This Little Piggy Stayed.....Home?

Hi Everyone this is Jessica. Grandma insisted that i blog and tell you about our new pet that was brought home to us last night by Matt and his friends...

So Matt comes home from school yesterday and casually asks my mom if he could bring a pig home to stay with us for six weeks until Swine Week. To clear things up really quick, Swine Week is a huge, exciting fundraising week we have at the High School every year where we raise money for a certain cause and this year we are raising money for Diabetes. We always have a different theme for Swine Week that is associated with pigs. Like last year the theme was Viva Hog Vegas and the year before that was Peter Ham (Peter Pan) and so on. So this year some of Matt's friends volunteered to raise a large sum of money to help out with the fundrasing. Well they got this brilliant plan to buy a pig to help them raise money and decided that our house was the best place to keep it. So after a long argument with my parents, they finally gave in and decided to let them keep it here. It is a small, black, pot-belly pig. It's really cute and we all love it. My mom is reliving some childhood memories.

Michael

Well, we were finally able to get some pictures from Michael. He was able to send them with his E-mail. He has promised that there are more coming for Christmas so I will post more as I get them.

Newly baptized member's home. One of Michael's favorite places to go. She feeds them like they are kings.

Missionaries Apartment (Michael's room was never this clean!)

Church building in Zadar.

Michael picking olives

Disco Grandma

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The Guy's Weekend

Fun Cousin Weekend

What a fun weekend with Haley! Thanks for sending her. Thursday we went to the tea room for a fun lunch. I think grandma had more fun than the girls. They were so cute in their dress-up clothes and hats. They had their own teapot of lemonade. They served us little scones and they made the plates look so cute for the girls. Later that afternoon we went and saw Kit Kittredge. It is a darling movie for girls that age. Then it was home for swimming, swimming, and more swimming. (Of course, we can't forget the card games!)

Happy Mother's Day!

I love Grandma's quilts! ( Michael) still hates his picture taken

I love grandma because I'm her favorite. (Matt)

I love grandma because she loves to get beat in cards. (Jessica)

I love grandma because she takes me lots of fun places when we visit. (Anna)

I would love grandma to come and visit us this summer. (Mark)

Sports, Sports, and More Sports

Currently, Anna and Mark are both in Soccer and Mark is also in T-Ball. It is so much fun to go and watch their games. They both are really good at soccer. The least amount of goals Mark has scored at a game is 7. (He is lucky to have 4 older siblings to play with him.) Mark is also good at T-Ball. It is so cute to see them out there in their uniforms not knowing where to go. Here are a couple of pictures of Mark. (I will get some of Anna soon. :)

Basketball Season

This is "coach Brett" in action.

This is Zach in action.

This is Brayden in action.

Our Saturdays in February are filled with the boys' basketball games. Brett is coaching Brayden's team this year. He promised him since he coached Zach last year. This last Sat. I went with camera in hand trying to capture the perfect picture/video. Every time I got the camera out, Nate and Kacie would want to play with it or cry for me to take their picture. I think at one point when I let them look at it, they messed with all the settings. My pictures kept coming out blury and bad. Anyway, I'll have to go back and try to reset my camera. Just wanted to share this with everyone since its about all we do for awhile. The second video of Brayden you can't see him very well because he's behind the pole--but its him, I promise!

Thank You Bev!

Bev, We just wanted to say Thank You for the wonderful quilts you made for the kids for Christmas! They LOVE them! What a treasure they can keep forever. They've been wrapped up in them almost constantly the last 2 days. We had a nice time at your house on Christmas afternoon and loved seeing everyone. We hope you all had a great Christmas Day!

Christmas Party

Just had to share some photos of the Family Christmas Party. We had a fun time and missed all of you that were far away!

Bingo...

The Nativity...
I think this year was one of the most calm nativities we've ever had! The kids actually stood still. Great Job Ashley!

Mary and Joseph...

The Wise Men...
The Angels...
The Sheep...

And then the special visitor...
It was so cute how much Ethan loved Santa! And Peyton, maybe next year! :)
Merry Christmas!

Santa's Elf

Last weekend Jessica was invited to her friends' ward Christmas party to dress up as an elf. They had the actual costumes that they wore in the movie Elf. They handed out toys to the kids as they sat on Santa's lap. She had a lot of fun.

Thanksgining continued....

I had to make another post because it wouldn't let me do any more pictures so here's the rest of our day!!