New Year...lets go back a few months

Yep gotta play catch-up again. The past few months have been crazy with moving and trying to get the kids settled into their new lives. so what have we been up to?

Summer Fun
WE got to Arizona the end of July and school started August 12th so we didn't have much time to play. We spent a few days down by the lake. Kids love the sand and water. Went boating with some friends.(Pretty sure a boat will be in the Rowley family soon). Spent lots of nights at the park. The summer nights are awesome here. Kenyon started baseball with the Kingman Krush. What a great bunch a people. They welcomed him with open arms to the team. Jon is even coaching again. Camping in Flagstaff with our friends the Schardes and lots of baseball games... I'm right at home here












School year 2010-2011

Kamberlyn is in the 5th grade, Kenyon is in 7th grade. Both kids have adjusted well and doing fantastic in school. They have both received awards for grades.


**First day of school...Yep they wear uniforms!!





Kenyon on the first day of school...he didn't want his picture taken..







Klaire's 4th Birthday

Miss K celebrated her birthday and we were lucky enough to have grandma Sylvia here with us. She received money, 2 pillow pets, and lots of toys from family and friends.









Halloween

Lots of trunk or treats in this town. The girls ended up going Friday night with our friends to their church trunk or treat, then Saturday night was our ward trunk or treat, then Sunday they walked around the neighbor hood for some good old fashion Trick or treating. (Notice how I said the girls...Yep Kenyon told me he was officially to old this year..Boo Hoo).


**Kam was a DEAD Cheerleader...Klaire was Jessie from Toy Story 3





Our friends the Olsen,s had a party. I absolutely LOVE dressing up on Halloween. It's just fun to be silly once in a while. Jon doesn't always like the outfits I buy him but he is always a good sport. SEE BELOW!!



Some Pics from the party that night








**Up Next I'll catch up on the holidays**

A whole Decade!!

Kam turned 10 this year. I can remember when I turned 10 and it doesn't seem that long ago. My how time flies. We had to celebrate a few weeks early in Utah since she was gonna be in Arizona on her birthday. So she was lucky and had two parties.


This was in Arizona. We had our friends the Adam's family over for dinner, cake and ice cream. Kam got an i-pod touch for her present.


Back in Utah a few weeks earlier we celebrated with a slumber party. Just 9 of her closest friends. The girls ate, played games, and enjoyed spending one last day with Kam. She has some very close friends in Utah that I know she will have for life.





From left to right: Top SHaili Grunig, Halleigh Davis, McKayla Morris, Tyanna Doran, Kamberlyn, Madison Morris, Klaire. Bottom: Mattie Mecham, Makilee Esquivel, Josilyn Smoot, & Jada Burt.

NYC

**Yep I went there too!! Jamie, Jerian, Keetch, Kamberlyn, Blake, Kim, & Hyatt flew into NYC the morning of July 1st. We met up with them @ Yankees Stadium. They were able to take a bus tour around the city. Us on the other hand barely made it to the game. By the time we took the train from Boston to NYC, took our stuff to the hotel, and got a taxi to the game it had already started.


**What an awesome new stadium. It is HUGE!! Kenyon is the only one of us that can say he has been to both the old & the new Yankee Stadiums!(Lucky little shit)




The boys enjoying the game. **Keetch**Triston**Brantzen**Kenyon**Hyatt

**Kam & I.(She was a Trooper. Had barely gotten any sleep on the plane that night. She sat through an entire ball game, then went walking around time square that night.)

**Yankees won the Mariners that night**

Alex Rodriguez rounding the bases after hitting a home-run


Nick Swisher...AKA Jon's twin brother

Derek Jeter

Mark Teixeira

CC Sabathia



**Riding the subway to time square after the game.


The ladies in time Square

Jamie, Jerian, Alisha, Kristi, & Kim

The Kids in Time Square

Kamberlyn, Kenyon, Brantzen, Triston, Keetch, & Hyatt


**We ate dinner @ Planet Hollywood in Time Square









**Waiting at the Amtrax station in Cooperstown for Jon, Blake, & Jerian to get our rental cars. It took over 2 HOURS!! National tried to screw us!! I'm so proud of Jerian for standing up for us and my husband for NOT just handing them the credit card!!


**The kids got bored so they started playing games.

Wall Ball

Throwing Quarters

FYI Gary was the biggest kid of them all!!


**This is us waiting @ the train station in NYC



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***SLEEPING**


**READING BOOKS**



**DOING SIT UPS**


**MORE SLEEPING**


**LOTS OF TEASING**


Seriously the best trip ever. I was surrounded by the greatest people in the world. Thanks guys for the best memories. I'll never forget

Boston

YEP I went there!! I took my boys Kenyon and Triston to Boston for one day. It was a fast trip but well worth it. The Nobles joined us for the fun. We took a red eye flight on June 29th. We got into Boston around 9am. Luckily when we got to the hotel they let us check in early. Kristi and I went straight to bed. The boys (Gary, Brantzen, Kenyon and T) went to breakfast then came to the room for a little nap. We got up and took the subway to Fenway Park.................




After the bottom of the 7th we were able to go up to the GREEN MONSTER SEATS!! The ticket holders usually leave then especially if the Sox are losing. It was an awesome experience being in these seats. Now I can say I SAT THERE!!
FYI: The poor kid in Left field was being heckled by some punk kids sitting below us. They kept yelling "Hey Joyce it's coming to you get your glove on" and Joyce had a great hit earlier in the game so they were yelling "Hey Joyce now your batting average is 1.75"......Kenyon and T were laughing their butts off




Fenway Park is so awesome cuz it is so old. This was inside the stadium. There were also lots of tunnels and levels in the stadium. I loved how all the seats were good seats.

The Guys Brantzen, Gary, Kenyon and Triston


Before the game holding their game tickets



*** The Red Sox's lost that night but we had a great time. I will forever remember my first trip to Boston. The Nobles were so much fun to be with and I got to spend some quality time with my boys.

***After the game we went back to the hotel so we could get a few (I'm talking 3) hours of sleep before we had to get up to go catch the Amtrak train to NY. Kristi and I had everything figured out. Well it would have helped if someone would have told us that the bus doesn't start running until 6am. We had to be on the train @ 6am. Needless to say we had a moment of panic (I'm talking running around the airport and flagging down the Hertz car rental van). We were able to finally get a taxi ride to the train station and we made our train. Thank you Kristi