OOPS!

Well when I typed up the last post the pix had been where I said they would be. Oh well that is how my night has been.

Some pix of Cali!

Well I tried to load two more pix but the program had an error, so I guess for now these two are all you get. :( sadness. There are so many more I wanted to show you. I guess I will have to try agian another time.

The one on the left is us at The Haunted Mansion. It was decorated Nightmare Before Christmas. It was so much fun! The one above is all of us on the last day for April and John. We drove up to Newport Beach and stayed one more night and went to the beach.

Family

Hi! eveyone, I hope you all enjoyed a beautiful sunny weekend. Mom and I had a great sunday. We had our ward primary presentation.. It made me miss all our grandkids. After church and dinner we went for a ride out to Snow Canyon and what a pretty time of year it is here in st George.
Today I stayed outside pruning the bushes out front.. I think it look alot better than it did so I should have gotten it done sooner..
Love all you and hope to see you very soon.. Love Dad

WAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys!!! I'm finally posting a real post! We've been saving for new computer and Chrisser surprised me with it for my birthday! Happy! Happy! Our little corner of the world is going really well. Today we went and had family photos taken at the park and Gilli was so funny. I think some of our best photos of her were the ones that we caught of her rolling down the hill. Not so well behaved actually, but still it was fun.
So I'm 40!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK! Anyway, thanks for all the kind things you said about me. There were tears, of course. You're not supposed to cry on your birthday, but that's okay.
Well, I'm out of scintillating things to say, so I'm off to stamp something. Until Next Time, LOVE YOU!

Sorry Daddy. :(

Hi Everyone,

Yes we did make it home safe, sorry Daddy I did forget about calling you. I was thinking about it when we dropped Chet off in Salt Lake to get his van, but after that I forgot about all else.
I didn't think that going on a vacation would be so much work and so tiring! Wow, now I know why eveyone always says they need a vacation from their vacation.
I don't mean to complain! Really we had such a good time I am already wanting o do it again! :) Chet and I have talked about it and think that next time we want to line each of the kids a friend up s that they aren't stuck with Mom & Dad the whole time. We really had a blast though, but don't ask me which ride was my favorite, because I don't know if I could choose! We walked a ton and spent WAY to much money, especially on FOOD! Oh my goodness it was so expensive to eat at any of the parks.
We got to go to Disney Land, Universal Studios and Sea World. We also visited the walk of fame, and drove around Hollywood Hills...... woooo! It was pretty but I could NEVER live even close to there! Talk about no yard! they didn't even have driveways! Just this little patch of cement that pulled into their garage. Anyway, on the last day there we went to the beach in Newport, and again on Sunday before we left for home, and we even got to see dolphins out in the ocean, swimming by the surfers. It was way cool. I will try to post some pix, in the next day or so. I love you all, and now that I have written a book I am off to bed. Jana

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Hello

I guess everything has a starting point.. so I will start my first entry. We had a good visit with Jan,Chet and the kids. In fact they stayed with mom and I sunday leavinng for home monday afternoon.. I hope they got there okey. All is well with Mom and I, My next Dr's appointment is on the 31st.. See you all later and pray you are all very well.. Dad

my sympathies dave

I can sympathize about Brielle. Katie stated she was going to have sex on the way to her first day at preschool. of course, she meant to say snacks, but regardless, we have video to prove it.
Katie also had her first primary program today, and she went up despite crying for mommy when she had to go sit with her class. She did really well.
we taught our first Sunday school lesson as ward missionaries and it went really well. We had an investigator that has committed to baptism there and another new memeber that has only been to church a couple of times in the year that she has been a member. it went really well.

Just a note

Just a note on our way through St. George to let you know I am reading and will make a new post when we get home and I have a minute. I will have a minute even if I have to make one up! Love you all. I can't believe how fast all the kids are growing up! I am not sure I like it at all!!!

