Happy Birthday Party for Beckham, Aniston & Ella

We had a great b-day party for the three one year olds. We enjoyed some fire roasted hot dogs, watching the kids eat cupcakes in kid style, & chatting of course. To finish it off we had a heated, uneven game of team #1 booty kickin' kickball. Great Family, Great Memories!! Love to ALL!!

Does anyone have a carseat I could use for Ava for 8 weeks? I hate to haul hers clear around the world again! Also, is the booster I left at Mom's still there so I can use it for Stelly? Let me know gals. Thanks, I've been impatiently waiting for some more blog posts@! Joce

The Darby's Little Ray of Sunshine!

This was Alton on Mother's Day. It was finally warm enough to wear the cute outfit Muno gave him at one of my showers.
He Loves Mickey Mouse(Thanks to the TV show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) and this was taken right after we gave him a stuffed Mickey Mouse that we got for our future kids back in October of 2004!

HI Guys!!!!!!!!!! MIss you all and love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIS

American Idol!!!!!

There are some sad girls at our house. They were so let down when Cook won. I sort of figured that would be the outcome, but they sure had their hopes up. Love to all! Joce

Vesak Day in Singapore!

Last Saturday our neighborhood and a huge yard sale, all the families with 2 kids getting rid of their barely used stuff that are moving back to the states. As you can see we made a haul! Mostly books for the kids, but a few other treasures as well. The other to photos are today. We were off work and school for Budha's birthday. We'll take a holiday whenever we can get it! We had a fun day together as a family. We took the girls on this hike to Faber Mountain. We walked across this great bridge that looks like a giant golden snake when it's lit up at night. Then we went swimming at the fun condo pool of Spen's work buddy. When we got home we ordered pizza for dinner. It is so nice to have a day off all together. It was fun talking to some of you this morning. Love you all so much!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!

Just want all the moms to know how great you all are and how grateful I am to have your examples in my life. Have a wonderful day and remember we are doing the most important work -- raising our sweet children who call us MOM!! Love you all

Fun with the Monkeys!

This was a great place to spend a Sunday afternoon! So crazy to be surrounded by monkeys, and such a beautiful setting. And of course I had to add Stelly thinking she's all that with her new $1 cell phone purchased at the "Junk shop" in Indonesia along with little pretend hamsters for all the girls.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR CUTE MUFF!!!!

Some more pics from our trip

Spen and the girls in the junk shop! THey found more treasures in this little store, and all left with a BIG smile on their face and a fake hamster in hand!
Heather and I at the school, Love her, she is so great!
The kids with the kids at the school
This little girl was so cute, I had to get her photo

Our trip to Indonesia

All the kids together, 10 in all!
Some more gorgeous sunsets!
This is the pool We had our driver take us to a school. We were able to buy a bunch of school supplies and balls and candy and we took it to them. We sang songs with them and taught them Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, If your Happy and You Know It, and some others. The kids whined the whole way to the school that they wanted to go back and swim, but after they said, " We are so glad we went there, that was the best part of the trip. We can swim anytime!" The little Indonesian kids were so cute!

We had such a great time with the Escher family on our 3 day trip. We took a ferry from Singapore. It was a much nicer place than in Malaysia, more like a resort. The kids had so much fun swimming and playing, but the school was definately the highlight. We got back Saturday night just in time to go to church to be sustained as Primary President and Spen as 1st counselor in the Young Mens! Goodybye free time, Hello blessings! Right?!

Spen and Joce's Bee theory

We got talking Sat afternoon and came up with the following:

Being as Dad is terribly allergic to bee's and money is supposedly tight and Mom is on a strict budget AND Dad has a rediculous amount of life insurance the obvious answer is -

that Mom is trying to kill dad for his life insurance money!

What are we going to do with that woman. Even though Dad's net worth has dropped like the water at Utah Lake, we all still love him. But you know Mom, always out for the $$$$!!!!
Don't you all miss my sass? I sure miss all of you. It's almost May!! Yeah!

