Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to me and of course to all the mother's out there. Joe surprised me with Red Robin and a card with a $20 gift card to Kohl's from the kids. They are such sweethearts. I got to pick out my favorite ice cream for dessert! It was such a wonderful Mother's Day including a nice nap. I love my kids and so happy to be their mom. I have an amazing husband who supports us going to work each day. Thank you hunny! Love you Kyler, Connor, Hunter, Carter, Maycie and Tanner.

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Everyone knows Connor's favorite thing is...to watch bull riding! We just happened to find out on the radio the PBR is coming to St. George. Joe and I surprised him with tickets and told him it would be part of his birthday present. He was so excited! Joe got sick so Hunter went in place for Joe. It was a lot of fun! There were about 50 plus bull riders. They did a pretty good job. They had them in sections and the the top 12 went on the the championship round. Two riders had a score of 90+. Austin bought tickets for Ben and Daniel to come too.

Welcome home Elder Sears

Two years has just flown on by! Elders Sears has returned home from the Hartford Conneticut mission. It was great to be able to see him come off that Skywest plane with a HUGE smile on his face. Yes, he has put on some weight, but he looks great! It was great for all of us to see Jared and Austin give each other a brotherly hug after 4 years! Myra didn't even remember to grab a camera and hoping I would bring mine. Yeah I would've if it was working. So Jared and I ended up taking what we could with our cell phone cameras. Joe wasn't able to see him at the airport, but shared the hug at his house for dinner. Even though he will only be here for about a month...then he's off to Idaho to work on the farm. Austin wanted dutch oven potatoes and chicken so that's what he came home to. Ben and Daniel were so cute and were Austin's little shadows. WELCOME HOME ELDER SEARS!!!

Banana Bread

Ok...so I have NEVER made banana bread before! I thought I would give it a try. Sometimes when I follow a recipe exactly, it usually doesn't turn out very good. I was on one of my favorite websites and it had a recipe for banana bread! It turned out so yummy :) I made Joe try it first before sending some up to Myra's. I took a loaf up to her and she told me later that Jared asked her, "Mom, who made this banana bread?" Myra said,"Your Aunt Mandy made it!" He thought it was dang good. It made me feel good inside that one of my recipes actually turned out and I'm not that BAD of cook!

Bountiful Basket

Thanks to my sweet sister in law, Myra, she signed me up for our first Bountiful Basket. Everyone it seems like everyone does it in St. George...well except for me! I went down with her to Staheli Catering to pick up our stuff. It's strange to not know exactly what's going to be in the basket! I got a basket of fruit and basket of veggies. For the fruit I got 1 1/2 bunches of bananas, 8 kiwi, 1 cantaloupe, 1 honeydew, 10 apples and 3 packages of blueberries. In the veggie basket I got a head of romaine lettuce, 1 bunch of spinach, 4 artichokes, 3 cucumbers, 7 tomatoes, and one bag of radishes. I couldn't believe how much I got. It filled my cooler full of fun produce. I am excited to continue getting on the Bountiful Basket website and ordering me my baskets. I know my kids will enjoy eating more fruits and veggies and so will I!

Jazz win series 4-2

K...I know I am a sports freak! You are all probably sick of all my posts about the Jazz. I LOVE them! The Jazz played an awesome game 5 on Friday night and ousted the Nuggets. It was an amazing game to watch and some of the times thought I was going to pull my hair out. No on to a new series...yeah nothing other the the LAKERS for the 3 time in a row. I think the Jazz will play well and will continue to do well as a team. GO JAZZ!!!!

