Merry Christmas family!! Hope you are all enjoying your day!! And, Happy Birthday to Maryssa!! Love you all!!

Happy Birthday Denali!!!! Hope your having a great day! :)

Hey!!

MOM and DAD! Hope your day was AWESOME! hope you had a HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Love ya!

Christmas --- cousin's names!!!

Merry Christmas!!! (yes, it will soon be here) To give everyone a heads up--- everyone (hopefully) will be home for Thanksgiving!!! We are planning on dinner at 1:00 here or at the firehall. Will you all let me know if you have a preference as to where?? Let me know, please. Also, here are who the cousins got for the cousins gift exchange. If you all are prepared you can send gifts with the cousins at Thanksgiving so you don't have to mail them!!! Zachary----Trey, Megan & Damon----Saige, Mikala----Sakoya, Ryan----Trent, Madison----Darby, Sakoya-----Megan & Damon, Saige-----Mikala, Denali----Madison, Derringer----Tru, Wynter-----Penelope, Wyatt-----Kaleb, Maryssa----Denali, Mason-----Jack, Morgan----Jakoby, Trey-----Mason, Trent-----Derringer, Tru----Morgan, Taylee----Wynter, Tripp-----Zachary, Darby-----Maryssa, Jakoby-----Taylee, Penelope----Wyatt, Jack----Ryan, Kaleb----Tripp, Do you want to put a $10 limit on each gift???? Put what you think on here. Love to all!!!!!!!

Cute pic of Maddy and Atonio, the neighbor boy. Red Ribbon Week, Nerd Day...can't get any nerdier...at least she's a cute NERD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK !!!!! How does it feel to be 2 years old? Have a fun day!! Love you lots!!

Happy Birthday Jeramy! Have a great day!! Love you!

sooo dirty. WHY WAS THIS SO DIFFICULT?! So much hard work for such a little thing. yup.. we had to take the tire off. haha My truck just decided to stop working while I was at the 4 corners in Paul on Saturday and I had to call my parents to come rescue me. James Martinez lives just down the road and recommended changing the fuel filter. So this was our little adventure. My dad told me what to do (and occasionally had to do it for me or help me) The bolts ON the filter are called banjo bolts. haha I thought it was a very creative name. :) Well I really enjoy doing stuff like this and I had fun dismounting the filter, and I will change it tomorrow! Mikala

Happy Halloween everyone!!! Hope the kids all have a goolish time! Dad & I just got home!! We left Jer & Robyn's around 8:00 this morning. We went thru Jackson Hole----saw some beautiful scenery----had some delays due to construction & even took a wrong turn that took us 20 miles out of our way!! We have had a great & memorable week & are very grateful to Josh & Natalie and to Jeramy & Robyn for having us in their homes!! Thank you!! We enjoyed getting to visit & to see the great areas you both live in!! Hopefully, it will all work out (the weather co-operates!!) for everyone to make it home for Thanksgiving!! We will be having dinner around 1:00 down at the firehall!!! This should give us more room so we can all eat more!! Love to all of you!!!!!!!

Ryan...

So Sorry I am late on this. Happy Late Birthday Ryan!!! Hope you had a great day. :)

Birthday Wishes for Callahan!

Notice the airplane. :)

Callahan's Birthday

Happy Birthday Callahan

We know you are an awesome missionary in the spirit world :)

CALLIN!!!

One year older and wiser too, huh? At least you ARE older, right? hahaha! Hope you had a good one!

BiRtHdAyS!!!

Darby, happy, happy 9th Birthday! Love ya! Wyatt, happy, happy 1st Birthday! Love ya, little guy!

Callahan's Birthday

Hi, I just wanted to let everybody know our plans for Callahan's birthday. We will be out at the cemetery at 6:30 pm on Friday, to let off balloons. I know not everyone can make it with us, but if you could take a minute wherever you are and let off some balloons in honor of our son's birthday, we would appreciate. And if you take pictures, I love to see them! Thank you for doing this with us. Love to all, Kristen, Callin, and Girls

Love this recipe!

