Adam Turned 5!

Adam turned 5 yesterday, December 28, 2009. I can't believe he is already 5. He happily opened all his presents and then we had cake dipped in chocolate fondue. Happy Birthday, Adam!

Merry Christmas From Maui

Here are some pictures from our Hawaii vacation. We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!

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Made You Look! :)

Hi Everyone!! Made you look. The answer to the riddle is that the last bulleted item is NOT true. It would be fun but I have to say that I am a little to old. The above picture was taken in 1995 just before Tanner was born.

By the way, feel free to visit this blog whenever you might be wondering what the Powells are up to. And please come visit us whenever you are in the Draper area.

We are off to Hawaii for the holidays and will be posting pictures soon.

Happy 14th Birthday Tanner!

Wasn't he a cute 2-year-old? He's a cute 14-year-old too.
For his birthday he wanted to go paintballing so David took Tanner and 8 other boys (including Joshua) to have a paintball war. Below are a few pictures. Tanner loved it and was so happy! Thanks David for taking them.

APX Grand Opening

Yesterday, Rachel, Adam and I went down to Provo to the grand opening of APX Alarm's new building. We got to sit in the chairs with the executives' families (I felt special). There were lots of men in suits (bankers, investors, executives, people from the press and politicians). APX did a nice presentation about the company and then the president of the company, Todd Pedersen, spoke. Then Governor Herbert spoke and to top it all off, Govenor Mitt Romney spoke. I had never heard him speak in a setting other than stake conference (he was our stake pres. when we lived in MA). He was very good and and inspiring. I sure hope he runs for president again. Of course I had to take a picture of him speaking:

This is the actual ribbon cutting. Notice that David is standing next to the lady in the white sweater who is standing next to Gov. Romney. The next person is the APX Pres. and then Gov. Herbert. It was kind of exciting.

The Christmas Season Has Begun

We put up the tree and decorated it to the max. It's always fun to put on the ornaments because we have so many with special meaning. We get to talk about the people and places where they came from and share our memories. It's fun.

The day after we decorated our tree, we went to see the Christmas Lights at Thanksgiving Point. This is Adam showing you how happy he was to get to do that. He is smiling as big as he can. (I can't ever get him to smile naturally.... it's always this big teethy grin and I love it.)

We also ventured out to the new In N Out Burger in Draper. The boys had been there a few times but the rest of us haven't wanted to brave the lines. (The lines have been literally blocks long, 2 cars wide) We finally went and it was as delicious as I remember. :)