World Champion

This past weekend Jason went to Long Beach California to participate in the World Gui Jitzu tournament. This is a huge event, men and women of all ages with different levels of skill ( white belt, blue belt etc. ) from across the world come to compete. Jason competed in the Masters light weight blue belt division. He went against four guys. Then since he won Gold in that division he could compete in the open division, which means different heights and weights compete and he went against 5 guys to take gold in the open division. 2 GOLDS!!!ble to go so when he got home we put in the video ( that's why a couple of the pics are fuzzy, their pictures of what is paused on the video :) ) Some of the matches were pretty intense. They were all 5 minutes matches and it's either by scoring points for certain moves or submission. He pretty much choked all of them out but one. Two he barely won, one with four seconds left and another since he was the more dominate one in the match the judges gave him the win. All the matches he was definitely worthy of winning. He did an awesome job.

These are some of his buddies~ Johny his coach, Paul & Chris all went and did well competing.

There was some confusion of course..there always is. Jason and one of his competitors thought that they both won. Jason had rolled his knee during one of his last matches and since he thought that he was done was icing it for about 15 minutes when they called his name to have his last match. He did very good even though his knee was stiff. He choked the guy out rather quickly!!

This is a huge accomplishment for Jason....I mean c'mon the World Champion!!!

Not only the World Champion but a few months back the National Champion!! I am so very proud of him. I still enjoy watching him and hopefully I will get to go more?

He is planning on getting another fight in January or February of next year..I can't wait!!!

GO JASON!!

My 3 dates

It was just me and my Kiddies this weekend. We didn't do much, just had our favorite dinner at the mall and then went to look at some Twilight/New Moon stuff. It was fun to be out. The kids were well behaved ( usually are ). I do seem to date these 3 the most but they are my favorites!!
I am so blessed to have these precious gems in my life. They are my best buddies!!

South's in the Wild West

Pioneer Village 2009

Halloween 2009

We had a few friends and their kids over for Halloween. We had a lot of fun. Neither do the parents or the kids last that long...man what a bunch of light weights ( I am not blaming it on age either!! ) We do enjoy each other's company and did enjoy seeing neighbors. We do have a great neighborhood. The highlight of the year was hot chocolate. I am so glad that the weather was nice, well nice for October any way that we didn't have to bundle up too much.

These are Zach and Amy's boys. Aiden the fireman, Kenyan..hmm I can't remember, some sort of Zombie/Reaper and Tanner the Spider man.

Maddie was Dorothy..We even got permission from her teacher to take Meeah to the school parade so Dorothy could walk around with her Toto. Maddie was a hit with her puppy.

This is Zombie Girl Katelyn and little Witch Hailey. Matt & Jenn's kids.

Bubba remained the only biker and The only way I could get Tyler to be in front of the camera is to give him Chocolate..Thanks Matt :)

This is Larissa, Kendal's 12 year old. She makes us feel so old!! She was trying to be a trooper for the younger kids. She always is. She was Ozzy Osbourne. We had to laugh because she wrote the words Ozzy and rock on, on her face while looking in the mirror and didn't realize that you have to apply it back wards...so she walked around with the words on backwards the whole night. She did laugh right along with the rest of us.

Tyler should of been dressed up like what he really is...A MONSTER!!! We found an old pirate costume from the dress up box and threw it on him then took Bubba's eye patch that he got from a birthday party but he wouldn't leave it on. At least Jason held his arms long enough for me to get a picture.

Halloween is my favorite!!!

crime scene

We are guilty of stabbing, carving and gutting our poor defenceless pumpkins.The evidence was all over the place. I can't believe that we let the whole neighborhood see what we had done. We weren't even ashamed of lighting them up to show off their insides!!!

Ward Halloween Carnival

This year our Family theme for the ward Halloween carnival was the...
SOUTH SIDE BIKER GANG!!
Jason and I pretty much already had the biker gear, although it was just too hot for the leather chaps or we would of been strutting' those too! I made the kids vests ( thanks to Andrea for coming over for a quick sewing 1 on 1 lesson..heck I hadn't looked at a pattern since Jr. high!! ) I put skeleton buttons on Jason's along with a Harley Davidson patch on the back. Maddie's had pink buttons with a skeleton with pink bow on the front and Tyler would barely keep the velcro attached so he got nothing extra on his. No one was going to mess with us!!

Tyler wasn't feeling too well..in fact we ended up at Primary Children's after this for an overnight stay...totally sucked...especially the ambulance ride, my poor baby had a serious case of croup, that mixed with asthma was not good at all. But believe me he is back to his normal MONSTER self!!

On with the evening. We saw lots of fun costumes and friends that we haven't seen for a while. I don't think we had been to church for a month between having sick kids and conferences. I love Halloween..it's part of my favorite season!!

Pumpkin patch attack!!

I had seen a friend post some pictures of her and her little boy at this pumpkin patch. It was at Engh Gardens ( Nursery ) it's located around 7th East and 8100 So. It's a complete nursery with a cute little store. They had their pumpkin patch decked out for Halloween.

The kids got all of their wiggles out. It's not like a huge pumpkin patch but it had a pirate ship that they could climb on. Lot's of fun cut outs to stick their heads thru ( Little Jason's head almost got stuck...I had to tell him to just put his face barely in!! ) They even had a cute little maze.
Tyler gets scared over the Halloween decorations that move and talk. He says "scary", He says "scary" just seeing the Halloween poster at Walmart. He freaks out and screams and will yell "NO" or "DONE" when he gets too close. I hate to admit... I make him get too close..What? they are my kids and I can torture them :)
Most of the photos are curtesy of Maddie and Jason. They were quiet photogenic that day. I think that they take pretty good pictures!! ( as you can see they got along really well and actually have their arms around each other in some of the pictures )
The best part is that it was FREE!! We did buy a pumpkin for each of us...We love Halloween and family outings. You should go check it out before it's over.

wee witches night out

We had such a good time on Wee Witches night out. It was great to have a Mommy Daughter date. We all hoped on one broom and headed to Gardner Village. Every year they do a Wee Witches weekend. They Have animals, pony rides, scavenger hunts and lots of other activities for kids to do. Plus it's always fun to dress up. They have a music playing and a couple times during the night you can parade with the Witches while dancing!! ( My favorite part of the night, besides the yummy pulled pork sandwich and pumpkin cookie was watching Rachel dance and sing to Miley Cyrus..pop it lock it polka dot it ) We went with Rose, Megan, Rachel, Andrea and then met up with Jen, Katelyn and Haley. Lot's of giggles and wiggles!!

I sure love my Maddie. She is such a big help to me. It's so fun to mess around and to be able to tease each other. I am sure we will be close in the years to come :)

Thanks for the invite Andrea. We really had a great time. Let's do another Mommy Daughter date real soon.