Surprise.......

It's Taylor Swift!!!! Tonight I was able to surprise Jake, with the help of 2 of my friends from work, and take him to the Taylor Swift concert. He had no idea that we were going to the concert.

I told him that we were picking up 2 girl from my work, going to Salt Lake, having something to eat, and then we needed to help a girl with something she was doing. I told him that he could count it as service for his scoting. He was less than excitted, to say the least. He did not want to go, and complaine the entire time, until I picked up the other 2 girls from my work.

Then we started out to the Surprise. As we got to Slt lake and had to stop at stop lights, there were girls everywhere with "I love Taylor" shirts on, so Kris would distract Jake, and then we got to the California Pizza Kitchen for dinner and there were Taylor Swift things everywhere. It almost seemed hopless. We ate dinner and visited as well. It was alot of fun, and Jake was starting to loosen up a lot more. I started to think that this was going to be such a great night!!! I couldnt wait!!

After dinner we decided that we were going to walk up by the Energy Solution's Arena, and show Jake this cool thing that they had there, as we started walking up the street, there were at least 15 semi's and buses that were plastered with Taylor Swift Advertising's. Teddi looked at me and said, " you had better tell him now, we cant hide these." so I looked at Jake and said, " Surprise!!!! You are going to the Taylor Swift concert"!!! He was so excitted. He is in LOVE with Taylor Swift and he reacted the way I thought he would!

We went inside and found our seats. They were what you can nose bleed seats, but it was so excitting to be there and to see how excitted Jake was to be there as well, it made it al worth it. When the concert started Jake would whistle, scream nad sing along with the songs. He was so happy to be at the concert. Durring the show Jake and I walked down to tha lowere level and watched a little of the show as well. It was so fun durring the encore to sneak to some open lower seats, and watch as Taylor floated over the crowd singing "Love Stroy". Jake was smiling so much!!

After the concer we walked back to the car, as Jake recalled the entire concert. It was exciting to hear him as excited as he was. When we got back in the car, and started o head home, I took a wrong turn and got us a little lost. Kris turned on the GPS on her phone and it told us to turn do this dark street in the middle of a scary looking area. As we turned a car pulled out by us with dark tinted windows and driving very slow. Kris started yelling "they are gonna get us". Teddi and Jake were in the back seat screaming and ducking down. I was scared and Kris was laughing. I wanted to get out of there quick!! Soon I knew where we were and we were on the freeway shortly after that. We laughed and replayed the night all the way home.

I am so lucky to have had this experiance with you, Jake. You are such an Amazing boy, and I love you so much!! He was so excitted and smiled so much tonight. I could have spent the night just watching his pure joy, and been just as happy. The memories I will treasure are those of his face smiling, singing and experiancing a true dream coming true. Jake I love you and am so glad we have had this night to have these memories made.

Utah State Fair 2011

This year at the Weber Couny Fair, Jake entered a clay project into the indoor exhibit area, that he had made, and it was selected to move on to the Utah State Fair. We decided since he was given a free ticket, that we would go and check it out.

My Mom wanted to go with us. So we all headed down to Salt Lake to check out the State Fair. It was so excitting to walk around the exhibits and to be able to go to the 4-H building and walk around and find Jake's exhibit!! He is so talented and I am always so amazed and proud of the job he does. He was so proud of himself as well. He recieved another Blue Ribbon, and $3.00 for this as well.

After we found the project, we walked around and saw the other exhibits as well. It is always amazing to me that there are so many people at this fair. We went in the middle of the day on a Thursday, and it was still so busy there. We played some fun carnival games and a had a few tasty snacks as well. We walked around and saw all the booths of vendors. Lot's of fun stuff!!

I am so glad that we were able to go to the fair and to see Jake's project today. He has such talent, and I hope that he continue to develope this amazing ability.

ScOuTiNg........

As we were driving over the North Ogden Divide tonight, Travis pulled the car over and allthe boy's jumped out. With out comunicating they all saw a deer and jumped out to take a closer look.

I love that Jake is showing Jackson where he needs to look. He s such a great nature boy, and I am proud when I see him passing on his knowlage to his little brother.

They are both so interested and want to be just like their Dad when it comes to hunting and spotting the deer. Thay are our future game killers!!!

Plain City Blue!!!!

This is a story that Jackson wrote about his fun football season. I was so impressed by the job he did. He wrote a little every night and did it all on his own. (except I typed it for him.)

