Sunday, March 4, 2012

January

Finally, enough snow to play in!


Slurpee. Imagine what her insides look like...

LDS Church History Museum in Salt Lake. 

The have a kids area where you can play and learn to dance. It's free. And very crowded on Saturday.

Playing at Diana's house.

Look at that beautiful face!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Rest Of The Year

We love to got to the Draper City Library. Hannah loves looking at books here.

New mats by the door makes a good place to lay down.

Don't you do pushups on Thanksgiving? We do.

Christmas Picture. Thanks to my brother!

Just some cute kids. Amber's hair is the longest it has ever been.

One tradition we have is to fill the tree with treats. Every day we take a bag off and open it to count down to Christmas Day.

Hannah's first french braids.

Super Cool Baby.

Inspecting the caterpillar roll on our big night out in Park City. Super yummy food.

Mommy, daughter, aunt, cousin night out at the Nutcracker. 

Super-Bruce!

The girls after their dance performance. We got into the car and Hannah's tights were perfect. We got out at the performance place and there was a huge hole! They did great!

Bruce found the favorite hiding place. We leave it empty for kids to hide in.

Bruce fell into the bucket, Amber and Hannah covered him up. Ralph had to come rescue him.

Santa at the Grande America in Salt Lake City, the Monday before Christmas.

A frequent occurrence in our house these days. Everyone snuggled up to watch super hero cartoons.

Ready for the Hinkson family Christmas party!



The kids table. There were nine kids, four were one year old.

Playing tug a war with a blanket. Super fun! Big kids soon jumped in to help.

Uncle Kent teasing the kids with Abe's hat.

Christmas Eve! Brunch at the Eating Establishment with all of the Merrills.

Then a visit to Great Grandma.

We wore Hannah out. She slept through the Christmas Eve program. 

Christmas Morning, all ready to go see their presents. Mean parents made the kids bath before opening their presents. We were ready for Church right after.

The stockings too big for the chimney with care.

Grandma Merrill came over for dinner!

My first Christmas Dinner, turkey roast, potatoes, beans. Pretty easy, but super fun!

And, favorite Aunt Karen!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

OCTOBER!

Tradition! Conference pictures.

Bruce found the favorite hiding spot.

Ralph's Birthday!

So when I was in college, I had a class on WWII. I remember asking the teacher what the land looked like between all of the fighting. Now I know. In this picture you can kind of see the disaster our yard was before our big clean out day.

Dumpster delivered and ready to be loaded.

Step one, take apart the rotten deck, clear out all of the rotten piles of wood all over the yard.

Step two, tackle the poplar tree stumps. Apparently a car jack played a big roll. Whoda thought.

Pulling out the roots.


The stump is out and on the move.

Proud men who helped remove the stump.

Step three, tackle the big Oak Tree. Why not? The dumpster was overflowing by this point.

And, they won. All of the leafy lims were taken from the tree. Ralph and I might be able to open our window next spring without dying of allergies. (Found out we are both allergic, and the tree was right outside of our bedroom window.)

And, our new kind of ugly back yard. We kept staring outside for a week basking in the glory of a cleared out yard. Now, hopefully next spring we can start little by little to rebuild it into the yard of our dreams. By the time Amber graduates from High School in 2024, it should be perfect. Thanks again for everyone's help!!!



Our Halloween family outing this year, Gardner Village.


Snow White, Pumpkin, and Teal Ninja!



Happy Halloween!