Oh, those beautiful teeth!

Oh it's so lovely to enjoy the fruits of all the money, time, and agony of braces! Unfortunately I don't yet have a picture of the final FINAL result (after a couple weeks of whitening and fixing the teeth on either side of her very front teeth, the results are fabulous). I can't believe what a beautiful young lady Aubree is growing up to be. She'll be 14 years old next week!
This was right before they came off, out in the parking lot of the ortho office!

And looking back, to the first day of braces:

At the ortho, first day. This looks totally painful!

We're so glad to be done with kid #2, only three more to go :(

Get Air!

We have a new trampoline park near our house called "Get Air." And thanks go Go Deal Go we got a good deal on tickets one day when there was no school so we decided to go check it out! It was pretty fun, but frankly I was glad to get out of there with no concussions, broken body parts, etc. These pictures didn't turn out the greatest but you get the idea. This one is from the "giant mad dodge ball" section of the park:

These are long line tramps you can jump along and do tricks and then land in the styrofoam pit at the end (that's Ben's head in the styrofoam pit)...

More dodge ball..

The other pics didn't turn out very well but there's a little kid section, and then a giant section with trampolines, things to jump on, tramps that go up the wall, so you can run up them and tumble down, etc. Pretty fun stuff!

Blue & Gold

For our Blue & Gold Banquet this year there was a cake competition. We were supposed to create a cake with a "game" theme. I think they meant board games but we decided to do a video game instead. So we made a Mario Kart track cake, with our favorite characters Mario, Luigi, Bowser & Yoshi. And don't forget crazy Spencer!

We had a fun night eating dinner, playing games and eating our awesome cakes. Thanks you great cub scout leaders!

Snow stuff!

Honestly I don't think we had more than two snowstorms this whole winter, it's been quite pathetic really! But, we did get to have SOME fun in the winter weather. Luckily the ski resorts make their own snow and we were able to have a weekend at the condo and take the kids skiing. We had such a fun time. And at the end of the day, the all-you-can-eat buffet at Golden Corral was the icing on the cake. I've never seen such happy, tired, and full children. Even Cammon got enough to eat for once!


This was Spencer's first time skiing. He did so great! Once he got it figured out he went down the big hill by himself over, and over, and over, and over....he would never even take a break for his poor old mom and dad!

Adam was already a pro....

Ben tried snowboarding for the first time. He fell down the hill a couple of times..maybe three or four...or a hundred....but loved every second of it, and has never stopped asking "when can we go snowboarding again" since. I guess we're going to have to get season passes next year.

We did get to go sledding once too. We are glad it wasn't a rough winter but we enjoyed every bit of snow we had!