Christmas Dance and other pics

Okay is this possible cuz' it's freaking me out a little bit, it kinda makes me want to sing "Sunrise, Sunset" or something! So this is Cam and his date on their way to the Christmas Dance at Davis High! First though they got to ride in an Escalade limo, with a fireplace, flashing lights, mega loud speakers and coolers with drinks in it, then they ate a fancy dinner at the Castle and went to the dance, and then they got to go to a gym and play around on the equipment for the rest of the night. Good times! You could tell Cam was excited, he was actually smiling!

Boys from da 'hood




The dreaded Sunday Christmas picture. Aw, aren't they special?

Nativity

Well our nativity was a bit half-hearted this year, with no cousins, grandparents or great-grandparents there to participate, but everyone wanted to dress up anyway, and we did a few songs and told the Christmas story. We also had a lovely ham dinner which the kids said was like eating at a fancy restaurant. What a compliment!!

Cam insisted that he wanted to be the angel this year. Now that is one angelic looking teenager (or is it a fallen angel?) We're not sure but he looks thrilled one way or another!

Santa Has Arrived!!

Our kids must have been really good this year because they got awesome stuff from Santa!! These electric scooters are a total blast. Aubree and Adam each got one and they have been zipping around the neighborhood nonstop ever since! As Christmas happened to be on Sunday this year, comments were made at church like "we must have been dreaming, we thought we saw the Bishop's kids zipping around on scooters this morning!" Oh well the rules were suspended for once, plus we were too tired to chase them down and tell them to come inside!

Ben & Spence got new sleds (oh, if only it would snow!). Plus they were surprised to get a note from Santa with a basketball telling them to check for something fun down in the game room--a fun double shot basketball game! I guess that will give them something to do while they're waiting for a good snowstorm.

Poor Cam had a bit of a boring Christmas, since he got a ski pass to Powder Mountain but he has been enjoying snowboarding a ton this year!

Gingerbread Houses

This was hilarious. Aubree and her friend Kylee were in charge of making the "big" gingerbread house, and they chose to make a "Twilight" gingerbread house, complete with vampire, howling wolf, and little gingerbread people that were Jacob and Bella (they are definitely Team Jacob). I said we should have done this for Halloween, instead of Christmas. It was very funny.

Little Elves

Eight is Great!!!

Our cute Ben has just turned 8! What an exciting time! He can't wait to be baptized (especially since big brother Cammon is going to baptize him). Here's Mr. GQ posing for baptism pictures. He thought this was a riot. He likes to look "dashing" as he says.

For Ben's birthday all he really wanted was to play in his soccer game, so even though he was still in his boot with his broken toe, we went over to the game but he wasn't allowed to play. So he was kind-of bummed! Okay, well, REALLY bummed. But, Dad took him to Speed Street and let him do an awesome race. So he had a great day after all!!

Okay, update on the toe. Ben is out of his boot now! And the toe is almost all better! And he played soccer last Saturday. Yay!

Another big day for the new 8-year-old: First day of scouts! Super fun!

Oh, Spencer!!

So, we were "skyping" with Grammie & Papa T. on Sunday night when suddenly Spencer appears out of thin air with his hair looking rather choppy.

He had been asking me for a buzz for a couple of weeks, and I kept saying "we'll do another buzz next summer." But apparently he was done waiting. He found the preschool scissors and chopped it off right to the scalp!

Well guess what! Spencer got his buzz after all! Good thing he's a boy. (Man, is this going to ruin school pictures or what?!?)

Sweet 16!!

Sweet 16 and never been kissed (so he says)!! I can't believe Cammon is 16! I'm sure he was a baby just yesterday....anyway still no driver's license, but hopefully that will be coming soon. Instead he got a "Giant" mountain bike. He wanted an ice cream cake from DQ so that's what we got and it was mmmmm....delicious!

Cam wanted to go to "Speed Street" for his birthday activity. It's an indoors race track. It was super fun. All the kids got in on the action, except Spencer who was too short. We kept feeding him quarters and he played "Pole Position" out in the lobby the whole time--not quite as fun as the real thing but it had to do.

All the hooligans

Ben's Broken Toe

So I haven't posted anything for over a year, but now that Grammie & Papa T. are in Pittsburgh, I'm going to be better!! So our excitement for last week was that Benny dropped a bar stool on his toe and broke it (meaning the toe, not the bar stool!). OUCH!! Now, he will be in a boot for the next few weeks and, worst news of all, NO SOCCER this fall. Anyone who knows Benny knows that this is a tragedy!

This is Benny waiting at the Dr.'s office to see what they say...

Gross! This is day 3. The worst was day 2, and now it is looking much, much better. Get well soon Benny, so you can get back to soccer!