Here's Kyle Bye-Bye Birdie debut. His many roles as reporter, town boy, shriner man, and the best drunk of the town. Good Job Kyle!

Here is our latest project.
Thanks Jennifer and Jessica for the confidence in tearing out my ucky old brick backsplash.

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We've had an interesting week. On Presidents day we went tubing at Soldier Hollow. It was a blast. Then we hurried through school and on Friday and Saturday we enjoyed the near 5o degree weather. We are loving it. Check out the smilebox of the pics.

Spencer and his friend made an edible cell model for science class this week. They got to pig out on it after I graded it.

  

Here is another close up picture of it.

Jason had his 1st pinewood derby race this week too.  His didn't look all that great mostly because his Dad isn't very handy with the tools.  I'll have to work on that. But he got the award for the sportiest looking car.  He got 2nd place a couple of times, but his car didn't make the finals. He had fun anyway.

Kristina also got a certificate for Outstanding performance on the school IOWA tests. She got the top 10% in the nation in the Reading test.

Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

                  

Jason loves to go sledding. We really enjoyed the cousins from Texas that came up to visit at Chris's house.  The kids had a lot of fun together.
  Kaylee and Alex really enjoyed the alone time together.

  The three amigos!!!

Paige and Hayli and porter in the shade?

Kaylee was a great babysitter for Brianna. They got along great together.

I update this thing  when I get time, which doesn't happen very often.  We have been busy as usual, and don't spend very much time at home most days.  Here are some pics from Christmas break at Grandma's house.  We sure enjoyed the warm weather and being able to play outside.  It was very cold when we got home and all of us wanted to move to Mesquite and stay warm.  It was nice to see everybody. Especially the cousins from Texas. 

Christmas pics 2008

Kyle got a new bow for his viola

Genny got a new temple picture of the Monticello Temple

Jason and his "Tommy gun"

Spencer really likes Calvin & Hobbs

Kaylee got what she wanted for Christmas--a BB gun.

We had a friend that made Jason a sword and shield. They were great.

Kyle's Christmas program

He had a little bit of trouble in one spot, but I think he was just really nervous. He sounds pretty good.

Kyle didn't want me to publish this one. But anyway.

1st sledding of the season

Our first big snow storm and we just had to go sledding.  We had fun, but the kids all got thirsty after about 45 minutes. Paige and her friend Halli had a real good time.  We got snow most of the day and probably will get more tonight.  So we will probably go sledding as much as possible during the break.

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Here are some more pics from the last few weeks.

This is our Thanksgiving holiday. Sorry its kinda late.

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Here are some of our Halloween pics. As always the kids got a ton of candy and had a great time. Kyle and Spencer went to parties, they are growing up fast. We also have some pictures of the kids that Aunt Weesa took for us.

UEA weekend fun

We had a fun UEA weekend last week. It was a well needed break for everyone. We worked on the yard and cleaned the kids' room on Thursday. Then on Friday we met Gary and Lori in Provo and went geocaching. Of course like always I forgot the camera so we don't have pictures of any of that. We also went out to dinner at the Pizza factory. The kids all loved it. Gail met us in Provo and took pictures of the kids. On Saturday we went on a picnic and just had fun climbing around the rocks. It was funny watching the kids try to catch lizards in the rocks.