Labrum Family

Kenadee's Baptism

2012-01-23T10:05:00.000-08:00

Kenadee turned 8 this year and was baptized by her Dad the first Saturday of December. She sang "Jesus was no ordinary man" mostly by herself, and "When I get baptized" with Savannah, Abby, and Ella. Savannah and Grandma Lene gave great talks, and her Grandpa's were there to witness the baptism. It was a great day.

Kenadee dance recital

2012-01-23T10:01:00.000-08:00

Kenadee loves dancing. She did a great job in her dance recital this year! She loved having Ella and some other friends in her class. She danced to "Grandma's feather bed."

Savannah's 12th Birthday

2012-01-23T09:10:00.001-08:00

The girls and I were in Arizona for Savannah's 12 birthday this year. We rented a paddle boat with Sharon, ate dinner at Flo's with (Brandi, Briayna, Carly & Family, and Sharon & Larry), and had brownies and ice cream after. Savannah got tickets to the Taylor Swift Concert from Grandma Sharon and Larry. She was so surprised and excited. She had a blast at her first concert with her cousin Briyana. Savannah loved spending her birthday in Arizona.

We gave her a present earlier that month so she could take it camping when we went. She was thrilled to have her own 4 wheeler! Danny came to Arizona with us for Grandma Esther and Sharon surprise 80th and 60th. We had a great time visiting and hanging out with family.

Camping and Conference

2012-01-23T08:35:00.000-08:00

We decided to start a new tradition of camping over General Conference Weekend. Spears and Sweats came up with Larry and Rita and Us. We rode 4wheelers, played games and watched conference outside all together. It was so fun! Saturday the whole group went out on a long 4wheeling ride and picnic. We hiked up and saw an old mining cave. That night we had a surprise "jean burning ceremony" (for Larry's old funny jeans that he always wears.) The girls all walked in very sad, in single row formation with his jeans on a long stick. Larry's face was priceless! What a great weekend, I hope we keep this tradition up!

New School Year!

2012-01-23T08:23:00.000-08:00

My girls are growing up so fast. I got this picture before they left for their first day of school. Savannah is in 6Th grade with Mrs. Fausett and
Kenadee is in 2ND grade with Mrs. Murdock.

Crazy Hair Day! This was the first time Savannah wanted to go to school with crazy hair? Kenadee looks forward to these days all year long.

Oregon Coast with the Day's

2011-10-12T11:43:00.001-07:00

If it looks like all we did in Oregon is eat, well. . . that is mainly what we did, but we had so much fun doing it!!

Danny and I got invited to go to the Oregon Coast with the whole Day Family(minus Colby and Ali). We all left our kidos home and had a relaxing week eating, shopping, playing games, laughing, walk/running on the beach,visiting the car show, eating ice cream and special cones, hiking, making smores over the oven(due to the lack of everyone but Meg and I who wanted to build a fire!), and eating more. We always have fun with the Days and this was no exception! Can't wait to go again. Special thanks to Danny's awesome Mom for hanging out with my girls. They too had a great week!

P.S. Thanks Megan for taking all the great pictures!!!

Bear Lake July 2011

2011-07-26T13:31:00.000-07:00

Our Lake Powell trip was cancelled this year, so we rounded up a few friends for a quick Bear Lake trip. Fenton, Spears, Sweats and Us all stayed in a cabin right across from Bear Lake. We boated, fished, played cards, built sand castles, played ping pong, and just relaxed. I wish we could have stayed longer.

Camping 2011

2011-07-26T13:25:00.001-07:00

We had a great time camping up at the land with Spears and Fentons. The girls had fun hanging out with friends.

Memorial Weekend with friends

2011-06-28T14:05:00.000-07:00

We usually go camping Memorial weekend, but this year we have had awful weather, so we decided to rent this cabin near Park City and hang out inside with friends. We had 8 adults and 12 little GIRLS and Markus and Frank (poor boys). It snowed 8 inches up there that weekend, but we all had a blast. We watched movies, played games, sat in the hot tub, and just talked. It was a great weekend!

Danny was a chick magnet!!! Kam, work on it!!!

Markus was just one of the girls in this hot tub.

Fun Random Pictures!

2011-06-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

Grandma Sharon playing Kenadee's favorite game "slap the cherry" with her. 6/2011

Kenadee really enjoyed spring soccer. This was her fun team! 5/2011

This is a picture of Kenadee before her dance recital. She did Awesome! 4/2011

Savannah and Kenadee sit and visit with Grandma Esther while in AZ. 4/2011

2011-04-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

On April 6th 2011 , my best friend of 20 years passed from this life on to the next. She was born with Cystic Fibrosis and lived to be 33 years old. I guess I always knew it was coming, but I still didn't feel ready. But who is ever ready to lose someone who means so much to them? Marisa Choate Johnson was the most amazing person I have ever met. She was more like a sister than just a friend to me. I think my sisters and Mom would agree that she was just "one of the girls" at the Racker house. We spent so much time together that it is difficult now to distinguish what traits I got from her and what traits she got from me. I know that I would not be the same person without having known her. She filled so many spots in my life. . . she was Savannah and Kenadee's 2nd Mom, and I know they are hurting as much as me right now. I have tried to write this a dozen times since April 6th, but it has been too difficult. I am also not great at putting my feeling down on paper. I am making myself finish this little post, because I want it in my scrapbook. I want my girls to always remember Marisa and the positive person she was. She was so Christlike and the perfect example to all of us. I know that she is in a better place and that she is now breathing easy. I also know that I will see her again someday. I am grateful for the Gospel and the knowledge and hope that it brings us. I was so lucky to have such an amazing friend in my life for so long, and I am just as lucky to still have Scottie in my life. He is also an amazing friend. I only hope Savannah and Kenadee get the chance to have a friend like Marisa or Scottie, and I hope they treasure that friendship like I treasure mine! I am also very grateful to many other amazing friends, Ponys, loving family and my supportive husband, that have made the passing of Marisa bearable. Thank you, I love you all.

Darci's visit!!

2011-02-08T12:10:00.001-08:00

Darci, Doug, Ladd and Olie came up to Heber with my parents for Christmas 2010. It was a pretty mellow Christmas with Kenadee getting ear tubes for the third time and her tonsils out just two days before Christmas. Darci's boys were not feeling very great either so we didn't snow tube or snowmobile this year. We still really enjoyed eating soup and goodies and visiting at Jess's house.

Kenadee was a trooper with her surgery. She was so excited to eat popsicles after we got home from the hospital! She took a couple licks and then said "Mom it doesn't make it feel better!" I told her it was fun to eat popsicles not that they would make it feel better. However she took it. . . . she was super excited to get her tonsils out? She was hurting for quite a while, but she is doing great now!!!

A couple days after Christmas we met Darci and her cute boys at the Olympic Park in Park City. The kids ran around and looked at all the cool things there and then we all went to lunch. It was fun to see the Timothy's!

Kenadee's 7th Birthday

2010-11-30T11:13:00.001-08:00

Kenadee turned 7 this year. On the night of her birthday we went bowling at Fat Cats with our good friends the Brown's. Then that weekend she had her friend birthday party (the one she has been talking about for over a year now!) She had 11 little girls in their pj's come over and we played games, watched a movie, ate popcorn, danced, and did a scavenger hunt. Savannah and Abby were awesome and helped with the whole thing. Everyone had a blast.

Savannah 11th Birthday

2010-11-30T10:51:00.000-08:00

Savannah birthday was on a Monday this year so we had a birthday dinner for her the Sunday night before her birthday. Jeff & Courtney, Steve, the Day's, Grandma Lene & Grandpa Rob

Maddy Bullard, the Egnew's, and Brandi and Ryan came to our house and celebrated with us.

We ate taco's and had brownies and ice cream for dessert. Grandma brought up croquet (Savannah's favorite) and we made sure to play after dinner. She had a great day, thanks to all our friends and family for coming down! Monday night our family went rock climbing for Savannah REAL Birthday! The girls did great rock climbing like always! While Kenadee was high up on the wall her leg started shaking uncontrollably. She said "look Mom!" I saw her leg and said "oh are your legs tired?" She said "no Mom, my leg is shaking. . . It is scared!" I said "oh are you scared? Do you want to come down?" She said "No, Mom I am not scared, my leg is!" I thought it was so funny, and I didn't want to forget it so I thought I better put it in here.

Disneyland 2010

2010-10-07T12:08:00.000-07:00

We took the girls to Disneyland this past September. This was Kenadee's first time, and she loved it of course! The first few days in California we spent hanging out at the beach and swimming in the hotel pool. This was convenient, because I got the flu and it gave me time to recover before walking Disneyland and California Adventure for two days straight. Both girls were very daring and wanted to go on every ride. Every ride except . . . Savannah refused to go on Tower of Terror. This made Kenadee more determined to ride Tower of Terror. Danny was feeling sick from riding "Screaming California" 3 times in a row. I was still feeling uneasy from the flu and "screaming California, " but Danny told Kenadee "Your Mom will take you on Tower of Terror!" Of course I bucked up and took Kenadee on it. She was so funny, afterwards she said "Mom I should not be tall enough for that ride!" I asked her why and she said "Because it hurt my brain!" Both girls especially loved all the rides that got you wet, and we had to do them multiple times in a row! Danny and I really liked the World of Color show that we saw one night while there. We loved Disneyland and had a blast, but don't love standing in lines all day, so we won't be back for a while:)

Red Neck Summer Party 2010

2010-08-31T12:17:00.000-07:00

Rita put together our ward summer party this year. She did such a good job, everyone had so much fun.

