Really? I am a slacker- part two!

The holidays are suppose to be relaxing! How many of Megs concerts did we go too? It seems like 20 but I think it was 11 or 12. It was great though. She loves it and did very well for her first experience singing and dancing.


We enjoyed an afternoon at Color Me Mine... a new tradition that we love! Mace was ecstatic that he got to go this time. He made a very colorful Christmas Tree Plate that sported- "Go BYU"! Yes he is truly his fathers son.


Baking got put off until the week before, but my girls loved dipping chocolates and making goodies. Megs is a natural in the kitchen. Mikayla-well yeah, she needs a little help.

We were able to pull off our annual Christmas party. We had some of our good buddies and family members join us for a little christmas cheer. Note to self--Do not play the Santa's Beard Game. No one really liked vaseline and cotton balls on their faces.


The Traditional Scoresby Family Home Evening came off without a hitch. This was Dad and Mom Scoresby's first year since they were married that they were going to be home alone. Lucky for us, they were able to join us for our Family Night. Everyone was here except Blake and Jenna and kids. We totally miss them, especially at the holidays. It was fun playing games, telling stories, decorating cookies, singing and being together. Steve has a great family. We are blessed to have so many of them here near us.
Um yeah-I tried the santa game with the kids too-Make another note to self that kids hate it just as much as adults.

Hey I thought it was fun!

Christmas Eve was a different one for us. In the past we have always gone out to our best friends the Ereksons and celebrated, and the past 2 years I have been with my family as it has been hard since my uncle passed away. But this year (Mace was not totally over a bug) we spent it at home with just our family, and it was FUN. I think we will do it again. We ate a fabo dinner, and sang songs, watched the video of Luke 2 and played games all night.
Grandma Preece always makes the grandkids jammies. They love them!


Here is Megs and Mace spreading oats for Santa's reindeer. I am sure that Santa found our house.


Let the games begin!
Our Christmas was Merry, and we are very blessed. We love our family, our friends, the gospel and each other.

The Holidays can now begin!

Actually, our holidays have begun-BUT I have been so busy that I have not really gotten things ready! BUT I am done working for the rest of the month with CTMH so I can settle down and enjoy the fam, the parties and the festivities.

Dugan our cute little elf brought our Christmas package right on time December 1st. The kids love doing the activities each day and both Steve and I actually LOVE spending the time everyday with them.

I havnt gotten a lot of photos of the festivities, but here is the run down for the first two weeks. I have decided that the best gift you can give is the gift of time. Especially to your kids.
December 1st- We got our package.
December 2nd- We wrote a letter to Santa.
December 3rd- We made gingerbread men.


December 4th- We went to the festival of Trees. I took the kids out of school and we went and watched Meg perform with her singing group, but we also had a blast looking at the trees, and playing in the kids area. Here are my cute little ones having a blast in the bubble machine.

December 5th We celebrated St. Nickolas Day. The kids stuck their shoes out by their bedroom doors, and the next morning they recieved their shoes full of goodies. They love this day.
December 6th- We played games with our friends. Spoons and pit was the favorite!
December 7th- We started a new Christmas puzzle. This year I bought an Eric Dowdle hometown Christmas puzzle. The fam loved it, and had it put together in 3 days, and have started a new one.
December 8th We went to the mall to visit Santa (and watch Meg sing too). Mikayla was mortified that I made her sit on Santa's lap. I informed her that as long as she lived at home that there would be a photo of that year on the mantle of her on Santas lap. I got a big Grrrr.


December 9th-Make and deliver some cookies to neighbors. BUT we ended up eating them all.
December 10th- Was our pizza night under the tree. Steve is the bomb daddy when it comes to the pizza. Kids love this night!
December 11th-It was an early out day for Megs and Mace, so I checked Mikayla out early and we went to "Color Me Mine" to paint Christmas plates. It was fun. Mason loved getting the chance to finally go. I had to give him the pre-activity talking too because I didnt want to have to pay for any broken ceramics. He did great.
December 12th- We went to our ward Christmas Party.
December 13th-today we celebrated St. Lucia day. We made sweet bread in a braid. It was pretty chill for the day.

The Christmas cards are out, the traditional ornaments for the friends and neighbors were just finished today-so bring on the shopping and the parties!

My Donny WON!

