Birthday Party

Alex had his birthday party last night at the
Space Center.

It was a great party. His friends came over to our house first.
They played Kinect, ate pizza, and opened presents.
Then it was off to the Space Center
where they boarded the Phoenix
and participated in the Supernova mission.


It lasted 2 1/2 hours.
Each boy had a job - Captain, Science Officer,
Tacticle, Engineer, etc.
The boys loved it!
It was fun to hear the boys talk about the mission all the way home.

Happy Birthday Alex!

Sundance Skiing

It's always nice when you get back from work and a few hours later you're swooshing down the slopes! Its even better if where you've been working is a flat place like Missouri! Peyton, Drew, Kade and Uncle Ethan went to Sundance this afternoon for their "Twilight" pass. 2 hours of skiing, $32, litterly a dozen runs, there was no one there to get in the way or make us wait in a line! Also it was Kade's first time skiing! He was brave and is so good, he was skiing Blue's by the time the lifts shut down and the kicked us off the mountain! It was great!

The Canyons

We were finally able to go skiing today! (We have been home bound the last month due to sinus infections, colds, sore throats and kidney stones.) It was a beautiful day to ski. We went to The Canyons in Park City. It is an amazing resort. The runs were all challenging, but everyone did great. (No green runs for us and not because I didn't want to ski green. There just weren't any green runs!) The heated lift, gondola, and six pack were the favorite lifts.





The favorite run of the day was Rhapsody. We can't wait to go back!

Happy Birthday Alex!!

I can't believe Alex is 10. Yes, 10!!! That's a decade since he snuck into our lives in the middle of the night with what feels like a record setting birth. (We barely made it to the hospital) After a night of BYU Hockey and hotdogs, Alex decided he needed to see the world. We are very happy to have him in our lives!! We love the big guy!

The Schofield Pizza Challenge

The boys have been watching a lot of Man vs. Food on the Travel channel with Aaron. They decided they needed to have their own challenge, so the Schofield Pizza challenge was born. The rules were simple: Any large pizza from Little Ceasars or Dominos, 20 minutes to eat as much as possible, anything to drink, and no bathroom breaks. Prizes were awarded for number of pieces eaten! The boys all were excited with Peyton and Drew each choosing a Little Ceasars Peperoni, Alex with his more sophisticated palate choose a Dominos Pepperoni and Ethan with his love of steak, decided a Philly Cheese Steak from Dominos was in order.

Here are the pre-contest boys!


Each of them started off strong!!





The boys kept going strong!!





HOWEVER, even with their LOVE of Pizza they all soon became VERY FULL! At the 20 minute mark EVERY boy was STUFFED full of pizza!!!!





Grand Pizza Total:
Peyton - 2 Pieces
Drew - 5 Pieces
Alex - 5 Pieces
Ethan - 6 Pieces

Each boy is very proud and are preparing for the next challenge, bacon covered hotdogs!!

Airplanes

Pey went to fly model airplanes
with Aar the other day.
I think we may have a budding cinematographer on our hands.
I love his narration!

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Photo shoot scouting in AF Canyon

I decided that today we needed to get ready for a fall family photo. Last year we were too late, the colors had changed. So I decided that today we'd as a family go scout out some locations for next weeks photo shoot. Here are some iPhone 4 photo candidates! I'd like to point out that Peyton was clean when we left the house. He is a dirt magnet! Enjoy!

Basketball Boys at it Again!

Yesterday Ethan had a basketball game and come game time only 4 players where there. Rather than forfeit, they had Alex step in as the 5th man. See for yourself how they did! Both boys are in yellow shorts, Alex number 9 and Ethan 34.

Greens, Blues, and Even a Black

We had a fabulous time skiing at Brighton today!
All the boys did great!
We skiied Magestic first. Everyone had fun, but P was a little timid.
The boys were tired of skiing the same lift,


so Aar and the big boys headed off to Snake Creek.


E and Alex have become quite the skiiers!


P and I headed over to Explorer to give P a few confidence building runs.
We met for lunch where P informed us he was ready to ski with the boys.
We all headed to Snake Creek and even ran into some friends of ours.
We did a couple of runs with them before they headed to lunch.
Drew worked on his turns and P became quite the speed demon.
So much so that we skiied some blues.
I love that everyone loves skiing and we can do this as a family!


Aar and Drew had to try the Milly Express before we left.
Little did I know that part of the run was a black diamond.
Aar said Drew was a pro.
He was so proud that he skiied a black diamond!
All the boys did great!
We had such a fun day!

Cousins

Neana, the Captain, and Dane

stayed at our house over New Year's.

P couldn't have been happier.

He loves showing Dane the ropes

and being the "big" cousin.

When are you coming back to visit?

Skiing

Yesterday Aaron took the boys up to Brighton

for their first day of skiing.

They all went to Ski School

and came out loving it.

In fact, they loved it so much

they took me skiing today.

It was a perfect day!

Absolutely beautiful.

The kids were amazing and fearless.

We decided to put P into Ski School today

which he loved.

P is in the yellow helmet.

After only a few times down Explorer,

the boys wanted to ski some "real" runs

and we headed over to Majestic.

You should have seen the boys

on the green and blue trails.

Very impressive.

Uncle Ric was able to come with us.

The boys loved being able to show

him their skills.

Drew was my ski buddy for the day.

He insisted he take me on a blue

run to show me his moves.

I loved being able to ski as a family.

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year!
The boys all said it was the best Christmas ever!
It was so fun to watch them
truly enjoy every minute of it.
They are such fun ages right now.
Santa didn't want any
peeking this year.
All the boys except P came up
at exactly 6:30 am.
We had to wake P up, but he didn't mind at all.

E to Alex,
I can't believe I got a camera
when I didn't tell anyone that's what I wanted.
Hmmmm. Maybe Santa IS real.

Alex was so excited about
his personalized Patriots jersey!

Santa brought exactly
what I wrote on my list!

I LOVE my GeoTrax!

What a great day!

Look at these handsome Christmas boys!

When did he become so grown up?
This is going way too fast!