Thursday, August 20, 2009

Back to School








It is unbelievable how beautiful these girls continue to get. Breathtaking. Sasha started that 1st grade and Chloe is now a large and in charge 2nd grader. The first day held a few challenges but we are now off and running. Here comes homework, spelling tests, math quizzes, and of course girl drama! Wish us luck.


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

I am a business woman




After nearly 5 years as a Child Protection Investigator I have decided that I can serve myself, my family, and my community much better offering prevention to child abuse rather than intervention.

Here is a look at my new home office. It is cozy, homey and absolutely PERFECT. The girls' art center is sharing the corner of the room and they love working on crafts while I am busy at my desk.
Be sure to check out my newly built website as well. It is my first website so I am open to any and all suggestions. http://www.yourstrongfamily.com/
Two more days till back to school, I will be sure to post some great first day of school pics.


Sunday, July 19, 2009

Fun Family Times







What a lucky weekend, we had Great Grandma Dottie from Pennsylvania, Grandma Kathy from Montana, and Uncle Mike, Aunt Kris, Aime and Jessica from Arizona. We went to Duck Creek, sat by the fire, lit off fireworks, and laughed A LOT. It was really wonderful to have family together. Hopefully we can make it happen as often as it should. If not then we have tons of pictures to remeber this great weekend.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The mighty swimmer

This is Chloe's 25 M butterfly. She swam in three races and took second in all three. This was the biggest swim meet she has been to with 300kids competing. She is pretty great all day she was scared to race the 100 IM and did phenomenal! Her second place in the 100 IM was only 1 second off of being a 1st and this was the first time she has even tried it. She has two more big meets this summer. We will keep it posted.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Summer Vacation Dalton Style



Do you know how to hoola? I am thinking for Grandpa that is a NO. But lets give him an 'A' for effort shall we. As you can see it was a week of relaxing and fun in the sun in Albuquerque. I wish we could do this every week that would be a dream, but alas it was back to reality where both Mark and I are considering career moves but only our good Lord knows what lies ahead.




Saturday, June 20, 2009

Zoom Zoom Zoom






Chloe did so great in her first running race! She completely smoked the other girls, it is phenomenal to watch. Due to an unfortunate circumstance at the end of her race she did not make it to finals, but next year she will know where the finish line is for sure. In all fairness there were people everywhere and not a whole lot of organization. I can guarantee that had she ran all the way through the finish line full out she had a very very high chance at medalling in the finals. Even adding an extra two seconds on her time she was 9th out of 32 girls that were 10 and under. Now we are back to swimming for the summer. This girl is all athlete!~!




Monday, May 18, 2009

Sasha Sasha Sasha

This is the end of the year Cheer performance. Sasha did great. If you look really close you can also see that she lost another tooth today. Chloe has been training vigorously for the Utah Summer Games. If anyone is interested in seeing the fastest 7 year old in all of Utah come to Cedar City June 11 and June 12, she will light the track on fire!!