jake’s first day of preschool
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a little bit of july and aug
Lyvia especially likes this campout because all her cousins are there to play with. There were bubbles, big rocks to climb, games, and a sandy volleyball court that ended up being the biggest hit!
Tamra thought ahead and brought this awesome parachute, the kids had a blast trying to keep a few balls from popping off.
We played lots of fun games… here is Grammy learning to play “Hearts” with the King of the Game, Paul!
We love the Joneses and had a great time at the reunion!
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busy, busy, busy (part 2)
There is a big RedSox/Yankees rivalry in my family.
Teena, Cathy and Mary Beth decorating shells
Decorating shells for Joe
The beautiful beach at our hotel
Helping Hands
We miss you dad!
Love notes
Amazing support
Such a wonderful sunset
Laura, Patrick and Cathy
Mah Be and I
Cathy and Mary Beth
Grandma Heim and I
Teena, Mary Beth, Michael, Cathy and Grandpa Joe
The family remembering Joe
Teena, Grandpa and Laura
Mike, me and my dad
The shells I decorated, Wish and Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Many of you know I love stars and have a star tattoo on my back, but not many know why. After my dad died my mom gave me a card with stars on it and so they have always reminded me of him. My dad also really wanted a tattoo and would reapply a temporary one every day to make it look real so when I turned 18, I decided to get a star tattoo with his astrological symbol (gemini) in his memory.
Joseph Kevin Paul Heim
Even though the week was pretty emotional, we still had a great time eating, laughing, playing games and reminiscing. I can’t wait until the next Heim reunion because I don’t think we will be missing anymore!
Playing Tiles, a daily mid-day occurrence
Laura and Patrick at dinner
Cathy and I
Savannah, Cathy, Taylor, Erin and Harry
Sisters, Teena, Cathy and Laura
Mike, Teena and I
Laura, Teena, Patrick, me and Cathy after a deliscious and very fun dinner!
The kiddos
Brooke, Michael, Mary Cate and Savannah
Savannah decorating a starfish
Cathy and her girls
Brooke, Patrick and Savannah
Playing at the craziest restaurant EVER!
Thank you Teena for making this all possible! We love you!!!
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10 Years Too Long…
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busy, busy, busy
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Happy Birthday ROBiN!
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Weekend Adventure…
I had a “Rock Star” themed birthday party for Speen’s 30th. We had people come dressed as their favorite rock star/singer, and we ‘rocked‘ the night away!
Yours Truly – Tina Turner and Steve Tyler welcoming the guests!!!
Spencer's favorite food is “breakfast food” so we went with it – we had a fruit and yogurt parfait bar, fruit platter, cinnamon sticks and his mom's famous stuffed french toast and syrup! YUMMY!
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| My brother and his wife (fresh off a float down the Weber River) were the “Beach Boys!” |
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| What can I say, if it is going to rain, at least we got a rainbow. At the last minute we moved everything from the backyard to underneath our covered patio, and I must say it worked out well! |
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| Tina and “Lady Gaga!” |
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| Cindy Lauper!!! |
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| Tina walking down the “red carpet!” |
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| A pregnant “Jamie Lynn Spears!” |
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| Enrique Iglesias, Steve Tyler, and Tim McGraw |
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| Dolly Parton |
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| Billy Idol |
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| Let the Karaoking and Dancing begin!!! |
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| Sir Elton John! |
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| “Girls just wanna have Fun!” |
What can I say, “We like to Party!“
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"We like to Party…"
Lance turned 3 on July 15th, and what a special day we had!!!
The Saturday before his birthday we had Spencer’s family over for a little party, since they were going to be out of town on his birthday.
Here is Kelli and Lorin’s little family and by little I mean 5 kids 6 and under! Wowsers, I can’t imagine that, they are amazing parents!
Here is Lance wearing his special birthday hat!
Lance loved his pink cake decorated with skittles!
Then came his real birthday and the day could not have been better! Lance had been telling everyone the whole week “my birthday is on Thursday, July 15th!” It was too cute.
