Garrett's Mission

Just a note to let everyone know that Garrett will be entering the MTC December 29th. We are very proud of Garrett and his willingness to serve the Lord. We are grateful that he is the man he is and that he had the desire and strength to make sure he would be going on his mission as a worthy and willing servant of the Lord. Congrats Garrett and may you have a successful mission filled with the Spirit and Guidance of the Lord Jesus Christ. Love Ya!

By Popular Demand the Unveiling

Here comes the unveiling

The man with the missing mustache!



So everyone has been asking about pictures of David without his facial hair so there you go!! In the almost 29 years we have been married this is only the second time I have seen David without a mustache. His children have never seen him or were too little to remember!

Just an Update

Three months is a long time! So we thought we should blog something.

Alex finished his basketball season with YMCA. He never came close to the rim on any of his shots but he made an awesome defender and even got a few steals! We now have him in t-ball but he's still on a basketball kick so we'll see whether that'll change or not with the season. We need to steal Aunt Kathy's camera to get pictures of his games.

Lily just finished her first session of ballet and is into her second session. She loves it though she has attention issues. She gets stuck at staring at herself in the mirrors rather than watching the teacher. She is one that is very confident in her beauty.

Our Lily at her "recital" at the end of session one

Ivy is a handful. She loves Diego right now and napping. She's even worse than me on how much she could sleep. Don't worry though she's as healthy as a horse! Onery too but she says the darnest things and her new get out of trouble card is to say "I'm sorry Mommy, I love you." Doesn't always work but definitely makes me feel bad.

Garrett is back at home and working with the same pool company. He is taking some flex online classes and needs to pick his sister, Christina's brain on math.

I'm working at Office Depot now and school is kicking my butt. Ok well my online English class is. My relaxers are watching the kidos at their different activities and reading as always. The semester will be over after finals the first week of May. Thank you! I'm counting down.

Dad and mom are doing great. They've gotten back into date night. A temple session is scheduled for this week and movies have been seen the last couple of weeks. We also started doing FHE again regularly. As the kidos grow they participate more and we're back to hide n seek for activity. Though the kids are better at telling where everyone is then hiding for too long.

The Holidays are over!

The trip to Utah and Idaho was successful and we have arrived back home to our little bungalow in south central Texas. We enjoyed the time with family and the great get away from our daily work schedule. It seems that the get aways are never long enough. It is so hard to leave and say good bye to family and good times.

Here are our Nativity players for this year's nativity. Lily was the angel. McKay (David's sister Julie's boy) was Joseph. Amber (David's brother John's daughter) was Mary. The sheppard's were Kayla (David's brother John's daughter), MaKynzee and Brookelyn, our granddaughters (Ivy was suppose to be a sheppard but she wouldn't keep her sheppard hat on and kept running around). The wiseman were Lukas, Alex, Kira our grandchildren. Good Uncle Garrett was the donkey.

Kira received a workbench with tools for Christmas. We were opening presents and we looked over and Alex had put on the goggles and was playing construction man with the tools. He even knew what to do with the tools.

Melanie, Brandee and Garrett took some of the grandkids sledding by the church near Christina's house. There's a nice little hill there. Here they are ready to go. Melanie took the picture. The grandkids are Melanie's three, Alex, Lily, and Ivy and Brandee's two, Lukas and MaKynzee. Christina's two were sick with colds so they stayed home.

Here is Melanie on the sled with her three, Alex, Lily and Ivy.

Cute way to help little sister up the hill. Here is Lily trying to push Ivy up the hill with her head. It made me chuckle.

Here are the boys! Uncle Garrett with Lukas and Alex!

Five cute little angels or holy terrors (depending on the day and time) and Uncle Garrett making angels in the snow.

The snow wouldn't pack and since the San Antonioians don't get snow they made a snowman laying down. Here are Melanie, Lukas, MaKynzee and Lily laying next to their snowman.

We had a great time wish it could never end. We start back to the old grindmill tomorrow!