Family Pictures

Our great friend Cheryl Kiss took these pictures in October 2008. Thanks, Cheryl!
A friend at work said we were the "cutest little Aryan family she had ever seen." :)

Family pictures

These were taken October 2008 by our great friend, Cheryl Kiss. Thanks, Cheryl!

Flooding in East TN

Idaho 2007 - Squirrel Meadows

Marilyn looks great no matter what!

Update: David here...I found some pictures.

Boy, it really has been raining a lot around here—I am prepared for the floods!

I have long legs and have always had a hard time finding pants that fit good and are long enough. I don’t have a full length mirror, so I never know what I look like from the waist down—and especially now, since I can’t see beyond my big round belly! Well, my wardrobe is VERY limited right now and when I don’t do laundry every few days a have to resort to some other options. I was very excited when my friend, April gave me some cute khaki maternity pants. She had a baby a few months ago and we’ve been trading clothes—it’s great to have something “new” to wear! I pulled on the pants, they fit and were comfortable and I thought I looked pretty good in them—that is until I went to run errands and saw my reflection in the glass doors at Little Caesar’s—oh boy, am I ever ready for the floods—they were TOTAL highwaters! (Sorry—no photo with this!—I’m sure that most of you have seen me wearing “floods” anyway!) At least I wasn’t in my pajamas--which has been my choice of attire as of late!

Everything Relates Back to Star Wars

I love having church at 9AM! At 8:30 it is a bit crazy, but it is all worth it when you are home at noon and have the rest of the day together—to rest, make desserts, visit people, and play games. Lately, we have put KK to bed early and had some VERY wonderful evenings of really studying the scriptures with the older kids. We usually just pick a topic, or a story and read and learn. Last night we did Adam and Eve and then it led to their posterity, including Enoch and his righteous city. We got talking about how old they lived many over 900 years! The kids were amazed that someone could live that long—“that is older than YODA!” They were also impressed with the prophets’ abilities to command mountains to move and rivers to turn in the course. Parker thought that would be like using the “force”—only better. Hopefully, they are gaining something from these discussions!

Best friends

Since these two are home from school without the other kids, they have become best friends. Being best friends also means you are worst enemies, but those times are few and far between.
Here is a picture of them together out in the mountains of North Carolina. It is actually two pictures that I put together, but who's counting?
Thanks to Cheryl Kiss for taking these pictures!

A Man in the Kitchen

I wish I had photo to go with this blog--just picture David in your mind hunched in the corner of the kitchen trying to "hide something". A while back David and I were in the kitchen making dinner together. He was doing the green beans--I usually put a beef bouillon cube and some dried onions in to add some flavor. Well, he was working on that portion of the meal and he was VERY quiet, hunched in a corner, with his back to me--obviously trying to hide something. Well, I of course, wondered what he was up to and went to investigate.

He was definitely trying to hide something. I peeked over his shoulder and saw him busily pulverizing the bouillon cube with a pair of needle nose pliers. I could not stop laughing—throughout the day, I would have the visual image come to my mind of him hunched in the corner! The funniest part was that he was trying to hide—he did say that he wiped them off before he used them!

Christmas vacation

We had a great 3 week vacation out West and loved the snow. Thanks to family for hosting us, and for Terri and Julia letting us use their van and snowmobiles.

When we first arrived. Only 9 inches of snow.

Parker snowmobiling throught the drifts.

More to come...