CHRISTMAS EVE MAKING HOUSES

Christmas Eve at our house was very fun this year.
We were able to have all of the kids over and the grandkids.
Also a friend of Mackenzie's and Aunt Norine.
We had the annual opening of the "christmas eve jammies" (sorry kids, not homemade this year)

Maybe I will get started earlier next year and get back to the home made ones.
We made gingerbread houses and Tia loved licking the extra icing off of Tagg's ears.
I think that Tagg liked it too.
Mackenzie put alot of work into her house of gingerbread.
Tagg got away with a lick or two off the top of gingerbread house that was unoccupied.....
Treyson was very proud of his masterpiece, which he worked very hard at completing.....
Rylee was quite proud of his artwork as well.




This was our first year at making gingerbread houses on christmas eve and I think that
we enjoyed it.  We might have to continue this and make it a tradition for each year.
Jim also was all decked out and in christmas attire.  Check out this
hand made crossed stitched sweatshirt donning the goold ole "DUCK THE MALLS"

CHRISTMAS MORNING FOR "TIA"

TIA was so excited for christmas this year that she was the first one up (other than the photographer)

She was very diligent in searching her for her stash from Santa
She finally got the toys off the couch only to discover that they were attached to a stupid cardboard that needed a human touch to remove.

Blakeley was able to come up and spend some time with me on Saturday.

Usually when she comes up we have to cook dinner and then it is late enough that
we have to go to bed. We don't really have time to do any fun crafting projects.

Well Saturday she came up and we worked on her blanket that Rylee had given her for her
Birthday. It was a "kit" that you just had to cut and then put knots in it.

Blakeley did most of the knot tying all by herself. She is very proud of the finished project!








Look how warm and snuggly!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer All Star Game

Wa Hoo!! Rylee won "MVP" pitcher of the year. He was so excited and did so very well.
This is a picture of the final scoreboard for the winning "All Star game" (yeah, the photographer missed the actual lite up scoreboard)
Rylee with his wonderful coaches.
Aunt Pauline came and wanted her picture taken with the MVP...

The three all star MVP's

What a swing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Swimming lessons

This year we were able to get Rylee into swimming lessons. It was at a house just down the street from us and he did really well.
Look at that "Breast Stroke"
And now the floating.....
I think that this is the back stroke...
Thanks to his teacher as he learned alot and had a great time

11th Birthday

Rylee turned 11 this year. I know I can hardly believe it. We took a couple of friends and headed to TOAD's Fun Zone.
The BIRTDAY BOY!!!
Garrett
TC and Bridger, (ps Bridger's birthday is also on 08-04)

They had alot of fun in the go carts.

Thanks for going with us guys and being good. It was really fun

Arrow of Light Award

Rylee was able to receive his "Arrow of Light" award on 09-01-10. It was a great night and we are very proud of our litte scout.
Rylee worked very had over the summer to catch up on his book and because of this he earned about 12 awards all at once. We were always gone for the pack meetings due to the football and baseball schedule that he was holding down.
The proud parents!
Walking the Bridge.....
Rylee with his new leaders. Thanks for all your hard work guys. The boys and the parents appreciate all that you do.

That's all I got

Well the big Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay race came thru Morgan last night and I was able to be a guest house for Mackenzie's team. Unfortunately I did not get out the camera to take pictures of all the people running in the day light and when it came time for Mackenzie to run it was dark.

The girls pretty well provided everything that they needed. Kenzie brought up lasagne, fruit, papergoods and water the night before. I just had to put the lasagne in the oven to cook before the first load of runners came. They ran in two groups of 6 members each. They each take a leg and pass off to the next runner. They end up running all night and part of the next day. I think that the total number of miles they run is about 188. Whew!!!

We went up to the corner and helped direct traffic so no one got hit while running and had a really good time. We came back home about 1:00 am. Kenzie finally called and said she was stuck in traffic in Henefer so we went to bed. I think they got here about 2:30 am and they took showers and had something to eat and then crashed on the couches and floors for a little while before heading out to meet up with thier team and do their last leg of running. Over all I think it was a good expierence. Someone said that there were 1000 teams of 12 or so this year. Wow that is a lot of people
Thanks for including me and letting me be part of the night. It was really fun.

AIRMED in Morgan

Airmed from the University of Utah came to Morgan today. They were coming to do a training with our emergency department.



Lucky for me, I work at the court house and was notified of this so I could round up my grandkids and we could go an watch it come up the canyon and land on the lawn of the Library/Senior Citizen Center.
Here it comes..........
Some of us got a little too close and it blew our lovely hairdo's. (sorry Stacy)
This is CJ, Treyson and Tagg right up close to the actual helicopter. They gave out pins and stickers to all the kids. It was awesome.
Believe me, it is way funner to see the Airmed helicopter like this and any other way. Thanks for sharing with our little town of Morgan and thanks for all you do for those of us that need your services.