Joshua

This is our buddy boy Joshua. He is now 8. This is the picture of him at the District Spelling Bee. He had won the Bee at Red Rock Elementary and did pretty well here, although he was out in the third round. We are proud of him, though.

Joshua loves school and is a good student. He also loves Medal of Honor video games and cub scouts.

He and I are making our first pinewood derby car and will be racing it in a couple of weeks.

Joshua is a very stable part of our family. He does not stir up much and gets along pretty well with the rest of the kids.

Tyler

Thought I would spend a little time telling you about each of our kids and what

they are up to or like to do.




Tyler is 6 and is very full of life. Here he is in a tight squeeze- Actully trying to stay warm. He is active in everything he does. He is in the first grade and is getting the hang of reading. He loves math and being the class clown.



Tyler loves to do anything outdoors- but that got him in a little trouble this last month. He was sledding with his brother on a snow day and took the wrong path down the hill in our back yard. On the first try he hit a cinder block wall at the bottom of the alley and blacked his eye. It actually broke the orbital roof bone of his right eye. After a night in the ER and then back the next morning, they were afraid some pretty serious damage had happened to his eye muscles, so they flew him to Albuquerque to Presbyterian Hospital. He was checked over by a bunch of specialists who determined that it would be best to not do surgery but rather wait. That was the best decision- within a couple of weeks the swelling went down and he was back to normal. Very scary for Mom and Dad, I will tell you that.

Tyler is a great part of our life and we love having him in our family. He is a very loving guy (As you can tell from the other picture with the cheerleader).

Salt Lake Trip

Here we are at Salt Lake temple waiting for my nephew Jared Woodson and his new bride Annie to come out and take pictures. We are very proud of Jared for getting such a great gal to marry him and especically that it happened in the right place. We wanted to make sure our kids got to see how wonderful it is to be around the temple with the hopes it would increase their testimony and resolve to marry in the temple some day, too.

That trip was very fun and we were able to see many wonderful things there. We went ice skating, which was a riot to see. Kayla really started to get the hang of it eventually- but the rest of us were still pretty slow going by the end of the day. (And Mom and Dad were exhausted, too!)

We were able to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform portions of Handels' Messiah at Music and the spoken word. Tyler and I did not get to go into the auditorium as it has an 8 year old cut off for entry, so we went into one of the "cry" rooms- and there were plenty of kids that did not make the name obsolete. It was still a great event and then we went to sacrament meeting over at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was President Gordon B. Hinckley's ward and he actually came. We got to see his sweet face as he came in and slipped out right after the prayer. It is hard to believe that exactly 4 weeks later he would pass on the to the other side of the veil. We really will miss him.

At the BYU game

Here are the kids with some of the cheerleaders during the tailgate party before the BYU/UNM game. This was a great day!

Ashley (12) is on the left with Kayla (13) on the right. The boys- Tyler (6) and Joshua (8) are on the bottom.

Sorry- do not know the names of the cheerleaders.

BYU won the game 31-24

True Blue forever

How do you make a Cougar fan for life? Tyler is now in that category.

This was at the BYU/ UNM game in Albuquerque last fall. After a great come from behind win, it felt good to be a cougar. We stayed after the game and the cheerleaders and players were so good to us and our kids. We went to the fireside the night before and were so impressed that the Cougars are a good off the field as they are great on the field. This was a night of great memories that we will never forget.

Welcome to our Blog

This is all new to us. We have never been the best scrapbookers, journal keepers, newsletter writers or communicators. But we do want to have some sort of record of who we are and what we are doing.

In the coming days we will post some pics, happenings, etc. Then maybe this can be sort of a scrapbook for our family.