It was a happy night at my house last night. I am feeling hoarse today from the cheers and screaming and excited tears of Donny's big win last night! I was so happy! I totally would have loved to be there to watch him and Kim win! It has been a fun season for me-seeing him and Kim practice at our studio. I got butterflies every time I knew he was in the room next door. I know, I know, I have been a whooped fan since I was like 8 or maybe younger. My sweet husband lets me drool and go ga-ga over him. He is pretty confident that I wont ever leave him for Donny. LOL. Kim Johnson is the nicest person ever. She has watched several of our kids dance at the studio and Mikayla loves her and thinks she is beautiful. It was a great season! AND Louie! He was awesome! We love our Louie! He did a fabulous job and we cant wait for both of those Utah boys to come back home!
Congratulations Donny and Kim!

Here we go again!

Am I up for it? I guess so! The new dance season has started! The dancer girl is putting in many an hour a day. She is still on the Jr. Company. She seems to love it, alot of her friends are on the teen company, but Mikayla is a little squirt, so she gets to be the leader for the juniors. They competed their first regional meet this past weekend in Ogden. They did great. They only competed two numbers this round. They earned a gold, and a high gold. A first and third overall. It was fun as always. She loved the two day convention and learned a ton.

Here is Kazna, Mikayla and Jocie after they performed 3 strikes. It was their hip hop that took first place.

Yeah Me!

It is official! My tests all came back clean! I have been cancer free for one year! One down, four to go! I am freakin stronger than cancer! My Doc says everything is looking great, and I am healing great, and there is no reason I should not stay cancer free.

Too all my girl friends, readers, family and friends--please remember this:
#1-Check yourself monthly!
#2-If you have any irregularities or suspicions or concerns (and you are related to me) call your Doc!
#3-Have a yearly girly exam!
#4-Have your yearly Mamogram!
#5-If you dont have an Aflac Cancer policy, you should get one! Really! It could save your life. (BTW-I know a great agent :) )

I love you all and do not want to loose any of you to this ugly disease! We all know someone who has had, has or died from cancer, so protect yourself today!

Scouts Like to Serve

I am the Bear Leader for Cub Scouts. It's a lot of fun. Nothing I have ever done before, but Mace comes with me and LOVES it! This past week we did a service project and raked the leaves at the church. We filled at least a dozen bags just in one area. The wind was terrible and kept bringing us more leaves to rake. The boys had a great time raking and jumping.

Our New Nephew

Welcome baby Joshua Evan Scoresby! The 19th Grandchild of Fred and Wanda Scoresby!
Here is the oldest and the youngest! He is a cutie! I think we will claim him! Congrats to Ev and Kristel and little Aleah!

Rock-to-ber

WOW! The month has come and gone, and well, lets just say that I am having a hard time keeping up with life! Here is a little sampling of what this "Rockin" busy month had in-store for the Stephen Scoresby fam.

We went to a Halloween Party at Uncle E-bays house. It was tons of fun to see all of the cousins and Aunties and Unc's all dressed up! Mikayla didnt attend this party with us, as she is much too big too hang with the family, and decided that her friends party was more important. Grandma and Grandpa Scoresby even joined us. Kristel and Ev did a great job! (We missed our Blake and Aunt Nen's fam though. We miss them!)
-Gotta love Steve's mullet and wife beater shirt. Funny thing happened though, on the way home from the party, we got a flat tire, and he had to change the tire with his wig on. I really did try hard not too laugh

We also made carmel apples this year. I have decided, that it is better too not go cheap when making these wonderful, mouthwatering treats. Kayla, Mace and I had a blast making these. Might I suggest that buying the carmel and dipping chocolate at the Bosch store is the best place too go. Oh and dont forget to wash the wax off of the apples. They were divine, and teachers, and friends LOVED them! I think that we will make this a new tradition.

Carving of the pumpkins-yet another fun tradition at most peoples homes. This year was a little different. All of our kids are growing up and thus, they have become very independant. They like to carve and clean their own. Although it is a wonderful thing, it tends too be very very messy. Especially if your name is Mace! As you can see I put a plastic table cloth on the floor and both kids are ontop of the table cloth with knees and arms in goop! Yes, we had to wash the floor, baseboards, and walls. Mikayla on the otherhand opted too not carve her vegtable, as she hates getting her hands dirty!

