BDO Corporate games

At the Business Depot of Ogden which is where the Icon business buildings are, every year the BDO headquarters has an annual corporate games in Aug, where we have a week of games and  play against the different companies in different sports. Icon had the most employees participating this year, we all had  white matching shirts so we could be recognized as a company with our logo on it.  There was games scheduled during the day and evening all week.  Dodge ball, that was a hard game Icon kept playing back to back games and played the champs game against BDO staff.

The volleyball game.

Tuesday morning at 7am, My mom and I was in the 3K walk, it was fun to participate and get involved we didn't take first but we didn't take last either. Just in the middle somewhere :) These were all the Icon employees that participated in the walk.

My friend Linda .

The soccer game.

The softball game.

Some of the other games was golf, basketball, the bike race, the 5K run, racquetball and a few others.  We all had team spirit and supported each other in the events. Some were very competitive but I guess that is what makes it fun. There was a lot that had aches, scrapes,   and worn out bodies.  Just depending on what you signed up for to play, some employees had more than one game a day, some events had to play back to back to determine the winning team. On Friday we had a lunch barbecue for all the employees given by BDO and the awards ceremony.

Icon took 1st place and took the trophy!!!

We are proud of Brian

We are so proud of Brian in our family for a few things lately. First of all he was able to advance as the Unloading container lead at Lifetime. It is a similar job what he did at Icon, so it was good news to  know that he is making little advances in a fast way. People from Icon always ask me about  him and hows he doing,  they are so glad he is doing good, they  know he is a hard worker.  He is also making the attempt to quit his habit which is something we are really all happy about. It was a bit of a shocker when he first told us a week ago.   Brian has always done so much for me and Braxton to make us happy, and  that has
 always been his main focus everyday in everything he does.

Hawaiian Luau

ALOHA we had a fun summer Hawaiian luau party. At the very beginning we got our leis before we could enter the Hawaiian islands in the backyard. Hint: I added the song Kokomo it just adds  feeling to the luau pictures if you would like to listen to it..  it is just a suggestion thanks!

We ate really good shish-kabobs

Than we had family pictures taken

Afterwards  we played some fun games, we first played "Going Coconuts" which was bowling,  for the pins we used water bottles and coconuts for the bowling balls. Only 1 coconut cracked which was really good and we were still able to bowl with it. Everyone was curious to try the coconut juice and eat some of the inside.

Than we played water balloon volleyball and kickball which were both really wet games, BUT that wasn't the end we finished with a water balloon fight. That finally topped us all off getting pretty wet!!! It was FUN!

We lit the Tiki torches and we are leaving the islands

We came inside and  all sat down and watched the really good video that McKenna had done all by herself. She had pictures of  the past family parties  that were really fun, and way back when the family just started with the  kids  and each addition of grandkids and married spouses.

These were our "Ocean cupcakes" that Braxton and McKenna made, Nathan made a  pineapple upside down cake in the Dutch oven to top off the night with yummy desserts.

I would like to thank everyone in the family for making this a very nice Birthday party as well as a family party.  McKenna, Braxton,( and Mom) had  been planning for awhile to give me a surprise 40th birthday party Luau, but the last couple of weekends didn't work out and the party kept getting delayed they finally just told me and they went thru with it anyway. I was  very flattered and shocked what they had been trying to plan.  They went thru a lot of hard work and everyone had a really fun time. It was really fun to have another Luau again like we did 4 years ago. We were successfully able to eat outside this time for this one, the weather didn't look like it was going to cooperate with us, but it turned out great!! We missed Tyler, Tiffany and Nicholas with us.

Stewart Falls

                                  

 

 

 

For the past year I have wanted to hike up Provo canyon to see Stewart Falls. The hike was really pretty with all the trees and bushes and was a moderate easy hike. It was about a 4 mile hike round trip. Braxton was the tripper and faller downer of the family, we counted 17 times that he either tripped or fell. We just kept track and counted, it was just a way to keep us entertained.  He wasn't hurt serious just really dirty but he wasn't the only one, all three of us were!

Family Pictures

Manti Pageant 1987/What summer means to me Story #6

My mom gave me a perm  on Thursday July 16, 1987 when we were thru and she took the curlers out of my hair I had little tiny ringlets,  it reminded me of the Lion on the Wizard of Oz. Saturday July 18, we left to go down to the Manti Pageant. Dad and Mr. Byington were fixing the car and we couldn't go until the car was fixed. About 3:00 we were finally ready to leave we got all the way to Spanish Fork when all the boys went into McDonald's to go to the bathroom and we did some necessary shopping at K-Mart,  we kept driving  till we got to Manti.
 There was already tons of people, we parked the car and was standing around the car deciding if we should eat our hoagie sandwiches or not. No one was very hungry so we packed up and found us a spot on the lawn. Me and Brett was playing Blackjack speed 2 and card tricks. Mom had to  take the boys to the bathroom again and after a long time Brett went to go look for them. He came back and said he couldn't find them so we went to look for them together, there was a mile long line at the bathrooms so we decided to check the car and sure enough they were there eating a hoagie sandwich. We ate ours than too,  By the time we started heading back and got back to our spot on the lawn the pageant had just started.  The pageant was about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, the Nephites and the Lamanites.

We had already decided to stay and find a place to sleep down there instead of trying to drive back late at night, we drove around for a long time and finally went to a park. The three boys got beds made up in the car, we put plastic out on the grass with some quilts to go underneath us. Brett slept in a sleeping bag, I had just my quilt, and mom and dad had thin blankets over them. I was trying to sleep but I was shivering so bad and I felt nauseated (the joys of being a girl every month). My mom told me to go sleep in the car, I tried to sleep sitting up on the floor with my head on the seat. It had been a long night and when it was finally morning I was still cold even after sleeping in the car,  Tim needed to go to the bathroom first thing and he asked if someone could go with him, but mom just said he would be fine to just go by himself. He got disoriented and went looking in the wrong direction when he was trying to find our car . Mom had to go chase him down and bring him back, Nathan was bawling because he wanted to go home and he was freezing. I was becoming a mad irritated sister as well,  Finally after a long slow moving process we finally was all packed up and ready to go. We stopped at a park in Spanish Fork and  mom cooked eggs, bacon, hash browns and we ate on the picnic tables. We sat under the crab apple trees and layed under the trees on our quilts and swung on the swings.

This story seems like the message here is my family always disappears when they wander away to go to the bathroom, (ha-ha) but this was always the kind of fun that I always had with my family and the things that we did while I was growing up. Summers to me are sleeping out in the tent in the backyard, eating dinner outside on the picnic table, we always did that with the whole family in  the shade of our huge trees mainly because the house was always hot and we didn't have air conditioning except for box fans in the windows. Eating  lots  of watermelon  and corn on the cob, I always  associate those with summer. We always had a lot  from our own garden besides corn we had peas, zucchini,and tomatoes and various vegetables  too. Apricots, cherries, and plums from our own fruit trees,  lots and lots of  homemade apricot jam, and canned tomatoes, and peaches. I remember our kitchen floor was always sticky from all the canning my mom and dad did even though my mom mopped the floor, it was  so sticky it could rip your shoe off of your foot.