All I want for Christmas are my four front teeth?

Sydney recently lost her front two teeth, just a week or so before Christmas.

This is my Sydney, without her front teeth.  Very Cute.

This is my Sydney playing with Grandma and Grandpa's Mac.  Warning: what you are about to watch doesn't look like the Sydney we know.  However it is the Sydney that makes us laugh all the time.

Stop Copy catting me

I was driving home from Mom and Dads with Ryan and Sydney in the back seat.   Sydney was copy catting Ryan.  

It went something like this:

Ryan: Stop copy catting me.

Sydney: Stop copy catting me.

Ryan: Sydney, I'm serious.

Sydney: Sydney, I'm serious.

Ryan:  I'm an idiot.

Sydney:  You're an idiot.

Sydney is no dummy and Ryan knew he had lost the battle. He stopped while he was ahead.

I'm older than color

We were at my parents house today watching the BYU game.  During half time, I went upstairs and got the binders that have pictures of my childhood.

Ryan came and sat by me and was looking at the pictures with me.  The first few pages were black and white photos.  A few pages into the binder, the pictures turned from black and white to color and Ryan said "...and that's when color was invented"

Apparently, I'm older than color.

The A-Team

Last month we turned off the cable and re-enabled Netflix. The kids were disappointed that they couldn't watch the their favorite channels like Disney Channel, etc.  That is until I introduced them to streaming old TV shows, like the A-Team. 

Over the last few weeks, they have watched all of Season One and part of Season Two of the A-Team.

It's fun to hear the old theme song for the A-Team coming from my bedroom and even more fun to hear the kids giggling while watching a show that I grew up on. I've watched a few episodes with them and it's fun to remember back.

Speaking of the A-Team.  Yesterday, Ryan told me I needed to grow a beard like Mr T on the A-Team.  Uh, yeah, not  too likely. 

Lots of Apples

Deni and I picked many (many) 5 gallon buckets of Apples this last week.

Today was the day take care of the apples.

I worked half a day in the morning (6am to 10am) and then we spent the rest of the day making and bottling apple products.

We ended up with:

15 quarts of Apple Juice
13 quarts of Apple Pie Filling
30 quarts of Apple Sauce

Family Pictures

My siblings.

Deni's Bday

This year for Deni's birthday we took a break from life and went up to Snowbird Resort for two days, 1 night of fun without the kids. A few quick video clips of some fun events.

Alpine Slide

Zip line

Bucket list - Tube Provo River - check

About a month ago, Deni purchased some tickets to float the Provo river on tubes.  I've always wanted to tube down the Provo river and since Summer is almost over, today was the day.  I had taken the day off and the kids are in school, so we made it a day date.

We took this self portrait before jumping in the white van in the background, which ran us up Provo Canyon.

It's amazing how cold the water can be in August, my feet and arms were pretty much numb by the time we finished our 1.5 hr float down the river.

We had a great time.  Deni especially liked it after I hooked my feet on her tube and kept her from the trees and branches on the side of the river.

Back to School

This morning I had a 5am meeting. (with working with people in the UK, India, and East Coast someone has to be up late/early. It was my turn today, I guess.)

Since it was the kids first day of school, I worked from home in the morning until they were off to school. Then went into work.

Camping with Grandpa

My dad invited us to go "camping" with some of the other cousins.

We went up Fairview Canyon and camped by Beaver Dam. The fishing wasn't that great at Beaver Dam, but a little lake up the road was great.

Sydney fishing.

It's amazing how cool the mountains are in August. Ryan trying to keep warm.

The kids packed their backpacks and I thought this was cute.

I said "camping" as Dad took his 28 foot trailer.  I drove it. I feel much more comfortable driving it now. With 3 cousins, Dad and our two kids, Deni and I decided to take our tent and cots instead of trying to find room in the trailer. I didn't sleep very well in the tent. Deni got cold the first night and I kept hearing noises and could have sworn bears were in our camp.  All in all, we caught a lot of fish and had a great time.