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.

Sydney and Stockton learned dances at school and last night they performed them for the parents. Here are some pictures of them at the dance.

Valentine's Day 2009, was great.. all the kids got fun gifts and I got flowers from my Dad!