Another sunset in Paradise. I'm not sorry I have this kind of sunset and that its been in the 80's for the last month.

The World Sailfish Championships are in Key West this weekend. It can have a pretty rich purse (some years, if you do everything right, I've heard you can win a million dollars). Big names like Johnny Bench and Norman Swartzkoff (?) are regulars. I had one of them in the taxi last night that has had a lot of success placing, and he was a nice guy. Fish on!

We just had Spring Break here and I took some vacation days and worked at the taxi jib. I was able o make enough to get ll the boat parts needed. My mechanic was out yesterday and it's running good. This is a legit boat, and will work out.

Pickin Daisies

I was looking through the pictures on Elizabeth's phone and come across this one. I guess when Owen roams around outside, he likes to go up on the hill and just sit there in the flowers and hang out all peaceful-like. What a funny little kid. It reminds me of the Incredible Hulk. Brandon will know what I'm talking about.

The Begining of Larissa's College Experience!

As I'm sure many of you already know...this past weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Buena Vista, VA with mom and visit Southern Virginia University, the campus that will become my home for next Fall! I just thought I would tell a little bit more from my perspective about this experience and such :)

I had talked to some of you about possibly attending BYU-Idaho and I thought that was what I was gonna do but SVU sent me a letter a few months ago and I found out about the scholarship opportunity I had because of my GPA and ACT score (not perfect but good). I started researching what other activities I could be a part of on campus and found that they had BASKETBALL! (a part of BYU-I that was a downfall is they only have intramurals....) and got together a package to send to Coach Harmon. It took awhile for us to finally talk but he showed interest in me and expressed he thought I would fit in well with the team. In the middle of all this, my admissions counselor Chelsea found out that I played volleyball and told me that as an assistant volleyball coach, she would love to see tapes of me playing volleyball! At this time I was planning on attending this past Open House and let her know that I would be willing to at least try out while I was out there.

I was slowly falling in love with this college the more and more I found out about it. They have a very small enrolment, less than 1,000 students, meaning small class sizes which is what I'm used to so that was comforting. I also talked with Abby Baxter, the Student Government VP and she told me how much she has loved her experience out there and it seemed that almost every person I visited with about this college has absolutely loved it there. The atmosphere out there and what the people I hung out with said, I believe my experience is going to be the same :)

In other news with Larissa, I got highlights!!! :D haha I have to say I've had mixed opinions about them in my house but I love them so it's whatever! You can kinda see them in the picture but yeah....also, Prom is this weekend! The theme is amazing! *drum roll* STAR WARS! Haha my date is awesome and he has a Chewbacca mask that he is gonna wear and I have a metallic bronze dress I'm gonna wear a C3PO mask with! Should be epic! I promise pictures next week! Also track is in full swing and I hope to make it to State :) Hope all is well with everyone!

Love You All! <3

Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum

This pic and video clip are classic. These kids are a kick.

Ace the Science Guy

Ace competed at the regional science fair last week and took 2nd in his category, and 6th overall - which means that he goes on to compete at the state science fair! (They take the top 12 overall. . .) :)

In case you can't read it - his project was to test the antibiotic properties of cockroach nerve tissue on bacteria. . . . sound like something Ace would do??? No, I didn't think so - but the kid will surprise you when he wants to. :)

Chillin' with the folks

Mom and Dad are here for Braden's baptism tomorrow. Talana's crew gets here later today. As you can see, things are getting out of control out here. More to come.