Chelsea's High School Graduation 2009

It's official! Chelsea is now a High School Graduate! Last year on graduation night, for the first time in history, the Gilbert High Schools graduations were rained out. This year...it rained again! We all sat under umbrellas as it rained through the entire ceremony! At least the temperature was nice. We all went out to dinner after. It was a great night!

Proud parents before the ceremony

Standing under the bleachers to stay out of the rain after the ceremony

Lindsey, Chelsea and Lacey

Chelsea showing that she is still the big sister

Chelsea with her friend and fellow graduate Andrew

Chelsea's Scholarship Reception

Chelsea was awarded the ASU's Provost Scholarship and accepted into the nursing program. She would still like to pursue music so she has some decisions to make. We are very proud of all her accomplishments!

Chelsea and Rachel

Chelsea's Baccalaureate

Chelsea's baccalaureate was really wonderful. The choir, which Chelsea sings in, sang "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing". It was amazing! It brought everybody to their feet and many to tears. They were accompanied by the orchestra. The teacher speech was excellent also. It was truly inspirational! We feel fortunate to live in such a great area!


Chelsea after the ceremony with Rachel sneaking in the picture!


Chelsea and Rachel


Proud AND exhausted parents!

Chelsea and Jacob, one of the many boys I have picked out for her!

Chelsea's Graduation Party

We, or I should say Chelsea, decided to throw a graduation party. She posted it on her facebook so I was really afraid of the crowd. It turned out wonderful. No one got hurt, everyone had fun and we had enough food to feed the masses! It doesn't get much better than that! I was very impressed with the kids! Our future looks bright with them!


The Graduating Seniors Chelsea and Rachel with the beautiful cake that Mandy made!


Nobody wanted to cut the cake because it was a "piece of art" (as they referred to it).


They were practicing for some day when they will
get married...but not to each other!


Jimmy showing off with some of the boys!

End of the Year Choir Concert

Cooool Jimmy before the concert


Loving Sibs...aren't they cute!


Chelsea receiving her senior recognition award


aaaaah...I love it when they're like this!


Proud Mom!

Mothers Day 2009

Just a small group...Mandy and Trent came later.

We missed all of the rest of the family.

Swimming at Grandpa and Grandma's

Jaden cooling off from his first Arizona summer and it's not even officially here!


Lexie going down the slide

Carter going down after much encouragement!

Brave Lexie jumping off the waterfall...she's flying!

Kenzie being Kenzie...too cute!!!

Carter was showing off until it came time to jump off and then he decided against it!

5K Race at the Zoo

We decided (or I should say that I decided) to enter the family in the first annual 5K at the Zoo. We were "Team Stretchy Pants". Jimmy chose the name from one of his favorite movies to quote "Nacho Libre". We recruited Justin for the day!

Before the Race...check out the enthusiasm on Chelsea's face!

The anticipation is building...

...and were off and running!

Jimmy crossing the finish line. He left the rest of us in the dust...

or at least he left his mom in the dust!

After the race...yeah...Always the best part!!!

The winning "Team Stretchy Pants"

Easter 2009

My baby boy!

It's a good thing that Chelsea always has her camera around because I always forget to take pictures!

Kenzie, Carter and Lexie...cute!!!

Steve, Lacey, Jaden and Ethan were also there along with Lindsey and Jason but unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of them.

Peyton and Kylie come for a visit

Peyton and Kylie came for a visit during their Spring Break. We celebrated Kylie's birthday while she was here. The time flew by but we had a lot of fun. They especially had fun with their cousins.

Grandpa Hoy passed away on Mar 30

We are very sad at the passing of Jim's dad. He was 83 and has left a great posterity who loved him dearly. We can rejoice that he no longer has to suffer the pains of his physical body. We had a wonderful gathering of friends and family at a memorial service on March 31. It's always great to visit friends and family that you haven't seen for awhile.

Grams Read has still got it! Bowls a 222!

My mom still bowls every week in her league.
Last week she bowled a 222 a t 86 years old!

A Carlsbad Marathon Getaway!

Well, if you've read Mandy's blog, you'll see that she beat me to this post along with taking all the good pictures that I was going to use! Anyway, this last weekend we had a girls getaway...kind of. Mandy and Chelsea got to show off there running skills in their marathon races while I got to show my marathon driving skills by doing all of it, including being the shuttle bus for the runners! I have to admit...my job was easier...just put it in drive and go! They both did fantastic, Mandy in the marathon and Chelsea in the 1/2 marathon. Wow! What a great accomplishment!




Partying on the beach the day before the race!




Mandy showing off her "guns" while I'm trying to find mine!




What cute daughters! I got there approval for this place
as our retirement home...Dana Point...yeah baby!!!

Chelsea after the 1/2 marathon...all smiles!

Mandy after the marathon...how can she look that good?!?!

They sure don't look like they've just finished running!

I wish I looked that good after a run!

Proud MOM!

Post Christmas at the Cabin

The last few years we've been at the cabin in Pinetop for Christmas but this year we went up a couple days after. It worked out well because they had a huge snowfall before we got up there. It was sunny the entire time we were there and with the new fallen snow it was beautiful. It was the most snow that I had ever seen up there, especially the drive up. I'm glad that Jim was driving. Chelsea drove behind with some friends and Jimmy and his friend rode with us. We had a very nice time. Everytime we're there, we wonder why we don't go up more often and enjoy it.

Jim Had to Dig His Way to the Front Door!

Chelsea tried the snowboard this time!

The kids on there way to the slopes!