Clearfield Cheer Competition

The Cheerleaders traveled down to Salt Lake for their first competition of the year...they were unprepared because one girl quit and 2 (including Lyndsie) had broken bones. So the routine had to be redone as of a week ago. The girls are tired and wore out and have been working hard so hard. But they took first and they beat Northridge so everyone was happy and they have a couple of weeks to work before they compete again.

A couple of weeks ago, Lyndsie was at cheer practice and fell during a standing tuck on her hand and ended up breaking her knuckle. She has been in a lot of pain the past couple of weeks. We had to take her to a hand specialist because they were debating on whether or not doing surgery because the actual knuckle is partially crushed, causing a step or an uneven part where is should be even for movement. It isn't a good picture, but they ruled out surgery and they are going to xray it every week for the next couple of weeks to make sure it doesn't move. If it does...then they will have to do surgery.

Here is a picture of when they all hear that they won the competition...priceless!

Sam moves from Wolf to Bear

Sam is now in the Bear Den in Cub Scouts and his leaders are Tami Perruca and Wendy Perkins. They are the nicest ladies and so on the ball. Sam loves to go to scouts and has figured out that if he goes regularly, he will earn his badges and such. He is a hard worker that Sam. Tonight he and Landon said goodbye to the Wolf Den and hello to the Bear Den.

more pictures from scouts...life as a Bear

Happy Birthday Lyndsie!!!

Lyndsie turns 18 years old. She is old enough now to move out, vote, and she can even rent her own DVD's at the video stores. It is a whole new world for her now. And she keeps reminding me. She is a super fantastic 18 year old...and I hope that she had a wonderful day. She had an early morning of cheerleading so when she got home, I asked her where she wanted to go for her birthday dinner and wouldn't you know it? Chinese food. We called up Grandma and arranged for her to come and meet us and we had a fun dinner with music and entertainment. We love you Lyndsie...we hope that your 18th year will be a year of excitement, joy, adventures unknown and dreams come true.

New Year's Day

New Year's Eve

This year we spent New Year's Eve with the Ences and the Pratts.  We went up to Fruit Heights to the Ence's home and celebrated the evening up there with our kids also.  Lyndsie and Sydnie had other plans of course so they were not with us, but the others were.  We had dinner and visited and played games with everyone.  It was so so so good to be with the Ences and to hear their stories and to laugh with them.  I miss them!  We stayed until the clock struck 12 and all the kids were wide awake also and we welcomed in the new year with shouts and hurrahs.  My most favorite part of the whole night was just being together...even though we don't see the Ences very much, it is so good to be able to get everyone together (kids and all) and carry on as if they still lived next door and everyone just feels so comfortable together.  I just love 'em!

Happy New Year!

A Fun Night Out...

Stacy and I and our girls went out for dinner and then shopping.  It was a cold and snowy December night but we dressed warm and we still had a fun time.  I love being with my girls.

Merry Christmas!!

We started our Christmas off as usual...by waking up our kids!  They don't wake us up...we have to wake them up...isn't that the strangest thing?  We had a great Christmas morning.  We lit the tree, started the fire, read some scriptures, turned on some Christmas music and then...went crazy opening presents.  We had a relaxing morning (NOT) until we had to hurry and get ready to go to Grandpa's house for breakfast.  We traveled to Grandpa Dale's where Christie was also and had breakfast with everyone and exchanged gifts with them.  It was nice to be with my Dad, but the bad thing is, is that we have to rush from there to go to Steve's mom and dad's house so we can meet up with all of his brothers and sister.  It is crazy and it all gets to be not so fun.  We didn't stay there long either because we had to race home because Mom and Steve were coming down for dinner and I needed to start some things.  But once we were home, we could relax and it was nice.  We had the missionaries over for dinner also and you could tell that they were a little homesick.  After Mom and Steve left, the missionaries stayed and we played games and made Christmas treats and enjoyed the rest of our Christmas evening.  The best part of Christmas was the evening when we were able to come home, relax, get into our Christmas pajamas and enjoy our family.

Christmas Eve up at Grandma's

The Christmas Party up at Grandma Lois' was fun, the only sad part about the whole thing was that Grandma Thompson wasn't there.  She wouldn't come because she didn't want to come out in the cold and be around someone who might get her sick.  I guess I don't blame her.  She is 98 years old.  We did the usual thing up there and enjoyed Grandma's yummy food.  I love the ride home from Grandma's house when it is late and everything is quiet, everyone is excited for tomorrow, there is snow on the ground and it is just peaceful!  On the ride home, all of us just talk about what we are wishing for Christmas, what we hope our day will be like tomorrow, and other magical things about the Christmas season.  Merry Christmas to everyone...and to everyone a Good Night!