Deep Beauty

I love this video and it made me cry thinking of my amazing daughters and how good they are to their little brother. They were definitely sent in the right birth order so they could help us with T.

Sometimes Rebecca is the only one that can get Thomas to calm down. She just loves him and plays with him. She is incredible.

Allison loves this site: Cute Girls Hairstyles and learned how to braid Becca's hair like this:



Cool, right?

Allison also auditioned for the high school Musical Theater class with hundreds of other kids and she made the class of 49, she being one of probably just 2 freshmen in the class. We are so blessed and so proud of our cute kids!

The Zoo, Musical Theatre, Grama's Birthday, Grandpa & Grandma B's Visit and more....

Just a few things we've been up to! Grandma and Grandpa Blackwell made a quick day trip up to see us during Christmas break. Between their visitors and their temple weekends, they were able to squeeze it in. Here are the kids with their Christmas-after-Christmas gifts. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Rebecca pulled out her 3D "I Spy" Game to play. Thanks for being great sports- I love this picture!!

I abandoned my work for an afternoon to take advantage of the Free Zoo Day at Hogle. Rebecca was determined to draw a picture of each animal in her sketchbook as we visited, but that was pretty time-consuming, so she snapped photos of ALL of them instead.


Here are some more pictures of T's big ski trip. He tells us he wants to go again! ;)


Allison's Music Theater class had a closing performance before the semester ended. Her solo of "The Wizard & I" was selected to be a part of the program. She did great! We are pinching ourselves as we come to realize she will be in high school next year. She loves attending the Stake dances, listening to music and trying new things with her hair- it's here for real- she's a teenager!


We got to visit a little bit with Jill & Gavin's family visiting from Phoenix when Grama Ryan had a birthday party. I like the way Bailey is trying to smile below!



This was our attempt at a picture of the grandkids with Grama- haha! Thomas was unfortunately having a no-good, very-bad day, I wasn't able to socialize much. :( Fortunately for his teachers and for us, he perked up the next day. Phew!! We all have days like that, right?!!

Another funny story, we used a certain Grandpa as our "Santa" this year and Thomas called him several times before Christmas. Last week, Thomas insisted that he call Santa to tell him to pick him up, he wanted to be an elf and help Santa. (Not really sure where that came from!!??)

Anyhow, we finally told him it was fine to call Santa and they had a nice chat. I'm not sure of everything that was said, but Santa told Thomas that the most important thing right now was to be a good boy and go to school. After the phone call, Thomas had a nice cry for about 5 minutes, but then he was fine and hasn't mentioned it since! (We're happy that he won't be moving to the North Pole after all.) Thanks Santa! ;)

If you're ever in town, please stop by for dinner, we'd love to have visitors and seems like we haven't seen our family & most of our friends for such a long time! Happy January!

Thomas Skis

Thomas is like a rock star at our house right now. He went skiing today with his Dad and Grampa Ryan. Look at him go! (Wait for it... it takes him a second to get going, but WOW! You rock, Thomas!)

Thanks for a great day, guys!

Tommy the Great

When we where eating tonight mom got us all
a gift! This is what Tommy got:




Right away, Tommy looked at all the
chores. We helped him mark off the
ones he all ready did.

Three of the chores is something to
do with his room. So he said, "Mom!
I have to clean my room right away!"
Right then Tommy ran up the stairs.
This is how it turned out:


(I love the way Tommy set his Darth Vader suit out!!!)

One of them was to take care of your
pet. So Tommy ran downstairs where
the chinchillas are and said, "Mom!
I won't hit the cage or poke them so
I can get the thing done! Love you!"

Tommy with Cream!

All of them!

Tommy with Cocoa!

Thanks Tommy for being the best brother in
the whole world!
-Becca