Zach's Pinewood Derby

Tonight we had Zachary's pinewood derby. The girls took the pictures during the activity.

Jessica got a nice picture of Samantha! What a cutie!

Andrew got lucky and was announcing the heats for each race.

Parker and Adam enjoying the action of the race.

Zachary's car is the one with the orange wheels. He placed 3rd and 4th each race.

Looks like Zachary had a good time, no matter what place he came in.

The boys looked excited to start racing!

We are just happy to be here!

Zachary showing off his car.






Here are Grandma and Grandpa ready to cheer Zachary on.





Jessica is happy to be at a Pinewood Derby!!

Christmas Vacation pt 2

Zachary got a chance to drive a race car. He did a good job!

The next day we thought that we were going to the meteor crater in Winslow, but the weather was bad so we went to Tucson.


We went to Old Tucson Studios. Many westerns were filmed here, including Little House in the Prairie. Here is Samantha pretending to be dead.

Here I am in front of little Mexican town scene.

We saw a comedy stunt show. Look closely you can see a man falling from the tower.

My western girls!!


I had to put my boys away!!

The desert can be beautiful.

We then went to an airplane museum, with Nile and Candi's family.

They all fit so nicely under the wing.



Parker looks like he is ready for battle.


Samantha is taking it easy in this fighter plane.

We had to get a picture of us in front of this amazing plane!



Here are our kids and their cousins. We will miss them.

We also went to Amazing Jakes and I got a great picture of Andrew and Samantha on the rock wall.

We had a great time in Arizona! We miss everyone already!! See you in April!

Christmas Break in AZ!

The Christmas break began with a skiing trip for Andrew, Jessica and Samantha. They said that they had a great time. I was with the boys for the day and we went to see The Chronicles of Narnia.

We headed off to Arizona! On Monday we spent time with the Threet Family.

We rode quads and shot guns. We all had a great time!

Andrew and I had a great time riding on the quads!!! I had not ridden for a long time.


Parker got the hang of riding really quickly!!

Jessica went riding with Garrett. Later on she rode by herself.

Samantha rode with Hayden.

I think shooting came second nature to Samantha, kind of scary.

I shot off an AK-47. That sucker has some power, it was like a firework going off in your arms.

Jessica seemed to enjoy shooting also.


The next day we went driving race cars! Parker enjoyed himself thoroughly!!

More of the vacation tomorrow!

Thanksgiving!

We are having a fun Thanksgiving Day break. The break started by being cold, 4 degrees, and then the snow came! The kids love it!

Samantha and Parker made a large mount of snow, they will make a fort later.

We headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner. The kids like to be with their cousins!

Jessica and Safira, who enjoyed the phone when music was playing.



Safira and Eli enjoying play time together.

Zachary enjoyed dancing along with Mary Poppins, the movie that was on.

The sledding began outside! Samantha tried to snowboard!

What a pretty snow angel!




Zachary falling after trying to snowboard.

Parker and Eli on a sled that was being pulled by Kirk on the riding lawn mower.

Parker also had fun riding with Afton.

Thanks to all for the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner!! It was delicious!!

We still have some Thanksgiving Day break left.

Time to get out some Christmas decorations out!

Powderpuff

Last night Jessica and her friend Casey went to play in the Powder Puff football game. This is a football game for the girls to play. The boys are the cheerleaders! They had to get ready for the game; only girls would do that.

They look tough, right?



Show me those muscles!

Samantha had a Cross Country banquet. I think it was a bit on the long side, 2 hours. Samantha got the award for the best newcomer. Samantha is also wearing a walking cast. She might have a stress fracture. We will go back to get another xray in 2 weeks.

I made chocolate rolo cookies for the banquet. You use cake mix, butter and eggs and you wrap the dough around a rolo. Yummm.

After the banquet, Samantha and I went to watch Jessica play! Excitement!! Jessica has the green headband and the pink sleeves.



She looks excited to play. The game was the Juniors (Jessica) against the Seniors! The Juniors won 33 to 13! Woo Hoo!