that's a rody!!

santa got jared a rody for christmas and a lot of people don't know what it is so here is jared bouncing on his rody. its basically like an exercise ball in the shape of an animal. He loves it! Sorry the pictures are out of order.

Sarah skiing up in the bighorn mountains:

another picture of jared on the rody

Ryan got a tidmouth sheds for his thomas trains for christmas:

Winter Fun

Merry Christmas! We hope you are all enjoying this time of year. Here are a few of our favorite pictures from Dec.

Sarah telling santa all about it at our ward christmas party:



In the mountains searching for a christmas tree and sledding:



At the ward Christmas party:



The boys in front of the Christmas tree:



Sarah dressed up as suzy snowflake for her school concert:

Fall Fun

Fall is by far my favorite time of year. We have over 400 pictures on our camara right now. Here is a little sampling of our fun:


Happy halloween (could you image a nicer night?)


Ryan's birthday party: i had planned several games and activities, but they wanted to play in the sandbox instead! He is now my favorite 4 year old!


The lightning mcqueen cake:



My cute Jared: he is getting so big!

Happy halloween:

Choir concert: at sarah's school they have a seperate choir group that meets once a week before school.

trip to the lake:

motorcycle rides with dad:

family hikes: this one was clark's birthday in sundance:

Visit from grandparents:

family bike rides:

trips to the park:

We have had such beautiful weather and so much fun. Now bring on the winter :)

my fun weekend

I just wanted to post a bit about my FUN birthday weekend. On Wed. about 2:00 Clark came home and had the kids each hand me an envelope. Sarah's had some money, Ryan's had an airplane ticket to Salt Lake, and Jared's had tickets to conference. What a surprise! I left the next morning at 5:30 am and came back late sunday night. thanks to everyone who helped arrange and take care of everything. My sister spoiled me for a few days, we shopped in park city, watched some movies, had a birthday dinner at training table (yum) and went to the sunday afternoon session of conference. what a fun weekend. Thanks for the fun getaway clark!

Here are me and my nieces after conference

Catch-up and school

It seems like summer went by and we didn't do too much, but then I looked at the camara and realized I just hadn't printed out any pictures yet. So is a random hodge podge of summer pictures.

I decided to start with the newest:

Meet our new kindergartner: Sarah started on Wed. she is doing great and loves it. We do all day kindergarten here so she is worn out in the evening. She was so excited on the first day:

Look what we can do!

Both kids learned to ride their bikes within a few days of each other. Sarah got mad that Ryan could do it first and she picked it up really quickly.

Here is a rare picture of the whole family.

Everyone was in town for a few days

Clark went on a hike to the glacier in the Big Horn Mountains: He went when in was 98 degrees in Gillette and nice and cool in the mountains:

Here is our little guy at the park. He is 15 months old now and has started climbing on everything!

Backpacking with dad:

Fishing!

The kids just got back from fishing with grandma: here is their catch

Ryan pulled his big one (about 15 inches) on his first cast.

Sarah pulled her big one out (about 17 inches) a little later on.

My mom says these are the biggest fish she has seen out of the huck finn pond.

Of course my kids won't hold the fish on their fingers.. too slimy :)

backpacking with dad

Here are a few pictures of the kids. Clark took them backpacking a couple of weeks ago. They did great. In the picture above they are throwing rocks into the river (clark said they did that for like an hour). In the picture below the kids are sporting their backpacks, and the river that they ended up crossing with the help of a tree that Clark put across for them to walk along. They hiked about a mile in and had a blast.