Spence and I blew up a huge pack of balloons and taped them all over the walls and filled the hallway out of his room, so when he woke up he was surrounded by balloons, he loved it!
He looks so old and handsome, I can’t believe it!
For breakfast I put a candle in his waffles and sang to him. I think my families birthdays are my favorite days of the year!!!
Playing with his new toy!
Next, our friend Jessica invited us over for swimming and fabulous lunch with some of our favorite friends.
Later that night we had my family over for dinner, and then some of our friends came over for a little party!
Here is my dad with Tallie.
My parents gave him this cool soccer net.
Miss Tallie Tootles with my grandma!
Me and my friend Leslie!
Mommy and her big 3 year old!
Our neighbors are pro soccer players, they were showing Lance a thing or two about playing soccer!
And now the pinata! Wow, what a story. I swear every kid took a whack at the pinata and it wouldn’t break. Finally Speen had to take one of his golf clubs and take a full swing to get it down. And the best news – it didn’t even hurt his ribs, wahoo!
Love the cutting of the cake, singing happy birthday, and blowing out the candles, isn’t that the best part of the night?
My parents giving Tallie her first and second and about 20 bites of ice cream! Yes, she did end up throwing it up!
Owen, one of Lance’s friends. I really hope Lance gets potty trained in time for school, so he and Owen can be in the same preschool class.
Tallie literally sat on the grass like this for 30 minutes just totally caught up in all of the attention, plus she kept her party hat on!!!
Opening presents.
Me and my besties!
My love!
And Lance and his buddy Fatau!
Thanks to everyone for their love, support and birthday wishes to Lance!!!
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Lance's Birthday!
It is so blazing hot here that if we are out side we HAVE to be in the water so here are a few pictures of what we do for fun with water!
This is our neighbor friend Ebonee. She comes over and holds Wesley a lot and plays with Logan once and awhile. She is a great help, especially when Scott isn’t around. She just LOVES holding Wesley!
My mom was so nice to send us this HUGE (that word is just for Jaclyn and Kaitlyn!) water slide. The kids loved it the first day but then they were scared of it the next time we brought it out. The adults don’t mind it though.
If there isn’t much going on Logan gets to just play with the hose and sprinkler. He loves it!
I think Logan looks pretty COOL here with his sun glasses and water shoes. He is ready to hit the water!
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Water Fun!
This birthday boy is getting so big and he loved his special day. We got to take daddy out to lunch. We went to the park so he could play with his tricycle some more. Then when daddy got home he got to open his presents. He got some clothes and some cars from his new favorite movie “Cars.” His favorite is the truck Mack that can hold the cars inside of him.
Later we had cake and ice cream with some friends and I let Aaron stay up til almost 11 to play with his new toys. This boy did not want to go to bed so I put his toys in his room and told him that he could keep playing with his toys but in his room. He eventually passed out.
These pictures are a couple of days later when Grandma’s birthday present arrived in the mail. Aaron loved getting more clothes and more car toys. This kid loves to line up all his toys and plays with them and sleeps with them. And Grandma, he loves his “Mighty Sleepy Bear” jammies. Since Aaron has taken a huge interest in playing with his toys all day I think it is safe to say that we are on the up side of the terrible two’s and have now entered the terrible threes. 
He is a good kid.
Here is Kaylee at 14 months and walking. She loves to get in all the action but if she dare touches one of Aaron’s car toys or thomas the train toys she had better watch out. We are still working on sharing with these kids but Aaron is not willing to share any of his favorite new toys.
As an update for us:
We successfully moved from our house to our new apartment during the 4th of July weekend. So while everyone else was having parties and fireworks we had a lot of work to do. We like our new apartment and feel that it is still a pretty good size for us with 3 bedrooms/2 full bathrooms and a 2 car garage. We did sacrifice on a yard and on a smaller kitchen but it does have big pantry. I feel like we unpacked fairly quickly and got settled easily with a few set backs. We were having troubles setting up our dryer then it broke. I think we finally have it up and running correctly. Our apartment didn’t come with a microwave and we still have yet to buy one. Surprisingly, I have gone a month without a microwave and I hardly even miss it. There have been a few times when I wished I had a microwave but mostly everything else can be cooked on the stove or the oven. It took over a week to get the internet running and about 2 weeks to get our satellite set up.
