Mom's Day Card!!

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I love this!!

Stacy's baby.....

While we were in Utah for the graduation we were also anxiously awaiting the arrival of a baby! A horse! When we got to Manti we went to visit the Mom to be, gave her a little pep talk about having the horse while we were in Utah so that we could see our "grandchild". This is mommy looking quite depressed and miserable, all she would do was stand in the stall and stare ahead like, "please let this end!!"

Well nothing happened and nothing happened and we were losing hope that we would be in town for the delivery.........We left Kaysville, early in the morning for our long journey home, I quickly fell asleep in the car and missed a phonecall and a text telling us to hurry up...the baby had come! We were on our way to Manti anyway to pick up Stacy to bring her back to California with us, so the timing could not have been any better! I would have felt horrible to take her back with us and have missed the birth, so I guess that little pep talk I had with the mother worked! When we got there the colt was only a few hours old and soooo very cute! Mom was pretty protective but Stacy managed to at least touch the baby and get to spend some time, taking pictures and just watching the most exciting thing nature has to offer. The horse is a Dun which is a rare coloring and it also has a white 7 on his forehead, she has named him Ace!

Blake's graduation!

This is certainly worth blogging! We are so proud of Blake and his recent graduation from BYU!! Way to go Blake you are such a hard worker and we are all so proud of you and your accomplishments!! We had a quick road trip up to the graduation and had such a wonderful time! We first stopped at Stacy's in Manti where we were treated to a little snowstorm in April! We got to visit her house and spend the night with her, Blake and Melissa even came down and we had a wonderful evening.

This is the view out of Stacy's kitchen window....wow.....

We then went up to Provo and spent the day with Blake and Melissa! Melissa's parents were also nice enough to come to town for the graduation, it was so nice of them and great to see them again. Here are some pictures of the proud day





It was sure a proud parent day, and we know that this is only the begninning of many very successful days ahead for Blake and his family!

This is just funny!

Stacy and Brett came to California for a visit just before Halloween and Brett's mom made these awesome peanut butter eyeballs! There were so cute and we got a little carried away with them--

Bryce again....

Well this happened on Dec 6, 2009, Byrce went riding and he promised me he would come to the church and take some really great photos of our bit Enrichment Christmas party. We decorated till we wanted to die- it was worth it, but by about 5:30 I had not heard from Bryce but knew he would be there, as he is a pretty dependable guy...well my cell phone rings and its Bryce..he says "Mom, I can't come take pictures, I am sorry..........I am on my way to the ER I broke something, it really hurts, can't talk gotta go......Gordon was my technical helper at this event but he rushed off to meet him at the hospital...as you can see he came out with a broken scapula...not much they can do about it, its a very rare break so he just had to brace his arm and be really careful--it was a very long 8 week healing process, but he was good to let it heal well before he went riding again. The broken one is the one on the left. Here is another "thankful it wasn't worse" post.....

Christmas 2009

Ya, I know its March and Christmas was three months ago....But here are some pics of the fun time we had, we missed Dallin this year, he didnt have enough time off work to spend Christmas with us, be we thought of him and wished he were here. He was in great hands at my sister's where he was well fed and entertained! This year Blake and Melissa won the bid on the money jar tradition! Yea for them! Who will win next year........





Kyle......are you awake yet????


Reading the clues for the treasure hunt....xbox 360......

Hopefully he will have enough pairs so he wont lose them!

Orange rolls!!

AFMXA Competition

Bryce was in his first freestyle motocross competition! He had to submit a video and get accepted, so he did and he was! He has been really excited about it and practiced a lot while he was preparing. We all went out and watched the competition and it was really fun. Many of his friends came to watch and even Todd, Grant and Sawyer, drove out so that was nice. It was super nervewracking to sit in the stands and wonder what I was about to see, I still get nervous thinking about it. He decided he would volunteer to go first and get it over with I guess, so when he came over that first jump, my heart jumped to my throat and the competition began!


He did some great tricks and certainly impressed the crowd. There were 18 riders in his division and most did a really good job. I thought he certainly had some competition but the judges comented on how smooth he rode and his landings were solid. After the 18 had two runs each they narrowed it down to half and Bryce made the finals! They had another run after that and then they annouced there was a tie for first and second. It wasn't Bryce so we then figured the very best he could get would be third. The first and second place had a run off they their fate was determined and then they annouced that BRYCE HUDSON had taken third place!!!
That was so exciting! Wow, we were so happy for him and he was just so pleased as well. It was nice to just see something go your way for once! His little posse of followers cheered him on and it was a great victory!

They then took five and had them do them "biggest tail whip" competition--it was narrowed down to the top two and the judges couldnt decide...it was between Bryce and another rider!!! They had a jump off and Bryce went and did awesome, then the other rider had something wrong with his wheel so they gave it to Bryce! woohoo! Bryce's was better anyway, but the other guy had to feel bad....he did a really good job as well.

It was a really fun and exciting day for him and then that night they had a big award ceremony at Pala Casino. He got to go up on stage and get his award and shake hands with the "big" guys in motocross. Fun day......