Memorial Day Memories

For Memorial Day 2012 we went to Cedar City and went camping.  James had off the week before Memorial Day so the whole family loaded up and drove south.  First we spent a few days in Cedar City visiting family and friends.  We stayed at a the Holiday Inn Express in the south part of town.  They have an indoor pool there so of course we (the boys) had to do some swimming.  We also had dinner with our friends Mark and Patti and their kids at the Chicken Coop, its a new restaurant located on Main Street.  We always love hanging out with the Wellers!

   

Then, on Thursday morning we loaded up and drove up Beaver Canyon to camp at Fish Lake.  After getting a campsite, getting everything unloaded and set up we decided it was too cold up there for tent camping with the little boys so we packed up all our gear and headed further south to warmer weather.  We finally got to St George around 1am.  The little boys and I were dropped off at a hotel while James, Bailey, Josten and Bailey's friend Eric went to Baker Reservoir to set up camp.  James came back to the hotel room around 3am and stayed with me and the boys while the older kids stayed at the Reservoir.  My dad and Kimmie met us up there for a couple days of camping, fishing, 4X4ing and just hanging out with family.  It was really windy, almost too windy but luckily it was warmer than Fish Lake!  We had a great time and Connor really does love camping, just like his older brother Asher!

   

Overcome...

Anyone know who sings this song??? This group was one of my favorites when I was going to school at SDSU waaaaayyyy back in 1996. Overcome is sung by Live. It's not my favorite song by them but the title kind of represents my thoughts this late Friday night as I think back over the week I just went through at school...just glad to have overcome it! Anyway, the song is really awesome. They wrote the song back in 1995, long before 9-11 happen, but the song has become sort of an anthem to some since 9-11. Here is a great video of the song if you feel like listening to it. Overcome on YouTube

School was a nightmare this week. I had a test in Discrete Math and Educational Psychology, along with a PowerPoint game due. The PowerPoint game gave me some trouble when I couldn't figure out how to get some shapes to disappear. I'm sad to say that I did figure out the problem and it was my Mac. Apparently the Mac version of PowerPoint doesn't allow you to put that kind of an animation on a shape, the Windows version does though. Lucky for me I have a Windows machine upstairs that I was able to use to complete the game. I must say, its an awesome game to use for Algebra students and I will be saving to use in my class...what I finally have my own class.

My Discrete Math test was HORRIBLE!!! I don't see the point of Discrete Math. It makes no sense to me as far as its use in the real world. My professor even told us the first day of class that as Math Education Majors we would never use this stuff! Then why do they require I take it????? Any how, hopefully I did well on it, I hope to find out Monday.

My Educational Psychology test was pretty easy, open book and all! Still, you just never know when the professor will throw in a tricky question. Also hoping to find out that I did well on it Monday afternoon.

I took a Trig test a week ago today and found out that I aced the test! Oh yeah! I was one of two people in the class of about 40 that got 100% <~~~~ yes that says 100%!!!!!!! Yeah me!

In other news...Asher now has 13 teeth, yes I said 13! I found 3 new teeth last night. Now he has 7 on the bottom and 6 on the top! The kid has so many teeth he could probably chew steak!

James and his dad are getting a tractor tomorrow. They are both really excited about that. I'll post some pictures this weekend of it once we get it home. Its an old tractor but James is looking forward to fixing it up and making it look new(er).

I talked to Bailey the other day, he seems to be doing well in Indiana. He is getting good grades and went to a dance a couple of weeks ago where he danced with GIRLS!!!! UGH! aren't boys suppose to think girls have cooties at this age?

We haven't heard much from Sabelle this week so she is probably just busy with school, work and Chad. Oh and her new puppy she got a few weeks ago.

Josten is working out everyday. We were looking at pictures of him from a few years ago and its amazing how much weight he has lost and how grown up he looks now. He is still trying to find a job but in the meantime he is getting registered to start SUU in the winter. So glad for that.

Jadeth, Whitnee and Jade are doing awesome, at least they were last weekend when we were up there visiting them.

Jared is busy working and learning all the tricks of the trade. I think he really enjoys learning and working.

Well now you are all caught up with the lives of the Sherratts (and Amo). Stay tuned, you never know what will happen around here tomorrow, or what song I might come up with as a title! :)

Labor Day Weekend Festivities

Its Monday at 10:15pm and I'm sitting here thinking what a jam-packed, exciting weekend it was for us. I thought I'd share it with the blog world.

It all started Friday after work/school when James and I decided to head down to St George for the evening. We like to drive down there once in a while, eat out some place we don't have in Cedar and just take in the busy-ness (that's not really a word is it?) of St George. We had a good time, just the 3 of us, hanging out. We finally made it home just before 10pm.