Happy Birthday to the twins. Kylee and Caleb, we love you! Sorry we didn't get you called today. Were away, then Jan & fam got back and we missed our chance. Will try to call tomorrow. I start my training for Reiki tomorrow. That should be interesting! We love you all so much. Mom & Dad

Well, today is a double birthday. Kylee and Caleb are three today. Next year they will officially join the ranks of the primary, part of a group of about 20 new sunbeams. I guess our primary of 120 isn't big enough and they need more kids. Heaven bless the Sunbeam teacher(s). Speaking of primary, we had a primary program today. Jesse, Brielle, and Paige all did very well with their parts.

Yesterday was the last day of fall sports for Jesse and Brielle. Paige finished soccer last Saturday. Jesse played quarterback for his flag football team a little bit yesterday. His first pass was a touchdown pass. Way to go Jesse. Brielle hustled and played really hard. She's really fun to watch because she just doesn't stop. She seems to flow to the ball naturally and she nearly scored yesterday.

Paige had fun and really developed during her soccer season. She went from distracted player doing somersaults while the game happened on other end of the field, to being right in the middle of the mix and even scoring a goal.

We got our first snow of the season today. BOO! I'm not ready to surrender to winter yet. Fortunately, I don't think I have to. Its supposed to warm back up this week, into the 60s anyway. The kids all broke out the winter gear, snow pants, boots, etc. and headed outside. They made snow angels and snowmen. Brielle is all about the details. As I was taking a picture of her snowman, she freely pointed out the details on her snowman. "Those are the breasts," she proudly pointed to the remnants of a carrot broken in two pieces and placed in the figure to represent breasts. Can someone please tell me what I'm going to do with this girl as she gets older.? Just kidding.

Anyway, on the anatomy note, we'll sign off. Love you all and we'll talk to you later.

Dave

Ryan's first tooth

Ryan kept us up all night, the night before last, and today Jenn felt why. Ryan's first tooth is coming in. one of the lower incisors.

We are on our way.

Hey everyone, I'm just leaving you a note Till we get back from California! We are on our over nighter in St. George, then in the morning we are on our last leg onward to Oceanside, which is where we will be staying.
Stephen, I love the pix! I want to go to the beach! Maybe we will have some pix of our own. We have planned to go to the beach, so if everything goes as planned we will.
Love you all, Blog again as soon as I can. Love Jana & Fam

medical update

So Jenn went to the pediatrician today, and Ryan is 95% for height and 75% for weight and Katie is 50% height and 75% weight. Just thought you guys might like to know. Also I had a little difficulty posting digital video. Does it just take a long time to upload, or is there something specific I need to do?

Mom and katie playing at Cannon Beach
this is at Cannon Beach and the standing rock behind me is called Haystack rock

About time

Well we are finally up and running. I guess the last is best of all the game right? Things are going fairly well. My life consists of cramming for tests each week and Jenni has a newspaper route she does once a week. Katie has started preschool and surprised us all by, upon being asked what she was going to do at preschool, telling us she was going to have sex. She meant to say snacks, and no she hasn't been catching us at anything. it was just funny. and we have it on video. Ryan is getting big and heavy, and is almost always a happy boy. hope things are well for you all and I will put some pics and video up when I get a minute

About time

Hey?!

By the by, Mindy I want to know what is going on in your life as well! Please keep us updated! I know that Steve is trying to get to where he can log in and post but the invite got sent to the wrong e-mail. Hopefully he will be able to be posting with us all soon. Christi I miss you too and hope you guys are doning well. Still waiting anxiously for your posts. Love you all More than you know, hope you are having fun keeping up with my crazy family. :0) Love me again.

Work in progress

Our mountain is continuing, slowly but surely. We couldn't work on it on Saturday because it not only rained, it snowed! Can you believe that?! I am so not ready for the snow yet.
Anyway, Chet's brother Rick came back today and worked on it somemore, and it is really taking GREAT shape.
When all is said and done it will have a place for a waterfall, and stairs to get up the south side. Oh ya, and Megan's ledge. :) It did just start to rain tonight again, so depending on how much it rains we might have come to a stand still again. I hope the rain passes quickly for my own personal, selfish reasons. The sooner we get it done, the better. They are getting ready to start on the dentist office next door, and I don't think they want to share working space. So we need to get it done asap. Anyway that is the up date for now. I do have some new pix, but I think I will wait to share them for a day or two just to see if we might not get it done. Love ya tons Jana