Michaela's Stories

Michaela has been writing stories for a while, and Mike suggested that she start a blog to post them for everyone to read. She has been very excited to start her own blog so check it out.

http://michaelawayla.blogspot.com

Snowstorms and Snowmen

With the new winter snow Mike and the girls decided to build a snowman when we got home today.

Ludlow Family Outing

Since everyone had the day off we got everyone together and took a day trip out to Hardware Ranch. We had so much fun. We packed a picnic lunch and went on the sleigh ride.

The whole gang

Uncle Zack helping Roscoe and Paula check out the horses

Roscoe petting the horse (kind of)

Abby and Grandma

The largest buck on the ranch

Paula

Michaela

Roscoe

Amy and Mike

Snowball fight with daddy

Sneaky P

These are just some random pictures of Paula (aka Sneaky P).

She snuck Mike's phone away from him and was trying to send a text

She snuck into the toys after she was suppose to be in bed.

Just a cute picture

New Years Day

On New Years Day we went sledding at Mt. Ogden Golf Course. This is one of our favorite sledding spots.

Roscoe and Serenity, sliding down on their backsides.

Roscoe and Serenity, going down the hill.

Jared and Michaela

Mommy and Paula

All the kids watching the grown ups go down the "big hill"

Tea Party

Paula used her birthday money to buy tea set/play food set. The day that she got it her daddy helped her set up this tea party for her dolls and stuffed animals. Roscoe wanted to help too.

New Years Eve

Mike's brothers came down to visit for New Years Eve, so we decided to take the train downtown and go to Temple Square. It was open later for the holiday, but there was hardly anyone there.

We caught the 11:45 train back and got to see fireworks on the ride.

Christmas Break

For Christmas all the kids got aprons and cookie mixes from Grandma and Grandpa Ludlow. Roscoe was so excited and loved licking the beater.

Valentines Date

Friday night Mike and Roscoe took me and the girls out for Valentines day. We went to IHOP and had a fun dinner. Roscoe was excited to go to "the pancake store", since pancakes are one of his favorite things to eat. Whenever we have them at home he eats as much as everyone else together.

Catching up

I just wanted to let you all know that we are still alive. Between school and work, and then homework we don't have a lot of time much else so we have not been up to much.

Jenelle got married on Saturday, it was a beautiful ceremony and reception! We are so happy for her and Chris. We love you guys and cant wait to see you soon!

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

I just added a ton of new posts, so when you get to the bottom of this page just click on the older post link and keep looking.

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