Bretey Family

New Years Eve

2009-12-31T22:11:00.000-08:00

We went south for new years to hang out with my family. They have some serious snow, which was perfect for what David wanted to do.We went to the Dude Ranch for some snow shoeing.
This is the Hurst's cabin the kids could just climb on the roof without any trouble. Klea thought it would be good to shovel the snow off the roof. So that is why they got up.
Abi and Spencer on top.

David and Kade
Spencer trying to get up. Such a cute little snow bunny!

Spencer found the horse swing to play on.

Lizz and my dad.

William after tubing for a while. He was covered in snow. Some how we got all the way to b-town without his winter coat. He survived with his BYU hoody.

My dad and Trevor helping David make a snow cave. David wanted to try making a snow cave in preparations for a winter snow camp.

Trevor helping get the snow out of the cave.

David inside the snow cave. It was quite spacious, but I rather not be an occupant.

Abi lookin' in the cave.

Me, Trevor, Lizz, My dad, and Spencer right before we headed up the big hill. It actually wasn't too bad climbing the hill with the snow shoes. I think this is just the beginnings of our snow shoeing adventures.

Christmas Eve and Christmas day

2009-12-25T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here we are on Christmas Eve. We have a very yummy Prime Rib dinner. It was so tasty!It is David's family tradition to open all the presents under the Christmas tree Christmas Eve. Spencer got an electric tooth brush and PJs. He was very excited!

David showing off some of his new clothes.

My kids have fancy posses. William sportin' his new BYU attire.

Our dad got Snow Shoes. He is very excited about these!

Abi got a iPod touch and couldn't be happier about it .Christmas morning after Santa left some surprises.
The kids all got Santa'a coal in their stockings.
It is really bubble gum. William thought it was cool!

Santa left the family a small gumball machine. Spence was thrilled!
For some reason I didn't get many pictures of Christmas morning, but we are very spoiled with all the gifts we received.

William on Christmas day ready to go sledding.

Random

2009-12-20T21:33:00.000-08:00

I got to go help with Spencer's Christmas party as school.
We made these cute little snowman heads.
It was also Polar Express day hence the PJs and he got a elf hat.
So cute!
My baby isn't going to be little too much longer.

William found this leaf on the way home from church.
They are funny boys!
So animated!

We grew this huge potato in the our garden!
It fed us all for dinner one night.
Love Red Potatoes fresh from the garden!!

David heading to scouts to work on the music merit badge, can you tell?

Abi made these ever so cute ginger bread people at activity days so cute!!!

Happy 13th Birthday!

2009-12-13T09:12:00.000-08:00

David turns 13!
Abi was so sweet to get her brother some of his favorite subjects on posters.
Abi is quite thoughtful!He got a cord to hook up the new pickup for his guitar to the amp.
He was very excited and surprised to know he had been playing his guitar with the pickup in it for 3 weeks. Now his playing can be amplified!

He has been working on some merit badges and needed to visit some government or state buildings. SO we all went to the state capital building.
It is an amazing building!

The is some beautiful rock walls throughout the building!
Everyone should go check it out. It is a great place for photo shoots too.

Can you Tell I have a 13 year old??

2009-12-12T22:46:00.000-08:00

David is a funny boy! I tried to get him to just look nice for a picture,
but he is so excited to be a TEENAGER!!!!!
So he had to act like on too!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

He is a funny kid! He makes us laugh lots!

NJHS

2009-12-01T21:23:00.000-08:00

David was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society.
This picture is a little blurry, but glad to have captured the moment.
We are proud of David and his determination to have great grades!For his first 2 quarters of Junior High he is a 4.0 student! Way to go!

The whole group. Notice not as many boys and girls.
We are glad david is taking advantage of clubs like this that will help him for years to come!

Thanksgiving Talent Show

2009-11-28T14:41:00.000-08:00

On Thanksgiving we had a Talent Show. It was very fun. The kids were very excited to share one of their own talents.

KC and Michelle sang a fun song about MILK. Very good KC! Loved it. Abi shared some card tricks. And they were very tricky!

Abi also shared one of her new found talents of making balloons. A kid favorite!

Spencer and William did a fun song. William is behind Spencer with his arms in the sheet as the arms in the dress. He put lipstick on Spence and had him eat a sucker. It is pretty hilarious!

Tim showing off some of Abi's balloon creations.

Jace with a very fancy crown!

David playing his guitar.

Spencer doing a little dance/gymnastics. He has quite the MOVES!

Tim and Abi taking a turn at the sheet talent. It was really funny!!!

The couple I didn't get picture of was Tim singing his very own and very creative version of the 12 days of Christmas, and Jace did a cute little skit about doggy droppings. Grammy also talked to us about some ancestors that had some great talents.
Here are the awards that everyone received.
You all did a great job and we will definitely have to do it again.

