Pinewood Derby 2010

Waiting patiently for his turn on the track.

The first race.

The car.  Ryan won a few races, and lost a few races.  Regardless of the outcome, he was always happy and high fiveing his opponent. (get's that from his mother).

Ryan's cousins came to see him race.

Visit to Great Grandma Bowers

On the way home from Phoenix, we took a less direct route home and detoured through Heber, AZ for a day and got to visit with Grandma Bowers.

Grandma Bowers is 87 and we're not sure how much longer she'll be around, so we thought it appropriate to stop and visit her for a little bit.

Ryan, Grandma Bowers, Deni and Sydney.

Phoenix Zoo

Grandma and Grandpa Bigler took the whole family to the Phoenix zoo.

Although today was the warmest day (high 80's) of our trip, we had a great time with Kati, Boston and Katelyn, Jessica, Mataya, and Camden, and Grandma and Grandpa Bigler.

This isn't a great picture of Syd, but it a very funny picture of her cousin Mataya (notice she's drinking straight from the teat.)   This is a fake cow, that you could "milk" and water would come out.

Long lost sibling. Ryan, the baboon, and Sydney.

Deni and me

There was a little water park on the inside and because it was high 80's the kids took the opportunity to plan in the water and cool off.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Bigler for taking us to the Zoo.

Bibs for Babies

You can never find the "I love Uncle Brett" bibs for babies. They have plenty of "I love Mommy" or "I love Daddy", but no "I love Uncle Brett".

So I decided to make my own. It needs a little polishing, but for now, it serves its purpose.  This is Katelyn Bryce (Kati and Boston Bryce - Kati is Deni's youngest sister.)

Drive in Movie theater

While we were in Arizona, we wanted to do a few things as a family the kids would remember as part of their vacation.  One of those things was going to a Drive-in Movie theater.

The last Drive-in in UT was torn down probably 10 years ago, so we thought the kids would enjoy watching a movie from the comfort of our van.

We choose to go see "How to Train your Dragon".  We got there just as the sun went down, opened the back of the van, threw down a few blankets and with a few treats, we were ready for the movie.

It was a double feature, but the 2nd feature didn't start until 9:30pm, so we headed out after the first movie.  he movie was fun and the kids enjoyed the change of venue for the movie.

Easter Egg hunt

We went to Jessica's house on Easter Sunday. We watched the last session of General Conference on TV and then the kids had an Easter egg hunt in Jessica's back yard.

I forget that our kids are big, until we visit Deni's side of the family.   A little blurry, but an action photo of Ryan and Sydney and their little cousin Mataya looking for eggs.

Ryan on the run.

Sydney  with all her loot.

We were told that back home, everyone woke up to 6 inches of new snow. Easter in Phoenix is awesome.

Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple

Every Easter at the Mesa Temple, an Easter Pageant is put on. It was a tradition of Deni's family to attend, however I had never been.  So we planned this trip so that we could attend.

Deni and the kids went early to save us a spot on the lawn, while Boston and I went to the Priesthood Session of General Conference.

Once the Priesthood session was over, we quickly changed and then met up with our families.

Ryan, Katelyn, Deni and Sydney.

I really like this picture of Deni and Katelyn. They are both pretty cute.

Right before the pageant, some of the actors walked around and talked to the audience. Ryan and Sydney with one of the "Roman guards".

Phoenix - here we come

We needed a break from the cold and wet Utah weather and we'd never seen our new niece, Katelyn Bryce, (4 months old now) so we decided to head to Phoenix, AZ for the week.

Kati and Boston were nice enough to let us stay at their house all week.