Yeah, its finally done.

Kyle and his Orchestra group in Denver.

I couldn't stop laughing at Kyle screaming.

Kyle was so happy to perform and go to Denver.

Kaylee's 11th B-day.

Well we've almost got our shed completely finished. We've had fun putting it together. I can now see why building a house takes alot longer then I thought. And its been another month since I last put anything on here. Kyle did really well at his Orchestra/band competition in Denver. It was a fun trip. They won 6 trophies and took 1st overall. You can see Kyle screaming at one of the rides at Elitch Gardens. School gets out this week and another summer of fun starts. We hope to see everyone at all the reunions.


You can hear Kyle screaming, too funny.

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We tried to get this shot with the timer from the camera.

This is all the kids at one of the arches in Moab.

Kaylee and Paige walking to another arch.

Jason, Kristina, and Kaylee were trying to fly kites at Nana's house but the wind wasn't cooperating. The wind finally did come up, but so did the rain and we had to quit.

The kids in front of the
Monticello Temple.

I've fallen behind with the blog. I've included pics from our spring break to Nana's house and Arches National Park. Also you can see our latest project, building our new shed. Its been fun to put something together. Lucky for us the boards have been precut, all we had to do was put it together, which was tricky at times. Good thing Genny is good at this stuff. We hope to get the roof on this week. We our as busy as ever with soccer and orchestra and end of the school year stuff.

We got the floor down, that was pretty easy.

Our neighbors helped us get the walls up on Saturday. They stayed up, amazing!!

Kaylee was a really good helper with the shed. She does need practice with the hammer, but she's getting the hang of it.

This was last night at about 10:30. All that's left now is the roof.

Paige's flower she painted in Kindergarten.

This is how Paige fell asleep one night.

April Fools Dinner--mashed potatoes & gravy--ice cream & carmel, fish sticks--cookie wafers with peanut butter, peas and carrots---laffy taffy.

Jasons new bike for his birthday

Kristina b-day presents

We've had a busy few weeks. The weather warmed up then came crashing down. Sprink break is almost here and were hoping it will be warm when we go to Nana to help while Dad is down for a while. April Fools day was fun this year. There are some pics of what we had for dinner and the kids were suprised to find their shoes didn't fit anymore. We also had little tootsie roll reminders all over the house and in my desk at school.

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.