Pinewood Derby 2009

Thor had his Pinewood Derby this past week, he tied for fourth place! He wanted a Thor's Hammer painted on it. They named his car "The Money Car", because we used coins for the weights lol. He did a great job!

The finish line!

Very late Easter post!

Easter 2009-

We colored eggs the traditional way, both Nate and I used to do this as kids and it's something we do every year with our kids, and I think it's their favorite part of Easter (besides the candy of course :P)

Nate's awesome egg!

We had a very nice Easter this year. We wanted to make sure the kids had fun, but remembered the true spirit of Easter, so we decided to have our egg hunt and stuff on Saturday, and keep Sunday for remembering Christ. The kids had a great time with both days!

Cobblestone Easter egg hunt 2009-
The kids were sooo excited to do the big neighborhood Easter egg hunt, even in the rain!

Annika and Nate were laying on the floor in the living room together, and she was singing him songs. She said, "Dad, do you wanna hear my Daddy song?"
It went like this:
"I like to love my Daddy, I like to go to the temple with him some day."
Had to write it down somewhere so we'd remember that forever, so cute!

The Ten Virgins

I was asked to be in a presentation for the Relief Society this week. We did a play about the parable of the Ten Virgins. It was really neat, and great to be a part of. It was the first time I had ever done any "acting", and I think I got my fill for quite a long time.. haha!

http://tuiofuandthomasmusic.com/freesheetmusicforReliefSocietyandYoungWomen.html
Here is the link for the program, it's got some great music in it, as well as just a great story and dramatization for the parable.

Thor's Birthday

Thor turned 9 on February 8th. I can't believe he's getting so old!
So he decided to have a soccer cake/party. The boys got all dressed up in their soccer outfits and Annika just so happened to want to dress up in her cheerleader costume!
So of course plenty of goofy (and some super cute!) pictures were taken ;)

Thor's choir concert

Thor is in the Lakeview Elementary school choir. He has been able to perform at the mall, Macey's, and will get to perform in a few other places and festivals this year. He is really enjoying it (even if he doesn't look like it in the pictures lol)

Christmas concert at the school. (On the bottom, 4th from the right.)




University Mall concert. (It's a little noisy, and shaky! He's on the left of the striped shirt kid)

Let it snow?

We've had SO MUCH snow lately! The kids are loving it... Nate and I, not so much. Nate has the commute to SLC every day, and in the snow/traffic, it's not been lovely. I'm just tired of it all around, driving, the cold, okay I'll quit whining now ;)

The kids helped me shovel the driveway today. Annika and Thor decided to stay out and continue "shoveling" the stairs and sidewalk. (Yes, that's a garden hoe Annika is using.. lol.)