Children's Discovery Gateway Museum

November 10th, 2011
My brother, Dave, treated Trey, Brett and I to the Children's Discovery Museum at the Gateway in SLC. He had some certificate he needed to use and we were the lucky recipients.
Paul and Ellie weren't with us, they were headed back from Ellie's first plane ride, plus she was sick with the stomach bug.
We had never been to this museum before and it was a lot of fun. And I think Dave had as much fun as the boys!

Sorry the quality on these pictures are bad, the point and shoot isn't doing good these days.

Thanks Dave to a great afternoon!

I have the best husband ever!

November 3-6, 2011

Jacksonville, FL

I truly have the best husband ever. I am so grateful to him and how well he takes care of me. He truly makes me happy in so many areas of my life and I to quote the Jerry McQuire movie "you complete me".

Paul set it up with his wonderful mom to come stay with the kids so I could go with him to Jacksonville for a few days of sleep and relaxation. Thanks Chris!

This was the second time we've been to Florida in 2011 and both times it was cold. Yes, it gets cold in Florida! That's ok though, it was still nice to getaway.

Paul has a customer out in Jacksonville who set us up to stay at a country club on the bleach. It was nice and quiet.

This is the spa there at the country club where I spent Saturday afternoon being pampered. A massage, manicure and pedicure.

View out our door.

Down the beach a little bit some boys were surfing.

While I was at the spa on Saturday afternoon, Paul and his buyer went golfing on this beautiful course.

Thank you sweetie for a great few days and letting me sleep for 14 hrs Friday night!

Halloween 2011

Here we are to Halloween already. The rest of 2011 will be over in a snap.


"Glitzy Witch" Ellie

Caption Trey Sparrow

Clone Trooper Brett
The above pictures were taken at the school's Halloween parade. It was fun to see all the classes showing off their costumes.


Happy Halloween from the Marshall's!

Afternoon at Jolley's Ranch

October 24, 2011
The day Paul got home from 10 days in China we all headed up to Jolley's Ranch to see some fall colors and play a bit.

Brett took this picture of me by himself!

Brett's 1st Friend Birthday Party

Sept. 24, 2011
Brett for his birthday wanted a friend party. This was his first friend party and it was fun. Brett asked for a Transformer themed party so I went to work planning it.

I looked at shaping the cake like Optimus or Bumble Bee but I just didn't think it would work out good and so I figured I could use a Bumble Bee car that he could play with later.

The first game was "Bomb Barricade". Paul played Barricade and the kids took water balloons and tried to throw them at him. They had fun with that!

Second game was "Decepitcons vs Autobots". Baically it was freeze tag.

Talk about a game that gets a ton of energy out of them.

Third game was "Freeze Megatron". So in the movie Megatron is frozen and held by the humans. Well, a little decepticon gets into the building and turns off the freezing machines so the kids need to cover him with ice and freeze him again. It was a relay game with two teams.

And the ever popular pinata. Poor Optimus lost a leg!

Splitting up the pinata loot.

I think the kids had a wonderful time and Paul and I had a good time doing the party. Happy 6th Birthday to my wonderful, amazing Brett!