Ping Pong Champ !!!!!!!

Ping Pong Champ
Hello everyone. Well, I asked Dawnia to tell us about her ping pong successes but she felt it was a bit self serving and refused to write anything. So here I am telling you all and especially giving Dallan and Deven advance notice that their little sister may in fact whoop em in a game next time. Dawnia had a Ping Pong class at college where she has been learning the fine Art of the game of Ping pong. She was successful in beating everyone in the class. They held a tournament in which Dawnia won the whole thing. She must have been awesome. The guy she beat was extremely upset with the loss and told Dawnia that they were still friends but that he was very ticked off that she had beat him. She is to be awarded a prize on Monday, I'm hoping it is a full ride scholarship. In asking Dawnia how she was able to beat him she said she played to his weaker backhand side keeping the ball low to the net and just playing the angles. She said that occasionally she would serve him up a nice juicy forehand ball with a wicked undercut, which worked quite well in getting him to slam it into the net. Well, done Dawnia !!!I wished I had a picture to post with this but I don't. Maybe we can ask Dawnia to post one for us.Love ya all. Lets all work on our ping pong game so we can be ready for Dawnia next Christmas.Dad

Hello From Down South

Hey! Just thought I'd put some pics of the kids from this weekend!

Hope everyone is doing well and that you all had a great Easter!

Love you all!

Here's Garrett finding eggs in our backyard before we went to church! I have to say, that he is the best little egg-hunter ever! This kid can find eggs no matter what...and he's quick too! He totally outran his friends when we had another egg hunt after our Easter dinner!

Ethan getting in on the egg-hunt action...he found is one egg and didn't want to let it go!

Here's Ethan with his new bouncy ball that the Easter Bunny brought him!

Here's me playing on my Intramural team.. just trying to keep ya all updated :)
and sorry bout the other picture thats kind of embarrysing just posting a pic of me on here.. anyways bye!

HI!

Wow i figured it out... how to post something on here.. anyways thought i'd say hi i guess. and i love you all...(more so Danielle right now cause she just bought me a ticket to come see here.. so if anyone else wants to knock her off the top you can pay for me to come visit!) haha just kidding! anyways have a good life everyone! id post a picture but i aint gonna push it lol... ( and no dad "lol" does not mean lots of love.) haha ok miss you all. bye
DAWNIA


oh what do ya know i figured it out... man this college thing really is making me smarter ;)

Happy Anniversary!

Hey Mom & Dad!

Just wanted to wish you guys a happy anniversary! Hope you got to go do something fun to celebrate! We sure love you guys!

Happy Birthday Dana!!!

Happy #25 Dana!!!

Hope your day is fantastic!

We LOVE you!!!

(seriously, isn't this the cutest picture ever?!?!?)

Fun Times!!!

While some thought that we were dead on the side of the road...we were all at a Rockets game with Dawnia! Sorry again about forgetting our phones and/or not being able to hear them!

We're having a blast having Dawnia here...hopefully she feels the same way! She'll probably be glad to get back to the peace and quiet of her normal life after this week! :)

Back Safe N Sound

Hello Everyone, I'm back safe and sound. For anyone who didn't know I went to Calif on a qucik business trip and then to Phoenix where I stayed with Deven for a couple days. Had a great time with Deven. He is doing very will. We played B-ball from which I am still stiff and sore, but what do you expect from a 45 year old. While catching up on my office work a couple pic flashed across my screen that I thought you all would enjoy.

Love ya all

Dad

Derek's Pictures

I'm sure we all got these pics...but I thought I'd post them on here anyway. This is Areal, Derek & Elder Tagg, and the Mandarin-speaking missionaries (I'm assuming!)

Derek looks sooooo happy and so grown up! I love it!

I'm starting to wish I had some childhood pictures to post on here too! Actually, I'm starting to wish I had a scanner so if I had some, I could post them! But since I don't have either, I thought I would update you on life in the Nye household and show you our recent pictures. =)

Last week, we went to the Jazz game (one of Brian's friends invited us) and we sat on the 10th row! It was a lot of fun, even though we were losing the whole game. But in the 4th quarter the Jazz pulled ahead and won the game! It was very exciting!!

The next night (Brian's birthday), our washer broke and leaked through the 2 floors beneath us. They say all the water got trapped between the sub-flooring or something, so it's actually still leaking on our neighbors (5 days later). The fault is believed to be with RC Willey's, though, for installing it wrong. In the meantime, our washer is being checked over and over by their people and our stackable dryer is patiently waiting in our kitchen. Here is a pic of our present layout:

Baking and eating is a pretty interesting experience! It's great motivation to keep working out though- I have to suck in when I slide around it!

Right now, it's a little lonely- Brian's out of town again. But he'll be back Wed night, so at least the end is in sight. I hope all of you are having a good week! Love you all!

-Dana & Brian

What Were We Thinking???

So my first thought was...did we not notice that our heads were literally just inches from seagull poop?

Then I realized that we did notice, but just didn't care! Well, at least Dallan seems to care a bit...he looks absolutely disgusted! :) Smart kid! And Dana is wisely keeping her distance...only allowing a portion of her to get close enough for the picture!

Ahhhh...the good ol' days on the boat! Makes me miss the old sailboat...but then again, I wasn't ever the one to have to chase it around the island after every big windstorm! :)

Luvs to you all...and happy Tuesday!

Ta Da!

I am finally up with the rest of you. Well, kind of, I still need to do my profile and such. I just wanted to get connected. Hope you all are doing well! I will post more later. Love you all, MOM