Toothless Stock

March 23, 2009... Stockton lost his very first tooth. It was his bottom left tooth and he has been waiting for weeks for it to happen. He beat Syd by a year on age for loosing the first tooth, Syd was 7 1/2. Stockton kept wanting us to pull it out, until tonight that is when he got nervous. Finally, we talked him into letting Jon feel it and he was able to just pull it out with zero pain.

Flat Stanely

Stockton had a first grade project called "Flat Stanley" this year. He had to send Flat Stanley to someone he knew, so that person would color him and send back pictures of the area he visited. Stockton chose to send Flat Stanley to Kam in New York City.

Kam took Flat Stanley all over the city; he rode the Staten Island Ferry, saw Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, Madison Square Garden, Central Park, The Met, MoMA, and Columbia University. Stockton was so excited to read the captions and anecdotes Kam sent back with all of the pictures of Stanley's visit. It will be the best presentation! Stock can't wait to show his classmates.

Lucky Day

St. Partrick's Day 2009 started off with a visit from Lucky the Leperchan, leaving the kids golden candy and green milk. We all dressed in our green shirts to keep from getting pinched during the day.

Park City Skiing March 14th

Well we had the best intentions for a family day of skiing. We loaded up our skis and were all dressed to go and headed to Park City for a day of skiing. When we got there Jon and I got all the kids boots, gloves, helmets on and got the kids loaded up with their skis, then it was up to me to make the walk with the kids to the ticket office while Jon parked the car and got his boots on. Needless to say the walk was not good, Lucy did not want to carry her skis and was stopping in protest and Nic was not wanting to ski at all with a fear of falling off the mountain so he kept stopping to sit and cry. So by the time we got to the ticket office by the lifts, Nic was not willing to ski at all and kept crying in protest, so I bought Jon a pass only to ski with our other 3 kids, and Nic and I spent our time in the lodge having lunch and resting. About 3 hours later Jon was down with the kids only after doing 2 runs, with the 2nd run taking over 2 hours. This was due to Lucy stopping lots and lots on the mountain to lay down and cry about not wanting to ski. This left Jon with close to no patients with kids, so I took Lucy and Stock with me and Nic so Jon and Syd could enjoy one more run. With the day done, we really did have lots of memories, Lucy can ski just doesn't want to and we got the kids picture taken with a St. Bernard dog.

Jon's early B-day

Here are some of the pictures from Jon's Ben 10 party!!

Lucy home in March

Lucy was home again for 10 days in March! We had a lot planned for her visit. We had all the kids her first night home, then Saturday Jon, Lucy and I went bowling. Jon got to take a few days to work from home so he kept Lucy and Nic for those days with him. We also went to the Draper Temple Open House then out to dinner at Timpenyaki. We got to see Codi, Jared, Mara and Branden for lunch on the 13th, then that night we did a surprise early B-day party for Jon. It was Ben 10 themed of course.. we almost made it the whole time with the secret, until about 1 hour before we left to decorate, then Lucy decided Dad needed to know. Nic also helped clue Jon in by saying we still get to go to your birthday party right, and so the surprise was more the theme and fun. It was fun no matter when he found out, Syd and Lucy decorated while Stock and Nic kept Jon company at home. Saturday we ended with skiing in Park City!

Spring School Photos

So every year I usually forget the day they are doing the Spring Photos at school, and of course last year the kids were not in their best outfits and Stock just could not believe I would not buy his pictures, so I bought them. But this year I remembered, it did help that Syd was going to the symphony the same day, so she would have looked cute no matter what. So here are a few pics of the kids before school, and one of Nic not wanting me to touch his hair that day, but wanting his picture taken.

Nicholas' First Primary Talk

Nicholas gave his first primary talk in February this year. It was on Every family member has a responsibility. He was excited to give the talk and even helped with the ideas, but when it came time to practice he was not excited. I was afraid he would get up and pout and cry through it like he was doing at home, but he did great and now wants to give the talk every Sunday.

Skiing 2009

This year has become a big year for skiing for the kids this year. Sydney is skiing double blues and has earned her new Roxy ski's that Jon promised if she would ski blues for most of the season. She started this year on the green runs at Brighton for a few runs, and from there she has been skiing the blue runs at Brighton and Park City. Stockton wasn't sure about skiing this year because it was really cold the first time they went up to Alta with all the kids, but Jon got him to Park City with Syd at the end of February and he was skiing the blues all day at first with some help. Then Jon said if he would ski the rest of the day without any help then he would get a set of poles. So at the end of the day Stock came home with new poles, which he wanted from the beginning of the season.