Random pictures

Brenton 4th of July (a while ago).


The Fourth.


The Fourth again.


Jackson w/ Broken arm (a while ago).


Jackson at Halloween.

Easter Egg Hunt

Jackson hunting for eggs!


Big kids gearing up for the Easter Egg Hunt.


Jackson getting ready.



Treasures from the Hunt!

Amberley and Jackie at KA

Amberley in the KA theater w/ Jackie.



After show, meeting the characters.

March Family Newsletter

March has been a really fun month. I think it’s probably because we were on spring break so we only had three weeks of school. We were all needing the break and made the most of it. Brenton finished his basketball season the first day of March. Good thing because baseball started the exact same day. Brenton’s baseball coach is a very good coach. He is really patient with Brenton and Brenton is improving. Amberley and Brenton both finished their bowling club in the middle of March. I’m glad that is over. It was fun, but seemed to add too much in our already busy life. Brenton also received his wolf award in scouts. Now he is going right into the Bear den. I have finally updated his scout shirt. It wouldn’t be so bad if it were just his wolf patch I needed to get on, but I procrastinated so much I had to put on his bobcat, wolf and seven arrows. Thank goodness for spring break. Amberley has seemed to slow down a little this month. She finished her swimming lessons and really enjoyed that. However, we decided to take a break from swimming. She said something about basketball but we haven’t done anything about that. She has gone on two dates this month. She went to the Blue Man Group with Mike. During the month, Am and I went to KA. It is a production by Cirque de Soleil. Amberley loved both of them. She said Blue Man Group was really funny and KA was amazing. Jackson also finished swimming earlier this month and then started baseball. Mike is coaching his team which both of them seem to enjoy. Today was their first game. Jackson played first base and right field. They don’t keep score for Jackson’s division but he hit the ball every time he was at bat. He also made it all the way around the bases without getting out. All the parents thought he was pretty cute because every time he would come in to home plate, he would always slide. I asked him what he was doing and he told me “That’s what they do.” Jackson also turned five this month. He didn’t have a party but we did go to the park with the Debbie and kids then everyone enjoyed cake and ice cream at our house. The day ended with Sara and Kaitlyn spending the night. Mike spent two weeks in Colorado this month. He was concerned he wasn’t going to be able to get home. When he got to the airport Friday night in Colorado ready to come home, they told him that the airplane was having mechanical problems and they would not be able to help them, but that they needed their names, so that they could pray for them on Easter Sunday. So he had to drive to Phoenix Arizona, an eight-hour drive through the night. Once he got to Phoenix (about 3 am Saturday morning) he couldn’t get a flight until 11:00 Saturday. So he didn’t get home until Saturday afternoon. Besides work, he is putting a lot of time into coaching and helping around the house. I have been busy with work and family. At school, we had a family spaghetti night, which I helped serve and clean up. The second trimester ended so I had to do report cards. (One of the worst things about my job.) We have also had a lot of high-stakes tests, so it’s not a lot of fun. And of course family always keeps me busy. Sometimes I feel like a taxi driver that’s not getting paid. I have spent a lot of nights at the baseball diamonds, which is a nice change of scenery. Also I’m the team mom for Jackson’s baseball team, so I had to make a banner for their team. It was a lot of fun and it turned out pretty cute. We also had a good Easter. Of course the kids went to the Easter egg hunts, which all of them did well and the weekend ended with a nice family dinner.

Jackson being a Starwars Hero

What a funny kid Jackson is!

Blue Man

Amberley and I had the opportunity to go to the Blue Man Group Show. We first stopped and had a great dinner at this little Italian place inside the Venetian and took these pictures from that night. We had fun, and Am got lucky to sleep in the next morning, but I wasn't that lucky. It sucks being an adult! :)

After the show - meeting the Blue Man.

Am hanging by the river.

Inside the Blue Man Theater pre-show.

Durango Trip

This was the horizon from Durango, CO when we landed. Nice to be back in the snow.

According to the former Army Control Tower guy that I'm working with right now, this plane is a great plane to fly in because everyone has a view. Yes it is, but it's also very loud and slow. It was fun to fly in it through.

Spaghetti Dinner at School

To thank all the Parents and to celebrate Nevada Reading Week the school, Kitty Ward, had a Spaghetti dinner and invited a special guest, Clifford.

Jackson at Swimming Lessons

Jackson and Amberley have been taking swimming lessons this year at the YMCA. They both have done a great job, this is a picture of Jackson Swimming.

