Wait a minute!

Wait a minute! Time needs to stop moving! It is going to fast!

Jacy will be a senior !!! AHHHH!!!

We LOVE our Jacy! How can we have another daughter finishing high school!

We need time to STOP! Moving!

Trying to get some senior pictures of Jacy done. This is just the beginning. We'll try to get shots of Jacy this Fall & Winter. These pictures turned out sooooo cute though! Don't you think?

Now, I will go & curl up in a ball & cry because time is moving so fast & my kids are growing up sooooo fast!

We LOVE you Jacy!

Have a BLASt during your senior year - !!!

YUHeI!!!

We have had the BEST time with Yuhei!

We will miss him so much!

Quick post before going to the DEMO derbY!

What a send off!

The Sister City group leaves at 2 a.m.!

We are EXHAUSTED!!!!

County Fair time, Seattle, & then the races this weekend!

LOVE it!

Chow! Si!! Senior!

Barbecue PottY!!!

HA!

We LOVE Yuhei!!!

What the CraP?!!

Columbia River!

All i can say is

SOooooooooooooooooooooooooo MUCH FUN!!!!!

We are having a blast with our exchange student. He is so cute & we just want to put him in our pocket & keep him! We are always laughing!! It has been such a wonderful experience & we have only been with him two days! Trent & Trevor are having such a great experience with him, interacting with him. Jacy is soooo patient!!! She is adorable with Yuhei!

We are EXHAUSTED!!! The next couple of days are MAdNEss!!!!!

Wish us luck!

Have a great week!

bread & soccer

YUM! Made some homemade bread - it was sooooo good. Cannot believe how yummy it is!

We have been swamped. Yuhei Suzuki flies into town tomorrow & we are almost ready for him. Cleaned the cars, bathrooms, bedrooms, bought him some American Eagle, Hollister & Suzuki t-shirts. (We really think he will like Suzuki & ROCKSTAR on his shirt!) The exchange group has a huge amount of fun & educational activities planned. The Wind Mill Farm, dairy, corn & potato plants, boating, barbecues, Wal Mart, Colee Damn, etc. tours. Farmer's market, rides at the fair, demolition derby, soccer practices, high school registration & tour, etc. The group leaves at the end of next week & then Thurs. & Fri. Steve & I will be in Seattle & then every weekend after that until into Nov. will be soccer, soccer, soccer. The cascade Park sleepover, Post Falls, Idaho game & then Silverwood (with the soccer team - it is like a Lagoon). Spaghetti Fest, High school Football games, Trevor's basketball, etc. We LOVE it! It should be a fantastic senior year for Jacy (we will be getting her senior pictures taken this weekend & try to get some more shots throughout the Fall into the Winter). It is just blowing me away that Jacy will be done with school in Jan. Just a seminary class & then working for college. Then, only TWO boys will be living in our home! WOW! So nice. I love my kids, but also LOVE when they strike out on their own. Kelcey is doing so well in college. She was made manager at Dominoes & is really enjoying her work (yes, she is working a LOT of double shifts during her 7 week break). She also is trying to sell some of her amazing photo's at a boutique in Rexburg. We are so proud of her! She has also been dating some really CUTE boys! Super Good job Kelcey!!!

The boys love hanging out with their friends at Matthew's & Ryan's pool & I love the quiet house while they are at their friends house!

We LOVE living in a school district where the kids are able to request their school teachers & their pods. LOVE it! Makes life so much nicer! Trent got into his POD he requested for Junior High & Trevor got his teacher from last year (that he LOVED). She is moving up to 5th grade this year. We are excited! Finished school shopping yesterday (whew!) & the boys & Jacy are excited for school to start. But, we are also excited for the next couple of weeks of FUN FUN FUN! We sure love not having to start school in the middle of Aug.! Makes it into a really fun summer! Well, we are off again. Hope you all are having a fantastic day & week!!

Now, Steve is challenging me to make whole wheat bread - hmmmmm!

a puLLed tooth.

HA! Trent has had a baby tooth behind his permanent tooth for about 9 months now. We had scheduled a dentist appt. to get the tooth pull for today, but moved it back a couple of weeks because of his sore eye & Yuhei Suzuki visiting all next week. But, this morning I told Trent if Jacy let him yank out his tooth with pliers I would pay him some money to go to the arcade with his brother. Cannot believe how funny Trent was. Jacy was a master dentist & after two tries was able to get the tooth out on the third try. Yipee! Saved money & got rid of that dratted tooth! It is a good day!
Heading out of town to get some gifts for Yuhei & school ShoPPING! Another fUN day!