Utah Jazz Game/Vacation

As I have already posted, Joe surprised be with Jazz tickets! I can't wait since I have never been to a playoff game before and it's been over 2 years since going to my last game. It's crazy I love to go to a good ball game, but don't like to go to the movies. I guess I am strange. So here's the update...it was unbelievable. Joe didn't off at 12 like he had planned. We weren't able to leave town until about 2:30 which put things a little behind schedule. We got up there in good time. We had to stop by Cableas and get Myra some fudge...reward for watching our our kids! We were in and out in 10 minutes. Got to the motel around 7:00 and got ready. Then off to Little America to park our car. The trax is just right in front of Little America so we hopped on that and it takes you down to the Energy Solution Arena. The crowd and people were going crazy! It was awesome. Now to find our seats...in the nose bleed! Actually you couldn't go any further. We were the very top row, which was actually ok. We could stand up for the whole game and not have to worry about anyone behind us. The game was awesome. The team played very well and came away with a "W". So the series goes up to 2-1. I took my camera and all to get some pics...mostly of KORVER! Yeah I think he's a babe. Unfortunately...it didn't want to work for some reason. A $600 camera and it's having grief. So I took a few with my cell phone camera...not too bad. I am just sick about my camera. It's my life and I take it everywhere. After the game we were hungry and stopped at McD's like everyone else and grabbed something to eat. It was nice because our motel was right next door so we took it back and ate it on the bed. It was 12:30 by then and we both just crashed. It was a LONG, EXCITING, day! Thank you honey! It was a great get-a-way! Love you

Love my honey!

K...can I just tell you how much I love my husband! Today the fedex truck came to my house. The fedex lady handed me a flat envelope and had me sign. It was addressed to Joseph Stubbs from Illinois so I had no clue what it was. So I opened it up...and looked inside! There were 2 Jazz playoff tickets inside. I kepted telling myself they weren't for me even though I have been bugging Joe I wanted to go. I called him in exciting tears explaining this all and that I had opened it. He just laughed that was so excited. I am and can hardly stand it. We leave tomorrow at noon and drive up to SLC. We are staying for $55 at the Crystal Inn..the one that we stayed at for Princess on Ice. Myra will take our kids tomorrow night and we should be back early afternoon. Now to get everything ready for the kids sleepover and for our GETAWAY! I love my husband! THANKS HONEY!

Kite Festival

The kids won a free kite at the Dixie Escalante Kite Festival for reading. The do this kite festival every year in April and have it at Sun River Golf Course. We never stay to fly the kites at the festival...so for FHE tonite we went to Sienna Hills Park to test them out. The kids had a blast and the kids flew great. Carter got a kite from the Easter bunny so he was all excited too. Gordon brought Ben and Daniel to come and fly too. It was a lot of fun and sure we will fly them again.

Wipe Out!!!!!

Carter loves riding his bike...until he had his first wipe out. I keep telling him to stay out of the road and he didn't listen to me. We were up at Myra's for Brandy's birthday party and Carter came in just a crying. "I CRASHED on my bike!" He got a BIG owie on his forehead and Carter said, "I need a bandaid to make if feel better!" Aunt Myra put one on and it was all better for a second. We came home and I left to get Carter a little treat...an Icee. He loved it! I am sure tomorrow, Carter will be out riding is bike.

Hunter walking through the "W"

Hunter was chosen by his teacher out of his class to walk through the "W". He came home all excited and couldn't wait until Friday morning. We are so proud of Hunter and his hard work, and example he is in school. CONGRATS HUNTER!

Ky's Science Fair Project

It was mandatory for all fourth graders to do the science fair which that would mean Ky. The teachers didn't give out the packets until the middle of May and then it would be Spring break. I wasn't going to make Ky spend his whole spring break doing homowork. Then the school had Easter break and got 2 days off that. It just came down to CRUNCH TIME! We thought about a few ideas but ended up doing, "Which BRAND of paper towel is the STRONGEST?" He had a lot of fun with it! Ky WON 3rd place in the whole fourth grade. I was so proud of him. CONGRATS KY!

Ky receiving his Weblos

On Tues it was pack meeting where Ky received his Weblos badge. I didn't think he had it yet, but his den leader it the OK so Joe didn't come. I was bummed he missed it. He is getting so close of finishing and moving up to be a new scout in October. It seems like just yesterday he was a Wolf. Wow how time flies. We are so proud of Ky...he LOVES to be a SCOUT!

Easter

Easter falls on conference weekend this year! It was so enjoyable and a lot of fun. I was wanting to leave out of town for the weekend since the kids had Friday and Monday off, but we just decided to stay home. Saturday afternoon we had a BBQ picnic at the Highland park with the Sears family. The kids played and we just had a wonderful time. Then Myra had the kids come up and hunt for some eggs.

