New Stuff

Here are some pictures from our big shopping trip this last week (we're just trying to keep up with Ashley).

The boys got new shirts:

Sarah and Donald got new shoes (Donald actually got his before this week):

The girls got their hair trimmed:

Dan didn't get anything (but he did get to pay for everything).

We've had a fun weekend with Friday and Monday off, but there's not much to report on the blog. It was just a nice relaxing weekend with lots of XBOX, playing Rock Band and Legos Indiana Jones.
This is a picture of Donald drinking his bottle. The reason he never holds his own bottle is because he always has to relax by covering his eyes with his hands like so. It's adorable.

Dugway's Next Top Model

Yesterday the girls were invited to their friend Koren's birthday party in Dugway. It was so much fun! It was totally all girl! We did make-up and hair and then the girls put on a fashion show with a runway and everything, to determine who would be... Dugway's Next Top Model!


The best thing was that once the girls felt all fashionable Koren's mom just lined them all up and let them be themselves on the runway. I was so impressed with all the girls walks and poses it was so great to see each of them strut their stuff.

After the runway excitement the girls each got to do their own photo shoot. Because they were all so good the judge couldn't pick just one girl to be the next top model so each girl got an award. Shari was the Most Glamorous!

Rebecca was the Most Couture. (Someone might have to explain that one to me, but I just told Rebecca it meant she was the Most Fashionable. Am I close?)

What a Way to start the New Year!

We cleaned the house New Years Eve and put away Christmas stuff and played Rock Band New Years Day. The real fun began Friday when we headed to Elko, Nevada to see my niece, Sarah, get baptized. We stayed at a hotel and made sure they had a pool so we could enjoy swimming with cousins.

The hotel stay was nice to include a really good hot breakfast each morning. Charlie wowed the hotel patrons with a rousing version of "Everybody Dance Now!" right in the middle of breakfast. It was such a surprise because we'd lectured him before hand about being quiet and polite and neither of us could stop the outburst. Afterwards we were trying to explain to him that he wasn't being quiet but all we could do was laugh.

The kids were all so excited to try out the new goggles they got in their stockings.

Donald had some adventures in diaper changes. Every poopy diaper this weekend was a major blow out event. I think he was trying to tell me to quit putting warm itchy clothes on him. He prefers his birthday suit. (Don't be decieved by this sweet little face he was really stinky!)


Hanging out with family was the best part of all. Here's almost all of the cousins at one time (there were actually 17 of them there!), enjoying watching Horton Hears a Who. I think us moms were enjoying a quiet moment upstairs and the dads were out back in the garage playing ping pong by the fireside.



I don't have a picture yet of our beautiful Sarah on her baptism day but let me just say it was so wonderful to be there. Thank you Kurtz's for putting on such a fun festive occasion for us.


It was difficult to get kids up this morning to begin a new week at school. I was a little surprised that Charlie jumped right up and got ready so quickly. I went downstairs to help my grumpy kids get lunches ready and he comes down and announces he's ready for kindergarten! He thought the new year meant he could start school. I felt so bad explaining to him that he had to wait until August. He was very downtrodden and felt like 8 months was a really long time to wait until I mentioned that today was an XBOX day. That cheered him right up. I'm glad he can appreciate the little things he enjoys now.