Happy New Year

I want to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We are so thankful for our friends and family. We love each one of you so much! Each one of you have touched our lives so much and we are truly blessed with your love and friendships. We look forward to another year of fun and excitement. We hope to keep closer contact with some of you to make our year even better.

Just a retouch of our lives right now--
Blake is still working at Spencer Fluid Power and going to school every night, he will finish up in May in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He still plays Hockey(usually as a defensemen) on the Gibbs team at the Oval.
I'm working as a Para Educator at Truman Elementary working with 2nd and 4th graders using an at risk reading program. I love working with these kids and being at the girl's school. It has been such a rewarding job. I also teach the 5 and 6 year olds in primary and enjoy it most of the time.
Charles is 13 now and going to Eisenhower Jr. High, He finished up wrestling this year being 4th seed in Division and with his Team being fourth in District. He really seems to love the sport even if I have a hard time watching. He also is the 1st counselor in the Deacons quorm and always sets an example to me.
Carrie is 11 and in the 6th grade, she loves to draw. She is currently in Jr. Jazz and loving it. We even painted and decorated her room all in the Jazz theme. She is a basketball player 24/7.
Leah is 6 and in 1st grade and loves the color Gold, singing, dancing, making friends and anything Hannah Montana. She just got her ears pierced in the fall and looks forward to wearing big hoops.
Kylie is 5 and in Kindergarten. She also loves to sing and dance, playing with friends, talking on the phone (every minute, so if we don't answer that's why, so leave a message) and staying at Josh's house every day.
Ellie still just lays around the house and will cry if she has to go outside.




At Grandpa Charlie's house with the cousins

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! We are so thankful for our family and friends. We wish everyone a wonderful New Year.










Grandpa and Grandma Evans at the temple
for their 50th Anniversary from their sealing date December 18th.

My parents are so amazing. Congrads and thanks for being such great examples. We love you!


Blake with Taryn and Madelyn.


At Grandma Evans Christmas Party (some of my family)

At Grandma Vada's house. Ron and Vada- We love you guys soo much!
Grandma Vada's Birthday


Building our gingerbread house-Yum Yum Thanks Lolly.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a fun day.

The older kids went with dad and played football with the other cousins and uncles in the morning then we went to Bruce's church for lots of great food and fun with my family.
The kids loved seeing their cousins and hanging out with everyone.

We also had a good visit with Grandpa Charlie and Annette afterwards at their house and of course I forgot to take pictures but we still love them just as much. We love and appreciate all of our family soo much . Thanks!!!!

Leah the Indian Princess

Leah had a Thanksgiving feast yesterday at school with the first grade classes.
She had fun and definitely was one of the cutest indians there.








She wore this indian dress that Grandma Vada made for Aunt Sheryl (30 + years ago).
It was darling!!!






Kylie tried on the indian outfit that was Uncle Kyle's (back when he was a lad). I'm, sure he was as cute as Kylie in it.

Charles' Wrestling

Checking In, Charles is in the red.




Charles started wrestling this month on the VARSITY team at Eisenhower and is loving it.




He has only lost one meet and that was by one point. He loves to be defensive and enjoys going for the points instead of a pin. He loves to get pointers from Uncle Ian and we all can't wait til Ian will demonstrate the moves on Blake for Charles.

End of the night job/Hello Life

I quit my night job at SWCC on Monday. Tuesday should of been my last day but I thought I would get strep Monday to avoid work. (seriously that's what they thought) Its quite the story(just ask) but it only confirms how much I needed to quit that place. Even though I ended up getting a Bicillin shot at my physician's office, my previous office manager tried to compete to be the bigger pain in the butt.
It was so nice not to worry about missing work yesterday and in fact the school would of let me take the rest of the week if needed . Life is good, and I'm starting to almost feel normal again; so then we can celebrate!!!! Have a great night--I know I will!

Halloween

It has been a very busy and fun week for the kids they went to a ward party on Friday, Grandma Evans' Halloween party on Saturday; having a blast with their cousins, The girls all had fun at their school parade/parties and Tonight Charles and Carrie went out with their friends trick or treating while dad took the girls around the block too. I still think the younger ones enjoy answering the door more than getting the treats as they showed us by fighting over whose turn it was. It was definitely was a fun week.

New cousin

Us girls got to see our new cousin on Saturday, October 20th.

We went out to Matt and Rochelle's house in Herriman to see Madelyn who was born on Tuesday the 16th.



She was so cute! The girls loved that aunt Rochelle trusted them enough to hold her.






She is just as cute as the the other two girls even though Leah will still say Brooklyn is her favorite and her favorite # is the #2 since that is how old Brooklyn is.

Lunch with Kylie

This month after we went to Leah's play, Kylie came and had lunch with mom in her class and we had a blast.

Leah's Play

Leah was in the cutest play at school this month and of course you can see, she was the cutest raccoon ever. She definitely loves to be in the spotlight.

Blake's Birthday

October 3rd was Blake's birthday the big 37. He was going to take work off so we could play but I ended up working both jobs all day and all night. Luckily he had many visitors and phone calls to keep him occupied. We do have a great family for always being there and supporting us and we love you all for that.
We were able to spend a little family time Friday shopping for Blake's birthday present at Guitar City, Had an awesome dinner at our home with Brenda, Ian and Taryn (thanks Brenda). Taryn is so cute and I cant believe how fast she is growing. The kids loved the excitement of who got to hold Taryn next and we learned proper manners from Taryn as well. Brenda got me hooked and set up on the Blogger and here I am.

We spent most of the weekend home during Conference since Carrie was sick, but it was nice to hang out as a family. Blake went to Kyle and Scott's house for football and steaks (cooked on the smoker) on Sunday. I think that was the best food Blake ever ate he couldn't stop telling me how good they were and how much I missed out. Thanks Scott now he will never be home on Sundays. (jk)

Flaming Gorge

We enjoyed a trip to Flaming Gorge Labor Day weekend with Blake's family and had a blast the weather changed constantly which Blake enjoyed more than I. We did alot of swimming, skiing and sight seeing through Horseshoe Canyon which is gorgeous. Grandpa and the boys got lucky on a few fishing trips and on Saturday we watched the boat parade of lights and watched fireworks in our boats it was really fun. Blake and the girls would dance on the bow of the boat and we would honk and yell as the yachts passed us. Scott would keep getting the other boats wet and grandpa found treasures out in the dark. We would chat around the fire and some nights even get the guitars out. We look forward to next year.