TOP THREE EVENTS OF 2010

Emily broke her leg over Thanksgiving

Seth was baptised on Oct.1, 2010

In June Aaron graduated from ALL his schooling. He accepted a job in Amarillo TX where we moved over the summer.

ANGEL FIRE

Recently Cheryl informed me that any father worth his salt takes his kids fishing, so I loaded everyone up in the trusty minivan and set off for Angel Fire, NM 4 hours away. I used google maps to choose the route. Most of the roads where two lane out in the middle of no where. We were within 20 miles of our destination when the road turned to a single lane dirt road. We decided that google was a good resource and set out with confidence. Unfortunately, the road got worse as we climbed through the mountains.

We saw great views and made it in one piece. The lake was beautiful.

Getting the fishing poles ready for the three older kids took awhile, they could hardly contain their excitement.

Emily found a good use for the net.

It didn't take long for Hailey to get a bite.

Then it was Seth's turn.

Sam only caught his knee, which the whole lake heard about as he danced around screaming.

The fish stopped biting in this spot so Hailey lead us to the other side of the lake.

Emily spent most of the day crying, or maybe she knew what we were about to do to the fish.

Hailey and Seth enjoyed helping clean the fish, but said it was gross.

Some of the locals were aghast that we took the dirt mountain pass to get here and strongly recommended an alternate route home, but we were glutton for punishment. On the way back we saw a bear and a mule deer. Look in the middle of the photos, top one is the bear, next the deer.

We made it out without any problems, in fact on the dirt road we passed two motorcycles, another minivan and a car. All the way home we were glad we took the road because we got to see the bear and I felt like I had conquered the road. Unfortunately Cheryl called me at work on Monday with a flat tire. Hey, it was still worth it!

Sam takes things very literally. We were singing a song in primary that said, "I give my heart to him (Jesus). Sam looked really troubled and said that he didn't want to give his heart to Jesus!

San Diego May 2010

At the Animal Misshap Encounters show at the Wild Animal Park, the park ranger, pulled Seth to the front of the audience and SOAKED him!

Seth began his adventure in San Diego by looking for clams, He was determined to find a pearl, He dug and dug, he was cut by a razor back clam. He found about 20 small clams at the ocean. We took them back to the condo we were staying at and steamed them open. He poked through every slimey one of them and still nothing! Finally, uncle Jason came to visit, and low and behold he had purchased a clam that had a pearl in it, after much persuasion from Seth, he kindly let Seth keep it! An answer to Seth's prayer.

Easter pictures

Emily's First Steps

Winter Break

During Winter break in February I decided to introduce Hailey and Seth to one of my favorite things to do. Snow skiing! It has been almost 11yrs since I have been (I took Cheryl the winter we got married. Yeah, she still married me). I promised them that it would be awesome. Hailey was kind of nervous but Seth was confident that he would master it. After two hours of lessons they were tired and wanted to go home. Seth complained that they wouldn't let him go on the jumps (he had not learned to turn yet).

Little Mamacita

Emily loves to be a little mama, she'll fish paper towels out of the garbage and wipe down the toilet, the picture above is her trying to wipe down the refrigerator.

Snow Day!

The kids got the day off of school Monday because of a snow day, We built a snow fort. the kids like to be sneaky, they waited for Aaron to come home from work and they ambushed him as he got out of his car. Hailey especially stays out in the snow all day, and she loves to eat snow. The picture above is the tooth that Hailey just had pulled. She was so brave, the dentist couldn't get over it, he even called me that night to compliment Hailey, he said that adults needed to be as brave a patient as she was.

Spring where are you?

This is the view from my back window. Spring is nowhere in sight.

Emily's First Birthday Party

This is Emily after she had torn apart her cake. It was her first time trying cake and as you can see, she loved it.

Emily's First Birthday

I can't believe Emily has been with us a year. She is the cutest baby! She always makes us laugh and is so full of smiles. I am so happy and grateful for her in our family.


This was Emily's ladybug cake before she started tearing into it.

Emily is bound and determined to skip crawling and go straight to walking.