Todd Times

Holiday fun!!!

2010-01-24T17:43:00.000-08:00

The dynamic duo!!! Kiley got a kareoke machine from Santa!

Singing all through the Holidays!

2010-01-09T11:17:00.000-08:00

Kiley joined two performing groups last year, Legacy and Tavaci. She loved them both and had lots of fun. However, it kept her and her mother too busy. She dropped Tavaci because travel time was an issue.

Kiley met some new fun friend, Alex, Brinley and Jade

Elder Todd and Yummy Food

2010-01-02T22:36:00.000-08:00

Traditional Holiday dinner in Japan

2010-01-02T22:33:00.003-08:00

Dinner....yum

2010-01-02T22:32:00.001-08:00

Was about to give is a kiss when I saw that one of it's eyes looked like it was ready to explode. (that was written on the back of Trevor's photo).

I told him that I think I'll just stick to Turkey or Ham

Ahh.... summer days

2009-10-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

What fun we had this summer. Camping in Kamas was fun and peaceful. Keven went early on a friday to set up camp for us all, then the rest of us came later. We rented 4 wheelers and as you can see, Kiley loved it and Bruce....well you decide! The 4 wheeling trail was breathe taking and went on for miles and miles.

Yes, yes. You are a witness to this. Keven and Bryan did most of the cooking.

That's were the peaceful part comes in. I got to truly relax.

sisterly love.

Is it possible to go camping and not have foil dinners? They were delicious.

Very sad to think about, but this was Kiley's first time camping. She has been up to the maintains enough but only day trips. I think she could live in the mountains.

McDonald's Treat

2009-10-13T08:00:00.000-07:00

President Daniels and his wife took Trevor and others to McDonalds for a Mcflurry on Trev's birthday. They all look happy don't they!!!

Styling in Japan

2009-08-31T18:53:00.000-07:00

Elder Trevor Todd w/ mission companion...I can't remember his name. Interesting collar style. I think I wore collars like that back in the 80's...hmmmm! Trevor says that this guy has amazing missionary skills and has a good way with people.

I have never really understood the G.Q. pose. Anyone want to explain it to me.

This is on the day of Takeda's baptism. Also in the photo is President Daniels and his wife. They are from Park City.

The First Day....

2009-08-24T19:51:00.000-07:00

First day of 4th grade. Kiley had all kinds of apprehensions.

When the day was over she was happy and full of stories. Life is good!

Jackson Hole

2009-08-21T11:52:00.000-07:00

Jackson was a lot of fun this year. Bruce and Kiley enjoyed racing down the Alpine slide a couple of times.

Kiley was a bit uptight about her dad winning the race.

He didn't really win. It looked like a tie to me.

Kiley couldn't wait until she got to bungee jump. I kept holding her off until Bruce could be there to watch. All she talked about for 2 days was bungee jumping. No fear right????

I'm ready and waiting...these people are so slow, come on already.

...never mind. I hate this. Mom, get me down....MOM!!!!! We thought she was going to throw up on us below.

ok, so maybe it wasn't as fun as it looked....ya think!!!

Triathlon update

2009-07-31T18:24:00.000-07:00

Kiley's time was 16.2 minutes. Two laps in the city pool, 1 mile bike ride, 1/2 mile run. Kiley placed 11th out of 41 in her age division. Total kids participating were 76.

OUR LITTLE TRIATHLETE

2009-07-31T10:38:00.000-07:00

Kiley received a phone call Sunday from a friend asking if she wanted to do the kid triathlon with her this week. The friend would swim, another friend would bike and Kiley was going to run. She was very excited about the whole thing. Then two days ago she found out that there were no teams. Each kid needed to swim, bike and run. Now she wasn't so sure. Bruce and I encouraged her and here are the results of this mornings triathlon. We don't have her time yet. That will be posted later in the day. It was very exciting to watch from the sidelines.

Kiley wore a jacket at first. She was cold and very concerned about getting in the pool

2009-07-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

It took a chunk of time to get dressed after the swim

I can't get this helmet on fast enough

I'm really getting tired.

I see the finish line.....yippie!!!

2009-07-31T10:21:00.000-07:00

She really kicked it in at the end of the run.

It was so fun for Bruce and I to watch her do this.

.....and a winning smile besides.

A nice group shot of all the participants.

