American Idol day 1

Jerika and I left right after work on Tuesday the 9th to head for Utah. Registration for American Idol was on Wednesday morning so we thought staying at Shelby’s house would be much better than coming from home and being there at 5:00 a.m.  So, we got to Shelby’s at about 10ish and talked for a while and then finally went to bed. We got up a little after 3 and got ready and headed downtown Salt Lake. We were there before 5 and we were put into what I would call “bull pens” and we were in the second one. People weren’t allowed to sleep there, but some had been there by 3:30 that morning. We met a few new people, some of which were crazy and some of the others okay. We waited in line until about 7 and then they started the registration process and we were done and out of there by 7:30. So we went back to Shelby’s house to go back to bed.   When I get a minute, I will update some of the funny stuff we encountered while in line, but I figured for now this was good.

 

My Favorite Girls

I really am the luckiest mom in the world!!  I love these two girls and they have turned into such amazing young women.  We had gone up to the gardens to take some Sr. Pics of Jerika and I really couldn't resist taking this picture of them in front of the temple.

 

The picture below is of the girls the day we went to the open house at the Rexburg Temple.  I can't believe how much they have grown.  Time really does go by in a flash.  Jerika will be a Senior this year and Kinlee will be starting Jr. High. It really makes me feel super old, but I am so glad I have both of them in my life!!  They are the best gifts I have ever received.

 

Even on days like these....

I still love them when they are arguing and I am pretty sure at this point I was just laughing.  I am not really sure what was going on except that Kinlee really doesn't like her picture taken and Jerika was trying to encourage her in her "loving" sisterly way.

These were at the gardens and I thought they were really pretty and not just because they were purple, even though that didn't hurt,

Kinlee's recital

Like I have said before Kinlee has been taking piano now for about a year.  She is doing so good, and we are super proud of her.  This was her last recital before the summer.

 At her recital I decided I would take lessons during the summer, so we will see how that goes.

More Boise

These are the pictures I took with my cell phone in Boise.  They are really out of order, but at least I was able to post them from my phone.  Technology is AMAZING!

 

 

 

Swimming at the hotel.  It was just the sister in laws and the kids. Our husbands are very much a like in that they would rather have gone and relaxed after chasing us around all day instead of watching the kids swim.  Aunt Nikky was so nice and actually went swimming with the kids.

 

These pictures were at the hotel while we were waiting for Aunt Nikky to pick us up.  Ray had gone to visit Tyler at the "college", but he went so early that we didn't get up in time for him to take us back to his brothers.  So, they were super nice and came and got us.  I LOVED the inside decor of this hotel...purple and turqoise, so pretty. 

 

This was at dinner our first night in Boise.  We arrived late and decided to just hurry and eat and then check into our hotel. 

 

The two weirdos loading the piano.  They really are pretty funny sometimes.  We were all laughing so hard at them.  The dog even looks disgusted with them. 

 

My cousins came and helped us load the piano onto the trailer, they were so nice!!  We really couldn't have done it with them, so thanks Joe, David and Grant for coming to help on your super busy day.

 

It was a good weekend and we all had a good time.  We were glad to be able to get home though and get our piano unloaded.  And we LOVE IT. 

Boise visiting the other Youngs

We have been wanting to go to boise for awhile to see Ray's brothers family. We haven't seen them for almost a year. Life just gets so busy and its not cheap either. Anyway Torey had gotten paid for some work he had done on some hardwood floors with a piano. They already had one so they needed to sell this one and the price was right  so we decided to go visit and get us a piano.

These are all the grandkids minus Tyler.

Granddaughters

This is 3 of us...do you see all of us?

Sister in Laws.  I love this girl!!  She is amazing and I really wish she lived closer. When we see each other we just pick up where we left off.  And she is an amazing mother to her children.

Kaizik & Kinlee

Deep thought.

On our way home.