My Valentines

 

Award: Cutest Valentine Box (her pig's legs fell off)

 

Award: Best Animal/Most Supplies Used

Great to be 8!

 

I cozy birthday girl. She's not sick, just wanted to be warm and toasty.

 

Family coming for pizza, cake and presents all used with yellow tissue paper.

 

Tanner doing a dance for the camera.

 A yellow heart birthday cake. Appropriate for our yellow sunshiny girl with a February birthday.

 

The next day (her real birthday) a candle in her breakfast eggs.

 

Game lover

Cheerful 

Helpful

Likes sports and music

Inquisitive

Crafter

Positive

Dancer

basketball

Our first season basketball star has greatly surprised us.  She steels, shoots, and even scores. She likes playing with some of her friends. I thought she would be more timid, but she looks like she has being playing for a few years. She is learning the rules and not foaling as often as the season progresses. When she wants to be assertive, she didn't know you couldn't go over the back.

Nathan is playing on the deacons basketball team. They are fun to watch and do a great job of passing the ball around to all the players. Nathan has made some shots, I can't remember if he's scored. I'm sure he'll tell me!

bowling

 

Going bowling to get out of the haze.

 

Officially off bumpers. I didn't know they did bowling in PE. That extra practice means she's staying away from the gutters most of the time.

 

Wanted to try non bumpers too. A difficult first time, but a great learning experience.

 

The family bowling champ!

 

The official ball gardian. No ball will get lost with the gardian on the job. It takes some serious concentration. In this job your not allowed to smile.

gold ribbon fox trot

 

I missed the pics on the fox trot, but here is their surpise dance swing.

 

Go Team 712!

B-day skater

 

She's double digets and officially a tween.

She loves pink, pink, pink.

She's so grown up and becoming such a big helper.

She helps take care of the little boys.

She likes to cook.

She's still very friendly and silly.

She took us ice skateing for her birthday.

What a balance girl.

Snow and more snow

 

What a snow season this has been. We spent most of Christmas break playing in the snow. Then we survived the freezing temperatures of most of January. Then we've shoveled more snow the end of January. Here is some of our snowy fun.

knitter

Nathan's school class learned to knit. He made this scarf, two ear warmers, and a hat. Boy his hands can fly.

Concerts

 

It's so much fun to attend all the Christmas Concerts, but I don't like taking along two little boys who have a hard time sitting still. We enjoyed the clogging concert very much. Two little boys liked it so much that they kept trying to sit on the stairs by the stage so they could see better. Then when a beach ball got left on the side of the stage, Tanner made it up on stage to retrieve it. Grandpa helped out and watched these two scalawags run around in the foyer to keep them off the stage.

 

We can't say enough how much we enjoyed watching Julene. She just smiled from the inside out. Her delight in dancing was apparent. It's very fun having Janae and Nathan on the same team. They are quite good, and they even get to be partners on some steps.

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These sweet girls had a lovely choir concert. We love the songs of Christmas.

Christmas 2012

 

We played the gift exchange game with my family. 

 

 

Grandpa ended up with the fairy wings until they were stolen from a very pleased little girl.

 

We played some Apples to Apples.

 

Even Tanner got in the action.

 

 

Everyone loves Grandma's Christmas Party.

 

 

Our very own Joseph on Christmas Eve.