It's All Part of Life

Today we celebrate life as we recognize Joshua's 17th birthday. Wow! I can't believe he is already all grown up. It was just yesterday that he was a little kid. I sure love you Josh and I'm so proud of the fine young man you have become.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Adam, David, Josh, Rachel, Tanner, Rebecca

This week we also celebrated a life as we said goodbye to David's grandmother, Betty Dodge. She passed away in Odessa, WA, on September 17, 2010, at the the age of 93. We had her Memorial Service here in Salt Lake last Wednesday. It was a beautiful service and we will truly miss her but look forward to the day when we will all be reunited.

The Governor's Gala

Yep, that's David and me with the Governor and his wife and the
Lt. Gov. and his wife. Through David's position at APX we got invited to the Governor's Gala including the VIP reception where we got this picture with the governor. It was quite an event. We even stood in line right in front of Senator Hatch. Somehow we ended up at being assigned to the very front, center table.... the best seats in the house for the show. We had a delicious dinner, heard a few words from Governor Herbert and then watched a great show of singing and dancing representing some of America's musical history. It was really a fantastic show with many famous performers native to Utah. I had a great time and it was fun to get all dressed up.

BYU vs. Air Force at AFA

David and I just got back from a great little trip to Colorado for the BYU vs. Air Force Game. We went with a group of BYU sponsors so we were the representatives for APX Alarm. We had a fun time even though BYU got killed by Air Force. We did get to go see the Rockies in a baseball game and we also got to tour the Air Force Academy which I thought was really cool. It is quite an amazing place. The group we traveled with were a lot of fun too so we had a good time with good company. Hopefully BYU will do much better next week.

Adam's First Soccer Game

Yesterday I went to Adam's first soccer game. It was also the first time I had ever seen such little kids play. All my other kids waited until they were 7 or 8 to start soccer but Adam has been chomping at the bit and begging to play.

Adam did great. You could tell he's played soccer a lot with his older brothers and sisters since he knew exactly what to do (unlike some of the other kids who I think were the oldest in their family and had never played soccer in their life... they'll pick it up quickly). Adam has 2 other friends on the team and they won by about 5 goals. Adam made 3 or 4 of the goals and it was just the most entertaining game of soccer I've ever watched. It was so cute. The best part was after Adam's first goal he did 3 perfect cartwheels down the middle of the field. All the parents around me were hardly impressed with the goal but they were VERY impressed with the cartwheels. I could hear parents saying that they didn't think their kids even knew what a cartwheel was let alone knew how to do one. It cracked me up because Adam just does what his sisters do and they do cartwheels. I wish I had video of it.