my girl cry

okay, so i made one of my girls cry today. NOT one of my own, but one at work. how are you 13 years old and do not know how to put your hair up in a pony tail, wrap the tail around and make it a bun??? are you serious?? my partner and i had tried to explain for at least 20 minutes before breakfast (making us late) and then again before class. this girl was so hilarious and did not understand what to do with her brush to make her hair go back. we arent allowed to put hands on the kids so we just had to do it all verbal...hard. i just kept laughing, but i talk loud so i think that me explaining over and over just got to her and she stood there at the busted mirror and started to cry. then i say again, are you serious??? crying cause you cant do your hair? im still not use to this kind of emotion, being that i worked with the 17 yr old boys for 4 years. big change. one of the other girls eventually got up to help explain and even asked if she could put gloves on and just do it for her. nope. if she didnt get it now and got help, then we would have to go through the same thing tomorrow and so forth. she ended up getting it done, but if she would have just listened the first time instead of spacin off, it would have been done right. these kids have a hard time listening and just doing things right the first time...but shoot, dont we all? maybe thats why i get frustrated with these lil girls cause i sometimes forget that i havent always been so perfect;)

a glimpse back...

da men

javonna, mama grimsley n joss, jayla n me

jameer grillin with his daddy

My in-laws came out for christmas, so we had my sisters, sister-in- law take some pics for us. love her, love the pics:) go to baileys page and find aleia cause i cannot figure out where all my lists went. but when i do... i will be doing another shout out for aleia. we have been up to tons lately but as of tonight, this is all im doin. hey, i finally changed my christmas background! (that might have something to do with all my stuff disapppearing???)

GHS REUNION 1998

just getting to the reunion... 9 months preggo. (what fun!) dont ask me what kts doin, its like she hasnt seen me in a decade or something. dont worry kt, im still here:)

Just stoppin everyone from eating so they can come say hi to me...yesss, i stayed at the front door for about 10 minutes. saw lotsa people tho:)

yeah, it doesnt look like i saw anyone but kt, but i did, she just loves the camera as much as me!
Sorry matt and others for your cold food!
what a great 10 minutes! jimmy didnt even come to the door. we went to outback for some steak right after. couldnt see myself spending over a hundred dollars one meal. good times.

Temple lights

gramma penny and the rest of the fam (minus Jimmy, dad and Levis fam) decided to visit the Temple extra early this year. We went last weekend and there were SOOO many people there!

Brody was SO happy to see us, specially his buddy, jameer.

Me and the kiddos.

whit, me, jameer, n jayla

Goodbye to all!!

i think we will be hitting up the scottsdale train park again this year. it wont be nearly as fun as last year without all the free rides. we walked in to the park and started riding the rides w/o buying any tickets, we just thought it was part of the holidays. no, not so. started to look around and notice everyone in wheelchairs and walkers. we stopped and read one of the signs that was posted ion the middle of the park that read something about a special night for kids with disablities. Boy did we feel silly, but then started to think why nobody said anything or kicked us out??? im thinking who is it that was the one blending in??? hopefully we go on the right night this year! the kids are looking forward to the train rides and carousel.

my lil juju

Gilbert Days

Turkey Day

Thanksgiving was actually pretty fun this year. We had some cookie decorating for the kids as well as some games of football, duck duck goose and darts (thanks to uncle John and grampa earl) all the little kids were trying to impale the others with the real darts! I played and was victorious against my mom in ping pong...that was lovely:) jimmy was busy having the kids race each other but did take a break for some football and darts. He was wondering where the corn hole was, but i guess it has been played out???