Who's my hero?

Mom was cleaning out her office the other day and came across these beautiful letters written about Grandpa I thought I would share so others can get as much delight out of them that I did.

And being that it will be 14 years this month that he passed away I thought it would be nice to read up a bit on what others thought of him.

Grandpa was my hero in so many ways. I wish I was able to get to know him better but am so lucky that I was able to spend the time I had with him.

"He had arms and a chest that would embarrass Clark Kent." Love it!!!

Every girl growing up wishes she had a man like Captain Moroni (see Alma 48:17) and I have decided Grandma found her Captain Moroni.

I scanned the letters in so if you can't read them (sorry the one is sideways) let me know and I will email you a copy or something....

Shout Hooray

Jett had a birthday

So did mom a week later but we didn't take any pictures because we didn't do anything but give her what she wanted. To sleep in and no fighting!

He is not a morning person and was up early for his birthday on a Sat when he could have slept in.
Pops stopped on his way home from work and picked up birthday doughnuts.
Later that night Jett and a bunch of his friends went bowling and he had a grand time. (from what I hear)

Need I say more?

The kids love to play football with Chris. She was so proud because although she fell she caught the ball.

Getting ready to hurl it right into my flower bed no doubt.

For German Enola had to make food for a project. She made a pork roast and potato dumplings. It smelled funny to me but apparently everyone in the class really like it and she got an A.

This spoiled little man got a Kindle Fire for his birthday from the parents and a football from Chris and I. Guess which one he uses more?

I let Enola permanently borrow my Big sunglasses so she did what she normally does. She took a picture of her cute face.

As I promised

Not when I promised though.

If you know Enola you know she gets really bad bloody noses, and this sometimes happens during them. Totally real and creepy cool at the same time.

I love the sound of the cello, even if it is the same note being practiced over and over and it doesn't always have that "lovely" sound.

Chris was kind enough to take Enola out and teach her how to drive a stick shift in my car. She did really good. I went out to see where they went and thought it was Chris driving up the street. Besides taking corners a wee too fast and needing to learn how to ease into the brakes instead of slamming them on and oh yeah trying to not drop my transmission by shifting from 2 to reverse. She did really well. Chris said she stalled once at the beginning and then he had her start and stop again and she did great.
She can't really be that old can she?

He can play the whole song but he didn't have the music in front of him and this was just from memory.

(Sorry about the spacing issue and the captions being above the next picture not under the correct one. )

My bad

Sorry about the lack of posts. I have just been too busy giving my family hugs... This girl decided to read 59 books for the year 2011 and finished 57. She didn't meet her goal but I know when I was 14 I didn't have any sort of ambition to read a book a week (at least) and I love to read. In this picture she has already started on her new goal of 65 books. She likes the "kindle", I prefer old fashion paper pages, but alas I am from the old generation.

I bought everyone their own personal bottle of sparkling cider for New Years. I enjoyed my big girl sippie cup. And I'm pretty sure everyone but me and Pops were pretending to be drunk. (Pops always looks that way)

Pops is teaching himself how to play the guitar, he does pretty good but I have to admit I love it when he wears the head phones, ONLY because he turns the distortion on the AMP up so high it "ruins"? it.

Pops also had his "Mormon Horn" removed. The Dr. said he had tough skin, literally :)

It accidentally erased a couple of pictures of Jett with his guitar and Enola with her cello. Since my keyboard is broken and the pictures are on my computer it takes me twice as long to fix things. But I promise I will have a post of the kids and their musical talents within the week. PROMISE!

Mwah ha ha

Jack Skellington himself

It was like the good old days when mom would slave away over a costume.

The Nurse who couldn't take it anymore.

You can't tell but her wrists are slit as well as the head wound and gunshot to the right temple to go along with the bloody tears and slit throat.

Until next year.....

Soccer Star

I have been patiently waiting for mom to do a post....

I only have so much of this so called patience.

Jett started soccer and had his last game this past Sat. Pops has taken a ton of pictures, I tried to use those for a post but I spent a lot of time trying to find any pictures among the other 4,000 photos but they are all out of order. Once I did find them I couldn't post them in "Tiff" form and being computer illiterate had no chance of figuring out how to put them in "jpeg" form. Anyhow so I went last week to take some pictures with my camera got one and the battery died. I went again yesterday and got some more. I think Jett had the largest fan base. The parentals, Chris and I as well as DJ and Chelsea were there to cheer him on. They don't really keep score because they don't want anyone to fell bad. Blah blah so what. If you suck you loose practice at it and don't wine about it when you don't win. It could also be that they are still pretty young and are really just learning the rules of the game and what not so in that case I guess I'm fine with them not keeping score.

I digress.

Jett is a good little soccer player, the 3 games I've seen he's always been pretty aggressive after the ball, I've seen him do a couple of good head butts and steal the ball from other players as well as throwing a shoulder here and there.

Enough of my rambling. Enjoy the pictures.

He's a stud. (even with his chicken legs)

So I may have slacked a bit

This summer was crazy busy and it seemed as though no one was home for the majority of it and therefore I did not do a family post.

Sorry

But here are some new pics.

Mom and the kids were out of town for Pops birthday. I worked all morning and Pops had to go into work that night. So he only got a cupcake.

He was so excited about the awesome twisty candle.

Jett and his two best buddies Alex (the medic) and Ian, on their last day together because they moved to Ephraim.

He has nightmares about "Nam" now.

Any chance Jett has to take his shirt off and show off his abs.

Enola has to make a meal a day for two weeks at least for a Personal Progress goal. She has made some pretty tastey meals. This was Chicken with potatoes, pea, and coconut-curry sauce and last night was a delicious rosemary chicken with sweet-and-sour orange dipping sauce.

So yesterday was the last day of summer for Jett and the last day Chris and I were watching them so we went on a tour of a candy factory. It was fun enough but I wish they would have been making more things but the free samples were a bonus and we walked out with a lot of fresh off the line goodies.