Just a Week Ago

It's a winter wonderland here.

D and P had so much fun
sledding this afternoon.
They played in the snow for a good hour.
After a warm bubble bath and snuggly pjs,
P insisted on putting on all
his snow gear again, by himself,
just to watch a show.
That boy loves being outside!

It's hard to believe that this was just last week.

Day 5 - Magic Kingdom
Drew's homework assignment
was to get a picture with Tigger.
This was easily accomplished
at our breakfast at Crystal Palace.

Notice Drew's breakfast
sausages and bacon -
a breakfast of champions!

After 5 days of playing hard
everyone was ready to call it a day around 6:00,
but not Drew and Aaron.
They dropped us off at the hotel
and headed to Epcot.
They rode all of D's favorites -
Test Track, Mission Space,
Nemo, and the Ball Ride.
D told Aar,
This was the best day of my life!

Disney Studios

Day 4 - Disney Studios

First up, the new Toy Story Mania ride.

Definitely a new favorite!

Captain Ric -
this photo is for you!

D, Pey, and Dylan
loved meeting Lightning and Mater!

E, Al, D, and Nate
all said the
Aerosmith Rockin Rollercoaster
was their favorite ride.
Thanks to no crowds, they were able
to go on it as much as they wanted.
Too bad Tower of Terror
wasn't a favorite!

Animal Kingdom

Day 3 - Animal Kingdom

The day started out with Donald Duck's
Tusker House breakfast.

Donald's Breakfast was all
of the boys' favorite last year.
They all had a great time
this year too.

After breakfast we headed
straight to Expedition Everest
which turned out to be Ella's
favorite ride.
She is a major dare devil.

I think Ella rode
this ride half a dozen times.
She out did the boys!

Epcot

Day 2 - Epcot

First ride on the agenda
none other than Test Track.
Peyton was tall enough to ride this year.
It was so fun to go all together.

Even after arriving at 2:30 am,
Troy, Tanya, & Co
met us bright and early
to enjoy all the rides.
Favorites included -
Test Track, Mission Space,
Soarin', Finding Nemo,
the new Epcot Ball ride,
Figment,
and of course Club Cool.
It was great being able to spend the
week with you guys!
We had so much fun!!
Why don't we live closer.......

We ate lunch at Nine Dragons.
Yummy!! It was there that Peyton
discovered that he loves noodles and meatballs.
Dinner was at the Garden Grill
with Chip, Dale, Pluto, and Mickey.
What a fun day!

Notice no pictures of E with the characters.
He's too old now :(

Happy Birthday in Florida!

I had such a great birthday in Florida!

First on the agenda...
a trip to the Magic Kingdom!

We were the first people on Dumbo
and basically walked on all the rides.
In 3 hours we had pretty
much been on all the rides.
It was great!
The kids were so excited
that we had to run to keep up with them.

Next stop...
Lunch at Cheesecake Factory which is
always delicious.
Then off to Cocoa Beach!

The boys loved
collecting sea shells.

We played and played at the beach!

It was a little too cool to go in the water,
but that didn't stop D...

My handsome boys!

Oh how I love the beach!
What a perfect birthday!

Big #99

Tonight was E's football banquet. 

A Few Highlights

25 players

35 pizzas

5 great coaches

Awesome highlight DVD

2008 Toilet Bowl Champions

GO KNIGHTS!

Hill Aerospace Museum

Yesterday we finally had a chance
to go to the Hill Aerospace Museum.
It was absolutely amazing!
The boys loved it!

The planes were so much bigger
than I had imagined.

We saw the world's fastest plane,
the SR-71.
The boys loved learning that while
it's on the ground it leaks gas because
it stretches about 1 1/2 feet
while in flight sealing the gas tank.

The boys were very impressed
to learn that Great Grandma Schofield
had built P-51s during the war.
Drew wanted to know
what she wasn't doing this anymore
because it is so cool!

We could have spent
the entire day here.
We'll definitely have to come back!

Halloween

Thursday Mimi brought down decorations and sugar cookies

to begin the Halloween fun.
The boys had a great time decorating the cookies.

Peyton insisted on being a scary skeleton.
I painted his face
and luckily we took some pictures
before he looked in the mirror.

Because after he did, the scary
paint came off.

D was a skeleton too,
but he wanted no part
of the scary stuff.

The annual Halloween night
was a blast.
The weather was perfect.
Both E and Al were mad scientists.
We even made slime.
The kids had a great time
trick or treating!

Game Day

Tiger called right at half-time of the BYU vs. UNLV game
and said that there were 4 tickets at the Presidential Will Call
waiting for Aar.
In one of the fastest trips down to BYU ever,
Aar, Al, D, and P made it just as the 3rd quarter started.
The weather was a beautiful 70 degrees
and the Cougars sealed a victory right as the clock ran out.

Apparently they showed a video
of an evil Cosmo with red eyes and a good Cosmo.
Peyton couldn't stop talking about that evil Cosmo.
He kept a close eye on the Cosmo running around the stadium
to make sure he wasn't the evil one.

On the way home Drew said, Alex, your wish came true.
Alex replied, What wish?
D, Remeber what you wished for this morning?
Alex,
Oh yeah! You're right.
This morning when E left for the BYU game
with his Scouts I wished that I could go to the game too.
And I got to go!!
Everyone had a great time.
Thank you Tiger!!!!

I know it's been over a month since the last post.  It seems that every spare moment has involved some home improvement project.  Take a look.

From this.....

To this....

It's so exciting to have everything painted, trim installed, and carpet. The carpet was installed just yesterday!  Hopefully, this weekend we'll get the boys completely moved into their rooms. It's taken awhile, but it's definitely been worth the wait.

Lots of Fun

What a fun weekend we had! Aar's whole family was in town for Kristina's reception. It was great seeing relatives we haven't seen in a long time. A big thanks to Uncle Wimp, Layne, and Dane for all their hard work! Thanks to Jody for the new towels :) ! What a wonderful weekend! It is very quite around here now. For in depth details visit here, here, and here.

Surprise!

Neans was able to visit this weekend, so

we threw Mom a "surprise" birthday party!
T's house was decorated so cute!

Delicious cake from
Nothing Bundt the Cake.
Yummy!

It was fun to be together.
Although we missed Wong and Family,
Steve and Company,
the Ricker
and Jones.

Peyton helped Rhett blow out
his candle.
(Happy Birthday to Rhett tomorrow!)

After dinner and dessert
Rhett and the boys played football.
The boys would have played for
hours, but alas they have school
tomorrow.

Drew wanted to stay at T and Rhett's
for 10,000 days. He says,
I want everyone to live
right next door, so I can say,
Hey Ella want to play?

BIG E!!!

I can't believe that we used to call him little E. He's such a big guy now. I can't believe he's almost 10. EJ, yeah, we used to call him that.