I like our new ward but I still don’t really know anybody but hopefully that will change as soon as school starts and people settle down from their busy summer schedules. A part of me feels stranded in the middle of California with no family or friends and this week no husband (he is on a business trip). So it has been hard but I have a feeling that things will get better as I get to know more people and hopefully when I start tutoring when school starts.
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Aaron is 3 years old
A couple weeks ago, we headed up, over, down (? I wasn’t driving?) to Moose Creek – Idaho? Wyoming? I don’t know, one of those places for a family reunion. We had such a fun time. Enjoy a gazillion pics from the trip!
Auntie Em chillin with Lance!
Lance and some cousins enjoying the Teepee
Enjoying the campfire at night
We loved horseshoes, pretty sure I was the reigning champ!
Lance got a kick out of the hoola hoop
Oh man – cousin Michael was SO CUTE to Lance. He played with him in their motor home for literally 30 minutes, letting him honk the horn, and push all the buttons, I think it was by far Lance’s favorite part of the trip!
There were horses
Lots of chatting – here is Lance with Uncle Todd who was so cute to him !
The whole “Driggs” clan – Spencer’s grandpa had 5 sisters and all of their families were there as well – we each had different colored shirts to wear.
Thanks for the awesome family pic Kelli!
Love this pic!
I know I am biased, but seriously I don’t think kids are made as cute as my Tallie!
Hangin in the camper!
We had tons of contests – ok, I am totally getting schooled by Aunt Nat, but at least I tried, right?
How Lance slept at night! Ok, yes, we got to sleep in one of the few cabins. We stuck Tallie in a closet, which worked out really nice.
Lance got a bit car sick on the way up and threw up on his shirt, so he ended up in mommy’s shirt!
On the way home, we stopped at Jackson Hole and had a look around. So much for the “no touching” sign!
Really doc, are you sure Tallie is only in the 12% for her weight!??!!!
This little getaway was just what I needed to feel refreshed!
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Driggs Family Reunion!
This is a really cool feature we put into the living room to create a nice entry place for Jake’s paintings.
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The Gallery Wall…
Apricots
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How the Garden is Coming Along…
my family came to phoenix the end of may. we shopped, went out to eat, went swimming and my mom and i played tennis almost everyday!! then my dad, andy and kel went back to utah and my mom and grandma stayed for another week which was more shopping, tennis and food!
at our clubhouse….
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Memorial Day 2010
A coworker complained about me leaving some empty coffee cups on my desk. So for 6-8 months I saved all my paper cups and dumped them on her desk and in her drawers.
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Coffee Cups
Are you kidding me? Where has the time gone! I have to admit though, I love this age, it is so fun. I am happy to be out of the super baby stage.
Sorry for the picture overload, but I sold my camera (tear) a few weeks ago, and borrowed my dad’s camera so I could take a few pictures, and got a little carried away.
Man I LOVE this little girl. She is dramatic, full of personality, has spunk, smiles all the times, can switch on and off the tears in a millasecond (it’s amazing!), great sleeper, loves to eat EVERYTHING I am eating or drinking, is trying desperately to get up on her knees, moves everywhere by scooting a little, but mainly rolling like a mad woman. She has the cutest smile, I love her eyes (I think she smiles with her eyes, reminds me of my nana), she has started to wave (it is the cutest thing ever!), says “dad,” and my mom said she mimicked “hi” today. She has two teeth that she got before 8 months, which was nuts because Lance didn’t get any until 11 months, and she loves to put anything and everything in her mouth. In fact, I pulled a sticker off the roof of her mouth last week (oops!) I need to be better about keeping stuff off the carpet!
All I can say is how grateful I am that Tallie is a part of our family, we are lucky to have her!
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Guess who's 9 months today…
hooray a family picture! This is at Ryan’s cousin Ashley’s wedding, waiting for them to come out of the temple.
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family picture
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