Pima County Fair 2008

This was our first time to the Fair. The kids had a blast. We went with the Power and Stockman families. We saw many families including the Nelson family. Mom and Dad left early...they were checking out the cooking show. I had a navajo taco..haven't had one of those in years. Of course, carmel apple, funnel cake and cotton candy...I'm going to have to really work all that off tomorrow. Oh, yeah and Kim introduced me to grilled corn. Never had it...with some salt, pepper and garlic powder..yum yum.
Kim, Me and Sue and her son James..Lovin the fair life
Roy took Laura, Megan and Bailey on the crazy roller coaster.
Beau and Megan took a ride on the bumper cars..Can you say whiplash..
Isn't Joshua cute with Kim. He loved the lights. What a good boy he was.
Megan, Bailey and Laura took a ride on a wild and scary ride.
Beau and Brandon were sooo scared..
Greg and Jessica were able to hold it togther atleast for awhile
Beau and Bradon were the brave ones...Too much flipping and twisting for me.
Thank you Melissa...She took Bailey and Megan on another fast and whiplike ride. Melissa is Megans most favorite primary teacher EVER.....
Brandon tried to ram Bailey and Jessica. They didn't mind..laughed and screamed the entire time
The girls remember seeing Greg ride an elephant when he was young...Sooooo what a opportunity...Megan, Bailey and Jessica had a nice ride until...the elephant needed to use the restroom..pretty sticky
All the kids rode this a couple of times...It turned out they had a huge race....Joshua was cheering them on...Maybe next year...
Roy told Megan how brave she was to ride the swings...She kinda freaked out but later recovered and rode even crazier rides...go figure
I took the girls on the roller coaster....Jessica decided she didn't want to ride it again...Megan and Bailey rode it another 5 or 6 times later that night

Happy Birthday Kara....Finally 25!

We HAD to celebrate Kara's birthday...yeah. This is our YW presidnecy....Yeah, we rock...Sue's husband calls us the "The Dream Team!" We work great together and truly love our girls. We love to have fun and look for any opportunity to have a girls night out. Kara LOVES anything Betty Boop...
One of her favorite places to eat is TGIF's. Here we are: Me, Debbie, Laura, Melissa (Sue's Daughter), Sue, Kara, Lauren and Heather.
Then of course the night is young. Cosmic bowling here we come.
The winner is Sue! We nicknamed Lauren, Striker... She said she wasn't much of a player and well..the first time a strike. Hey, I was happy I scored higher than a 60.

Laurel Retreat

For our graduating seniors we wanted to do something fun. So we planned a trip to Mesa. Yeah... Went swimming, ate junk food, went to see the some awesome pictures at the Mesa temple, watched Leslie perfom at her Color Guard competition and then headed to Castles and Coasters. Yeah, Sue and I are old and we were tired. Oh, yeah we did some shopping. These girls kept us young. We have eight girls but only these four were able to make it. We missed Kimmy, Kristina, Simone and Aimee. We'll get them next time. So her are a few pics. Gotta love our girls. Here is what we saw at the temple...Way Cool...check it out if you can. http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ

We love our girls......
Leslie is our cutie. We'll sure miss her....Maybe we'll sneak her back in!
Jerica...what a babe...we get to keep her for one more year...whoo hooo

Molli...shee keeps us on our toes...that's why we love her so...
Hopefully she'll come and visit us when she takes off for college life.
Alyssa...Fun and loveable...thank goodness we get to have her here one more year...Love her tons!

BOYS will be BOYS

Greg and Brandon took off to Utah. We have been planning this trip for some time. We thought it would be great for Brandon to attend his first Priesthood Session in person. What a great opportunity. So we were able to get tickets here and Margi, a friend of Kim's, was able to get us two more. So my brother Aldo and his son Travin were also able to go. Hey Aldo, I think i'll call in that favor, Kim and I need 5 tickets to the Hannah Montanna Concert in July! Thanks a bunch. Anywho, as you can tell the long weekend was filled with a Utah Jazz game, thanks to my little brother Scott, tons of paintball and yes, Priesthood Conference. Greg and Aldo said is was pretty amazing. A once in a lifetime chance.

Ok, Greg you're going down. Here comes Brandon and Travin.

Aldo, next time use a kleenex!

It's time to play.........

Utah vs. San Antonio...yes Jazz won

Soon they'll be off on their missions......

They were also able to meet up with Scott and Crystal...

Here I come....I'm walking your way

I can't believe it. He has been walking along the furniture and is now walking with his toy that Grandma & Grandpa Lomeli gave him for his birthday. Greg found a mound of toilet paper all over the bathroom. It's a matter of time and nothing is safe.