State Champions!!

BCH Heatwave came in 1st place!
Good job BCH swimmers, you are all amazing!!

State Championships have finally arrieved!

Shayna got so much support at her swim meet. She wanted me to Thank everyone who came. It made her feel very special. Thank you so much to Grandma and Grandpa Turner, Uncle Shane, Grandma Donna, Uncle Roger and Ron, Uncle Ronnie and Aunt Vicky and Cole and Cheyanne. We really appreciate all of the support you show Shayna!
The night before the meet we painted Shayna's finger nails in the BCH colors. Red and Blue and in silver writing we wrote State Champ. They turned out really cute!

 

The first day of the meet she swam the 50 Breast stroke and the 100 IM. She did amazing on both of them. If you shaved time off of your personal record you got a little finger puppet. Out of the 6 races that Shay was in, she came home with five new personal records. How cool is that?!

 

Roger and Ron couldn't make it in time to see the first day of races but they made it to my house before we did. When we got there the house was all decorated and he was making us a big Mexican Fiesta Dinner.

 

 

Of course no party is complete without a pinata.....or 4!

Thank you Roger and Ron for always making things so special and fun. The kids absolutely loved this surprise and will never forget it. You guys are the BEST!!

Shayna's second day of races was loaded. I knew she was going to get tired. But she got through it and did a fantastic job. She continued to shave time and did better then expected.

She swam the 50 Butterfly, 50 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke and 100 freestyle. How could she not be tired after that? This was such a fun and stressful swim meet. Just the fact that she made it to State is a huge accomplishment. I am so proud of her. The meet was a four day meet but Shay only swam two of the days. So on Monday while everybody else was swimming we got Roger, Ron and Grandma to hang out with us for the day. We went to Yogurt Land, then headed out for some miniature golf. In the swimmers goodie bag we got a coupon for this mini golf course so we thought we would give it a try......never again. But we had fun anyway!

Britton wouldn't let me take a picture of him so I had to snap a shot while he was talking to me..LOL!

Then we went to a late lunch and headed back to my house to play cards. Shayna's new favorite game is 21. We played it a lot this weekend. 
The kids had to go back to school on Tuesday and Roger, Ron and Grandma left to go visit my Parents in Saint George so now we are back to our same old routine.....it was fun while it lasted!!

BCH Volunteers

BCH Heatwave is hosting the State Championship swim meet this year so I volunteered to help out with the goodie bag stuffing.We have 900 swimmers coming from all over the State. So we have to make 900 bags.
While I was stuffing away the kids were making BCH signs to hang up around the pool to show our support for our team.

Britton even got in on the action.

Thank you LeeAnn for supplying the paint and paint brushes. This was so much fun for the kids and all of the posters turned out great!

State Championships, Here we come!!

These three beauty's have worked so hard to be part of the State swim team. And they did it!! I am so proud of all of them. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to be where they are. What amazing kids!
Shayna will be swimming the 50 Breast stroke, 100 Breast stroke, 50 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 100 IM and the 50 Back stroke.
Shayna we are so proud of you. This is a huge accomplishment that has paid off by your hard work and dedication. I can't wait to see what happens at State!

Who's the happiest clean Kitty?

Not Hilda!

Happy 1st Birthday Chopper!

It's hard to believe that Chopzilla is already one.

He loved his home made Birthday Cake.

And his new bone.

What a spoiled boy!

Happy Halloween!

The kids Pumpkins turned out really cute this year. We pretty much have to carve pumpkins last minute because it is still so warm here that the pumpkins rot within two days. CrAzY!

Britton went with a big nosed Cyclops.....

Shayna wanted the word Boo.......

We had to dress Chopper up for his first ever Halloween. He was Captain America. He walked all around the neighborhood with the kids and was so well behaved. I was so proud of him.

Shayna was a dark angel and Britton was a warewolf.

