Fathers Day

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO THE BEST DAD EVER!!!!



Have the best most relaxing day!
Love, the kids

Dear Dad,



I want to tell you thank you for everything! Thank you for giving me a great childhood filled with many memories. You have taught me the fundamentals, and also how to be a good person in life. You opened my eyes when they were closed, and showed me there was more to life.

I look forward to many more memories in the future! And I am so proud to be YOUR daughter! I love you, and thank for being my dad! I love you Forever.
love, Janae

Dear Dad,



Thank you for being the most
supportive and loving father a kid could ask for. I love watching home videos of us as kids and how you were with us. You were always so excited watching us open our birthday or christmas gifts and just so hands on with everything. You can just see how much you loved each one of us. I hope you know how much I appreciate you and will never forget everything you've done for me. Remember that one time when mom went out of town so you decided to have a barbarian night with us? I'll always remember how much fun that was eating with our hands off the table and ripping apart the chicken..hahaha. I love those memories...like taking us on a ride Saturday mornings to go get a treat at the gas station...Thank you for giving us kids the best childhood.

And thank you for being such a great example with your love for mom. I know how love should be because of the way you treat mom and us kids. I hope that one day my husband will treat me and my children with the same love. I remember when mom ran her marathon and how supportive you were for her. We drove the course tying ribbons to trees so that when she ran passed them she would see them and remember that we were at the finish line cheering her on. Its memories like this that make me feel so thankful for the parents that I have. I am the person that I am today because of you and mom.

Thank you for teaching me the most important thing in life...love.

Happy fathers day dad! I love you!
Jess





(Tags is still in the works)


Dear dad,



What a real man is. A real man is not a guy that can fight anyone he does not like. I real man Is not somebody who has to prove himself that he is a man.
I real man IS a person willing to sacrifice everything for his family. A real man is a person who cares about his family so much he will put his life on the line for them. My dad IS a real man.

Love,
Brayden

Dad,



Thank you for all that you have done for me. You are so hard working and do a great job supporting our family. I am so thankful for everything I have. Thank you for supporting me in everything I do and Helping me do it, like get baptized. I'm so blessed to have you as my dad and all the great memories we've shared. I will never forget dressing up like a cowgirl and going to rascal flatts with you. I hope you have a great relaxing day, you deserve it! Love you dad happy fathers day!!

Eliza

To the Worlds BEST Mother!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO THE BEST MOM EVER

HAVE THE BEST MOST RELAXING DAY! 

LOVE, 

US

My Mother

I am so grateful I was born into a family, with so much peace and love. When I look at pictures of my birth, I can see how happy I made my mother. A daughter that looks like her and anticipation of what her daughters future will be. My mother has taught me a great deal of things. Licking the cookie dough off the beaters, making a dandelion wish, and how to hide your chocolate from your husband. Most importantly she taught me how to love myself and not to be afraid of obstacle in life. Looking at my mom I see how strong of a woman see is. She has set a great example for my sisters and I, on how womenhood should be.

Mom...I want to thank you for everything. Since I've moved, even though the distance holds us apart I feel our relationship has grown stronger. I look forward to our future together and I know we will spend more time with each other as well. Im so excited for you to be a grandma! (someday). I love you, and thank you for all you do! Happy mothers day!

Love, 

Janae

Dear Mom,

If I were to pick three words that describe what you've given to me....they would be INSPIRATION, SELF CONFIDENCE, and LOVE.

You've been inspiring me my whole life. I remember watching you run your first marathon and thinking how proud I was of you and how I hope to have the strength and ability to accomplish something similar in my life. Now here you are doing it again! at age "35" (wink wink) running a triathlon making all the rest of us look bad with your posts on facebook! You inspire me to push myself past what is possible and accomplish things in my life that will give me happiness and the feeling of fulfillment. You are my role model and always have been. I hope to have as much success as you have had! 

You have taught me so much in my life and have given me so much self confidence. Remember when we ran my first 5k together? The feeling of accomplishment changed my life. Not only did you get me started in running, you taught me my first backhand spring in the back yard...you signed me up for dance and traveled with me to St. George to cheer me on, you signed me up for cheer and no matter what decision I made for whatever team I wanted to be on, you were always by my side. How many LONG and boring competitions did you sit through to cheer me on? You drove me to practice, some times stayed to watch and sometimes even dealt with the psycho cheer moms! I've always been a very goal-oriented, self-assured person.....but only because I learned that from you. Your support and examples gave me the confidence and trust that I needed to be able to accomplish the things that I have so far. And now look, you've even got me running a TRIATHLON with you on my 21st birthday........I'm not quite so sure that was such a good idea on my part....but I'm excited to share the experience with you. 

