One More Thing!

I know, how many new posts are too many in one day?? I just had to share these pics, I saw them on my Twilight friend Tara's blog and loved them!!! Only 3 more days!!!

Tagged!

Thanks Tara!

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1. Having a new baby
2. Surviving having a 2 month preemie new baby!
3. Finding out I am Type 1 diabetic
4. Still getting used to living in Utah
5. Having my oldest child start 1st grade

5 Things On My To Do List
1. Buy a new bedspread for the guest bed
2. Survive football registration
3. Stay cool!
4. Remodel the kitchen
5. be succesful with housebreaking our puppy

5 Places I've Lived
1. Atlanta, GA
2. SLC, UT
Sorry-that's it! So I am including 5 places I've visited:
1. Australia
2. Victoria, Canada
3. Bermuda
4. Scotland
5. Hawaii

5 Bad Habits
1. Talking too fast
2. Diet Coke w/lime (all the time!!)
3. Ignoring the laundry to be folded (I hate that!)
4. my reality TV addiction
5. Staying up reading too late at night

5 Things I Would Do If I Were a Billionaire
1. TRAVEL EVERYWHERE
2. Pay off all our bills
3. Buy all new cars
4. Give lots of $ to our family
5. TRAVEL EVERYWHERE AGAIN!!

5 Favorite Foods/Snacks
1. Orange Chicken from Panda Express
2. Egg Rolls
3. Chips and Salsa from Chili's
4. Peanut Butter
5. Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Sandwiches (I know, gross - but sooo good!)

5 People I'm Tagging
1. Amy H
2. Marshall
3. Dan
4. Mike
5. Erin

Have Fun!

July Happy Birthdays

This month we celebrated three Urry family birthdays. Our nephew Marshall, our niece Jamie and our cousin Laura. First was Marshall. He has a tradition of going to Bombay House
every year. It was so good! This year was fun because Dan's sister Shannon and her family were visiting from Mississippi and Mike and Shannon were able to be there with us. The food was really yummy (even though Dan's appetite isn't very adventuresome and he kept joking where are the chips and salsa) and we had a really fun time! Sorry I missed getting everyone that was there in the picture! I forgot I brought our camera until we were all leaving.

I have to include this darling picture of Marshall and Amy's little girl (and my great niece!!!), Ava. Dan took it outside the Bombay House - she is so darn cute!!

Next up was Jamie and Laura.They share the same birthday and Nick and I went over to hang out with Jeni and the kids. Laura came over and we had a fun night. My favorite part was watching Nick and Jenna watching Hanna Montana in 3-D. The glasses were awesome!

Happy Birthday to all three of you again - we love you all!!

Here is one more cute picture - Nick and Jordan playing on the computer (now you're on the blog Jordan!!!)

Football has started so I'll start including some pictures of that. I hope everyone has a great last week in July - try and stay cool!!

P.S. Only three more days until Breaking Dawn!!!!!!

This is cute!

I saw this and thought it was fun. Click on "What flower are you" and then let me know what flower you are. Enjoy!!

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

Here is my answer:

You Are a Snapdragon
"Mischief is your middle name, but your first is friend. You are quite the prankster that loves to make other people laugh."

All About Nick!

Nick's birthday was last month and I promised him we would do a blog dedicated to him like we did for Brandon. So here is all you ever needed to know about Nick!! Nick is a very sweet boy that loves to have fun! He loves to play sports - all of them! He plays football, baseball and basketball for team sports and is following his big brother and learning how to play golf. He loves to be with his friends! This summer they have spent hours on their rip sticks.They love the fact that they are old enough to play night games now and they want to do it all the time! Nick had lots of friends! He has always lived in the same house so he has grown up with most of his good buds.

While he enjoys "hanging out" Nick also is a bit of a homebody. He likes to be with his family and still loves to snuggle. Nick LOVES his new puppy Gus and takes very good care of him. Here are a few facts about Nick:

Favorite Teams:

College Everything: University of Utah

Pro Football: San Diego Chargers

Pro Baseball: Atlanta Braves

Pro Basketball: Utah Jazz

Favorite Sport to Play: Football

Nick despises anything and everything BYU!!!

Favorite Food: Bacon A1 hot dogs from Five Guys

Favorite Restaurant: Banzai

Favorite Candy Bar: Three Musketeers

Favorite Color: Red

What he wants to be when he grows up: Respiratory Therapist for children (Nick said tell Grandma and Granddaddy like James!)

Nick also loves to play video games. He has gotten really good at Guitar Hero!

