Time for school! Time for school!!

Sydney - 7th grade


Lauryn - 1st grade



Chloe - 3rd grade


Yeah, I have two other children. I'm not sure why I didn't take their pictures on the first day of school. I'm sure I did. But I can't locate them right now!!

Hooray - school has begun!! Lauryn started 1st grade and is doing so well. She has started AR Reading and is already at 30% of her goal. Who knew she was such a good reader? Well, we all do now.

Chloe is in 3rd grade this year and is happy to have been elected to be the student council representative for her classroom! She thinks it's pretty cool and so do I. She's a great student and loves to go to school.

The twins started Junior High this year and love it. They are such social girls. They are having a fun time meeting new friends and taking fun classes. They are also working every day in the cafeteria for 15 minutes to earn their lunches. It was either that or bring a sack lunch from home. They were a bit apprehensive about being a "cafeteria worker" until they found out on the first day of school that most of the deacons in our ward worked in there, too. Now it's pretty cool to be a "cafeteria worker".

Hunter is in High School this year - 9th grade! Holy cow! He is taking seminary, orchestra and PE at the high school and does on-line school at home for math, science, language, Spanish and computer. He is one busy boy!

Well, here we go again! Wish me luck!

18th Anniversary!

Wow - we've been married for 18 years. That just doesn't seem possible!! Brian and I celebrated our anniversary on August 17th. We went to dinner at the Melting Pot in North Scottsdale. It was fun. I don't think we'll ever go back - but it was fun. We always have a good time when we're together! I had to teach dance on our actual anniversary day and Brian brought me 18 beautiful roses, truffles and some perfume. It was really sweet! I am a lucky lady!! Can't wait to see what the next 18 years have in store for us!

Neus Family Retreat 2009

This is Maille

Grandma Neus, Grandpa Neus & Uncle Michael

Brian, Me & Matthew

We spent a fun-filled weekend at the first annual Neus Retreat. The entire Neus family got together at the Hilton somewhere in North Phoenix. We spent the weekend swimming mostly and had dinner together on Saturday night as a family. There were about 30 of us in all. Wow, has this family grown!! For some reason it's hard to get together with everyone even though we all live within 20 minutes of each other!! Case in point: Lauryn, upon seeing her COUSIN Maille says to me, "Mom, there's that girl from singing group". Yeah, Lauryn, she's your cousin. Her name is Maille. She's been your cousin for about 5 years now. Pretty sad. We need to get together more often. Hopefully before the Neus Retreat 2010! Thanks, Sue for putting this together. We had a blast!!

Twins' Birthday Party

Mackenzie, Sydney & Sommer blowing out the candles




Yummy cakes (thanks Kristen!)




Sommer and Sydney celebrated their birthday this year with about 20 of their closest friends. They had a great time doing the limbo, playing silly games, dancing (of course), eating and laughing. Brian and I are so glad that the girls have chosen such good friends to hang around with! Happy 12th Birthday, Sommer & Sydney!!!

New Beehives!

The girls were so excited to join the Young Woman's Program! This is what our front door looked like on their birthday. They have had a fun time going to the activities so far and look forward to class each Sunday! We have terrific leaders in our ward! I still can't believe that they are getting so old. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was a Beehive. Time really flies!!