Piano Recital

Michaela started piano lessons at the beginning of the school year and she just had her first recital on Monday. They had to pick a challenging Christmas song. Michaela picked a song out of the Hymns Made Easy book, and then she composed her own ending to go with it. She is doing such a great job playing, she memorizes everything and we have to remind her to read the music while she is playing. She has such a great ear that if you tell her a song she can play around until she figures it out.

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Christmas Assembly

Here is Michaela during one of her school choir performances. They sang in front of the whole school at the Christmas Assembly.

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Catch up

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We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

A Scary Dionosaur

All Roscoe asked Santa for was a "scary green dinosaur", every time anyone asked that is what he would tell them he wanted. After explaining to him that Santa only had "scary red dinosaurs" he decided that red would be alright. He was so excited when we were opening presents he kept saying "I hope he didn't forget my dinosaur", it was so cute.

This is Roscoe when we were to the end of the presents, but as you know anytime Mike can torture the kids he will, so he pulled the red rider bb gun trick and hid the last present behind the TV.

When Roscoe found it he was glad it had his name on it.

He was very excited that Santa did not forget his "scary red dinosaur", and then he spent the rest of the day playing with it. It even makes lots of scary noises and moves it head and closes it mouth!

Christmas Morning

Mike is always the one to wake up first on Christmas, and this year was no different. He says "Paula woke him up when she was sleep walking" this morning around 4:30. Somehow Paula ended up sleeping in our bed and Mike ended up playing the playstation until the girls woke up at 5:30.

Mike took a picture of the girls when they came up and saw the presents under the tree.
Roscoe woke up shortly after that, and he couldn't believe that Santa actually came. They woke up Paula, and then finally dragged me out of bed shortly after 6 when "Paula started opening her presents". I think they gave one to her and tricked her into opening it so that I would get up.

Christmas Eve

We debated all day about going sledding, or swimming for Christmas Eve. We decided since all of my family was in California for Christmas we would skip the swimming and go sledding. We drove up to Mt Ogden Golf Course and everyone had so much fun. Roscoe and Paula would not go down with anyone else, they had to go by themselves. Paula even caught air when Mike gave her a push and she veered off to a jump, but she held on and stuck the landing! After tubing we came home, ate pizza and watched A Christmas Story.

We forgot the camera in the car so we only took a couple of pics after we were done. Mike set the timer and then jumped into the pic, but he forgot to account for his giant head!

On the drive, everyone looks so happy!

Roscoe's amazing hat head

Super Star!

Michaela just finished performing with the school choir, and boy did she did a great job. She sang a duet with one of her good friends from the ward (Shaylee). They sang a version of "Blue Christmas" in the Cool Yule program.

They also sang a duet in the ward Christmas program, it even made me cry! It was a song called "Bethlehem".

Santa

Roscoe is so excited about Santa this year! He has taken every chance to sit on his lap and tell him that he wants a "scary dinosaur". He even wears this Santa hat around the house most of the time and goes up to every one and says:

"Ho, ho, ho. What do you want for Christmas little girl (talking to me)"

Whenever Paula gets a chance to put the hat on she starts singing "must be Santa"

Snow Fort

The girls wanted to build an igloo, but this is about as far as they got so it is now a snow fort.

Tubing

Last saturday when PeeWee and Jen were here we decided to go tubing. We ended up going to Roy High. We were just happy there was enough snow to go finally. We went to The Hole after, it was yummy!

Mike and the kids

Michaela

Roscoe and Mom

Roscoe

Abby and Paula

Snow angel

Paula loves making snow angels, and she is so good at it. The cutest part is when she gets up she has to give her angel eyes so she pokes two holes where her head was.

Decorating the tree

December 14th

Michaela

Abby

Roscoe lovin' the angel

Paula

It is kind of hard to see, but at the bottom right of the tree is where Paula did all of her decorating

Coloring

December 7th
Abby and Paula coloring at the kitchen table. Apparently Paula couldn't reach good enough because we found her laying on the table.

"Sneaky P"

Abby

Cuties!

Eagle Project

December 6th
My brother Robert was working on his eagle scout project, which had to be done by his birthday (Dec 8th), so me and the kids went to help out. We picked up garbage in the parking lots at Ogden Bay bird refuge.

After we were done

Mark and Roscoe trying to skip rocks across the ice

Michaela

Abby

Roscoe

Turkey Shoot

November 28th
The day after Thanksgiving some of the family went to go shoot some of Zack's guns. They all had fun, and no one shot their eye out!

Mom and Dad

Serenity

Michaela

Jared

More guns

Serenity and Shane

Shane

Mike

Michaela

Jared

Day Trip

November 21st
Discovery Gateway

Mom, Roscoe, and Paula went with Jenelle, Charley, and Jenelle's brother Robert to SLC. We rode the train down town, got some lunch, and went to discovery gateway. It was a lot of fun. Robert and Roscoe had fun playing blocks and building things together.

Roscoe and Paula on the train

Roscoe flying the helicopter

Taking a ride

Firefighter Roscoe!

He really like to look in the mirror when he is playing dress up :)

Hill Aerospace Museum

November 15th
This was an afternoon at the museum up the road. The kids had a lot of fun at the kids center, and they liked looking at the planes too!

Tour guide Roscoe telling Paula about the planes

Tour guide Roscoe showing daddy where you hold on to the helicopter when you do rescues like they do in the movies

Paula getting some help to fly a remote control plane

Michaela flying the "real" simulator

Abby working on the principle of aerodynamics. She was actually pretty good at keeping the ping pong ball in the air stream.

Roscoe's Flight

November 15th
Hill Aerospace Museum
They had lots of different uniforms and simulators. Roscoe thought it was the coolest thing ever!
Here is how his first flight went:

Step 1:

Put on your flight suit and salute to your commanding officer (daddy).

He is saluting in this pic, if you cant tell he has his hand opposite of how it should be. . . his pinky is on his forehead

Step 2:

Checking out the levers

Step 3:
Read the dials

Step 4:

Push the buttons

Step 5:

Smile (okay, we are still working on that one!)

He stayed in the cockpit for about 10 minutes and got mad when we had to get him out.