A Jazz Game for Family Home Evening

Thanks to APX, we got to go to a Jazz game for Family Home Evening. We had one extra ticket so we also brought one of Joshua's friends, David M. It was a great game (the Jazz won), we had great seats, and Adam liked meeting the 1/2 Bear.

Behind In My Blogging

I'm doing a little catch-up since I haven't posted anything for over a month. We went to Cornbelly's at the end of October and had a great time. David and Tanner opted out so they aren't in any of the pictures. Notice the stuff that Rachel, Rebecca and Adam are playing in. Those are kernals of corn. Tons of it. The kids play in it like sand.

The month of November was a busy one including a surprise trip to London for my birthday. I will do another post all about that wonderful trip.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Terry's house with lots of Marilyn's family as well as my mom and dad. It was a large group but dinner was great and we had a good time visiting with everyone. We missed having leftover turkey though so we had a small family Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.

The day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) I got up at the crack of dawn to go shopping! JUST KIDDING. I'm not a big fan of Black Friday so we loaded up the car and went skiing for the day. It was fabulous.

David and I did get to do some Christmas shopping on Saturday. It seemed like all the sales were for the whole weekend so we still got some pretty good deals.

Now it is December and we are in the full-swing of Christmas. I play the radio station that plays only Christmas songs all day and I'm not sick of it yet. The decorations are up...

... the presents are being wrapped, and we still manage to slip in a ski trip here and there. The nice thing about season passes is that we can go for just a few hours instead of feeling like we have to stay the whole day to get our money's worth.

Season's Greetings to everyone and be sure to enjoy the holidays and not get to frazzled. :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Costumes, Candy, Pumpkins, Haunted House, etc. FUN!! FUN!! FUN!!

Snow and Crazy Hair Day

IT SNOWED!!! YEA!!! We are rather excited in our home because we are eagerly awaiting ski season and the snow really helps. :) Not to mention that it is just beautiful.



It is also CRAZY HAIR DAY at school. Aren't Rebecca and Adam just cute?

Rachel Goes to NYC

It's a tradition in our family that when you turn 12 you get to go on a trip with Dad anywhere you want... as long as you can pay for your own part of the trip. Rachel decided to go to New York City to see Wicked and to go to Carlo's Bake Shop among other things. They got back last night after being there for 4 days and it sounds like they had a great time. I picked out a few pictures that I think captures the essence of all that they did. It makes me want to go do the NYC thing again. Maybe some day.

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Pictures of Jared on His Mission

We finally got some pictures of Jared. He sent home a memory card from his camera and there were over 200 pictures and some great video as well. I went through them and picked out a few that seemed to capture what life is like for him. I haven't labeled any of the pictures because I don't know anything about them except that Jared is in a lot of them. Enjoy!

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Kennecott Copper Mine

For those of you who live in Utah or have visited the Salt Lake area, I'm sure you have seen the big mounds of dirt on the west side of the valley. That is the Kennecott Copper Mine and I have always (since I was little) been curious about it. So I dragged all my kids with me yesterday to go investigate. It was fascinating. Since Adam is not too keen on reading everything in the visitors center, I plan to go back without any kids some time to read everything there. I definitely recommend it though for the whole family. All the kids liked seeing it and seeing how it goes from plain old dirt to 99.9% copper, not to mention the gold and silver they get out too.



The big tire that the kids are standing by goes on one of those trucks in the other picture. The truck is as big as a 2-story house. The pit probably doesn't look that deep but it is 3/4 of a mile deep and they said you could stack 2 Sears towers on top of each other and still not get to the top of the hole from the bottom. It is massive.