Christmas 2009

Well, Christmas has come and gone and it was a great time. We started out our Chrimstas celebrations with the Atkinson Christmas Party on the 23rd. We had a good time.




Then on Christmas Eve some of our cousins came to sled with us.


Then that night Andrea and Travis and their family came to our house for Christmas Eve dinner. It was nice. Then we played games.




Then the children all went to bed so quickly and Santa came!! The most exciting time of the year.

Christmas morning was so much fun. Everyone enjoyed what they got. Jacob kept saying, I am going to have to tell Santa thank you. He brought such good stuff.






We have been having a wonderful week, just hanging out and our Dad has been able to only work 1/2 days and play with us as well. It has been a wonderful Christmas.

Piano Recital

This Saturday was our piano recital. It went well. Here is some video of the boys. Here is Jacob playing.
Here is Joshua

Temple Square

Last night we took the kids shopping for Christmas presents for each other. Then we went downtown and ate at Chuck-a-rama and then we went to Temple Square. It was really cool. The kids all really enjoyed it.

Abigail "Star Performer"

Tonight was Abigail's singing performance. SHe did a great job. Here are some pictures and video.

Make a Smilebox greeting

Santa Clause is Coming to Town . . .

Today was our ward's annual Christmas Breakfast and Santa always comes. This year Wyatt could say Santa and new who he was, but when we took him up to Santa he just started to scream. Abigail also was afraid. So Jacob and Joshua were the only ones to sit on his lap.

new Family Picture

So I now have had the worst experience ever taking family pictures. The above picture is the product. The photographer was horrible and didn't know how to work with kids, or glasses (ie., look at Jacob's) and Wyatt was in the worst horrible mood ever!!! All of my kids were super tired and it was a very horrible picture. John has vowed that we will never have another family picture again! (I am sure he will forget and we will get another one next year). So, make sure you get a good photographer when taking your pictures.

Thanksgiving/Relief Society Christmas Party

So last weekend was Thanksgiving and I haven't had a chance to write about it because as soon as we got home, I started working on the Relief Society Christmas Party for our ward.

For Thanksgiving we went up to Kamas to eat with John's parents. It was a lot of fun, and the food was great! We spent the night and then the next morning Vicki, Aunt Pat and I got up at 4:00 a.m. and went over to Park City to the Outlets and Wal-mart for Black Friday. It was fun. I didn't find any great deals though.

Then we left that morning and went to Star Valley to visit my family. It was good food and fun there as well. Then Saturday we came home and got ready for church.

Last night was our Relief Society Christmas Party and we had a dinner and program. It was really neat. Everyone helped and it turned out to be a big success. A big thanks to Bro. Payne who spoke. He did a wonderful job. All the music was wonderful too. It was a really nice night.

Grandpa Bisel

Yesterday was John's Grandpa Bisel's funeral. It was a good funeral. Wyatt was not feeling very well and it was right at his nap time and he was onery!!!! Never before have I ever been so grateful for a nursery. They were a life saver. I put Wyatt in the nursery with Abigail and the funeral was very nice. A big thank you to the ladies in the nursery!!!

Grandpa's funeral was very nice. It was a lot of music and each of his 8 children gave a short tribute. It was very nice. This world is now missing a very good man. But I am sure he is very happy that he has re-united with his dear wife and daughter.

Two down and one to go

Well, we have two weeks down and one to go of off track time. Last week was not the greatest of all weeks. Wyatt started not sleeping at night waking up. Then the fever started and then the goupy nose. I was sure that it was just his teeth coming in because his gums are red and swollen. Then after three nights of no sleep I finally took him to the doctor. He has a double ear infection. Poor guy. Every time he has gotten in new teeth he has gotten and ear infection. Good thing these are the last four teeth to come in.

Halloween!!!

Yah! Halloween came and it went. Everyone is tucked safely in bed so ready to sleep. We started the day at the library where Witch Matilda came and told stories. Then watched movies and then it was finally time to trick or treat. I think this year, I was more excited than the kids. Abigial was a witch, Wyatt was a cow, Joshua was Yoda, and Jacob was Harry Potter. We had fun trick or treating.

First Snow of the Season

My kids prayers are being answered. They have been praying for it to snow for a month. Today luckily there are off track and it snowed!! They promptly put their snow clothes on and began playing in the snow.

Wyatt was not sure what to think of the snow. He liked it, but at the same time he was very cautious.

I am grateful my kids now have something to do while not in school.

