Hike Up Mission Peak

We spent the weekend with Mom and Dad in Fremont. We decided to hike up Mission Peak on Saturday morning. We found that the rush hour traffic moves from the freeways to the hills on the weekend. The trails were packed!

Don't the kids have a stud grandma! Way to go Mom!

Pinewood Derby

Last night Ethan participated in his first Pinewood Derby. He appropriately named his car the "Black Hammer". He had a lot of fun and his car did well.

Valentine's Wreath

So I saw this cute wreath on Pinterest and said "I can do that!" So, I did. It turned out so cute.

Watching Jimmer

The Sacramento Kings had a BYU Alumni Night on New Year's Eve. Clark, Ethan and I went. We got to see Jimmer at a pre-game Q&A session. After that, 40 kids got to go down on the floor during warmups and high five Jimmer and the rest of the team. Clark and Ethan were selected. Unfortunately the parents had to wait in their seats. :( It was a fun night.

Christmas!

Since we have Church at 9 am we decided to just do stockings before church. So we blocked everything else off until after church. I loved having church on Christmas. It made the day seem so full.

The kids had a great time opening their stockings. It was cute to watch Grant this year. He is starting to get it.

Then we were off to church. Which was really nice. The music was beautiful.

Lauren's big gift was her princess bike. She loved it and the helmet was the perfect finishing touch.

Grant got his own scooter. Hopefully we won't have any more fights about scooters now.

Ethan got his video games. So he was quietly self-entertaining the whole day.

Clark got some legos, so he and dad had a fun afternoon putting those together.

Lauren's new princess dress!

We had a wonderful Christmas and were so glad to have G & G N with us for the day.

Christmas Eve!

We open PJ's from Grandma and Grandpa N. on Christmas Eve! Lauren was priceless. She could barely contain her excitement over her princess gown. We had a wonderful night.

Thanksgiving in AZ!

This year since the kids had the whole week off from school we decided to make the trek down to AZ to see my family. We had a great time and got to see a lot of family which is always great. Here is the boys sharing one of the drumsticks. Clark finished off most of it and wanted another one. He is a good eater.

We also had a chance to spend some time with Laura and Taylor and their kids. They are the closest cousins that we have, so the kids were so excited. Gordon and Clark having a great time.

My parents had this tree in the backyard that was dying so my dad said, with Eric's help, they could chop down the tree. Needless to say they had a great time with the ax.

We also went to the Natural History Museum in Mesa with my dad while mom and Tessa were at school. The kids had a great time looking at all the dinosaur bones and playing with the exhibits.