Happy Birthday...

To a wonderful dad....

From fu manchu to santa beard to clean shaven again! You always look great!

We love you and miss you and hope you have a super birthday!

(Happy Spring too!!)

"Make yourself a dang quesadilla!"

We love Napoleon Dynamite.

We can center an entire YM/YW combined activity around that awesome movie.

Chris was incharge of last weeks activity and it was a hit.

Not sure if I like this picture. He stayed in character the whole night.

What a geek.

Everyone dressed up. Kaitlyn was Summer. "Vote for Summer!" Luv the bangs.

They had a dance-off which was hilarious.

This is the Mia Maids, who took 2nd. They rocked.

These are my friends Meg (LaFawnda) and Shauna (Kip).

They were crazy funny.

Here are 7th ward's fearless youth leaders.

They all dressed up, and not one character was duplicated.

I cooked "tots" for everyone. No one asked for a quesadilla.

Good times.

some pictures of Texas for y'all...

Kaitlyn and I just returned from a fun weekend trip to Austin Texas to visit Josh, Melisa and Amelia and meet cute-as-a-button Jett.

We became tourists for 2 days, checking out the river walk in San Antonio,

The Alamo,

Then walked among Texas Longhorns at the university

and ran into a Chinese dragon?

(Amelia LOVED it- we loved watching her!)

Found some noodles to walk through....

Hung out by a very large Texas star...

Went though the capital....

And we took a ride to the top of the tower of America...yikes.

The view was great and it was a fun place to run around

if you are 2 and have no fear.

It was a little too windy for Kaitlyn (childhood phobia).

She would only go outside for 10 seconds to get a picture.

We loved hanging out with Stephanie too...

she met us on the way out in Phoenix.

Jacob came along as well, so he could play with Amelia.

We ate a lot of great food, enjoyed spending time with family

and were glad to get out of the snow for a few days.

Thanks again for a fun weekend Josh and Melisa.....

Does the arm length of a catapult affect projectile distance?

Haven't we all wondered about that sometime or another? That was Kaitlyn's question this year for science fair. Here she is at the fair with her project. (sorry about the blurry pictures, something is up with my camera!)

Earlier this school year, she built a catapult, with the help of her handy and crafty father.

Then she tested it out several times, gathering tons of data.

She won at the school level and went on to district...

Where she won 2nd place in the category of math and physics with a special award from the US Metric Association and one from the United States Air Force.

Yep, we're proud of our young scientist!

six years and counting....

Jack celebrated his sixth birthday on Sunday.

We can't believe he is that big already!

This year he had a fun family party with the Findlay's

And he got a new bike... (can you tell his favorite color is green?)

He wanted me to take a picture of his new creepy helmet.

Look out neighborhood-as soon as the snow thaws he's hittin' the road!

24 kids & 12 adults in a cabin at Bear Lake

We spent several days with lots of good friends in a cabin at Bear Lake last weekend. It was fun to spend some time there in the winter, especially since we usually are there in the summer. There were friends for everyone. The older girls had fun with pipe cleaners...

The adults played lots of fun games...

And everybody ate way too much food!

Feeding that many kids is an adventure in itself!

We spent some time on 4 wheelers and snow mobiles...

And lounged around in the snow..

And we had a blast on a great sledding hill with NO INJURIES! Amazing!

Dads raced...

And so did the moms. FYI- I won!

And we sent 15-20 kids down the hill at once-and still, NO INJURIES!

It is awesome to have such fun friends to hang out with!