Brett's Basketball Shoes

Uncle Kolby took this little video of Brett playing basketball outside in these pretty shoes. Brett's new favorite past time is playing basketball on the real court outside. On this day, he snuck outside in the cold to "shoop" some hoops when Kolby caught him barefoot. Kolby told him to go inside to get some shoes, on and he came back with one of his shoes and one of Anamarie's. So cute...

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Anamarie Reading Her "Scriptures"

Anamarie has convinced herself that these are her scriptures. I can't seem to figure out the correlation between As a Man Thinketh, and the Book of Mormon, but apparently she knows. It's so cute to watch her create verbiage that comes from the real scriptures. Too cute...

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Flash Allstars Nationals Competition in Orlando Florida

Madison's Flash All Stars Cheer team took first place in State which gave them the opportunity to compete at the Nationals Championship in Orlando Florida. They competed twice on Saturday, (March 12th). Normally they do one competition on Saturday and the second one on Sunday. But, because her coach believes in keeping the Sabbath Holy, she didn't want to compete on Sunday,...

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Madison's Special Birthday ~ The SLC Temple!

Madison turned 12 on March 8th 2011. She had one simple request; to go inside the Salt Lake City Temple. Brady and I knew this would be difficult with her mandatory cheer practice that same day because of Nationals in Florida that week; but we made it work. She packed a bag with her church clothes beforehand so she could just get ready in the...

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Brettsie's Pretty Shoes!

Brett loves to wear shoes; especially ones that aren't his. He loves clonking around in mommies shoes....

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District Science Fair Beauty

Round 1 - School Level:  Madison's Science Project "Double Rainbow All The Way" wins 1st place in her category at Deerfield Elementary. She and 15 others out of 130 students recieved 1st place honors and went on to compete at the District Level Round 2 - District Level:  Madison wins 1st place again. She and 50 others out of 250 students move on to compete...

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William's first sugar rush!

All of our other babies were sipping milk shakes when they were just 1 month old, but I wanted to break this bad habit. At 8 months old, William discovers SUGAR and red vines licorice,  and discovers a whole new world :)...

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New Beginnings

What an incredible night it was for Madison.We attended the New Beginnings Program at the Church in honor of all the new Beehives that will be coming into Young Women's this year. The highlight was the slide show that Anne created of all the new incoming Beehives. It was a beautiful slide show showcasing each girl from birth until now, put to the most beautiful music. Madison...

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The HUT

I was feeling very adventurous one day and decided to throw all the rules out the door with this one. We collected a mattress, blankets, pillows, chairs, stools & duct tape for this awesome hut. I created this in the theater room in the basement, so that I didn't need to "see" the mess, I mean hut. Brett & Anamarie were in heaven as we diligently expanded...

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Princess Brett

Anamarie's creative spirit has lead her to beautifying her little brother with dresses, headbands and bright makeup. Brett has even grown to enjoy this past time with his sister. I hope this doesn't having any negative lasting effects on him; but isn't he so cute?...

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