Okay. This is what we are having for dinner today. Smells SO good. So easy! and very, very yummy and all my kids love it, which is surprising. haha. thought I would share. Hope you enjoy! I just use dried onions, grated cheese, no celery, and no fresh parsley. Kinda plain, whatever. We love it!

Cheesy Potato Soup II

	Prep Time: 20 Minutes	Ready In: 50 Minutes
	Cook Time: 30 Minutes	Servings: 9

"Onions and celery sauteed in butter, cooked potatoes and processed cheese are combined in this creamy soup made with processed cheese and thickened with flour."

Ingredients:

6 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/2 cups chopped onions 1 1/2 cups chopped celery 4 cups water 8 potatoes, peeled and cubed

15 slices American cheese - broken into pieces 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 1/3 cups milk 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Directions:

1.	Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Saute the onions and celery in the butter for 5 to 10 minutes, or until tender.
2.	Stir in the water and potatoes, bring to a boil and then simmer until the potatoes are tender. Add the cheese and stir until melted.
3.	In a separate small bowl, combine the flour and the milk and stir well until the flour is mostly dissolved. Pour this into the soup slowly, stirring constantly, until soup has thickened, about 5 minutes. Garnish with the parsley. Enjoy!

Mikala and David HoMeCoMiNg!!! 2011! Awesome coordinated! WoW! Just Mikala, and that about says it all!

Happy Birthday Robyn! We hope you have a great day!!

Sakoya

Last week I got a call from the school telling me that Sakoya had been voted as a Freshman Attendent for Homecoming. I did not realize at that time that there was only one in the whole freshman class. When she got home I told her and her first reaction was somewhere along the lines of, " No, No way, do I have to get up in front of the whole school, how embrassing, I can't do it, ect." Needless to say was a crazy busy week. She borrowed a cute dress from a friend, to which we added a jacket and she looked beautiful. Here is a picture from the assembly, the boy's name was Hoyt. Never met him but seems like a nice kid! During the freshman skit, the attendents had to sit in front of their classes in chairs.

Homecoming parade. Sakoya was so funny, she said the freshman got to choose their car last, and she got the one that she wanted. Of course, it was the blue one!

At the game, sorry, didn't get a great picture here!

This was on Saturday night before the dance, we are next door at the neighbors, of course Saige, Denali and Ashley (another neighbor who we have adopted) had to get in on the action.

Sakoya and Courtney. Courtney lives next door, and they are members! She has been such a blessing to have around.

Hey Robyn & Jeramy!!! Love the pictures you posted!!! I tried & tried to comment on them but can't get it done! Sorry! Just wanted you to know how much I appreciate seeing the kids pictures! Miss you all!! What is your e-mail address so I can e-mail you????

Homecoming

I just wanted to share some pictures of how I got asked to Homecoming and how I answered him back. I saw these on my way to school the other day (and heard about it all day long! :) haha)They were along the side of the road right by the school. :) So I answered him back with a T-shirt... I used Washable and permanent markers... I wrote a bunch of signs saying no in washable marker and I wrote one big YES! in permanent marker! :) Needless to say, I am going to Homecoming with David Borden! We are also Homecoming Royalty Nominees! We have to make a video or a power point of us with pictures and we will show it in the Queen's assembly. We have to include like 3 themes to get points and then the nominees are narrowed down to 3 couples according to our video points and then the students vote between those 3! Fun stuff! haha I kinda cant wait till it's all over because, like my mother I am really good at making little things into these HUGE STRESSFUL things. haha :) I'll try to put the video up when we get it done Love, Kala

Happy Birthday, Josh! One year older and wiser too, eh? Hope you have a good day!

Happy Birthday, Madison! Big 12! Congrats!

So glad my baby is 12! Can't believe she is! Happy Birthday, Maddy! Love you!

HaPpY BiRtHdAy MADISON!!! We hope you have a wonderful Day!!! Love Ya :)

Meg's Bridals...

Yeah, awesome pic! nice wind going. That is snow, still. and Meg levitating... Really pretty. I love these pics! Beautiful Bride! Been meaning to get these on here, thought I would finally get this done and let you ALL enjoy!