This Is Our Joy: 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Visitors to our Nativity

We have a Fisher Price Nativity so that my kids can play with it...why are they always attracted to the fragile ones??? Anyway, this is what I found this morning...

Here is a closer look of the left side...

It looks like Spidey, Batman and the Riddler-who is riding a Fisher Price pony from our cowboy town-came for a little visit to the baby Jesus! Joran you crack me up!

We went with Jeff's Young Single Adult ward to see the lights of Ogden. It was rainy, but not freezing...unless you are me! My kids all did fine, me however-I had on Jeff's coat (over all my stuff) and I stole Annicha's hat because she was wearing her hood most of the time! I had never been to these before and really liked them. They have little houses with different lighted and moving scenes in them-totally cool!

Here we are peering into the candy factory house.

Cheyenne's Volleyball Owie!

Cheyenne played on the school volleyball team this year...this picture is from the very last game of the season. She dove for a "dig" and the libero(who is bigger than she is) dove on top of her ...her chin hit the floor and split open resulting in a nice cut (luckily not requiring stitches) and big bruise!

Way to go Cheyenne...now you will have a few weeks to recover all the bumps and bruises!

Christmas Piano Recital

Each December we attend a piano recital...this year Annicha was playing as well! She started playing in September of this year-she played O Little Town of Bethlehem.

Here is Sierra playing Still, Still, Still

Here are the girls with their teacher...they love Ruth!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning started for me not the same as in years past...I actually waited in my bed until 6:30am to go and get my newspapers from the driveway!!! I know I was as shocked as you...I was awake at 4:30 but was soooo cold I couldn't drag myself outside in my warm jammies to retrieve the paper which is usually half way down the driveway!

After my first round of browsing, Jeff and I were off to do another Turkey Trot. It was 13 degrees when I got out of the car! We did the 5K and then trotted our frozen behinds home. He hurried and got things together for our 1 1/2 drive up north to Jeff's parents (they recently built a home and moved in case some of you who read this hadn't heard). When we arrived it was a whopping 3 degrees!
We had a yummy dinner and pie...and then I played the picture card. Now my family does not like getting pictures done...detest would be a better word. I had this project coming up that I needed a family picture for. The newly updated ones on the blog were great except the room I was hanging this project was not even close to the colors in our family picture...therefore....I brought it up!
Now Jeff's parents built a new home on a lot that used to be Jeff's great-grandparents-the old sheds were there-a perfect background! Jeff did have to shovel a path and standing spot so we could do the pics and we tried to shiver in unison so that we could be done quickly! It isn't the best picture but it does the trick...I'll upload the project picture as soon as I get it hung on my wall!

After dinner it was back home to make my shopping plan of attack...it started on-line about 2am and then in stores about 4:30...like I said before...it was so cold-I wouldn't have even have gone out except Sierra really wanted to go. We froze together and she shopped in her jammies-we had fun. I can't say I was really after anything in particular-my planning ahead gene kicked in long ago so there wasn't much left to really do...now on to decorating!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Turkey Trot

Ok...this will be another entry without a picture...I am not savvy enough to upload one from the internet...someone is welcome to help me with that!
We did a 5K Turkey Trot on Saturday morning...it was a miracle we didn't blow away like Mary Poppins...
We decided to walk it so we could stay together as a family...Jeff pushed the two youngest in the stroller and Sierra and I walked with Annicha. We left three home in bed...party poopers!
It was a cold, windy morning!
Jeff's stake put it on as a food drive-the entry fee was a can of food. I thought that it was a great idea! They are doing another one in the spring...hopefully it will be warmer :)

Monday, November 15, 2010

Quick Trip To Park City

This will be a picture free post...sorry! I had the camera the entire time, but just forgot to take pictures!
Jeff was attending a conference in Park City last week. He arranged for my mom to come spend the night with the school age children and I took Maren with me. We went up for Monday night and came home Tuesday afternoon.
We had to drive up in a snowstorm-I almost turned around a couple times thinking I wasn't going to make it!
We had a really good time. The three of us went to Cafe Rio for dinner on Monday night-I couldn't finish my salad so we took it back to the hotel with us-this bit of info will come in handy later in the post.
We hit the pool and hot tub and then watched some relaxing TV before going to bed. The next morning all three of us went to the exercise room. While Jeff biked and lifted and I ran and lifted Maren tried out the eliptical, played on the exercise ball, the treadmill, etc. While I was getting ready, she had a swim in the tub.
I loaded my arms with all of our things and we headed to the suburban. I couldn't get the keys without setting my salad on the tire. I loaded everything and got Maren buckled and proceeded to leave-we were hitting the outlets before heading home. I forgot one thing...my salad! I had run over my leftover salad! I was so sad!
We had a great time shopping the outlets and I found some great deals. I was still sad about my salad...even now a week later Maren talks about my salad. We were running errands this morning and she out of the blue says,"you ran over your salad!" I agreed and asked to change the subject...she tells me," no, I want to talk about your salad!"
The things that impact the life of a 3 year old! We continued to talk about my salad way to long...we'll see if it was enough to drop it for awhile!

Joran's Visit To Primary Children's

This is a bit overdue, but here it is...
This is our semiannual trip to Primary's. (It was two weeks ago). The room was freezing this morning so we put his jacket on during his appointment.
He is doing well. His sats have dropped a little, but we are good to go for another six months...which is a good thing because they don't have a surgeon who could do his surgery right now. That is a little scary, but hopefully soon they will have someone who is qualified to work on our handsome man :)

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Pumpkin Carving and Costumes

Here we go with the carving of the pumpkins...we waited until this morning this year because there just wasn't a lot of time.

Here is Joran cleaning his out...

Boston looks thrilled doing his

Here is Sierra helping out Maren

Annicha almost done with hers

Connor and Jeff working on a couple

Cheyenne wondered what pumpkin guts tasted like...

Connor finishing off another

Our ward had an early Festival at the Church...here they are ready to go

Is she not the cutest clown ever????

Our mighty Iron Man

The pink hippie

and our honorable boy scout

I will try to post a picture of the finished pumpkins all lit up later tonight when everyone is out trick or treating!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Connor's Face Painting

The youth activity this week was attending and helping with a carnival for the special needs youth...here is how Connor came home...

I think he wants something

This one is so him...

If you are wondering about the little mustache...it is a Hitler mustache-he loves history!

School Halloween Parade

Here are a couple pictures I took from the Halloween Parade at the school...

Boston couldn't make up his mind about what he wanted to be...the morning of the parade he told me he wanted to be a Boy Scout. I was really surprised, but I didn't have time to get all his new badges sewn on that he had received this month...he was happy so I guess that is all that matters!

Annicha went as a hippie...

Here comes Iron Man...he was so disappointed in not being able to wear his mask!

His little buddy is right behind him...

It was a fun idea...Maren enjoyed watching!

Here are the pumpkins from our garden...

Here is Jeff with his big muscles!

Here is Annicha

Here is cute Maren she is kissing her pumpkin..

Here is Joran

Boston finding it difficult to hold the pumpkin

Cheyenne kissing her pumpkin

Connor has a picture but it isn't really appropriate to post...Sierra was babysitting so we picked hers for her...

The Pumpkin Walk...

Ok...sorry it took so long to get this up...I was having major blogging issues after that last post! Here are the remaining pics of the pumpkin walk....you will remember it was pouring rain or else there would have been some family pics with the sign and more of the pics where you stick your head through the holes...hopefully next year will be a little less--downpour!

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