We had a great Sunday!

GUESS WHO TURNS 3 DAY?

LOOK WHO GOT BRACES!
I didn't have any pictures of Johanna at Christmas so here are a few. She still loves soccer and plays the piano. Some of her favorite things from Christmas were her ipod radio player, gift cards, a electronic globe that you can upload info from the internet on and of course books and more books.

A few Christmas photos. I wish I took more. The kids woke up and had to find their stockings. Bryan and I told them they had to wait until 7:00am to wake us up. They actually did good. Grandma Chandler made all the kids flannel jammies and rice bags. Juli and Corina both got cash registers so they can shop. Hmmmm... where do they get that from?

Emily loves games and listening to stories at night so she got a new cd player. How many has she gone through now? Who knows.

We got new Christmas lights this year. The nativity is also in the front yard. So pretty at night time.



Corina and Juli both got dolls and lots of doll clothes. Juli wants to visit the American girl store in Chicago for her birthday. How did she hear about that? I think she watched in on Jon and Kate pluse 8. She seriously plays with her dolls all the time. She was almost asleep the other night and jumped up and said, " Oh, I forgot to cover up Nellie!" They have beds and the works. It's so cute. How come Jo and Em never liked them?

Casey with his new Nemo jammies and Nemo fishy. He loves his new garbage truck too. He stores all his stuff in it. He needs his garbage truck to sleep with. At night I can hear the thump of it on the floor when it drops.

MISSION RIDGE

Bryan took Kaden, Emily, Noah and Corina and put them in ski lessons last Saturday. They had a great time and Bryan also got his fill in for skiing. Noah had no fear and wants to go again. Bryan says I'm next. It's been 20 years though. Will I remember?

Emily

Corina

Doing great!!!!

My cute little snow bunny Corina.

Noah and Kaden are in Hockey.

At first Noah could barely skate. Now he is doing great and even skating backward great. They practice about 3 times a week.
He is called a Squirt and Kaden is a Bantam.

In motion.

HALLOWEEN 2008

Johanna and Juli were my little witches. Juli was so cute with her fake eye lashes. We went to the ward Halloween party and people kept saying, " I can't believe she keeps those things on!" If you can't guess Kaden was a hockey player, Emily a ghost, Noah a skeleton man, Casey wore a shirt that glowed in the dark and had a flashing light, plus it had spiderman on it. Bryan wore his Tae kwon do outfit.

Kaden carved a pumpkin of a haunted house. The kids had fun carving pumpkings outside and the weather was so nice. We were really lucky this year that it wasn't totally freezing like usual.

Bryan's very impressive wolf scene.

For breakfast Noah and I made all the kids stay in bed while we made our Halloween breakfast. We ate by candle light to scary music. Yummy pumpkin muffins, oranges with body parts in them, scrambled eggs, and they even have Halloween cereal that comes out every year. Packed full of sugar! We played Halloween bingo and had prizes.

The tablecloth even glowed in the dark.

ON ANOTHER NOTE.............

Bryan and I are challenging the 5 older kids to read the BOM this next month. Kaden has already gotten off to a great start. We have been challenged so many times by the Prophet, out Stake President, and Bishop so we are going to make that our goal for November to get through the first 2 books. Take into consideration the time of the younger ones. Grandma Chandler has given Jo and Emily stickers that we never finished putting on so that is a nice extra for motivation. I haven't decided if we are going to do it in the mornings or night. I am trying to help the kids see how blessed they are and to be more grateful which should be easy this time of year. Bryan and I both wish we had family that lived nearby because we have a great family! There is an open invitation for any family to come see us any time!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA NIGHT!!!!

A few months ago we got tickets to the Phantom in
Spokane. Bryan surprised me and told me he bought them because he knew I loved
the movie so much. We invited 2 of our friends from work, Ryan and Aubree.

We went to Luna's. This is our new favorite spot to eat. I had the koho Salmon, Bryan had prime rib and Aubree and Ryan had quail and duck. My favorite was the french fries and butternut squash soup with crab. Yummy!

We loved dinner so much. We barely got to the show on time, only a few minutes to spare. Good driving Bryan and Ryan!!! Some of those red lights don't count anyways, right?

Bryan took a trip to Green River, Utah last weekend to celebrate his dad's 70th birthday. He took Kaden, Noah, Emily and Corina. We still don't have a car to fit everyone yet. The kids got to meet Bryan's brothers and sister.
Noah by the Geyser before it went off.


Carolyn, Arden, Eric, Kaden, Corina, Emily and Noah before church. Noah got a special tie he is wearing from Arden. He even wore it all the way home from Utah. His has a bird on it. Kaden got one too.This is when they went to Goblin Valley. Noah and Ray sitting on the "motorcycle seat".
Lots of Sandstone in Utah.
Noah
Emily told me, "Oh yeah, I almost fell off a 40 ft rock today", when I talked to her on the phone that night. She wasn't kidding, these rocks are BIG!

Hi beautiful!