The end of Football! (At least for this season)

Garrett played his last tackle football game of the season today (in the rain!) It was a lot of fun and the boys loved playing in the rain! Garrett scored the only 2 touchdowns for his team in this game! Though football has taken over our lives, it is sad to see the season end. I love to watch my kids play sports, especially when they LOVE the sport they are playing. But hey, flag football starts next week for Hunter and Jess is coaching him.

This is the only video I took of Garrett playing football. I realized partway through the game that I had not taken any video, so I started recording and Garrett was nice enough to score while I was recording! Nice timing huh!

Goodbye Grandpa Zobrist

My Grandpa Zobrist died this week at the young age of 88. He and Grandma have 6 kids, 34 grandchildren and over 100 great and great-great grandchildren. Grandpa lived a full and exciting life but for me it still is hard to see him go. I have been thinking about why it is so hard for me and I think part of the reason is because I feel so guilty for not being better at visiting him. He and Grandma live in Las Vegas and I don't get down very often to visit either of them. The last time I saw Grandpa was at the Zobrist family reunion in the summer of 2007. Though the reunion was hard on him physically, it was so great to get to see him and the rest of my mom's family. I just hope that Grandpa can forgive me for not being better at visiting.

Grandpa lived a life full of travel. He and Grandma served a mission together, he was a successful business man. He also worked as a sealer in the Las Vegas temple. He was able to seal many of my cousins in various temples. I wish that Jess and I had been able to go to the temple years ago and have Grandpa seal us, but I know that when the day comes for Jess and I to go through that Grandpa will be there with us!

I don't have the best memory in the world but I do have a few memories of Grandpa. I was always so excited to go to Vegas as a kid to visit Grandma and Grandpa. They had a great indoor pool for us to swim in and it was a lot of fun. I remember getting to Vegas, walking in and seeing Grandpa (half dressed) on the couch watching t.v. (usually cartoons!) He would hug us all and ask my mom how long we were staying! Can you imagine though the noise 6 kids can make in one house, especially with a pool! Then when it was time to leave he would always kiss us goodbye and in his nicest voice tell mom it was great seeing us and how next time he wished we could stay longer! I remember sitting on the couch watching "Duck Tales with him and one day I was clipping my toe nails. I was probably 9 and so of course I was just clipping them right onto the floor and Grandpa started yelling at me because he said Grandma gets so mad at him when he does that, and I was going to get him in trouble! Looking back I just giggle because no matter if I would get in trouble or not, who wants toe nail clippings on the floor!

Grandpa was know to be grumpy when we were young, but I look back on that with fond memories. I know that he loved all of us!

Goodbye Grandpa! I love you!


This picture was taken in 2006 of Grandpa, Grandma, Garrett and Hunter. Grandma had just finished giving the grandkids rides on her Jazzy. I think she and Grandpa enjoyed doing this almost as much as the grandkids!

Just call me Quirky!

My cousins Jenny and Melanie tagged me. Does that mean I have to do this twice?!?!?! Here are the rules:



1. Link back to the person who tagged you.

2. List the rules on your blog.

3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of your own.

4. Tag 6 bloggers to complete the meme.



Here are six quirky things about me:

1) I eat what I call "frozen treats" in bed at night. It is pink lemonade poured into mugs and frozen. The way you eat them is by scraping it with a spoon. SOOOO YUMMY! My poor husband has to sleep through that!

2) I wear rubber gloves when I clean at home. I have different pairs for different rooms. (ie: bathroom, garage, kitchen.)

3) I LOVE to pop zits! I know this is gross but I just love it! Not on just anyone, I save that for my husband and sons!

4) I have weird eating habits (I know everybody knows about this one.) I have a real issue with texture and fruits and vegetables are the worst! Especially banana's! I do get my vegetable intake by eating LOTS of pickles! Hey they are a cucumber! I also really like the juice from the jar!

5) I hate chocolate and french fries! I really hate when candy is mixed in a bowl, like chocolate candy and cinnamon candy. The cinnamon candy takes on the chocolate flavor! Blec!

6) I find blood and guts really cool! One of my favorite shows to watch is Plastic Surgery Before and After! It is so cool to watch how they do surgery!

Bonus quirk: I love to watch TV Land late at night. (ie: I love Lucy, All in the family, The Brady bunch) My husband tell me I was born in the wrong generation. I also secretly love to watch That 70's show at night when my family is in bed! It is the dumbest show but oh so entertaining!

I tag my favorite sister Angie, my long lost high school friends Jodi and Deana, and my neighborhood buddies Kirstin, Michelle, and Sandy.