These were some of the fun activities that were there.

-Red Neck Water slide

-Chili Cook-Off

-Horseshoes with toilet lids of course

-Hubcap in the Hula Hoop game

-Fishing Pond for kids (old funny toys)

-Spam Carving Contest (see picture below to see how talented my husband is!)

-Retirement Home Band (so cute!)

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I was trying to figure out what to wear and dress my girls in and Kenadee said to me . . . "Mom I could paint my neck red?" She wasn't trying to be funny, but I thought it was funny! She also came to me after doing the fishing pond and said "I think this is a used toy Mom" trying not to laugh I asked her why? She said "because it smells like throw up!" She didn't quite get the Red Neck theme! Savannah and Kenadee loved the water slide, I had to drag them away at the end. Oh Yeah thank Dad for your Red Neck I mean hunting hat, it made my outfit! (Don't worry I will return it promptly!)

First Day of School 2010

2010-08-31T12:04:00.001-07:00

This year the girls were excited, but a little nervous to start a new school year. Kenadee as you can see in the picture will be starting school with a cast on her writing hand. She fell teaching herself to Heeley on our driveway. ONE FALL and her arm was broke!! Looks like she might take after her Aunt Jessica? She is in 1st grade this year and will be going to school all day now. She is very excited to eat lunch at school with her friends and meet her teacher Ms Homer.

Savannah is in 5Th grade and has to go to a new school (Timp Intermediate School.) She liked being the oldest at Old Mill Elementary and is not sure about this new school thing. She is however excited about the teacher she got. (Mrs. King)

Well the girls have been to school 4 days now, and they are enjoying it!

Savannah's Early B-day Party at the Lake

2010-08-24T13:08:00.001-07:00

Savannah has been wanting to do a lake birthday party for a couple years now. Her birthday is in October, so it is way too cold near her birthday. We finally decided "Who Cares?" Lets do her birthday party 2 months early. Danny, Grandpa Larry, and I took Savannah and 10 other girls (Ellie, Abby E., Abby P., Savannah H., McKenzie, Sadie, Berkleigh, Kym, Bryna, and Shelby.)out on the boat Friday afternoon. We spent 3 hours on the lake pulling the girls around on the tube. We found out that Savannah along with Shelby and Savannah Harrison are a lot more daring then most girls their age! All these girls were so polite and kind. They all had a blast.

Lake Powell 2010

2010-07-22T09:13:00.001-07:00

We went to Lake Powell with the Derksons (Tim, Bobby Jo, Spencer, and Dawson) and Marisa. The Derkson shared their cute houseboat with us. We had perfect weather and literally only had 5 drops of rain the whole 4 days we were there. We all practiced wake boarding and surfing a lot. Savannah and Kenadee even got up for a few seconds wake boarding. Danny was so patient out in the water teaching them. I was so proud of him! Savannah, Kenadee and Dawson loved riding all the fun tubes that the Derksons had. Their favorite was the Bandwagon (the one in the pictures with the kids on it.) They also had a blast swimming off the back of the houseboat. Marisa on the other hand, did not like the back of the houseboat. . . (she kept getting nibbled on by little fish.) lol
At night when the sun went down we played games or watched movies together. Every night we all slept on the top of the houseboat under the stars. It was amazing how many stars we could see. I loved it! We had such a great time, I hope we can do it again soon!!

Kenadee Arlee Labrum

2010-07-06T10:32:00.001-07:00

Kenadee has always loved butterflies. For christmas she got a butterfly home that she could watch caterpillers hatch into butterflies. She was obsessed with watching them. I would find her sitting in her room all alone staring at the caterpillars or the butterflies once they hatched. She got her face painted like this at the Library Literary Picnic. She would have left it on forever, but I convinced her to let me take a picture so we could wash it off for church the next day. Kenadee is such a special girl, and her Dad and I love her so much. I want to put a few fun facts about her on here.

-She sings all the time, everywhere she goes

-She is a great Peacemaker

-She get embarrassed easily

-She loves softball, dancing, and playing barbies

-She loves all kids of animals and hates almost all bugs except lady bugs, butterflies, and potato bugs!

-She hates potatoes (she probably thinks they are made from the cute bugs?)

-She loves her big sister Savannah so much

-She has a big heart

Camping up at The Land

2010-07-06T09:50:00.000-07:00

This post is a combination of two camping trips up to Larry and Rita's land in Wolf Creek. We spent Memorial Day weekend up there with Sweats (Janette & Jason, Greg & Chelsea, Kirstin & Heath), Holly and James Mair, and Rita and Larry. We visited around the fire a lot. Sunday we packed a picnic and took a couple hour 4 wheeler ride up the mountain. It was so beautiful and we saw deer, cow, and rabbits. While camping the kids kept busy painting rocks, playing games, jumping on the trampoline, and exploring. The guys of course found ample time to shoot their guns and even let the kids join in. We also camped over July 4Th weekend with Marisa, Brandi & Josh Spears, Cody & Miranda, Rita & Larry , and Traci and her boys. We had lots of fun visits that weekend from Lisa & Hunter, Lyle & Ashley, and the Days. Steve Bruehl let us borrow his little 4 wheelers and the kids were on them non stop, while we aloud it. They had so much fun taking everyone on little rides. We sat around the fire pit talking and eating endless huge marshmallows and other fun snacks. The adults took a couple hour 4 wheeling ride that was very relaxing and the views were amazing. We also ventured into the river on Saturday afternoon. Some jumped in and swam and others just waded in and watched. We had multiple rounds of horse shoes, which I thought was my hidden talent until the next day when that talent disappeared! Oh well? We had a great weekend. (I wish we would have gotten pictures of the Day's, we hung out with them Sunday afternoon.)

Me and Maris!

2010-05-25T12:26:00.001-07:00

A couple weeks ago I had the chance to go spend almost a whole week with one of my favorite people in the whole world! My awesome husband took care of our two great girls while I got to fly to AZ to hang out with Marisa. We have been friends since we were 12 years old. She is the one person that knows me almost better than I know myself! Since I moved to Utah 8 years ago, we haven't had a chance to hang out just the two of us for a long time. We took over Scott's Apartment and spent the week talking, ating Flo's, laying by the pool, putting chapstick on and on and on, watching movies, sitting on Scott's fun balcony, and sleeping/ eating/and talking in Scott's bed (did I mention Scott was out of town!) The time flew by too fast, but I had a great time and we got some fun pictures. Thanks for your house Scott! We did manage to get a picture with Scott and hang out the last day with him too. Thanks Marisa for a fun week, I love ya!!!

2010-05-18T10:00:00.001-07:00

I had playgroup at my house two weeks ago. While I was making the 4 six years old's lunch I over heard this.

Georgia: Did you guys know that Mom's have eyes on the back of their heads?

Charly: Yes I know, My mom does too.

Georgia: All Mom do! But they don't grow in until they have kids.

Kenadee just is wide eyed listening, I guess I hadn't mentioned it to her before?

Nettie: I once by accident poked my Mom's back eyes! But don't worry she was OK!

Georgia: They are not just to make sure we are not being naughty, they are also to watch us and keep us safe.

I love listening to these girls talk. They are so funny.

2010-05-18T09:37:00.000-07:00

We just got these pictures back from Devon's wedding last year. I had to post the one of us because Danny is actually smiling (this doesn't happen in pictures very often!) I had to post the other two because they are just too funny to forget. Mark and Jeff are so good at filling in for the others girlfriend/wife when they can not attend a wedding.

Girls Trip 2010

2010-04-28T11:42:00.000-07:00

We just got back from a awesome girls trip with all of these girls. We rented a beautiful house in Scottsdale up by the Boulders Resort. It had a great pool, hot tub, and ping pong table in the backyard. It was where we were at most of the trip. We had beautiful weather and all enjoyed being lazy in the sun. Some of the highlights of the trip were. . .

-Getting escorted off the men's only gold course during a important golf tournament. ( so funny!)

-Eating lots of great food, especially my moms yummy cookies and ice cream. Oh yeah and my Aunt Corals delicious cereal mix!

-Making the Bullard's mostly Melissa play Taboo. (Us older girls won by a landslide!)

-Eating at Flo's twice!

-Hiking and exercising in the sun

-Watching Girls Just Want To Have Fun!

-Sadie pooping her pants while running her 13 mile marathon! (Hilarious and Gross)

-And of course all our girl bonding talks!

We had such a fun time. I love all my sisters, cousins, Aunt Coral and my Mom. I hope we all can do it again next year!

The Taggart Girls

The Bullard Girls

The Racker Girls and Baby Ben

I won't post the four funny pictures it took to finally get this cute picture.

Seriously who are those two crazy girls behind us?

Melissa and I doing "Airplane". Never too old for "Airplane"

Us five Racker girls together at last!

These two beautiful women kept all of us in line during the trip!

Cousins

2010-04-27T13:21:00.000-07:00

Look closely at these pictures. The first one was suppose to be a nice smile while in the second one we are suppose to be doing a sexy pose. Note that most of the Racker girls need to work on their sexy poses! Anna and Shannon might need to reel it in a little for my G rated blog. (ha ha) I love all these girls, they are so much fun!

