As you all know I was unable to upload baby pictures of Sadie for her 

Birthday, so one of my Best Friends took care of that for me!  She posted

in honor of Sadie's Birthday and uploaded some of Sadie's pictures as a 

toddler.  Very cute!  If you would like to see miss Sadie Lady you can 

click here.  Thanks Andrea!!!!  Love to you and your family.

Sadie's 12th Birthday

So I kept hoping to scan some baby pictures of 

Sadie and that didn't work and actually the scanned

pictures that I tried to use wouldn't upload.  Oh Well.

Sadie's 12th birthday was last wednesday and I 

think she had a great day.  I can hardly believe

she is this old.  

When Sadie was 7 she started soccer.

Every year for her Birthday I would bring brownies to school.

It is just about the only sweet thing she likes. (8)

Every year we would take her out of school and take her to

Chic-fil-a for lunch. (9)

Her first role as Nanerel, Mozarts sister. (10)

Singing on Christmas Eve with her dad. (11)

On her 12th birthday she started out the day with a yummy 

breakfast burrito.  Then instead of leaving school I brought

Chic- fil-a to her and brownies to share for lunch.  After

school she went shopping with her Grandma and then the 

whole family went to dinner.  Lots of presents and lots of 

joy for a wonderful daughter.

This weekend we took Sadie's soccer team to 

the mountains and they surprised her with 

presents for her Birthday.  They had a great 

time.

On Sunday Sadie got to go to YW for the first time.  She 

received her personal progress book and already has an 

outline for completing the book in about a year and a half.

If she does I will not be surprised.  Sadie never ceases to 

amaze me.  I love YOU Sadie!!!

1st good snow of the season

The kids were ecstatic when they woke up to see the snow 

on the ground.  They couldn't wait to get outside to play. 

Ruby loved it and was outside just as long as the rest of 

them.  I loved how beautiful everything looks, especially 

the trees!

Thanksgiving

We have had a great November and have many things

to give thanks for this year.  We have enjoyed many 

 warm days where we spent our days outside and at

 the park playing.  We have our health, family and friends. 

And we are very grateful for these things. 

On Monday I went to Jaxon's school and celebrated 

Thanksgiving with his class.  

Traci was able to come home for a couple of days

and we love spending every minute that we can

with her.

Primary Program

Today we FINALLY had our Primary Program after

many postponements.  I'm not sure who was more

burned out the kids or the leaders.  (The leaders!)

Everyone did a phenomenal job.  Jaxon said his 

1 liner like a pro.  "As families we can be sealed

together in the Temple forever".  I was very proud 

of him.  Sadie had several speaking parts and they

were too long to quote, so I won't even try.  She also

had a solo.  She sang the 4th verse of I am a Child of 

God.  She was amazing.  She is continually amazing

me.  This will also be her last Primary Program. (sniff

sniff)  I am so excited for her to be turning 12, but it 

is also very sad.  

             Family Pic. before church

                        The Boys

                           The Girls

               And the sweet little baby.

Fall Soccer 2008 has Ended!

We made it through another soccer season!!   Hallelujah!

Cory coached Jaxon's team again and fun was had by all.

Jaxon decided that he didn't like practice, he only wanted to

go to the games.  He loved the competition and scoring 

goals.  Which he did a lot of. 

Mya, his cousin, was giving him a big old kiss after he scored

a goal.  She was so proud of him.  He on the other hand was 

not fond of the affection.

Sadie had a great season with a new club.  She 

started playing goalie this season.  She volunteered

to be a backup, but it turned into her playing goalie

the first half of every game and then on the field the

second half.  She did a great job and had a successful

season.  She already misses practices.  I don't.  We 

are actually taking the next two months off and she

will start practicing again in January.

Happy Halloween!

Part 3:  Halloween Night!!

cute baby Asher

Ruby  the "Lil Stinker"

Mya and Sadie bobbing for apples

Jaxon still didn't feel well, so he didn't want

to dress up.

Aydan, Max and Peyton

Trick or Treating!!!

Happy Halloween!

Part 2:  Parties

Max at school.

His class.

Sadie with her cousin at a party.

Poor Jaxon got sick so he didn't get to go to the party at 

his school.

Happy Halloween!

PART 1:  Trunk or Treating at the church.

Sadie has won 1st place like 3 years in a row.  

She is really good at getting people to vote

for her.

Family Picture

Jaxon with one of his cousins and two of his friends

Ruby

Ruby is so darn cute!  She will plug her nose

and then say Mama!  She loves that it sounds

different than when she normally says Mama.

So then we go back and forth she is saying Mama

and I say Ruby with our noses plugged.

Frederick's Home

After being so excited that Frederick was coming

home and blogging about it, I failed to blog about

his actual homecoming.  He came home one week

ago today to his beautiful family.  And just in time

to celebrate his daughter, Abigail's 11th birthday.

We are so happy for their family.

COMING HOME!!!

My Brother is coming HOME!!

We just got an email this morning from Diane, Fred's wife,

that Fred will be coming home this week.  He had been in

limbo for a few weeks not sure when he would be coming home

and then an hour before he left Afghanistan they told him to 

go and pack his bags.  So he has left Afghanistan and said that

he should be home by sunday.  We are soooo excited.  He will

be home in time for his daughter, Abigail's, 11th birthday.

We are so proud of you Frederick and all that you do, we love

you and can't wait to see you.

flying in his C-130.

Vail Valley Tournament

We went to the mountains this weekend.  It was a beautiful

weekend to go the colors were amazing.  Sadie had a soccer

tournament so we at least tried to make a vacation out of it

and took the kids out of school on friday so that we could play

a little bit.  Then we had soccer ALL day saturday.  They won all

 of their games and ended up winning the tournament on 

Sunday in over time. (although we were not there).  This was

the only picture I got of soccer, and it is fuzzy and the ball 

was probably no where even close to Sadie.  

Sadie had 2 great games.  She usually plays goalie for half of

the game and then striker the second half.  When she was in

goal she had a great save from a penalty kick.  We were all 

so proud of her.  

After all of the games on Saturday the girls had a pizza party

and swimming at the hotel.

This is one of our favorite places.  Mom and Dad love the

outlets and the kids love to look at the river and there are

always fisherman down there catching fish.  We end up standing

there forever.

In between games we spent a lot of time at the park.

Ruby loves the swings.

Max was able to do these monkey bars all by himself.

He was so proud of himself and I was proud also.

Ruby looking soooo cute in her cute jacket that

Grandma Shirley gave her for her birthday.

The weather changes quite quickly in the mountains

so we had just about everything from warm to cold 

with lots of rain that was very close to snow.  Luckily

grandma and grandpa came during the really cold and 

rainy game and took the kids back to the house at half 

time.  

Horses

We went out to our Uncle's house the other

day to see his horses.  It was a beautiful day

and the kids had a great time.  Every one had

a turn on one of the horses and would have 

liked more.

Ruby LOVED the horses and couldn't wait 

to get on.

Sadie and Mya got to ride on the big horse.  Sadie was 

nervous at first but loved it.  Jaxon tried to get on the big

horse but then got nervous.

Hopefully, we will go again soon.  It was a great afternoon.

                              Thanks, Grandma!!