Nick enjoys reading if the book is a mystery. He really enjoyed the Kidnapped series. Nick also loves to travel! His favorite vacation so far was to Seattle and Cananda with his grandparents. He may not admit it but Nick really looks up to and admires his big brother Brandon. He says he loves the days that Brandon just stays home and hangs out with him.

Nick's best subject in school is math and it is his favorite. One thing that everyone comments on about Nick is how tall he is!! People who don't know him are always surprised to find out he is only 10. And Nick has big feet! We just had to buy him new football cleats and they were size 8 1/2!! WOW!

We love Nick very much! He keeps us laughing and happy with hugs.

BIG LONG UPDATE!!

It has been so long since I updated my blog that it may seem a little confusing - so here goes! The end of school went well, we were ALL ready for summer! The big plan for the summer was to be a driving trip to Atlanta to spend 3 to 4 weeks there. Well, gas prices being what they are we had to scrap that idea (so sad!!) so we decided to go ahead with another plan that had been in the back of our minds for a while. We got a puppy! As most of you know I am allergic to dogs so Hershey lives the majority of his life outside. We have always hated this but there is no choice. So we decided to get a "hypo-allergenic" dog - yes there is such a thing. We went up to Heber and brought home the cutest little puppy - a shipoo. He is half shih tsu/half toy poodle. He actually was Nick's birthday present and weighed a whopping 3 1/2 pounds the day we brought him home. His name is Gus! He now is up to 4 1/2 pounds and will probably be between 7-8 pounds when he is full grown. It is like having a baby again! But Brandon and Nick are both old enough to be responsible and take care of him. They are doing a great job with him and that makes the puppy stage pretty easy. He is one loved (and spoiled) puppy! He has to be right with us at all times! And he prefers body contact anytime anyone sits down. Housebreaking is almost done and he knows how to sit. Pretty good for 12 weeks old.

We also decided to go camping up at Smith and Morehouse in the Uintah Mountains the week of July 4th. It was so much fun! We had the perfect campsite and Dan brought our little kayak up to use on the reservoir. Of course Gus went with to have his first camping experience. Hershey has already been with us several times so he stayed home. The boys all went fishing and were able to catch 4 trout. The weather was great, just a little chilly at night. We may try and go back up for the July 24th holiday. In Utah we celebrate Pioneer day, the day the pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley way back when and it is a state holiday.

The boys and I went to the Hogle Zoo a few weeks ago with a group of my friends. We hadn't been in a long time and I forgot how fun the zoo is! It was really hot but there is lots of shade so it was okay.

Nick went to several sports camps this summer. He started with basketball camp over at Skyline High School for a week, then football camp up at The University of Utah. Dan had the chance to go and help at the camp. I think he may have had more fun than Nick! That same week Nick went to golf camp. This week he went to football camp again over at Skyline HS. Brandon has been very focused on golfing! He has been golfing all summer and has been working up at Mountain Dell Golf Course (located up the canyon on the way to Park City). It is a beautiful course and he loves it. It helps that he gets to golf for free and take a golf cart for free as an employee perk. He has a couple of friends that work up there and they all love it. Mountain Dell is the home course for the Skyline HS golf team so Brandon hopes the time spent up there will help with his tryout for the team next month! When he is not golfing he is either sleeping or having fun with his friends - he is very good at being a teenager! He also is growing so fast!! In the past 6 months he has grown 5 inches and put on over 20 pounds! Now I have to look up to him and he totally enjoys it.

Because I work at an elementary school I have the summer off. I spend my time driving boys around, chasing a puppy and trying to read my Twilight books one more time before the next one, Breaking Dawn comes out on August 2nd and trying to take it easy!

One REALLY fun thing that Nick and I did last week was to go to the American Idol Tour concert! It was so much fun! We went with my sister-in-law, Jeni and 2 of my nieces, Jamie and Jenna and Jamie's friend Kiley. My nephew Marshall was able to get us box seats at the E-Center and it was a blast! Definitely the way to see a concert! Everyone that sang sounded great but the two Davids -Archuleta and Cook (the winner)- are definitely the stars of the show. David Archuleta is from SLC and when he came out the place went crazy!!! I have to say thought that the best performer was David Cook. He knows how to put on a show!

Now it is time for football to start - I can't believe how fast the summer has flown by! Dan will be coaching Nick's team again. They both love it which is good because it takes a lot of time and is a lot of hard work! Tomorrow is our registration day and then we will be heading up to Lagoon (amusement park/water park) with Dan's whole side of the family. It will be a fun day and we are looking forward to it.

I hope everyone's summer is going great, too! I'll try and get back on track with my posting. Have a great weekend!