Spring Break 2010

2010-04-27T12:37:00.001-07:00

The girls and I drove to AZ with Jess and her kids for spring break this year. This first picture is after 10 hours of driving and arriving at Scott's house. They dropped me off at Scott's and we drove up to Tuscon to stay with Marisa in the hospital for a night. We had a relaxing Saturday night and Sunday hanging out together. We talked, watched movies, looked at slugs, and of course ate. We also discovered that pink Peeps really are better than the other colors.

The girls and I stayed at Scott's apartment for a couple nights while we were in town. He had to work in the day, but we barbecued pizza's one night and took the track to Cold Stone another night while there. The girls stayed busy in the day swimming and playing Doctor with the cool hospital package Marisa sent home for the girls. I wish I would have got a picture of them with the hospital gowns, masks, etc on. They looked just like doctors! Thanks Maris, this package has entertained them for days on vacation and at home!!

Here is a picture of all the kids swimming with Grandma Lene in Scott's pool. We all went to Pei Wei for lunch after swimming. For the record it was not as good as Flo's!!!!!!

Fun at Grandma Sharon's

2010-04-26T11:48:00.000-07:00

My sweet Mother-in-law and Larry took care of my girls while I had a relaxing "Girls Trip" with my mom, sisters and cousins. Savannah and Kenadee can't stop talking about how much fun they had. They said they went swimming a lot, played with cousins (Rhett and Briyanna), had a BBQ, colored, made snow, ate chocolate chip pancakes, went shopping, helped Brandi look at wedding dresses in a magazine, played with the dogs, and visited with Grandma Ester. Sounds like I missed out on a whole lot of fun. Thanks again Larry and Sharon!

Kenadee first lost tooth

2010-04-26T09:20:00.000-07:00

Kenadee has been waiting forever to lose a tooth. All her friends and cousins have been loosing teeth for a year now. Last week when dropping the girls off at Grandma Sharon's for a few days, she told me her tooth was bugging her. I was worried maybe she had a cavity, but after examining it a little closer realized that it was just a little loose. She was so excited! Within a few hours I received a text from Grandma telling me it was OUT. Kenadee called me the next day and told me she woke up in the middle of the night and found a dollar under her pillow. I'm glad she has a tooth fairy that is so on top of it:) She also told us that she thinks she might get $2 for the next tooth, then $3 and so on. I don't know where she heard that? They were wrong!

Easter at Grandma Lene's

2010-04-06T12:49:00.001-07:00

We spent Easter at my Mom's this past weekend. We watched conference and ate a delicious dinner topped off with my Mom's strawberry pie. She also put together a Easter egg hunt for the grand kids. The kids had a ball hunting for 180 Easter eggs that were hidden inside the house, due to bad weather. My Dad even ordered us each a chocolate Easter egg with our names on them! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Danny's Mom Sharon and Larry were also in town this past weekend. We enjoyed playing games and spending time with them as well.

We had a great weekend spending time with Family!!!

Crazy Hair Day!

2010-04-06T12:22:00.001-07:00

Friday was Crazy Hair day at school. Kenadee has been waiting all year long for this day. She had big plans for toothbrushes and Q-tips sticking out of her hair too, but I ran out of time. Savannah on the other hand is in 4th grade and this was the first year she let me do anything crazy to her hair. I think because she is in student council, that she had to participate in Crazy Hair day. She did make sure I didn't do anything too weird to her hair! Funny girls!

Mud is more romantic than rain!

2010-04-06T12:04:00.001-07:00

We promised Marisa a kissing in the rain photograph while in Hawaii, but forgot to take one on the one day we had bad weather. We decided that mud was more romantic than rain and sent this to her from Danny's phone. She of course loved it ,just like all inappropriate pictures and told us to make a R rated movie for her. Sorry Maris this is all you get!!!

P.S. I really didn't know where Danny's hand was during the picture. He always tries to ruin all our pictures. Oh well this is going in my book.

That is mud that is making me look tan! Good thing I am keeping my water clean:)

Hawaii 2010

2010-04-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

In March we went to Hawaii with the Day's for Byron's 60th birthday. We stayed in our timeshare this time, but made sure to hit all of our favorite spots. We even found a couple new ones! (We found a awesome candy store that makes the yummiest macaroon cookies, we tasted Jo Jo Snow Shack and loved it, we ate shrimp taco's at a The Shrimp Station, walked to Secret Beach and Queen's Bath, and even snorkeled a couple times right off the beach. We also met up with Tom and Jen Stone for a couple days while in Kauai. We attempted to teach him how to play cards, with no avail! Jen on the other hand caught on very quickly, she'll have to tutor him for next time.
One of the last days we were in Hawaii we decided to go on a 4 wheeling adventure. I knew we would get muddy, but had no idea just how muddy Danny would get us. One of our guides had to help me scrub up before lunch for sanitation reasons:) We had a blast and the scenery was amazing. We had a great week in Hawaii and are counting the days/years for next time.

This picture below is me gracefully jumping from the rope swing.

Tubing at Soldier Hollow

2010-03-09T10:09:00.001-08:00

This past February we took the kids tubing up at Soldier Hollow. The McPhie's and the Egnew's met us there. Everyone had a blast! We can't wait to do it again next year.

Valentines Day

2010-03-09T09:05:00.000-08:00

I am so mad at myself for not getting any pictures of this, but I at least wanted to write it down so we can always remember it.

My Creative mother has us over every year for a special valentines dinner. As Valentines was on a Sunday this year it worked perfect to not conflict with our hubby's taken us out. She always sets the tables with cute Valentines plates, napkins and decor. Then she had beautifully wrapped bags of candy on each plate. This was my favorite part! My girls favorite part was the heart shaped lemonade ice cubes that she had in every ones drinks. She is so creative! She made us a wonderful dinner and topped it off with yummy ice cream cake from Dairy Queen! Thanks Mom, we all had a fun night!

So This year the girls had their Valentine party at school on the Friday before Valentines day. Both my girls came home with a boat load of Valentines card, but then Savannah pulled out of her bag 2 big stuffed animals, a box of chocolates, and a rose. She said they were from different boys in her class. I think she wouldn't have cared about most of it, but one of the stuffed animals was really soft so she loved that! She is in 4th grade, what is with that!!!! If I had a little boy and he wanted me to help him go buy gifts for some girl in his class, I would tell him no, he is only in 4th grade! (Maybe that is why I don't have any sons.) I told Danny that Savannah got more for Valentines Day then I did. He responded "Well of course she did, You are married!" That is so disturbing, I think once you are married you have a real Valentine and you should be remembered MORE! Danny you better plan for next year!

Family Christmas Party

2010-01-12T12:09:00.000-08:00

My Parents, my Sisters and their families came up to Heber

for a fun day together. We started they day off by making

yummy cookies with Grandma Lene. We brought the cookies

and all the kids to the local nursing home to visit and sing

too some lonley people there.

After bring some cheer to the nursing home, the

kids and Dad's decided it was time for some sledding!

Everyone piled into Danny's truck for the short drive

to the hill. All the Mom's stayed at the house for some

girl bonding. From the great pictures that Darci got

I think we missed out on a lot of FUN!

Savannah broke her foot a week earlier, but put a bag on her medical
boot and still had a great time.

Here are our awesome Husbands showing off their stuff!

That night all the adults went to Zermatt for a yummy dinner together.

Christmas 2009

2010-01-12T11:22:00.000-08:00

We spent Christmas Eve with the Bullards this year.

It was fun all being together. We love them all so

much. Lonnie had a beautiful program planned,

we ate lots of good food, and Santa even stopped

by to see the kids. Lonnie couldn't help but sit on

Santa's lap too!

Savannah sang "Believe" from The Polar

Express, and did a great job. Thanks Melis

for accompanying her.

We all slept at Grandma Lene's house and had a

fun Christmas Day opening gifts and playing

games.

Labrum Ford

2010-01-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

Last Month we bought the Ford Dealership across
the street. Danny has wanted another Dealership for
a while and was very excited to be able to purchase one
so close. We had fun with family on this freezing night
as we hung our temporary signs. Thanks to all who
helped!

Vegas Girls Trip

2009-12-14T08:50:00.000-08:00

Heather Sweat, Jenny Brown, Jess(my sis),

Brandi Spears, and Heather Edmonds, and

I took a quick trip to Vegas for the weekend.

I had some timeshare points that I needed to

use. We got some Christmas shopping done,

went to the Temple, ate at some great places,

watched movies, and LAUGHED a lot.

This picture below was taken in Caesar Palace.

We kept smelling something really fowl. . .

like poop! And then about 20 feet in front of

us we saw a guy with brown stuff all over his

pants and running down his leg. EWWW!

(Sad for the drunk guy, but sooo funny for us!)

We laughed all night about it, like we were

1st graders!

4th grade Rendezvous

2009-12-08T16:11:00.000-08:00

How cute are these girls dressed up like Indians? A couple weeks ago the forth grade had a "Rendezvous." All the kids made those cute bags from old jeans. They ate tin foil dinners for lunch and got to bring fun things to trade or buy with beaver bucks. Here is Savannah with a few friends from school (Jaden, Mckenzie, Cassidie, and Hadlee). Savannah loved this rendezvous and wished they would do it ever year.

2009-12-08T15:42:00.000-08:00

Kenadee made her birthday cake herself. Isn't it
beautiful? She was so proud of it and so excited to
eat it! Grandma Sharon came up with Chloe and we
went to Chuckee Cheeses that night. But of course
she didn't want to eat pizza for dinner, (because she
doesn't like sauce on her pizza this week.) We ate
orange chicken with rice and opened presents at home
before heading to Chuckee Cheeses. Kenadee was so funny,
all day she would only respond to "Birthday Girl." She
had a great day!

