What's been happening

I finally received Kennedy & Rylee's school pictures
Kennedy 4th grade

Rylee 1st grade

Nice day at Zion







St.George get-a-way. Jack & Claire

Kite festival


Many crazy late nights



Soccer ended. Kennedy's team ended the season undefeated. Rylee's team had only 2 losses. Jack can't wait till he plays next year.


Rylee turned 7 and got haircut

Rylee's 7 year old picture

Jack's preschool graduation

Slacker

Yes, I have been a huge procrastinator. Here are some recent pictures.


Cute boy




Washington community center



Cute pirates



Pirate Island Pizza



Part of Easter was spent with the big kids.



My brother and his kids spent the later part of the break with us.



Easter egg hunt



Me and Ry



Rylee's soccer team



Kennedy's soccer team


It's going to be a little tricky this year with soccer. I am Kennedy's coach, however both of my girls have games on the exact days and at the exact times. Poor Rylee is going to have to be supported by family and friends. I am going to be a horrible mom. There is only one game that is an hour before Kennedy's. I'll be cheering her on from a far.

Ski School

Today was the first day of ski school for Kennedy and Katie along with (Siena, Genna, Nate, Anna, McKallie and several other friends). It snowed the two days prior and we awoke this morning to sunshine. It couldn't have been better for their first day. Kennedy let me know that she's amazing at skiing. Her instructor told her to show the others how to do certain things. Her ego is pretty big right now. I'm glad they loved it. They have 4 more weeks of this and by then who knows how good they'll be.

Our family is growing!

We’ve added a new addition to our family. My cousin Katie moved in with us two weeks ago. She just turned 14 and is in 8th grade. It’s been a little adjustment on everybody but all in all things have seemed to be going really well. I’ve always loved Katie and wanted the very best for her. It’s a little harder being the one who has to keep tabs on her and make sure she’s in the right but she’s definitely worth it. She started heading down the wrong path sometime ago and has been in need of a change. I really hope she decides to hold onto the right and realizes it's the only way she will truly be happy.(Katie is holding her cute niece Katia)



Cute makeover done by Brenna and Katie on Natalie and Kennedy.


Scary makeover done by Kennedy and Natalie on Brenna and Katie.


Personally I think Kennedy and Natalie got the better end of the deal.

Easiest Thanksgiving yet

We spent Thanksgiving in Orem at Jerry and Leilani's house. (Steve's sister). I did absolutely no cooking. I felt a little guilty, however it sure was a treat. Leilani did a marvelous job. Everything was absolutely perfect. She's kind of like that. I was very thankful we had family to spend the holidays with.





We stayed the weekend at Little America in Salt Lake. On Friday night there was a gingerbread, Christmas event at the Grand America. It was spectacular. This was the first and it is said to be an annual event from now on. I'm glad we didn't miss it.

We were greeted in the lobby by the Jazz bear.




Check out these amazing gingerbread houses that were auctioned off.

It's FALL!

It officially feels like fall after the Pumpkin Fest. We love the Pumpkin Fest. The kids have so much fun. Here some pictures from Saturday. It was also Cedar City's Livestock and Heritage Festival. In the parade there were close to 1,000 sheep going down main street. The kids thought it was cool but it stunk. It was also SUU's homecoming. And yes I'm happy to say they won by a landslide.

Since the last post...

Jack's 4!
Yesterday was Jack's Birthday. My little boy is getting to be a big boy, a very crazy, wild, big boy! I'm not sure if he'll ever mellow out. But we definitely are glad to have him around. He keeps all of us on our toes at all times. Happy Birthday BIG BOY!


Greg, Max, and Jack at The Birthday dinner.

Megan also had a birthday on the 6th. She's back to school at BYU now, so any chance we get to see her is a special day.

Greg, Mimi and Max moved to Cedar last week. They now have the perfect babysitter. Kennedy loves that little boy a ton and he doesn't mind her either.

Soccer ended.


We had our last trip to our cabin at Navajo Lake for the year.
Jack all set to take the canoe out, unfortunately the rain didn't stop long enough for us to go out on the lake.

It rained that night and therefore we had to finish our smores indoors.

Ken's BFF Nat got to come on this trip.

The wind blew so hard the night before there were actually trees in the road when we left. Luckily they were pretty skinny and we could move them long enough to drive through.

We went to Kanab for a reception last Saturday. Kennedy and Jack are always very photogenic.

I'm not big on pictures of myself, but I have to post these because their with family I rarely see anymore. Shanna was practically my sister growing up and Cindy is her little sister which makes her mine as well.

My Aunt Georgia

Kennedy's 10!

My darling Kennedy will be 10 at 9am tomorrow morning. I could spend all day and night going on and on about how wonderful Kennedy is. She’s one of those people that others are always drawn to. She has the “IT” factor. I’m not sure where she got it but it’s there.

We had Kennedy’s birthday party early this year. A couple of weeks ago she got to invite a few girls for a swimming sleep-over at the motel. The one thing I have always been against are sleep-overs. This past year she has been invited to several sleep-overs and I’ve always let her go until about mid-night and then she would come home. I just thought that late nights are much better and safer. Well I finally gave in and let her sleep over once and now the cat’s out of the bag. I still feel it’s not a great idea, however on special occasions, such as birthdays I may give in a time or two, especially since we had our own sleep over.
The girls really seemed to have a blast. They swam until dark, had treats and then came in for decorating hats and playing games. The night didn’t end until after 3:00 am. One girl left at midnight and then returned at 5:30 am, waking all those who had just previously fallen asleep. I got a phone call from the girls at 6:00 am (I was in a room next to the two they had) asking if they could go get breakfast now. After breakfast, they went swimming until 9am. We all got cleaned up and ready for a parade that was going on that morning. After the parade I took them all home. It was really nice to have it over with.


Kennedy, I couldn’t ask for a better daughter. I wouldn’t change one thing about you. I love you with all my heart.