Yeah! Graduation!

Yess!! Wade graduated after 21 months of working toward his Executive MBA at the U. We're so happy to have our regular Wade back! Here's some pictures from graduation...

Luke made Wade a sign for his graduation and he was very proud of it (as he should be!) Here's what it says: Dad Congratulations. I am so impressed that you graduated. Not bad for a kid in kindergarten! And he drew the picture with a little bit of help from Lexie -because she wanted the picture of her to look like a princess.

Pictures From the Holidays -

Here's our tree on Christmas morning - Santa left lots of stuff for us.

Christmas Eve with Santa

Jake age 8.

Luke age 5.

Lexie age 5.

Jake and Luke being star boys and Lexie as a Lucia. It's some kind of Swedish tradition thingie.

Building snowmen with our neighbors during the snowstorm.

How Ogden City plugs in all their lights.

Going to the lights in Ogden.

Jake #31 playing indoor soccer.

Luke and Lexie playing Mary and Joseph and Wade as a shepard.

Luke fell asleep as we were going somewhere - but Lexie is just pretending.

Christmas morning after the big haul.

Jake's Baptism

On Saturday, Jake got baptized. My oldest baby is old enough to be baptized! Wow!! It was a wonderful night. Here's how the program went:

Song: Baptism

Opening prayer: Zach (cousin)

Intro of Candidate: Sister Childs
Talk on Baptism: Uncle Matt

Song by Kortney and Mitch (cousins)

Talk on Holy Ghost: Uncle Scott

Baptism and Confirmation

Closing remarks: Bro Croasmun

Song: When Jesus Christ was Baptized

Prayer: Ian (cousin)

Halloween

This year's Halloween was so fun! The weather was amazingly warm. The kids just wore their costumes with a sweat shirt under. Jake was a scary skeleton, Lexie a kitty and Luke was Clifford (so he could chase the cat). We went to a Trunk-or-Treat and then went Trick-or-Treating around the neighborhood too.

Here's a group picture with Treven (nephew) in the picture too.

Here's a picture of Wade with his finger up his nose and his school buddy Scott as Michael Jackson.

Swim Lessons

While the kids were off-track, we did swim lessons. This is the first time the twins took lessons and they did pretty good. Jake has taken swim several times and is becoming quite a good swimmer. My kids were the only ones that when jumping off the side or diving board would yell "Cannon Ball!" Its was pretty amusing...