Brenton Scouts Award

Brenton at Pack Meeting receiving his Wolf Award. Now that he is nine he is moving up to the Bear Den.

Bowling Club

Brenton at Bowling Club.

This is Amberley after bowling a strike at the Kitty Ward Elementary Bowling Club.

Basketball Awards Ceremony

The "Nuggets" (left to right) Zach,

Nathan, Brendan, Audre, Brenton,

Zachary, Andrew, Coach Justice

Brenton with his award.

Brenton and Mike at Awards Ceremony with his Medal

Saturday Night Dinner

After Baseball Practice we decided to go to a new Italian Restraurant. It was a good time and we were stuffed.

Brenton's 1st Baseball Practice

Brenon had his first Baseball Practice last night. He is doing a great job. His team looks really good this year.

Night at Blue Man Group Performance

Jackie met one of the Blue Men after the show!

After the show hanging by the Blue Man Poster.

We ending up on the fly getting some tickets to see the Blue Man Group last night. So we headed down to the Venetian and had a quick bite and then on to the show. We had fun. When all was said and done we didn't make it home until 1 am, so today will drag. Tonight is the 1st round of the playoffs for Brenton's Basketball team. We'll keep you posted.

February Family Newsletter

Another busy month has come and gone. This month started with Brenton’s birthday and birthday party. We went to the roller skating palace. Brenton had some of his friends from school and church come. His schoolteacher even came and skated with us. It was a lot of fun. A few days later was the super bowl. Brenton is a huge Patriots fan but everyone else wanted the Patriots to lose. When the Patriots lost he took it pretty well. No tears, no yelling, just disappointed. He did say that he is excited for March because then he gets to win in March Madness. Brenton and Amberley are currently doing the bowling club. Brenton is finishing his basketball league this next week and Amberley and Jackson are finishing their last swimming lesson on Saturday. Amberley lost her fifth tooth and again the tooth fairy was late giving her money. The tooth fairy needs to get organized. I have been busy with work and the kids. I have also completed my last provision on my Nevada state license. I had to complete a course on the Nevada law and constitution. I just finished it last week so I’m happy to say I will be a teacher in the state of Nevada for the rest of my life. Nothing special with Mike. Just work, work, and more work. He also has been coaching Brenton’s basketball team that will be ending this week and next week he will start coaching Jackson’s baseball team. One extra bit of fun this month was seeing Debbie and the kids last weekend. I know we live only an hour away from each other but it’s been difficult to find time to get together. On President’s Day weekend, we spent the afternoon together having a picnic and swimming at the Boulder City pool. We had a good time. Well, that’s all for now. We hope everyone is doing OK. We are going to be doing a March Madness Family Pool again, if you want to participate let Mike know.

Amberley Going Toothless

We'll now we have two kid's with a missing front tooth. Amberley called me to tell me that she has a loose tooth and I need to come home early that night to pull it out. So that is what I did, went home and pulled out her tooth. The tooth fairy was a day late in getting her paid, but that was just because of the timing of when she lost her tooth.

Work Trip to Reno

This was another trip to Reno. I went there for work. Took the guy I was with around as it was his first time in Reno. This is the famous downtown sign. It was a long 2 days. Very little sleep, but we tore up the job and got a 2 week audit completed in two days. Wicked Cool!

Brenton's Birthday Party Video

Brenton's Birthday Party

Jackson getting ready to skate at Brenton's B-day Party.

Brenton tearing it open!

Nice Cake!

Look Mom, I skating!

Taking a break.

Rangler's Game (Hockey)

This is at the Orleans Areana - Friday Night!