David took David and KC to the temple to do baptisms for the dead.

It was a neat experience for them.

We also went out to Green Canyon Springs and swam in the Hot Springs. On our way in we saw this oh so very interesting car. I don't think I have ever seen anything like it.
Somebody has been very creative!

I like the shark fin on top and the teeth on the very front.

Some seriously random things glued to the hood of the car.

This is Abi inside the hot springs pool. It was very warm and they had an even hotter but smaller pool in the other room. We had a good time swimming and playing!

We have the BEST neighbors!!!

2009-11-28T10:48:00.000-08:00

A knock on the door and this is what we found sitting there. Very creative!

Before we left out of town we left them a little surprise!

And then . . . . .when we came home from our Thanksgiving our house was decorated with
red and black balloons and red signs.

We have to admit they won with the decorating, but at least our team own the real game!

We like sports and think it is all fun, but we aren't the biggest fans there ever were. It is fun to have good clean fun with the neighbors and we are truly luckily to have the neighbors we do. They are some of our kids best friends and they aren't kids themselves, but they are kids at heart! THANKS for being some of the best neighbors we have!!!!!!

2009-11-26T06:44:00.000-08:00

Cousin Pictures

David, Abi, KC, Tim, Jace William, and Spencer They turned out pretty cute! Abi and all the boys.

Thanksgiving @ Grammy's

2009-11-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

We had a nice Thanksgiving at Grammy's house. On Thanksgiving we had the kids make table decor. These turkeys turned out so cute. Love looking at other blogs and getting great ideas from them.
Jace looks like he if going to throw this at someone.

Tim and his prize turkey.

KC making sure we know his is the best!

William with his cheesy grin.

Spence lookin' cute!

Abi's turkey and her nut cup. The important things about Thanksgiving.

The big kid table.

The rest of us.

Abi eying the pies.

Spence picking his favorite and William still trying to decide.

Before the Breteys were leaving for home

Glad we didn't break Grammy's chair.

Happy Times!!

Abi's Midieval Feast

2009-11-24T16:22:00.000-08:00

I got to help with Abi's Medieval feast. It was a really fun 6th grade activity and lots of learning in the process.

I was in charge of the decorations for the event. Luckily I had a some other moms to help out. THANKS!!!

We made the brick wall behind the kings and queens.
All the table decor.
Luckily we had some volunteer gourds in the garden this summer so for two years now we are still using these gourds. My husband has promised never to plant them again and it doesn't look like we will have too they will just come up on their own.

This activity was fun they put a doughnut on and string and hung it from the top of the ladder. Then the Knight would ride on his horse, aka cart, and try to put the lance, aka stick, through the center of the doughnut.

It was very good entertainment for the lords and ladies and kings and queens.

Here is Abi our very own Jester! I am not sure that Jesters had balloons in the Medieval times, but she was a great modern day jester!!!

Abi and her teacher.

One of the funniest kids in Abi's class. He made a great Knight!!!
Notice his feather on top of his helmet.
Classic!!!!
Very fun to be part of.

David's Orchestra Concert

2009-11-19T22:08:00.000-08:00

Waiting for the concert to start.

David and his bass. He is enjoying learning a couple different instruments. He would like to play a few other too.

The whole beginning Orchestra

Fun Weekend with Family

2009-11-14T21:16:00.000-08:00

We had a fun crazy weekend with family. First we celebrated Macee's 3rd birthday. She is such a cutie!! We were glad we got to celebrate with her and her family.

Jace Macee and Madi

Singing happy birthday to Macee. She was takin' it all in.

Then Saturday some of us went to the game. The first half was perfect weather for a football game. My nephew Landon is #78 he is a sophomore.

My nephew Trevor is # 54 he is a senior this year, so his last year to play football.

My niece Heather danced at halftime. They did an awesome job! They looked great! Heather is also a senior.

My sister, Angela and I weathering the storm. We had fun though!

Kade trying to stay warm.

Jace lookin' out for a minute.

Angela and Erin after the game.

Receiving the trophy. Broncos are the 2A State Champs!!!!
Once a Bronco fan always a bronco fan!

MarDawn, Landon, Trevor and Preston after the game. Way to go boys! Such handsome nephews I have!!

Landon, Tevor and my Dad their grandpa and one of their biggest fans!!!
My dad can't quite get enough of high school sports. He LOVES to watch any sport.
Notice the second half of the game was a lot different weather then the first half. It was crazy how the weather changed so quickly.
Way to go Broncos!

Happy Birthday BECKY!

