to Tanner, Happy Birthday to Tanner, Happy Birthday
to Tanner, Happy Birthday to you.......and many more!

(Alyson's son is now 11 yrs. old, WOW)

MY NEW CALLING

"Be Steadfast & Immovable, always Abounding in Good Works."

I was just called as the Young Women's first counselor in our ward. I'm really excited about my new calling. I have had this calling before but it was with about 10 girls compared to the almost 40 girls we have in this ward. I've been in the YW's program now for almost 7 years and have really enjoyed it. It's been a blessing for me and I have learned so much through the eyes of the Youth of our church.

Most of you know I love, love, love Girl's Camp. I still get to go....even as Camp Director too. Our Stake does so much here that I felt like I could still take it on. Hopefully I won't be singing a different tune when camp rolls around!

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY CARTER WARNICK!

(Natalie and Matt's oldest son)

THE AMAZING RACE

The "Amazing" Oswald of the Amazing Race Season 2 and the Amazing Race All stars.

Those of you who know me well know that I love Reality Television and I absolutely love the Amazing Race. I've followed from season 1 on and have even applied to be on the show with my brother in law Ryan (obviously we didn't get chosen, otherwise I'd be a freakin' millionaire right now:). To make a long story short, one of the biggest highlights of my vacation to Mexico was when I saw Oswald of the "Danny and Oswald" team in the Mexico City airport. Me being the cheesy person that I am asked for a picture of course. Yep, this goes to show what happens when you become a reality T.V. junky, you're easily entertained by some very normal (okay so not so normal) person in the airport. Go Amazing Race!!! By the way if you're a viewer, who do you think is going to take the million this time??????

Ixtapa, Mexico-Christmas 2007

Our trip to Ixtapa, Mexico. Thank you Grandma and Papa for a wonderful time. We'll take these memories with us forever. Thanks family for all of your help, especially when Dave wasn't there. Here is a slide show of the trip, at least the pictures that I took. We love you all.

Nicole

Check out my Slide Show!

STUCK IN MEXICO CITY

My view of Mexico City from the air. Of course I knew this city was huge, but I had no idea until I saw it with my own eyes.

WOW, I don't even know where to begin. Let's just say my trip to Mexico began with a nightmare, followed by a great time, followed by a bad dream. I'm a pretty laid back, easy going person. But I have to say this trip did me in. It all began with a flight into Mexico City and ended with lost baggage. As the kids and I (yes, me by myself) landed in Mexico City I knew it was going to be a little crazy but I didn't know that a 3 hour layover wasn't going to turn out to be enough time to get us through customs.. To make a long story short the kids (who were such troopers) and I got stuck in this over populated city, stayed at a foreign hotel, cried a few tears (okay so I balled like a baby to Dave and my parents), and spoke more Spanglish than I ever had. After about 4 hours of wandering aimlessly in the airport I met a very kind man who walked me through my problems and got us on a flight the following morning to Ixtapa. Once we got to Ixtapa things were great. THAT POST IS YET TO COME. The flight home ended up giving me more headaches though. We were beating the time, doing pretty well with connections (3 I had), until we got to Chicago where there were delays. We got on our flight 3 hours later but got to Memphis only to find out our bags didn't come with us. So we're home safe and sound but missing baggage. We did have a good time, but I did learn a few lessons. NEVER fly by myself for that long again, NEVER rely on the airlines (sorry Dad), and last NEVER EVER EVER connect in a city with 22 million people. I guess my final thought for this trip, at least the traveling part, would be GOD BLESS AMERICA!