Saturday morning James had to head back up to Brian Head for work. My good friend Patti had mentioned to me that they were having a baby contest at the Iron County Fair and that she was taking her adorable little boy Jacoby and asked if we wanted to join them. So after sleeping in until a little after 8, Asher and I rushed to make it to the fair ground in time for registration.

Here is a picture of Asher, wasn't he the cutest??? He didn't win though :(. After the contest I took Asher to the petting zoo and for his first ever ride on the Merry-Go-Round. I don't have any pictures of these events because the camera decided to stage a protest and stopped taking pictures! UGH!!!! After that fun we went up the hill and met James for lunch. It was so nice up in Brian Head, I love it up there when its so hot in Cedar. I did notice that the leaves are starting to change color...woohoo bring on Fall, my favorite time of year! Later that evening we headed back to the fair to watch the rodeo. Our nephew Cody rode a BULL!!!! He is a crazy kid! He didn't stay on very long, but like James keeps telling him, "Dude, I'd never get on one, you did awesome just by sitting on the darn thing!" After the rodeo James took Asher for another ride on the Merry-Go-Round

(which of course the camera was working for...so here is a

picture!) After that long day we were all exhausted, we finally made it home around 9:30. Asher went to sleep and James and I stayed up doing a little homework.

Sunday started out kind of lazy. James built some new shelves in our closet...we so needed it. Then we went to church at 1 for a family members confirmation. After church we went over to Aunt Mary's house for a dinner, that was a lot of fun. I have to admit I wasn't really looking forward to going over, but I had the best time chatting with everyone. Aunt Mary makes me

laugh, she has the best gossip! :) hehe! Once we got home from Aunt Mary's we sat down and watched a movie, and then off to bed because we had a big Monday morning to prepare for.

Today (Monday-Labor Day) we woke up at 7 and got ready to run the Iron County Fair 5K! At the beginning of the summer James and I decided to train to run at 5K at the end of the summer. Well training didn't go so well but we did run! Although neither of us ran the whole thing we did finish (and we weren't even last!) After the run we came home, showered and went to lunch with James' parents, then it was back to the fair we went. The horse races started at 1 and we barely made it in time for the first race. I'm pretty sure those were the first horse races

I had ever been to and I LOVED them. How fun! I can't wait to go to another one. After the horse races we went in search for funnel cakes...yummmm! By this time Asher was exhausted and ready for a nap so we headed home.

While Asher was asleep James and I watched 88 Minutes. I really liked that movie...it was intense! Around 5:45pm we headed out again, this time we went to a park in Cedar City to meet our good friends the Wellers for a picnic and kite flying. James bought two really adorable kites at the fair and Cedar is the perfect place for

kite flying, its always windy here! What a great way to end a really fun holiday weekend. Here are some pictures of the kite flying.

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to mention that one of the kites got stuck in a tree and Josten had to climb it to help get it out, and then Josten fell out of the tree! Nothing is ever boring with us!

I had such a great weekend! I hope everyone else did as well...now its off to get some homework done!

Back from the land of the missing...

I know I haven't posted in a while. Maybe its because we haven't really had much going on or maybe its because I'm so busy I don't have time. I think its a little of both if that's possible. We haven't had anything really exciting going on lately but I have been so busy with just everyday life that I haven't had time to sit down and update our blog.

So the last thing I updated everyone on was our beach trip to McGrath's State Beach. That was so much fun! Since then we have done a few things here and there but mostly we are just trying to make it through each day.
Shortly after coming back home from the beach we decided to take a bike ride down Bryce Canyon. My dad, James, Asher and I had my Aunt Mary drop us off at the top of the bike path one evening and we rode all the way down to a fun little restaurant where you turn off highway 89 to head towards Bryce Canyon. It was a lot of fun and since we were going down hill it didn't take nearly as much energy out of me as I thought it would.

We also made a quick trip up north to American Fork, Utah. We went up to visit with Jadeth, Whitnee, Jade, Josten and Jared. While we were there we ate at our favorite little place in Springville called Art City Trolly. They have the best salad there...YUMMY! My bestest friend Tami and her son Kason also had lunch with us. Later that day, Josten, Jared, Asher, James and I went up to Salt Lake, to the Galivan Center to watch the free concert there were having...OH MY GOSH. SCARY!!! It was heavy metal music and it was not our crowd! We didn't stay long. For dinner we went to James' favorite place up in Sandy (I think that's where it is???) called The Mayan. Its a pretty cool little place all decorated like you are going on a safari and then they have people who jump off cliffs into a small pool of water. That night we stayed with Jadeth and Whitnee. Asher and I didn't sleep well at all so we left before lunch to head home. It was fun to get out of town for the night though.

