Missing you...

Does anyone else miss these people?

Javier's

We had so much fun last night at dinner and I wanted to post our picture from Javier's. We got as many as our siblings together last night as we could for dinner and we went to Javier's. The food was super yummy and the company was even better.

Daddy Daughter Date

So for Dad's birthday tNatali had a great idea to take Dad on a Daddy Daughter Date.
Since Dad has lost a lot of weight, we started off the night by giving him some new clothes that fit (also Nat's idea) and then we went to dinner at Applebees. Our waitress was a girl named Heidi.
After dinner we went shopping and met a very nice lady named Pam. She was the most helpful person I have seen for a very long time. After a fun time shopping, we went to Farr's Ice Cream and got ice cream cones. I splurged and got Brownies on the Moon, Dad got Banana Nut, and Nat and Emily both got some cherry chocolate chip ice cream that had a fancy name. (Sorry I can't remember what it was called.) Then after ice cream, we didn't want to go home yet so we drove around Hooper and talked for a while.
It was such a fun night. I forgot how much fun it is to get together like this. We had really good conversations, nobody said anything negative, and we just really enjoyed each other's company. Natalie said we should do this every year. I'm all for it, but we'll see what happens.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Dad! You really are the greatest dad. I wouldn't trade for anything. I love you so much! I had lots of fun on our DDD!
Love,
your sweetie pie,
TamiP.S. Did you know it's no longer Dan Dan the Maytag Man? I didn't know this until I got the camera out to take a picture and I said something about Dan the Maytag man and I was quickly corrected. Oh well. This picture reminds me of when we went on our trip to San Fransisco and Dad stood by the Six Flags guy.

Setting things right

Dear Nat, (and Brady),

You're right... I've been neglecting you and the rest of the family so I am posting this here to try and set things right. The truth is though, I just can't pull off two total blogs, so the rest of you are going to have to step it up a bit. ;)

I'm trying to type this with Zack in my arms... (the girls are asleep) and he keeps growling and trying to get at Abby's picture. Funny kid. Anyway, I thought these pictures were cute of the kids. We went to the farm on Saturday but the admission price was $12.00 a person on the weekend and I am to cheap to pay 12 bucks to see an ostrich and some goats. We ended up just going to the park instead but I thought these pictures were still cute.

Abby has a fever. I hope that Zack doesn't catch it. She took a 2o minute nap this morning!! (Big sigh!) Anyway... I better get back to reality (aka laundry). I hope everyone is doing well. We miss you all!

Love, Em.

P.S. Nat... hang in there! Before you know it you'll be complaining about 20 minute naps too!

Emily

Emily,
Since you cheated and created your own family blog, I feel like you have been neglecting ours...

That is all.

Blogging addiction

I must admit that I am like Emily... I think I am addicted to Blogging.
I have nothing to really say that is very important but I really want other people to blog more, so I think that by blogging myself, I feel like people will to the same. Crazy thinking, I know.
Well, I'm having a good day today. I'm glad it's Friday because that means I get the next couple days off, and believe me, I look forward to those days!

Emily, last night I had a dream that I was going to drive to your house all by myself and I started out driving but then you met me and we had to hike part of the way. I admit once again that I'm strange. It was a weird dream, but I know that it has a little sense in it.
I have wanted to see you and your kids so badly lately and I just long to be with you guys. I even think in my dream I said "Abby Abby" and she laughed at me. I just miss you guys so much, and I want you to know that I Nick and I pray for you guys almost every night since you're so far away! I hope that you can feel our prayers and that your family is doing well. I know we'll see you sometime soon, and maybe if we can get saved up, we can come visit you this summer. (Plus, if you think about it... I get paid all summer for doing nothing. Sounds like I could take a couple vacations!)

Anyway, I don't want the rest of you to feel left out. I love all of the rest of you too! Dad, Mom, Emily, Brady, Cory, Natalie, Andy, Danny, plus all of your significant others and your children (or children to be.) I really do think that we have the best family around. I love you all with all of my heart!

I guess I will give you a quick update of what's going on in our lives:

Nick is going to school. I believe he has a Chemistry class and a Human Biology class. He is still working for Davis School District in the Nutrition Services Warehouse. I'm not really sure if he's liking it. Somedays it sounds like he likes it, and other days I think he hates it. You'll have to ask him, I guess. (Or maybe he will blog and tell you about his life, hint hint.)

As you probably all know, I am teaching Kindergarten at Freedom Elementary. The dust is starting to settle a little bit and I am loving it! The kids are cute and for the most part are well-behaved. It's a hard job. You would never believe how hard it is to get 19 kids to stand in a line! Honestly, I never anticipated it being that hard. We had our first fire drill today, and believe me, it was not pretty. I love it though! I'm usually at the school around 7:30 and they have started kicking me out at 7:00, so I have very long days. However, I do love life. It's fun and I love it!

I hope all of you are happy! I have got to go. My afternoon class will be coming any minute, and I have to get ready for the hooligans.
I love you all, and I hope to see you soon!
Love, Tami

P.S. Mom mentioned that we are having a birthday party for Cory and Andy on Sunday. I don't know if this is true... We have a party at 5:30, so we will probably be late if you do have one. Let me know what you all know about it.
Love y'all.

Posting.

Well, I am Danny and i am blogging. I haven't done this since i had the "pound it club" blog. I wonder what happened to that... Well i am putting on this picture i made today. I was bored. Bye....(i am gone)

Whoo Hoo!!

I'm so excited about joining the blogging world! Johnny said I can't post a hundred pictures. I really wanted to but he said I could only post 5. We'll see what happens! These are all pictures of when we were there in Utah. Also, I'd like to make a request. Could I please see a picture of Nat's belly! Thanks!

Love and miss you all!
Em