Halloween 2009

Happy Halloween!

Abby, Madison and Bailey getting ready to go trick or treating.

Abby and Madison went trick or treating with their friends.

I took Bailey with Kelli and Emma.

Bailey the Ballerina

Abby....Peace baby!

Bailey the black cat

Madison...drill sergeant diva

Madidon's Spider

Abby's silly pumpkin

Bailey's Arial

Kelsee dressed up like an indian for a couple of parties....no trick or treating....I guess she is getting too old.

BEAUTY IS the Imagination of a child

This year for Reflections, the theme was Beauty Is....

Madison entered the photography category with this picture of Bailey. The title of her photo was Beauty is the imagination of a child. Bailey loves to dress up so Maddy had her get all dressed up and had Bailey pose.

Along with four other children, Maddy won an award. Her photo will now be sent on to district.

Good job Madison!

Happy Birthday Kelsee - October 28

Happy Birthday Kelsee...This makes 17!

Kelsee is a junior this year at Desert Hills High School. This year in school she is taking some pretty hard classes. She amazes me with her dedication to do well in school as well as anything she sets her mind to do. She is very talented. She loves to play the violin and piano. She is taking a drawing class this year and has drawn some really awesome pictures. She also loves to swim. If she is not doing homework or hanging out with friends, she is at swim practice. It seems like yesterday when she was just learning to crawl and just around the corner she will be heading off to college...makes me feel old!

Love ya Kelsee!

Opening presents...

I'll just have one bite....

Kelsee picked Samauri 21 for her birthday dinner.

free birthday dessert...yummy!

Bailey Swimming Lessons

This summer Bailey took a survival swimming class. In just two weeks she learned to jump in and turn on her back and float and then to turn over and swim to the side. She is now in the category of "scary" swimming. Half the time she looks like she might be drowning. That is the scary part for her mom.

Her favorite part of the lessons was diving for the rings.

Random...09

Just a few of those pictures that don't really have a category.....

Abby and Sara swimming this past summer. Abby with her George Washington look.

Oh my....the kids were salivating over the size of this chocolate bar

Bailey and Madison eating those yummy breadsticks from the Pizza Factory

Kelsee and Amelia getting their picture taken underwater

Kelsee and Abby slurping up their giant raspberry lemonades

Taylor and Kelsee wishing they had facial hair? :)

What we do for fun! :)

Bailey is always up to hamming it up for the camera. Her sisters, Abby and Madison will tell her what to do or pose her and then take pictures. These are just a few random pics... lol

SCREAM....

SKIP....

SHOW THOSE MUSCLES....

GEORGE WASHINGTON HAIRDO...

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend, we headed up to Logan to get together with some cousins and hang out with the family. Grandma Luthi came from Star Valley and we stayed with Aunt Karen.

CARD MAKING....

MAKING SUGAR COOKIES!

Bailey loves to roll and cut out the shapes.

EXTRA LARGE POPSICLES (Aunt Karen spoils us!)

GLOW IN THE DARK BOWLING!

LUTHI REUNION

We were able to get together with some of my cousins from the Luthi side. My cousin, Valerie, was bringing her son up to BYU Idaho. My cousin Ann and her husband hosted the gathering at their house. We enjoyed spending the afternoon visiting, eating and sharing memories.

GARDENING 101

DELICIOUS OR DISGUSTING?

This summer our ward was able to offer garden space donated by a family in the ward to anyone interested. We planted zucchini, crookneck, butternut, cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, green beans, peppers, tomatoes, strawberries and quite a few pumpkins. We shared the garden with some friends so we could take turns watering. We learned some things we will not do again, were quite frustrated with things that we watered and took care of and didn't really produce, and enjoyed the things that did produce. Our watermelons had a hard time. They would just not get very big and if we didn't pick them soon enough they would start to get soft, split open and rot. Madison and Bailey went to the garden the other day with me and we decided to pick one since another one had started to rot. After Bailey ate her half of the watermelon, she told me she did not like warm watermelons that had seeds. She said it was DISGUSTING! I should have taken pictures of the garden but didn't. We were really excited about our pumpkin patch. My friend planted the pumpkins and she planted A LOT! Unfortunately, the aphids started to attack and I could not get rid of them. So we are picking the pumpkins now and hope they will keep until October. Pretty wishful thinking!