January Family Newsletter

This month we have been getting back to normal. Back to school, back to 8:00 bedtimes for the kids and back to busy season (Mike's work). We went back to school on the 7th of January and the first week back was parent/teacher conferences. It was hard work. It takes a lot of time to prepare for conferences, so the first week back was pretty long. I recieved good reports from Amberley's and Brenton's teachers. Both of them are working hard and learning a lot. On top of doing parent/teacher conferences, the Saturday before I went back to work, my babysitter called me and told me that she got a new job and wouldn't be able to watch Jackson anymore. So I scrabbled trying to find a new sitter and I lucked out when I found a neighbor in the ward that was looking for kids to watch. She lives on the same street as us and has five kids. One is in kindergarten so they get to play together. It worked out perfectly.
During the third week of January, Mike's parents came down to visit for a few days. It worked out perfectly because Mike and I had a trip planned to Reno for the weekend. So instead of the kids staying with a family friend, they got to stay home with Grandma and Grandpa Justice.
Brenton basketball season is continuing. He is doing great and trying hard. Next month Brenton and Jackson are starting baseball. It looks like we will be spending a lot of time at the baseball parks.
Amberley and Jackson are contiuning with swimming. Both of them are learning a lot, but Amberley is making great strides. The first week of her new class, the teacher came up to me and said Amberley is too advanced and needed to move up other class. She is really enjoying swimming.
Mike is busy with busy season. He is in-charging McGladrey's biggest client. On top of that, the client decided to move up their filing date by about four weeks so Mike has had to put in a lot of hours. It has been a lot of pressure on him but he is doing well. The one good thing about this is that after Febraury 15th Mike will be pretty much done with his busy season.
Along with all the things Mike is doing he somehow found the time to open the Justice Family blog. We invite all of you to visit our new website at http://justicelivin.blogspot.com/
One last bit of good news. After being married for nearly ten years, our family is attending nine o'clock church for the first time. I love it. Being in a huge ward for the past two years, it's caused us to have one o'clock church but someone figured out that if we put primary first and switch the other wards in our building we would be able to attend the earlier time. So our ward is still huge but finally we get the earlier time.
Finally, we were saddness by the lose of President Hinckley this past month. Ever since I can remember President Hinckley has been a member of the first presidence. He will be greatly missed.

Love, The Justices

Snowy Las Vegas Day

This is what we woke up to in Las Vegas.

Random pictures

After a day sleding in Deep Creek (actually 4 wheeling in the snow with a sled attached).





Mike w/ Jordan - what a night!









Amberley sleeping w/ new braids

Cedar City Dinner Dare

Okay here's the story (Jackie doesn't even know yet). I was in Cedar City for work last week, and a couple of people that we have hired and start next year from SUU live there, so we thought it would be a fun time to go out to dinner with them. We had a great recommendation to go to a nice restaurant (stays unnamed as you will find out later). With reservations made and a group of eight we thought that dinner would go smooth. Boy were we wrong, it all started out when our waiter took 15 minutes to bring out our drinks, then another 10 to bring appetizer's. After we got finished with those we waited for 7 minutes (we started to time) for salad's and low and behold our dinner (all at the same time). As we still hadn't gotten refills by this time we thought that someone was running down the street to Maverick to get more soda. One of the highlights of the night was when the waiter educated us on the difference between table pepper and crushed pepper (after we pointed out where he put down the shaker) then he proceeded to add pepper to not only our salads, but to our laps as well. This was right after he dumped french onion soup on the lap of one of the new hires and the funny thing was the waiter didn't even notice, so we didn't tell him, but he probably was wondering what was so funny when we were all laughing. Now that we are about 1 hour into our dinner we finally have our food. Okay I know that I'm from Vernal, but whenever I've eaten Prime Rib I've had horseradish. Apparently the rules are different in Cedar, Prime Rib only comes with vegetables. After we asked for horseradish and waited for 5 minutes, the waiter brought it out the caveat was that it was "Raw Horseradish" This was the most potent horseradish I've tasted. Which brings me to the highlight of the night. We all decided that it would be funny to see Mike eat an entire spoonful of Raw Horseradish. Well I got it down, holding back laughter and tears (and snot). For desert we were asked "What kinda' group do we have here?" "A thirsty one" was the only response. At which time we finally were able to get our first of what turned out to be two refills. It was a fun filled dinner that lasted 4 hours - On the bright side, my sinuses were all clear and we didn't have to use the restroom very much.

Reno trip

Ya that's right those are clouds and right again that's an airplane wing. Jackie and I went to Reno - thanks goodness for great Grandparents right? - for Clay Wanta's surprise birthday party, Happy Birthday Clay! What a fun filled weekend. We enjoyed the friends that were there until 3 am, wow we were really tired. I really hope that I can make it to 50 years old and still kick butt like Clay. By the way Brenton won his 1st Basketball Game - maybe Grandparents are also good luck charms.

Mike's $1 Dare

Mike Chugging Hot Sauce on a $1 dare! It felt worse on the way out :)

NASCAR Cafe - At the Sahara!

Kid's posing at the NASCAR Cafe.

SeaWorld Shamu Christmas Show

SeaWorld in the Wintertime! We loved our vacation!

Opening Post

Well we thought that we would see if this blog thing would catch on with our family and friends. Hopefully we can make some new friends. This picture was taken at Sea World when we went there for our family vacation during Christmas Break. We will be posting some more information later.