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Thursday, March 31, 2011

2010 - General Conference

Missy and Kelsee

This past October, all the seniors from our Stake were invited to attend the afternoon session of the LDS General Conference. They left bright and early Saturday morning. We are so blessed to live close enough to attend General Conference on occasion. What a great opportunity for all of the kids who were able to attend.

Missy, Marissa and Kelsee posing on the oversized chair in Beaver. Headed home from an awesome day!

Monday, March 28, 2011

CHRISTMAS MORNING 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Maddy and Abby looking through the stockings...

Abby and Kelsee happy :)

Four SpOiLeD and happy girls

CHRISTMAS EVE 2010

We had such a great time celebrating Christmas Eve with the Draney family. Great food, talent show and dressing up to "act out" the nativity.

Opening presents....Traditions...

I wonder what we will get???

Traditional Christmas tree photo op...

New Christmas pajamas

Christmas Traditions

A few more traditions throughout the holidays....

The kids enjoy dimming the lights each night at dinner, and lighting a candle. They younger ones take turns blowing it out at the end of the meal.

WOW!

Christmas lights....I love driving around the neighborhoods and enjoying all the hard work people devote to their Christmas displays. This year the winner goes to this house.

This year Kelsee had a swim meet in northern Utah. This gave us an opportunity to visit Temple Square and enjoy the beautiful decor and ambiance. We haven't been to see the lights for several years. After moving away, making a trip up to SL during December is often hard to schedule. This is not an annual tradition but we enjoyed walking around.

Jared and Kim inside the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

Wow...we are getting old :)

Christmas Traditions

During the Christmas holidays, we have a few traditions. One of the kids favorites are making and decorating

Gingerbread People

I love their creativity!

The kids invited the Prince girls over to help decorate all our cookies.

Finally finished and displaying their hard work.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

BAILEY'S SOLO BIKE RIDE

It has taken a little persistence, but Bailey finally had the courage enough to ride her bike without training wheels. I have made many attempts to help her learn. She wants to but doesn't have the belief in herself that she can. I could tell she was getting more confident but still hadn't fully mastered the solo bike ride until.....

One day while I ran the other kids to piano, Bailey asked her dad to help her ride the bike. Lo and behold.....she did it! Wow, he got all the glory, and I didn't get to witness this milestone. I wasn't going to be home until after dark, so Jared recorded a little video "surprise" for me. Yay.....Bailey!