We invited the Kerner's to go Trick-or-Treating with us. We all went out for a while then came home for a drink and a snack then headed back out. They came home with so much candy.

We have NEVER had this much candy before. We even got some king sized candy bars. That's when the kids finally decided they LOVE our neighborhood......yay for that!

A day with the Allen's

The kids had the day off of school for staff development day but the Allen's had to work so they brought their kids to me at 7:30AM and we played ALL.DAY.LONG. And had so much fun doing so.
The girls had a tea party......

And snuggled with Chopper.......

The boys played the Xbox pretty much the whole time. I didn't get any pictures but we picked up some pizza and drinks and went to the park to play. That is where Britton killed his soccer ball juggling record. He is now up to 309. So impressive.
At 5:00pm the Allen's came and picked up all of the kids and took them Trunk-or-Treating and then kept them for a sleep over.

They had so much fun and played and played and played. Britton and Shay were exhausted by the time they got home but they love being with the Allen's. They are such an amazing family. Thank you Allen's for taking the kids....they had a blast!
Tyler and I had all kinds of plans since we didn't have the kids for a whole night. But, Ty got sick. He was so miserable. We ended up getting Chinese food to go and went home and watched TV. How exciting is that.......

A visit from the Nunez's

 It's so much fun when we get to hang out with the Nunez's. Val decided she wanted to come to Vegas for her Birthday so they canceled their big Halloween party and came to visit us...Yay!!
We spent some time on Freemont Street. You see a lot of strange things on Freemont Street but you also get to see some pretty amazing things. I love watching the street performers. The kids had a great time too. How can you not when you can get fried twinkies and fried oreo cookies. Yummy!

 Luis would fit right in........

 

This weekend was all about keeping it kid friendly so we decided to take the kids to Tournament of Kings. We had a little time before the show started so we stopped by the arcade.

Tournament of Kings. We were the Dragons so we got to be Evil! The kids had so much fun. They thought it was so weird that we couldn't use utensils and had to eat with our hands.

 After the show we got to meet our favorite actor. He was so creepy I was shocked Shayna would pose with him. But he was very nice to her so she felt better about it.

It was definitely a fun weekend. I can't wait to see the Nunez family again.....I miss them already!

Graduation Day!!

Can you believe this little guy graduated obedience training!

Now, if he will just apply what he learned at home we will have a pretty amazing dog!! He is so ridiculously cute. I can't believe he is almost a year old......

Vote for Shayna

Shayna is running for Class Representative. She prepared a really great speech and her Dad helped her with her poster. She is going up against 13 other students so wish her luck.

This move to Vegas has really brought Shayna out of her shell. She used to have separation anxiety so bad that she wouldn't even go over to a friends house to play. She felt sick all the time and wouldn't try anything new. She has come a long way and I couldn't be more proud. Way to go Shay, We are all cheering for you!!

Swim meets and party's

Shayna has had two swim meets since I last posted. One the week before the Flagstaff Tournament and one this last weekend. Both meets were very important. She had an opportunity in both of those meets to qualify for State Championships. During the BCH Desert Invitational, Which was a one day event, she was able to qualify for State Championships in her 100 Breast stroke, 50 Breast stoke and 50 Butterfly!! During the Desert Storm Invitational, which was a two day event She was able to qualify for the 100 IM. The IM is all four strokes in one race.

State Championships here we come!

 Saturday after the swim meet we headed over to Britton's soccer game. This was the first game of the season. They won 3-1. Can't ask for a better way to start the season then with a win!!



Unfortunately the second day of the swim meet was canceled because of a power outage. They are going to re-schedule it and hopefully she will qualify for her freestyle and backstroke. If not that is OK. She qualified for four events which is AMAZING. She has only been swimming for 10 months!!


Since the meet was canceled on Sunday we were able to make it to my Cousins Son's Birthday Party. the kids were so excited.

 You would think that Shayna would have had enough of swimming, but no, she was so excited that Cole was having a swim party!

