Zachary at School

This teacher is a dear friend of ours. She taught Emmalee last year. Zachary will sneak over to Miss Felicia's class and she will have to walk him back to his class. This picture was on the school website.

The Three Kings

We had the Three Kings come to our home on January 6th. In Mexico as well as Spain it is the Three Kings that visit not Santa and they come on January 6th not December 25th. The Kings brought each of the kids a gift. They all loved their presents except Emmalee. While she was opening her gift she noticed the box inside said "High School Musical", unknown to mom only farie and barbie stuff are acceptable. Without even looking to see what it was she started crying and saying she hated that show, which is not true, and that her gift was for Josh and that wasn't fair. The girls continued to open the gift and show her everything but the stubbornness continued. Marissa and Rachel even put the dress up stuff on her. After we left she went and looked at the wig in the mirror and now we can't get it off her head. Emmalee finally decided that she got the best gift.

Joshua's Baptism

On January 2, 2010 Joshua became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was baptised at 10:30am on a cold but beautiful morning. His Uncle Scott and Grandpa Nelson Witnessed the baptism. His Grandpa Leishman, Grandpa Nelson, Uncle Scott Leishman, Uncle Ted Vielstich stood in the circle while his Father performed the confirmation. Scott and Carrie were very kind to let us use their home for the baptism luncheon. Congratulation Joshua!

Jeffery's Wedding

My brother Jeffery was married to Rachael on December 30 in the Vernal Temple. We are so excited to have her. Congrats you two. Melyssa had the great idea of making it a girls trip so we load the van with her three girls and I brought Marissa and Rachel. It was about a four hour trip but we had fun. They went swimming in the hotel pool, ate dinner with Grandma, Grandpa Nelson, Great Grandma Pat and Michael at Golden Corral. We then saw "Run don't walk" an old Cary Grant movie. What a fun girls night. In the morning Melyssa and I went to the wedding and the girls joined us for the wedding dinner. Thank you Melyssa for making this possible for us to attend. We had lots of fun.

Nap Time!!

So busy, so tired, so zonked out. Nap time at the hotel.

Christmas in Utah

This is the first part of our trip visiting family in Utah. At the Mexico City Airport we ran into Santa and his elves. Santa spoke in Spanish and then English, wished them a Merry Christmas and a fun plane ride. Then the elves gave the kids Santa paper to write their Santa letters. After writing their letters they mailed them in the special mail box the elves had. They each got a bag of candy. What a way to begin our trip.
When we arrived in Utah it was quite cold but we hoped that some snow would come to warm things up a bit. Out of the two and a half weeks we were there it only snowed two days. I was surprised a how much our bodies had gotten use to the weather in Mexico. At least the buildings, homes, and cars are heated.
The next set of Pictures are of us in SLC to see the lights. Then of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning. Carol Ann and Arvin Leishman let Santa leave the presents for the kids at their home. Santa was quite noisy, grandma said. We had a wonderful Christmas.

Happy Birthday Emmalee!!!

Emmalee is now 6. Can you believe it? She decided for her special day that she wanted to go bowling with her family and friends. We invited the Verhaal family to join us. They gave her farie wings and wand. She wore it the entire time bowling and until we left for Utah a week later. Emmalee Bowled a strike her first roll!