Halloweeen 2012

We had a great Halloween!  Our ward had a trunk-or-treat with fun activities and of course, the kids had parties at school.  As you can see, they were all Ninja's.

Growing Up!

 

Our son is growing up!  Ethan was ordained a deacon on Sept. 23, 2012.  I can't express in words the spirit I felt as that happened.  Needless to say, my waterworks flowed the rest of that day.  We love to see him pass the sacrament each Sunday.  Derek was so excited to have Ethan join him for the General Priesthood Session of  Conference.  Ethan and his Dad also went to the temple with our youth group to do baptisms for the dead.  Wow!  What an experience!  It was a very special day for all of us!  Before we know it, he'll be serving a mission!  We feel so blessed to have the gospel in our lives and to be members of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!

September 2012

September means school and birthdays.   The first day of school I basically sent Ethan and the girls off on their bikes and they did great.  We had more time to get good pictures of Gina, since she has afternoon kindergarten.  She rides her bike to school just like the big kids.  They are all doing well. 

Ethan and I have birthdays in September, as well as many of our extended family.  We had family parties this year.  I got to play The Beatles Rockband for my birthday, and Ethan had a friend over to play badminton with us.  Simple and sweet.

Summer Review July-August 2012



 Moving is a hard thing to do, however, we had some fun this summer too.  Some of our highlights were: Phoebe's 8th birthday and baptism, going to the Blue Angels show, and spending time at Bear Lake with our family.  We have enjoyed our cool summer here in Idaho.  We've had many rainstorms and beautiful weather.  It really was a nice break from 10 years of temperatures between 106-115 degrees F.   We are still in a dry desert land, it's just a different kind of desert.  Some of the landscape here reminds us of Ridgecrest, which, makes us feel at home.

We made it!

We made it to our new home!  It's been quite the past two months.  We are starting to get settled.  Check in on us from time to time.

Happy Mother's Day! May 13, 2012

Dearest Mother, I Love You

              Primary Children's Songbook

Gentle words I hear you say.
Your kind hands help me each day.
You're my mother kind and true;
Dearest Mother, I love you.


Happy Mother's Day!


What happened this last week?:
Dad(still gone): Worked, put a light in Monique's hallway, scheduled a massage for his wife:).

Mom:  Same routine during the week, but, I got a massage on Saturday! Thanks honey!  I also went to lunch with my Philbrick girlfriends. The kids made me breakfast in bed on Mother's Day even though Dad was gone!  Wow!  Waffles, eggs, ham, cut apricots, juice, the works!  They are dedicated!  I'm lucky to have my kids.  Thanks everyone!

Ethan:  I played a water game in gym this past week.  In English we are reading Where the Red Fern Grows, and we got to churn butter!  I also got to go with Bro. Ballard to Fathers and Sons at Kennedy Meadows and I learned how to play Dungeons and Dragons RPG.

Olivia:  Today was Mother's Day and I think Mom was really happy when we gave her breakfast and her presents.  Today at church we sang for the Mom's in sacrament.  I got to go see the Bal's play their soccer games.  School's ok, I want to get out of school though.  I liked our girl's night out when the boys were at Fathers and Sons.

Phoebe:  I'm doing a play in school.  I'm directing it.  It's fun.  School's almost over and I'm sort of happy to leave.  Happy Mother's Day mothers who read this.  We went to Laura's house and her cat had kittens.  They were really cute.  For a Mother's Day present I gave Mom a pillow that has my picture on it.  We got our nails painted yesterday.  We're going over for pizza at the Bal's tonight.  I had a fun time at the girl's night out.

Gina:  I had really fun at Joyschool at Tayson's new house.  I also had really, really fun at Justin's house when we ate pizza with him.   To Dad, from Gina.

30 April - 6 May 2012

Our house went through an exterior makeover!  It looks great!  I am so pleased with it.  I'm not great at taking pictures, but, hopefully it gives you an idea.  This week went fast.  Gina and I had our last week of Joyschool this week.  That ends 7 years of Joyschool that I've taught.  Her graduation is coming up later this month.

Highlights:

Ethan:  I finished my hydra project!  I am also done with star testing, whoop, whoop!  I got to hang out with my best friend on Saturday- Jacob, popcorn, Phineas and Ferb, ice cream, the works!  What a day.

Girls (Mom, Olivia, Phoebe, and Regina):  We attended a Teddy Bear Tea Party with our Gilbert girlfriends!  We had lots of great food, lemonade, sweets, and entertainment.  It was a nice day out amidst all the home makeover.

 This next week is back to the packing grind!