Kayla's Number Nine & Zach's band concert.

Zach did a great job in his concert. He was in the back so it is a little hard to see him playing his drum. But trust me his head is in the back swaying in a couple of times. Brayden loved the song.

McKayla also finished celebrating her Ninth B-day. We began it by running up the Eiffel Tower to watch the sunset.

McKayla is the cutest Oompa Loompa

McKayla did a super-de-duper job in her play this last weekend. Jen put together some awesome customes. Here are some pics & clips.

Ok here is the Toy Story three Review

Look to the right.

For the Record

Avatar Movie Review- what they liked
• Brayden - B- I liked when they got the bad guys with electricity
• McKayla - B - I think the guy should have earned his legs.
• Zach - A+- The final Battle when all of the animals come in
• Tyler - B- The Fighting at the end was cool, but it was long
• Nick - B - The recognition of Deity "they do exist." Much better than Titanic

Back from Vacation.

So we had a good time. We have a number of pictures we will try to start putting up, but with the rate of our posting it may not happen. But here is a picture of us at kirtland to start.

A Fun Fourth!

We had a great time on the fourth of july. here are some of the pics:

TeeBall Season comes to a close! No more Cheesy Fries.

Drama Camp

The kids just finished up the their Drama Camp. This was their finale. It was Awesome! the kids did so good. Tyler comes in about midway through, with the vest on. Zach and McKayla come in at the end on the left front. Tyler is in the middle front at the end.

For the Record

Favorite Thing About Being Snowed In

• Brayden - Make Castles and climb in them
• McKayla - Just playing in the snow and being with my family
• Zach - School being cancelled
• Tyler - Snow Balls, throw them at Dad
• Nick - The oppurtunities to serve

Now we're a Mac

Bought it Saturday. We'll see how it goes.

For the Record

Favorite Macy's Day Parade Balloon
Nick - Buzz Lightyear
Zach - Pikachu
McKayla - Dora & Spongebob
Tyler - Buzz Lightyear
Brayden - Spiderman

Let it snow!

Over 24in of white fluff. With drifts that have to be over 4 feet.

Happy New Year!

We hope everybody had as great a New Year as we did. We continued our recent tradition of inviting a bunch of people over and having. It was a great time. And if you haven't read Elder Holland's Article in the Ensign yet about looking forward to the future, please do it is great.

Macy's Day Parade

Here are some pics from our New York/Macy's Day Parade trip.
Pikachu: Zach's favorite

Orange Hats, to make us standout in the crowd

Phantom of the Opera, watched it the day before thanksgiving.

Macy's store

Best View in the house

To Infinite and Beyond!

A lot to catch up on..

Because of some computer issues it's been awhile since we have posted. Ok so we went to Disneyworld and had the time of our lives. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa.

THEN, we celebrated Brayden's birthday (though we did that in D-world too). Now our baby is FIVE!

THEN, we went to New York City to see Phantom of the Opera and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

We had a lot of fun and once pics get put in order we will share them with everyone.

Ultimate Question: Red Vines or Twizzlers

Jen - Twizzlers
Nick - Red Vines
Zach - Twizzlers
McKayla - Red Vines
Tyler - None
Brayden - Whatever is in front of him.

Wizard of Oz

Pics will be posted soon. But here is some news about Tyler & Zach's play.

http://www.doverpost.com/entertainment/x1799923713/Young-actors-experience-the-onstage-magic-of-Wizard-of-Oz

Perfect Nachos

Aren't they Gorgeous!

Costume Party

So the kids were invited to a costume party by a friend of the fams. It was a theme (Princess and knights, etc), so I asked the kids if they wanted to get dressed as such. They said yes, Kayla would wear her Snow WHite dress, Brayden his knight costume from last Halloween. Zach wanted to be a Ice Wizard, and Tyler wanted to be a fire wizard. Well we only had one wizard robe, so one trip to the craft store and WOW a two headed wizard. Because of the schedule with play practice, Zach was going to meet us at the party. But that meant that we needed to take the kids' friend Ally to the party with us. Well, thinking that Ally and Zach would switch, I let Ally fill in in the two headed Wizard:

Unfortunately, this made Zach feel a little left out not having a costume.

But not to fear, one trip to the restrooms, and...POW...TP MUMMY. The costume party was a hit.

Memories of Halloween Past

Seeing ads for Haunted Houses etc reminds me of a haunted house we tried taking the kids to a couple of years ago. Three years ago, while awaiting to start in the AF I was working at USD. My job required me to work with a number of undergraduate students, who included sorority and fraternity students.

There was an advertisement for a sorority/fraternity Hauted House and Halloween Carnival in the college paper. The paper said that the hauted house portion of the event was "family friendly" from 4 to 6. At 6 it was supposed to go full board. So I asked my co-workers what kind of family friendly because at the time the kids were 2, 4, 6 and 8. She said that it would be ok for them. So we go...

We walked in and the bottum floor was decorated fine and we went to go to the haunted part. Zach and Kayla were really scared (Jen stayed with Brayden). The Sorority girls and their male counterparts were yelling up the stairs: "Really really little kids coming TONE IT DOWN." Well Zach and Kayla were too scared to go up but Tyler still wanted to go. One of the Sorority sisters offered to take him, and he said he wanted too. So why not...how bad can it be?

They went up, Kayla, Zach, & I played the carnival games (they got spoiled with candy rewards). Soon, Tyler and his excort came to the carnival. She said he only wanted to see two of the six upstair rooms and decided to not try going to the basement at all. He played the games and all of us left.

On the way home Jen and I asked Tyler what he thought. He thought it was fun. So I asked what the first room was like. He said it was evil clowns singing twinkle twinkle little star "but in a slow evil way" (his words not ours. ) This seemed to not phase him though Jen and I were a little worried, not to mention wondering what psychology bills would cost after that. Hoping maybe it would get better, I asked about the second room. His response: "There was a guy...torturing a girl."

Needless to say, next time maybe not the best to trust a sorority girls or frat boys on what a family friendly haunted house would be.