10 years...

Good ol' class of 98 from Taylorsvill High School. What a blast we had at our ten year reunion at Little America!! I was skeptical about seeing everyone from high school, but once we got there and sat around the table with the greatest group of friends from high school and laughed our guts out I forgot about the awkardness and enjoyed the rest of the night. Meg, Mel, Alaina, Jenny, and Natalie what a table full of fun. We made the rounds and it was great to see everyone else I hadn't kept in touch with since high school.

Heather Ishoy, Natalie Gardner, me, Meg Jankovich, Melanie Rees, Amanda Allen, Alaina Wilcok, Jenny Urry, Leticia, Erika

Adrian, Natalie G, Natalie F. Mel, me, Meg, Natalie W. Amanda, Judy, Alaina, Wendi

Heather, Karen. Natalie Gardner, Jenny, Natalie Griffiths, Wendi, Natalie W., Me

There are always the special friends that even though you haven't kept in touch with them you still wonder about them and remember all the fun times together. That's how it is with Terri Harmon above and Angie Burrow below. Their friendship goes way back to Jr. High and I loved chatting and catching up on their lives.

A BIG thanks to the love of my life Steve who was such a good sport about me disappearing for 15 min at a time. Steve and Phil (Meg's husband) had some good chats while us girls were up and around all over. It was great to have Steve meet my old friends and we loved having a night out with a wonderful dinner.

First Day

My baby started school today. Okay, so maybe she's not a baby anymore, she's five years old (almost 6). Steve came with us to walk Emma to her first day of Kindergarten. She had been nervous about going until yesterday when we got to go meet her teacher and see her classroom then she was so excited she kept asking me if it was time to go about every 20 minutes. She has a good friend from the neighborhood in her class. Here is Emma outside her school and then Emma with her friend Gavin sitting in their classroom. Oh, and by the way Kiana had to bring her backpack with us to walk Emma to school and she was quite upset she didn't get to stay there, but we took her picture just like Emma to appease her.

Fun at the Wallace Reunion

I know this is a little late, but on the 24th of July we had our Wallace family reunion where we had a blast with water. First Emma, Kiana, and their cousin Macy had a water fight with some boys that lived across the parking lot...

Next, after all the cousins arrived we had a water balloon toss where all the dads threw the balloons in the air and the kids tried to catch them. If they caught them they got to through them back if not, well I bet you can guess they got wet.

Here's Emma and Kiana trying their best to catch those water balloons.

After realizing that these little cousins weren't catching very many we let them have their own balloon toss. With each toss they made to each other they had to take a step back away from each other. There were a lot of popped balloons.

Since we used small balloons for the hand toss games we pulled out some giant sized water balloons for our next game. These were normal balloons filled with water. We partnered up and each held and end of a towel. Then we placed a balloon in the towel and launched them at each other. We were trying to catch each other's launches so as not to have the giant balloon explode on us.


We kept going with the water theme and next we got big blocks of ice and went ice blocking down a hill. We had races and built human trains. Emma got so good she could slide down the whole hill without holding on. After that we all went back to Grandma and Grandpa's and had dessert. All the cousins had a blast being together!!!!


We got to spend a few extra days at Grandma and Grandpa Wallace's house with James, Shelley, Macy and Sophie. We went to the Living Planet Aquarium and saw fish, seahorses, sharks, and jellyfish. Then we all went to Chuck E. Cheese's. It was the first time for us going and boy did we all have a blast. Between the kid rides and the games we were all entertained. Steve even stole a few tokens and played some video games and won the girls some tickets playing skeeball. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for all the great times!!!