"THE GARDEN IS TILLED ALREADY TO PLANT"

I was able to get John to plow the garden for me last weekend. This was a MAJOR accomplishment because he puts up a wall of resistance every year when garden time comes. I'm sure it had something to do with my constant nagging, but hey it worked and now its done. And he sure loves the corn and tomatoes in July and August,(but he would never admit that out loud.) Take a gander.

The End Result


I took a picture of the nice green grass so my dad can be proud and our shed that we put in last fall.

The Grass and The Shed


Then here is a raspberry start that I planted a couple of days ago. My very generous neighbor gave me 12 starts. Hopefully, I can have a little bit of Grandma Smith's charm with rapsberry plants.

Raspberry Start

MORP--The Girls Choice Dance

Justin hates for me to post about him, but this is like my little journal so he will just have to deal with it. The theme for the dance was a SPORTS theme. His date decided not to pick a team and had them go as golfers. He spent the afternoon bowling (a crazy Utah tradition of having a day date before the dance), and then came home and got ready for his date. I think the girls were pretty money savey. They had dinner at one of the girls' houses and then went to the dance. The group he went with is a good group and as far as I can tell he had fun. He said that she is definately "friend" material. It's weird having a son and husband talk about girls and rank them on the scale from 1 to 10. So here is a few pictures of the date.

Karrisa and Justin

The Group

John's Big Surprise--"WICKED" tickets

Let me just begin by saying when we were in New York almost 5 years ago, we tried to get tickets to this show, and it was sold out. I have been wanting to see this show for at least 5 years. Well two years ago John was in Chicago for a conference and went and saw this show without me, (I probably would have done the same thing if it were me,) but needless to say I was very SAD!!! Well without my knowledge, John was able to get 2 tickets for Wicked that was showing here in Salt Lake City. His assistant Principal is a season ticket holder and was able to buy tickets last year. It was going to be a huge surprise but one one of the cute little ladies that works at the school asked me one day if I was so excited for Wicked. I had no idea what she was talking about, and John had to tell me then. It was still a great surprise. I want to see it again. I play the CD all the time. So any men out there, if you ever get the chance to take your sweetie to this--DO IT!!! My dream girls get-away weekend would to be to fly to New York on Jet Blue, see WICKED, and then shop for a day and then fly home. I know it's not reasonable but hey, a girl can dream!!!

The Wicked Program

Spring Break in Las Vegas and Easter in Cedar City

Yes, Spring Break was three weeks ago and I am just now posting about it. Good excuse though, I lost my camera at the Buffet in the Stratosphere and just got it back last Friday. We went down to Vegas with the Baseball team for John's High School. We spent a lot of time at the fields but we didn't mind, because the weather was delightful. We even made friends with a cute little boy whose cousin plays on the team. His name was Rodney and he was a hoot, here are some picutes that he ALLOWED us to take.

JJ Justin,and Rodney



JJ, John, Deb, and Rodney



It was so cute, after the very last game Rodney started crying because he had to say goodbye to Justin and Trevor. We had fun at the Hard Rock Cafe, the M&M and Coke Factories and In and Out Burger (YUMMY)! We stayed at the Stratosphere and had a really great room, I forgot to take pictures but the boys loved it especially JJ. We had a huge jacuzzi tub that JJ and I took advantage of while the big boys went up to the top of the Stratosphere and rode the crazy ride. Here is a picture of Justin and John. Trevor eventually had the courage to ride but the picture we have doesn't show him.

The Crazy Boys


We spent an afternoon at the pool, and the pool wasn't exactly warm but Trevor and JJ love the water so much I have to include that picture.

Big Tough Trev

Dad and JJ


On our last night in Vegas we went down to the Buffet (the one where I left my camera)and it was an All You Can Eat Seafood Buffet. It was so yummy and the Welburns definately had their share of crab legs. Justin was too cool to be in the picture but I got the other three and you can see how full our table was with the empty crab legs.

The Yummy Seafood Feast


We traveled back to Cedar City on the Saturday before Easter to spend the Holiday with the Roger's Family. Obviously I don't have pictures of that because of the lost camera situation but we had a great time. Aunt Norine saved the coloring of eggs for JJ and he sure had a great time coloring 4 dozen eggs. We watched a couple of movies and spent a lot of time catching up and visiting. Of course, Aunt Norine is Trevor's favorite cook in the world and she sure didn't disappoint us. We had a great visit and hated to say goodbye but we were able get home in time for Justin and John to get 9 holes in, (you know the important stuff!!)

'THE BIG MORP DANCE PROPOSITION"

Last night, Justin got asked to Morp (prom spelled backwards) and it is a girls choice dance. I don't know why everything is always cutesy tootsey but we are trying to come up with a cool way to answer. By the way, inside were Mountain Dew cans with letter of HER name on each can. Actually it was quite creative and we so much more prefer this way to get asked instead of the last way Justin was asked. Let's just say his room was a disaster and it took us almost 2 hours to clean up.

TEXAS MEMORIES

Here are more pictures of the trip. Thanks Hoaldridges for putting up with us and showing us a good time!!! (That was about a month and a half late--but as the saying goes, "Better late than never.")

Texas Trip

It has been over a month since we were in Texas and we had a blast. We especially loved SNUFFERS. It brought many smiles to the Welburn's especially Mr. Trev.