As I was looking for pictures for this blog...I realized I couldn't find ANY of just you and I or you and one of the other kids. I had to crop almost all of these pictures...I thought that was strange but when I started to think about it I realized its because you were always the one BEHIND the camera. You were there for every special moment, even though you may not see it...but you can feel the love in each and every picture as if you were in it. Because of you Mom, my heart is filled with love. I love watching home videos of you with us as kids. You were so soft spoken. You can literally hear the love in your voice. I know how to love and how to BE LOVED because of the way you and dad loved us kids. The hardest thing that I've ever had to do in my life was the day I dropped you off at the airport when you drove me to California. I remember it like it was yesterday. Saying good bye to you was so hard and intensely emotional that I still tear up every time I think about that moment and watching you leave in my rear view mirror. I cried all the way to my new home. That was the moment that I actually realized how amazing of parents I have. I just want you to know that I DONT take you for granted. I think about your unconditional love and all the tools that you've given me to be successful in life and thank God for it every day. I am who I am today because of the woman that you are. I hope to be half the mother that you are some day. Thank you for being my inspiration, courage and love! 

With unconditional love, 

Jessica

Dear Mom,  

Your the best mom a son could ask for, thanks for sticking with me no matter what.

Love, 

Tag

Dear Mom,

Thank you for everything you have done for me in my life. Thank you for supporting me with my new job, thank you for always being there for me when I need help with something, you are an amazing mom, and an inspiration to me and the family I love you so much have a terrific mothers day!!!!!!!!

LOVE BRAYDEN

P.S: celeb apprentice tonight....

Dear mom,

thank you for everything you do for me it means a lot even though I never really show it and I complain sometimes about money but I really couldn't ask for a better mom. I love you!

Love, 

Liza

World Cheerleading Championships

So around this time 3 years ago, I had one of the most memorable experiences of my life. The week I went to the World Cheerleading Championships for the very first time with South Elite All stars and came home with a World Title! Not many people can actually say they have a world championship title..and I'm not gonna lie...I love to say it! haha It was so unexpected...none of us had any idea that we even had a chance. We were just hoping to make it to finals! Let alone win... Just to have the opportunity to go was a blessing in itself. Words cant even express how amazing Worlds is! Performing in front of hundreds of people against the best teams in the world! Seeing teams from all over the world like my all time favorite team BANGKOK! Everyone is just so excited and nervous..the energy is just crazy! Every time I think about Worlds, I think about all the amazing experiences I've been blessed with. At age 20 going on 21, I feel pretty good about the things that I've accomplished and experienced so far in my life.  I'm so thankful for the opportunities that have been given to me by my family, friends, and coaches. I've met the most amazing people through out my cheerleading years and have the most wonderful memories because of it.  It makes me realize how much I miss cheer....but I always knew it would come to an end at some point.  I've moved on from it, but I wont ever forget what its given me. I am who I am today because of not just cheerleading in general, but the teams that I had the pleasure of being apart of and the people I have met through them.

To all of my teams competing this weekend at Worlds, GOOD LUCK and be thankful for the experience you've been given!
I'll be going to Orlando, Florida Sunday night so I'll just miss the competition, but hopefully I'll get to catch some old friends before they take off!

Although I wont be going to Florida for the competition, I will be going for the first annual All Things Cheer staff camp training! For those of you that didn't know, I'm a staff member for ATC and coach cheer camps in the summer. I'm super pumped that they decided to fly us out to florida for it! I cant wait to see everyone and get this camp season started!

I hope you all have a fun and SAFE Friday!
With much love,
Jess

Triathlon

Welp....I've been putting this off for far to long now. Triathlon training begins TONIGHT.  For those of you who haven't yet heard....my remarkable mother has been training all year long for a triathlon on Sept. 3, 2011. YES....my 21st birthday. She's been working so hard and has gotten so many other people to join her with her couch-to-tri challenge and has inspired me to run it with her. I figured it would be fun to fly home and run it with her and accomplish something to remember on my birthday. 

I didn't realize how hard it actually is....I can run 3 miles easy. I can bike 12 miles at the gym easy. Adding a SWIM and BonneyLakes HILLS to the equation.......its a whole different story.

A couple weeks ago I decided to jump in the pool to see just HOW much training I was going to need......The second I jumped in that pool..........I began to regret that decision REALLYYYY quick.....

I never realized before that I CANT SWIM. I mean I can swim enough to not drown....but I usually make it to the edge of the pool before that happens.........hahaha

I had EVERYONE in the pool area coaching me and trying to teach me proper swimming techniques...it was pretty embarrassing to say the least.........lol I'm ashamed to admit that there were a couple of moments where I actually dove into the water without putting my goggles back on...and of course I have to much pride to stop in the middle of the lane to put them back on. I've got a lot of work to do. My mom said that I can make it a relay..so someone else does the swim and I finish the race with the bike and the run.....but what would I be accomplishing? I figured if I'm going to do this I might as well do the whole thing.

OH YES...and did I mention the TIGER MUSKY FISH that I'll also be sharing my time in the water with at lake tapps? My MOTHER forgot to mention that part to me.

seriously..........

LOOK AT THE TEETH ON THAT THING!!!!!

if my mom doesn't find me the thickest body suit possible....its NO BEUNO for me. 

Anyways, wish me luck with the training. I'm going to need it...I'll check back in to let you know how its going. 

Happy Monday Fun Day :)

with love, 

Jess