My Mom had Ella and Kenadee spend the weekend at

her house for their birthdays. She took them shopping,

to lunch and then, Her and my Dad took them to

"Disney Princess on Ice." They loved it and still

haven't stopped talking about it. I wish I had a

picture of them while they were there,

but they will always remember it! Thanks Mom!

Halloween 2009

2009-11-03T13:41:00.000-08:00

This year we spent Halloween at my Mom's house.
She made lots of yummy food for everyone, and we
sat around visiting and eating most of the night.
Before the kids took off trick- or- treating we
even captured a picture of all of the grand kids
(Grandma Lene and Grandma Dene's) in their
costumes.

Grandpa Rob was awesome and took all these kids
trick or treating by himself! They all had so much
fun. The rest of us had a relaxing hour playing
cards while they were gone. I think we should
keep this tradition going. . . Dad what do you
think?

By the way Kenadee was a beautiful bride

and Savannah was a corpse bride.

Grandma Lene you are awesome! Thank

you for the fun night.

I love where we live!!

2009-11-03T13:36:00.000-08:00

Savannah called me outside to see this a couple weeks ago. We see so many great rainbows from where we live. I don't even think we saw the rain, just the rainbow. Its was perfect!

Disney Cruise (part 2)-Castaway Cay

2009-10-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

This was at our last stop on the cruise. It is Disney's
private island "Castaway Cay." This was our favorite
stop, because we all got to play and relax on the beach
together. The island was so beautiful, it had water slides,
rope swings, lots of chairs, a crazy amount of food and my
favorite. . . cookie dough ice cream! They even had a kids
club on the island, Kenadee attempted to dig there for whale
bones, but got rained out. We even saw a big sting ray in the
water when we first got into the water.

Rita insisted on this picture, which was quite difficult

to take and caused quite a scene on the beach with us

all spooning in a circle.

We had fun seeing Brandi, we don't get to see her
very much.

Grandma Rita and Grandpa Larry with all the
grand kids. This picture was taken after Rita
and Larry were both carried into the water
with their chairs by the guys. I guess it was
the only way to get them in!!

Savannah, Kenadee, Briyanna, and Kaylee spent
most of the day playing in the sand and collecting
sea shells.

Savannah thoroughly enjoyed every minute she
got to spend with Briyanna. They don't get to
spend very much time together. Maybe that is
why they were inseparable most of the trip!
We wish they lived closer!

Disney Cruise 2009 (Part One)

2009-10-13T11:39:00.000-07:00

These two wonderful, fun people brought all of their
children and grandchilden on an amazing Disney Cruise
that we will never forget. Thanks Rita and Larry!!!!!

You would never believe it was midnight

at the airport, when you look at these excited

kids faces. . . They did all zonk out as soon as

we were on the airplane.

This ship was huge and very clean!

The servers on the cruise were always so

fun. Here they have made funny hats for

the girls. They had fun with those hats!!

Grandpa Larry with his hat on.

One morning we had a scheduled breakfast

that included a lot of the Disney characters

coming around to each table and posing for

pictures with us. Savannah and Kenadee

really enjoyed this and Danny and I learned

about some new characters that we didn't know

existed.

We took Rita and Larry to a night club

one night after dinner. As you can see

it was spontaneous and most of us were

in our pj's. We got Larry out on the dance

floor and then they asked him to help with a

special musical number. They dressed him

up like the karate kid and had him dance on

the stage while "Kung Fu Fighting" was playing.

It was hilarious, he did a great job!!!

All the little girls dressed in their princess

stuff one night for the big show that night.

The show had all of the Disney Princess in

it and the girls loved every minuet of it.

These girls had a blast playing together

everyday in the kids club. They made cookies,

crafts, read stories with Belle, played

on the slide, went on scavenger hunts, learned

how to be pirates, danced, played on the computer,

and learned how to be princesses from Cinderella

herself!

Kenadee and her Prince!

Fall Family Birthday Party!!

2009-10-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

Jessica, Mark, Doug and Carly's birthday all fall within a week of each other, so we celebrated together. Carly, Darci and their families came in town and we all gathered at my house for a big dinner and games. It was fun having everyone together again!(except for my Dad-he had choir practice. We missed ya! )

Look at this handsome bunch! Boy are we lucky girls!

Dave you look much more masculine in this picture-I

posted it just for you! (Mark its still OK to be gay!)

We actually got all the grandchildren (except little

Ollie who was napping) to sit still for a quick picture.

They had so much fun running around and playing together.

Danny good job getting out of this picture,

now you just look possessed!

Kenadee's First Day of Kindergarten!

2009-09-15T08:45:00.000-07:00

Somebody had the stupid idea of having Kindergarten start two weeks after the rest of the school. This was excruciating for Kenadee, watching her sister go to school every morning while she had to wait two more weeks before she could start! When it was finally back to school night for Kenadee, she had waited long enough. She kept saying "why can't it be back to school day!" It was a really long day, but when we went that night she was so excited to find out that she got a great teacher and had many friends in her class. The next morning Kenadee was up early with one of her new outfits on and ready to head for the bus. I almost cried as I watched Savannah and Kenadee holding hands as they walked up the street to the bus stop. I can't believe my baby is in school now! She is sooo lucky to have such a great big sister that is always willing to help her.

I walked to the bus stop to pick Kenadee up after her half a day of school. I got my camera out and was ready for the photo opportunity that I didn't get that morning. The bus stopped and No Kenadee! I was informed that Kenadee got off on the stop before. . . she told the bus driver she was going home with Nettie (her best friend). I told the bus driver not to listen to her anymore and then ran around the block to find her. Apparently Kenadee thought she could play everyday after school with Nettie. I bursted her bubble, only after getting this cute picture of the two girls. Looking forward to a great year!

Bear Lake 2009

2009-08-26T08:27:00.000-07:00

This year we decided to do a family trip to Bear Lake without the kids.
Everyone, except Darci and Doug were able to make it. (We missed them!) We rented a beautiful cabin for 3 nights. The cabin had a huge wrap around porch with amazing views of Bear Lake. We BBQ, boated, mountain biked, golfed, played games, watched movies while eating my Moms famous carmel corn , read, and just relaxed. It was so fun to hang out with my awesome family and not worry about anything.
Thank you for all coming and making this a trip to remember. Love you all!

We didn't see a weight limit on the tube so we thought this was safe?

The only grown man that could fit in my (small) woman life jacket.

We love ya Dave!!

My beautiful Mom, sisters and I relaxing on the boat.

Aunt Ardene

2009-08-26T08:09:00.000-07:00

I wanted this in my scrapbook so my children will always remember my Aunt Ardene. She was an amazing woman.
Ardene was a second mother to me and like a grandma to my girls.

Ardene Ressler Bullard. On August 18, 2009 the light of our lives and heart of our family was suddenly and unexpectedly taken. Despite her valiant efforts, she was overcome by an aggressive and sudden infection.Ardene was born on March 18, 1955 to Peter J. and Reah O. Ressler in Roy, Utah. She was the youngest of 10 children along with her twin sister and best friend, Arlene. She was raised in Roy and attended Ricks College and Weber State College. She was married to her high school sweetheart Lonnie M. Bullard on May 5, 1977 in the Salt Lake Temple. She dedicated her life to her husband and to raising nine wonderful children. She excelled in and deeply loved being a mother. She loved the out-of-doors and was passionate about sports and fitness, especially tennis, playing on many teams and in many tournaments. She never shied away from competitive games, even with women half her age. She had a passion for life and was involved in all the activities of her children. She stood side-by-side with her husband in community, business, and recreational events. Ardene and Lonnie were inseparable in life, one name rarely mentioned without the other. They know their relationship is eternal.Ardene was blessed with an unwavering testimony of the gospel and a great love for her Savior. While raising her nine children, she served in many ward and stake callings, among her favorites were: missionary at Hill Cumorah Pageant, camp director, Young Women’s President and Relief Society President.She is survived by her husband Lonnie and children Melissa (Samuela) Ita’aehau, Michael (Andrea), Shannon (Cameron) Garber, Kendrick (serving in the Tuxla Gutierrez, Mexico Mission), Anna, Denis (serving in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission), Valek, Madison, and Dema. Also survived by soon to be eight grandchildren, father, Peter J. Ressler, and siblings Boyd Ressler, Susan Howes, Judy Daugherty, Holly Everton, Chris Ressler, Pam Woodall, Coral Taggart, and Arlene Racker. She was preceded in death by her mother Reah, and brother Laurie.A viewing will be held at Russon Brothers Mortuary, 1941 North Main Street, Farmington, Utah, on Thursday, August 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. A viewing will also be held from 9:30 to 10:30 AM at the Farmington North Stake Center at 729 W. Shepard Lane, Farmington, Utah. Funeral services to be held at 11:00 AM in the Farmington North Stake Center. Internment at the Farmington City Cemetery.The family wishes to thank the dedicated doctors, nurses and staff of the Intermountain Medical Center for their heroic efforts, compassion and kindness. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Perpetual Education Fund or the Missionary Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Ardene will be forever remembered as selfless, loving, and without guile towards anyone, always showing unconditional love. Oh, how we will miss her.

