Not Just Another Day......

My sister Jaime is 9 years younger than me. She is so funny, because she always wants a big birthday bash when its her birthday. Who can blame her, right? My response to her every year is..."Sister, the older you get, its just another day." Well, this year I was wrong. I turned the big 3-9 last week. I was not too excited about it. I knew I was going to have a really busy day of piano lessons and pack meetings, etc. But, the night before the YW in our ward along with the YW leaders I serve with heart attacked/streamered our house! (pics below courtesy of Mendy who told me they were blog worthy) On my actual birthday I was inundated with phone calls and text messages from friends and family and friends I haven't gotten the chance to catch up with for a long while. It was really fun! Then again, who can forget you when your birthday falls on a day where there was the worst terrorist attack in history of this country. Right? Our YW Presidency had a fabulous lunch together. Katy, Mendy, Caryn and I have served together now about a year and a half. We have become the best of friends and I am grateful for our friendship.
Robert and the boys also made this day special with small acts of kindness throughout the day and evening and flowers and gifts. The boys really get excited about our birthdays too! I am so grateful for them, they always make me feel special. Since then I think I have been to lunch about everyday and probably gained 3 pounds with all the treats given. So, yeah, this year, it was definitely not just another day...It was a fun day! Thanks to all who made this one so special!

I finally finished it!!

Well, I bought this book on the day it came out. It seems like I never have time to read, but I finally just finished it over the holiday weekend up at the cabin. I have to say I did not really like Jacob too much before, and I kinda like him now. At times, I would think.....yeah, right. But, I liked how in the book that it was clear that the family is most important. I loved that part of the book. It was good. I really liked it.

Happy Birthday Cameron!

Wow! It has been awhile since I have blogged. We went the cabin, Robert took the boys camping and then school started! From there, it feels like a blur. Saturday was Cameron's 9th birthday! He is such a sweetheart. He has always been a cuddler, a layed back kid, just pretty mellow. He loves to cook and loves to draw and he LOVES LEGOS! My favorite thing about Cameron is that he is our "Love you...." every time we part kid.
He is our only boy who talks about his birthday everyday for 3 months before it actually is his birthday. He plans it all out...what kind of party he's going to have, who he is going to invite, what we are going to have for his birthday dinner and the list goes on.

Here is a picture of Cameron at 6am on his birthday building his new LEGO set he got. You have to understand, Cameron is our night owl and loves to sleep in. The morning of his birthday, Robert found him downstairs at 4am holding his wrapped present on his lap waiting anxiously to open it. Robert told him to wait until I woke up, but after watching him hold that present for 2 hours, Robert told him just to go ahead and open it.


These are a couple of pics from his birthday party. He has such sweet boys as friends. I am glad he has chosen these boys to hang out with. Hope you had a great birthday Cam! We love ya lots!!!

Congrats to Brittany!

Our neice Brittany just got engaged! We are so excited about her upcoming wedding! Our little Brittany is engaged to Scott Olsen. Someone we have never met...but know he must be incredible for Brittany to want to marry him! Brittany is such a special girl.. I think everyone in the Moon family has her up on the highest pedestal! She is beautiful, talented and intelligent...soooo sweet and strong in the gospel. She is the total package for any deserving young man.

The night I came home from Girls Camp, Brittany and her funnest ever siblings, along with my incredible Sister-In-Law Debbie flew in town from San Diego. We spent the next couple of days talking about the wedding and we also went Wedding Dress Shopping! It was so fun! I love how my sweet sister-in-law includes me in the wedding planning and shopping.....she knows I have to live this dream through my nieces!

Brooke, Debbie, Brittany and Bailey excited to go in!

This is the wedding dress Brittany bought and flew home with! So beautiful!
So much fun...thanks girls!!

Girls Camp!

Girls Camp this year was a blast! That's because we have such AWESOME girls and leaders that make it so much fun! Here is our Camp Director getting serious about the water fight when the 4th years come into camp.
Here's all our girls (except the 4th years) on hike day. That was the best!
These are all the leaders that went this year. They are incredibly fun! We stayed up til the wee hours of the morning (sometimes later than our girls) laughing histerically. I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard! It was such a great time our girls are so great and so much fun!

Meet Indiana!

Ryan, is totally obsessed with Indiana Jones! He watches the movies every chance I give him and is constantly cracking the whip and singing the theme song. He's got the hat (an old one Robert used in the last Pioneer Trek), the sound effects whip and some kind of satchel (made up from a nerf gun bullet holder). And when he's got the hat on, he is "Indy". Before the sound effects whip he used one of Michael's belts. Now the belt is strapped around the bottom of the stairs and he stands on the 2nd step and swings down around to the bottom! He is so darn cute! We love this kid like crazy!!

Too much fun!!