Garretts 12th birthday!!

I cannot believe that our little Garrett is 12 years old! He recently celebrated his birthday by going ice skating with his buddies and his family. We had a really fun time! Melissa and I are so blessed to have such good kids. I have to admit I got a little misty eyed (so did his mom!) when Garrett passed the sacrament for the first time. Scott blessed it that day also, so it was a special sunday for us. Garrett is everybodys friend! People love him right away after meeting him beause he is such a cool kid he just goes with the flow! He is excited to be playing tackle football for the first time this year so watch for the pictures and posts of him playing football soon!

Garrett, Jake and Rhett at the ice rink on Garretts 12th Birthday

Kacey and Russ watching Hockey at the ice rink.

Kacey and her favorite person! She did a really good job learning how to skate!

Temple Christmas Lights 2008

Emalie and her cousin Elsie Perkins. They are so cute!!

Scott and his beautiful mother Melissa.

Our family at the Temple Christmas lights. We met up with Grandma and Grandpa LeSueur, Grandpa Chapman and the Syreks. Kacey refused to keep her hat on in spite of what you see in the picture.

Winter Formal

Scott went to his first High school dance last night. Demari Brown asked him to Winter formal. They have been out a few times and we think she is the sweetest girl. They had alot of fun, dinner, the dance and then ice skating. It's hard to believe our kids our growing up!

In front of our Christmas tree!

The group they had dinner with.

I love CHRISTMAS!!

I love this time of year!

This is what happens when the mother goes back to work!

Garett and Kacey decided to build a fort in my living room the other day. They used all my pillowes and blankets to create this masterpiece. They had a blast, playing for hours which turned into 2 days. They even talked me into letting them sleep in it on a school night! How could I say no? Even Mika got in on the fun!

Twilight!

Emalie and her best friends Hannah Sandrolini, saw the midnight showing of Twilight the night it came out, and they LOVED it! Mostly because of Edward Cullen:)

Kacey's teaching moment

As parents we are always finding opportunites for simple teaching moments with are kids. Well last Saturday Kacey wanted to learn how to ride her bike. The kids had taken her training wheels off months ago and she hasn't been able to ride. She came to me and asked me if I could teach her. I told her I had lots of cleaning to do, but I would help later. Well I guess she went to everyone else in the family and asked them the same thing. So Kacey decided she would try to teach herself. I don't know how long she was out front, but she stuck with it until she taught herself to ride. I was feeling bad about not helping her but at the same time so proud of her for not giving up! Way to go Kacey!!

Now we can't get her off the bike, I've got to get her a helmet. Sunday morning she was the first one up and decided to go ride and she didn't tell anyone. Would hate for anything to happen to her.

Garrett and Kacey

Garrett showing Kacey how to do a Pop a wheelie. (I did't quite snap the picture in time!)

A picture of Kacey I forgot to post. The kindergartners were the 101 Dalmatians for there schools annual Halloween Parade of Characters.