Recovering From Knee Surgery

2009-07-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

As most of you know I had Knee Surgery on the 23rd. The Dr. cut out two sections of the meniscus, repaired a ligament and cut a muscle to re-align my kneecap. We will know the finally outcome in 6-8 weeks. I seem to be able to do a little bit more each day. However, I usually pay for it late at night. I will be anxious to see the Dr. again on August 5th. Bruce, Kiley and many friends have been life savors for me during this time. Today Kiley and I went out and weeded one of the flower beds. I just had to get outside. It felt great. Hope none of our neighbors watched because I was quite the sight. I just sat down on the grass with my left leg straight, then scooted around on my bottom. It worked quite well AND my arms got a workout. When I stood up with the crutches, I noticed I had sat on a couple of warm, soggy plums that had fallen off the tree onto the lawn. What a bonus that was, lunch too! What would normally take me 10 minutes to do took an hour. Who cares...it's all good!!! Life is good. I feel very blessed.

Grand Canyon was so cool

2009-07-27T14:30:00.000-07:00

The fogginess is due to pollution drifting in from California...amazing!!!

Kiley had to have Ricki the stuffed racoon in the photo with us...

you know...part of the family!

Summer fun at Gateway

2009-07-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

Bruce had a quick trip to Salt Lake and wanted Kiley and I to go with him.

Kiley was sick and tired of traveling so we let her invite her friend Kennedy.

We stopped at the gateway and the girls had a blast as you can see. I enjoyed just watching the girls and listening to a band play in the background.

2009-07-08T08:12:00.000-07:00

Elder Trevor Todd is the macho one on the right...too funny

2009-07-07T21:18:00.000-07:00

Sunday on our way back from seeing Kev and Jess in Logan we stopped at the "Devil's Slide". Kiley said she never remembered seeing it. We drove home through wanship, Kamas, Oakley and wolf creek pass. Wolf creek was beautiful this time of year

2009-07-07T21:10:00.000-07:00

Bruce had his 35th class reunion from Altamont high on July 3rd. I think there were 29 classmates. Three had passed away in car accidents. They seemed to all have fun and enjoy each other. Some came from Texas and 1 from Russia to be there.

2009-07-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

Kiley had a week long soccer day camp in June.

They worked her hard, but she had tons of fun!!!

These are her coaches from Brazil.

Kiley's friends Abbie and Grace.

2009-06-08T21:21:00.000-07:00

Little miss Kiley being her cute talented self at her singing and piano recital. There were about 50 people there. Kiley opened the evening singing "the greatest love of all". She sang 3 songs and played 4. It seemed to be a good experience. Good job Kiley

2009-05-07T21:13:00.000-07:00

Our lovely daughters-in-law....Jessica and Dana. We love them both. We feel blessed to have them in our family and appreciate their goodness

2009-05-05T21:19:00.000-07:00

This has become one of my favorite pictures. This pictures was taken 11 days before dad past away. Were were in San Antonio. Dad really seemed to enjoy that weekend.

2009-04-29T16:45:00.000-07:00

Polynesian day for the third graders at East elementary. They worked on 9 different polynesian dances for 2 months. The kids even made their own haku's. Fun, fun day

Polynesian day at Kiley's school. These are some of her friends. The third graders worked for weeks to learn many of the dances

2009-04-29T14:46:00.000-07:00

Trevor and his companion, Elder Hilton with the Kitayama family. The woman with the glasses thinks Trevor looks just like one of her grandsons,

This is Hayashi-san. He is 75 yrs old. At the time he was investigating the church. Trevor said he was always proper and he wore a suit to all of their discussions. He has since been baptized.

2009-03-23T23:20:00.000-07:00

Elder Todd or Elder Obama??? The lady behind Trevor is a friend from his ward there in Japan. She thinks that he looks like President Obama. I don't see it. Besides, Aunt Pamy says that Trevor is a Tiger Woods look alike. Then there's uncle Bill who thinks he looks like Kramer from Steinfield.

Bowling with Yoski (the guy in the black shirt) who is investigating the church.

This is a New Year's activity where they pound the rice with mallets to make it like a paste or mochi. The man is either stupid or very brave.

Welcome to our blog

2009-03-20T12:43:00.000-07:00

We've joined the blogging bandwagon. So many of you have encouraged me to start a blog......so here we go!!! I won't even attempt to make any promise about how often I post things. I do enjoy all the blogs you all have out there. Thank you for your inspiration. We hope you enjoy this blog as much as We have enjoyed yours.

This is on Oahu with Bill and Terry in January 2009. This aqua color of the ocean is my favorite color in the world. I've always loved the colors of the ocean in Hawaii and the different greens of the islands. So much, that I have bought fabric to make a Hawaii quilt some time soon.

Were were watching a sea turtle

It was so nice to be able to spend some time with brother Bill and is fabulous wife Terry....oh, and Rocco their Dog. Kiley loved Rocco!

Kiley, Carla and Bruce at our hotel in poipu, Kauai

Daddy and daughter ....always enjoying time together