Snowmen

Yes I still have this thing for snowmen
With moving into a new house this past July, I had to find a new place for my village of snowmen. I did not have as big as space to put them this year, and I only got one new snowman:(

Basketball Season

Hooray its Basketball Season!! The bad news is.... we only get to watch 40 games this season instead of the 60 games watched last season. Amandee is playing on the Sophomore team (with a possible chance on getting playing time on the JV team) and Karla is playing Varsity. She is 1 of 5 seniors this year. And I'm playing team mom this season....wait I played team mom last year, when will I ever learn????

Amandee had to sit the bench for the 1st game.....she hurt her foot and is trying to get it better. So sad We love you Amandee!!!!




Karla, Hailey and Arielle.....Both Karla and Hailey wish they were taller.


This year the varsity team is a little on the short side... they are playing a 4 guards and 1 post rotation, so far so good we won our first game 64-43.
Karla had 10 points, (2 three pointers) 4 steals, and 1 turnover not too bad for a 1st game. The best part is the next picture......




Karla walking off the court after she FOULED OUT yes you read that correctly she fouled out with 2:12 left in the 4th quarter. Grandpa Erickson told her you get 5 fouls, but you are only supposed to use 4 of them.

Karla and Amandee have a great season. HAVE FUN and GOOD LUCK!!!

Jaron

Jarons football season comes to a end :( I love watching my kids Jaron had a lot of fun this season, Kory helped coach his team again this season. I'm not sure who had more fun Jaron, or Kory.






During one of Nathans football game, Jaron decided it would be fun to climb the tree at the park, good news it ended okay. No broken bones!




Jaron receiving his wolf badge. Way to go!!!

Halloween

Okay so it has been a long time since I posted....that is because our computer crashed, and Kory has been trying to get it to work again. He has had no luck so we had to break down a buy a new computer which will be here in a couple of weeks. And since I know so much about Computers....NOT ( every time I ask Kory how to do something on the computer he tells me to take a class so I can learn how to do things on the computer, but I'm too tired to take another class.) So this past weekend I down loaded all my pictures onto the laptop, by myself (mind you that both Karla and Amandee laughed at me the whole time because I kept asking them how to do things.) So hopefully I did something right and I will be able to find the pictures to down loaded.

This year Nathan was a dead baker, and Jaron was a nerd.
So Cute!!






Don't you just love my bullet hole?!? One of my instructors want to do the makeup, but most of the girls had to go to work, and they didn't want to have a bullet hole on their forehead, so I said I would let her do it. It was pretty funny watching everyone take a double take when they saw me. I was walking around the hall at school, and some kid thought it was real, and asked me if it hurt. Kory thought it would be funny to scare the kids, so when each of them came home from school, I would lay on the floor and Kory would be kneeing beside me like I was dead. Karla had the best reaction out of the kids! It was priceless




Amandee was Super Hero Amandee



Karla and Hailey were twin babies!!


Our ward Halloween party

Homecoming

Karla's homecoming dance
So pretty
Karla and Lance
Daddy's little girl...can't hold on forever!!

Football Season

Nathan and Jaron are playing flag football again this season. It has been fun watching them play.

This past week Kory decided to give me my graduation present early, a very nice camera, so I have been having a lot of fun taking pictures and learning how to use it. The following pictures are of Nathan's Touchdown today. You should click on the images and get a close up of Nathan's face!

Screen pass to Nathan









TOUCHDOWN!!!

Happy Birthday Kory

Kory you are another year wiser and balder too. Happy Birthday to you!! Okay maybe not to much balder but definitely wiser.

Happy Birthday Amandee

Happy Birthday Amandee!!! A couple of weeks ago Amandee informed me that I had not posted anything about her, so hopefully this will make up for it and she will feel loved!!

School started on Monday and since I'm such a great Mom I didn't take any pictures of my kids on the first day of school. ( I meant to but I just forgot) So here is Amandee picture on the 5th day of school.





Amandee got some great presents this year, more stuff for her room. Amandee happy birthday we love you!








Amandee wanted crepes instead of a birthday cake. I sure hope she wished for something good, because she blew out all the candles.

Yellowstone Park

We decided we wanted to get away before school started. So we finally decided on a camping trip (yes you read it correctly I went camping)The kids wanted to see Yellowstone Park. We started the week by stopping at Lava Hot Springs to go swimming. Since earlier this summer we went but Jaron was sick (stomach flu and he and I spent the time in a laundromat washing clothes when everyone else was swimming)





Here are some of the animals we saw


We did not see a lot of different animals, Kory really wanted to see a bear, unfortunatelywe did not see one, so I guess we are going to have to go back some year.
Lower falls at the grand canyon of Yellowstone Park
We went to the grand canyon of Yellowstone the falls were great.

Sitting around waiting for Old Faithful to erupt


Our waiting paid off.
We had a great time. I'm glad I gave in and went camping with the family.

What about the ice cream?

Tonight we were coming home from playing volleyball with some friends. And this was the conversation between Jaron and Kory, it was so funny both Kory and myself had a great laugh.

Jaron: Can we go there?
Kory: where?
Jaron: To Nielson's Custard
Kory: Its expensive
Jaron: How much does it cost?
Kory: A cone costs a couple of dollars
Jaron: How much does the ice cream cost?

Summertime pictures

Amandee at EFY




Basketball tournaments Karla played in was at the UofU. She can now say she has played basketball in Huntsman Center.

Jaron's All-Star team Olympus Titans