Mechams fun in St. George, Thanks Dad!

Ella's 1st time swimming, she loved it!
chilling at the pool
working on their tans
Hiking at Pioneer Park
Double Trouble, good thing their so cute

BEEKEEPING

Dear Fam, congrates to Jerry and Jason on a new baby to come, ConGRATULATIONS TO jOCELYN ON BEING THE NEW PRIMARY pRES IN THE sINGAPORE EXPAT WARD. I am studing the beekeeping for dummies book to learn how to care for a backyard beehive. Bees are the most facinating of creatures. Did you know the worker bees only have a live span of 6 weeks and all the queen does is lay eggs her whole life. For two years. Grahams brother Trevor is helping me get my queen and first swarm. I am going to teach my grandchildren to love honey bees and not be afraid of them. Nature and Heavenly fathers creations are amazing in paralleles to our own life. Just like my chickens. I sure miss fresh eggs daily. Kelbys' graduation is May 23rd at 11;00 and then we fly from St. George at 2;50 to go to Atlanta Georgia by 10;30 to be with Yuba and Goldie in the Temple for their endowments and sealing the next day. What a wonderful occasion to see all my brothers children sealed to their spouces and living the Gospel. I am a blessed girl. My own posterity are also holding onto the Iron rod. I am grateful every day! Speaking of blessings, I sure have alot of family names that need the inititory done for both men and women. I sure would like to baby sit while some of you couples take advantage of the wonderful reminders of those beautiful blessings of the inititory. Sure love each of you>>>>>> mom

Congrats Joc

Congrats to Joc!!! The new primary president. You will be awesome at that. You always have good ideas. The sunday that I was in Singapore with you. You had to do sharing time, and I watched you. I was thinking how good you were with the kids and you always have such fun games, and cute ideas. I am so happy for you. It will bless your life. I love you

Congrats to Jer!

Jer where are you? I haven't seen you comment on here forever. Congratulations on your pregnancy. When are you due? How are you feeling? Let us know the details. Hope you are doing well. Hi to everyone. It was so fun to be together on Monday. Im so glad I have such awesome sister in laws. (Although I think of you all as my real sisters.) Miss you Joce and Family. Its so fun to see pictures of everyone. I can't believe how much your girls have already changed. Everyone is so grown up. Love you all.

What the wind and snow!!

I cannot believe this weather. Yesterday at the Zoo was a little bit of heaven. Now I'm tucked inside my house with a hoodie on. Spring in Utah can really be crazy. I love all of you. It was really fun to be with almost everyone. Lots of Love!

Sunday Outing after Conference

This is West Coast Park

Brit hangin with her Singapore Peeps!
Lis got Ava all snuggy on the couch
Stelly getting busted for whining!

HELLO!!!!! IS ANYONE OUT THERE!!!!!!!

THE BLOG HAS SURE BEEN DEAD? WHAT IS UP WITH YOU ALL? ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME DOING LAUNDRY, DISHES AND CLEANING? HAHA I'M NOT!!!
I MISS YOU ALL AND START TO FEEL SAD WHEN NO ONE CALLS OR E-MAILS OR BLOGS!!!!! I MAY BE AROUND THE WORLD, BUT I HAVEN'T DROPPED OFF OF IT!

I had to put this picture on of Jovie washing our car, b/c Friday I was talking about how dirty it is and that I need to get it washed b/c everyone in Singapore keeps their cars soooo clean. The next morning here she is. The saddest part is that Spen and I were still in bed and she had Ava out there with her. (We did get up at 4:30 am to take nan and ash to the airport so we did deserve to sleep in a little.)The second picture is of me dressed Indian for our ward party. It was fun! THe last is a collage SPen did of our first 6 weeks in Singapore. Hopefully you can see it. Thanks to everyone for helping with Ash's kids so she could be here with us. We thoroughly enjoyed having them here and can't wait for all of you to come!