Out with the old, In with the new!

After nearly 9 years of family life and Day Care we replaced the carpet in the living room and the family room.
Everyone was so willing to help get furniture moved and the old carpet and padding pulled out.

The padding in the family room where the daycare play had basically turned to green dust.

Our new carpet is sooo soft. We love these tax write offs!

Kyle made this chair to replace one of the old ones that died!
He is so talented.

Tonight Kyle and Kurtis went to Court of Honor.
Kyle earned his forth palm. He and Kurtis earned their carpentry and path finding merit badges. These were only offered in 2010 for the 100th birthday celebration.
Kurtis also had his District board of Review this last week for his Eagle.
Be watching for his Eagle Ceremony Invitation in the mail. 

December 2010

Our Computer decided to take a vacation in December and didn't manage to get back until this last Friday.
So a recap of  December.  I didn't just get elected Cedar City Ladies Auxiliary President, I got thrown right in for the Fireman's Christmas Party. I got to thank the outgoing presidency,  introduce the new one and I  run the raffle. Weird the outgoing one didn't do that. Oh well, It just gets me going a little early for the new year.

We had a nice quiet Christmas at home.



Kimber made everyone omelets for breakfast.



Santa helped Kyle finish the last of Math for his High School Requirements.



Kyle got braces.

And of course, We had a party for New Years Eve.

Some of us didn't quite make it to midnight, but we all had a great month!

Getting ready for Christmas



Every year we make about 25 dozen cookies of assorted kinds to hand out to friends, neighbors, Co-workers, Home and Visiting Teaching families.
 Kasey and Kimber tried to give their Shawn and Grayson cookie men a six pack which worked great until we cooked them.
 Kyle got to dress up like Santa to take goodies to his Home Teaching families.

 











 







What a Thanksgiving Weekend!



We had all the kids and their families here for Thanksgiving.
It is so nice that we are all still close enough to do that.
We braved black Friday together and then we braved snow covered mountains in search of the perfect Christmas trees.



Gray threw our tree over his shoulder and hiked down to the truck.

Shawn and Kyle sunk in the snow with the Smiths big tree. 

Then Gray and Kimber got busy white washing

Kristin and everyone went tubing

Kurtis showed us his mad snowboarding skills

Kasey and Shawn got a little wet

We came back in time for the a big football feast

Hot Dogs, the official ball game food

Grandma got Jacy laughing so hard. She is sooo much fun!

Jacy is definitely Grandpas girl

The Day ended on an all time high.
GO UTES!!!

Unexpected Surprise!

So I am sitting at home minding my own business, watching Jacy and I get a phone call.
Stephanie Greenhaugh the Cedar City Ladies Auxiliary President called to congratulate me on being elected to President for 2011. I had decided to skip the meeting. I have been Historian, Trustee, and have done 4 quilts for our auction and decided to try to simplify what little I have control over.
BAAHAA!!! Even when I am not there I am still not in control of anything. So everyone be patient this year with me. I will be even more scatterbrained then normal!

A quick trip to the zoo!

Kimber had to visit the Zoo for extra credit for her Anthropology Class.
She had to look at all the monkeys and observe one of them for an hour.

He's not a monkey but we liked him and his baby.

Jim and Claudia took us to Olive Garden Afterward.
They brought us mints after dinner and the boys taught us the fine art of twisting the wrappers into poppers.

They all shot them pretty good. But Grandma shot hers about 6 feet into the other room.
That's when they decided we were done. GO GRANDMA!!