Yellow Beach Excursion

Here are a few pictures from our little trip to Willow Beach, or Yellow Beach as Emma called it. The boys were dying to try out their new canoe, so we made a day trip out of it. We ate a little picnic lunch, then hit the water:

The view down the Colorado River.

The sun was blinding, but not heating. It was a pleasant 50 degrees with no wind to speak of.

Asher and Paige head for land.

The Darrington crew enjoy a leisurely paddle.

Make way for Mallard and his "lady friend".

Markie, right before demonstating a flawless eskimo roll.

Hannah and the cousins go for a little trip.

Stuck on a Razor

This one pretty much speaks for itself.

A Very Florida Christmas

Our Christmas TrainThese are Billy's Christmas jammies

'Frankensteins' Stitches

Daniel's stitches on his hip for his bone graft. Looks pretty good, huh? Tomorrow he gets his stitches removed. He's pretty excited.

"Oh, The Weather Outside Is Grateful" and I am so frightful!!!

Kind of hard to see, but the trees are laying down, almost to the ground.

Steve knocking all the snow off of the trees. They were bent down to the ground.

My rose garden, or snow garden.

The front door. We barely made it into the garage without snow tires.
Frosty, the SnowDork.

Merry Christmas Grandma and Grandpa from Your Hutto Elves

Grandma

Grandpa

He He funny Ethan...

So, I was so excited to look at who had posted a new post on the family blog, to my shock it was my husband posting about a pregnancy that we hadn't yet announced!! So I guess were announcing, Oh Ethan, Ethan..So we are 10 weeks pregnant as you can see we got our ultrasound today and everything is right on track for a mid to late June delivery!! YEA!!

First Picture

Sorry that the quality isn't that great but you can get the idea. Here is the first picture of our baby from the ultrasound today.

Family Almanac

As a school project, the kids and I are making an Almanac for the coming year. I'm pretty sure I know most of the family birthdays, but I want to make sure I get everything right. Please comment with all the birthdays in your families. We are also welcoming any jokes, proverbs, words of wisdom, recipes, etc. that you would like to see in print. We'll send them out for Christmas as long as everyone cooperates! Thanks!

Homeschool day at the Johnson Space Center

Mémé finally gets a picture of Papa and Cambria

We finally got a picture of Papa holding Cambria as well. I think she likes being kissed, she's moved her head up to get it!

Our Little Monkey

Halloween from Hutto

Here are our Halloween pics for 2008. Since I'm too cheap to upgrade my Flickr account and it will be another month before Halloween catches up to my free uploads, here's the pics.

The haunted house this year. This year we placed the haunted castle outside our house to share the frights with the neighborhood kids.

Bronwyn (Dorothy) just woke up. Quinlan was a Phantom, Rhiannon a movie star and Ethan was a ninja.

I carved this pumpkin mask/helmet for Quinlan; but apparently pumpkins are heavy, even when gutted.

Happy Halloween!!

We'd like to see every one's costumes! Please post a picture so we can see what every one was for Halloween!

madison- Jenny, from our favorite campfire tale.

karley- a zombie ballerina.

paige- a bride.

scott- a curious little monkey.

Hope every one had a Happy Halloween!!

Some Halloween pics - if you have them, post them!

Do you remember those days when you were "allowed" to wear makeup because it was part of a costume? Now if we don't wear makeup, people think we are wearing the scary lady costume (or in my case, the ghost lady).
Our resident inventor, Karley Jayce, and her new conveyance for Brother Scott.
It may be Halloween, but it's still light enough to ride bikes!
Karley and Paige starring in the White Halloween album.
Here is Cambria in her designer Bethany ladybug costume. This is here first holiday!
Scott and Grandpa--who is teaching whom how to be a monkey?

A Smattering of Recent Photos

Emma on her first day of pre-school. She enjoys learning new things and loves her teacher, Miss Miyomi.

Every once in while we ask Emma: "Why are you so naughty?"

Her response: "Because I'm so cute."

From Asher's "Indiana Jones"-themed birthday a couple of weeks ago. He and his friends watched Crystal Skull and ate popcorn. Then, they dug into this cake. They'll all make great archaeologists some day.

Asher at this past month's pack meeting, reading a short story on which he and his compatriots collaborated. It was pretty funny.

Asher and his friend Cayson getting their Wolf badges at the meeting.

Over Labor Day, the boys and I drove to Great Basin National Park to hike Wheeler Peak and tour the Lehman Caves. I had to beg the boys to go on the cave tour, but once inside, they had a great time.

Eating lunch on the trail to Wheeler Peak.

Wheeler Peak - the high point in the picture - is about 13,000 feet above sea-level. The boys started malfunctioning around 11,500 feet, so we had to turn back. Maybe next year.

Alex and the aspens. Such beautiful trees.


The boys on the first day of school. This is the first year they've had to wear "standard student attire," and, for the most part, they enjoy it. The only customization allowed is shoes. Alex chose camo; Asher skulls.

Happy Birthday, Dear LIZZIE!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday, Dear Lizzie,

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday, Dear BECKY!!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday, Dear Becky,

Happy birthday to you!

Alex was a good sport in agreeing to model this newest river runner hair style!
Tippacanoe and Markie, too!
Madeline has the definite markings of a professional river runner in the making!
We don't know if Asher was bigger than the coyote, or if they both were vying to be Victoria's housepet!
Emeline is thinking that it might take more than 11,000 tests for the LLVWD to clean the foam out of this water...