OLLIE

2009-08-06T11:51:00.000-07:00

I had to do a separate post for just Ollie. He was missing from quite a few photo's due to his napping .

I just love this sweet little boy. I am actually going through withdrawals from kissing his kissable cheeks. He is the happiest baby I have ever met. He was always smiling and sucking on his blanket or hand. I especially loved his long tongue. (Marisa check out the bottom picture. . . jealous?) We had so much fun with baby Ollie.

My girls are now SURE that they need a little brother!! Oh Well!!

I think we will just have to borrow Darci and Doug's cute boys.

Minnesota visit 2009

2009-08-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

The reason we wanted to visit
Minnesota was because we had to
see this huge spoon with a cherry
on it!!!

Only kidding, The real reason

we decided to visit Minnesota is My

sister Darci and her sweet family

live there.

We had no idea how much we

would love Minnesota. It is a beautiful

state and has so many things to see and

do.

First we needed to get in a little

"Cousin Time."

Here is my sister and I at a fun

beach we brought the kids

to while visiting. I thoroughly

enjoyed spending time with

my awesome sister!

The kids had a relaxing afternoon

digging in the sand and trying to bury

each other.

This is us at the sculpture garden

we went to after first hitting the

farmers market for some fresh

fruit and veggies.

These sculptures were so fun for the

kids. They could climb on almost

all of them. Some were a bit scary

for Darci and I to watch!

I didn't get any pictures of us biking,

but we did bike on a lot of beautiful

trails and to a bunch of really cool parks.

We also squeezed in a lot of ice cream and

even an outdoor play the

last night we were there.

Even without all the

ice cream (which was my

favorite part), shopping,

biking, parks, beaches,

and game nights, These

two cute boys (Lad and

Oliver) made the

whole trip worth

while. We had so much fun

playing with them!!!

Thanks Darci and Doug for

the great week!!!!

Marisa and Scottie Weekend!

2009-07-21T14:24:00.001-07:00

Last weekend Marisa and Scott flew in town for a long weekend. We only had 4 days, but we squeezed in a lot of fun! We went to the lake, had movie nights,rode bikes, played cards, went to dinner and just relaxed. It was the perfect weekend. Thanks guys!!! Hurry Back!!

4th of July Weekend!

2009-07-07T09:42:00.001-07:00

Emma and Kenadee told me that they wanted to get married, but they can't because they are both girls. So Cute!

Just got some pictures of Ali's blog. Thanks Ali!!

Of couse I didn't get any pictures of this weekend, but we had fun and I wanted to at least write down what we did. Friday night we went to a BBQ and visited with some friends (Duncans and Browns) who we hadn't seen in a while. It was a nice relaxing night! Saturday we went to Layton to attend my Racker family reunion. It was so fun to see everyone again. I think the last time I saw everyone was at Grandpa's funeral. Thanks Abby and Angie for all the hard work!

Saturday night we hung out with all the Day's (except Devon-mission). Savannah and Kenadee had a ball playing with Koryn, Jackson, and Emma.(wish I would have gotten pictures) We watched lots of fireworks put on by Danny, Byron, and Jordan, then the kids watched the real fireworks while laying on the trampoline. I almost forgot to mention the yummy homemade ice cream that Lesa made! YUMMY!!! We had a great Weekend!!!

Softball

2009-06-30T10:59:00.000-07:00

Savannh was excited to be on the Red Sox's this year. Josh Spears was her coach and she was on the same team as Sadie Spears. She got to play against a lot of other friends too. Here is a picture of her and another friend Cassie Cluff. This year she learned how to pitch and did a great job. She is really getting to be a great softball player.

Camping with Grandma and Grandpa!

2009-06-16T10:35:00.000-07:00

This weekend we brought our 5th wheel up to Grandpa Larry and Grandma Rita's land in wolf creek to go camping. The first night sleeping in our trailer was weird. It brought back lots of memories of living in it 2 years ago (some good some bad!).
It rained quite a bit while we were up there, but we still managed to have a great time. What a beautiful and relaxing place it is. We played games, went on walks, took the 4 wheelers out for rides, roasted hot dogs, and ate lots of treats. The girls had fun naming all the chipmunks with Grandpa. We all decided it was a lot more fun camping in a trailer than living in it. We left it up there and can't wait to go again. Thanks Rita and Larry for the great weekend!

Goodbye to the training wheels!

2009-06-16T10:27:00.000-07:00

Well it has happened, Kenadee has finally said goodbye to her training wheels. She pretended to last fall, but then made us put them back on. It took a little bit of yelling and tears, but it was worth it! She loves riding her bike and now she can keep up with the rest of us. Good job Kenadee!!

SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!

2009-06-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

On the last day of school my wonderful Mother came down to Heber and surprised her Grandkids with a "School's Out Party." She brought this huge water slide up along with a snowcone machine and all the fixings for a great BBQ. The kids were so excited and played untill the weather turned bad and we made them come inside. Jessica and I also enjoyed watching the kids play while visiting with my Mom. Thanks Mom for the fun day!!

Family Night with the McPhie's

2009-06-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

We took the kids fishing up "little pole" with our friends for family night last week. We mostly ate treats, talked, and the kid played and looked for baby lambs. The kids thought the best part of the night was when Greg let them sit in the back of the truck while we drove around. My favorite part was listening to Danny's lecture on proper footwear while fishing. It reminded me of my Dad. Ha Ha!! We didn't catch anything but we had fun!!

I'm no longer lucky!

2009-05-12T08:28:00.000-07:00

31 years with no stitches or broken bones and then this. Wednesday evening I was having a Primary meeting at my house when I decided it was "pie time." As I was trying to open the cool whip container with my "safe" pie knife it slipped and almost cut the top of my finger off. I know what you're thinking. . . "my fingers are so long I wouldn't have missed that extra inch at the end," but it was very traumatic ! Back to my story. . . so as the rest of the Primary Presidency is trying to keep me from vomiting, from seeing my gross finger one of them runs outside to get Danny. Danny runs me to the ER, which is packed and they say to go to Urgent Care because they can get me right in. By "right in" they meant 2 hours!!! I was very awry and in so much pain, and all my sweet husband could say was "It can't hurt as much as labor." It hurt way more than labor. I guess in Urgent care there are no emergencies, because I sat there trying to hold my finger on while they let pink eye and allergy patience in before me. Danny tried to refrain me from yelling at these people. I was like a crazy woman in labor and neither of us had seen that side of me! Isn't that crazy, a tiny finger and it was so painful. I guess cutting nerves will do that to you. Well here it is almost a week later and it still is super tender and gross looking. I don't know how they think they are going to remove the stitches in a couple of days with out extreme pain. Danny keeps telling me to keep the band aid off so it can air out, but whenever I take the band aid off Kenadee won't come near me. She says its gross and runs the other way. Who's child is she anyway? Well on a more positive note the night I had my finger stitched, my finger was so swollen that it looked like a normal persons finger. Yes Scott, you would have been proud. It was quite exciting and I wanted to get a picture, but by the next morning it had gone down quite a bit. Oh well I have the picture in my head. The moral of the story "Be careful with pie knifes they are sharper than you think."

Girls Trip to Oregon

2009-05-05T14:55:00.001-07:00

Last Monday I returned home from a 5 day girls trip to Oregon with a bunch of friends. This is the only picture I got of all of us together. We stopped to take pictures of the Portland temple after getting into Oregon the first day. It is such a beautiful temple. We weren't dressed to attend the temple but we did get to go in the front atrium room and see all the beautiful plants and flowers. After the Temple we made our traditional stop to Cheesecake Factory and had a really yummy lunch.

The rest of the trip consisted of us all talking, eating, walking on the beach, watching chick flicks,relaxing in the hot tub, eating ice cream, shopping, and playing 5 Crowns. We of course finshed with dinner at Cheesecake Factory again before driving to the airport to fly home. What a fun trip!

The picture of Jessica and I is our traditional sexy leg pose that we have to do everywhere we go. In the next picture Jenny and I have taken the sexy leg pose to new heights that I didn't even know existed!

Perks from living across from your in laws

2009-04-08T14:25:00.000-07:00

Danny's Dad was out plowing our driveway early this morning. Kenadee had to jump on with him and give him a hug. What a great guy. Larry and Rita just bought the house across the street from us. We are so excited to have them as our new neighbors (even if it is only on the weekend right now). My girls love being able to run across the street to say hi to Grandma and Grandpa. We all are loving the perks!!

Savannah's 3rd grade program

2009-04-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

Savannah performed in her 3rd grade program last week. It was about all kinds of Hero's. She kept telling me that I was going to cry through it. I was trying so hard not to cry that I think it made me cry worse. Danny and Kenadee kept busy making fun of me throughout it. Savannah had to memorize 12 songs and a long part for the grandparents part of it. She did a great job. This is a picture of her and her best friend this year Halley Mathers.

Danny's 36th Birthday

2009-03-24T10:29:00.001-07:00

If you wonder why we all look so cute in this picture it is because we were sick all weekend long with the flu. We tried our best to celebrate through our sickness. Lesa,Byron,Nicole,and Koryn brought this beautiful and yummy cake to Danny and the girls helped me make cupcakes. What true friends to brave entering the sick house!!

The next night, when we were feeling better, we went to Ruth Chris Steakhouse with Lesa and Byron for a wonderful dinner.

