Back to School 2014

The kids started back to school today!

They are going to a new school that requires uniforms.  They were excited to go!

Here is a picture of them!

Dillon is in third grade
Jennilyn is in 2nd grade
Ruth and Irene are in all day Kindergarten.

Happy 5th Birthday Ruth and Irene!

Today, my babies are 5 years old!  Where does the time go!  They are each other's best friends!

Ruth and Irene are doing so good in preschool.  They can write their names, are learning the alphabet, counting, and love to do what ever Dillon and Jennilyn are doing.

They are my charmers and try to get away with anything and everything!

We have a lot to look forward to for next year.  Ruth and Irene will start kindergarten and all 4 kids will be going to a new school.

We love you Ruthie and Renny!  Happy Birthday!

Christmas Newsletter 2013

It is that time of year again...I sit here reflecting on this last year...Wow what a year it has been.

One year ago this week we moved into our 1st home.  What a difference it is to live in a house and not in an apartment.  We are so glad we were able to do this last year.

Now onto what is going on with the family:

Irene will be 5 in Jan.  She loves going to preschool and is looking forward to Kindergarten next year.  She is the taller of the twins and loves horses, princesses, and playing with legos and playing games on Lego.com

Ruth and Irene are best friends.  The joys of being a Twin!  Ruth too loves Preschool and is looking forward to Kindergarten as well.  She is the smaller of the two and two loves horses, princess and playing with legos and on Lego.com

Jennilyn is our smart 1st grader and is 6 yrs old.  She is an excellent reader and is learning math and enjoying it.  She loves to play ballerina and she has a lot of the same interest as the twins with horses, legos, princess and such.  Of course they all share a room so that is not hard.

Dillon is our fun energy boy.  He is in 2nd grade and just turned 8.  Dillon was baptized on Dec 7th.  He is enjoying cub scouts and he loves legos.

This year has been a roller coaster for Annette and Dan.  Both of us have had some health scares this year. But we have had fun too.

The end of  January we found out we were going to have another baby and were very excited about it, but a few weeks later we ended up in the ER with Annette in so much pain.  They were trying to find out what was wrong and we heard the baby's heart beat, but then were told that it was another Tubal Pregnancy.  They took her into emergency surgery.  While they were there they found out that Annette had appendicitis and took care of that too.  Annette is doing well and is moving forward as a mother of 4 kids.

In  April Dan had a scare that took us to the ER with him.  He has had problems with High Blood Pressure for a few years, and they were having trouble getting it under control.  He started seeing a specialist this year and with a lot of hard work we now have his BP under control, but he is also now seeing a cardiologist and it has been determined that he has a mild heart condition called  left ventricular non-compaction.  This is a hereditary family condition.  As of right now we just keep moving forward as there is not a lot of things to be done for it.  He will continue to be monitored for it.  But he is doing well and has lost 30 lbs this year.

 In June Dan and Annette traveled to Minnesota to attend Dan's sister Annette's wedding.  While we were there we got to visit with many friends and family.  Dan's Grandmother also celebrated her 90th birthday while we were there and it was very neat to get to spend time with her.

The kids and Annette spent a week at Camp Tifi with Papa Jack and Nana this summer and we had a lot of fun.

In October Dan and Annette celebrated 9 yrs since they got married.

We had the chance of having both sets of grandparents come and visit us a few times this year.  Also Great-Grandparents have come too.

In September we had a chance to have all of Annette's sisters come to Utah and spend time with all of them, and have some of them come stay at our home.

We are loving having a house and having family come visit.

Dan is still working at Sportman's warehouse.  And has had a busy year with them.  Annette is still enjoying being home with the kids, she has started doing some babysitting.

This year we have really been blessed and watched over.

We want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

From Our Family to Yours!

Love,
Daniel, Annette, Dillon, Jennilyn, Ruth and Irene

1st Day of school 2013

This year we have a 2nd grader, 1st grader and the twins are in preschool!

