Polar Plunge 2010

Yesterday was the annual Polar Plunge. It was held at the Pelican Point Marina again. This year we got three generations to jump. Kelly got his dad to jump and David and Kage to jump with him. David chickened out at the last second so Kelly, his Dad Evan, Kage, Kelly's friend Toby, and a guy named Mel (he joined their team the night before and introduced himself to Kelly at the plunge) all jumped together. Here they are waiting for their turn to jump.
Great faces as they jump! Kage was the youngest jumper of the day and Evan was one of the oldest.
Kage waited for Kelly to jump so that Kelly could catch him when he jumped.
Kage was climbing Kelly and Grandpa like a cat in water. He did not want to touch the water anymore.Kelly finally talked David into jumping. So Kelly jumped a second time.

He practically had to pull David in with him. David clung to him so tight.As he was getting out David just kept saying "Get me out of here, get me out of here." A picture similar to this made the Salt Lake Tribune story about the Polar Plunge.
Here's most of the team after the plunge! They all did a great job. Thanks to all of the friends and family that donated to their cause. They managed to raise over 1000 dollars!

Kage's Birthday and Baptism

We have had a fun couple of days with Kage. Friday night he had a friend birthday party. We went to Jack and Jill Bowling Alley. Kage had four friends with him. At the bowling alley they gave him a bowling pin that everyone at the party could sign. They took his picture with the pin and everytime he bowled his picture would come up and it would say "Happy Birthday" It was a fun night.

Today was his Baptism. We had a small group with just our family, Amber & Gregg, and their boys, Chelsea and our friends the Love's. It was a nice Baptism.

After the Baptism we all went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. We took all of Kage's presents and let him open them with everyone there.

Tonight we sang Happy Birthday. Kage wanted a cake that he could put his face in so we got him one. Kelly of course helped him get it all over his face.

Here is a movie clip of our two day's of celebrating Kage's Birthday.

Christmas 2009

Even though it seems like Christmas was a long time ago I wanted to blog about it just for my own personal use. Blogging seems to be the only journal I keep these days so I want to record all of the important events in our family.

Christmas Eve started with our traditional breakfast at IHOP with my family. Kelly's Dad and his wife SueAnn also joined us this year.

The rest of the day was spent visiting with Kelly's Dad and last minute preparations for Christmas. That evening we went to my mom's for the Annual Christmas Eve Party. The original plan was that it would be a very small get together with Mom and Dad, Amber, Gregg, and their Kids, Us, and Kelly's Dad and SueAnn. The party grew a little though. My aunt and uncle Irene and Jay, their son Shawn and his wife Sandy and their four kids joined us. Chelsea and DJ came and went a few times through out the night as well. We had a food, played games, reenacted the Nativity scene, and just enjoyed the evening. Here we are in our yearly Christmas PJ's.

Christmas morning we ended up with all of the Grandparents at our house to see us open presents. Here is a picture of the boys with those sleepy faces I love every year.

The boys decided they each wanted their own Christmas trees this year. We had some extra trees we used outside for decoration a couple of years ago. So on Christmas Eve we let the boys put up and decorate their own trees. Then Santa left all of their presents under their own tree. Here are Grandma and Grandpa waiting for the kids to come out and see all their presents.

Here are the boys checking out all of their presents.

David and Grammy talking about presents.

The boys were both spoiled as usual. The family got a new Wii (the last one died this summer after never being turned off). Kage got a lot of G. Ji. O's (GI Joe's) (for some reason Kage has always called them G Ji O's) this year. He also got a new bike, and helmet. David got a lot of video games, both for the wii and his DSi. It doesn't take long for the boys to jump right in opening toys.

The rest of the day was spent playing with toys and eating good food. We spent a lot of our holidays doing that. Kelly took the Christmas break off of work. We had late mornings, lazy afternoons, fun nights playing games. We spent almost every evening with our friends the Love's playing games.
On New Year's Eve day we decided to go tubbing at Soldier Hollow. We talked my Mom and Dad into dropping everything they were in the middle of and go with us. We got all the way up there only to find out they were sold out for the day. So we ended up going down into Midway to go ice skating. I hadn't been ice skating in years and the boys had never done it. Here we are all together out on the ice.

The boys did pretty good after a little while.

Kage started counting how many times he fell. I think that it was something like 58 times.


He still said it was fun. The holiday's were enjoyable. The break went by way too fast. We had a great Holiday and hope all of you did too.

Birthday, Party, Program

Last week was full of all sorts of activities. Friday the 11th I threw Kelly a little Birthday party with a few Friends. We gave him presents on Monday the 14th. (He was in Vernal on his real birthday.)

Monday night was the UROC Christmas Party. They gave out awards for the competition that was held in October. The boys both participated in the competition. They were the only two that participated in their age group so they won. David took first and Kage took second in all of the categories. Here they are with their awards. They got pretty nice medals.


Wednesday I had my First Grade school program. My class did a great job. It is a lot of work to put the programs together but they are fun to see the results of the work.

Gingerbread house

We managed to make a gingerbread house this weekend. We actually made it from scratch! My first time to make one from scratch. It actually turned out pretty good. Kelly helped me with the design and construction of the gingerbread house, then we all decorated it together.

Also this weekend David tried out for the school play. The school is doing Beauty and the Beast. He was cast as a castle servant/ cup. I think he is excited. Not everyone that auditioned got a part, so way to go David!

Thanksgiving Break

We started off our Thanksgiving break by going skiing/boarding on Wednesday. The snow wasn't the greatest but the weather was awsome. We all had fun on our first trip for the season. Here is David with his board. I forgot my camera but took just a couple of pics with my phone.

Kage at lunch in the lodge!

Thanksgiving morning the boys got up and went shooting. I worked on the pies and sweet potatoes. (Those were my assignment for dinner.) That afternoon we went to my mom and dad's for dinner. Everyone except for Ashley (missed you) and her family were there. After dinner we watched Cameron and Gregg let off a few rockets, chilled out and talked, and played a game. On Friday, Kelly and I went shopping for a while then that night we went to dinner and a movie with some of my family. Saturday I got all of my Christmas decorations up. After some hiccups with the tree we got it all done. here is a pic of my tree, and my planter shelf. I decided not to put all of my decorations this year and it still took me over four hours, not counting the trip to Tai pan trying to figure out how to get the lights working or to just get a new tree. (We found a nifty tool that tells you what light bulb needs to be replaced to make the string work.) Thanks Kelly for spending a lot of time helping me move furniture and getting the lights on the tree working.


Sunday afternoon we spent time playing games with friends. It was a great, busy holiday break. I am greatful for all of the time I got to spend with family and friends.

Pie

So lately I have been making pie for dessert. The first two turned out great, the next two not so much. I started it with a pecan pie about a month ago. Then I made a pumpkin pie the next week. Then about a week and a half ago I made another pumpkin pie but I only had fat free evaporated milk. When I poured it in I knew the consistance wasn't correct. I cooked the pie for what seemed like forever. It turned out okay but it was still gooey in the middle. Then this last Sunday I made a coconut cream pie. I put too much corn starch and used half and half so this pie was like cement. I just made a banana cream pie that looks better so hopefully it will taste good too. I need to get it right soon. I'm in charge of the pecan, and pumpkin pie's for Thanksgiving.