Christmas 2008!

Every year we take a picture of the kids in front of the tree on Christmas morning. Here is the picture for 2008. We did manage to get Ian in the picture! Of course Mr. Hinks had to join in.

Cody shows off his red chili chocolate bar. Sarah (his girlfriend) is next to him.

Lyndsie and Micah contemplating life!


We had a wonderful Christmas and wish everyone an exceptional 2009!

First picture of my grandbaby!!

Ok, so it's not a very good shot of the baby, but it is an adorable shot of MY baby!
You are beautiful, AnnDee!

Thanksgiving Past...

I thought it would be fun to post a picture of Thanksgiving 2007.

Happy Thanksgiving 2008!

bottom front-counter clockwise: Lyndsie, Micah, Cody, AnnDee, Devon, Katy, John, Grampa Miner, Lennis, Patty, Kyoo, Ian's friend, Ian.

Vikings Rule!

As I mentioned earlier, Micah's 7th Grade Viking football team won the championship! Most of the boys decided to bleach their hair.

Here is a bleach-blonde Micah with his Championship Medal!

Viking Champions!

1st row, l-r, Chase, Micah, Jared, Spencer, Jacob, Hunter
2nd row, l-r, Austin, Ricki, Dallin, Dallin, Josh, Elijah
3rd row, l-r, Nick, Marcos, Zack, Jershon, Austin, Caleb

Vikings posing for GQ!

front row, Zack, Austin

middle row, Marcos, Austin

back row, Hunter, Micah

Super Bowl Champions!

Micah's football team, 7th Grade Vikings, won the Championship Game this week! We beat the Lehi Pioneers-the final score was 22-6. It was very exciting. I will post pictures of the game soon, in the meantime, enjoy these pictures of my quarterback in 4th grade football!

What amazing form!!

I Love Utah!

These are pictures I took the other morning of our sunrise! I was driving and quickly snapped these from my car. We live in the most beautiful place on earth--and I feel extremely blessed!!

To Grandmother's House We Go!

Last week we had the chance to travel to Wyoming and visit Gramma Jones, Uncle Marlin, Aunt Bette, and Uncle Kevin (who was visiting from Nevada). It was great fun. We love our Wyoming relatives so much and wish we got to see them more often! Thanks, Aunt Bette!

We visited the Dinosaur Tracks. Below is a very cool track. That is my camera case beside it--so you can use it as a reference on size.

We also visited Aunt Bette and Uncle Marlin's farm. Boy are we city folk. The kids had never seen a tractor this big. We took Micah's friend, Spencer, with us too!

Spencer, Lyndsie, Micah

Two mighty muscle men atop the tractor!

Ian, Micah, Lyndsie, Spencer overlooking the sugar beet field.

One of the highlights of our trips to Wyoming is to go to Cody and visit all the tourist shops. Here we are joined by a white buffalo.
Micah, Lyndsie, Mr. White Buffalo, and Spencer

We stopped at the Otto, Wyoming Cemetary and took pictures of headstones of relatives. We have a lot of relatives buried there and it was a great experience to take a moment to ponder them and our ancestory.

In Cody we stopped for lunch next to this little lake. There were cattails growing all over and the kids thought it was great fun to pick them and beat them against the table releasing all the seeds. It literally looked like it was raining cattail fuzz!

Ian, Lyndsie(hiding), Spencer, Micah

This was where we stopped for lunch. Imagine our surprise when, upon ordering, we were told "we do not have any chicken"! Really, this actually happened!

It is tradition to stop in Farson, Wyoming (the half way point on our trip) and get ice cream. I'm not sure if the kids are jumping for joy over the ice cream or to just be out of the car!

Lyndsie, Micah, Lennis, Ian

We had a wonderful time, and treasure this last family trip before Ian leaves on his mission to Porto Alegre, Brazil next week!