My neighbor has decorated my home for a xmas home show fundraiser. The theme was Jim's tree.

I can't publish all the cute pics. but here are a few. Addison & Jamie were the little devil & Angel and Lyvia a princess. Samantha and Lindsey found out they picked the same gypsey outfil and Sienna is genie. Then we have a few of our amazing pumpkins. The kids really got serious this year...

"Fall"ing into time

Maybe if I post 4 times a year - spring, summer, fall & winter...

Fall happenings: last night Mandy & Lychelle picked me up to play church vollyball. That was really fun. No pictures though so you'll have to use your imagination, you could picture me spiking the ball. Maybe if enough of us picture it, it will really happen next week.

Last week I attempted to hike the backside of Timp. (the highest mountain near us, for those of you unfamiliar) Attempted meaning after 3 1/2 hours, I decided to head back down. I called Eric and he rescued me and we had lunch at Sundance. My left big toe nail is black & blue. Hiking is not for sissys - good shoes are important, I need to remember that.

I'm back to teaching my early morning yoga classes. Mon. and Wed. at 6:15... I love it.

Fall - Football. Here is J.J. and his daddy. He's on the 4th grade team and loving it. Zane also plays on the 7th grade team. It's been so fun to go to their games. And of course, I'm loving BYU this year!!

June's events

My blog will most likely be a catch up. I'll re-cap some of the happenings in June.

We enjoyed Lake Powell the 3rd week of June. Lychelle didn't come down with her 3 girls this year - too stressful at this age.

Jim was nominated and was a finalist in the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year. He went through lots of interviews and had great press for Xactware. If you find a magazine "Utah Business".com - they have a nice recap of the event. We all got to dress up be with about 1000 other "acadamy awards" looking people at the Salt Palace. ( Jim's oldest- Lindsey got to go) Isn't she growing up to be a doll. It was a fun evening. I had a group shot of all of us taken but haven't gotten it back. If it turns out I'll include that later.

I'm loving reading the posts from everyone - this reminds me of long ago when we would all send letters to Mom (Grandma Childs) monthy, she would make copies and send them off to everyone. Staying in touch! And even the Ensign last month talked about how to use the internet in a positive way....

4th of July

The blogs are so fun to see and feel connected to everyone. So here goes my first blog

Here we are at the Stadium of Fire waiting with my girls and their kids for the show to start!