Late overs-Yes, we do not do sleep overs at our house (unless it is with cousins). Due to the fact that the kids do not sleep well, and come home cranky. But we do do lateovers. Well here is our latest late over this past weekend.
Mikayla was at a party, Mom and Dad were at a party. Mace even went to a party, but came home at nine. Meg had her own little party with her BFF Olivia. We came home at 10:30 to find this on our couches. Now mind you, this is not the first time that these two girls have fallen asleep at their late overs.

Here is Livy-catching a few Zzzzz's. It took me about 3 minutes to wake her. And here is Megs catching her Zzzzz'z. Good thing the house didnt burn down or that there were not any intruders. They would have slept through the entire thing!

And Lastly-HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
This year we let the girls decide what we were going to do for the festivities. Mikayla and Megs decided that we were going to be a family of "Hobo's. It was a riot. All of us but Mace dressed up like homeless people. We celebrated with our friends the Ellis's and Tracy. We built a fire in the fire pit out front, and had taco soup, chili, cornbread, hot cider, hot chocolate and candy for anyone who wanted any. It was so much fun! We of course had fun music playing, and Steve set up a campfire ring for all of our traveling friends and trick or treaters to stop by for some warmth.

I have decided that there is never a dull moment in our lives. And yet, I wouldnt have it any other way.
What a great way too start of the holiday season! Thank you too all of our great friends and to my awesome kids who love too party just as much as their mama! :) (I think Steve likes it too, but he will never admit it!)

It's Official!

Fall is here! Usually, I love every single season in Utah. We get all four of them! It is wonderful. It is one of the reasons I love living here. You get the beautiful warm spring and its blossoms, The HOT summers, the cool crisp fall, and the cold but not Idaho freezing cold.

But, because I am freaking in 'menopause" I am HOT all of the time! So, this crisp air is wonderful for me.

How do I know its here?

-First sign***You can find Egg Nog! Our family is Egg nog junkies!

--Second sign-is the jackets come out in the morning and are off by afternoon.

--Thirdly, and our fave is the falling leaves! The best mess of fun around!

--The hot chocolate comes out.
--I can find three kids cuddled in fleece blankets as they watch TV or read.
--I start to feel "Bakey".
--New Episodes premiere.
--All of my favorite holidays are upon us.
--Im a football widow to BYU season tickets.
--I start thinking about all of the Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities.
--Dance Competition season starts all over again.


I LOVE FALL!

One of our greatest blessings

We (I) have been so extremely blessed in my lifetime. Most people Steve and I's age's grandparents and sometimes even parents have passed away. I was lucky enough too not only know both of my fraternal grandparents, but I have known my Maternal Grandparents my entire life. Until two weeks ago.(Hence the lack of blogging)

I recieved a call from my parents last Saturday that my Grandpa Jensen passed away peacefully in his sleep. He was 87 years old, and full of life up until the last two days of his life. He was healthy, strong, had all of his wits and faculties about him. He was getting feeble as 87 isnt a young spring chicken anymore. They still drove and didnt have any old people disease. The other great thing is that they have been able too take care of themselves.

My Mom and Dad live one mile away from them, so they are able to go help them mow, shovel snow etc. Once a week my parents took them into to town to dinner, and my Dad has taken my Grandpa fishing every week in the summer. It has been a great thing having my folks there too take care of them indirectly.

My Grandmother has been the one that has been sick. So when he started not eating a getting wobbly and weak the few days before he died, my Grandmother was a little worried. My father and Uncle gave him a blessing last Saturday Evening. It was a blessing of peace and assurance that he had led a marvelous life. It was a blessing to reassure him that my Grandma would be ok. This blessing was at 5 o clock. He napped for several hours and at 7:54 PM my grandfather woke up, took two breaths, and was gone. Asleep in his chair. It was sweet and peaceful.

My grandmother told me that both of her prayers had been answered, even though you are never ready for anyone to die. She said that she prayed that Grandpa would go first, and she prayed that they wouldnt have to do a winter funeral. (Idaho winters are NOT fun!)

I went home for the week. Stephen and the kids joined me the day before the funeral. As the oldest grandchild I had lots of beautiful moments to serve my grandparents that week. I am grateful that I was able to be at home. The service was beautiful. Grandpa led a great life. He never judged a soul. He always made everyone feel great and he accepted everyone.

