Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Memorial Day 2007

Everything seemd like a normal memorial day, or business as usual as the saying goes. Yet today, memorial day 2007, would prove to be one of the worst ever experienced in the great state of Utah.

The day started out with a visit to the cemetary in Ogden. In honor of Jill's heritage we visited the grave of her Grandpa Allphin, even though in this picture Grandma's name shows up--not a sign. It was nice to visit with family.Little Jackson waves the great american flag that he had taken from the grave of some other guy without flowers, just kidding. We kept him etertained by snapping pictures of him waving this flag--ingenous I know! So up to this point the day couldn't be better. We were able to visit with family, remember our loved ones who passed on, we then went to Nate's Mom's for a sweet barbaque and pool party. We played the game, "five crowns". Jill wasted us!! The lower the score the better and everyone had more than double if not triple even QUADRUPLE the score that she did!!! I know--we already booked the plane and hotel to vegas, keep coming back to the blog and you will hear all about our winnings. I know what your thinking and no this is not the worst part about today. Event though we took a good beating at the amazing card skills of Jill a good time was had by all until...

Yes, the tragedy of The Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Memorial Day 2007. One event that will go down in the shady grey areas of Utah's history. The Jazz lose at home and lose all hope of going to the NBA Finals (yes they still have one more game but we all know it is over, sorry eternal optimists). Even though they accomplished an amazing feat just by being there, we all couldn't help but feel a little dissapointed at their loss at home. And fans throwing stuff at Duncan and the Spurs? Whats up with that? Anyways a day that will go down in history. Poor Nate...Poor Jazz...and Poor Utah.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Jill's Visit to St George

On this visit to St George Jill gave her nephew Ethan his very first haircut. He was so cute. Sometimes he would glance up to look at the scissors, wondering what in the heck Jill was doing, then he would return to eating his cereal. He didn't even cry, not even a little bit! Just a happy little boy enjoying his first hair cut.



Isn't he sooo cute? He would only smile at me if his mom was holding him.












I also visited the Jensen's new home in New Harmony. It is so beautiful! I made them let me take a picture of them. They had all been working and playing out in the yard/dirt all day. And they were completely covered in dusty dirt. I miss them already.












The main reason why I went down to St George was to take my niece and nephew, Kinzlee and Corbie Garn, to their new home where their Mom and Dad were waiting with signs and balloons to greet them. They were so excited to see their new home and all their toys they had missed...oh and they were excited to see their mom and dad too. Mellissa kept asking Corbie and Kinzlee what their favorite part of the house was. They would say, "my room" or "my bathroom" and "the toy room". So basically they were excited about everything. This picture I took when I was trying to get Corbie to go to bed and he insisted that I put his ballcap and mit on him before he would go to sleep. I will miss them they are so cute. I am very sad and I am missing everyone that jumped on the bandwagon to move to St George. It was so fun to see them all. Love you guys!!!

Monday, May 21, 2007

In the Beginning...


The lovely Jill Marie Allphin and Nathan Jon Pickett were wed on the 30th of July of 2003 and now almost 4 years later they live to tell their story of triumph, trials, and just cool stuff that happens along the way in their simply busy lives.

So set us to your homepage and press the refresh button often, because this blog is going to rock the casbah!!!!

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