Happy Birthday, Matt and Andy!!!

Matt, the birthday boy, and Markie, Becky and Hannah at Ethel M a few days before Matt's Birthday.

Andy at Daniel's Eagle Project in October of 2008. Andy is wearing his St. Patricks Day face paint.

City of Henderson 5K

Waiting around while we wait for Leah and Dustin to check in.

Putting on the time markers

Police Department Academy

The "waiters".

The runners, after the run.

Everyone from Madison's school who participated.




"Little Black a Pony" who also ran in the 5K. He won in the horse division.

The three biggest winners.

Hood Rat Thousandaire The Movie

Coming Soon to a Theatre near you!

A new movie starring the famous actor Markie Warren Jr. in his most daring role yet. Please turn off all cell phones and return your seat to it's full upright postiton.

A tale (or tail) of a young man born into poverty who goes to a family party where he participates in a game show, of sorts (it was actually a cart wheel and head stand contest) where he takes top honors in the break dancing division. (He was the only entry in that category, but that is not important.) He then breaks out of the poverty he was destined to and buys a little house in the suburbs where he raises chickens and bunnies and dogs and collects rocks and rusty tin cans. (It sure sounds a lot like the same place he was born.) Oh, well. That is just the denoument. The End. That's all folks!

Family Fieldtrips: Flea Market

Daniel-"Hey-Save Me a Piece of that Carn!"
Sat. mornings are always TONS of fun in little Mexico!

Before the Mish, I had gone to the Swap Meet and joked the whole time about how embarassed I was to be there-like "What is all this trash!?!" Now, I LOVE it! Can't get enough of it. Makes me SO happy to be back with my peeps! I love how much "culture" there is to discover at the Feria!

Aside, from buying new animailitos..this week Matt, Mark and Daniel tried for the first time EVER..... "Nacho Libre Corn" from the Krazy Korn stand!


Loved being their with them! So funny! It's a piece of corn with mayo and Chili Powder. Here they even add butter! Super healthy, verdad?

Mark just happens to be a connoiseur of fine corn and it appears that this passed the test! Sounds gross, but seriously delish!

MORE TO COME SOON!

Desert Gloom (Yesterday's Trip to Mojave National Preserve)

Matt, Asher and Victoria look at how trains are moved mannually at the Kelso Train Depot.

The beautiful Kelso Train Depot, out in the middle of nowhere.


Emma dressed herself.

Alex had a great time at the depot.

Back in the saddle again. Asher is a total dweeb.

How many girls can ride the same horse?

Victoria and Madeline.

Winter Wonderland, Joshua Tree Style.

For a while, it was snowing like crazy.

It was a beautiful day, even if it was freezing and blizzard like.

Beck and Ethan

Beck's computer is not working right now but she wanted to announce that indeed the baby is a little:

Alexis Rose Wims

Congrats on your first little girl, Beck and Ethan!

Congratulations Billy!!

SSgt William Calban III, A1C White, and A1C Blakeslee receiving their award from Colonel FergusonBilly doing a post loadBilly preping the missile

Loading the missileLifting the missile to the Aircraft (yes, we manually carry these over and put them on the Aircraft)Attaching the fins to the missile

going over his checklist

Congratulations to Billy for winning Load Crew of the Quarter!! Little Billy and I braved the freezing cold to watch Daddy kick some tail. Billy and his crew finished the load more than six minutes before the other crew!!

Funny words...

So last night William woke up and was crying over and over again, "I want Ice Cream, I want Ice Cream" which is too cute, Ethan and I agreed that we want to go back to childhood where your dreams consist of nothing more than the desire for Ice Cream!

And at church today Greg asked Ethan to take him up to bare his testimony and in Jack fashion he followed along. Gregory gets up and says, "um I'm Gregory and I hope I love my Bumblebee and transformers, at that point Ethan intervened and gave him a few more appropriate lines to say. So than Jack gets up and before Ethan could get to his ear he says as loud as the mic could carry his voice. "Im Jack and I love Optimus Prime."

It has been a funny week, and Congratulations to all the Sunday School move-ups! Greg went up to CTR 5 and Jack Jack went into Sunbeams!! YEA!!

New Years Lake

These are a couple of pictures from our recent outing to Lake Mead on New Years Day. To protect the "innocent," some of the more provocative pictures have been omitted. Enjoy!

After all these years, Hannah still knows how to pose. Hannah was looking away and Leah called out to her, and this was the face she was making as she turned to look. She is always ready for a candid shot!

Daniel takes a few of his nieces and nephews for a jaunt.

Madeline and Markie love to kayak!

Karley ponders the universe.

Grandma leads an all-girl canoe excursion.

The rescue party that had to be sent out to Hannah, who foolishly jumped on the raft without grabbing a paddle first.

Daniel also jumped on the raft without a paddle; however, he used his extremely long arms to get back to shore.

Alex exploring the shoreline.

Asher, the pink-nosed reindeer.

Maddy, enjoying a peaceful moment in the kayak.

Against their better judgement, a contingent of our party did the Las Vegas version of a Polar Bear dip.

Daniel had to jump in to catch his life jacket that accidentally fell in.

The great and spacious shoreline. Our job was to shout insults at the crazy jumpers.

Paddle Forward!

Madison's 12th Birthday!!

Madison turned 12 years old on December 30th. We can hardly believe she's going into Young Womens! Please leave a Birthday message for our sweet, little tween-ager!