Peek-A-Boo

Is it possible to make up for many weeks of neglecting your blog all in one day? We hope so...
Turn your head sideways and enjoy!

Baby-That-Away

As you can see, Lexi has graduated from the "slither" to the "crawling on all fours, I mean THREES." If you notice, that one little leg sticks out like she's tip-toeing. Hopefully that doesn't mean she's getting ready to walk soon. We're so not ready!

Outside Fun

For those of you living in the snow and cold, we're sorry. Look at the beautiful weather you are missing in lovely Arizona. We are really enjoying the spring weather now, and later, we'll be enjoying the pool (it's way too cold to swim unless it's over 100 degrees :-).


Lexi really likes the back yard. She is especially fond of eating leaves. Good fiber, right?

She also likes to play basketball with her brothers. Tackle Basketball? As you see, it's her turn to get the ball. Watch out Sammy!

Dogpile!

He shoots. He scores!

Can any of you spot the monkey in the tree? (As you may or may not know, Josh really is part monkey.)


Hope you all will come see us soon!

Rocket Science

This week, Sam's gifted class had an Aviation Adventure day. As part of the festivities, each participant made their own bottle rocket. Sam's had lots of fun designing his (so did his mommy) but unfortunately, although we followed the directions to a "T", the mouth of the bottle was too wide to fit well on the launcher. Sam tells us that although his rocket didn't fly all that well, all the kids thought his was the coolest! So, we have another rocket scientist in our midst (Alyssa, Sam wanted to make sure you knew that he, too, is a rocket scientist now.)

Wish us better flying next year!

Ready or not..

Lexi has been threatening to crawl for a few weeks now. She has ben rolling around and getting up on all fours. Today a little light bulb went off and she figured out she can go wherever she wants. Help!

Merry Christmas 2008!

Here are the kids on Christmas Eve. We did the traditional reading of Luke and 3rd Nephi. We had a limited number of actors so we used a nativity set to do the re-enactment instead of the bathrobe and towel thing.

This is the first Christmas for "Lexi Claws". She had a great time opening presents and playing with new toys.

We let the kids open one present on Christmas Eve on the condition that we got to choose it. Did you know pajamas are boring to open?

Here is the torture before being able to go down the stairs. "Mom and Dad, we cannot wait any longer!"

Finally, the presents. We had a great time!

Josh's favorite present was the Bionicle his sister gave him.

Sam loved his Pokemon game for the Gamecube. He pretty much played this the rest of the day and ignored his other presents.

We had a very leisurely day the rest of the day and it was great. We hope you had a great Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year!

My little musicians

The boys had their first piano recital tonight. They only started a couple months ago, so I was thinking this was a bit soon, but they were so cute. Josh played "Long ago" and "Hello class, how are you?". Sam played "Mary had a little lamb" and "Ring those bells". Sam played "Mary had a little lamb" a couple octives low and played it with style. Cari helped him find middle C for the next song. Josh got stuck in the middle of one of his songs and scratched his head in confusion. Very cute! The video is from the phone so the picture and sound are not the best. Next time we will remember our camera.