Glow-in-the-dark party!

For Carter's 11th birthday, she wanted a glow-in-the-dark party. We had a lot of fun with it! The house was totally dark except for black lights and everyone wore glow stick necklaces.

Here the girls tried out glow tic-tac-toe before everyone arrived. There was also glow bowling, light up poi balls, glow ring toss, and glow treasure hunting with glow-in-the-dark lip gloss and silly putty. Anything that would glow! 

Sledding in Show Low

After New Years, we got to spend a few days with Grandpa Bill and Grandma Diane in Show Low. The first day we got there, we tried to go ice skating on the new outdoor rink but it was absolutely freezing. The weather and other circumstances made for a parenting fail in the ice skating department. The next day though, the weather was perfect and we got to go sledding. This little hill is just down the road from Grandpa and Grandma's house and we even built a snowman and threw some snowballs. It was a fun day!

Happy New Year! 2015

We bought some little fireworks for the kids and they were all too scared to try them, ha ha! Jack was brave and was the first to hold a sparkler.

Before long, they all gave them a try and had a fun 5 minutes of ringing in the New Year.

Gotta love Nate's jammies, a borrowed t-shirt from Grandad.

Sundevil Fans Forever

It's a good thing no one married a wildcat fan or they might feel a little out of place around here...

Christmas Eve & Morning

On Christmas Eve we got to act out the Nativity with these cute hand puppets, made by Aunt Chelsea. While Robert read from the scriptures about the birth of Christ, the kids followed along with the puppets. We loved it! Then the kids took turns opening their gifts from eachother. 

Christmas morning was fun and full of surprises...see Gabby's face below :) 

After we opened presents, we drove to Mesa to visit family. It's not always the most fun to travel Christmas Day but then we get to have Christmas morning at home and don't have to pack up Christmas and get to see Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents who we love!

District Awards Night

Carter was honored at a District meeting for recieving a perfect reading score on the SAT 10 test. There were only a handful of students from each grade who recieved awards and fewer who got a perfect score. She is a smarty pants! Here she is with her awesome 4th grade teacher, Ms. Ryan.

Halloween 2014

Gabby as a "Spa Girl"

Nate as a Jack-in-the-box

Carter as Madeline Hatter

Nate getting an award for best Kindergarten poem in the Pumpkins and Poems contest

Gabby's Baptism Day

Gabby looked so pretty and happy on her baptism day. She was very excited to have lots of family make the trip up to be with her on her special day. Her baptism was combined with Torin, and all the brothers and sisters got to sing "Baptism" with them. We were so proud of her choice to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.

Gabby's Baptism Pictures - September 2014

Happy Birthday to Gabs

Gabby had a birthday back in September and we are still catching up from back then! It was her special 8th birthday. This sweet girl has a heart of gold and is a friend to all. She loves to play with babies, help Mom cook, watch Disney channel and play with her buddies. She is awesome at Math and is always working on crazy hard problems just for fun. She loves to play school, listen to music, put on make-up, and eavesdrop on conversations :)

Here are some of her favorites:

Song- Middle of Starting Over

Food- Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Color- Teal

Animal- Javelina

Subject in School- Math

Dessert- Crepes

Place to Visit- Utah

Book- Destiny the Rock Star Fairy

Movie- The Babysitters Club

When I Grow Up I want to be- a Lawyer or a Principal 

Adventures in Soccer Playing

Nate had a fun year of soccer this year because his Daddy was the coach! Their team name was "The Tornadoes" which describes this little group of 4-6 year olds just perfectly :) The good thing is that they all got along great and had fun being silly together. 

This last pic was at halftime...After you tell your kids not to do something and they do it anyway,

Gabby's fan mail

Yeah, I probably should have sent this letter. I'll just post it instead :) Gabby is a huge fan of all things Disney Channel. She wrote this letter to Bridget Mendler asking for some guitar playing advice and it was just too cute.

First day of School 2014-2015

It was a big year in the Sparks house. All 3 kids are in school and all have fabulous teachers this year! Here are a few pics from the first day.

Got their lunchboxes, backpacks, water bottles and out the door

The best part of back to school is seeing all their friends!

Nate LOVES Kindergarten

Shaver Lake with the Crosby's

Last summer, we got to visit our Crosby cousins in California. We got to go to Shaver Lake with them and had a great time.

 Raylin shows off the giant pine cones we found on the beach (her matching shades, suit and cast...adorable)

Nate and Kiley building a sand castle with a moat

Hailey living the life: on the beach with a dorito face. Too cute!

Muscle man Nate

More Jetskiing

The girls and their Daddy heading out for their first ride. They had so much fun! 

Robert driving the jetski and Jonathan on the tube

This girl would have stayed on the water as long as we would have let her

Jetskiing at Shaver Lake

With a little boost from Uncle Jonathan, Nate got his first jetski ride with his Daddy!