Miscellaneous

I am trying to catch up on blogging and just blog about a few things that have happened in the last few weeks. First of all we went camping over Memorial weekend with some good friends of ours. We went to Starvalley, WY. It is gorgeous there. Me and Lloyd were laughing and saying how we never knew how beautiful Wyoming was. We had lots of fun riding 4 wheelers and it rained on us and so everyone was muddy and dirty and the kids were in heaven. It was a great time.





Savani learned to ride her bike without training wheels. She had been asking and asking Lloyd to take off her training wheels and to teach her to ride her bike with 2 wheels. So finally he was able to teach her. It was so easy. She rode off as soon as she got on. Lloyd held her seat for a minute and that was it. She was a pro.


Soccer season is over. It was great. We started out playing in the snow and rain it seemed like almost every game. The kids loved it and had a great time. Siera and Joshua really improved their game and Savani had fun flirting and skipping around the field. What else can you expect from a 5 yr old???






The girls have been bugging me to take them to get their hair cut. So we did that yesterday. They both cut off about 6 inches. It will be a nice change for the summer, especially for Siera, she has such thick hair and it will be easier to take care of.

Preschool Graduation

My daughter Savani has finished her two years at Jacque's Preschool and has graduated. We had her preschool graduation last Friday night. This is her right before the performance and graduation began.

This is her class performing on stage. They sang lots of songs about things they learned each month. It was a very cute performance. She was so excited for it and they had been working on this for the last month at preschool.

Savani is being presented her graduation certificate and her memory book that they have been working on all year. Also they asked each child what they wanted to be when they grew up. Savani said she wanted to be a princess. We told her she would have to find something else to be, because she is already our princess. Cheesy I know. :)

Our little girl all grown up and ready for kindergarten.

These are two of her teachers at the preschool, Ms Lori and Ms Jan. They were fabulous!

This is one of her best friends from school, Jackson. We were able to carpool together which made the school year so much easier.

Grandma and Grandpa Newman were able to attend.

My baby's last day of school. I keep saying this but it's so true. They grow up too fast! I can't believe she will start kindergarten in September. What a great year!

I also wanted to journal about my birthday/mother's day/anniversary gift. I have been wanting a piano for a few years now, and we were finally able to get one. I am so excited. I love playing it! Siera is taking lessons, from my Mom and Joshua is going to start. We love having it!

Happy 60th Birthday Mom!!

This past Saturday we threw a surprise 60th birthday party for my Mom. She was shocked to say the least.

We sent her a fake invitation to someone else's party and so she had no idea.

She was very surprised to see my sister Tara there who lives in Vegas and she had no idea she was in town. It was great!

We invited close family and friends. Not too many people, but she said it was perfect who we invited. Yay! That was a relief since I was the one who was in charge of the invites.

Both of my brothers with their wives and kids.

My Mom with her birthday cake.

We put together a little program for my Mom. We started out with all the grandkids singing "I love to see the temple" for her. Then each of my siblings got up and told a favorite memory of my Mom growing up and then we had each of the grandkids say their favorite thing about Grandma. Also Siera sang Families are Forever and Caleb my nephew performed a comedy routine. They are my Mom's 2 oldest grandkids. They did a great job!

It ended up being a great night! We knew my Mom didn't want any type of party for her 60th, especially not a surprise party. Me and my sisters were nervous and didn't want to upset her. She kept telling us she was embarrased about her age and didn't want to celebrate. But we overruled that. My Mom is such a fabulous person and we wanted to celebrate her! Happy Birthday Mom! Here's to many, many more to come!

Happy Easter

We had such a fun Easter weekend. The best part was that my sister Tara was in town with her adorable son Drew and we got to hang out all weekend. I didn't take any pics, but it was so fun having them here and we did lunch and of course shopping and dinner with her,my Mom and sister Cindy. I sure treasure those times we spend together.

We also had the pinewood Derby. Although it's a great looking car, it didn't do too well in the race. Hopefully next year will be better. (Be nice you Ute fans):)


The kids had a great Easter. This is them at my Mom's house getting ready for the annual Egg hunt. We numbered all the eggs this year and each kid had to find their number. It made it a little more fun for the older kids, it took them a little longer to find all their eggs.

Me and my girls in our Easter dresses.

The kids right before going to church.

Savani had a fun Easter Egg hunt at her preschool too.

Our family road trip & celebrating Joshua Solo's birthday

Warning lot's of pics a head!
So we had a family wedding to go to in Arizona. Since Jetblue does not fly to Arizona from Salt Lake we decided to fly to Vegas to cut out some driving time and rent a car and drive from there the 4 or 5 hours to Phoenix. Since I have worked for Jetblue the last 6 years, my kids have been very spoiled. We have not really taken a road trip. We have flown everywhere we go. So as soon as we get in our rental minivan, my kids start asking, where's the TV and every 5 mins, they were asking when we would be there. It was very good for them to not have access to a Tv and to actually look outside at the scenery and enjoy the drive. Thank goodness it was only about a 5 hr drive. So after flying into Vegas we had lunch with my sister Tara and then we headed off to Phoenix.

Joshua was in the wedding party and here are a few pics of him in his tux.

We had to call in the size measurements and because we weren't able to do a fitting, when we got the tux, it was a tad small. It was okay though. I still think he looked very handsome. The wedding was on Sat 3/14 which ended up being his birthday as well.

This is taken at the Mesa, AZ temple. That temple is beautiful. One of my favorites, I think.

This is a picture of all the groomsmen with the groom. It was a huge wedding party.

This is all the family for the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding.

In between the reception and the temple that morning we had some time to go back to our hotel and Lloyd took the kids swimming.

I was happy that Joshua was able to do something fun on his birthday. They had so much fun. The weather was beautiful in Phoenix. After the wedding reception that night we went to Baskin Robbins so Joshua could have a yummy birthday dessert. Can you say chocolate peanut butter? YUM!


So I mentioned we rented a minivan. It was awesome. Props to the minivans. We loved it. I am wanting to now trade in my suburban. It was so nice to pull in and out of parking spaces with ease.

We drove through Hoover dam.

The one sad thing about the trip is Milika was really sick. She had fever after fever and a runny nose and so it was hard to enjoy ourselves with her being sick.

They are building a new bridge over the Hoover Dam. It was crazy. If you can tell by my fabulous photography. The bridge is going to curve up very high off the ground. I can't wait to see it when it's done.


We drove from Phoenix back to Vegas on Sunday and we had dinner with my sister Tara. She was so sweet. She decorated her house and made a birthday cake for Joshua. He loved it. Thanks again Tara for doing that and making him feel special.

We ended the trip the next day with lunch at the park in Vegas.

Then flew home that evening. It was a great trip and fun to see family.
Oh and on a side note, just so I have this journaled. Joshua just finished his basketball season. I am a loser because I did not take one picture of him playing basketball. We took a video every game, but forgot about pictures. Anyways, he was in the Dimple Dell league and their team won the tournament and they were also in the AAU tournament that their team took 1st place in as well. They have a great team with some very talented boys. We hope to keep the same team together next year.