I get my head in the game. I play the game. It is fun! You get to tackle in the game. It’s fun, but when I get the ball I run fast to the end zone. It is really fun to do! We lost 3 games and we won 4 games. We just got done with our football season. My last game was Saturday and on that day we won by 1 point. That was so fun that we won that game. I think that my team was the Best team in the league. This was the best team that I have ever played with. I had a great time!
I loved my team. My friends were on my team, next year they wont be on my team though. My friends names are Riley, Butler, Brock, Dana, Hancock, Duncan, Jake, Canyon, Miller, and McDonald. These are some of my friends from my team. They loved me and I loved them to forever in football years. I love football, it is my favorite sport. I love to play it, and it makes me happy. Another one of my friends name is Holmes. The other day at our game he kicked a boy on the other team because he saw me crying on the sideline from what the boy had said to me, that hurt my feelings. He got kicked off the field, and out of the game. I felt bad for him, and foolish for the way I had acted. I was so grateful to him. He showed me he was my real friend that day.
All of my coaches helped me learn how to play football. I was surprised when I hit Johnson. I knocked him on his butt. He went in the air, I mean he flew far. I loved that part it was funnier than heck. I am serious, it was funnier than heck. I loved to play the game when we ran in a circle and took turns tackling each other. It taught us how to hit and tackle kids bigger than us and bring them down.
Plain City needs help getting kids their pads. Without our pads there wont be any blocking, hitting, and tackling. How will we get those downs? I don’t know, do you know? It would be flag football, I mean flag football.
Our jerseys are blue and pants are blue. We were named the Plain City Blue Team. I loved playing on Plain City football field. We won some games and lost some also. I wanted to win all the games, but we did loose some. It was good that we didn’t loose all of our games, it made me happy that we won some of the games this season. It was sad that we didn’t score more points in our last game, but we did win and that made us all happy, as a team. We really wanted to win the last game, and we did!
I wanted to play the whole game I wish I was in the whole game every time. It would be so fun to play the whole game. I would have liked if my coaches had put me in for the whole game. I loved my coaches and all that they taught me about football. I never wanted it to end. I wished we had another week of football, at least.
I loved my friends on the team. They helped me when I was on the ground. I would stick my hand in the air and they would come over and grab it and pull me to my feet. I liked my friend Riley. He was my good friend. He is a funny kid. That is why he is my friend. I am lucky because he likes me to. I have a lot of friends now because of football. My coaches are my friends also. Coach Butler and all the other coaches are my friends. They would tell me how good I was doing. I love my coaches, they are true friends to me. The coaches boys were my friends to and we all got along good.
My Mom was one of the Team Mom’s. We got shirts, pant’s, sweatshirts, and hoodies to. We just got all of those today and I am so excited to wear my new football clothes.
Football is a great way to make new friends and other kids can play it to. I believe in them, just give it a shot. I know that kids will have as much fun as I did in football if they get their head in the game, and learn all you can. I hope they will listen, and hit and tackle like me. This is what I think it takes to play the game of football. I loved playing football, it is my dream to play in the NFL. I would love to have practice every day to get me to that dream. I believe that kids can do it. They will have a lot of fun. I hope they will make friends and be a good team. With a good team you can do anything, even if you don’t win every game, you still have friends.

I am so proud of my special little guy. He has learned so much this season, and had such a good ime doing it. He has made alt of new friends and grown so much!! Love you Toone-Y!!!

Flaming Gorge 2011

Flaming Gorge over Labor day has become somewhat of a tradition around our neighborhood.We have such close friends with in the neighborhood and have had alot of fun on these trips to the Gorge.

This year we rented a little camp trailer, after freezing in the pop up trailor last year. Our little trailer was a Wolf Pup, and it had running water and a BATHROOM, which was all I needed. It was a perfect size for our family, and after all how much time do we spend in the trailor really!!

We had such a good time this year with the hood. Some of our other neighbrs came this year and brought their boat as well, so we had 2 boats to trade time between. It was alot of fun for the boys this year as well. Jake got to drive the boat for Jacey a few times, and Jacksoneven attempted knee boarding. It was so much fun to just hang out and relax is such a beautiful place.

This year since there were so many people on the trip, we would take the big blow up raft out into the middle of the Gorge and some of us would get on t and float around whie the others went and did their tricks behnd the boats. e even had a Big Air Contest, and made numbers to score the jumps with as well. As funny as it sounds, the sitting on the raft was one of my favorie things to do.

I am so greatful we have such good friends, and have such good time with each other. This is such a fun'vacation and such a beautiful place to visit. We have fun dong so much while we are at the Gorge like, the boat parade, relaxing on the water, and just hanging out laughing with good friends. It is so neat that we have the oppurtuinity to have such a fun life. I have to admit the saying is true "Life IS Good"!!!