Island Park

 

So our last trip to Island Park was kind of an impromptu trip. This one we planned so Daddy could come! Soo much fun and believe it or not there was MORE snow than last time!Woo Hoo!

Ok so this was the best picture comparison I could find. To show you the depth of the snow because it really is quite amazing. So this window and door the kids are climbing to the top of are the same as the ones shown in the picture below. Its the kitchen window and side door. Is that not crazy?

 

The kids/daddy made it a slide :)

 Jake's posing for me.

 Oh ya! We brought our sweet niece Ke'nia with us to hang with the kiddos. They had soo much fun!

 A picture of the snow on top of the door leading out of the basement.

 Ahh aren't we cute :)

 

My aunt and uncle and kiddos came up the weekend before us and built this awesome snowman. (Seriously next time lets chat and be there at the same time!)

 

 

 See looking at us right through the kitchen window :)

 Is she not the sweetest thing EVER?? Seriously the best baby!

Ha ha so when we got ready to go on our first ride. Jake would not ride with me. He kept telling me "you can't drive you in trouble" or "Grampie won't let you drive you crash into tree" Finally Grampie came down and told him I wasn't in trouble and that I could drive and then Jake was totally good with it. Silly kid. Although right before he climbed on he said "Don't crash into a tree K mom?" 

 The kids spent hours (literally) in the sled going around the circle. They loved it. I'm pretty sure Alan got motion sick :)

 

 Any surprise that Jake fell asleep? I swear every ride he went on he passed out. No joke. Could be because he doesn't want to get off so he'll just go and go until he can't keep those baby blues open any longer!

 Of course a trip to Big Springs. Only this time we are feeding ducks. . . .

 Isn't it soooo  pretty here?

 We found that the fish will come out for leftover pancakes from breakfast. They'll even jump out of the water for them. Just an FYI in case you are ever there.

 Packing up to go home. Hopefully she doesn't get lost in all our stuff!

Such fun :)

Alan's going to kill me but. . .

Good thing Alan doesn't usually get a free minute to read my blog because he would KILL me! But I'm so proud of him and its my blog so I can brag right? Well, oh well if I can't because I'm going to anyways :)

So almost 5 years ago we started our little company at my kitchen table. A few months later I gave the go ahead to Alan to quit the base (oh how I miss those days. The days of being home by 4:30 and every other Friday off and Holidays off. What I wouldn't give to have holidays off again!) and go full steam ahead at this adventure of his. And holy cow has it been an adventure. The best/worst roller coaster ride of my life. We've gone from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows and back to the highs and somewhere in between. But at the end of the day I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Anything. I can't tell you how much we've both grown from this experience. And how much the Lord has seen us through. We've been told no at every corner, we've gone an entire summer without a paycheck, we've had our main supplier shut us down with thousands and thousands of orders to fill and no way to fill them. We've also cried and laughed with joy when we've magically been able to pay our bills all summer long and had a miracle happen with a new supplier that has brought many blessings to the company. And we've also been able to employ over a 100 people and give them a shot at life. All because of this man and an idea he had 5 years ago. . . . .

 

Utah Business magazine recognized my sweet honey as one of the top 40 under 40 CEO's in Utah. AND picked him to be on the cover :) He's to humble to say anything about it but when he found out that they wanted him on the cover that was the first award he's actually legitimately been proud of. Maybe because its close to home I don't know but he was proud of it. 

His company also made one of the Forbes lists. Which in the business world is HUGE!

#31 out of 100. Not to bad sweetie. Not to bad.

Forbes 100 Most Promising Companies

There's also been many other awards (I can't remember all) WSU Young Alumni of the Year was another big one. All I can have left to say is I'm so proud of you and all you've accomplished. And I'm glad I got to ride this ride with you!

Seriously so cool. . . .

P.S. We are actually in Florida right now for his brother to accept and award as National Mail Innovator of the Year from the USPS for his innovative ideas in shipping for Alan's company (he's Chief Operations Officer). Which is a HUGE deal! Pictures coming his award ceremony isn't for a couple more days :)

Tumbling Round 3

So we've officially hit competition season. Like hard core. Hence the reason I've been scarce on here. We have at least one tumbling and one dance competition a month. Whew I'm tired even thinking about it. But before we get to all that lets get a little caught up first. :) We had another tumbling competition in February. Good times. Grateful it was only at Roy High. We also had some sweet excitement. Well, not sweet. But excitement for sure.

 

Cheesing it up for the camera :)

 Her passes.

 She kind of had a panic attack right before she went and the first pass was good and then she warmed up and was playing and wasn't ready when her second round came up and totally did the wrong pass and stopped part way. Wierdest thing. So she tied for 5th. Darn kid. Oh well. She still was the cutest girl up there!

 My sweet Grammie came and watched her. Afterwards everyone was leaving and Gracie was like Wait! What about lunch?? I thought we were going to lunch with Grammie? Oh ya. So we headed off to Olive Garden. Yuummm. So we get there we wait like 5-10mins not too shabby and then we sit and just as we sit I look over at my grandma and I'm like "are you alright" and she says to me "I'm not feeling so good. I think I'll go lay on the couch in the waiting room" and lays her head on the table. So I ask her again are you ok? Should we go? What do you need? And she repeats her same answer to me and then lays her head down. I look at my dad and tell him somethings not right. People are kind of looking at us at this point because they can just tell. You know? So he comes over and touches her back and is like are you ok? And she sits up again and says I don't feel very good and at this point she doesn't look good. At all. She lays her head back down and instantly starts sliding off the table. Holy crap. So my dad and Alan grab her. They're holding her up. She's going pale then red and her eyes are glazed and red and she just keeps changing colors. I'm on 911 she's starting to shake and look clammy she's totally unresponsive. And then all of a sudden she snaps out of it. Right about the time that the ambulance shows up. Holy freaking scary. I thought she was having a heart attack right then and there. Wow.

So the rest of the story is as soon as she snaps out of it she's basically fine. Tired but fine. The 911 folk check her out have her sign a waiver because she doesn't want to go to the hospital and we sit down and have our lunch. Whew. That was pure craziness. I guess its some vein something or other that sends messages to your brain and hers got confused and I guess its happened before and is likely to happen again. Goll, I don't know but it sure was scary. And I can tell you that I don't know that I can ever go into the Riverdale Olive Garden without being super nervous the whole time I'm in there.