ROCKER CHICK!

Bailey loves to dance and perform. My favorite is the air guitar on the floor. :)

Grandpa Luthi

Yesterday, August 27, 2009, my dad would have celebrated his 69th birthday and my mom and dad would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We miss you grandpa....

Grandpa loved his toys :) July 2008

Bailey hanging out on one of Grandpa's toys...his riding lawn mower. July 2009

WAKEBOARDING

Kelsee was invited to go boating with the Ellsworth family at Sand Hollow. She had so much fun. She even got to wake board. Way to go Kelsee!

BAILEY SAYS...

Bailey is four and has been expanding her vocabulary lately. She says a lot of interesting things that shock me. I laugh about it and later when I go to write it down it has left my mind. So I am trying to keep track of a few things that make me laugh.

1. The other day Bailey asked me if I struggle. I gave her a perplexed look and then she asked what struggle means. Jared told her and as he was telling her, I tuned my ears into the baseball game that her dad was watching and realized they were using that word while they were talking about a batter who was struggling. I guess a lesson from that...be careful what you watch.

2. Today I was helping Bailey get dressed for gymnastics. She wanted to wear a leotard that didn't fit her anymore. I pulled out a plain black one for her to wear and she said, "No way! That doesn't have any STYLE...." I'm not sure where she gets that from.

3. She also asked me today what the word mate meant. Not sure where she heard that one. I told her people from Australia call each other mates when they are referring to their friends. She then ran around the house calling all her sisters mate. She cracks me up.

4. Yesterday her friend gave her a My Little Pony Skywish. She carries it around telling the pony her wishes. Today, she kept telling her pony she wishes that her mom and dad would be nice to her. I asked her how we are mean and she said we put her in timeout and we don't get her a snow cone every day. Now that's mean!

STICKY GUM

While I was at a back to school night, Bailey was home with her dad and older sisters. Having a little extra alone and "free" time, Bailey decided to have some fun. After she realized her fun had ended, she decided to get some help. The conversation went something like this...

"Dad, I'm sticky." Dad replies, "go wash your hands."

Bailey states, "I can't, I'm sticky all over."

Then comes the discovery....

GUM

All over her face, hands, hair and eyelashes!

I was amazed that Jared actually took these pictures. He had his phone handy so he snapped the pics. I came home right after the pictures and at the beginning of Jared trying to wipe off the gum with toilet paper. HMMMM???

I have had a gum/hair experience with each child. Peanut butter works wonders. However, I wondered to myself how I was going to get it out of her lashes. Just for future reference...peanut butter worked on it all. It was quite the mess before we finally got her cleaned up. I am hoping she has learned to KEEP HER GUM IN HER MOUTH!

PRESCHOOL

BAILEY is the baby of the family.  She is growing up too fast.  She is all girl and loves to wear makeup and dress up.  One of her favorite things to do is video and take pictures of herself on Photo Booth. 

She started preschool this week and has some concerns about the whole thing.  First of all, she only has 3 friends (poor thing)!  Her good friend from last year started Kindergarten.  Second, I asked her if she made new friends and she told me no, there was a boy with an oval head and he was being weird.  Last of all, she came home today and told me a girl was acting FABULOUS!  I asked Bailey what exactly the girl was doing and she replied, "She was being mean to everyone!"  I asked her if she thought FABULOUS meant being mean and she replied, "YES!  It's when you can't be nice because you think you are FABULOUS!"  Geez...I really need to get up to speed on things.  :) 

She cracks me up!