I got to help organize the service and order flowers. And spend some time with my grandfather alone at the mortuary. I will miss alot about my grandpa-but I will miss trying to smooth the wrinkles out of his hands, and I will miss playing with his big grandpa ears. I hear his laugh in my head everytime I think of him.

Here are the secret service agents---Darrin Preece, Dustin Preece, Travis Jensen, David Jensen, Jared Jensen, Logan Jensen, Curtis Pena, Brad Nuttal.

It had been snowing and raining all week I was there. The weather was beautiful for the funeral.
Here is Steve and I waiting for the Dedicatory Prayer.
It was a sad but good day. We will miss our Grandpa Jack

NO I AM NOT!!!

Alot of my friends, family and aquaintences that we know, have been posting on their blogs and on Face book that they are pregnant! That they are having a boy, or a girl, or in some cases a couple of boys. I love it, its cute and I am totally excited for them. I just thought that I would inform all of my loyal readers and followers, that "I AM NOT PREGNANT". nor is it physically possible any longer. BUT a big congrats to all of you who are. I was just feeling a little left out-now I am good, and will be happy to spoil all of those little babies that are about too be born!

Bike 2 Bike Heber Century Cancer Ride 2009

If you are an avid Scoresby Scoop Blog reader, then you will remember that last September my family rode this Heber Century ride for The Huntsman Cancer Center. All proceeds go to cancer research. Yes-we are avid "cancer research supporters". Last year I didnt get to ride, I had to watch from the window of my car as Steve and my Dad transported me around too cheer my amazing cousins on. It was amazing! It was humbling to know that they were doing this race for me, and for my uncle (their Dad) who had just died 4 months earlier to Pancreatic Cancer. Team Preece rocked!

Today Team Preece rode again! AND they rocked again! It's tradition! AND-I joined them on the road today! I committed to ride 25 miles. I knew that I couldnt do more this year. It's been a hard recovery-BUT the important thing is I'm officially back on the road. I have rode alot this summer, but not up too where I was a year ago. My goal is too be back to 20 plus miles a day. Not only was that a big milestone for me, but my little Meggie rode the entire 25 miles with me. She was a rock star!


She is a determined little thing. She set a great pace and we had a blast together. She has now caught the biking bug too and wants to ride as many races as she can next year. Quite a few of the other bikers were amazed at her as she climbed the soldier hollow hill. They were cheering her on, and she loved every second of it. Both Steve and I were totally proud of her.

(In this photo is Troy, me, Kim and Megs)

Ride Hard or Go Home!

My goal was to ride 25 miles. My Dad was going to ride with me, but since he couldnt (because of surgery on Monday), Megs took his place. It was a great experience for both of us to do this together. She is exactly what I needed today.

Steve and I in an emotional embrace. My tears were from accomplishing a hard goal. I have really realized that "I can do hard things!" And Steves tears were tears of gratitude that I am still here! (plus he has lived the hard stuff with me!)


Troy designed our shirts again. Here is the front. Which was totally appropriate for our team. I loved it Troy! Thanks!

The back was cool too. Here is the upper half. The "S2B' means "Save 2nd Base". You can go to savesecondbase.com if you need more info on this. :)

And here is the lower back of the shirt.


I personally think that the whole thing was great! Cancer is cancer whether its breast, uterine, pancreatic, lymphoma. We need a cure! My plea is that everyone does their part to get involved with a cancer research charity today. I know that we all know someone with cancer or you have lost someone to cancer or both.

For me, "I am Stronger than Cancer"! Thanks Meg for the great ride! Thanks Steve-0 for the support, and for being a great pit crew! And thanks to all of my great friends who came to support and cheer us on today. AND thanks to all of my awesome cousins who rode for me and all of the other Cancer patients and survivors. I am blessed.

Happy Fete Day

So we hosted our first "Fete" Day. Last year, the Caziers invited us to experience our first Fete day, and this year we hosted our first.
What is Fete day you ask? Well, (this is how Maleen explains it)August is the only month without a holiday. I did not know that until last year. So, Fete means celebration or party (I dont know what language, but it sounds good). It can be any day in August.You pick a color to celebrate with,so this year the color was Yellow.

