Aiden's Halloween Parade

Church Halloween Party

80's work-out girls

Tyler's Football season

Soccer '09

Soccer '09

Aiden's Soccer '09

Visit new baby Carlie

Tram

We took the tram up to the top of the mountain. We could see the town of Heber. What a view! We went on a hike down to the Paruvian chair lift and took that down to the bottom. It was beautiful scenary. I think that was my favorite part of the day!

Bull Riding

Maddi is haning on for dear life!

Snowbird

Grandpa found us a great activity of visitting Snowbird Ski Resort in the summer. The Alpine slide was one of the favorites!

Snowbird

Aiden doing bungy cords on the trampoline. He did back flips like there was no tomorrow.

Bridal Veil Falls

On the return ride down the canyon we stopped off at Bridal Veil falls. The kids took their shoes off and had a great time climbing on the rocks. It was a beautiful day!

picnic at the canyon

The cousins, look closely and you can see Aiden and Maddi, Sky is looking at Austin

Bike trip

Raquel let Aiden take some rides on the tandom. He absolutely loved it and never wanted to stop.

Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon

This was our bike trip through Provo Canyon. It took a lot of planning but with the help of Raquel, Wendy, and Grandpa it all went quite smoothly. I think we should make it a family tradition.

Tracy's House

We were able to visit Tracy's house. He's doing some remodeling to the kitchen. We were also able to visit his new dog "Sugar". Lets just say no one will be bothering their house or yard for a very long time

Church History Museum

Tracy took us to the Church History Museum. This is Ty standing at the podium giving us a talk. You can see Aiden in the background is one of his counselors.

Grandma Grace's Birthday

We were able to celebrate Grandma's birthday! Her friend made her a delicious chocolate cake. Mmm it was so good.

Maddi's cannon ball!

Sugarhouse Park, Salt Lake

We were able to visit Tracy and he took us for a picnic lunch at Sugarhouse Park. We played some frisbee, and baseball.

Visit to Utah, Aug 09

Our trip to Utah is always packed with tons of fun. This is one of the swim days at Grandma's house!

San Francisco

Last weekend Rob, Courtney, Brandon and I were able to go to our long awaited trip to San Francisco to see the play Wicked. I've been wanting to see this play ever since I heard about it. I was fortunate to find out one of Jason's friends is in the cast and she was able to get us awesome seats. So....the trip started with us taking BART into the city. That in itself was an adventure. There was a homeless guy in the train with us. He would randomly yell out "I thought we were going to Mexico!" He did it so regularly that I would look over at Brandon and he didn't even have a surprised look on his face. At the end of the train ride we were all standing up and this other guy came walking down the isle and as he was passing by Rob he yells out "Happy Saturday Everybody!". As we got off of BART, and are now officially in the busy City, we needed to find where the theatre was located. We were running short on time. There happened to be a huge rally just down the street having to do with the middle east, naturally we walked towards the rally. We walked about a block from the BART station and were now getting a bit desparate. I gently nudged Rob to ask one of the cops for directions. He then points to the building that we had just walked away from and we see this huge poster on the wall. We then go running back to where we were with some kids asking their dad why everyone is running. We were so glad to make it to our seats. The show was definitely worth it.

The Orpheum Theatre

Rob, Courtney, and Brandon standing outside the Orpheum Theatre.

Autographs

Brandon was brave and asked for the first autograph. This was the actor who played Galinda's boyfriend. Yes, he was cute!

Autographs

This is Courtney getting an autograph from the actress who played Elpheba's crippled sister. She has a beautiful voice.

Famous Memoroblelia

In one of the stores at Pier 39 we were able to see a lot of cool memorobelia that is signed by the actual stars. I took this picture for Ty. He watches the Rocky series on a regular basis. He must be related to his Aunt Wendy :).

Pier 39

After a long, interesting bus drive which consisted of what Courtney describes as a "homeless weirdo" talking to me non-stop. We finally arrived at Pier 39. It was windy and cold on the pier.

Pile up on Daddy! Who knows where Courtney was during this! And Ty for that matter

3 year old Maddi. She's growing up before our eyes!

Aiden joining in on the fun. Annika to his right. Aiden says, "I like her face".

Maddi's 7th birthday party. She had some friends over for a pool party. There were water balloons and games. Nacho always escaping the kennel to join in on the fun.

Maddi and Courtney trying to stay warm!

Ty working his toe side turn. I had to buy the kids neck warmers because of the winter snow conditions.

Aiden just 4 years old already skiing down the hill and riding the chair lifts! Is he cute or what?!

Our February ski trip to Dodge Ridge. Up until 2 weeks before our trip we didn't know if there was going to be enough snow, but the week before our trip there were a series of snow storms. There was more powder than we've ever had at Dodge. It was incredible! Rob had to dig our car out of the snow on one of our mornings. He thought he was going to have a heart attack.

Maddi with Minnie on our quick trip for Courtney's Cheer Nationals.

The face of Pumba!

Pumba and his best friend Timon "Brianne"

Brandon and Ty were in the school play, The Lion King. Bradon played Pumba and Ty was in the ansemble. We are all very proud of their performances. Thank you to all the family who traveled far distances to see them perform!

...back in Arizona, Aiden is on an animal at the park

Maddi in her waterpolo cap

Maddi playing waterpolo.

"Fire and Ice" rocks really hard. This is the band that you should all want to see if you get a chance. They really know how to rock!

Easter!

I forgot to take the lunch that I so painstakingly made before leaving the house so we found this little shack where they made a delicious selection of burritos, and Courtney's fav: chicken fingers.

The outside of the cave.

Here's Maddi in the Cave!

Amanda found adventures for us to do everyday. This is "Old Baldie" at Colossol Cave. This cave is famous for a couple of old flicks. One of them being a Big Bird movie, if you're lucky you probably didn't see it.

Spring Break : Arizona, to visit Tyler, Amanda, Lilian, and the new little addition Nora. It was quite an adventure! Thank you to grandma for going on the long drive with the very noisy children. ....And of course thank you to Tyler and Amanda for putting up with the very noisy children. We know how noise can be very distressing for you. :)