Let it Snow....Let it Snow.....Let it Snow.....

The kiddos were pretty excited to play in the snow. They started asking the minute we pulled up to Nanny's house. Nanny and Grandpa have this great back yard that is on a slope so there was a perfect little sledding hill for them to go down. They built a snowman complete with a carrot for a nose and jumped on the snow covered trampoline. I decided to break my rule of staying nice and toasty and took a turn on the sled. Sydney wanted to go with me but I am selfish and said no, so when I was passing by her she threw herself on the back of the sled holding on for dear life. I pretty much just dragged her down the hill. She is definitely our dare devil. As you will see in a later post her reckless behavior caused a pretty big scratch on her nose and a fat lip.



Making a snow angel.


Syd hugging the snowman.


They were pretty impressed with themselves.



Just a big kid.

Just one of her many stunts.

Thanks George and Abe..........

The kiddos got to have the whole week off of school for presidents day. Taking full advantage of the vacation we packed up the car and headed to Utah for some snowboarding and fun. The weather was pretty rotten here at home so we drove south through Vegas and St. George. We stopped and took a break, had a picnic, climbed on some rocks and explored an old cave hut.

I loved Ashlee's strong face in this picture.

We also stopped at "Historic Cove Fort". As many times that I've driven to Vegas and St. George, this was my first time there. The missionaries showed us a movie on the history and afterwards took us for a tour of the Fort itself. We were walking over to the buildings and Caleb said,"look, they made a replica of the fort in that movie." Carl told him that we were walking through the actual fort they were talking about in the movie. It was pretty cute.

It always amazes me to see the faith of the pioneers and their sacrifice and dedication to the church. The tour was great until we went up on the walkway and Sydney threw some snow on a poor, unsuspecting lady below us. She might be the only visitor kicked out of the fort in history.

Best game EVER!!!!

Caleb had a game today right after our activity. It was seriously the best game ever. He played really well, scored some points, had tons of rebounds and steals and fouled 3 times. The other team was UNDEFEATED and pretty mouthy about winning, there was a kid on their team at least 5 inches taller than Caleb and he is one of the tallest on his team. At first I was pretty nervous because they started out pretty strong and got a 8 point lead, then Caleb scored the first basket for our team and we made a huge comeback. The game was really close and getting pretty exciting, with 2 seconds to spare the score is tied and Caleb's friend Dylen shoots and the ball swishes in and our team beat the undefeated team in the league. AWESOME!!!!!! Afterwards I told Caleb to be careful of his fouls because the stupid point rule, and he said to me " I am just playing like you would Mom." Jo Jo you probably understand that comment better than most because you played YW sports with me. I need a support group for over competitive people.

The girls brought stuff to play with and were really good.

Valentine Primary Activity

We had our first primary activity of the year today so since it was Valentines we went with the obvious theme for the games and activities. We played "pin the LIPS on Ms. Valentine", had a relay race with hearts that had instructions on them, for example, hop on one foot or run backwards, we also decorated heart shaped sugar cookies (thanks Carissa) and wrote letters telling our Military Troops how much we love and appreciate them and what they do for our country. We are going to put the letters into 2 care packages with treats and some pics and mail them to Ryan in Kosovo and Joe in Texas to hand out to their platoons/ squadrons. We had lots of kids show up and everybody had a great time. Thanks Misty, Mel and Pat for your help getting ready for this party.

The girls were big helpers setting up.

Doing welcome activities of word searches and coloring.

Miss Dylen pinning her lips on.

Sydney pinning her LIPS on. I know the eyes are a little creepy, I have a hard time translating my vision onto actual projects.

The completed Ms. Valentine

Writing letters to our Troops!

The whole gang.

Thanks friend for your help today!!!!!

Nikell Turns "1"

Our cute little friend Nikell turned 1 on Sunday. The girls were invited to her party on Saturday and were super excited all week to go. I totally used it as a threat for good behavior. I love when we have events they are excited for to give them motivation for getting along.

Cute Nikell with Toby. She knew the party was for her.


I LOVE this little girl!!


The kids got to frost their own cookies. They got pretty creative.

Nikell dug into her Giant CUPCAKE Mel made her.

Thanks for the fun party. We love you guys.

SLACKER

I have been a huge slacker at posting on my blog lately. We have been busy but I haven't been excited to tell about it. One funny/cool thing that happened was that Carl called me a few days ago pretty excited, if you know my hubby then you know that he loves to collect cool stickers to put on our fridge in the garage. We have stickers from Europe to hawaii out there. Anyway, he was at a gas station and they were changing their signs and they were going to throw them away, so of course Carl asked if he could have it......
I don't know what we are going to do with it but if you need to borrow a HUGE sign with a hotdog on one side and Rockstar on the other, give me a call.

I'll post a picture of the famous sticker fridge later.

Arizona

Our dad has been in Arizona this week and comes home late tonight. We are looking forward to seeing him. Sydney gave him a pretty big guilt trip last night on the phone for not taking her with him. She laid on the floor by the back door waiting for him for about 20 minutes before I realized what she was doing. Pretty cute. Love you Carl.