2009-11-11T08:51:00.000-08:00

Becky had a great birthday!!
The neighbor girls saw the sign on the door and came up with a little performance for the special day. It was pretty cute! I asked Becky what kind of a cake she wanted this year. Having in mind that I have a coupon for a Cold Stone IceCream cake that I thought we would all enjoy. She told me that she wanted a turkey cake. I told her about the coupon I have to get an ice cream cake, but she could not be persuaded. So a turkey cake it is. I somewhat cheated and just cut the head and tail off a paper turkey we had. It turned out perfect for her. She loved it!!!

Becky has been working on a scarf and hat for herself. She wants to model it on Thursday at Special Needs Mutual for their annual Talent Show. Here is the scarf. It matches her coat great too. She is the looming machine. She has made over 100 items. She even sold a few at work last week. Good goin' Beck! She can whip hats and scarfs out in no time.

Becky got many nice gifts! She was quite spoiled as she should be.
She got a much talked about watch! Happy day!!! Her watch had broke a few weeks ago.

Yay a new shower curtain.

She got a Stan Bronson CD "Stars Over Grayson" from our parents.

Since Beck is the looming machine we gave her some yarn.

Beck was so excited to get a new camera!!! It is just like mine just pink instead of blue.

Becky wanted to go to a movie for her birthday so we headed over to Sticky Foot, which wasn't so sticky and saw "Shorts". It was fair. The kids enjoyed it.

We made a 29 out of the candles. Can you believe my little sister is 29? WOW! I can hardly believe it myself. Wish I looked as young as she does.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY!! We love you lots!

Blogging All Caught Up!

2009-11-07T23:40:00.000-08:00

So over the last week I have been able to get caught up on my blogging. For some reason I do blogging marathons. So I have posted 16 new post in the last week. I just don't want the Grandma's and Grandpa's to miss anything important. I also post date events just to keep it in order for me and the blog book I will some day do. Hope you enjoy!

Squeakin' Strings

2009-11-07T05:36:00.000-08:00

David is a member of a Band. His teacher formed the band most for her son, but it also benefits those that she invited to join in the fun. They usually practice once a week for an hour or so. I think it has helped David in many ways other than just playing the guitar better. They performed a while back and have some Christmas gigs lined up too. He thinks it is all pretty fun and wants to play more string instruments because of it. The band is called Squeakin' Strings.

Pumpkins and Halloween

2009-11-01T11:37:00.000-08:00

Spencer's, Abi's, William's and David's
Love carving pumpkins!

funny faces!

Dad choice for a carving tool.

The kids love to roast the pumpkins seeds. Thanks to their dad who helps with that! Yum!

Abi the scarecrow
The school had a parade this year. It was fun to see all the creative costumes. Kids are just too cute!

Spiderman Spence

Hunter William

Abi and her friend Samantha. They were ready to trick or treat both of their neighborhoods. Abi is ready with her Halloween pillow case grandma made years ago.

So cute and so excited!

The kids ready for Halloween night. David hasn't wanted to dress up the last couple years, but I made him get in the picture anyway, so he decided to be a little person.

Spencer and William with their friends Conner and Hayden. They had a great time trick-or-treating together.

William's field trip

2009-10-27T16:25:00.000-07:00

I love when I get to go on field trips and go to parties at school for my kids. I got to go on yet another field trip. This time with William. First we ate lunch in the lunch room. Oh yeah we were supposed to go to Cornbelly's and this day turned out to be kinda wintry. So instead we went to the Dinosaur Museum.

William and friends digging for dinosaur bones in the sand.

The group we got to spend the day with.

The whole class acting like dinosaurs. Cute kids! Glad I got to go with you William!!!!

Mascot Bowl

2009-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

We went to the Mascot Bowl here in town. It was very entertaining! Mascots came from all over the country to participate. The Jazz Bear came on the field on a zip line.
Then they had 3 sky divers. I don't think me kids had ever seen sky divers before, so it was kind of exciting!
The Mascots played against a 8th grade team or around that age of boys.
Enjoying the evening!
I never have seen the little Jazz bear before. He is pretty cute!
Barney got hurt. I kinda think it was a planned thing. Kinda funny! They put him on a stretcher and all.
Needless to say that the Mascots won. They were pretty good plus they had a great quarterback that probably played for a local Arena Football team, so he could maneuver around the young boys quite well. Fun, entertaining night for not too much money and the money goes to a charity that helps underprivileged children shop for their families for Christmas. We will see you there next year.

Flag Football

2009-09-25T20:46:00.000-07:00

Spence was so excited to get a medal. He had a great year playing flag football.
William also had a great year! He is one intense ball player. He loves what ever he is playing! Here are a few videos of some of their awesome plays. Way to go boys you are awesome!
I really love watching my kids play sports. Sorry for my crazy Whoa whoos. I get kinda excited!

Happy 70th Birthday!!!!

