Christmas Gift Exchange

No one has said anything about exchanging gifts this year but I figured out who everyone has. So here it is if you think it might be wrong let me know.

           Your Name ------ Whom You Have

             Dad                         Mom

             Mom                       Lawna

             Lawna                     Robin

             Robin                      Eileen

             Eileen                      Layne

             Layne                      Ethan

             Ethan                       Kristen

             Kristen                     Naomi

             Naomi                      Brittana

             Brittana                     Dad

I rotated it twice from last year because otherwise we would have had ourselves. So basically whoever had you last year, you know have them. I am not sure if everyone wants to do a limit I think we did $20 last year. 

Tana is Playing Softball

 Her team is the Red WIngs

Click HERE for a Video of Tana Batting

Tree Trimming Time

First off this is Naomi and I have never blogged before, so we will see how this goes. So on Friday April 5th some guy came and chopped down the box elder bug tree. Then he trimmed the one next to it, that has the tire swing on it. Then this past Thursday the 18th Tree Trouble came and trimmed the two that are by the house and got the dead out of the poplar tree. They cleaned up most of the mess, but there are still a trillion sticks on our lawn that I can't wait to pick up in the freezing wind:). Layne said he wanted to see pictures so here they are.

 

 Here is a small portion of the mess that they made.

 You can't really tell from this picture, but they were

pretty successful at destroying some of our bushes.

 The box elder bug tree is gone. Well kinda gone,

 the trunk is still there, obviously.

 Trees . . .

 Trees . . .

 and more trees!

 Here they are hard at work.

 They didn't really trim this one they just took the dead out of it.

 And here we have some popcorn popping on our apricot tree,

I think its pretty so I decided to share it with you.

Tana is Playing Volleyball

 The team name is "Boom".  When they score a point they all say, "You just got Boomed!" and stomp their feet.

Spring Break Get-Together

Kristen and Naomi took some of these pictures.

All together there were 14 of us (Including Karson's mom, Kris and Ethan's friend, Sydney) who went to Hagerman to see the alligators and swim at 1000 Springs.  Levi had to work :-(

 It was early and still chilly, so the gators were keeping warm in the hot springs water.

 Mom kept saying, "Look at the white teeth."

 Looking for fish

 Mom said that I'm never in any pictures.  So Kristen took a picture of me.

 The water was so warm and there was a lot of steam in there.

 Proof that Kristen stood up on the log

Naomi recorded Dad on the diving board

Before they got dressed, they all went for one last jump

Mom soaked in the pool too for quite a while, but didn't end up in any of the pictures.

 Kasen wore his goggles for a whole day afterward

Grandpa Koyle's Funeral

 

 

While the casket bearers were standing in the wind...

Everyone else was huddling together in the tent

 

 

 

Bishop Douglass helping with the last little bit

the luncheon

Some of the people who traveled through the storms:

Heather Grant

some of the Greens

Roy and Julie with their "twins", LaNae and Miriam were born 4 days apart

Kimberly and Wyatt

Terrys

Priscilla Peterson, Shanna Koyle, Ruth Waite, Paul and Karla Douglass