Our Trip To State

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Most of you know this already but I thought I would explain a little, a couple of years ago Todd started coaching the 9th grade Rigby basketball team, he also started to assist the Varsity team during their games, and he has loved it! So does Karson he gets to go to the practices, he sits on the bench during games, and  rides the bus with the team for away games. He knows all the players names and insist that he is going to be Trojan someday, forget that we live in skyline boundries. It has been very fun for our family. So when when Rigby won Districts this year, and earned a spot at State, we had to go cheer them on. The weekend ended up being great and even better Rigby won State. It has been since 1986 that they earned that title so it was a sweet victory for them.  Some might call me a traitor for supporting this team. I call it support for my husbands "extra curricular activities."  GO RIGBY!

Below are some pictures from Todds team they had great season too with a record of 15-5.

Happy Birthday Todd!

I want to say Happy 30th Birthday to Todd!! What better way to celebrate than to take him and do something he has never done before. Thats right we went cross country skiing with some friends.

At least thats what I thought we were doing until we were half way through our adventure and, I saw what we had to go down.

(are you kidding me!)

Todd was a good sport and we all had a great time.

 We laughed the entire day, due mostly because everytime we turned around someone was on the ground. (So funny! This is not even half of the falls. Todd got really good and getting up faster than I could get the camera out.)

Thanks Todd for being such a good Husband and Dad, and even though...

I think you're going to have a great year!

"First" moments of January

  

 I wanted to share  all our "firsts" for the month of January.

Bailey had her first day of Primary, and loves it! As soon as sacrament meeting is over she runs right to the primary room with Kambree before I have a chance to goodbye. (she is getting so big)

Our second First came when I decided it was time to tame this...

So Demry got her first pony tail!

Our last first came when Demry gave Karson his first "puke in the face" (at least it didn't go in his mouth) I had to put this on here because it made me laugh so hard, in fact I am laughing as I post it.

Never to Young or Old to Celebrate New Years

To bring in the new year we decided to take a trip to Utah, and have a little mini vacation with the kids.

We started Friday night and took the kids to Temple Square so they could see the lights. The weather was perfect and the lights were beautiful.

Saturday we started the day by taking the kids to see the animals at Cabelas. Todd told the them, that just like in the movie "Night at the Museum" the animals come to life at night. They didn't believe him so we asked a worker, and it has been confirmed that yes the animals do in fact come to life at night. You should have seen their eyes.(so funny!)

From Cabelas we took the kids to Chucky Cheese (crazy!) and then on to the BYU basketball game. With Great Grandma McFadden who who was celebrating her 100th new year and soon to be her 101 birhtday!

BYU won and everybody had fun.

That night we decided to be a little crazy, grandma bought medium salsa instead of mild, holy cow it was hot.

We celebrated the New Year for the kids at nine o'clock and sent them to bed. 

We stayed up till the midnight playing our two favorite games!

On Sunday Demry got to meet her other Great Grandma (Cook) and then it was back to Idaho. We had a great time,  and it was good to see my grandmas again.

Christmas 2011

I have been a little busy the last few weeks with a lot of family time, being Santa, and enjoying my new Christmas present (iPhone) , I haven't really taken the time to blog, but I did want to share our Christmas.

The week before the girls kept themselves busy and there minds off of Santa by entertaining their audience of stuffed animals,  I had no idea we had this much until I came out of the shower to this.

Christmas eve we did a little Christmas program and opened a present from Grandma and Grandpa McFadden. They gave everyone new PJ's. We put the kids down for bed and waited and waited and waited for them to fall asleep. (they did not go to sleep until almost midnight)

The next morning came pretty early starting at what I am pretty sure was 4:30a.m., we opened presents it was really fun and all kind of a blur at the same time.

(This picture made it on the blog just because I think it's cute)

Everyone got just what they wanted.

Karson got some sports apparel, broncos pillow pet, and some wii games

Kambree this amazing barbie sketch pad, barbie car and new barbie

Bailey a  beautiful princess dress and every princess shoe I think there is.

 Demry got formula, diapers, some toys, and a lot of bibs. (I think Santa knew we go through at least four a day!)

 Todd surprised me with this beautiful picture of Jesus and John the Baptist that I have wanted since I saw it at the visitor center last year. The picture make me happy to look at ,there is a reason why the title of the picture is JOY, and I felt since Karson will be baptized this year and Kambree next I really wanted this in my house.

Todd got some new clothes and a new tool. (every mans dream)

   

The Monday after Christmas we went to Grandma and Grandpa Barbers for another party where the girls got these cute headbands.

And Grandma made all my kids really nice blankets! She is amazing.

We had a great Christmas and enjoyed being with all our family!



Fall

 A couple of weeks ago I decided to enjoy one of the last nice days of fall. So, We went to the park and played in the leaves. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. The girls jumped out of the car and instantly started throwing leaves in the air yelling "CELEBRATION!!" 

(Well almost all the girls this one stayed sleeping in the car seat, but had she been awake I know she would have been celebrating too. )

We ALL took turns jumping in the leave pile.

Aiden...

Me (I tried the backwards approach, OUCH!)

Jessica, (the front approach, OUCH!)
leave piles just aren't as soft as I remember them being.

Kambree tried the knee (she loved it)

Bailey decided to bury herself.

 We even got grandma to join.

 She sat down while bailey racked leaves around her.

The highlight of the day however came when one of us,

 not naming any names,(but I will show her picture)

 had a little bit of a breakdown, and Aiden came to the rescue.

Here is the play by play.

The break down

Aiden wondering what he should do.

Aiden deciding a little hug would help,

but testing out the waters with a little hand on the knee

 Now he's going in for the kill.

 And finally the hug that made everything better.

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