Birthday Celebration

On February 11th Tori celebrated her 3rd birthday, I can now say that she is finally beginning to develop a brain and growing up a little!!! :) She still keeps life interesting around here with the kids but is genuinely a sweet little dog!! Love her to bits!

So on the morning of the 11th Jaren decided he wanted to do something special for his best friend so he built her a milk-bone cake, placed candles in it, sang her happy birthday and blew out the candles. It was so cute to watch him. He has such a tender heart and is so thoughtful and caring. While all this was happening our youngest was still sleeping and missed out on most of the celebration.

Finally getting a piece of her "milk-bone cake".

Skiing Videos

Jaren practicing his control going through the pylons.


Callan and Jaren practicing their speed as they race each other down the hill. I assure you Jaren did stop before hitting the day lodge! :)

Veteran School Ski Day

Up the tortuous rope tow!!

Hanging on for dear life.

A little lesson from one of the instructors on the hill.

And he's ready to hit the slopes!

Jaren and Callan in line to go up the rope yet another time!

Even Landen got to put on a pair to give it a try! He did pretty good, but just wanted to go straight down the hill and not go slow!!! :) "What's all the fuss about??"

Sporting the pink helmet as that was the only one left for him!! Gotta love our Landen!!

Up the rope with Auntie Debbie

And they both made it down safely ;)

A friend, Dawn and her daughter on the hill that day.

Sabbath Afternoon Craft Time

Yesterday afternoon the boys made some crafts and enjoyed every minute of it. With glue, glitter and paint involved the first thing that we do is get rid of our good shirts!!! :) Hence the topless boys!!

They both worked on decorating a picture frame each.....Landen had to pain his and Jaren glued gems all over his.

Looking at his project that he now has to patiently wait for it to dry.

Then it was on to decorating butterflies to fly around the house.

Landen's First Time on Skates

Last night we decided to strap a pair of skates onto Landen for the fist time to see how he did and we were quite impressed. He balanced there for the longest time and then would scuffle along a bit and stop. He amazed us at his balance. Pretty soon we'll have two speeding around on the ice!

Trying to get the hang of these things!

Taking a break. He used this chair a bit to push around and balance him on the ice. It worked well as a push bar and also as a quick place to have a rest!

He made quite a little distance here on his own, no bum tracks in the snow....yet!

He was doing so well standing there and slowly moving on his skates but of course as soon as I started recording him, down he went :) For Landen's VERY FIRST time on skates I was impressed that he was standing more than he was on his bum. He did great, he just got extremely frustrated that he would fall and had such a hard time getting back up.

A Party Brought to Our House

One afternoon last week the boys and I got a visit from Mr. Steven, a close neighbor and friend of ours. The boys just LOVE Mr. Steven and refer to him as The Candy Man as he dishes out candy to them usually every week after church! He is so great with the boys and always takes extra time for his "little friends". It was fun to have him over. On top of him just coming for a visit he brought in a box and a cooler and said we were gonna have a party. A few minutes later out came ice cream cones, ice cream and cookies.....so we had an ice cream party. The kids thought that was the best!!

Enjoying their ice cream and cookies!! Thanks again Mr. Steven!

School Skating

So this is what Jaren has been practicing for....every afternoon the Grades K-3 go skating for just under an hour. It's been great for Jaren and he is really enjoying it!!!

Videos of Jaren Skating

He was starting to get the hang of it after about an hour of being out there.



This was one of our first attempts of the day after the skates were strapped on. He had been with Kevin the night before for about a 1/2 hour trying his hardest to stay on his two feet. He made quite an improvemet by the 2nd day!

Kicking Off the New Year

It's hard to believe that we are already coming close to the end of January. It has been a busy month so far. Connie and I tackled painting our church foyer, which took a good full 4 days. But of course the only picture I took of was when Ron, my Father-in-law was painting over the stairs (an area Connie and I couldn't reach). Needless to say it was a job that really needed to be done and I am happy to have that out of the way. We also went through one horrific week of unbelievably cold weather so Jaren had to spend the week home with us as the buses weren't running due to the extreme temperatures. We need to get life back to "normal", whatever that may be!!!

On Sunday Ryan (Kevin's cousin) and his new fiance Trina were out visiting at the farm so we went over to have a nice visit and lunch with them. Congratulations to them!!!! We are soo happy for them both and look forward to celebrating with them this summer!!!

Our little model, posing for a picture today before he headed out with Daddy to haul a load of peas west! He is such a little charmer!!

Landen has to be just like Daddy so he insisted on wearing his coveralls (like Daddy does) for trip. He even needed the vest on underneath like his dad!!! :)




With one child less in the house Jaren and I headed to our dug-out which Kevin cleared yesterday to have Jaren practice skating. This was his second atttempt today at skating and he did pretty good! He's practicing since the school is going to be going on everyday that they are there, so he wanted to try and get the hang of it before he had to do it in front of his peers.

It was soo nice to get outside for a 2nd day and enjoy some more reasonable and seasonable temperatures! I love winter when it's like this!!

A perk of living in the wide-open spaces is that you get to have your own skating rink!! :)

Little Miss Tori of course can not miss out on the action!

Holiday Fun With the Family

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Some of the memories of our Christmas activities and fun while my family was here. The weather was exceptionally warm for this time of year which made it great to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. Hope this Smilebox works. Just click somewhere to the LEFT on the picture (around Kendall's face) and not on the PLAY button and it should load the Smilebox.