Christmas

Christmas Eve. Our dear Grandma got to join us for Christmas. She has been at almost all of our christmas's. WE LOVE YOU GRANDMA BONNIE!

Bretts cool christmas eve present he opened

Jordan helping out in the kitchen

Christmas morning

We had a LOT of presents!

Jordan got a camera!! Wahoo!

Ali made Brett a stable to play with

Jordan gave Brett a scooter

Brett got his punching bag!

Awesome toys from Grandma

Ali's favorite thing in the world

He also got huge boxing gloves!

* I also just realized, that I mostly just have pictures of Brett from christmas, but we all got a lot of awesome presents.



Our amazing friend Kendra hand croched hats and scarves for everyone in my family!

I think this is THE cutest picture ever of Brett!

FHE ~ Laser Mania

We have been trying to make some last family memories with Jordan before he leaves for 2 years so, for family home evening we went to Laser Mania. This was kind of a make-up thing, because we were going to go skiing on Saturday, but Jordan got sick. Laser Mania was SO much fun!! The whole family stayed and played one round (about 20 minutes) but Jordan and I stayed for another 2 hours. The game; The point of the game is to shoot the other people with your laser. If your laser hits there chest, shoulders or gun, then their gun turns off for about 5 seconds. At the end of the game, who ever shot the most people wins. Jordan of course beat all of us. But I did come in second!!

Lets start this game!

Brett and majorly tall Jordan. I think this is the cutest picture ever...

Our crazy dad....

Getting on our gear....

Watch out, here he comes!!

Bam!! And I am shot!!

Civil War Re-enactment

I got to go to this thing that some kids in my school participated in where you re-enact the civil war for 2 days and one night. It was SO amazing, and SOOO cold!!! We got awesome uniforms, but they were extremely itchy... Under my uniform, I was wearing 4 layers. A tank top, shirt, sweater AND a big fluffy coat, and yet I was still freezing!!! Some things we did; washed LOTS of potatoes for dinner and breakfast, did a bunch of dishes in freezing water, wore funny hats, march around learning drills, learn how to load and fire a gun with gun powder, use a bayonet, we also had to get up for shifts during the night to "keep watch" I had to get up from 12:00 to 12:30. It was cold!! We had to march around camp for 30 minutes carrying 12 lbs. guns. Trying to keep warm, while we eat our dinner. Here is what our breakfast looked like. Not very yummy. I gave mine to the fire...

These are the tents that we had to squish 2 people into. And my tent we had to squish 3 girls all in. We stayed up until 12:00 and then we couldn't fall asleep until 2:30. We also had to wake up at 5:00. So I got a total of 2 and a half hours of sleep that night. Oh and they don't even count, because we would wake up every half hour to try and pull the blankets up. *notice also that there are no ends so the cold wind could blow in... It was in the low 30's that night.* In the morning, we all huddled around the fire and TRIED to get warm.

It was so much fun to learn how to shoot a gun, but they were LOUD and HEAVY!! I could barely lift them high enough to aim them to the sky, not to mention that when you pulled the trigger you had to use 2 fingers.

Over all, it was WAY fun, but I was glad to get back home, and sleep in a WARM bed.

Jordans is going on a mission!!

Jordan got his mission call!! We are all SO excited for him!!! He will be going to Arizona, Tucson spanish speaking. We all thought that was funny because we lived in Arizona for 5 years before we moved to St. George. But Jordan is really excited!! We are having a bitter\sweet experience. We are going to miss him A LOT!!! He is such an awesome brother. He is so much fun, and is a champion foosball player. We RARELY beat him.

We are going to miss him SOOOO much. He is excited to be able to learn another language though. His mission boundaries also include Texas and New Mexico. So that will be fun. We are all going to miss him sorely, but are glad he has the opportunity to be able to serve.

Annie get your gun...Brett

Here is little Brett. He played "Little Jake" (Annie's little brother) He stole the whole show!! He was THE cutest Little Jake ever imaginable!!

Annie get your gun

These are a few pictures of Ali in Annie get your gun. She was so cute, and had so much fun! I went and saw the show 7 out of the 18 times it was performed. I never got tired of watching ALi and Brett.

(sorry the pictures are kind of blurry, if you click on it then it will show up big and not blurry)

Ali and her horse back riding

Ali has been working hard at horse back riding! She really enjoys it. It seems like every day she is either mucking out stalls, (to earn money for horse back riding lessons) or she is riding horses. She took first place in every event in one of her shows! She looks forward to any time with horses, and likes Brett to come along too! He gets to play in the hay during her lesson and then she lets him ride bare back to the pen. He really enjoys that!