New Years Eve

We had a great New Years Eve party with family. We had lots of food and fun. We each wrote down a resolution and then tried to guess who's it was. There were many surprises. My goal was to keep up on my blog. I am a little slow but still trying. It was so great to sit and visit with the adults while the kids enjoyed a movie. Dad, Jon (before leaving for his other evening activities) and Laurie

Ethan, Rex, Emily, Mikayla, Aaron and Chase.

We decided to celebrate the new year with New York City so at 10:00 p.m. we put on our hats and brought in the new year.

Mom, Dad, Chase, Mikayla, Mary, Jeff, Kent, Laurie, Les, Aaron, Ethan, and Rex

Laurie, Kent & Chase

Laurie and Kent - I just noticed that Kent's tie and hat match.

Mom & Dad

Mary, Jeff and Mikayla

It was a perfect way to start 2009. Happy New Year family and friends.

Winter Fun

The Big Icicle

We have experienced an extremely cold winter this year. We have terrible insulation in our roof. The result is that we had a huge icicle off our roof. It was the full length of our house. Les eventually climbed on the roof and knocked it off.

This is the bottom of the big icicle. Les is standing on the patio to take this picture.

Top of the icicle from the family room.

We enjoyed a fun afternoon of sledding. We are lucky to live close to the school which has a great sledding hill.

Margaret and Rex after walking up the road to our house after sledding.

Les launching Chase on the tube.

Rex working on shoveling our driveway just one more time.

Christmas Day 2008

We had a great Christmas. The boys made it so much fun. We do not have a chimney in our house, so we improvise with placement of our stockings.

Les and the boys did a great job decorating the tree again this year. It was terrific.

We planned on going to Lindon on Christmas Day. We were up early, opened presents and got on the road. We were able to go as far as Draper but had to turn back because of the weather. We were able to celebrate with the Tippetts several days later.

We visited Grandpa and Grandma

Les, Chase and Rex take a break during the fun of opening presents.

Chase and Rex in front of the tree.

Christmas Eve 2008

We had a great evening on Christmas Eve. We enjoyed great food, a fun program, a great white elephant exchange and presents from Grandpa and Grandma.

This is Rex with his white elephant from the evening. The rest of the story is that we brought this gift. We have been trying to pass on all the stuffed animals we have acquired through the years. We thought it would be fun to share them with others in our family. Little did we know that Rex would pick the one that we brought and bring it home again. I guess he wasn't ready to give it up. He has been sleeping with it every night. I am happy to report that Minnie Mouse did go to Mikayla and she was thrilled.

Rex wore this Santa hat throughout the holiday season. The reason the point is stiff is because he has stuffed if full of ribbons from presents he received during the holiday. Rex is a collector.
Chase and Rex represented our family on the program. Chase played The First Noel.

Rex played Up on the House Top. They both did a great job.

A few fun shots of the relatives.
Emily, Mikayla, Libby, Clark & Megan.

Great picture Becky.

Kiersten, Wayne & Gwen. Wayne - love the tie.

Merry Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas

Margaret, Chase, Les, Rex

Dec 2008

2008 Review

2008 review

January

Jr. Jazz Basketball

Chase waiting for the rebound. Lucky #13

Cousin sleepover

We love having the California cousins back in Utah. They came and spent the night at our house. The sleeping part didn't happen until after midnight.

100th day of Kindergarten

For the 100th day of Kindergarten Rex's class dressed up as 100 yr old people. Rex is on the back row in his Grandpa's blue hat and his Dad's old reading glasses. The kids also had to bring a collection of a 100 things. Rex brought 100 paper clips.

Rexburg Temple Trip

When the Rexburg temple was announced several years ago Les told Rex that it was his temple. We watched on the Internet as the temple was built and said we would attend the open house before the temple was dedicated. Little did we know that this would happen in the middle of the winter. We made the trek to Rexburg in January. It was very very cold but well worth the trip. We loved being able to go through the temple. This is Rex standing in front of his temple.

Our family after going through the Rexburg Temple open house. The picture was taken by a wonderful young adult who was helping with parking. It must have been below freezing but he was so happy and helpful.

April

Rex's 6th Harry Potter Birthday Party

Rex and his wizard friends as they start their adventure at Hogwarts school of Wizardry. The boys were sorted into houses, made potions, went on a wizard treasure hunt, pinned the crest on the robe and played magical chairs. It was a fun day.

3rd Grade Science Fair

Chase did a great job on his first science project. He asked the question are you left sided or right side?


Rex 6th Birthday party with family

Happy Birthday to Rex!!

Spring cabin trip

We made the trek to the Brighton cabin for a weekend in the spring. As you can see there was plenty of snow. I was so pleased because we were able to carry everything we needed for the weekend in on our backs.


Spring Soccer

Rex waiting for his turn to be called in to play soccer.


July

Trip to Twin Falls
We loved our trip to Twin Falls. This is our attempt at a family picture.


Love that smile.
Chase is enjoying the water at the church office building. These boys are growing up too fast.


Piano Recital

Chase performed with all of Michelle's students at a recital. He did a great job. He has learned so much.


The rest of the year is already posted.

Megan's Wedding and Margaret's Bonfire Birthday Cake

The fire department was on call as the boys lit the candles for my birthday cake.

I was able to celebrate my birthday by attending Megan and Jon's wedding in the Salt Lake Temple. It was so wonderful to share the day with them.
Outside the temple.

The proud parents and grandparents. I have to tell you it was a very cold day. I don't think Megan and Jon even noticed the cold.

Chase loved the food at the reception. The flowers were beautiful.