Don't Forget 2009

So I have definitely not posted anything for a while. Honestly, I can't narrow down anything cool I/we've been doing or anything I have a strong enough opinion about to share with the world. I was going over some of my pictures and realized that some have been overlooked and almost forgotten! Below is my top 10 "rediscovered" pictures/memories from 2009:
10. Many nights of racquetball. I'm really loving playing this sport; especially in the winter. This is a nice welt that Dave St. Julien gave Dustin. (It was a lot bigger that it looks in this picture).

9. Climbing in St. George last Spring. Never posted any pictures from our weekend getaway with our friends but came across them and really wished that it was that warm right now!!!

8. Now it's blog bragging time. This is me jumping on the wake board last summer. I looked over pictures from my previous year of wake boarding and saw to my disappointment that the "air" I thought I was getting was no more than an inch. I'm a bit happier with this.

7. Thanks to Dustin's good friends, Jake and Dan, he was given a Snuggie for his birthday and has now become a Wizard Jedi.

6. Dustin poppin' wheelies on our scooter. This really makes me laugh.

5.This is a picture of my brother, Jared, taken during July with one of his awesome Supersoakers that he stores here in Utah while living in the UK since '01. He says that "they don't make water guns like they used to" and "the 90's was the best decade for water guns". This is a mere small dose of my brother. He is literally a child at heart and I love him a lot because of it.

4. Almost every Real Soccer home game Dustin and I managed the Whopper Hopper. A large blow-up hamburger "bounce house" that kids jump in while their parents ditch them for us to babysit. Just to vent a bit; one time a parent actually had the audacity to say "your tending this, right?" after he left his little 3 year old girl to jump. Since this Whopper Hopper is such a hot attraction we often had kids waiting in line to jump so we eventually had to kick this little girl out for other kids to jump and I helped her put on her coat and "tended" her while she waited for her daddy. I'll have to out-smart those parents this next year...

3. Some of the amazing people I meet through my work.


2. This is Padraig. He was in our Primary class last year. When I think of this kid I have to smile. He would say some of the raddest things I have ever heard in my life. He would say something like "I'm part pointer" as he was pointed in some direction. There was one time another child was picked over his brother to help out in Sharing Time and as a result Padraig yelled with all sincerity "give my brother a chance!" He would wear two sets of clothes. He'd wear his church clothes (like the one in this picture) and then he'd wear his play clothes underneath which usually consisted of a super hero t-shirt of some kind. As soon as Primary was over, he'd sit down in the hallway of the church and tear off his layer of church clothes. One time he did it right outside of the Relief Society room so as soon as it got out and the doors opened, there was Padraig on the ground with his church pants at his ankles as he struggled to pulled them off over his shoes. He moved away during the year and we both missed him a lot.

1. One of my favorite pictures and memories of this past year was seeing my nephew and niece holding hands and chatting away. Oh I loved it!