O Holy Night

For Unto you is born this day, in the City of David, a Savior, which is Christ, the Lord.

Luke 2:11

We have so much to be thankful for.  Most of all, our  Savior and redeemer, Jesus Christ.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Blizzard with a capital B!

Dude.  It is cold.  And we have a. ton. of. snow.

School cancelled for 2 days=Awesome!

Car stuck in garage so Nate walked 4 miles to work at 6 am-in the dark-3 degrees outside-with wind blowing. Cops told him to stop walking in the road= Not awesome.

Digging for 2 hours=good workout.

Hot chocolate, my family around me, and a warm home=the best blessing of all!!!

Road Trip!!

The big boys headed to Texas for the BYU/Oklahoma game.  Reggie flew in from California to go with them.  It was great to see him and they had a GREAT TIME!  They had to drive through the night to make Reggie’s flight back home.  Nate called me when they were leaving the game and he could hardly talk he had been yelling so much!  He bleeds blue, I am convinced of it!

Downtown Dallas.

Dealy Plaza where JFK was assassinated.

They also went to an aquarium that had several levels starting in the trees, and ending down in the ocean.  Lots of neat animals, birds and fish.  And a Mayan fire show!

Dallas LDS temple.

Before the game.

The biggest MOST ridiculously HUGE television screen you have ever seen!!!

“V” is for Victory!!!!!

Scouts

Rylan and Ethan earned their Bobcat badges this week.  They’ve been working hard! Our little branch doesn’t have a cubscout program so we joined other members in our branch and meet with the Methodist group.  The scoutmaster, whose name is ‘Doc’ is a huge kid!  He is great!  He’s eating a worm after the kids met their fundraiser goal.  Slimy and sick!

All Hallows Eve

Summer

This summer was a busy one for us. It went by so quick! The kids are back in school already!!!  Sheesh!  This summer we went to visit family, put in our yard and Nate and I got to go to New York. I have never been. New York is a pretty cool place. I can see why people want to live there.

Nate served his LDS mission there. Harlem is a different place than it was 15 years ago! We saw a white couple walking down the street with a baby stroller and Nate was speechless! He had the urge to run and stop them and ask them if they were lost because 15 years ago, you would not have seen a white person in Harlem, let alone a whole family!  They also happened to be members of our church!

We also had a long stay in Utah. We got to go swimming, visit my grandpa in Idaho, see Martin’s Cove, go through the new temple open house, have BBQ’s and sleepovers. We had a great time and we wish we had more time to do everything and see everyone. It was a great time!

So here are about a bazillion random photos from about May to Sept.  Click on the pictures to see them better!  Go on… do it now!

BTW, I don’t know what the deal is with that one photo with the ? mark.  Whateva…  Click on it and you can see it.

-Mae

Midwest Storms

Something we are all getting used to is the vibrance and energy in a midwest storm.  They sure are fun!

Sheet lightening in the cloud at dusk

Crack-a-lackin

Mid-summer night fireworks

And these hail stones had been melting for close to 5 minutes by the time I got them in

School has begun

Just a quick note, Raevyn has started kindergarten and now it is just Mae and Asher during the day (since in Nebraska, kindergarten goes all day).  She loved her first day.  In fact she was so annoyed with Ethan trying to get her to leave that she hollered at him and stormed out of the school crying because she had to leave.  So I guess it went OK.  As a side note, Ethan has accepted into a program at the Middle School called High Ability Learners (HAL) and he will spend a part of every Monday at the middle school during this year (4th grade) and next.  Of the 6 or so feeder elementary schools there are just a handful in the program, so we are very pleased with his efforts.  Way to go buddy!  And check out Rylan’s winning smile, that kid just has a spark.

Rylan getting ready to leave for school

Looking from the driveway east to school

Raevyn waiting so patiently!

Ethan waiting in line

Radio Silence

So it has been a while since we have posted. We have been very busy getting the yard going and dealing with end of school etc. I caught an article on MSN when I opened up the internet browser and it caught my eye and so I read it. I thought it was actually pretty valuable and so I thought I would share it. A very nice, and short, why of expressing some great philosophical insights.  http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100238861&GT1=31036

Pictures of our “stay-cation”

Here are some highlights from our trip to Omaha and an Easter pic bonus, lucky you!