Monday, March 30, 2009

Girl's Night Out

March 21,2009
Some high school friends came down to have a girl's weekend! I was only able to join them for dinner because of the move. But it was SUCH a great time!
Left to right : Amanda Holt Nelson, Mary Fredell Braun, Pamela Rice Smith, Kellie Carty Shotwell, and Beth Bedke.

Preference Ball '09

For Preference Ball, Jaycie and her friends got up at 6:30 am
to kidnap their dates for breakfast!
The whole group of kids, before caving.

Jaycie and her date....Cody Patterson
She asked him by giving him a Mt. Dew at the movie that had a note attached that said:
Do the Dew, and come to Preference with me!
Simple but sweet!
They had dinner at the Ence's house. Their back yard was
decorated immaculately! Look how beautiful the table looked!
And.....look how beautiful my girl is!

Spring Break Hot Tub Party

After the ball games, we warmed up the hot tub!
Jaxyn's lovin' the girls!!
Jaycie and Steph soakin' after the games!
Me and Jax.....relaxing!
Kylie and her posse

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Spring Break Softball Tournament

For Spring Break, we stuck around and watched a bunch of ball! Jaycie had softball tournaments all week long! It was tons of fun!
Jaxyn, my little cowboy! He was quite the trooper! We were draggin' these
kids from ball park to ball park!
Kim and I hangin'!

She's a true Babe!

Jaycie and Bailey! Cute girls....
Right Field!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Playing Catch up!

Okay! Here we go.......we're back in business!
It's time to play a little catch up!
March 6, 2009
Lazer Tag and Iceberg with the Bottom's Family!
Miss Reagan is enjoying her ice cream!
Skyler and Johnny

Sky was such a trooper to hang with all the little kids!

Brynkers, Mommy and Jax

John and Dru
These guys are so great! I REALLY don't know what I
would do without them! They are THE BEST!
Thanks guys!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Temporarily Out of Order!

I don't know if anyone noticed, but I missed my Bloggin' Sunday! Well, my lap top is in the shop....having some things fixed and removed! So I'm unable to post pictures for the time being. Let's see if I can give a quick update of what is going on at the Shotwell house! I'm finding it hard without pictures to recap..... Probably the newest happening is that I have found a house. But that is really probably a next week's happening! I will be starting to move in around Wednesday of next week. It'll be great to have a fresh start. Will post pictures when we are settled. It will be an adjustment, but a step in the right direction. Tuesday night after looking at the house, I headed on over to the Lamoreaux's to see Gil. (For those of you who don't know our neighbors, Gil is a sweet 2 yr. old boy who recently fell out of his 2nd story window onto their concrete driveway. After a week of trauma, he and his family are home and doing well.) It is just amazing to me that he is so perfect. I am so grateful that he is healthy and well. I have no doubt that it was a miracle that he could be so good. When I got there I expected him to be in bed, but found him in the swing out back playing with his siblings. I just marveled at him. They are an amazing family and I am so grateful that they were blessed with such protection. Love you Lamoreauxs! If you haven't read Robyn's blog about their story...you should. But get a box of kleenex, you'll need it. Friday night my good friends, the Bottoms' had the kids and I over for Pizza! They are great friends and watch Jaxyn and Brynklie for me after school every day. I really don't know what I would do at this point in my life without great friends. You really find out who your friends are. Thanks to all of you for your love and support. After Pizza we went to play Laser Tag. It was a great time! I have pics to post, and will.....soon....I promise! We then headed to Iceberg for some gigantic shakes! Thanks again Bottoms! I needed the night out, and we all had a blast! Not much else to report. Hope your week was great! Spring Break starts for us on Friday! Nothing in the plans.....gotta work! But it'll be great for the kids to have a break! Looking forward to dance competitions for Kylie coming up next month, and softball! Jaycie made the high school team again this year! She is also doing track, so she and Ky will keep us busy! LOVE IT!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Vegas Road Trip!

Well, Saturday we had big plans! Jaycie, Kylie, Skyler, Grandma Sandy, Trina, Jackie,
Pam and I loaded in the Suburban on a Road Trip to Vegas!
Destination.......Maggiano's Little Italy!!! Well, we ended up with a few minor, okay MAJOR problems!
Look at the lug nuts in the picture above. Count them!
Big O tires had recently put new tires on the Burb. They
torqued the lug nuts a bit tight! All but 2 studs
were broken off into the roater.
Not easy to drive 75 miles an hour on!
We actually are very lucky that we didn't have an accident!

Waiting for the tow truck to come!

Officer Eric Seitz from the Moapa Police stopped to keep us company!

This is a shout out to Officer Seitz! Thanks for the help!

You might think that the kids would get a little impatient!

Heck no! They looked at it as the perfect opportunity to

practice their modeling and photography techniques!

Who would have known that such cute photo opps were available
just past Glendale, NV!
(good ol' Glendale....family memories of Warm Springs!) The tow truck finally got there, and we were finally on our way!
Big O took good care of us.

Skyler and I had fun riding the escalator at the
Fashion Show Mall. People probably watched us
and thought....small town folk! Lol!
See....Escalators are fun to pass the time on!
We had a bit of a wait!
Me and my kiddles!Girls just wanna have fun!
And they did!Great times!
We finally got seated! But our party had to
be split in half.

No big! It was fun....we didn't have to sit at the
"adult" table! We had a blast!

Good food, Great friends! I was SO happy Trina came!
She is a great friend, I wouldn't know what to do without her!
Can Skyler eat this whole yummy Apple Crustada by himself?
Heck Yeah!!!
This cute little guy was sweet enough to come sing to us!
He wanted a picture with me, since I was the photographer!
"photographer's never get their picture taken"
Little does he know! hahahaha
Manners? What are they?

They may have eaten too much!
It was such a great time! I'm so glad that we made it, and
had the experience, truck problems and all!
I am woman hear me roar!
Meow!

Busy Week!

Pet Day for Jaxyn and Taffie!!!
It was Pet Day at Kindergarten on Thursday!
What is a mom's biggest nightmare about pet day?
That the dog will get loose and run around the school causing great
commotion and disruption???
Absolutely!
My nightmare came true!
But, in the end we caught her and Jaxyn was able to give a nice little
report on his puppy!
What fun!
Spring made it's appearance in Southern Utah this past week!
It's my VERY most favorite time of year! Renewed life and clarity abounds!
So, I took a minute to do some yard work! I will have to take some pics of my
daffodils that are starting to bloom! I'm a happy girl!
Brynklie Jo couldn't resist jumping in my pile of leaves!
What good is a pile of leaves if you can't jump in them right?
Why is Brynklie dressed up like a Rodeo princess?
It was the Daddy Daughter Western Jamboree!!!
So, Brynklie took her daddy and enjoyed a night of fun!