Two weeks ago I had this crazy idea to go back to school and get my degree to teach secondary math. Now I'm one week into my first semester back at school! Its going to be tough, I love math but Calculus is going to kill me and I have to take 4 different Calculus classes...YIKES! I'm excited to finish though. I've also decided to get my minor in English so I should have a great background when looking for a teaching position! James decided he would go to school also so he is taking a few (full time) online classes. He think he will like it once he doesn't feel so overwhelmed.

Asher is growing quickly. James' parents watch him for me when I'm at class and they just love having that time with him and he loves being over there with them. He is such a smart little boy. He is trying to say all kinds of new words like doggie, Whiskey(that's the dogs name!), light, rooster, Josten, What's that?, thank you. Plus he makes lots of animal noises like barking from a dog. He is just too cute sometimes, and then sometimes he just isn't...LOL I think the terrible twos might have set in a little early for him.

Bailey is now in middle school in Indiana. I can't believe he is so grown up already. I really think he enjoys it in Indiana. He as tons of friends and he is always out hanging with them. I do miss him tons though. I'm hoping James and I will be able to make a trip there to see him one weekend before Christmas time but it just depends on money. Bailey is getting braces this year, I'm sure he isn't very excited about that. Poor thing...he got his teeth from his dad, not his mom!

Everyone else is doing well. Josten was living up in American Fork with Jadeth and Whitnee for a little bit but then decided to come back to Cedar City after about 3 weeks of no luck finding a job. Jadeth and Jared are working for a company in Lehi called DaVinci Doors and they both really like it most days. Jadeth is doing well there, he is the shop manager. Jade and Whitnee are doing well also. Jade is growing so fast too. When we were up there she was smiling and giggling. What a little heart breaker she is going to be! Sabelle is still living in St George with her mom. Her birthday is the 3rd of September and she will be 16!!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!! It's just so crazy to me that she is going to be 16, she was only 9, almost 10 when James and I met. She is going into such a beautiful young woman. She has a boyfriend, Chad, who cracks me up. He is such a goofy kid, but that's a good thing! They come up and visit us once in a while.

Well that's a little catch up for everyone! I have some pictures I'll post some other day. I haven't uploaded them from the camera to the computer yet. Until next time...everyone stay safe and thanks for stopping by :)

New Collab Kit at Scrapthatidea.com

Hey everyone, there is a great new collab kit over at scrapthatidea.com called Bollywood. Its got great color to it. Well here is a preview of it, tons of papers and elements and an alpha for only $4.00! Plus you'll find a 20% off coupon in the download to use for another purchase! What a deal!







And here is a layout I created with the kit. I sorta used a template from ChrissyW, but did some modifications of my own to it. But I got the main idea from one of her layouts.
The picture is of me, Bailey and Josten getting ready to set sail on our cruise to Mexico for Brannon and Tate's wedding celebration. What a fun little vacation that was. And I just love this picture of me and the boys. Doesn't it look like we are having fun...in the sun?? :) hehe

Random Ramblings....

So, James and I had to make a quick trip into Vegas yesterday, we got fuel for $1.47 a gallon!!! That was actually here in Cedar City though, not in Vegas, I noticed in Vegas it was still up around $1.89 a gallon. The bad part is that today its up to $1.51 already. I hope it isn't going to climb as quickly as it went down.

I'm re-reading the Twilight series of books again. After seeing the movie I wanted to see what parts they had left out so I read the first book again. And once I read the first one I had to keep going. I'm on the third one already. James wants to read them now too, after seeing the movie. He started the first one right after I finished it, but he can't sit for a long time just reading so it may take him a little longer to finish it than it did me. And can I just say, the movies are NEVER as good as the books...Da Vinci Code, Where the Heart Is, The Green Mile, and now Twilight, all of these movies were disappointments because I read the books first! Just goes to show, my imagination is way better than anything Hollywood can come up with!

James has two recruiters working on finding him a job right now. I hope one of them comes through soon. They have a few things in the works, only one problem with all of them...they aren't here in Cedar City which means we will probably be moving...AGAIN! UGH!!!!!!! I have no idea where we will end up, but I pray that where ever it is, its a place we will be staying for an extended period of time...which for us is about 2 years! LOL!!!

Asher had to get shots on Monday...poor little man. He did not feel well all day after that. And this morning he woke up not feeling well again, I think it was something we ate because James and Bailey also had stomach aches. Asher is getting so big though, of course he started out big so its no surprise that he is continuing with that streak. He weighed 19 pounds 6 ounces on Monday and was 27" long. He is the cutest little boy though. He has found his tongue and has it constantly sticking out. He also does the sweetest thing with his hand, he scratches at different objects with the tips of his fingers, I think he is feeling all the different fabrics and materials of his surroundings. He does it to his hair when I am feeding him, he kinda looks like a little monkey. He hasn't rolled over yet, well James said he rolled over on Sunday but I didn't see it and he hasn't done it again since. He still only has two teeth (HA! ONLY!!!) a 5 month old with two teeth that he has actually had for 2 months!

