Christmas Eve Talent!

We have our annual Christmas Eve Talent show.  Robbie was the videographer so some of the videos are a little shaky.  I think You'll get the picture anyhow though.

Sara

Robbie

Evie and Dad

Randy (with Sara's help. He's too shy to perform)

Becky has been practicing John Smidt lately.

 

Sara and Robbie and Cousins helped out Grandma and Grandpa.

Randy climbing in bed

Our Siamese Twins

Cousin eliza is visiting. She and Evie wear the same clothes and play nonstop. They are conjoined twins.

Randy Roar

Randy the dinosaur

Randy Singing

Here is Randy's twinkle star. He's been singing it a lot lately.

Bear!

Today while we were eating out of the back of our car a black bear ran
by. The kids were scared. We also saw lots of bison and elk on our
way to mammoth hot springs.

At grand geyser

> Here we are in Yellowstone at Grand Geyser. The sign says it is the
> worlds tallest predictable geyser.
>
> Randy fell and scraped his knee right at the start of the geyser loop
> near old faithful. He's been hiking and saying owy the whole time.
>
> Robbie keeps asking how hot the geysers are. "dad if you shot a
> bullet in the geyser would it melt? Dad if you put all the ice in the
> world in a geyser what would happen? Dad if a log fell in a geyser
> would it start on fire?". He's had question after question like that.
> Right now he's imagining that a geyser is a bomb and telling us about
> it. He's so imaginative and thoughtful.
>
> Time to hike again. We still have 2 more days.

Camping with cousins!

Last weekend we went camping with our cousins the Romney's. We went to Goblin Valley (again!, we went over spring break also). We had tons of fun, and did some cool hikes!


This is Robbie in Little Wild Horse Canyon. The rest of us were walking through water, but Robbie decided to spider his way through!


Robbie doing the superman! Poor Jeff was a pack mule!



All the kids in a cool cave up in the side of the canyon.

They are pushing soooo hard trying the keep the ceiling of that cave up!

Hiking down a crevice

One day we hiked in Crack Canyon and found a water hole at the end! It was so fun!!!! The kids didn't want to leave!

Sara helping Randy (he wasn't so sure about it). By the way, her shorts are just rolled up!

Evie loving it!

Randy finally warmed up and had fun walking in the water!

What a gem to find! We loved it!

Update....

I just downloaded pictures from my camera all the way back to Halloween.....! I am so out of it! I decided I am not going to go back and try to catch up! That is way too overwhelming, but here are are few pictures from the last month or so.


The brown's came up to visit Grandma Wilkey who is in a nursing home right now. She has been having a lot of strokes.



After church on Sunday. Everyone looked so cute I just had to take some pictures.

This is Easter. I took about ten pics in this spot and this was the only one where Randy was smiling!

Learning how to do things.

Randy learned how to turn the lights on and off. Evie learned how to snap.

Happy Birthday Mommy

So I got up at 5:45 (I work 10 hour days at the state) and found that
Sara's alarm clock was going off. I though she had forgotten to
change her clock for daylight savings. I said Sara I think your clock
is wrong. She said no I'm waking up early to make mommy breakfast in
bed for her birthday. I thought Becky was going to get woken up at 6
am on her birthday to a scrambled egg breakfast. When I got out of
the shower I found that she was already done though and waiting for
the shower. She said" I think I'll wait until it's closer to when
mommy usually wakes up to pour the milk. I don't want the cereal to
get soggy. I made cereal since that's the only thing I know how to
make.". I went upstairs and sure enough there was a cereal and Tang
breakfast ready and a little girl waiting patiently down stairs for an
hour for her mother to wake up so she can poor the milk. She is so
cute. She loves her mommy and was so excited to make her breakfast.

Sara and Robbie having fun doing the dishes.

Sara and Robbie are so cute together. They play and work really well
with each other. Sara loves to hand wash the dishes. Robbie is the
dryer. They really are very good and helpful kids.

Evie ice skating all by herself

I bribed Evie to try and skate all by herself. This is the result.
Way to go Evie.

Phantom of the Floppera

Maybe it's just because I'm a geek but I saw this today and thought it was really cool.