We had a fun weekend and we were so glad that my parents were able to be with us.

Flagstaff Soccer Tournament

Last weekend we went to Flagstaff AZ for Britton's soccer tournament. The boy's didn't do that well. I think the altitude gets to them. We tied our first game and lost the next two games. We still had a ton of fun though. The weather was absolutely beautiful in the mornings, which, fortunately for us was when all of our games were scheduled. By the time noon hit the clouds starting rolling in and it rained.....hard....everyday. Some games even got rained out because of the lightning.

We were invited to the Coaches cabin while we were there to watch the Mayweather fight so we spent Saturday evening at the cabin and didn't get back to our hotel room until around 11 PM. Around 4 AM I woke up sick and started throwing up around 7 AM. We had to pack up and leave our hotel room at 9:30 AM so it's a good thing I started feeling better and was able to shower and make it to the field for our last game on time. I have no idea what happened to me but I was only sick for like 4 hours....so weird.
Soccer season is now under way and my schedule got a whole lot fuller. I'm looking forward to it!

Shayna's new glasses

Shayna got her new glasses! They look so cute on her. Hopefully these ones will last longer then 9 months. We learned our lesson. Nothing of value gets left out any more and when we leave, Chopper goes to his kennel. I tried to avoid that because I feel so bad making him lay in his kennel when we are gone but until he learns not to destroy things that is where he will be. :(

Swimming, swimming and more swimming.

This has become such a huge commitment. The fact that Shay loves it so much makes it easy for me but I'm not gonna lie. It's tough sitting there so long. Every day for an hour and a half in the heat is hard and now we have added Saturdays to the mix. Saturday practices are and hour and forty five minutes. YIKES! Good thing her best friends are there with her. On top of it all Shay has swimmers ear. Of course, right before a swim meet. We caught it early though so she only has to stay out of the water for one day.

Between Britton's soccer and Shay's swimming we are super busy. This weekend Shay has a swim meet. The next week Britton has a soccer tournament in Arizona. Shay is missing a swim meet and a Saturday practice so that we can go support Britton and then the following weekend we have another swim meet. Crazy busy month for us. I'm not complaining though. I really do love it!!

Worst.Dog.EVER!

I believe it is our fault......A while back the kids and I went to Saint George to visit my Parents and we left Chopper home with Tyler. Tyler had to work and ended up working way longer hours then we had anticipated. Long story short. Chopper didn't like it very much and since then, whenever we leave him, even for a few minutes, he chews up EVERYTHING.

This one made me the maddest.

Shayna's glasses that were not even a year old. And of course it happened on the second day of school. I called her Eye Doctor and they got her in right away.

The Doctor laughed so hard when he walked in and saw her trying to wear her glasses. She told him it was really hard to see the chalk board.

She picked out some really cute new glasses. Hopefully she gets them soon!!

Chopper is now enrolled in obedience classes. Keep your fingers crossed that he will graduate in 6 weeks.......Naughty dog.

First Day of school!

I really can't believe I have a 6th grader and a 4th grader. It's crazy. Shay is going to a school where they have to wear uniforms. She is only allowed to wear red, white, navy, green, black and khaki. Fortunately we were able to find her some really cute stuff.
Britton has to ride the bus to school. There was no way around it. It takes about 25 minutes to drive to Britton's school and they start and end at the same time. There was no way I could pick him up and get him to school on time. 

Britton's bus stop is right by Shay's school so we took him to catch the bus. It was really emotional for me to send my boy to Jr. High. I held it together though. I didn't want to take Shay to school in tears.
We get to Shay's school really early but there isn't time to go home in between dropping Britton off and getting her to school so we are going to have to sit in the car for about 25 minutes.
Here she is, waiting for the bell to ring.

I walked her to her classroom. She was such a big girl. She had no problems with it.
Both of my kids did so well. They were a little nervous but very brave about it. I'm so proud!