Luau Baby

The Bateman family
Auntie Karen. My favorite
Auntie Pam with her granddaughters and in law
Auntie Karen and her boys Brent and Bradley
The men doing the warrior hula dance.
Keri and Uncle Stan
Cousin Tami, MacKenzie and Crystal
Aunt Debbie and Uncle Richard
The kids learning a hula dance.

The Bateman family reunion of 2009. Aunt Deb and Uncle Stan were in charge of it this year and they did a Hawaiann Luau. With palm trees, lais and hula dancers. We had it in my backyard. It was perfect. The weather was beautiful. The company even better. I believe we had over 100 people here that was including kids. It was catered with great food and then we had the privledge of watching a hula dance from all the islands in Hawaii. It was awesome. So entertaining. Grandma and Grandpa Bateman are turning 96 this year and I think they look amazing. I was lucky enough to get pictures with them. It was great to visit with cousins, aunts and uncles. What a great time. Deb and Stan did an amazing job! Can't think of a better thing to do on a Saturday night then to spend it with your family and loved ones from all over. Thanks everyone that came. It was so nice to see and visit with everyone. See you next year!!!! Until next time ALOOOOOOHA!!!!!

24th ofJuly weekend

After a wonderful weekend we ended it with a pool party at the outdoor swimmimg pool in Lehi
Deven and Luke at the pool party
Shawnee taking some driving lessons from her dad. Not sure what he was thinking! She is only 13!!!
pretty much everyone going on a ranger ride
Everyone getting ready for the parade to start in Fairview
We had a great weekend. We went golfing with a few minor injuries. I almost backed up the golf cart into the pond. And Julie just about rolled us. I don't think I have laughed so hard. GOOD TIMES!!! The kids went and saw a movie at the drive in. They saw Ice Age 3. Saw the fireworks from the cabin. And pretty much just chilled on the deck while the kids played in the blow up pool. Thanks everyone we had a blast. We missed Adam and his family maybe next time.

This kid CrAcKs me up

We pull into the drive up. To get some lunch at Subway yesterday. I am getting ready to order and Ty tells me to roll his window up. (Which means roll it down.) So I roll it down and he starts to order for himself. He yells out the window I need a chicken salad. The girl asks what kind of chips and I tell her the Doritos. Nacho kind and Ty yells at her NACHOS..... We pull up to the window and Cortlyn is quietly telling the girl that she is pretty. Ty yells you are pretty. I am just glad they didn't hear him yelling I need a chicken salad. Or maybe they did. We will never know. He makes me smile. It is always fun to have a toddler in the house to remind you that you still are young and can have fun. Love ya Ty bug

Weekend with Friends

Hayden, Brad and Kenzie chilling in the wonderful weather at the cabin
Everyone teeter tautering. We were trying to balance the teeter tauter it took us a while be we figured out who needed to be switched.
Kate going down the zip line
Lauren swinging
Hayden just being himself. Isn't he so handsome!
Ty swinging in the horsey swing, as he calls it
Todd and Hayden playing a little tether ball. Not sure who won
Shawnee doing a flip off the diving board
Kate and Cortyln getting ready to go down the slide
Everyone at the Drive-in. We saw The Proposal. So cute.We had so much fun with our friends the Panters. Thanks for going lets do it again sometime.

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July. We spent it at our cabin. It was a little rainy at times but we had a blast. We rode four wheelers, played with cousins Noah and Olivia for a couple of days before they had to leave to go to their other grandmas. Swam in the blow-up pool. OK so no one really swam in the pool it was to cold. But Sadie loved it and she didn't care that it was a little chilly. The boys went on a camp out, while the girls went out and got some dinner. We went to the Mt. Pleasant parade, and later that night sat on our deck and watched the fireworks display. What a great time we had, even though grandma was in a wheel chair. She broke her pelvis a couple of weeks ago. And Olivia fell and got a nice goose egg and me yes I fell down the stairs. What an idiot I am. Good times, Good times

Tough enough to wear pink!!!

This year for the rodeo they had a new thing. It was called Tough Enough To Wear Pink. We were lucky enough to help sponsor this great cause. Main Street Interiors donated money and at the end of the rodeo Thursday night anyone could help donate and we did really well. We have some great people to help out at a time when money is a little tight. They wanted Brad to be a part of this great cause. Because he himself is a cancer survivor. So our family was..... Tough Enough To Wear Pink.....

One crazy month

Where do I even begin? I will start off with a couple of days before me and Shawnee leave for New York. Ty was not feeling good and not breathing right. I took him in and he ended up having to have a breathing treatment. So off we go to the Drug store to get a nebulizer. He had to have treatments every morning and night until it got better. Which was about a week later. We head to New York for a tour with Shawnee's singing group. They sang in the subway, at a couple of the performing arts schools and toured New York. We stayed in Harlem in a brownstone and rode the subways everywhere. We saw Shrek and Mary Poppins while we were there. They were awesome. I get a phone call the day after we get to New York and Brad has taken Kenzie into the doctor, she wasn't feeling good, They ended up taking her to the emergency room cause she was not breathing. Scared the you know what out of Brad and me. She was in the hospital for three days and was off oxygen a week later.(I didn't get any pictures of the mask she wore)She is going great now. So we return home and Shawnee turns around and heads to her other tour with her dance group to good ole California. They went to see the Lion King in Vegas on the way and went to the beach and to Disneyland for 5 days. On her return I get a phone call from my brother telling me that my dad was just put in the hospital with pneumonia and sepsis. He was in the ICU at AF for four days and then was transferred to IMC in Murray. He was not getting better and was having heart problems as well. But he is on the mend and is to be home soon. He scared us there for a little while. On Saturday I get a call from Brad saying that his mom was helping set up tables for a party we were going to have and the tables fell on her and she broke her pelvis in 2 spots. She is now in the hospital and will soon be home as well. I think I have learned that life can turn in a blink of an eye. So hold, love and take care of your loved ones. You never know when you will get the chance to tell them that you love them again. Thanks to all of you who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. It really helped.