Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday mom you are amazing and we love you so much! Thank you for all you do for our family! Have a great day!

Happy Birthday Josh Benson!

We hope you enjoy your first birthday as a new daddy! Have a great day!

Happy Birthday to my little bro' Ryan!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Now I have someone I can talk about...I could probably go on for pages and pages about all the stuff you and I've been through together.

Remember the time you:

• Started a fire in the shed? And...
• When you were the poster child for Lagoon (I was so jealous)? And...
• The time we slept out on the deck and when we woke up a baby cougar (Tibi brought from Lagoon) was chasing us around? And...
• When you beat up that 6th grader when you were in 2nd grade because he cut in line to the drinking fountain? And...
  
• When you and your friend tackled me and shoved a skittle up my nose? And...
• When we used to play dunk ball in our backyard for hours until our hands were bloody from dunking it so much? And...
• When I drove my friends and yours to a Davis High football game in the old cadillac (I think there were at least 17 kids in the car)? And...
• When I got married right before Mom and Dad went to Russia and they felt terrible that you'd be left alone (so they showered you with money and food)? And...
  
• When you almost broke your toe off at Fine Woodworking and I had to haul you to the emergency room?
• And I could go on and on....

Well, Little Bro', we hope you have a awesome birthday!


-Matt, Becky, Zack and Ty

Golfing at Sand Hollow above Grandpa and Grandma Willard's farm house that used to be out in the middle of nowhere! You can see their old place in the first picture - where the semi is parked. Amazing what water will do a place. We golfed until dark and saw lots of rabbits - grandpa's garden eaters!

Birthday in St. George!

nothing better than playing with Baylee for the weekend .... oh, yeah ..... and visiting Nikki and Josh too!

Happy Birthday Jensen!

Happy Birthday Jensen!

We hope you have a great day!

- Matt, Becky, Zack & Ty

Happy Birthday Tibi!

Happy Birthday Tibi!

We hope you had a great day (since I missed it by a day). I'm glad that Becky reminds me of when everyone's birthdays are, otherwise I'd never know.

Thanks for being such a great sister. We always have a great time with you and your family whenever we get together. I don't really have a childhood story I can remember about Tibi...I just remember that her hair was really, really, long.

-Matt, Becky, Zack & Ty

Happy Birthday Haley!

Happy Birthday Haley! We hope you have a wonderful day.

I thought of a story with Haley... About 10 years ago I had a hideous mustache (when I see pictures of it I cringe). We visited the Scadlocks in St. George, and Becky had been trying to get me to shave the mustache off for a long time. Becky hated it...but had been unsuccessful at getting me to get rid of it....

Then came along two innocent sweet nieces of mine who told me that I was hideously UGLY with the mustache. These two (one of them being Haley, and the other one will remain nameless) were relentless and ruthless in their personal attacks as they harrassed me to shave the mustache.

I couldn't take it any longer, so I caved to the pressure and shaved it right then! Becky was overjoyed!

We love you Haley!

-Matt, Becky, Zack & Ty

Conversations at the Gym!

I joined a military boot camp gym the 3rd week in January and it has been going well. I have lost over 4 inches and 9 pounds. I know for going 3x's a week for 10 months you would think it would be more, but that's what you get when you like chocolate so much. Anyway, I always like it when a new person joins our session because then our trainer takes the heat off of us "veterans" and puts it on the "newbie". Today a girl in my class (who joined last month) told me she has been keeping a blog of her experience, so I went home and checked it out. After I got up off the floor from laughing so hard I thought I have to share some of her comments because they are seriously so funny and so very, very true! I hope you enjoy!

August 31, 2009 by Kolette

Day 1

9:00 am – Arrived at Jim’s Gym

9:35 am – Threw up in Jim’s Gym bathroom

Note to self: Don’t eat breakfast – even if it is an hour and a half before. But hey, at least my detour gave me a chance to take a break.

Bring on tomorrow.

Day 2

Conversation of the Day:

Jim (being military-ish, I guess): “No taking breaks. Are you handicapped in some way? Do you have a crippling disease?”

Me: “Does not exercising for two years count?”

At least Jim asked me nicely. Maybe he really wanted to know the answer. Ummm….probably not.

Day 3

Death by push-up equipment thing. Yes, it is possible.

Day 4

Jim (in the middle of the workout): “Get on the treadmill for five minutes. Don’t change the speed and don’t hold on.”

Two minutes later (I know because I was watching the time with an eagle eye)…

Jim: “Kolette, that’s not just holding on, that’s a death grip!”

Day 5

“Walk faster with higher resistance or you’ll do 10 extra mountain climbers, Kolette.” “Run from machine to machine, Kolette.” “Do jumping jacks while you wait.” “Breaks are for Gold’s Gym. We don’t take breaks here.”

Ahhh……blessed treadmill.

Day 6

Jim (in the attempt to motivate): “Do you want me to show you how I can do it twice as fast?”

Me: “No.”

Of course you can do it twice as fast or twice as good or twice as long, Jim. That’s why people don’t pay me to be their trainer. Duh. If you couldn’t do it better with your fierce muscles then I would be concerned. So no, I don’t want to see you do it better than me. Thanks, though.

I seriously am still laughing! This girl is hilarious and has the "Jim" thing down pretty good.

Just a side note. I love my trainer Jim, he is tough and is always pushing me to be better, stronger, faster and with his help one day I just might be a better runner.

Happy Birthday Matt!

In the words of Kelly Clarkson "My life would suck without you."

(yes he is repelling from a tree)

Happy Birthday baby!