LAKE POWELL!

katie and i applied for a job at lake powell for the summer and just got hired! im so stoked! this si a pic of where we're gonna be working. days full of swimming, jet skiiing and boating for the next three months!...oh and our job! we got hired for house keeping which, sounds like a bummer but im VERY optimistic about the whole thing! heres a link to the website if anyone wants to take a look at it. http://www.lakepowelljobs.com/Marinas_Bullfrog.htm love you guys!

thayne's band!

thaynes band {shark speed} is now on myspace! theres no way i now of to help everyone hear their music but to give you the url address. go to your address bar and type in http://www.myspace.com/sharkspeedrawks and youll be there! thayne sings every song! im so excited for him! so...GO! GO AND LISTEN!

our girl, cynthia

katie and i both work at the local high school. we are special needs teachers aides so we get to pretend to be teachers and keep the kids in line and busy and all that. well one of our favorite students is named cynthia roberts and she is a downs syndrome girl. only 15 years old, 4' 10" {approximately} and roughly 90 lbs shes very small. here are some of my favorite pics of her:

she was in the middle of eating a sloppy joe but loves being the center of attention so much that she smiled this incredibly cheesy grin before finishing the last bite she took. haha
she doesn't have very good sleeping patterns so she trys to get as much sleep in class as possible....thats our number one challenge throughout the course of the day...keeping cynthia awake! yesterday afternoon she just rolled up her sleeves and started flashing her "guns" out of no where! haha it was so funny i took pics and then made her do it again when katie came back into the room. shes so funny, she even kissed her arm at one point!

i love my job....but mostly the kids i get to be around all day. thank you, Lord for such an amazing blessing! <3tristen

SPRINTER IS HERE!!!

The one and only tulip to bloom {so far} popped its head out of the ground just yesterday. it sure brightens our yard. the first sign of spring, people!!!! im super stoked! and in the mean time i took this pic yesterday mornign at the high school track and football field. it was my first time experiencing anything like that so i had to capture it.

yes. thats ice on the grass. it took all the self control i possessed not to try and eat the ice.....just cuz im weird, you know. but seriously.

the tree

this is an ode to the tree in our backyard. its the one with the pretty white blossoms. trudi took this picture litteraly a day or two before it keeled over. what a happy, yet heartbreaking, accident. we miss it already.

the damage. the picture really speaks for itself. we heard nothing. had no clue what had happened. i took the trash out and turned around to go back inside and screamed, "oh no! what?-no!" according to the neighbors it happened tuesday...we didnt even see it till wednesday. dad says the roots are rotted and thats why it toppled over.