MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Here is Josh singing in his first kindergarten Christmas (I mean Holiday) concert. He did a wonderful job. Kudos to Julia for going up to the very front and taking a great picture!!

We have had a wonderful year and we are grateful to have wonderful friends and family. We love you guys and miss you so much.

By the way, if you haven't had the chance to see my family as elves, you've got to check it out. http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1703283448

Julia was nominated and won the Superintendent Super Star Award. Only one student per school wins this wonderful award. We are so proud of her. She received this award at a school district board meeting and got her picture with the superintendent (above).


We spent Dec. 21st at a wildlife reserve where the wild animals run free. You just stay in your car and you drive through this area and the animals will come to you. This zebra came right to my window and scared me to death. But Joshua wanted to pet it and it let him. I guess they're not that wild. Anyway, there was an emu that came to our car and everytime we would roll down our window, he would try and stick it's head into our car, so we would roll it back up. We had so much fun!!

Last picture of Stacy and the kids and the goat's rear.

We hope 2008 brings you all happiness, love, and laughter, just like 2007 did for us.

This is what's been going on.

Okay, I'll start with the first day of school. I am now a free woman and no longer have anyone at home during the day. They all love school so much and the teacher's love all three of them. Go figure. You think I would have lots of time to do stuff, but as you can see, it's Oct. 19th and I'm finally having time to sit down and figure this out.

How Sweet!!

So what happens when you play on the furniture at the church?

You get staples on the back of your head!! Poor guy. I thought they were so cool. I told him he should show the staples for show-and-tell at school. He wanted nothing of it. By the time the week was up, before he had them taken out, he was so tired of me showing everybody. Hey, it's not every day that you get staples on the back of your head!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!! She had a fun non-sleepover pajama party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!! Yes, he's still in his PJ's. He couldn't wait to open his presents.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT SHELLY!! Josh and mom were lucky enough to go to Utah and party with the Lomu family!! What a blast!

What is this??? Taylor is learning how to mow the lawn. We were so proud of her, she didn't even complain. She sure is having fun?!?!?!

I am finally doing it!

I am such a dork at this kind of stuff. It's taken me one hour just to find the pictures and figure out how to post them. But I'll try it anyway.

I thought I would start with what we did over the summer. This was taken at El Yunque in Puerto Rico. It's the rain forest. We hiked to the very top of the mountain and we are at the top of this tall building on top of the mountain. If you look behind Josh, it looks like it's a pretty good drop. Curtis sat on the edge and leaned over to take a picture and Taylor lost it. She stood in the middle of the platform screaming at the top of her lungs. It took a lot out of her to take this picture. After this, Taylor and I went back down.

After hiking up and down the mountain (it took about an hour and a half), we decided to hike down to the waterfall (another long hike). It was worth it. It was so pretty, but the water was cold. The kids (and Curtis) had fun. Curtis, of course, was trying to find lost treasure at the bottom of the waterfall. (That's his head in the waterfall)

The kids and I are in front of a very old fort from the late 1400's. It's called El Morro in Old San Juan.

This is my favorite picture of our family at sunset on the beach. Our friends had us over for Sunday dinner, and they took our picture. We had such a great time. We all want to go back now (to visit.) That coral was SHARP!

This was our favorite thing to do in Puerto Rico. The water was very warm and no one ever wanted to get out. Not even to eat!!

Next we went and visited Shelly and family for Noah's baptism. We had so much fun that we can't wait to go back to visit.

After Utah, we went to Arizona to spend time with family. We were able to go up to the White Mountains and go to the 24th of July parade. It was so fun. This picture has the kids with their Great Uncle Leland Nikolaus.

Julia's first shiner. She fell and hit the side of her eye at a water park. Sure enough, a few days later, her eye looked like she had purple make-up on. She did not want me taking her picture, but when it's a first, you have to.