We invited the Ellis family, the Kierksik family, and the Lamb family to join the "Fete" festivities. All wore yellow (thanks John, I know it was hard for you). Everyone brought a gift for someone that was "yellow". The kids really love this part.
I had a jar full of yellow candy that was a guessing jar. We played games and had a barbeque. Mikayla and Meg made yellow smiley face cupcakes for a cupcake walk for the kids. It was cute. Phoenix had so much fun on the merry go round, that he barfed. We had a mini micro burst, but all in all,we loved our "Fete" day, and cant wait to do it again next year!



It was also Justins birthday so he got to celebrate his day with our Fete celebration.

Some of our Favorite People

We are so blessed to have the best birth moms and extended families. They are all great! We love them like our own families, and we are glad to be able to share our children with them once in awhile, by letting them have a little glimpse into their lives. A few weeks ago, Helen, Kevin, and Rachel came to visit, bringing Mason and Megans little brother Logan with them.

We went on a picnic to the park and played. Logan loves all three of our kids, and of course Meg and Mace fight over him. They taught him how to roll down the hill, and they taught him how to catch frogs and how to ride a scooter. It was awesome. The sad part is when they leave and Mason thinks he needs his brother back. Poor buddy. On a good note, we are so grateful that the kids get to know their little brother, even if its for only a day or two a year. Oh, and it is always a treat to see Rachel! ALL of the kids love Rachel (who is the auntie), and they love to run circles around Adam(who is the uncle).

Logan and Mason--can you see the resemblence?

Meg teaching Logan how to scoot!

Going on a frog hunt.

Preece Family Reunion 09

We went to the Preece family reunion in August. Bear Lake is the meeting place. It was a riot. We had a great cabin this year, infact we loved it soo much that we are trying to get it again next year. It was so cool because we had access to the pool at the marina condos, so the kids were able to swim at night.
We spent time out on the lake, and the kids had a great time burying each other and building sand castles. We skiied and tubed and ate and all was well. Kim and I took our bikes and went riding. It was totally fun. I wanted to ride last year, but was not well, so it made up for it this year.
We also went to the "minitonka" cave. That was a cool experience. We climbed over 800 stairs. Steve has this problem with claustraphobia, so it was hard for him-but he overcame his fear and went. The kids loved it when I had hot flashes in the cold-because my heater went on and they warmed themselves up on me. It was funny.
One of the funniest things was Steve scaring the older kids. They had their own bunk room and were telling ghost stories. Steve was hilarious! They were all freaked out. (thats the fun of getting older I guess).
Anyways, it was great! We cant wait for next year! Sadly we missed both of two of my brothers and their families. We hope that they will make it next year.

Leadership 2009

This year, Leadership for Close to My Heart was in Newport Beach. So-I was lucky enough to spend another 4 days in Cali again in July. It was fun though. I didnt get to go to Florida last year because I had just started my health problems. So I was elated to be back with my friends again. Close to My Heart is such an awesome company to work with. I love being a director, and I love my friends that I get to hang out with. They have become some of my closest buddies. Corporate took the Directors to an evening at Disney. It was great! We had a super time. Blythe had just had open heart surgery a few months ago and so she got to ride in a wheelchair, which made it awesome for the rest of us to go to the front of the line. I guess there are some perks to having surgery huh. Thanks Blythe!

There were some other surprises while I was in Cali-A little family reunion. Steve's cousin Camille Olsen Ellis is a consultant too! She was able to make the trip. It was so great too see her, and spend some time with her too.

Happy 24th of July!

This post will tell you how far I am behind in my journalling. Almost 2 months and 357 photos (that I downloaded) later. The first half of the day we went to Steve's sister Barbs apartment and went swimming with the cousins. It was hot, and fun. It was fun too see the cousins, sister inlaws and Uncle Richie.

We spent the rest of the day with my family. Kim, Troy and kiddos, and Mick and Trina and their kiddos. We had a barbeque at our house where we had a rousing game of "Bochi" ball. OK, so we love this game. Especially Mason who loves to throw all of the balls. He does not care whose it is, or where it is flung. He can even throw a ball while eating a hot dog.

Here is the bochi crew!

Later that evening we went up to Kims neighborhood in Cedar Hills and watched the fireworks. It was awesome. SOooo fun for the kids too. They rolled down the hill in the dark and had a grand time. I am so grateful to be a part of such great families to make such great memories for my kids.