Piano Festival

2009-03-24T10:08:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was the Piano Festival. Savannah has only been taking piano lessons for 7 months, but decided to be in it. She practiced so hard and memorized her two songs perfectly. She received the highest score possible and did an awesome job. This lady by the piano with Savannah was one of her judges. She is from Russia and is the best piano player we have ever seen. Grandma Rita, Grandpa Larry, and Lesa Day came and supported her with us. Thanks we love ya!

Highlights of Hawaii

2009-03-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

I am lazy so I borrowed Ali's list of highlight and just added a few memories that she forgot.

HIGHLIGHTS OF HAWAII- Laying out by the many pools at the hotel- Running on the beach and seeing a monk seal- Kipu Falls rope swing in the pouring rain, losing my flip flop and Danny saving it TWICE- Wailea River Kayaking and Secret Falls hike (muddy, muddy, Ali whistling until she fell )- Fern Grotto- Puka Dogs at Poipu shopping center (oh and coconut and chocolate gelato!)-Little boy flowers- Going to church and having an old lady give us hand-made lays, even though we walked in late(having to sing in the choir at church)- tubing down the plantation river and tunnels-Eating Pure Chocolate from the Bean- Whale watching excursion - seeing spinner and bottle nose dolphins, humpback whales, and sea turtles (seeing people puking and pooping their pants)- Touring the Napali Coast- Laying out in the warm sun (falling asleep)- Playing Rook with myself while Ali was sleeping and Lesa was reading-Calling a taxi 4 times in a row while waiting for Leas, Byron, and Colby at the airport-Dinners at: Kioky's, Duke's, Beach House, Brick Oven (different from the one in Utah)- Eating so much GOOD fish!- Chocolate Molten dessert and Hulu Pie baby!
I can't wait until next time!!!

Hawaii 2009

2009-03-17T09:34:00.000-07:00

I finally got the pictures of Hawaii from Ali. She was so sweet and took all the pictures for us on our trip and then sent us a cd. Her pictures turned out way better than mine would have.

We went with Lesa , Byron, Ali, and Kolby Day. We had so much fun in Hawaii. The hotel and beach were so beautiful. We ate lots of good food and enjoyed lots of relaxing time together. I am not a good writer, so in the the next post I am going to post some more pictures and a list of the highlights on our trip.

Grandma Reah

2009-03-10T10:20:00.001-07:00

My wonderful Grandma Reah passed away last month while I was on a plane to Hawaii. I was so sad that I didn't get a chance to say goodbye. I am so lucky though, along with all her family, for all the great memories of her that I have. She was so involved in all of our lives, even if we lived far away. She was the best grandma anyone could ask for, and she was a perfect example, like the Savior, for all of us to follow.
Savannah remembers that Grandma always was giving us candy from her purse. (That must be where I got it from.) Kenadee loved that Grandma gave her Eskimo kisses every time we saw her. I hope my daughters never forget her.

Reah Oliver ResslerReah Oliver Ressler 5/10/1923 ~ 2/11/2009 ROY - Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, Reah Oliver Ressler, passed away on February 11, 2009 in Ogden, Utah surrounded by her loving family. If Reah met someone once, he was a friend; if she met someone twice he was family and most likely received a homemade quilt. She is a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Reah was born on May 10, 1924 in South Jordan, Utah to Gilbert Josiah Oliver and Iline June Rindlisbacher. In 1930 the family moved to Anaconda, Montana where she attended school. In Anaconda, she met her husband of nearly 68 years, Peter J Ressler. They were married on May 27, 1941 in Boulder, Montana. They were sealed for time and all eternity in the Ogden LDS Temple on May 27, 1995. Four children were born in Montana, after which the family moved to Roy, Utah where they have resided for 60 years. Six more children followed in Roy as well as 46 grandchildren, 96 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Including spouses, her posterity currently numbers over 200. She knew and loved each one, and they knew she loved them through kind words, kisses, hugs and acts of service. Reah was a faithful member of several Roy Wards. She served in numerous callings, but will especially be remembered for over 30 years as Stake Girls Camp Director. She worked as an office assistant to Dr. Leon H. White, pediatrician, for nearly 25 years. She loved her calling in the Ogden Temple and her service in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Reah is survived by a faithful and loving husband, Peter J Ressler and by nine children, Boyd (Jan) Ressler, Susan (Nick) Howes, Holly (Larry) Everton, Chris Ressler, Judy (Emmett) Daugherty, Pam (Randy) Woodall, Coral Taggart, Ardene (Lonnie) Bullard, and Arlene (Rob) Racker. Also survived by brothers, Max, Robert, and Norman Oliver, sisters, Shirla Montgomery and Bonnie Openshaw. Preceded in death by siblings Don Oliver, Beth Spraycar and Lillie Zito, a son Laurie, a son-in-law Gary Taggart, grandchildren Daren Ressler and Shay Taggart and two great-grandchildren Kilee Huffaker and McKenzie Schultz. Funeral services will be held Monday, February 16, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the Roy 23rd Ward, 5930 South 2200 West, Roy. Friends and family may call on Sunday at Myers Roy Mortuary, 5865 South 1900 West, Roy from 6 to 8 p.m. and on Monday at the church from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. prior to services. Interment, Roy City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, Reah would appreciate hugs and kisses and donations to the LDS Missionary Fund.

Kindergarten Shots

2009-03-10T09:47:00.000-07:00

I don't have a cute picture for this post so I posted this random picture to show how much my girls have changed in one year. They are growing up so fast!

Well, last week it was time to take Kenadee to get her kindergarten shot for school in the fall. She saw our little dog shaggy get some shots a few months ago, and told me she is going to be as brave as shaggy. I wanted to believe her, but I have vivid memories of taking Savannah four years earlier. . . She was running around the room screaming, it took 3 nurses holding her down, me crying, and a frantic Doctor to finally get the shots done with. It was very traumatic and to this day Savannah hates to step foot in a doctors office, even if she is just along for the ride. For this reason I told Danny that he had to be there with me this time.

Kenadee was so excited that day and I couldn't figure out why. I just thought she didn't know what to expect. Well she was so brave! She just sat there and watched while they gave her 5 shots in her thighs. She didn't even say ouch, her only words after were "are we done?" I always thought Savannah and Kenadee were different, but never realized just how different they are. She must get her bravery from my side of the family, ha ha!

Linkin K. Labrum

2009-02-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

No, this isn't my baby, but I wish he was! Danny's brother Lyle and his cute wife Ashley had this little boy about two weeks ago. We spent most of last weekend hanging out with them and Sharon and Larry who were in town visiting. Savannah and I fell in love with Linkin, he is so perfect! We spent most of the time stealing him from each other. (you can't see it well, but his little outfit says Lock up your Daughters.) -Or your wife in my case!

Kenadee thought he was cute too, but was way more interested in playing with cousin

Chloe. What a great weekend!

My Whole Fam Damily(for you Dad)

2009-01-27T10:33:00.000-08:00

My talented cousin Shanny took a family picture this past Christmas when everyone was in town. She did a great job! I will post some of the other pictures later.

My sisters

2009-01-27T10:05:00.000-08:00

We finally had pictures taken!

It has been years since we have had a sister picture taken, except the one that we were making kissy faces in at Darci's wedding. So here are my beautiful sisters I always talk about. I wish they all lived closer so we could spend more time together.

Snowmobiling

2009-01-13T09:27:00.000-08:00

Well the stars all finally aligned and we took the girls snowmobiling! We have a tradition of taking the girls out snowmobiling on Christmas Day. This past Christmas was the windiest and coldest day ever. The girls and all their cousins had their noses pressed to the window waiting for it to stop, but it didn't. With Danny not having too many days off and the bad weather on all of his days off we have had difficulty taking the girls snowmobiling. This past Saturday was a beautiful day so we headed to Strawberrry with the snowmobiles. The girls were so excited! I am pretty sure Kenadee had more fun doing snow angels in the snow then actually riding the snowmobiles. Oh Well, we all had a great time.

Christmas 2008

2008-12-30T12:10:00.000-08:00

Well here is a picture of my new Christmas Tree. My parents let us pick out all new Christmas decorations this year for our Christmas present. Jessica and I met my Mom at Modern Display and the shopping begun! We had a ball shopping and I love how my new decorations turned out. Thanks Mom and Dad!

The Days invited us over to share in their Christmas Eve Traditions. We started with a yummy dinner. Then Byron read the nativity story from the scriptures while the kids dressed up. Savannah, as Mary even got to hold Megan and Jordans brand new baby. Lesa then read a cute story to my girls, that they read every year. After that we all played some fun games and had chocolate melting cake for desert. The girls didn't forget to bring their present from Grandma Lene to open that night. Nightgowns! They loved them Mom! What a fun night!

Christmas Day my Parents , Sisters and all thier families braved the storm and came up to my house. We ate soup, breadsticks, and lots of sugar. We were suppose to take the kids snowmobiling, but couldn't because of the bad weather. The weather didn't stop the brother-in-laws from busting a move on our new Dance Revolution. Surprisingly Doug, even with his dance background was beat out by Dave for the 1st place title! While the kids ran around playing all the adults gathered to play a round of Celestial Mate (like the newly wed game). Danny and I won by a landslide! Good job Hun! It was fun to all be together again!

