Paige's 5th birthday

Ben's Baseball Game

This is Ben's first baseball season.

Easter Pics

I know these pictures are out of order. This one of Michael is after the hunt.

Michael opened all of his eggs filled with candy and had all of the decorated hard boiled eggs left over. He wasn't sure what they were or how to get the "prize" (as he called it) out. I guess Michael was unfamiliar with hard boiled eggs. My sister told him that there wasn't any candy inside, that they were food, you eat them. Michael asked if they were cooked. My sister told him yes. So he took the end of the egg, put it in his mouth and bit down. Evidently, my sister was not clear on the peeling of the egg before you eat it. Once that part was clarified, he excitedly pealed all 7 of his eggs and found the "prize" in the middle of each. He ate a lot of yolks and bounced the egg whites on the counter. Funny boy.

Michael and Paige teamed up to find their eggs. Benjamin is not in any of the pictures because he went way on ahead and I never saw him until it was all over.

This is obvioulsly not the Easter egg hunt. This one is Ron building a block retaining wall for our front yard. It's just the beginning of a very large project.

Sunday dress

This is just an update on the kids' growth, since it's been awhile.

Snow Trip

Every year growing up my family made candy trains. Now we continue the tradition with all of us older people and our little ones.

Ron chose to have a Sunday nap instead.

Chistmas tree hunting and snow trip in the mountains.

Some of the guys.

Paige was crazy on that board.

Paige loved Smokey the Bear(she was the only kid that would even get close without screaming).

She asked him if he was a boy or girl. I'm not sure she ever found out.

Stylist Paige and Some Art

This is my latest drawing. This is of 11 siblings and their parents with the temple that they were married in. The photo is not very good, but you get the idea.

On Thanksgiving, Paige decided to give Grandpa Gibby some style. She was so proud of herself and this is how it turned out:

Halloween and Michael's BOO-BOO

Happy Halloween!

The first set of Michael's pictures were on Thursday, Trunk or Treat at the church.

Michael had fallen down the stairs earlier that day and was not happy even hours later.

Below you can see how unhappy he was.
Ben was a ninja and Paige was a fairy princess.

This set of pictures was taken Saturday. He was feeling much better and he had a great Halloween. Good thing thursday was just the trial run.

I took him to the urgent care clinic and it turned out that the fall down the stairs was not that forgiving. Funny thing, two days before I had told my mom that I was amazed my kids have no broken bones so far considering how active they are. I don't believe in jinxes, but if I didn't believe in a higher power, it would make me wonder.

He goes in tomorrow for a real cast.