Scouts and Dancing

Yesterday in a Court of Honor, David was awarded his WoodBadge bead. He
has been working on his wood badge over the past year and a half. Good Job David!
This past week end, Leslie and Brett were in charge
of our Stake's Dance festival. They organized the Wards into four groups and arranged for them to learn four different dances and perform them for the stake. A youth dance then followed. It turned out real nice. Brett and Leslie taught the country two step and they also performed it with their group. Abigail and Mark enjoyed dancing too, and Abigail also wanted
to dance with James. That took some help from the
adults.

Piano Recital

We have a family of piano players!
Todd is taking a piano class at BYUI and for that class he needed to have a piano recital with at least 6 adults in attendance. So, we just decided to have a family piano recital. Lots of the family participated, but David didn't have time to prepare anything. :(





Even the little ones got involved. I specially enjoyed Elden's rendition of "My donkey's gray". His HeeHaws were great! Everyone did a very good job. I am impressed with Todd's playing. This class has been great for him. The audience was good too, though the photographer was a bother at times.

Dance Alliance

Todd and Bethany are in Dance Alliance at BYUI. They put on their big show - the one they will take on tour this spring - for the school this past weekend. David and I went to see it on Friday. I really wish I could have gotten some pictures during the dances. They did such a nice job. These photos were taken after the show. Todd and Bethany were both in a lot of the dances and even danced together in some. The whole show was high energy and thought provoking. Excellent Job Todd and Bethany!

My newest grandson

Clark Abram was born almost 1 month ago though he wasn't due until the 20th of March. He spent his first 2 weeks in the NICU and the Simmons' family (after Shanalee got out of the hospital) spent that time here at our house because we are closer to the hospital then their house is and because they needed someone to be with Elden while they spent lots of time at the hospital. It was a hectic but very enjoyable 2 weeks. Now we are happy to announce that Clark, and his family, are all home and doing well.


Beautiful baby. Beautiful mother. Beautiful grandkids. Beautiful family. We are truly blessed.

January Birthdays

Happy Birthday!

Bethany and Todd are now both 23 years old. We celebrated Bethany's birthday at her parents home the first of January. We celebrated Todd's birthday here at our house just this past week. We wish them many many more happy birthdays together. I just can't believe my "baby" (and his wife!!) are 23 years old. Where does the time fly?

Saying Good-bye

We helped take the Flamm family to the airport on Saturday and we got a call from them that night that they were safely in Mississippi. These are our airport good-byes! We love you. Good luck in Mississippi!

Last day (for awhile) with the Flamms

This past weekend David and I spent some time with the Flamms. We took the kids all day Friday while Kyle and MiKell finished getting their house ready for sale. We had a good snowfall the night before so David took the opportunity to play in the snow with the kids. Zach enjoyed the snowball fight with grandpa.


This may be their last time to make a snowman for several years. Mississippi is not known for snow. The kids helped by following David around.



We spent all afternoon at a children's museum and the kids had a great time! Zach got to play the part of the king in a play. He got to sneeze and sneeze and sneeze. In fact he sneezed himself to death. He had quite an interesting death scene. I'm sure going to MISS these kids!!!!