Paige Is Turning One!

My little sister's baby girl, Paige, turns One year old tomorrow!! The whole fam was together last weekend so we celebrated it then & my sis did a Great job w/ her Party!! Paige is already obsessed w/ Dora the Explorer so she did the whole party around Dora the Explorer. She put together a map for the kids to follow just like on the TV show & the kids had a great time. You can go to her blog for a complete play by play of the whole event (she's linked on my page under Amber & Josh Hammand). Here is a pic of Mike & I possing as Dora & her sidekick Boots (Amber drew these). It was really funny to see everyone possing behind them, young & old.

It is also a tradition in our family, like most, to strip the kid down to their diaper and let them dig into their first cake. Well, Amber found directions for a Dora cake on Nick Jr. & somehow with Amber getting the party all together, I ended up taking over on the cake & I have to say I am really proud of myself!! I have never done a decorative cake before but it was alot of fun!! Below is a little step by step outline of how it went :)

Paige your Aunt Traci & Uncle Mike LOVE you VERY much and we hope you enjoyed your First Birthday!! Happy Birthday!!!

The Walker Reunion

The pic on the top is of my Grandma & Grandpa Walker & first off, Aren't they one goodlooking couple ?!?! Well I think so & neither one of them are with us anymore & we haven't had a Walker Reunion since my Grandpa passed away & that was the summer of '04. So my mom & dad decided it was time to reunite and so we did this last weekend in Saint George. It was great to see cousins and aunts and uncles that we hadn't seen in a while. We went to the Rec center in St. George where we swam, Bar-B-Que'd and battled in Sand Volleyball. And I have to say my team rock!! The rec center also had a lap pool, so after watching lots of Gold Medals won by Michael Phelps I thought it would be easy to swim the lap pool & let me tell you it is not as easy as he makes it look! I think it took me 5 minutes to swim one way :) Well, at least it helped me gain an even greater respect for him! Well, it was a great time and hopefully next year even more of the family will be able to make it.

What was also neat was that my Aunt Leanna made this awesome display of where our "family tree" began. It started with my Great Great Great Grandparents. Anyways it was really neat!!

Here are some pics of of some of the fam hanging out at the reunion, We had a great time & Thanks Mom & Dad for organizing it!!!

Well...I Guess It's My Turn

Alot of people have been doing this on their blogs & it's been so fun thinking of memories w/ them and reading the different memories that I thought I would give it a shot! I would LOVE for you to join along :) And also because I don't have much to post about right now except for the fact that I am STOKED that Breaking Dawn is out & I hope to have it all read very soon!! Anyways...

Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, post one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or alot, anything you remember.

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

I can't wait to read what fun memories you all come up with :) And I hope you all have a memory with me! If not...Then we totally need to hang out more - haha ;)