Canning

So the canning season has started and I couldn't be more excited! Angie tells me that this is the old woman coming out in me but you are what you are right?!? I have big plans for canning this season (we will see how much of it actually gets done!) So yesterday I attempted pickles. As a child I remember LOVING my Grandma Snyder's pickles. I am hoping that I haven't built them up in my head only to be disappointed! Let me make one recommendation to all of you who have recipes that you hope to one day pass on. Make sure you make it legible! Just because you can read it doesn't mean the future generations will be able to! My grandma had beautiful hand writing but I wouldn't read it when I got the recipe!! She also used words for measurements that I had never heard of! Lucky for me we were able to call my Aunt and have her translate the recipe for us. But what would we have done if she hadn't know it! Anyway I got 22 quarts of pickles put up and am excited to try them in a few months! My next project will hopefully be peaches, then salsa and spaghetti sauce! For me this would be a HUGE accomplishment, unlike some of you who are expert canners. My house will some day get the vinegar smell out of it as will as my hair! Probably when I start my salsa!

Labor Day Fun

Jess had the day off of work for Labor day and we decided to enjoy the time. We woke up to rain and a cold day so we were scrambling at what to do. Jesse had to drive up to Salt Lake to check his job and we went along for the ride. Well the afternoon turned out sunnier than the morning had started (sunnier not warmer!) So we decided to stop at Boondocks and play. The boys LOVE Boondocks and since it is not really close to home (let's face it NOTHING is close to Santaquin) we thought it would be fun. We had a great time miniature golfing, riding the go carts, laser tag, and the bumper boats. Not to mention playing arcade games! It was a fun filled day!

Miniature golfing

Go carts

Bumper boats. Leave it to Hunter to come to the side and spray me and Jess!

I'm so glad we get to spend time together as a family having fun! Soon enough the boys will be too cool to go hang out with mom and dad, oh wait they ARE to cool to hang out with mom and dad! The highlight of our day, getting a smile out of Garrett (who seems to never smile anymore!) Of course not for the camera though!

Utes Season Tickets

Everyone hold your excitement but the 2008 Utes season tickets have arrived! Oh how we have waited for this day to come! I sat by the mailbox each afternoon hoping and praying that today would be the day we would get our season tickets! Those of you who know me well will know that I am totally kidding. We did in fact get our tickets in the mail but I don't really care for football and only go to 1 game a season (if I'm lucky). But Jesse and the boys LOVE Utes football! Heck Jesse and the boys love ANY football but Utes football is high on the list! We had season tickets last year and of course this will be a tradition I'm sure Jesse will keep alive! I do love that the boys can go and enjoy the games and have some good father/son bonding! So GO UTES! Hit a home run... I mean get a basket.... I mean score a touchdown?!?

Happy 50th Grandma and Grandpa Snow

This weekend was Jesse's grandparents 50th wedding anniversary! We all got together for a party on Sunday up Springville Canyon. With 9 kids in the family getting everyone together is a great feat! We were missing two of Jesse's uncles, but everyone else manged to make it.

Uncle Johnny grilling.

Grandma Snow and Max. Grandma Snow has colon cancer and is doing so well! She has been doing chemotherapy for almost a year now. She gets really tired of course and sick but she is such a trooper! After cutting the cake with Grandpa she started sobbing! She had a good cry and then laughed and said this darn chemotherapy makes my emotions a mess! I told her if the chemotherapy was doing that to her she was lucky because I cry at the drop of a hat daily!

Grandma feeding Grandpa the cake.

Grandpa feeding Grandma!

Garrett and Grandma Laura (Jesse's Mom)

Garrett thought he was really funny in this picture and stuffed the whole top of the cupcake in his mouth! Well then he had so much in his mouth and started laughing and almost choked!

Hunter stealing a cupcake! Does he look guilty or what!?!

Grandpa, Grandma and Uncle Ryan

Nice shades Uncle Josh!

Hunter and Jesse's brother Daniel playing baseball

We wanted to get a picture of the group so Uncle Charlie's girlfriend was nice enough to take a picture for all of us! Of course she had 50 camera's and a million people moving so the pictures are a little blurry! At least we got one right?!?!?!

Grandma and Grandpa and the grand kids, and the only two great grand kids(Garrett and Hunter.) Jesse's mom is the oldest of nine kids so Jesse and his brother's are a lot older than any of the other grand kids! When I realized this of course I insisted on a picture with all of the grand kids! Aren't I funny! Jesse has uncle's younger than him.

Happy Anniversary Karen and Jay! We love you!