Fashion

McKenna got these out shopping last weekend along with many other things but she absolutely loves these boots and wants to wear them all of the time. (before we cut the tags off) So Cute!

Just Us Girls...continued...

Ok so here's what we've done so far:

Friday we went and had Pizza came home and were going to watch a movie but ended up watching Olympics & 48 Hours mystery. We were too full for popcorn but did put on our pj's and then Kenna wanted to sleep on the big blowup air mattress in my room so I had the king bed to myself and she had a queen to herself.

Saturday we:

• Slept in til 8am
• Went over to the Scoresby's for a few minutes to visit
• Came home got ready & headed to town aka Chandler
• Went to the bank
• Hit Old Navy for the jeans sale $12 for adults & $7 for kids we stocked up for all 4 of us
• Then went to Target for a couple of hours
• Lunch break
• Then we went JC Penney's for their big sale
• Onto Ross

Our FEET were worn out and so we headed home and didn't get home til 8:30pm! We shopped til we literally wanted to drop! McKenna is getting into this sort of thing and wanted one of every dress, outfit, shoes and purse she saw!!! I've created a monster! ha I spent all of my birthday money and then some. Now we are going to have some left over pizza while we watch Cheetah Girls "One World" movie on Disney and I think we'll skip the ice cream and go straight to bed! We're both excited about all of our new stuff, the stuff we got for the boys and the Christmas gifts we bought today but too tired to put it away. Oh yeah we jammed out to the Camp Rock CD all the way home gotta love the Jonas Brothers! :o) FYI - Flip flops aren't serious shopping shoes so we highly recommend comfy sneakers with arch supports!

So am I doing the Girls Weekend up right or what???? Tomorrow I think we'll do pedicures at home, I have a singing practice at 9am, put away all of our stuff & clean up the house a bit, visiting teaching at 11am and church at 1:30pm afterwards I think we'll play a game or something until the boys get home. McKenna has said several times that she misses the boys so I'm hoping that she truly misses them and that I'm not just boring! I'll take some pictures if we decide to have a fashion show in our new clothes :o) Ok ok I'm missing the movie and you know I'm dying to watch some more Disney!!!!

August 21st

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Thomas S. Monson is going strong at age 81, celebrating his birthday Thursday, August 21st. "I'm doing fine," he said when asked about his health.

I share a birthday with this incredible man....I thought that was cool hence the post. I hope he had a very happy birthday like I did. :o)

Just Us Girls..........

So Will & Calvin took off to go hunting today so it's just Kenna & I for the weekend. Any fun idea's??? We should clean house, do laundry, go grocery shopping but that just doesn't sound like much fun. hee hee

The Elephant Bar

We enjoyed a night out to dinner at The Elephant Bar with friends, Tomas & Kathy from our ward. The food was good and the out of Africa theme was appreciated by all. :o)

Calvin & McKenna love the waterfall elephant so of course I said stay there and I'll take a picture!


My cute hubby by the elephant probably wishing that he was in africa hunting some wild animal.


Our waitress was kind enough to take our picture at the table.

First Day of School 2008-2009

Today it was back to school....McKenna is in 5th grade and has Mrs. Garoutte and Calvin is in 1st grade and his teacher is Mrs. Jenkins...both seem really nice. The kids were very excited last night and both slept with me which meant Will slept in Calvin's bedroom. (he prefers that bed honestly) Half way through the night Calvin decided to join Will and wanted to talk to him and expressed some nervousness about school. Will said Calvin must have said about 20 prayers to have a good first day. :o) McKenna was nervous but that girl can sleep. :o)






This is Conner a friend & class mate of Kenna's they walked to their line together so I could walk Calvin to his class which was on the other side of the campus.





They both said they had a great day! They got to see old friends and make a few new ones and are ready to try it again tomorrow.

Name Sake....Grandpa Leslie

Earlier this week I was sitting at the table with McKenna and out of the blue she began asking me the two Grandpa's that have died in our family...Will's step-Dad that raised him Fitz and my Grandpa Leslie. Tragically my Grandpa Leslie died on 8/7/1974 which was 2 weeks exactly before I was born so 34 years ago. He drove a semi truck and hauled gasoline, one evening he was driving to Gallup, NM when several horses ran out onto the 2 lane highway, he tried to miss them and his truck which was fully loaded somehow exploded. (I don't know if he hit a horse or not - according to the article he did hit one of the many horses) Because it was out in the middle of no where on the reservation, there was little anyone could do and rescue crews had to come from far away. His truck burned for hours and hours...they only found 30 lbs of him as a result. I was told that there were burn marks on this highly traveled road for years and years. This was especially hard for the family wondering if he suffered or if he could have been saved etc. As you can imagine this was extremely devastating to everyone who knew him and loved him especially his wife and their 10 children. My Mom, his daughter was big pregnant at the time and decided that she would name the baby Leslie after her Daddy.
This is the article that the insensitive paper put out...it wasn't accurate and wasn't very nice considering that it made him sound like he was speeding, driving wrecklessly and didn't mention he had been a trucker for a long time and was trying to not crash or mention his family or his life in the military etc. They didn't take him to the hospital either as the article says...but you can see what is left of his truck.



This was his last Christmas Dec. 1973 with his Mother and two of my cousins...he is holding Jenny Hamblin and his Mom I think is holding Glenna Taylor.


A picture of Grandpa Leslie with his 5 boys my Uncles Monte, Grandpa, Rusty, bottom row is Jerry, Phillip and Mark not sure what year it was taken but I know it was one of the last pictures.

I've often thought of him and loved hearing the stories about him. I've always felt a special connection with him even though I've never met him, at least here on earth. I'm sad that he died and proud to bare his name. He was and I'm sure still is a wonderful and honorable man, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather who is dearly missed. My Grandma Glenna his widow remarried but still remains sealed and in love with her true love Leslie Hathcock.

Thank you to my Aunt Toni who scanned and emailed these pictures to me today!!!