Braces, Snow & Tumbling

Moriah and her braces! 

BEAUTIFUL!!!

We have had LOTS of SNOW this WINTER!!! 

 Parent observation day at Jacob's tumbling class.  It was so much fun to get to go in and watch him, he was so FUNNY, always looking over at us.

balance beam 

 going around the course

this is Jacob being a monkey, his leg is his "tail" 

crab walk

The Manti Temple

Mark and I FINALLY got to attend a session at the Manti Temple.  It is so NICE to have this temple so CLOSE to where we live!!!  I am thankful to our Moriah who held down the fort while we were away!

For more info. on the LDS Church click HERE!

Jacob's Surgery

Jacob had his tonsils removed after Christmas. He was so BRAVE and is doing Great now!

Daddy getting Jake all ready (he was strictly "Dad" and not "Doc")

This is right before they took our little sweetheart to the OR. They kept asking if someone gave him versed (a sedative)! No, he was just tired, and sad.

After the surgery, just waiting for him to "wake up". The OR crew dressed up his monkey, "Shower", who was the only one allowed back there with him!

All done and headed home!

The saddest part was getting him to take his medicine and then convincing him that when we could see him wincing painfully when he swallowed, it was time for more medicine!

He seemed to get better, then worse on day 6/7 (as far as pain and fussiness go) and then one morning (about day 8 or 9) he woke up without any pain and could eat whatever he wanted! Now you'd never know he even had surgery.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve Presents.

Enjoying the SNOW!!! (The girls enjoyed their FIRST ever "snow day" this week.)

Christmas flower arranging.

And our favorite traditional peanut butter balls, yum!

Make us ready for the holidays!!!

Gingerbread Houses

Kayley's Baptism

Saturday December 4, 2010 Kayley was baptised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It was a wonderful day!
For more on what we believe visit mormon.org

Another Photo Shoot!

I just can't get enough pictures of our adorable kids. We went in to get some pictures of Kayley in her baptism dress and a quick picture of all the kids together (and of course some individual pictures while we were there). I would have done a family pic, but Mark was working that day, oh well. I thought they did a great job with all the kids, except for Zachary who had just woken up from a nap and wanted nothing to do with these strange people. He was very upset the whole time, except of course when we were getting ready to leave, then he became quite friendly. ENJOY!