Speed Skating Olympic Trials

Last night we went to the Speed Skating Olympic Trials at the Olympic Oval.

Larry was able to try out the ice.

T played a little hockey. And tried out the Bobsled with L.

L and A tried out some Curling with the help of T and Larry.

I've got some pictures of R also but can't find them. I will put them on when I get them. 

 We had some good laughs!

Christmas and Birthday

We had a fun Christmas this year.  Nothing super fancy, no exciting trips, just fun here at home with family, trying to remind everyone the true meaning of Christmas as often as possible!

Here are some photos right before Christmas at school with some gingerbread houses made by T and A.

Going downtown to see the lights.  It was SO cold!

Christmas Day, Sunny found treats in her stocking first.

Kids with stockings and presents.

My birthday is 5 days after. 39 years old this year, next is the big 40! BUT 40 is the new 20, right?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Merry Christmas 2013

Dance Recital

Saturday the 14th was the girls dance recital.  This was L's first recital and she was excited.  A was very confident and felt so experienced.  It was SO fun to watch!  L danced to Lasso Santa Claus and was the cutest cowgirl and A danced to What's This? from Nightmare Before Christmas.  They both did so awesome!  

The Thursday before we practiced with A's makeup, since she's on a competition team there is a certain way she was supposed to do her makeup.  We had a glittery lip major fail.  It was funny and we did figure out a better way to do it for the recital.  

Glittery Lip Fail:

Before recital started:

After show was over:

Photo Bomber

So proud of my beautiful girls :)  You guys did AWESOME!

10th Birthday

On the 2nd we celebrated the birthday of our 2nd boy!  He is growing up so fast and although I totally miss his sweet chubby little baby self, I'm loving the boy he's growing into!  He's such a deep thinker, thoughtful of others, smart, conscientious student (although he doesn't love school), good friend, kind brother (most of the time - we all have our "moments") and all around GREAT kid!

We love him so much and are so grateful he is part of our family!  Happy 10th birthday!  He was born at 2:56am on Dec 2, 2003 and at 2:56am on this Dec 2 he came into our room and told us the time.  I knew exactly what he was thinking (it's officially my birthday and now I'm REALLY 10 years old) so Larry and I wished him a Happy Birthday and told him to go back to sleep.  He's a funny guy - that's totally how he works :).

This year we had a family party and invited Grandma and Grandpa and Grandpa B. over for dinner and cake and ice cream.

Grandma and Grandpa brought a friend for Sunny too!

Happy Birthday! We LOVE you!

Reid Ranch

Over the July 4th weekend we had a family reunion with Larry's side of the family.  It was also a celebration for his parents 50th anniversary that they celebrated while they were in Sweden.

Grandma and Grandpa found out about a place a couple hours from here called Reid Ranch.  They usually host LDS Youth Conferences, Girls Camps and family reunions.  And all summer they are pretty busy. Except over the 4th of July.  We were the only ones there, getting the whole place to ourselves!  We could ride the boats as long as we wanted, swim whenever, ride the horses when ever and for as long as we wanted.  A especially loved that because we would walk up to the stables and the guys would take her on the big horses for long rides.  We would do that a few times a day.  They got to know her pretty well.  But of course no pictures of that.  I never had my camera with me while she was riding - I don't know why.  But here are some of the pictures I did take.

 Fun times on the lake.

Camp Fire 

Place we stayed

We all had a great time!  The kids and all their cousins ran all over and had so much fun hanging out.  And we all had such a relaxing time!  Great memories- would love to do it again, but only if we have the whole place to ourselves :)  THANKS Grandma and Grandpa!

Funny Girl

My littlest girl makes me laugh everyday.

I always say to my girls, "you are such a beauty!"  When I said that today to L she said to me,

"Your hair is beautiful, your teeth are beautiful and when you get mad  your eyes sparkle!"

I laughed out loud.  I guess I should take that as a compliment???  And I just had to write it down so I could remember the funny things she says.  She is so fun!