Cori Conners

2008-12-09T09:06:00.000-08:00

We all love Cori Conner's, but Savannah has always been obsessed with listening to her Christmas Cd's all year long. When she was 2 and 3 years old she wouldn't go to sleep with out Cori Conner's CD playing. So every year at Christmas time when Cori does her concerts Savannah has begging me to take her. Somehow we always get too busy and can't make it, but not this year! We went with my Mom and Dad and had a great night. My Mom even took Savannah to Meet and get a picture with Cori afterwards. Savannah was the happiest girl in the world. ( I had to sacrifice my Dad's funny face to use the one picture with my Mom's eyes open. Good job Mom! Love Ya!)

Picture a Christmas

2008-12-02T12:25:00.000-08:00

Friday after Thanksgiving, we were getting Christmas decorations out and the girls found the nativity dress ups. They dressed up in them all night long having me take pictures of each manger scene. As you can see Kenadee adapted well to each costume, but Savannah was enthralled with the Mary outfit and insisted that the other ones would not fit her. They even convinced Danny to be a wise man for a quick picture. We are going to dress up in these again on Monday night and sing at the Nursing Home for family night. (I think we will invite some friends with kids to fill the other costumes.) I Love Christmas Time!

Shaggy

2008-11-25T09:25:00.001-08:00

It has come to my attention by my daughters that we have no pictures of shaggy our little dog. With the bad luck we have with pets I better post a picture of our little shaggy in case anything ever happens. We got Shaggy last Christmas for the girls and Danny of course. Danny wanted a big dog, but there was no way I was going to have a big dog in my house. This was our compromise. He is a 3 1/2 lbs trained Maltese, and the best dog I have ever seen. He doesn't chew and rarely barks and lets Kenadee dress him up in bows and put him in doll strollers. We have friends of ours fighting over who is going to watch him for us when we leave town. We got lucky, I hope nothing ever happens to him. He is the only boy/son we will have (Danny talking), and he is Savannah and Kenadee's best friend.

Daddy Daughter Party

2008-11-25T08:52:00.000-08:00

A couple months ago we had a Daddy Daughter Party for Achievement Days. We played kickball with buckets of water at each base. The dads and daughters had their hands tied together and had to run to each base and stick their hands in the water to be safe. This turned out to be pretty funny, because some dads including Savannah's were so competitive that they would run as fast as possible and drag their daughter behind them. Luckily no one got hurt and fun was had by all. After a game of kickball we ate Navajo tacos and played a daddy daughter newly wed game to see how well they new each other. Savannah had a great night with her dad.

New Birthday Outfit

2008-11-19T10:09:00.000-08:00

Here is Kenadee showing off her new outfit she got for her birthday. I am so glad that one of my girls still gets excited about what I pick out for them. Savannah is so picky and won't wear anything, even half the clothes she picked out she still won't wear. You are so lucky if you can still dress your kids the way you want!!

Kenadee's 5th Birthday Party

2008-11-19T09:58:00.000-08:00

We had a princess party last week for Kenadee's 5th birthday. Kenadee helped me make the cake and decorate the house. She was so excited. Savannah and Abby got out of school early to help with it. I think they were almost as excited as Kenadee. We made princess tiaras, played pin the crown on the princess, freeze dance, princess princess princess frog, and of course had a pinata. Everyone had a great time and Savannah and Abby were lots of help. Maybe I should hire them out?
Kenadee invited a friend of hers that she just loves named tanner. I guess I forgot to tell her he wasn't coming and she kept checking the window . I later heard that she was waiting to dance with Tanner the prince . Cute huh?

Suprise Suprise

2008-11-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

Well I have no picture to post and I normally wouldn't write anything if I didn't have a picture to go with it. I also don't like mushy and I hate writing. I am going to break all my rules for a moment while I write about this weekend.
My sweet husband took me away this weekend for an early birthday surprise. He even arranged babysitting for our girls. ( Miracles never cease to happen in our family.) Well after dropping Savannah and Kenadee off at my wonderful and fun Moms house, Danny told me that we were going to the Anniversary Inn in Logan City. I had heard of Anniversary Inn, but never been there so I was excited. We stopped at Maddox on the way up for dinner and it was great like always. The drive up was beautiful and not too long. We checked into our 1st night room which was the (Vegas Room). It was more like an condo, it was huge. The room was all in a shiny grey and red with black accents. I love these colors together. The bed was a huge circle and then there was a giant black tub that could have fit my whole family in. There were two large screen TVs, one in the bedroom and one hanging over the bath tub. I soon found the sparkling cider and the cheesecake that was left for us in the mini fridge. Danny was much more enthralled with the Texas hold em /bingo/lots of games machine in the adjoining poker room. I had to pull him away a couple times, but I actually had quite fun with this game machine too. Everything together made for a fun evening. The next day we slept in and they delivered breakfast to us. We spent the day shopping, eating, napping, anything we felt like doing. It was wonderful!!! We changed rooms on the second night so we could see another one of the the rooms. We chose the (Taj Mahal) room. This room was so beautiful. Our elegant bed was up a steep staircase in a loft. We had more cheesecake, sparking cider, movies while relaxing in the tub and another lovely breakfast. What a wonderful husband I have to plan this for me. Thanks Danny, I love ya!! Start thinking for next year!

Halloween 2008

2008-11-04T09:10:00.000-08:00

This year for Halloween our ward decided to do a trunk-or-treat right out side of our front door. Due to all the empty houses and land around us we were said to be the perfect place for the ward party. The whole ward lined up their cars all up and down the street and handed out candy to the kids. It turned out very nice. I love having it on Halloween night. I only had to dress my kids up once and the whole thing was over in a little over an hour. When the ward party was over we went inside to my Mom and Grandma making scones and Carmel apples. ( Which were wonderful Mom! Your the best!) Steve and Annie Bruehl came over and brought homemade chicken noodle soup and the Egnew came over to celebrate with us too. We had a relaxing evening visiting and eating of course.

Kenadee was a Princess Fairy and her wings stayed on all of 15 min. This was the first year Savannah wanted to be something scary. I was a little surprised and didn't know how to do scary, so I turned the scary make-up over to my Mom and she did a great job. Maybe too good, Kenadee kept covering her eyes and telling Savannah "Don't look at me your scaring me!!!" She avoided her most of the night!

As you can see Kenadee had a blast helping Grandma make scones. I think she liked that as much as trick or treating.

Darci's visit to Heber in Sept 08

2008-11-01T12:29:00.000-07:00

In September my sister Darci came to Utah for a few weeks to visit. She drove up to Heber one day to visit and take pictures with her new camera. We went to the Heber Creeper train station and found some cute places to take pictures. She did a great job and the pictures turned out cute. Savannah loved posing for the pictures and playing with her cousins. Kenadee on the other hand was much more interested in picking the flowers (weeds) out of the grass with Ella. Lots of good memories, Thanks Darci!! I should have posted this earlier, but she uploaded the pictures to Jessica's computer and I couldn't post these until I came to use her computer.

Back to the 80's

2008-10-28T13:02:00.001-07:00

Danny and I went to an adult Halloween party this Saturday night at the Halls house. We had to dress up, which Danny is never very happy about. He is always taking about the old days when he had a mullet, so I borrowed these costumes from my friend. I think he was actually excited to put this costume on. Hopefully these pictures will convince him how ugly mullets are and always have been. Everyone kept calling him Joe Dirt all night at the party. I don't think you can fully see how ugly the pants are either. I didn't realize untill we were at the party, but the pants were a little too big so we had to belt them up and that resulted in the back side of him looking hilarious. Check out my outfit! I am such a hot blonde! Why have I been a brunett all these years. I totally remember stir-up pants, but didn't realize how ugly they were untill I had them on. Savannah and Kenadee got a kick out of taking pictures of us before we left for the party. We had a fun night.

Here is a close up of Danny's mullet.

Savannah's surgery

2008-10-21T08:51:00.000-07:00

Danny took this picture with his phone at the hospital. I should have brought my camera and made sure to get one good picture. Oh well this is all we have. We had to be at the hospital at 6:00 am which is why we look so lovely. As you can see in the picture Savannah was very scared. I felt so bad for her. She would act so brave when the Doctors and Nurses were around, but then as soon as they left she would get teary and tell me how scared she was. It was really heart-wrenching. Especially when they had to wheel her bed away and she wouldn't let go of my arm. I even started crying then.

Everything went well and we were home by noon that day. I thought she would be out of it most of the day from the medication and anesthesia, but she wasn't. She was ready to watch movies and play games way before I was! She rarely complained of pain and was walking on her feet the same day as surgery. What a trooper! She had many friends and family call and bring treats and balloons by to make her feel special. Marisa and Scottie even sent a fun package in the mail to keep her busy while resting for a few days. Then my Mom came up to hang out with her and spent the night. She loved that. Her favorite part was when we went to Walmart so Savannah could pick out a birthday present from my Mom. We got her one of those "old people" carts so she didn't have to walk so much. She rode around for quite awhile having a blast until we finally made her leave. I made my Mom drive the cart back up to the front so she would have some practice for down the road. She was so embarrassed! It was hilarious, I really wish I would have had my camera with me. Especially when she missed the automatic doors and was tying to open the doors while sitting and driving this huge cart at the same time into Walmart. I laughed for a while before I got out to help her. I couldn't help it!

My artistic thing for the year!

2008-10-14T09:30:00.000-07:00

I know you all wanted to see a close up of the cake in the previous post. Most of you know that I am not very artistic, but I wanted to make a cake for Savannah's party. My sister sent me a cute picture of something similar to this. . . Alright before anyone gets to impressed I better mention that the cute girl next to me in the picture is my friend Brittoni and she is very artistic. She came over and helped me, but I really did some of it too I promise! ( It looks a lot simpler in the picture then it seemed to me.)

