Illinois Trip

So...it's been awhile since we've posted. We just had a very exciting trip to Illinois for the World Horseshoe tournament. Nathan and Blaine both pitched and did very well. Nathan ended up taking 11th overall for the 18 yr old and under. He pitched in the championship play off's for #1 in the world in the Jr. division. He held his own and did pretty well against those horseshoe pitchers that pitched 87% ringers. He started quite a few of the games with a double ringer...just to intimidate a little bit. He held his own.

We had the opportunity to go to Carthage, IL, Nauvoo, IL, all of the Lincoln sites in Springfield, IL, Far West, Winter Quarters in Omaha, NE, the Mark Twain sites in Hannibal, MO and Adam-ondi-auhman. It was a very long drive, but well worth it!

My B-day party ('bee'??)

The fun toy room!

Moving Johnathon

March 2009

So, we have had quite an exciting month. From a major crisis with our best friends to moving my children to their new homes!

Christie and BJ moved first. We spent most of the day on the 14th moving and cleaning the apartment. We got Christie kind of settled in her new home. Last Saturday the 28th, we moved Johnathon and Kierston into their new home. The day before Christie moved, we helped to paint the garage and trim of the house so that it would qualify for FHA funding. We spent most of the day with them and then we went to Angela's apartment and moved her back home, at least for now.

We are all feeling muscles that we didn't even know we had!

Carson on the telephone......

Carson decided that he had to be on the phone like mom.....talking to dad......if you look really closely you can see that he is holding the bottom part of the telephone, while mom had the correct part of the phone. He didn't care.....he just talked and talked to his daddy!

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's day, Blaine and I went to Armstrong Manor in Salt Lake. Blaine entered a contest and wrote me a wonderfully romantic poem, which won the contest and got me the great big bear!

Christie's Birthday Celebration!

Snowed in for Christmas

The roads were closed to Malad, so we decided to hang out at our house.....

Some played a rousing game of Risk.....others just found a place on the floor to crash for the night. I heard that even Christie ended up falling asleep on the kitchen floor before the Risk game was over!