Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Weekend in Ogden

Hi Family! I hope everybody had a great weekend! Me, Kaden and Lacee went to Mike and Bobi's this weekend and had a great time. Mike & Bobi play on an "over 30" indoor soccer league and they had a game Saturday night. So off we went and I brought my camera! Who'd have known those two can play soccer! I was so impressed :)


On Sunday, we went up by Snowbasin to a tubing hill and played in the snow. Mike went snowshoeing while me and Bobi tubed with the kids. Here are some pictures from that.



This is Kaden and the other is Jalen on the snowboard going off of a jump the boys made.


And here is a picture of all of the kids in the snow!

Lacee, Brendan, Kaden, McKenna and Jalen
It was a fun weekend. Thanks Mike and Bobi :)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

New found appreciation for teachers!

I told Lacee she could have a little friend party for her birthday this year. It started out with ten of her little girl friends from her class plus Wayland who lives next door. Pretty soon it ended up being the whole class - 21 in all, because she couldn't leave anybody out. So a bowling party was planned for Tuesday, February 10th, right after school. I asked my friend, Becca, who is also Wayland's mom, to come and help me and thank goodness she did! She saved me from having to repay the bowling alley for damages that I'm sure would of happened. :) Twenty 4-5-6 year olds showed up and then all hell broke loose. We had rented two lanes and so they had to line up to bowl one time and then get in the back of the line and there were many arguements and jumping in line, but Becca handled them really well. Jessica and Kaden came to help out and I told Kaden he was in charge of making sure no one escaped into the parking lot (he did let 3 escape, but we caught them before they got to the parking lot!) Jessica was in charge of keeping order every where else. I think that was good birth control for her.

Thankfully, everybody survived and nobody got lost or stolen. And guess what? I forgot my camera! Ya me, who always has her camera with her, forgot it. But I have great appreciation for Mrs. Edwards, her pre-school teacher, who has to handle these kids every day! Wow, she has the patience of a saint, because I could not do that every day. And I don't think there is going to be another birthday party for Lacee for a long time. I don't have the patience for that!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Happy Birthday Lacee!! You look so cute in your little dance outfit!

It's amazing how fast the years go by!

We love you!

Uncle Van

Hi Everybody! Until I figure out how to add other blogs (so if somebody could figure it out, that would be great!) LeAnn has posted information about Uncle Van on her blog. Her blog address is russandleann@blogspot.com. He isn't doing so great and we all know what they are going through right now since we have done the same with our mom and dad. It's hard to watch our parents get older and need help from us kids when they have been so independent all of their lives. But yet it is so hard to watch them suffer and in pain and especially loneliness. It's tough.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Lacee turns 5!



Wow! Where did the past five years go? I can't believe my baby is five.
Jessica said last night, "Let's wake up at 3:30 in the morning and re-live
that moment when Lacee was born." I said, "Let's not." I am so thankful
that she got to come to our family and I know that mom had a hand in sending
her to us. She has been the best thing to happen to us. She is so funny and she
rules the roost. She looks up to Jessica and Kaden and wants to do everything
they do already! She started pre-school this past August and I really thought
that I would have a heck of a time with getting her to go and she has just loved
going to school and is actually mad when there isn't any school.
Today she got up and opened a few presents before the other two left for school
and then talked me into letting her open two more after they left.
She got to dance at the Delta High basketball game this afternoon with her little dance group.
She did really good and when she was done she came up to me and said, "That was scary!"
Happy 5th Birthday Lacee! We love you!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Happy February Birthdays!

Happy Birthday wishes this month to
Lacee (5!), Sharlene, Durham and Keith.
Happy Birthday!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Delta - 3A State Junior High Wrestling Champions!

He ended up losing this match 5-7 to a kid from Emery. I don't know why this kid was in blue when Emery is black and yellow!


This past weekend we were in Richfield for the 3A Junior High State Wrestling Championships. Kaden wrestled well, but ended up getting beat out Saturday morning. For his first year wrestling, he did awesome. Delta ended up taking 1st place! It was a fun weekend.