Baby Due December 2012

After feeling like someone is missing at every family prayer and counting our children over and over in public and always feeling like someone is missing, we are finally pregnant!  We are all so excited to have a Christmas baby!

Some Recent Family Photos

Pine Wood Derby

Markham makes a Goomba Pillow Pet

Markham the Domino master

Noah practicing hard

Grandma gets a pic of Sam and Mickey

James - when will you learn to play "going back to Cali"?

Zions

Zions Part 2

View from the Garden Restaurant after James' first Temple Trip

James chillin at the "Garden" 

Lane and Eileen made it for this special day

The kids admiring Dad's Scout Badges

Mom surprised Glen with this Plaque of Scouting

Glen's Layover in Paris 

Outside the Louvre

The Eiffel Tower - even grander than expected 

Volleyball Dudes

The boys finished there volleyball season at 5-2, and took first place playing against the 7th-9th graders. Here is a little video on some of the footage...

New Water Heater

Glen put in a new 50 Gallon water heater. We survived off one for several

years when the second one broke down, but now that the boys are getting

older and more people using the hot water in the morning, it was time to

add some more capacity.

Super Dunks Video by the Boys

Here is the Super Dunks video... (different than the trailer).

The boys

made this Super Dunks video (Trailer) last week.

Coronado Island Trip

The group at the park.

San Diego Zoo Entrance

The Coranodo Beach House

Settler's of Catan

Football anyone?

Mission Bay

Chillin at the Zoo with Lor

Flame Thrower

The fam at the zoo

Noah and the Aircraft Carrier

Sea Port Village

Who needs Mickey when you got this dude?

The cousins having fun.

Flame Thrower also swallows Swords

Santa is the man

Guess who?

Cool Elephant

What a good looking group

How romantic!

Gluten Free Rice Krispies!!!

You can't imagine our excitement when we discovered Gluten Free Rice Krispies at Wal-Mart yesterday! We bought a bag of marshmallows too and came straight home and made real Rice Krispie Treats. See all the happy faces!!!

Visit to Nordic Country

 

Glen had a business trip to Amsterdam and Paris, so we took the chance to go see family in Europe.  First, we went to Finland to see Glen's parents who are serving a mission there.  Then we took a cruise across the Baltic Sea to Sweden to visit Glen's sister, Lorena and her family.  It was wonderful, incredible, and so, so, so freezing COLD!  We were so grateful we got to go!!!

My Story in Country Extra Magazine

Country and Country Extra are my favorite magazines. As I stare at the beautiful photos of the countryside, I am instantly relaxed and transported to the happy, simple moments of my life. My sisters gave me Country Extra for my birthday a couple of years ago and I discovered that it has a page for people to send in experiences they have had with their wonderful neighbors. So, after I was the recipient of a special service, I decided to send my story in to the "good neighbors" page. I was surprised and delighted when I got my magazine in the mail and a letter informing me that they had published my story. I could hardly wait for my neighbor, Brenda, to get home, so I could give her my extra copy!

Here is my story:

When I was pregnant with out fourth son, I had to rest and elevate my leg because of a blood clot. And it was just as the peaches on our tree reached perfect ripeness! My wonderful neighbor heard of my plight and came to help.

She picked all my peaches, took them to her house, canned them for me and brought the bottled peaches to my door the next morning! She also cooked dinner for my family so I could rest. Those peaches sure tasted extra-special--because they were canned with love.

Happy Birthday Markham!

Markham had a great 7th birthday while we were in St. George. Markham was our "miracle baby", being born premature. Every year, I am grateful all over again for the blessing of having him in our family. He is an early riser and works hard to take care of all of his responsibilities everyday. He is a wonderful son and we love him very much!

More St. George Pics

My baby doesn't look so small anymore! Our boys loved climbing in Snow Canyon and then playing in the sand dunes there. Hiking Snow Canyon was Markham's favorite part of his birthday. They begged us to go everyday we were there. Markham also enjoyed swimming and taking pictures with our underwater camera...too bad we discovered after the fact that there was no memory card in it!!!!!