Japan pictures, host family

Finally lassoed Jacy down. Here are a few more pictures. This is Jacy's host family. The grandpa had just left for work. Jacy keeps talking about this wonderful family. They would wash her clothes the minute she got in the shower (not her undies though!) & they were always feeding her. They also helped her pack her luggage & were so cute with her. She just had the most wonderful host family. We appreciated how much they took care of Jacy.
Jacy's host family's home.

The mom looks like she is 18 years old.

The families Japanese garden at their home.

The host family. The father, mother & the three boys.

The group visited a lot of museums. This is one of the museums.

Yuhei is a black belt. These are all of his trophies. Love it!

This is where the family ate their meals.

The family shrine is to the right in the picture.

Jacy's room - nice bed!!

The family had the calendar marked when Jacy got into town.

Jacy's couch in her bedroom. So cute!

Jacy received one of these owls as a gift. Very beautiful.

Museums & Shrines.

Jacy took some amazing pictures ! We will be receiving a dvd with all of the kids pictures in a week or so. It will be fun to look through all of the kids pictures.

One more set of pictures of Jacy's trip. What a wonderful trip~!

Eye scratches!

What an INSanE weekend. Sat. was pretty normal, but on Sunday - after a 7:30 a.m. ward council mtg, church, Japanese group mtg & then emergency room - I was exhausted! Trent got smacked in the eyeball during Sunday School. Some boys were messing around & a tv remote came flying through the air & hit Trent right in the eyeball. He was in so much pain, finally we took him to the emergency room & he has a huGE scratch on his cornea. We are off to the Eye Dr. to get some more medicine & make sure behind the eye is ok. He was in so much pain. Who knew - that a scratch on the cornea could hurt so much. We are very thankful he is ok. But, I am so tired! Poor Trent. He cannot be in the sun all week & we have to make sure his eye doesn't get infected.

The boys have been playing their hearts out this last week. After spending time at the pool we would come home & the boys set this whole shooting gallery up. It was so darn imaginative! Prizes, points, nerf guns, bullets, etc. I LOVE it when the boys just hang out & come up with stuff like this.
Love my boys!!

YUMMY! Made some homemade cinnamon rolls & they were delicious! Have been trying to make homemade breads & rolls. There is nothing like homemade cinnamon rolls with a big glass of milk!

Trying to go through pictures with Jacy - but it is just so nuts here. Trent was supposed to get a tooth pulled tomorrow, but moved that back a week. Poor guy! We are off to the eye dr. & then more weed pulling & grass mowing. With this heat the grass is LOVing it! it is growing so fast, cannot keep up! toodles!

Japan & Maui!!!!

We are trying to go through all of Jacy's pictures. Will post some most everyday with her cute trip! Here is the group in front of the sushi bar. Jacy is so funny - Amanda recorded her lying through her teeth to someone that she liked sushi - & then she looks at Amanda & you KNOW she is lying! HA! At least she tried Sushi! & Octopus & fish eggs & dried seaweed!!
The sword guys scared Jacy & then she had to try it! (she is sitting here tagging all of these pictures. Here is the group of exchange students & Francis, Jacy, Amanda, Kelly & Daniel. Lani & Lori are their chaperone's.

This is the city of Yonezawa's mascot.

Yuhei & Jacy. He comes next Fri. for his visit. We are getting excited.

Daniel & Jacy

The group went on a lot of tours in the city. This tour was of a wine factory. This picture is how they make the wine. Funny!

a barrel of wine

Musaki Museum.

Musaki Museum garden

Jacy, Amanda Francis & Kelly in their Yonezawa sister city shirts.

a cool firetruck

This is the girls right when the got off the airplane in JAPAN!

Here is their double decker plane. Jacy thought is was soo cool to have two levels.

A map showing how much further to Japan

Vancouver Canada Airport

HA - just showing you how to drink out of the drinking fountain in Canada.

The kids were able to take a train from Seattle to Vancouver Canada. The train went right along the ocean all of the way of to Canada. Very beautiful.

Lori - a cool picture!

a LOT of luggage !

Daniel, Kelly, Lori, Lani, Jacy, Amanda & Francis at King Station in Seattle.

What an amazing trip. We'll keep posting pictures. That is if I can get Jacy to help me. She has been so busy with work & soccer. I usually see her for about a minute & then she if off again. We went to the movie Inception last night. What a great movie! Fun date night with my hubby. And, the best news yet. We are going to Maui!! Yipee! Scored some really great tickets & also went on Priceline & got super duper great deal on a condo & rental car in Kihei. (& I mean really great deals!) Just Steve & I are going! We are so excited. Should be a really relaxing trip! Josh & Katie might come to Maui also, but we'll see.

We have been to the pool every day this week. It has been near 100 degrees every day & the pool feels soooooo good! Well, we are off again to the pool. Hot hot hot day again. Went on a walk this morning with the kids & dogs & we were sweating after the first 5 minutes! Gotta love it! SUMMER!!! :)