Halloween

 Second annual carve-a-rama at Chuck-a-rama

 Allison and her friend dressed as Christmas elves.  They are ready for the next Holiday Season.

 Ashley finished the Harry Potter series of books and had a very fun time being Hermione.

Allison Homecoming

Allison's best friend's(Taylor) mom did her hair. It turned out beautiful and exactly what she wanted.

 Here is Taylor, Allison and Kristin after her hair was completed.

 With out going into a ton of details here is Allison's miracle dress.  It was truly a miracle how we found it.  She loved it, it was the right size and the right price.  I love feeling blessed.

 Their day activity was a hike.  They got  home at 3:00 and he was supposed to pick her up at 4:00 so we felt a little rushed but got it all done and she looked beautiful.  Then Jaxon was 45 minutes late picking her up.  So of course she texted while she waited.

 The cute couple (a little blurry).  They had 9 other couples that went with them and Allison had a lot of fun.  After the dance they went to one of the boy's houses and swam with glow sticks.  They still made it home by 11:00.

first day of school 2013 (I know it is late--we've been busy)

Allison--11th grade
Jason --8th grade
Ashley--5th grade with her smiley face back pack and her new "perfect for me" tennis shoes.

Ashley got her braces on today.

She got the traditional milkshake.  She is definitely the smiliest one of my kids to get braces.  We shall see how she feels tomorrow.

Bear Lake

 These are the pictures from my camera.  I have some on my phone and I am hoping to maybe "swipe" some from other sources because I really did not take that many photos.  This was the year of the "sickness".  The stomach flu swept through the family throughout the week.  It only hit Allison hard in our family.  She missed out on an entire day of fun. 

 The famous trip to get Bear Lake raspberry shakes in our family reunion T's.  How many people actually get raspberry shakes?  My family never does.

Hopefully more to come later.

Jason's Bear Lake Aquatic camp

Jason went to his first week long scout camp without James.  He came home as high as a kite he had had sooooo much fun.  He also came home with the worst sunburn I have ever seen. The funny thing was that his sunscreen bottle was completely empty.

Dance Pictures 2013/2014

 

Fables, Fairytales and Folklore.

 

 Allison is a leprechaun.

 Ashley danced to Puss-n-boots--"These boots were made for walking"

 This was a tap dance.    They were the little engine that could.

This was her Frog Prince dance.  It was AMAZING!!  It gave me the chills and won the people's choice award.  So good:)

summer solstice

 Ashley read a book where the girl made a big deal of watching the sun rise on the winter solstice so she wanted to watch the sun rise for the summer solstice.  So we all got up at 5:30 and headed to the baseball park to watch the sunrise.  It was a lot of fun, a beautiful day and a beautiful sunrise.

James took us to Village Inn for breakfast after.  Then we all came home and took a nap.(Except Ashley)