Barbeque

Last weekend was so nice, we decided to make the trip over to Ephraim to visit Jared's sister and her family. We had a barbeque, jumped on the trampoline, rode bikes, and the kids had a great time playing in the boat. (It was parked, but they still had fun).

Playing in the rocks.

Hannah's Baby Shower

Saturday we had a babyshower for Hannah. We met at Lucy's house. Lucy, Tabi and I provided the food. It was an open house so we just ate and visited and then at the end Hannah opened her presents. It really was so nice to get to visit our family. Lucy's husband Lee was so nice to take the kids to Jump on It (a place with trampolines) for a few hours while the shower was going on.

Mom, Hannah, Lucas, Tabi

Tabi & Me

Christine, Julie, Me

Me & Hannah

Lucas & Joslyn

Aunt Ilene, Mom, Aunt Shauna, Hannah

Hannah, Aunt Ann, Aunt Jill, Susie

Mary, Jessica, Aunt Ilene

Tori, Grandma Violette

After the shower we had a quick birthday party for Brock because his birthday was last week. What a cute boy.

Bailey

Brittany, Trinity, & Paige

We had such a fun time, it was nice to have an excuse to hang out with some of my family that we haven't seen in so long. I can't wait until next time.

Ice Skating

One of our family goals this year is to have family home evening every week. Which so far we have managed to do. (Amazing) We each take a turn planning the lessen or whatever activity so that we only have to be in charge once a month (Lucas is too little for a turn). So this week was Paige's turn. She has wanted to go ice skating all winter but we just haven't had the time to go. Finally on Monday night it was her turn to be in charge and so we went ice skating.

I had just planned on sitting on the benches with Lucas and watching, but when we got there they had these little tiny skates that were just his size. He thought it was pretty fun to have these things on. It was a so hard to hold him up so that he could skate with us. At one point I decided it would just be eaiser to carry him on my hip, so I went around the rink a few times carrying him, but then I got in trouble. :>) They politely told me that they didn't allow people to carry their children because of the falling hazard on the ice. So I managed to push him around the rink a few more times and then I was tired.

The girls had a blast. MaKady has been ice skating several times this year with the youth in our ward and also with her school so she is great at it. Paige had a little more trouble. She used a walker for a little while, but then got sick of it so she skated around by herself, falling every 10 feet or so, but always getting up and moving on. She is such a good little sport. We had so much fun and we are so proud of her for choosing a fun family activity for family night!!

Starfish

This month Paige's class has been learning about the ocean and all the animals that are in the ocean. They each had to pick something to do a report about it. Paige chose the starfish. We worked together to find the facts and she drew a picture and a little booklet. Then last week the parents got to go into the classroom and listen to each of the kids tell about their animals. I loved listening to them. Most of them read the facts out of their booklets, but Paige had hers memorized. I also had her tell me her report again and I recorded it. Enjoy....

Family Pictures

As promised, here are the family pictures we took last weekend while we where in St. George. We had a ton of fun as usual, we are all such goof balls. But I think we got some great pictures.

I was not a cheerleader, but I could have been. Lucas thought it was the funniest thing ever. Everytime I did a kick he would laugh.

This is the group picture.

Hannah, Bryce, Kole, Tabi, Lucas, Me, Jared, Paige, MaKady, Mary & Trinity

Tabi & Kole

Mary & Trinity

Bryce, Hannah & big baby belly!!!