Emma's discovery of static electricity 2009

Emma's real life experience with static electricity, the rubbing of balloons to her head and sticking them to the wall would shortly follow this new found discovery!

Thanksgiving in Rigby 2010

Trying to figure out what cup to get.

The kids having a snow ball fight.

Everytime I would try and take a picture he would turn and hide.

Finally got one!

Playing.

More playing.

Still more playing.

Taking turns sitting in the giant snow ball and having a snow snack.

Kaydence getting ready to go outside.


Thanksgiving of 2010 was a bit of a challenge.  We drove through an ice storm.  A trip that would normally take 6-7 hours took 10-12 hours but we make it.  All the kids got to play in the snow and play lots of wii.  On Thanksgiving day we not only had tons of good food courtesy of Raini, we got to see grandma Lorrie and grandpa Dick who we hadn't seen in years.  It was a fun and crazy trip.  Maybe someday we'll get to do it again.

Halloween 2010

Emma chose to be a witch for Halloween, one of the more traditional costumes.  Surprise surprise, Roc was a superhero, this year he was Ironman, obviously inspired by the movie that recently came out.  Porter was a skeleton this year and to help him maintain his costume weight, his parents ate most of his candy for him.

Porter's unusual sleeping pattern 2010

First it was Emma on the couch (and any time after 7:30), followed by Roc in the highchair and now its Porter in the walker.  Each kid found unusual places to take a nap.  I guess if they can get in a semi comfortable position and are tired enough then they will take advantage of it.  I don't know if it is true but I have always thought that is a sign of good health and a clean soul to be able to sleep well.

Here are a reminder of Emma and Roc.

Firefighters 10/06/2010

Today at school the kids were visited by the local Firemen and received a fireman hat.  The rest of the day they pretended to be firefighters.  This has no correlation to when Roc lit the laundry room garbage on fire and almost burnt down the house.

Porter keeps growing 2010

Porter continues to eat, grow and play.  It seems like he is growing faster than the other kids.  He is probably just trying to keep up and play with the older kids.  At the rate he is going he will be running before his first birthday.

What Was He Thinking?

It was a quiet Friday afternoon, the kids were outside playing and it had been at least 30 min. since we had heard a peep out of either one of them.  That always sends up huge red flags that they are doing something that they are not supposed to be doing.  Stacie races outside to find Roc sitting on the side of house.  When he hears her coming he immediately hides the marker and defensively places both arms behind his back.  Stacie had seen that look of guilt before, knowing that he was hiding something behind his back she demanded that he show her what he had in his hands, Roc professed that his hands were empty (surprise he was telling the truth).  As Stacie made a step toward Roc to see what he had, Roc did the wise thing and presented his hands to his mother explaining that "I wanted to know what it was like to be red."  Stacie was in tears she was laughing so hard.  Roc was relieved that he was not in trouble but then became embarrassed once the camera came out, realizing that if we thought it was something that was that funny that he may regret having evidence of it later.