Savannah's 9th Birthday Party

2008-10-14T09:12:00.000-07:00

For Savannah's 9th birthday we decided to plan a party for her and her friends. She wanted to have a late night party and play outside games like ghost in the graveyard and kick the can. Well of course the weather did not play along. The day of the party was a high of 39 degrees and even snowed a little. We had to make a few adjustment to our plans. We had all the girls come in warm pj's so after we played some inside games like 7-11 and freeze dance we could still go outside for 20 min or so and make smores over a fire pit. I also bought white pillowcases and fabric markers so each girl could decorate a pillowcase for themself and sign everyones before the party ended. The party turned out great and everyone had a blast.

The Wedding

2008-09-30T09:28:00.001-07:00

This past weekend we went to Scottsdale for Sharon and Larry's wedding. She bought all the little girls these pretty white dresses to wear. She even gave each of them a cute bracelet to wear. They felt like princess and looked like angles. The wedding was very nice and the bride was so beautiful. We enjoyed all the time we got to spend with Sharon and Larry and the their families.

Kenadee loved walking down the isle and after the wedding asked if we could do it all over again except for the long talking (the vows) . She is funny!

Arizona

2008-09-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

This is what we did when we weren't doing wedding stuff. We had a good time visiting with Danny's brother Lyle and his family (Ashley, Lyndee, and Chloe). The picture below is a close up of Kenadee from this picture. Chloe brought her Nintendo DS lite and Kenadee was obsessed with it. This is what she did whenever we let her. I am going to have to look into getting her one. I have never seen her be so into something.

Lets pretend this is the first day of school!

2008-09-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

Yes I am a bad Mom and forgot to take a first day of school picture! So here it is, just a couple weeks late. Savannahs will have to come later, she leaves so early that my brain is not working yet.

Kenadee is in Preschool with Ella and Marcus, her cousins and loves it. Her teachers names are Ms Lyndsay and Ms Beth. This picture is right outside her classroom door. She is getting so big!

I miss Oregon!

2008-09-23T12:07:00.000-07:00

I just realized I left these pictures out. While in Oregon, Lesa and I went into a hat store and when we came out we saw this. I think we should always bring Byron shopping with us. Savannah and Kenadee agree!!!

P.S. I think Danny was on a pink horse on the other side of the carousel with a big smile of course!

Last post about oregon, I promise!

2008-09-09T08:46:00.007-07:00

These were all the other fun things we did that didn't constitute an official post. We had a hot tub at our beach house that we relaxed in. My kids love this picture because Lesa looks like their Mom. In their dreams! Lesa, Savannah and I also took the beach bikes out for a ride on the beach one morning. It was the most serene experience. The other photos are fun pictures we got at different times on our trip. Sorry Lesa this was the better of the two. I promise. You still look beautiful!

Well if you can't tell from all my post, we had a incredible time in Oregon this past week. We hope to go again really soon.

Kite flying

2008-09-09T08:46:00.005-07:00

On the last night of our vacation we went to the beach to fly kites. Our whole trip was so perfect, and kite flying was no different. Something about the wind in Oregon made it so Savannah and Kenadee could fly their kites all by them self. They ran around the beach for over an hour flying their kites. It was so fun for them, and quite relaxing for us. After kite flying we made smores over the fire . What a great ending to a great trip.

Crabbing

2008-09-09T08:46:00.004-07:00

Byron took us crabbing while we were in Oregon. We were not very lucky that day. We didn't get to keep any of the crabs we caught because they were females or too small. Despite this, we had a great time trying to guess how many crabs were going to be in the net when we pulled it up. The girls also loved to take pictures at this place. Kenadee wasn't very happy though when she realized that she wasn't the mermaid. She was the boy!! Danny's hoody still smells like fish guts after 4 washings. It will keep our memories strong.

Cresent Beach Hike

2008-09-09T08:46:00.003-07:00

This was a hike we went on in Oregon. It is the most beautiful hike through dense green forest and then all of a sudden you see the beach. We relaxed at this beach and ate snacks of course for a couple hours. The kids ran around finding sand dollars, shells, and looking for starfish and sea enemies. Lesa taught them about "sneaker waves." We had the whole beach to our self, it was so beautiful.

Savannah and Kenadee's first time to the beach.

2008-09-09T08:46:00.002-07:00

I couln't leave out these pictures of Savannah and Kenadee enjoying the beautiful beach. I know I should have done a slide show with all my pictures, but when I have this made into my scrapbook I want these all in there.

My favorite part of the whole trip!

2008-09-09T08:46:00.001-07:00

So here it is, what I've talked about for the past two years(since the last time we went to Oregon.) The Tillimook Factory is in Oregon and only 30 min from where we stayed this time. So we made it up there twice in 4 days. That is 4 yummy scoops of the best ice cream and cones ever!! We even bought extra cones to bring home. I tried to reenact the Tillimook experience at home last night with Bryers ice cream, but it just wasn't the same. The other picture is of the candy store in Seaside which was about 30 min the other way. It is the funnest store. It has every kind of candy you can think of, even the old ones that are hard to find. As you can tell by the smiles on my girls faces, they loved this stop on the trip.

We love the Days!

2008-09-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

Byron and Lesa Day came to Oregon with us this past week. Danny and I thought they were our friends but apparently they are using us for our kids. They both were so cute with Savannah and Kenadee. Their grand kids have got to be some of the luckiest kids in the world. This is a picture of Byron finding sand dollars on the beach with the girls. Lesa brought a whole suitcase of fun projects to do with the girls. She made visors with them, painted their nails and toe nails (Byron even helped with that) , played jacks, brought bubbles and lots of fun treats. They made the trip so much fun for all of us. Thanks again, we love you guys.

Take off my training wheels!

2008-08-26T14:10:00.000-07:00

So Kenadee has been asking me all summer to take off her training wheels to her bike. I keep telling her that she needs to practice riding her bike with them on for a while. Well last night for Family Night we decided it was the night. So we padded her up and attempted it. She kept braking and saying that she thought Dad was going to let go. (Isn't that the point?) She is so cautious! I wonder where she got that from? She ended up in tears not because she got hurt but because we let go and that scared her. (She was doing it by herself until she realized it and then stopped to get mad at us.) I told her that she did good and we would try again another day. She didn't want to stop but did. In the middle of the night she woke me up to ask me if I would try again with her when I woke up. Is she determined or what? I think she'll have it in a day or two.

The last couple of weeks

2008-08-25T12:28:00.001-07:00

Well life has been crazy and not so fun lately so I haven't taken pictures like I should have. My last couple weeks has looked like this. . .
Well to start, earlier this month we got a phone call that a really good friend of ours, Brandon Robinson had died in a motorcycle accident. We took this pretty hard and to make it worse Danny was asked to speak at his funeral. Danny was honored to be asked but anyone who knows Danny knows that public speaking terrifies him. He did a great job but was very emotional. It was the sadest funeral I have ever been to. He left behind his sweet wife, Jen and a four year old son, and twin 2 month olds. We will miss Brandon a lot. When we finally finished the weekend of crying with the viewing and the funeral things continued to go downhill. Sunday in the middle of the night I woke up to Danny shaking me and telling me to take him to the Hospital. Danny never goes to the hospital he won't even go to the doctor, so I was very worried. At the ER they gave him some medication and did a cat scan. Hours later they finally came to tell us that he had 3 large kidney stones. Danny passes kidney stones every month, but these were huge and the Doctor told us that there was no way he could pass these. Knowing how tough Danny is and how much pain he was in the Doctor helped us get into surgery way faster then usual. We only had to wait 3 days! From what I've heard I guess we were pretty lucky. It didn't feel like it! Of course Danny continued to work all druged up. I personally like him this way. Well three days later, because we were being squeezed in we ended up being at the hospital for 10 hours. We were expecting 3 or four, so we were quite tired. When Danny was finally waking up from the surgery the nurse told me I needed to go get his perscriptions across the street at Rite Aid. By now it is 10:30 p.m. and I am exhausted. I get the perscription and am walking out to my car when I almost get attacked by two men parked on each side of my car. Its a long story but I am so thankful to the holy ghost for my safety. I am now for sure going to get some mace on my keychain or a gun if Danny gets his way. Danny surgery went well by the way. This has been the worst couple of weeks I have ever had and to make it worse or little kitty got shut in the garage door and died 3 days ago. Poor Savannah found it on her way out to the bus in the morning. It was so sad and my girls cried all day. Luckily there are many people trying to get rid of kittens right now, so we had a new kitten by the end of that day. It is a cute kitten, but Lucky(that was his name) was so cute with my girls and our little dog Shaggy. We will miss him. Well I hope our luck is getting better I don't think it can get any worse. ( I probley shouldn't say that?) I will try to start taking picture again.

24th of July

2008-08-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

This year for Pioneer Day we got together with the Spears and Sweats for a BBQ. I discovered that I have been sheltered and deprived all these years because I never got to do parachute fireworks. Heather brought them for the kids so I had to restrain myself, but they were so fun. So you light the fire work and it shoots into the air and out comes a parachute that floats slowly to the ground. We all ran around trying to catch it before it hit the ground. How cool is that? I love them and so did the kids. While the kids ran around and played the adults had a Settlers tournament. When we finished our game we made smores and let the kids do sparklers. We had such a fun 24Th of July.