Summer's Bday

Summer turned 6 last week and she really knows how to take advantage of her birthday. She had the whole day planned from where she wanted to go for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as movies, parties and gifts. She had to settle for star shaped donuts for her party at school, a swim lesson at the dive shop, "Horton Hears a Who" at the movies, dinner at Cafe Rio and presents at the house. Mindy and Ryan joined in for the movie, dinner and presents. Some of her favorite gifts were a keyboard (for the band) and a karaoke machine. Ask Summer about the band next time you see her. She saw "School of Rock", played Guitar Hero and has listened to a little too much Hannah Montana. She is pretty much all band all the time. Enjoy this clip of Summer after watching School of Rock a few weeks ago-

Bub, Di, Ella, Eva, Brock and Mindy (Ryan had to work) came over for a belated birthday dinner.

Winter Update

We have all been going a little stir crazy for the last month as it seemed winter would never end. We had a crazy amount of snow and were able to build all sorts of snow forts in the front yard. The kids have enjoyed the 5 foot high walls on either side of the driveway and they like sledding down. For a treat, we go up and visit our friends who live up the hill in Suncrest. They have crazy snow up there, like drifts over 6 feet high. Naturally we never took any pictures.


The school year progresses and all the kids are doing well. London entered a science fair with her project on oil and water called the "Groovy Lava Lamp". All the other parents did a good job as well.



Tee and Dave took another dive trip, this time to Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras in Central America. We took a group there last year and got an even better deal this year so we went again. We had a great time and the kids enjoyed spending time with Grandma Smith.

And yes we really do look this goofy underwater.