Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Make a Smilebox greeting

We went to Provo today to visit Mike, Dianna, Wade-O, Kingston & Uncle Ryan! It was a fun day. We went to the park and Jump On It. Then we went to Los Hermano's to eat. Thanks for the great service Uncle Ryan.

Shopaholic Fun!!

My Friends and I made shopaholic cups and enjoyed a night at the movies.  We had so much fun!  Everyone kept asking about our fabulously glittered cups.  (Monica should really go into business.)  The movie was good but I have to admit it made me want to go shopping. BAD! Thanks girls for a wonderful night!

Meeting the Mayor

In November Kade received the Student of the Month Award for Quartz Hill and was invited to meet the mayor.  In January Riley received the Student of the Month Award and was invited to meet the mayor.  We found out that the mayor looks at about nine nominees and picks one from each school in Gilbert.  We think it's a wonderful coincidence that he picked brothers within just a few months of each other.  We are still waiting to get a picture of Kade.  My camera was broken and a friend took a picture for me.

Mayor Steve Berman, Riley, and Riley's teacher (Miss Brennan) @ town council meeting after he got the award.

Top Ten Christmas Memories

For those of you who wonder if we had a Christmas I decided to finally post our top ten Christmas memories.

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day at home then we spent a night in Vegas with Kate and Jer on our way to Utah.  We were able to stay a week in Utah.  There was tons of snow and we had the time of our lives.

#1 Jon and Jeremy's cooking.  We never stopped eating thanks to Jon and Jer's yummy food.  Wow!  what chef's.

#2 Cousins visiting from Spanish Fork.  Marty and Iralee met us at Mom's and we went bowling and out to dinner.  It was a blast.  Thanks for driving all the way down to see us!!!
#3 Bree and Madison dressing up in Grandma's clothes.

#4 Sitting by the fire and reading my book.  I think living in AZ has made my blood thin.  I spent 95% of my time warming up by the fire.  The book "Hunger Games" was really great.
#5 Sledding.   Everyone had fun at the tubing hill. 
#6 Spending time with family.  This was the first Christmas in a long time we were all together with all my Brother's and my Sister.  We enjoyed putting puzzles together, watching movies and talking about old times. 
#7  Rock Band was a hit.  This is Cole singing Bon Jovi's "Live'n on a Prayer"
#8 DS Mario Kart cousin's tournament.  They linked all eight together and the race was on. 

#9 Visiting Grandma Ogden and spending time with Jamie, Kerry and Bev in Enoch.

#10 Playing "Guess the Animal"  with the whole family.

Welcome Daisy Pace!

I don't really have an excuse for not having worked on my blog since October except for my camera was broken.  My favorite thing about blogging is photos so I just didn't have motivation.  

So here it goes a marathon of pace happenings........

The newest member of our family is Daisy the dog.  We got her in November.  She was left in a box on the door of a veterinarian a neighbor to Myrna (my mother-n-law).  She  knew we were looking for the perfect dog.  The rest is history.  Even though I'm not a dog person I have to admit her addition to our family has been nice.  For the most part she is a good dog.

Happy Halloween 2008

This Halloween the force was with us!

Cole is Obi Wan of course! Brianna is a witch. Kade is a class clown(for reals). Riley is Voldemort.

The whole month of October Cole has been telling his friends about me being Princess Leia for Halloween. I waited until the day before to throw a costume together. It was worth it to see his face as I came in the room firing my Storm Trooper Gun.

Pumpkin Patch!

My Mom always figured out a way to get the greatest pumpkins to my kids in Arizona. From Utah to us every year we have received garden greats from my mom. This year was a special treat. We got to go home in the fall. We spent a morning at the pumpkin patch in Elsinore. We had so much fun picking the perfect pumpkins.

The workers were so busy that they let Mike drive the tractor pulling the kids. Did I mention I was a little scared myself.