Swim season with the Waves 2015

Kale and Mara did great this season!

Kale improved and participated every day and meet! Great job!

Mara had a stellar year, and earned second place in her division for most points scored for the team.

Great job!

Seattle and Victoria Island Canada

In June I went a trip with both my sisters, and my Mom. No husbands or kids! :)

We went to Seattle, and over to Victoria Island. 

This was us leaving from Seattle on the Ferry over to Canada.

View from our Hotel.

Went to the lovely Burchart Gardens while we were there.

Went back to Seattle and enjoyed the fun atmosphere there.

Had to visit the most known tourist attraction there, the Space Needle!!

 You can eat dinner while the whole top rotates around slowly. This was the view while we ate dinner.

 Our really fun space dessert!

Carson's 14th birthday

Carson is 14! We out to eat and they sang to him while he wore the birthday sombrero. 

He wanted all things BYU this year.

Lanyard for school. He loves BYU and having birthdays! He even got his first cell phone, which weirdly I didn't get a picture of.

New Orleans 2015

We were able meet our fun family in New Orleans for Memorial day weekend. We had a great time catching up and seeing some sites. 

We stopped by a plantation home and these were the slave quarters they had.

Goofy kiddos!

This was in front of the main plantation home.

View from the back porch.

We went on a swamp tour! It was really fun.

One random occurrence, was while we were leaving we saw one of the famous funeral processions in downtown NOLA. It was quite the site!

Spring Happenings 2015

Mara's middle school choir sand the national anthem at the Astro's game. They did a great job!

 Yes, we had nosebleed seats. :)

 Kids wanted to go ride the go-karts. 

 All three kids did great with the piano recital!

Kale's 9th birthday

Kale had a great birthday! He loves games so he got lots of them!! 

 He also loves legos and was able to get a kit he really wanted. 

Christmas 2014

 We were able to go to see Transiberian Orchestra over Christmas break! It was a fantastic concert and we really loved listening to the music.

 Our Christmas was pretty quiet this year. We didn't have anyone at our house and we stayed home since we went to Chicago for Thanksgiving.

The annual Christmas pajamas!

 All bundled up with his new camping sleeping bag!

Houston Rodeo 2015

We love going to the rodeo! So much fun to see all the crazy cowboys and events. 

Thanksgiving 2014--Chicago

We had the chance to go to Chicago for Thanksgiving so see family. It was really fun to see everyone!

 Snow! Mara built a baby snowman.

 Food coma.

 The Fifields and Bartholomews.

Zoe getting bigger and sleepy!

Fall 2014

 Lee and I went target shooting with our friends the Geslisons. We had never done that with hand guns. A very different experience, but fun. 

 Lee and I took a pottery class together. 

1.  Our works in progress.....

Zoe

 This is our new addition! Her name is Zoe and she is a german shorthaired pointer. Isn't she adorable! Now we just need to get her potty trained. :)