We were able to spend a warm and sunny weekend with the Welkers in ST George. We had a blast!
We spent one day at Snow Canyon. It was beautiful!
The kids loved playing on the petrified sand dunes.
It was a fabulous weekend!
Ashton had the best birthday party ever but the night before it looked like we were going to have to cancel! We decided to do a combined party for Ash and Lucy at my Aunt's tumbling gym in Heber. To get to Heber from Provo you have to drive through Provo Canyon and of course the news was predicting the "storm of the century" to hit the day of the party. We went to bed the night before not knowing if we would be able to go to Heber the next morning. The party was to begin at 11 am and when we woke up there was 9 fresh inches of snow on the ground with snow continuing to fall. Luckily for us it cleared up by 10 and by 11 we were on our way!
Lucy and Ash got more presents than 2 girls could ever need!
Ashton has such a good group of friends. They are all really sweet girls.
It was so fun! Thanks Aunt Bev!
I have been working for my lifelong friend, Jamie. She has a clothing boutique and I help her choose what she is going to sell. It's super fun. In February there was a giant clothing convention in Las Vegas. Our anniversary is Feb 13th and Jamie and Jordan's is just one week before ours so we decided to drag our husbands along and make a vacation out of it. We had a great time.
We kept laughing as we walked down the strip because seriously we are probably the 4 most un-"Vegas like" people. I think I drove everyone crazy with all my comments that at any moment the earth was just going to open up and swallow the strip. Luckily, that did not happen while we were on it!
Ashton took 2nd place in her class spelling bee. She then went on to take 3rd place in her grade spelling bee. This qualified her for the school spelling bee. Their were 12 kids between the 4th-8th grades. Ashton studied very hard and when the day came we were all very nervous. As she began I prayed that she would just not get out on the first round but then she just kept getting word after word right. The words they had to spell were so difficult. Some of the words were baccalaureate, dishabille, obfuscate, staphylococci, impecunious and effervescent. Student after student misspelled words and got out. It finally came down to 4 students(2 8th graders, a 6th grader and Ash) they went several rounds and finally Ashton misspelled a word. 4th place in the entire school! Her whole class cheered so loudly, in fact, the whole 5th grade cheered for her. She was amazing!
Christmas was very sweet at our house this year. Lola was into everything Ariel.
Every year Santa brings a game half wrapped in Ashton's paper and half in Kye's. This years "shared" gift was Operation.
We decided that the kids could get up at 6:30 and Kye set his alarm clock. "Somehow" his alarm clock got turned off and never went off but sure enough Kye was in our room ready to go at 6:31.
Ashton and Kye both wanted cameras this year.
It was very important this year for Ashton and Kye to buy each of us a gift. I love seeing the spirit of giving in my children
