HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JORDAN

You had a birthday, shout Hooray!

Jordan celebrated birthday number 19 on June 19th. She celebrated her special day by working then going to dinner and a movie with her boyfriend. Besides that, she got a new puppy. This is Pebbles. She is a 3 month old black and tan bloodhound.

She also got this ring. No, there's no announcements being made, it's a right hand ring. This is a ring that was Jordan's grandma-great's. She got it when she graduated from high school. It needed a little work done on it so, for her birthday, we took it to the jewelers and got it fixed and made pretty again.

Next year, she won't be a teenager any more. It's hard to believe sometimes how fast the children grow up. Where has the time gone? Looking back, it really does seem not very long ago that we were just celebrating Jordan's first birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese. Now if we can survive the last 3 going through the teenage years!

Happy Birthday Jordan Sydney Gainey!!!!

The End of the 2008/2009 School Year!

Another school year has come to an end and I am just a little slow getting this post done. The way I look at it, the new school year hasn't started so I'm still ok. It was a good year and the kids had some achievements I'd like to share with you.

This is Zack demonstrating what award he received. His is one we are so proud of. In case you haven't been able to tell, it has to do with the game Rock, Paper, Scissors. Zack was the Rock, Paper Scissors Champion of the 700 building at Foothill High School. This is one award they don't give certificates for, instead, he received this fine looking t-shirt . We are so glad to see that the time we sent him to school was well spent. When we received his report card, it was obvious he must have spent most of his free time preparing for this competition.

Mackenzie received a gold medal for reading. Each teacher also selects one student from the class who has shown the most improvement through out the school year. This award is appropriately named "The Most Improved". Mackenzie was the recipient of this award from her teacher. When Mackenzie got home later that afternoon, she had one more award she received after the award ceremony. She also made the A/B Honor Roll and received a certificate for this too.
You can see how surprised she was!

Mackenzie will begin the 5th grade next year. After 19 years, the Gainey Family will finally be graduating from John Dooley Elementary School.

Whitney just finished the 7th grade. Only one more year of Junior High for her.

Whitney received recognition for Outstanding Effort in the P.E class she was a Student Aid for. She also received a certificate and recognition for being on the A/B Honor Roll.

School has been out for almost a month now and the summertime boredom is beginning to set in now. The challenge of finding things to keep the kids busy and the fighting to a minimum has begun. Only 56 more days before school starts!!!!:)

OUR WONDERFUL GRANDMA!!!!!

This is our Grandma Waters. After a long battle with Alzheimers and dementia, Heavenly Father decided she had fought long enough and last Friday morning with her oldest son, my dad at her side, he called her home. She passed away just one month to the day from celebrating her 92nd birthday and 54 days from celebrating her 75th wedding anniversery with Grandpa. It was with mixed emotions that we said good-bye to her. We are sad that she is no longer here with us on this earth but are so glad she is all better and no longer fighting this darn disease. Grandma was an amazing woman. She was a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great gramdmother. She raised 7 children - 6 sons and 1 daughter. She had 30 grandchildren, 61 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great grandchildren. What a legacy she leaves behind.
We will miss her sloppy joes and potatoe salad at every family gathering, the piano (as she pronounced it pie-ano) again and again (grandmas pronunciation a-gain and a-gain) and her beautiful red hair. Did I mention, her favorite color was red?! Grandma's earthy body has been laid to rest at the Basalt Cemetary in Idaho. She is buried next to her sons, David and Gaylan and will be waiting for Grandpa as he will be buried next to her when his time here on this earth is complete. And whether she likes it or not, her earthly body has found a permanent home. She will not be moving from this location.
For those who are wondering, I was on my best behavior at the funeral. Well, ok, there was the rigamortis comment while we were at the mortuary (another one of those you had to be there moments) but that was it. And for some reason, as the family spent the final moments with Grandma, I kept getting poked and looks from my sister, husband and kids.

Grandma, We Love You Forever.

Fun times at the fair

Baseball Season!!!

It is officially another baseball season. Zack is playing on the Junior Varsity team at Foothill this year and was named one of the captains. They played Boulder City High School yesterday, Zack hit a in the park GRANDSLAM!!!! It was pretty amazing. It was a pretty close game but Foothill ended up winning 19-0. If they keep playing like this they should have a pretty good season!

Paving Party!!!

Every year Las Vegas Paving has the BEST Christmas party ever. They have a helicopter fly Santa in then every one gets a ride on the helicopter. And this is all thanks to Mr. Mendenhall. We love this guy! He is so much fun and such a nice guy. The girls gave him the new nickname Mr. Magorium because he has all his toys around the office. I dont think they are ment for all the kids when they go in there but they all play with his toys and he is always in the middle of it with them like a really big little kid. Thank you Mr. Mendenhall for the party every year!!!Jordan knows Santa!!!! The last 2 years Jordan got to be one of Santa's helpers and fly in with Santa and help him hand out the presents. She has also become best friends with Tom the pilot. He is a blast. Jordan is his favorite elf!

Birds eye view of the Mandalay Bay and THE hotel.

This is the Orleans arena where Jordan graduated from high school. Bet no one else has this view

City Center

The Statosphere.

Snow Day!!!

Our pool was frozen. We thought about using it as an ice skating rink!

Port of subs new mascot

Driving down Boulder high way

The snowman was HUGE!!!

Two things that don't go together are snow day and Las Vegas. Well it happened school was cancelled for today because there was so much snow. The news said that Mt. Charleston got 11 inches of snow and where we live got 8 inches. how crazy we got just as much snow as Mt. Charleston.