We Love General Conference!

This is one of our 2 favorite weekends of the year!  Especially since it is Fall!  It is so nice to listen to church leaders keep us on course in our lives!  We love to listen to The Prophet, President Monson, and love his counselors too!  Todd also loves going to Priesthood Meeting on Saturday night with Chandler, Alec, his Dad and Brothers!  Of course, it is also the great food they go get afterwords that is fun too.  It is a good reward for Chandler and Alec.  Anyway, we hope you all have a great weekend, and if you get the chance, enjoy General Conference.

To Be Young and In Love

Where does the time go?  Do you ever stop and wonder?  To remember back when it all began?  The magic.  The sparks!  The passion!  To be young and in love?

Well here we are then, and here we are now.  And all I have to say is... I may be missing some hair, and added a few pounds (or 50)... but I still got it baby!

Happy 15th Birthday Alec!

Today is Alec "Burly" Halpin's 15th Birthday!  Yes, he couldn't wait to get down here to earth, so he came exactly one year and one week after Chandler was born, and he's been rockin' ever since.  Now why "Burly" you ask?  Because anyone who has the upper body strength that Alec has is referred to as a burly man!  For example, when Alec was 9 months old, we couldn't keep him in his crib, because he would just pull himself up and over the rails!  At 11 months, he would open the cabinet drawers, pull himself up onto the counter top, then climb up on top of whatever appliance was available so he could the pull himself up on top of the fridge!  All so he could get at the Cookie Jar!  That's why we have always called him Burly!  Alec loves to play video games.  When he was just five or six years old, we had just purchased a new video game for him to play on his Nintendo.  A couple of hours he and Chandler came in and Alec said, "I finished the game".  To which Janette and I replied, how do you know you finished the whole game?  In true Alec fashion, he responded, "because after I finished the last stage, it said THE END!"  Duh Mom and Dad!  Now Alec love Rock Band where he became so good at the drumming, that we had to go and buy him a real drum set.  This was back in June.  Four days later I heard some great drumming going on downstairs from Alec's room.  So I went down to see which one of his friends was so good at playing the drums.  To my utter astonishment, there was Alec with his headphones on banging away to what ended up being a perfect rendition of some song by The All American Rejects!  That's Alec for you!  Happy Birthday Boy!  Your Mom and Dad and Brothers love you and hope you have a great day!

Happy 16th Birthday Chandler!

Today is Chandler "Chubby" Halpin's 16th Birthday!  So let me just start by saying, "Clear the Roads and Stay off the Streets!" because Chandler has his learner's permit!  What once was a cute little baby boy has know grown into a very tall man child!  Oh, to go back to the days when Chandler used to call his brother "Al" and used words like "tutdown" when he scored, or "Ho-Ho" for what does Santa say.  Now it's words like "homey", "True Dat", and "I is" when he talks. But boy do we love him and are so glad he is our boy!  Happy 16th My Boy! - Dad

We can't believe that we actually have a child in high-school.  It seems as if he was just born.  I remember the day quite well.  After going into labor with him, Todd took me to the hospital around 11:00 pm.  After 3 hours of being monitored, and no dialation whatsoever, the doctor sent me home, and told me to attend my previously scheduled appointment the following afternoon at 3:00 pm.  We got back to our little apartment in the avenues around 2:30 am and Todd was exhausted!!!  He laid down and went to sleep, and I tried to relax in the living room.  The pain was coming quicker and stronger.  After a few hours of this (and talking to dead people because I was delirious), I woke up Todd and begged him to take me to the hospital.  He reminded me that the Doctor told us to wait for our 3:00 appointment.  Again, the pain was horrible, so after watching me cry for what seemed like forever,  we again got into our car and drove to Cottonwood hospital.  We arrived around 7:45 am, and at 9:45 am our sweet little boy was born!!!  HE WAS PERFECT!!!  We couldn't be more proud of our wonderful son Chandler, and we love him so much!!!!    Happy Birthday Chubby!!! - Mom

Luau's, Lei's, and Love!

Well, after all of the weeks of preparation, Janette's 40th Birthday Luau has come and gone! We had a really great time and I would like to say "thank you so much" to all of you who came to celebrate Janette's big day!  I was thinking that many of you have been with Janette even a lot longer than I have, and I know she LOVED having you there!  The most important thing in our lives are Family and Friends.  And we have the BEST in the world!  

So, the Food was Great (thanks Moki's Hawaiian Grill), Everyone got Lei'd, no one Lost an Eye, and only Half of the Tiki Torches burned to the ground!  I'd say all in all....NOT TOO BAD! Here are some of the Highlights....