Jackson's 4th Birthday Party

Jackson had a fun birthday party. He invited mostly his preschool friends and Scott and Lucas our favorite neighbors. We played the car maze race. We played pin the wheel on the state (a map of the U.S.). Jackson's favorite toy he got was his light saber. Of course Andrew had to have one as well so Grandma was talked into getting one te next day.

Grandma and Grandpa were in Bosie for the week to watch Lance's kids while they were in Hawaii so they brought Austin over to the party.
Jackson came to me one morning and said that McCall had put gum in his hair. Well Jackson had tried to pull it our himself and really got the thing stuck pretty good. I had to cut it out with the sissors. McCall did not get gum for a while after that.

McCall's Second Birthday!

We celebrated McCall's 2nd birthday by having a family birthday party. She loves tinker bell right now so everything was decorated with tinker bell.

I had left over cake batter so I made a small Lego cake is well in preparation for Jackson's birthday. All three of the kids will sit and play Legos for quite a while.She got a dress up doll from the Blad grandparents and a 9 piece block set that makes 8 different puzzles from the Hilton Grandparents, a tiny tinker bell purse from Jackson, tinker bell pony holders from Andrew, and a bathtub pets set from mom & dad.

Valentine's Morning Church Ball

Dad was tearing it up on the court at church ball Saturday morning. They played their own team because the other team had to forfeit do to lack up people.

The kids and I made a sign to support all the dad's playing! We thought we would go and support him on Valentine's Day. That next Saturday the boys when with dad again while mommy was home potty training McCall.

Nice lay-up!

Valentine's Day

I loved my Valentine's Day present from Dustin...long awaited...those pictures were taken in September for my birthday so I was wondering when I would see them! Great job Dustin.

McCall sporting her beads she picked up at the parade in McCall.

A double rainbow out our backyard after a rain fall.

I couldn't pass up grabbing the camera for this one.

Dad likes to see McCall show off her muscles.

The kids love a little wrestle or horse ride before bedtime!

Special Olympics to Idaho

We started the month off by welcoming a few members of the Special Olympics. My parents hosted an Olympian for a few days and on there travel through to McCall we served them lunch before heading up the canyon. Lane (my brother) came along to translate if needed and to chat about Norway. Lane served a two year mission for our church to Norway in the early 90's.

Winter Carnival McCall Idaho

We took off for the weekend to mom's for Winter Carnival. This year was a fairy tail theme. Lots of dragons around town. The snow sculpture below was my favorite. Kind of Lord of The Rings-ish!

The boys had fun walking through the alive trees with a big castle in the center of the forest.

Dustin's favorite part was testing out the snowbikes! The men took off Saturday afternoon to go for a ride. (Rob, Dustin, Lane and friend)

The kids liked the Saturday mornign paraide because they through out lots of candy which most of it we left at grandma's! Look at Andrew's grin....there was a nascar in the paraide!

They collected lots of candy and necklaces. There were three slides that were part of the snow sculpures this year so the boys were loving it. McCall was with grandma for the slides!

This was candy land! Really cool!

The kids really enjoyed walking on the squares and acting like game pieces.

McCall decided to put on Jackson's whole drawer full of pull-ups! Shortly after thsi we potty trained her.

Christmas In Hurricane

Before making it all the way to Hurricane for Christmas we stopped at the family cabin for a little winter fun. We ice skated, sled, and cook up some good food. We spent Friday night in SLC with Dannene's family and then made it to the cabin a day before everyone else. Shawn's family came with Grandma & pa and arrived Monday afternoon. Dannene's family just made it at about 2a.m. Tuesday morning.


McCall liked walking around on the frozen pond.

The boys really liked playing with the pool table in the cabin, McCall did too!

We arrived to Hurricane Tuesday late afternoon and kicked back until the rest of the crew arrived. Christmas Eve we tried to catch the Toquerville outdoor play but it was closed that night due to rain. Instead we went to see the lights at the St. George temple and walked through the visiter center. In front of the temple they had a gaint nativity scene with speekers playing the story of Jesus's birth taken from the Book of Luke.

The boys woke up to find that Santa had found them at Grandma's. The night before we sprinkled glittered oats over grandma's pourch, that Andrew had brought home from church, to feed Santa's raindeer. The frst thing in the mornign Andrew, along with Jackson, ran outside to see if the oats were gone, and of cource they were. They also found two scooters infront of their stockings. Months afterwards, Andrew wishes he could have told Santa what he wanted. He says he never got a chance to tell him this year. So I took it he wasn't too impressed with his Scooter!

This is the kids Great Grandfather!

McCall got all dressed up at grandma's with all the new clothes!

Attempt #1 at group cousin pictures.

Attempt #2

We managed a family shot after that.

This was Dustin's attempt to get a picture of the kids right after church all by himself. Lets just say that all four of them came in crying!