Dillon and Jennilyn have been enjoying going back to school and enjoy getting to walk home from school together this year.  The twins are loving preschool.  Because the preschool is at the elementary school it is a free program so the girls are in the same class.  The kids are enjoying being back in school!

Happy Birthday Ruth and Irene!

I know this is a few days late, but we had internet frailer for a few days...now here we are!

Wow! It has been 4 years since these little girls joined our family!

Happy Birthday Ruth Lois and Irene Marlyn!

We love you!

2012 in Review!

Wow 2012 has gone by quickly!

Dan has kept busy with his job, he did have to travel a few times this year including going to Alaska for the 1st time.

Annette has been busy as a stay at home mom, babysitting  and in July started delivering newspapers.  She was glad to finally quite when we got ready to move to our new home.

Dillon lost his 1st two teeth this year.  He is now in 1st grade and is 7 years old.  He is getting tall and is usually kind to his sisters most of the time.

Jennilyn started Kindergarten this year and is loving to learn!   Both her and Dillon are starting to read, and are doing really well.

Ruth and Irene have been busy this year.  They both finally potty-trained (yes no more diapers).  They are learning their letters and learning to write.

The biggest news we have is that the end of Sept we decided to start looking for a home thinking it would take us a while to get into one.  By the end of Oct we had an offer in and we closed on Dec 9th.
We moved our things in on Dec 15th and we finally got to sleep in the house on Dec 21st.  We are loving the space that we have as it is a  2 story home with a basement.  There are things that we are learning to fix as we go, and we are still getting settled in, but we are loving the home and it feels like it is our place.  Everything moved so fast that we felt like it was a dream in some ways.


We hope all of you have a great holiday and that the Lord will bless you this next year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Updated Family Pictures 2012

In September we had some updated family pictures done by a family friend's daughter who is studing to be a photographer     I thought she did a great job and  we will have to try and do one more setting with her before she leaves on her mission next summer.

Most of the people who read this will have seen the pictures on Facebook, but since my blog is also emailed to family and friends there are some of my favorites for you to enjoy!  A big shot out to Savanna Skinner for doing these for us!  (Yes Grandma and Grandpa this is Jean Skinner's granddaughter).

Dan, Dillon, Jennilyn, Ruth, Irene and Annette

Irene, Dillon, Ruth and Jennilyn

Ruth

Dillon

Irene

Jennilyn

Jennilyn and Irene

Jennilyn

Jennilyn, Ruth and Irene...I am going to blow this one up for their bedroom!

Our Family

Irene having fun with Mommy

Kids being kids

Irene

Ruth

Dillon

Jennilyn not wanting to do pictures anymore!

The kids were done by now!

Pumpkin Patch 2012

This year we decided to take the kids to a pumpkin patch and let them pick out their own pumpkin.  We went to Petersen Family Farm's in Riverton, UT.  We had a fun time and the kids picked out their pumpkins and we got some fresh dug potato's and some fresh local honey.

We had a great time and on Saturday we spent time carving our pumpkins.  I know it is early, but we had fun as a family doing it.

At the pumpkin farm 

Starting to carve our pumpkins

Cousin Steven came and helped us carve our pumpkins

Dillon designed his pumpkin

Our pumpkins

Ruth's carving of a kitten

Dillon's own design

Jennilyn's Spider Pumpkin

Irene's Bat pumpkin

End of May Activities

In May the school district had a district wide sports day.  Dillon who had 1/2 day kindergarten got to go to school all day and participate.  He even got a school sack lunch for the day.  He was so excited to show me his ribbon's when he got home!

We bought Pass of All Passes to Seven Peaks owned places.  This allows us the fun of bowling, bumper cars, laser tagging, miniature golf, and also going swimming at Seven Peaks Water Park. 

The water park opened Memorial Day Weekend.  We decided since Dan was off on Monday we would go.  It wasn't too crowded and we had a great time!

 A random picture that was on my camra of the girls all asleep on the couch.  Dillon saw me taking the picture and he smiled for it!