The Easter bunny found us Sunday morning. The kids all enjoyed what he brought them and after the first session of conference had an egg hunt around the house. They got 11 eggs each and a prize candy bar...with $1 on the back. They all had a good time.

I love Easter and the true meaning of Easter...the resurrection of our Savior and all he did for us!

strawberry jam

Well, it's official...I can make strawberry jam! Myra got 2 flats of strawberries and Joe and I decided we would attempt to make some. So we did just that and 2 hours later had 29 pints of fresh bottled strawberry jam. It tasted so YUMMY! I am so happy that I can finally bottle something for my food storage. It was actually easier than I thought and had a lot of fun doing it. Now I just need to get making homeade bread to go with it.

Connor Update

Well...I thought I would update on how Connor is doing. I really didn't sleep much...knowing that Connor had to sleep with gauze in his mouth and worried he would choke. I got up at 5:00 a.m. to check on him...he wasn't in his room so that made me more worried. I had to go and wake Joe up to find out. He was sound asleep in Kyler's room. He was in some pain so I gave him some tylenol and he went back to sleep. He did pretty good all day. I had to go to Ky's track meet so him and Carter watched movies until I got home. I wrote my cell # down in case he needed to call me. Joe took him to see the doc at 4:30. The doc said that the teeth are looking good and we need to do the gauze until tomorrow and then just take it easy with soft foods for a week. He wants us to come back next Tues where he will take another x-ray of his mouth and make sure none of the teeth are broken. Connor still has some swelling, has a hard time opening his mouth wide and some bruising around his chin mouth area. He will be on amoxicillin for the 10 days and hopefully will recover soon! He is doing great! :)

Track Meet

Ky being in 4th grade had to participate in the school track meet. He had to do at least two events and one of them had to be running. Ky signed up for the 100M dash, 200M dash, softball throw, and long jump. Needless to say...Ky isn't a fast and long distant runner. We are proud of him for doing things he knows he isn't good at. It was really fun to watch and video tape...until the camera decided to shut off in the middle of the race. I only took pics of him doing the long jump since I was video taping him running. Ky came in 6th on both of his races which to him was better than last. It was fun for me to go over and spend a sunny morning watching the school participate in their events. Good Job Ky!

Poor Connor Boy!!!

Today has been a whirlwind of a day. I received a call from the school saying that Connor has been hit in the mouth by a baseball bat and I need to come down. Myra and the secretary was in the nurses office taking care of him until I arrived. His mouth as bleeding pretty bad and his bottom teeth were pretty much just hanging there. I met Joe at the dentist office and he took him to see Dr. Christensen. The doctor took and x-ray of his mouth...none of the teeth were broken, just 7 of them were knocked loose. He was able to put the teeth back in place without any sedative or shots....which is great for Connor! Connor has a hard time when you even mention the word "doctor". We have to keep gauze in his mouth to keep the teeth pushed forward and then we will see the doc tomorrow at 4:30. Connor can't eat any hard foods for a week and just stuck to a strict liquid diet. Myra brought over some balloons and a big envelope of cards Connor's class made for him. That was so sweet. We hope Connor will recover soon and rest today and all day tomorrow. Feel better soon Connor! Love Mom

Welcome to the world Lukas Gage Stubbs

What a better way for Charles and Hilary to celebrate Easter....having a newborn in their home. Lukas Gage Stubbs came into this world today at 12:22 p.m.....weighing in at 8 lbs 1 oz and 21 inches long. We are happy to have another nephew and cousin a part of our family. We can't wait to see him and glad him and mommy are doing well. Congrats Charles and Hilary! We love you!

Grandma Romberger's 80th birthday

Grandma Romberger turned 80 years old. Her kids surprised her with a party at the Old Rock Church in Cedar City. It was great to see all my cousins and was like a family reunion. We had pictures taken and one of just our family. Wow we are getting big! They served homeade bread and jam and grandma cut a small cake. It was a very special occasion and glad we were able to attend. Happy Birthday Grandma!!!!