Space Derby

Tonight at Pack Meeting was the Space Derby. Jacob had fun making his ship. The first time it flew it didn't go very far, then the second time it flew it took first place. Way to go Jacob (and Dad- because he did most of the work). It was a fun pack meeting. Good job Jacob.

Update on our Family

So it has been a very long time since I posted anything. Nothing of iterest has happended until this weekend. I think we packed a months worth of happenings in.

It all started on Thursday. Abigial's kindegarten class went to the zoo. Wyatt and I went along with her. We had a great time. We saw the baby elephant and the baby giraffe. They were sooooo cute!!



Then on Friday John took the kids all on a date (except Wyatt) and they went and saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They all had a good time. Then I went to our Super Saturday Make up day and painted until 11:00 p.m.

This year we have regional conference and our stake has been invited to go to the conference center. So Saturday morning John went down to the priesthood session and the kids and I went shopping. Then that afternoon we went to the Scarecrow Festival and Thanksgiving Point. I didn't quite know what to expect because the kids got free tickets from school. Wow!! We sure didn't plan enough time to spend there. There was tons of stuff. All kinds of bounce houses, games, food and pony rides.





Abigial waited in line for an hour to ride the pony. She has been waiting for years to ride a pony. This was here dream come true!!!




The kids got to ride these little bike racers as well.

Then after that we took my sister out dinner for her birthday. Her birthday is this coming week.

Today we went down to regional conference. It was so cool for my kids to see the conference center. It was really neat. The Prophet was there. It was so cool. My kids really enjoyed it. I am so proud of Jacob. He took notes and eveything. He is turning into quite the great boy.

After that we booked it up to Kamas and had dinner with Johns parents.

So after all that it is time to sleep ...

General Conference Weekend

This weekend has been a great weekend. My Mom was able to come down this weekend and on Friday we went shopping. Then all my sisters and their families and my mom came to my house for dinner. Then we played games.

On Saturday we watched conference. It was wonderful. Then we did a little bit of winterizing in our backyard.

Sunday we were going to go to John's mom's for dinner and to watch conference but Abigail woke up with a fever and a very sore throat. I took her up to instacare and she has strep throat again!!! So we had to stay home and just have conference with ourselves. It was good.

I am always glad when conference is over because that is a lot of TV watching. I get a little burned out of sitting on the couch that long.

But it was wonderful sessions. A lot to think about and change in our lives.

Happy Birthday Joshua

Joshua has had a birthday. He is now seven. He is so excited to now be working towards getting baptized in a year.

He started his day with present opening. He got some backugans and a motorized erector set. He is liking these. Then he had to go to school. After school he played and got to choose his favorite dinner. We had Cafe Rio Chicken.

Tomorrow he gets to have a birthday party.

Happy Birthday Joshua, We love you!

Labor Day Weekend

So this weekend we went up to visit my Mom in Star Valley. We left Friday night. We got up there around dinner. Then when we were getting ready to go to bed my sister saw the cops chasing someone out her window. We looked and thought how strange for Star Valley. Then we went to bed. Just after I laid down I herd a car shoot past my moms house going I bet around 150 miles an hour. Then there were a lot of police cars and fire engies and ambulances. (Crazy. . . this is SV where the police never have anything like this.) The next day we drove up the canyon and saw where the car stopped and caught on fire. He was heading to the Idaho border to out run the police. Didn't make it. He was about a mile short. I still haven't heard what the police were chasing him for. The chase lasted about 2 hours that I heard and saw. Crazy.

The next day we went over to Greys Lake to the Rodeo. We used to go all the time when I was growing up. We had a dutch oven dinner and then the rodeo. We didn't get to stay too long at the rodeo because Wyatt was being really naughty. But boy, what we did see was crazy as well. The stock was really good this year. One of the guys riding the bucking horse got his hand stuck under the saddle and then his was drug through the arena for about five minutes. The pick up men didn't do a very good job of getting the horse to quit bucking and saving the man. Luckily he walked away. Then we had to leave.

No more excitement after that. Just a peaceful time at my moms.

Jacob's 9th Birthday

Happy Birthday to you Jacob. Yesterday was Jacob's birthday. He had a fabulous day. He thought this was one of his best days yet. We started the day opening presents. He got a science kit and some legos.




Then he had to go to school. After school he played with his new stuff and he got to choose dinner. He chose Hawaiin Haystacks. His favorite. Then we had cake. He loved this day.