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National Youth Theater

Julia was able to participate in a week long camp at the Scera Shell, a local arts organization. As part of the program, they put together a pre-show that was preformed be for the Tarzan performance. We also got to see Tarzan the week before.

Here is the video...

Ethan Turns 8

One of the highlights from the summer was Ethan's birthday! Hard to believe he is 8!

Ethan turned 8 on June 29th. We had a chance to take a weekend vacation to St George. Unfortunately, it was 113 degrees there that weekend. At least we weren't in Vegas where it was 120.

We saw Mary Poppins at the Tuacahn outdoor theater - yes outdoor. The show started about 9 and turned into a REALLY late night.

Ethan lost another tooth today and wanted to show off his martial arts gi!

Ethan was eating his favorite snack, a green apple, and knocked out his tooth! He was very excited! On Monday evenings we all go and take Martial Arts classes, he wanted me to take his picture at class in his class.

Christmas Morning 2012

We had so much fun opening presents that it plum wore Julia and Ethan out! They fell asleep in the wrapping paper! ;) Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve!

Julia and Ethan always look forward to pjs from Sitto, this year is no exception! They love them!

Finished houses!

Julia and Ethan are getting better each year at decorating their houses! Here are the finished pieces!

Gingerbread houses!

Julia and Ethan had lots of fun decorating their "gingerbread" houses tonight! But they had more fun eating the candy that was extra! Merry Christmas!

Christmas lights!!

Julia and Ethan had fun untangling the Christmas lights tonight, they decided to play in them, and bury each other in lights. :)

 Ethan started 2nd Grade today! He was pretty excited to be able to start 2nd grade, finally! He has waited his whole life to be in 2nd Grade! :) He had a great day and likes his teacher and the kids in his class. He wore his Angry Birds T-shirt and has an Angry Birds backpack, it isn't his favorite video game, but he thinks that the Angry Birds are pretty cool!

Julia started 3rd Grade this year! She can't believe that she is now the big kid at school. This is the last year for Julia and Ethan to both be in elementary school. She is very excited to be a 4th grader next year and go to the intermediate school. She has a very nice teacher as well and has most of the kids from her class last year in this year's class, which is wonderful, she knows and likes most of them. They all seem to be good kids!

We are looking forward to a great year full of fun and learning!

Farmington Edge ROCKS ON!!!!  
They won again!  That is 3-0

Julia up to bat:

Julia hit the ball 5 times........most were fouls.  :) 

 However.....she did make it to first base!

 She got to play catcher this game too!

 She made some good stops and throws back to the pitcher!

 Julia did such a good job this game she got the "Player of the Game" award!!  Way to go Julia!!!

Jan - April 2012

Julia and Ethan having fun feeding the ducks in January, yep they are wearing shorts! It was beautiful!

 Ethan lost his two front teeth! He was super happy to have them finally out!

Julia and Ethan at a local art park!

This is Julia's garden. This year we decided to have the kids be in charge of their own section of the garden. They got to choose what they planted. Julia chose a raspberry bush, parsley-for the swallowtail caterpillars and a pretty pink flowering perennial.







Ethan chose an everbearing strawberry and petunias. We will be protecting the berries from the birds this year because last year they ate all the berries just before we could pick them! Ethan was very disappointed.








Julia and Ethan have both had the honor of being chosen a Kiwanis Terrific Kid. That was a big achievement for both of them!

 Ethan and Julia have a very expressive art teacher whom they love! Below are the artworks that they made for the art show. Julia won 2 ribbons, 1st and 2nd place!

 

We went to Springfield to celebrate Easter this year. The children all had fun finding Easter Eggs all over the farm. Ethan had the most eggs as far as we could tell!

 

Julia has started softball this year and absolutely loves it. She is #20 and her team is called the Farmington Edge. She has great coaches and good girls on her team. This is the first time she was up to bat in her scrimmage.

