Happy Birthday Cassie!!!

Ok, so I'm a day late. Yesterday was Cassie's 1st birthday, and our little one didn't even know what to think of the celelbration. I'm pretty sure when she was handed her very own cake, she probably thought...this must be what heaven is like. Cassie definately got into the cake more then our other two daughters. Sadie and Jessica loved Cassie's b-day party because they got to open the presents. We tried to give little Cass a chance, but she took too long and before she knew it she had some pretty cool new toys.

We have been blessed with a MIRACLE!!!

This past September, Kurt's dad Kelly was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer. Shortly after his diagnosis one doctor told him that he had 3-6 months to live. He had one of his kidneys removed as well as a brain met, then started radiation and chemo. Three months after he started chemo we found out that his body was not responding. He started a different kind of treatment and today he met with his doctor to review his CT. He told my inlaws that the number of tumors had decreased as well as the size of the remaining tumors. This does NOT happen with Kidney cancer. We feel so blessed and are very grateful to our loving Heavenly Father for allowing our family to have this miracle and for rejuvenating our hope.

Vote 4 Cassie

Ok I know this is annoying for those of you who already got my email, but for those who did not we need you to vote 4 Cassie. We entered Cassie's picture in an American Baby Idol contest. The winner gets two backstage tickets to the American Idol tour concert. Anyway go to http://www.kosy.com/pages/baby_idol/index.html click on the Vote Now button and vote for #144. You can only vote once, so every vote is appreiciated. Pass this on to anyone you may know. Thanks

Finally... a moment to blog

On June 2nd, we had a very fun FHE activity. Kelly arranged with a friend of his for our family to ride a couple of his horses. Our girls had a blast and little miss Cassie even took a turn on old Biscuit. After we found out that BJ had never been on a horse we drug him along and made him take the reins. Sadie was so excited to ride a horse that she felt that it was extremely important for me to put pig tails in her hair, if she had a cowgirl hat she would have been wearing that as well. Jessica who has always been afraid of the little ponies at Thanksgiving Point decided that a horse was pretty cool to ride. I am so glad she has gotten over that fear of horses. Thank you Grandpa Kelly for giving us that little treat.

We also started Swimming lessons the very same day. I had so much fun watching Sadie and Jessica splash around in the pool. They are so funny!!! Jessica quickly became buddies with her swim teacher after accidently going under water. Everyday I watched her slide into the pool and latched herself onto her teacher's side. Sadie surprised me with how brave she was in the pool, I think having her friend Tatyana by her side helped her out. So I guess both of my girls had their own special crutch getting them through swim class. I have high hopes for little swimmers in our family.

This week Kurt has been down in San Diego with his parents and three brothers. One of his dear sweet Aunts bought all of them passes to the U.S. Open for a very special Father's Day gift. He is having so much fun being down there following Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. I am so glad that he has had this opportunity to spend time with his family. I have prepared myself for the future golf that I am sure is going to take place sometime this upcoming week.

Summerfest is over!!! I have to say this year was a completely different experience then last year's summerfest. I had so much fun listening to all of the comments and chuckles my Pooh On U onsies and t-shirts received. I am excited to get these going this year. Having Kurt out of town and the young women in our ward at girls camp made it kind of difficult arranging babysitting for my little ones. THANK YOU to Kristan, Heather and Kelly for being so nice to me and my kids.

Pooh On U

For those of you who don't know my family, we are true blue BYU fans. I have even gone as far as having these onesies and t-shirts made up for ourselves and for anyone else who may dislike the color red. I will be selling these cute little articles of clothing at Summerfest in Orem June 13th & 14th, any leftovers will be put on my etsy shop www.wiggleworm.etsy.com for sale.

Memorial Day Weekend

This year for Memorial Day Weekend we were able to travel up to my parents cabin in Star Valley Wyoming along with some of Kurt's family. After the four hour drive through rain and a tiny bit of snow we opened the doors of the mini van only to be welcomed by the 40 degree weather, (not exactly what we were hoping for). After we climatized ourselves to the weather we were able to get a few rounds of golf in and plenty of T & H's Rock Band. On Sunday the weather was beautiful!!! I felt bad for the guys who deep down inside wanted to go golfing but went along with the family on a drive to Jackson Hole. It was such a beautiful drive, everything was green. We stopped along the side of the road to look at the snake river, and to take a few family pictures. Then it was off to the city where we walked around the town, looked at a few shops and then watched a "western shoot-out", which Cassie didn't like too much. It was in town that we figured out that Jessica didn't feel all that well, so we didn't stay too long in Jackson. We drove to Malad on Monday to celebrate Memorial Day with family, and again the rain came down all day long. It was so nice to get away from everything and have fun. Now it's back to life.

We've had a fun week!!!

Once again we had our dance recital and I've said it before and I'll say it again, it is my favorite day of the year besides Christmas. I was so proud of my little girls for being so brave and getting up on the "big" stage and dancing without any fear in front of hundreds of people. I couldn't get enough of little Jessica yawning thru all four dances and then at the end of her last performance shouting..."Let's do that again!!!" Sadie just keeps on getting better and better and I am just amazed at how well she does. She seriously is a great little dancer and it will be fun watching her.



Second on our highlights of the week...Sadie's preschool graduation. Sadie's little class had the cutest little program and I'm kicking myself for bringing my camera but not the memory card to actually take pictures and videos. But, they sang lots of little songs and had speaking parts and just impressed all of the parents. Kurt even surprised Sadie and myself with a graduation gift which included: a t-ball stand, a bucket of balls, her own pink & black mitt and of course a "girls rule" pink bat. Sadie was so excited and had to try it out as soon as she saw it. She made her daddy proud.

Third and last (for now)...We went over to Trevor and Heather's for Trevors birthday party. I have to say that their new xbox and rockband game was a blast. I don't think Sadie got enough of the drums and I know that I'm way better that Kurt on the guitar and drums, although he can out sing me any day. Thank you Heather for being so nice to invite us over and cook dinner and dessert for all of us.

Now to the Cabin for Memorial Day Weekend!!!