Easter

Easter was a lot of fun. We went to Tremonton this year and spent the weekend with Byron's family. Everyone went to the egg hunt in Kaysville. The cousins also had an egg hunt at Nana and Papa's. The Frew's had baby chicks that the kids got to see. We also celebrated Hanna's birthday. When we got home we also found some Easter fun waiting for us.

Chapin's Spotlight

We had fun spotlighting Chapin in his class. We got to share some fun pics and tell about him: his favorites, where his name came from, some of the fun experiences he has had, and how much we love and enjoy him. We shared cookies and kool-aid and played some fun games with his class. I can't believe how much he has grown - a big kindergartner!

Rachel Cheerleading

This is one of my favorite pics. Mostly because we actually got one of one of her stunts. She moves too fast to get too many pics during stunts and tumbling. This was at a competition earlier this year in Utah. Rachel is so small but really tight from ballet that she gets to be a flyer. I've had mixed feelings about that as mom. They had a barrel toss (she was the toss) in their routine but she was dropped (on the soft mats at practice) and decided she didn't want to risk it on the hard gym floor during performance. Her coach commented that they wouldn't be able to get another girl at this age to be able to do the stunt, that Rachel had really mature strength and timing abilities.

Rachel loves cheer leading. She has had fun performing at local high school halftimes. Here they are opening for the Eastern Idaho Competition a few weeks ago. These pics are dark, we need a new flash bulb for our camera. She is the one in front on the first row.

State Chess Tournament

Rachel and Chapin participated in the state chess tournament hosted at their school. The did really well. Rachel had two wins and three draws.

Chapin had one win, two losses, and two draws. He played both kindergartners and older first graders. Rachel and Chapin just started getting into the game this fall at our new school. They teach chess as part of their curriculum. Byron played in state and national chess tournaments when he was their same ages. The experience helped both of them to improve their game and confidence. We were proud of them for sticking the long day out and playing so many games.

Happy New Year

We were a bunch of party animals at Grammy's house this year. (She was sacked out on the couch). Rachel was the only little one that stayed up. We played monopoly - the once a year if that game- which Byron literally cleaned house and then we had a movie marathon until 4 in the morning. Byron would have pulled an overnighter but we made him call it quits.

We partied in style with some funny hats, blowers, and poppers!

Bry and Kay were up from St. George and Janell and Phill of course were out. Gramps didn't even take the couch. He went to bed.

Yeah, Good Times!

Sledding on Christmas Day

The Christmas Day blizzard kept the Grandparents snowed in and unable to come for Christmas dinner so we decided to make the most of it and go sledding in our back yard. The walkout made a nice hill. Rachel built a cave. It was a little dark for good pics.

Christmas Morning

Kaylee giving kisses to her new baby dollie "Abby". She got lots of fun things to help her take care of her new baby and she has been a good mommy feeding and changing her and taking her for stroller rides.

Rachel tries to hold up her loot! She did get her I-pod but Santa ran out of phones before he got to our house. Her Grandma told her it was probably because he had to give them to the bigger girls first. She was still happy. We had fun dueting with the Karaoke machine all-day.

Chapin made out with a Star Wars loot and was ecstatic about it. Santa surprised him with a Didj and the Star Wars game. He has been with the force ever since!

The kids were up at 6:30 ready to open presents and digging into their stockings. It was a lot of fun to see them excited. Kaylee was super excited about all the candy. Byron got some goods to add to the theatre room (exciting) and work and play clothes (not so exciting for him) and Krista got some clothes (exciting), new tires (not so exciting) and Twilight (which I read that day).