Julia's Baptism December 18, 2011

JC Becomes a Teenager

Today JC turns 13. I wish it was a joke. He is growing up so quickly. Yesterday he was a bit disappointed that his birthday fell on Sunday and General Conference weekend. We planned accordingly and celebrated Friday night. Jamey and JC also got tickets to attend the Priesthood Session of General Conference. JC was o.k with that, but wasn't thrilled about it taking most of the evening. They had to leave by 4 to get there on time and wouldn't be back until after 9. Despite his reticence it turned out really good. He came home and said he liked it, it was more personal, like the Prophet is talking directly to you. We were happy with that and understood his general disappointment of not doing something "fun" on his birthday. As I was typing the caption on the picture below, I started with "J.C.'s birthday landed on Sunday this year" and then I got up to get something. He sat down and started to type. He typed that the best gift he got was attending the Priesthood Session. He really meant it. We are so proud of the young man JC is and how he continues to grow.

JC taking his first moving Mustang for a spin.

The Final Day

Tomorrow JC becomes a teenager, so hard to believe that in a few hours he will be a teenager.

Tonight Jamey and JC had the opportunity to attend the Priesthood session of General Conference. It is amazing how much JC has grown in the last year. Here he is with Jamey before Priesthood Session last year and this year. He still isn't taller than me, that will only last for one more growth spurt. As for being taller than Jamey we are voting that by 16 he will be taller. JC is voting for 15.

JC's First Published Work

JC was asked by his English teacher to draw a cartoon for the school paper. He was to draw something that went with he article on Minecraft. So here it is, JC's first published work in the Lincoln Academy, Lincoln Lore.

Julia's 2nd Grade Christmas program

Julia was able to participate in her 2nd grade Christmas program tonight. She was selected to play a triangle and then they sang Silent Night in American Sign Language. We got a video of her performance and wanted to share it with you. You can click on this link:
http://youtu.be/SgsjXZ7GDWo

Scout Court of Honor

JC volunteered to put together the slide show for the 12 year old scouts camp trip. So with a little help from Mom, here is it.

A Pumpkin, the Professor and a Mailbox

This post has been a long time coming, I'll explain why with the mailbox. As Halloween approached JC was very excited to carve a pumpkin, he said it was the first one he did all by himself without any help. This may be true, but next year we are going to let him clean out the pumpkin too, as we think that is truly the hard part. The roasted pumpkin seeds were good!



So a few months back, our mailbox got smashed along with several of our neighbors. We clearly had to replace the mailbox. So we decided to have some fun with it. JC and I worked on designs and got most of the box done. After several months of it sitting in the basement and with the weather starting to be wetter, we needed to do the final detailing and put the mailbox up. It looked really cute. I was hesitant to put the mailbox up on Halloween night, but I wanted the project done! I was relieved when the mailbox was still intact the next morning. I took pictures and was going to put post them along with JC's Halloween stuff. But the next morning our mailbox was lying on the ground with the post broken. It was not a good morning! Dad fixed the post and the damage to the sunflower mailbox was minimal, so we put it back out. So far it has been 2 1/2 weeks and no one had smashed it. We are hopeful.

Happy Halloween 2011!

We loved the Halloween season this year! We decorated the whole house with fun pumpkins and skeltons! Then we got to chow down on pumpkin shaped bubble gum. We had a great time playing with the guts of carving pumpkins and we enjoyed the last time we will get to carve pumpkins at school.

Here is Ethan playing with the carved pieces of his school pumpkin. 1st grade is the last year that they carve pumpkins. Julia did get to paint a pumpkin in her class for which she thoroughly enjoyed.



Here are our finished creations glowing on Halloween night. Julia chose to carve a castle with a ghost frightening everyone away, it was hard to capture the effect by camera, but it was there.



Ethan chose a vampire pumpkin, in his words, "of course" We liked the simplistic nature. ;)



Finally the long awaited night has come and Julia and Ethan get to dress up completely and go collect as much candy as humanly possible. We had fun dressing up two other times this season, first for our church Trunk or Treat, secondly for a fun birthday party and then tonight for "real."

Ethan is Bumble Bee the Transformer, he loves Transformers and fast cars, this was a good fit for him! Julia is rockin' pink Bat Girl. She has pink hair too, but it didn't show up on camera. She loves the glitter and glitz of this fabulously bright costume and I am sure it will be worn many times before it wears out! Both kids had the local police dept come and talk to them about safety tonight and they listened very well and were very safe, if you get a chance to ask them about it they will share all their facts.



We now have mounds of candy to rot teeth and electrify energy levels! Actually most of the candy will go to the local dentist for money and then be sent to the military serving over seas. Everyone wins! It has been a fabulous Halloween and we look forward to a whole year of deciding what we will be dressed as next year! :)