything put in front of him!

Well happy 1st birthday Easton. We love you!

My Daughter, My Friend, My Motivation

Twenty Eight years ago yesterday my life changed forever! My only daughter was born. After over 18 hours of labor they put the most beautiful baby on my stomach and I took one look at her and wondered what I had done. I felt so overwhelmed with the responsibility that was just given me.

She has been such a joy in my life. She has been my motivation to keep going, she has been my motivation to challenge myself because she was always challenging me!

There are not words to tell her how much I love and appreciate her. There are not enough descriptive words to tell her how proud I am of her and the life she has chosen for herself.

Christine, whatever it is I did to deserve you, I am glad I did it!

She was the first grandchild on my side of the family, and the first great grandchild for my Grandma & Grandpa Gurney (my mom's mother & father). So she has always been a little special because she was the first.

We had so much fun celebrating with her yesterday. It's a tradition in our family that the birthday person gets to choose their favorite meal. Christine chose prime rib, potatoes, green bean casserole and for dessert she wanted banana cream pie. It was so yummy, even if I do say so myself. Our mouths had been watering for days and it was great to finally sink our teeth into the meal.

My Dad and Mom joined us for dinner and then some of the rest of my family joined us for dessert. It was a great day!

Happy Birthday my daughter!

Wow Time Flies!

I haven't posted for so long, I don't know where to start. I've been so busy with Lacrosse season starting. I am over the score keeper's and I have to organize, beg and plead for more help since we have four teams. I have had to train and I'm still training and get the items necessary for everybody to score keep! I love doing it once the games start, but the pre-game stuff is really tiring!











The funnest thing we did was go up to Mutual Dell in American Fork Canyon for Mary Jo's son's Cody and Cameron's birthday party. We went sledding, we ate and played games and just had a great time! My Dad even got in on the sledding! I was so surprised. I can tell he is feeling better from his Chemo to join in on things like this.


















Jory, Mary Jo's husband built the most awesome snow couple! He is so talented when it comes to being creative with his hands!












They are remodeling Mutual Dell. I remember going there after it was first built for a mutual outing. Oh, the memories it brought back being there!

Wow am I feeling old!

WOW!

Look! No Snow!! I even hear birds singing in the trees next door. It's so fun to see the tulips and other spring flowers poking their heads through the ground and feel the warmth of spring trying to get through each day!

Well, we're enjoying spring one last day before the snow comes again tomorrow. But it will be back in a few days. Isn't it great!

Cabin Bliss

We went to the cabin over the long weekend and we had so much fun that we extended our stay another day. The snow is the best it's been in years and we had so much fun on the snowmobiles and sledding.



As always we had plenty of food and stuffed ourselves. We enjoyed playing Settler's Of Catan, Hotels, and Canasta. Daniel had fun showing everybody how he gives himself his insulin shots, Christine was even brave enough to give him one. I can't get myself there yet.








We were so pleased and surprised that my parents came out for Monday afternoon. It was so fun having them and Suzanne and her girls join us. My Mother will be talking about her snowmobile ride for months to come.




Christine and Brad made the trip eventful by locking their keys in the car turned to the "on" position. (The car wasn't running, the keys were just turned on.) Needless to say their battery was dead and so we had fun breaking into their car and jump starting them on their way.





We have a tradition of burning our Christmas tree at the cabin on New Year's. Unfortunately we didn't make it up to the cabin this year to do so. We had taken our tree out on an earlier trip and when we got there this time all you could see of the tree was the tip of it. But Scott dug it out and we lit it on fire for our traditional tree burning event.

The nights were so clear and bright from the moon that you could see as clear as if it were dawn or dusk. The days were warm and bright and we were out of the inversion and so it was wonderful all the way around.

Are We Surprised?

Well it's snowing again. It snowed yesterday and and we are in for more today and Sunday. Why do I keep having this fear that it's all going to thaw at one time and we are going to be in trouble come spring?

Snow, Snow And More Snow

We have so much snow. For some people it's getting to the point that they don't know where to put any more of it. The piles are so high in places that you feel like you are driving or walking through tunnels of it.


In this picture the snow on the trampoline has melted and fallen to the middle and then the melted snow has turned to ice. So the trampoline is being pulled down in the middle with an ice flow.

The storm the other day was so bad that roads were closed because there was white out conditions. Some children had to stay at Ridgeline Elementary overnight, and poor Scott spent 2 1/2 hours getting from Provo to the Alpine exit which normally takes about 20 minutes.

Now some people say they are sick of the snow, but it just reminds me of how it used to be here when I was growing up and I think most of it is so fun.

Well spring will be here soon. We know that there is an end in sight.

Still My Valentine After 20 Years!

Scott and I had a gift certificate for The Melting Pot restaurant so we decided to celebrate Valentine's before the rush. It was so fun and the food was a new experience! It's so nice to still be in love with my best friend after all these years. Not all of them have been easy, and I am still amazed that he is still in love with me! I am so lucky to have him!

Genetics

I don't know about you but I think Carter looks so much like his Grandpa Ron and Easton looks a lot like his Mom. I think he has a bit of my Dad in him too. Genetics are an amazing thing aren't they? Since Easton was born I have felt like I have been taken back in time to when Christine was little. He reminds me so much of her.

Our Current Hurdle

Well life has seen fit to throw us a hurdle this week, and just when for a quiet moment things where going so well for everyone in the family.

We found out this week that Daniel has type A Diabetes. (This means he will be on insulin the rest of his life) It's been a little hard to swallow but we are regrouping and we are so thankful that the Lord has been watching over us during this time!

Daniel was so sick that he was a day or two away from being in a coma and ending up in the hospital. But from what we credit to the Lord's hand we had several things happen that made Dan get into the Doctor before it was hospital time.

It has been hard with Daniel being three hours away from us. I wanted so much to put my arms around him and comfort him and my heart ached so much that I wasn't with him when he found out the news and that I couldn't ease his disappointment.

He had his moment of grief and now he is facing it head on and learning what he needs to know to take care of himself. (This was especially a hard blow for a kid who loves food and loves to eat, and eat often. Now it means figuring out what he is going to eat so he can give himself a shot and then checking up on it later.)

I'm going down tomorrow to meet with his specialist and learn about food, shots, and anything else I need to know. I'm going to have to learn to cook a little different when he is around. It might be good for all of us to eat a little healthier!

I'm proud of this young man! He is so awesome

A Grandma's Got To Do What A Grandma's Got To Do!

Carter called a few weeks ago and told me he was going to Disneyland and asked me if I wanted to come. Of course being the wonderful attentive Grandmother that I am I couldn't tell him no. So I am off tomorrow to go to California with Brad and Christine and the two cutest grandson's anybody could ever have! I am looking forward to going on the rides with Carter and Easton. This will be Easton's first time there, so it should be interesting! Carter has already decided which rides we are going on first, so I am sure we will be following his lead. I love Disneyland, especially when I am with my grandson's!