All of Nana's grandchildren!!

This is whay life looks like at

her cottage of a house when

they all come to visit. They are

all under the age 14.

While Karen was in Idaho

she had fun hiking with Mckay.

She is very helpful with the babies.
She has always had the gift of
being good with kids even at about age 6
she could rock a baby to sleep for me.

What Karen did this summer...
So She has been the super star helper
the last 6 years while david was going
to school full time and work full time. So we
sent her to Idaho to see her cousins, aunts, and
grandparents.


Karen and cousin Ashlyn.


Karen, Connor and Ashlyn at
the 4th of July parade in Idaho
Falls.

Fishing with Grandpa.


4th of July Block Party with cousins
and Aunt Kristen.


Karen with Aunt Mckay and Uncle
Helio with baby RJ at Rigby lake.

Our most recent happenings

Karen and our friend Cameron
From Texas. He and karen were
playmates as little kids when he
lived here. He visited for the day.
He is a nice boy and he played with
the little kids.


Cameron and his mom Dianna.



Ruth's new hairstyle.
So, I usually put off taking a shower
in the morning because I don't
want certain toddlers to be unsupervised
SOOOO. I decided I might be able
to get away with a quick shower because
Karen was home for the summer
but when I got out of the bathroom
Ruth had a lot less hair than before.
When I asked her where her hair was
she said that she cut it and Jeff said, "I helped her!"
So then that afternoon Ruth and I went to
the hairdresser to trim it up and fix it.
It is actually not too bad although there are
a few really short spots. She didn't get in trouble
she is just too cute. Jeff had to clean up the hair he cut
but while I was getting him to do that Ruth got into the
freezer and was trying to eat frozen butter. Sigh.

FHE Ensign Picture

For those of you who aren't amember of the

LDS church I need to explain what the picture is all about.

We are encouraged to have a family night once a week to teach our children

about the Lord and to have fun together. It is

called Family Home Evening, or FHE for short.

In our churchwide magazine titiled the Ensign, there

are often pictures of families having Family Home

Evening. Such as this one below. Notice everyone is smiling.

Everyone is paying attention. Happiness all around.

At our house FHE consists of Millie mad every week if she

doesn't get to pick the treat and pouting in the corner.

Jefferson doing head stands on couch and falling on other

children who in turn start crying. Ruth crying for milk. Karen

bored. Jacob wrestling with James and David and I after asking people

nice a couple of times are now YELLING "It's time for PRAYER!"

SOOOO. On this one occassion. We decided to briefly talk about

how important it is for people to chose righteous leaders in our government

and then we just sat down and watched Prince Caspian. Not too spriritual in nature

but hey, we were having together time. :) So before the movie started I had to

take a picture of everyone sitting there on the couch. One of our rare cooperative moments.

Lets celebrate.

Valentine's Day PTO Father Daughter Dance

Spring fun!

Jax flips!

Buddies