Josten moved out of our house and into a townhome with some buddies of his. I think he is really enjoying it. He comes over every night to work out and lift weights (and steal some food) so we still see him very often. In fact we probably see him more now then when he actually lived with us!

Well, that's the latest update with the Sherratts and the Amo. Our life is so crazy and there are so many of us that I'm sure I'll have a whole new bunch of stuff to report in a few days. But until then...we love you all and hope that this last month of 2008 finds you happy and healthy!

Goodbye Summer...Hello Fall!

Hello from California...still! Just wanted to stop by the blog and get caught up again. Life is still crazy, will it ever been calm again? Was it ever calm in the first place? HA! Asher is doing well. He has a doctor's appointment this week for his two month check up. Yes its a little late but we had to wait for insurance to kick in before we could go. He has what is known as an umbilical hernia, I think. I've read up on it on the internet and it seems painless and some what normal. It should heal itself on its own but I'd like the doctor to verify that for me when we go in. He is sleeping well and eating tons. I'm not sure but I'm guessing he weighs close to 20 pounds by now and barely 2 1/2 months old, can you believe that? He is already wearing 6-9 month clothing and size 3 diapers! He is a very happy baby and I couldn't love him anymore than I do.

Bailey is doing well in school. He started a new school again this year. He has made friends quickly and hangs out with them after school most days. He has lots of homework most nights and it is a struggle to get him to complete it all but he is a good boy and gets it all done just in time for bed :) He is going to see his dad in October when he has a 4 week break from school. He is really excited about that.

Josten is home. He has been struggling with the job market down here. No one seems to be hiring. He didn't get to start college because without a job he didn't have the money to pay the tuition, plus he didn't try to register until a week before school started so that put him behind. He is hoping to start the Spring semester.

Jadeth is now engaged to Whitnee, they have been dating on and off for a couple of years now. She is expecting a baby early April. They are both very excited and a little nervous but we are happy for them, they both seem to be growing up quickly. Jadeth is in Hawaii right now, for a couple of weeks, with his job. He just got a raise and is hoping to get promoted to foreman here any day.

We didn't get to see much of Sabelle when we were in Panguitch for a visit. She had some stuff with school she had to get done and was unable to come up with us. She has a good job and is hoping to get more hours soon. Her and her boyfriend, Chad, are still together and that seems to make her happy. We miss her and hope she can come visit us soon.

Jared is trying to get things worked out for himself. He is struggling a little but we are all praying he will realize what matters most to him and get things straight in his head. We just hope he knows we love him! He did hang out with us in Panguitch and we had such a great time with him up there. Bailey loved riding the 4-wheeler with him and Asher just loves his big brother.

James and I are doing well, just trying to make it through this strange thing they are calling the economy. We are just enjoying our family as much as possible and making the most of what we have!

Update on our family

I can't believe its been so long since I have last posted to the blog. Life has been crazy with a new born. Let me update everyone on our family.

Bailey went to visit his dad in Indiana the end of May when he go

t out of school and came home the 28th of June. He had a really good time hanging out with his dad for a month, they went to water parks (yes, more than one), saw lots of movies, rode bikes and he also got to visit with his Papa and Grandma Amo from Palm Springs. He is now getting ready to go back to school on the 28th of July. Thankfully he will be starting here at Todd Elementary instead of going to Temescal which I had to drive him to everyday. He is excited and bummed at the same time, he didn't get that long of a summer but he is excited t

o start this new school. Right before school ended he went on a field trip to a creek to release

the trout they had been growing in their classroom for a few weeks. Here are some pictures of that field trip.

Josten graduated from high school on the 12th of June. There were tons of people in his graduating class, I swear it took forever to get to the end of all those names. James' parents were able to make it down from Cedar City, UT to be at Josten's graduation, that was very special. Also Josten's mom Vikki and Sabelle were able to make it down also, we had a house full for a couple of days. After graduation Josten headed up to Cedar City to hang out with his friends. I think it was hard for him to finally come home, he was having too much fun up there, but he ran out of money and needed to get home to find a job. He is planning on registering for the community college here in Southern California for the fall. Not sure yet what program he wants to go into, probably something with computers, but time will tell. Here are some pictures of his graduation.

Jadeth was in Hawaii for a few weeks working. He is suppose to be going back for 9 months here in a few weeks. Luckily he was able to come visit us for the 4th of July and see Asher. We had a good time while him and Whitnee were here. They went to Magic Mountain one day, we meet James for lunch another day and we went to the beach for the 4th. The beach was so crowded! I can't believe we were able to actually find a spot close enough to the water to see it. We had planned on staying at the beach to watch the fireworks but it got too cold for the new baby and we drove to the lake (Lake Elsinore) by our house and watch them from there. It was still a good time.