Spring has sprung the grass has riz, I wonder what all this white stuff is.

Ok I know that it has been a long time since my last post.  But I am back today and I will try to catch up our busy lives.  The girls are all playing ball. Katy is on a travel Volleyball team and having fun learning volleyball and playing with friends. She had a tournament in Provo a couple weeks ago and they placed second in their bracket. I was so proud.  

 Abby and Madelyn are both playing softball this spring. We had a couple weeks of practice and then on Saturday there was a parade and games for all the teams for the opening day.  Now we have games four days a week until the middle of June so we are ALWAYS on our way to a game or practice.

Bless Thomas's little heart, he graduated from preschool last week and has been my constant helper ever since.  We make a lot of play dates for him so that he can spend some time with some boys his age.  I am doing well trying to get ready for Girls Camp and trying to keep up on laundry and dishes.  My pet project, my lovely strawberry garden is looking good.  I have a bunch of beautiful plants that are loaded with blossoms. I hope that this means that we will have berries soon.  I need to make some jam!

Since Christmas we have......

Had dance pictures, dance at regionals and Disneyland

Played with friends at Goblin Valley State Park.

Thomas went on a field trip to the fire station.

We went camping with Nathan, Libby and the boys at Fremont Indian State Park. We rode our bikes down the trial from Big Rock Candy mountain to Joseph.

Katy graduated from the sixth grade and is moving on to Jr. High next year.

We RULED as vikings in the Scandinavian Days Parade!

 We went to Disneyland and had a blast!

So that is our year so far.  It has been fun and wonderful.  

Christmas is coming.......

Here we are almost to Christmas and I haven't put up any fun pictures from November. I have not been very good at taking pictures lately so I will have to take quite a few in the net couple weeks to make up for it. But here are a few of the pictures that I have managed to take. Enjoy
First I have this note that I found in Thomas's stocking. It says Dear Santa, I am mean not nice. The first clue that it was not a self written note is the fact that Thomas is 3 and can not write yet. So naturally I asked Madelyn if she was the composer. She did finally admit it and I threatened to put it in her sock if she did something like that again.

Here my sweet Thomas is posing in front of the tree right after we got it up.

Before Thanksgiving dinner we went out and shot guns for a while. Katy found some fresh snow and pigged out.

Here is the cutest, sweetest dog ever. We love our Tessy!

Is it Halloween already?

It would be really cool if I was talented like my sister in law and could make costumes for my kids. But alas all I can sew is skirts and aprons. So I take the kids down the costume isle at WalMart and let them pick anything under $20. This year Thomas said that he wanted to be a ninja since he is really into hitting and kicking right now, but when he saw the super hero costumes he was super excited. He chose a red ninja power ranger that fulfilled all his dreams. Madelyn and Abby are really into wolves, cats, and dogs. Abby said that she wanted me to make her a costume that was a dead-blonde-one eyed-werewolf. I have no idea where that came from but I told her to pick a costume off the wall and she liked the Spider Queen. Madelyn picked some sort of trendy cute wolf-girl costume, that I don't understand but she likes it. Katy picked the Cleopatra costume and can I just say why don't they make costumes for young ladies that don't look like hookers dressed up for Halloween?! I mean we are in real trouble next year when we can't find anything that covers her upper body and lower body at the same time. Maybe I will have to learn new sewing skills in this next year. Happy Halloween everyone!

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Girls first day of school

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Girls first day of school.

Chopper 5 comes to Castle Heights!

Today chopper 5 from KSL News came to the girls school. The school has passed it's reading goal and read 2.3million minutes this year. It was fun to see the helicopter come and land at the school. The kids all got to see the helicopter up close and have a class picture with Nadine from KSL news.
Abby's class

Here is Madelyn's class. Notice Thomas in the front row.





Katy's class

This is Thomas' signature move.