The best crew we could ask for

Feb 19, 2011

The Blacks and the Houghs descended on our house this weekend and we are so glad they did. What a talented, hard workng bunch! The got all tile and hardwood down and Brent finisd sheetrocking the playroom in the basement. Kaye was a fantastic babysitter and took he boys all day and then went swimming with everyone. Thanks to Ronni and Lori for sharing our honies! Hope everyone recovered! Thanks a million!
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Winter for the ducks

The ducks have done remarkably well this winter. They are like clock work with their routine. Rummage around the yard and the neighbors yards, down to the creek and pooping all the way.
They like the house Mike built them. The girls stopped laying and we found out they needed more "daylight". So an automatic timer fixed it all and they are back to laying again.

Our humble abode..

Wiring done and sheetrock coming along

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our traditional breakfast- stinky breath and lots of chocolate milk!

10th Birthday Par-teee!

Donuts in the morning. Her class sang to her at school and friends made her cards.


We had dinner and a Skittles cake and lots of fun presents.


Katelyn wanted to have a friends party so we took Mikayla and Jessica Ericksen bowling at Boondocks. It was a first bowl for most of our group. They did a great job!Pictures are stuck on my cell phone...oops

Happy 10th Birthday Katelyn!

Can you believe this baby is 10 years old? What a big birthday! Double digits.




We love this monkey! Katelyn is always helping our family. She is good to play with everyone and everyone wants to play with her.

Baby, it's Cold Outside!

Freezing temeratures!
I went to let the ducks out of their house this morning and thought I would take a picture of the creek. I have never been in this cold of weather in my life! It is bitter cold and yesterday the winds were blowing hard. The creek is till running, but so much is frozen and looks beautiful.

What Happens in Logan....

....is always so fun! The kids had been wanting to go and see Kaye and Matt all holiday, but we never had a chance to go. We finally made it up over MLK holiday.
We went to this fun park place there in Logan and had dinner and played games and everyone went roller skating/blading for the first time. They had a blast! The kids talked about it the whole way home and Tyler begged for a pair of rollerblades for about a week after!

Briggy got to know the ground real well.

Katelyn trying out her brakes before she goes out on the rink.




Kaye and Matt were so good to help the kids out with skate and taking them around and around and around. It was a nice break for this preggy mommy.

BODY CHECK!

Even Christian had to try it all out.



Thanks Matt and Kaye!!

Playing in The Snow 2010

A big snow storm came after Christmas- was it those $!$%!@* rains following us from California?!!!
Anywho, we went up to Grammy and Papa D's to play in it with cousins.

They built snow caves in the front yard. They said they were "super comfortable". Briggy had been sick so he stayed warm inside with Grammy.

Christmas 2010

Wow am I way behind!!! Here go the catch up posts

Classic "waiting to go downstairs" picture. I have no idea why Tyler has such a grumpy look on his face. Maybe he was mad he had to wait for everyone to gather before he could go down the stairs. Or maybe he didn't want mom to waist time taking a picture of him. Who knows?!



Tyler did cheer up. He is discovering his stocking.


Brigham was being nice and patient here- letting Christian help him open a present. The boys always get some kind of jerky in their stocking from Santa. Christian is seen munching on one of those jerky sticks in about every picture we took.


This sword was given to Christian, but he soon lost interest and Briggy inherited it. Yeah!!


Amy showing me her loot.


Tyler got a skate board from his grandparents, but I only had a pic of Katelyn riding it.
Katelyn's one and only present- a case for her guitar. Finally!

The boys got a Nerf gun war set and we told Briggy he had to have glasses on to play. That was said after several of us had had near misses in the face! He was making sure he was protected.

Not the best Christmas we have had. Disneyland was a flop and that dissappointment carried over to Christmas. Next year Mike is in charge of Christmas- we should all be getting nice down comforters!