2009-09-16T15:09:00.000-07:00

My dad turned 70 this year! I was feelin' bad that I wasn't able to be in B-town for the big celebration. It turned out that he had to come up on his special day to pick up a truck for the cemetery. Happy day for us we did get to celebrate the big day with him. We made him a nice dinner and some of his favorite desserts, PIE and PIE!

The sign was made by Abi! She is a great sign maker and Grandpa LOVED it!!
70 years we hope there is 70 more! Love ya dad!!!!!

Funny story from the visit before this one Abi asked Grandpa what his favorite treat was and he said, "applesauce pie." She then asked him what his favorite veggie was he said, "pie, squash pie." Then she asked what his favorite math was to do, he said, "trigonometry". Abi said, "I thought you were going to say pie." We all got a good laugh! Grandpa LOVES PIE!

Growin' UP!

2009-09-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

William is a funny kid! Not too sure where he gets his ideas, but he can put a smile on anyones face!He has a beard made from suds and then he decided to pull out his dads razor and pretend he was shaving. Not too sure where the Pirate patch idea came from and the extra padding for his belly? Funny boy!!!! Love ya William!

And we wonder why it takes so long to get the kids in bed. They get distracted very easily! Is it the mirrors fault? Any ideas?

One of our Favorite Traditions!

2009-09-07T14:51:00.000-07:00

We have had this tradition for several years now and
it has got to be one of our favorites! We love to go to the fruit way and check out all the fruit on Labor Day. This year we didn't really need to buy a lot to put up, but we couldn't miss out on the yummy fresh fruit shakes from Pettingale's. SO YUMMY!!!!!

Another of our favorite stops, Smith and Edwards! If you haven't ever been here, it is a must shop some time. They have everything!!!!!!!!

Labor Day in Idaho

2009-09-06T12:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks Grammy and Michelle for a great labor day weekend!Poor David got stung! His hand was so swollen. We are hoping that he isn't developing a serious allergy to the bees. He could still breath so that is good.

What David would look like if he was chubby!

William taking a taste of the yummy honey!

Spencer helping spin the honey out of the frames.

Here is the heated knife it slices off the outer layer of wax.

Look at that beautiful honey run out. This is our 3rd year to have honey bees. The first two years we got about 5 gallons each year and the 3rd year we got 12 gallons. It was a great year! We had good success with just keeping our bees alive also. The past couple years we have completely lost one to two hives. So we were happy to keep all our bees this year. We started the summer with 6 hives and ended with 8 due to the swarm we captured and then David split one of our hives that was very large. They both seem to be doing well. A very fun family project we do together. They kids have sold lots of honey this year. They are almost out for this season.

They have a very cool Merry go Round in Rexburg. Funny thing is this is the first time we have ever gone and enjoyed it.

The kids had a great time!
Next to the Merry go Round they have a great little water park.Spencer was really enjoying himself. It thought this was a great shot!Luckily we had some towels in the van. We hadn't really planned on getting so wet. One of those things we are always glad we have in the van when we need a towel.
The kids love to play tennis. It always happens in Rexburg if they play.
Abi our poser! She makes a cute tennis player. We had a little break for some cotton candy! My kids love that stuff!

One of Grammy's favorite flower beds on campus.

See the flower in the rock. There is a hole in the rock and Grammy had her crew plan a flower in the hole. It did great all summer! Kinda fun!

We all love Michelle!

Taking a rest, by some really nice flowers of course!

Grammy has so many pretty flowers!

Some more of Grammy's beautiful flowers.

Playing leap frog. Just a little something to help get us up the hill.

Awesome tree in the gardens @ BYUI.

Dog pile on David!

Awesome harvest moon and the Rexburg temple.

Peaches Peaches and more Peaches

2009-09-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

We had such a great crop of peaches this year. We have 4 peach trees and they all produced so well this year. It was fun to eat fresh peaches for nearly 2 months straight. David bottles lots and we froze lots too. So fun to have fresh fruit in the back yard!

Families are Forever!

2009-09-01T07:54:00.000-07:00

At Stake Conference it was suggested that we take our kids to the temple and get pictures and spend time there so they will know and understand the importance of Temples. We headed up there right after conference while we were still dressed up (much to my families dismay). Plus I wanted to try out my new camera a little more. Here are some pictures we got. They turned out pretty good. LOVE MY FAMILY!!!!!!!!

Blackberry Heaven

2009-08-31T07:26:00.000-07:00

Here is our little friend we have tried to use to keep the birds out of our fruit trees. And actually he didn't really work. But fun to have him in the back yard. We wish he were a little meaner, cuz the birds really liked the fruit. And the frustrating thing is they don't even eat the whole piece of fruit they only peck one side of it and leave it to the birds, oh I mean leave it to the humans. :)
Abi found this leaf in the blackberries. We thought it was original, but we did find a couple other during the year. Kinda cool.
That is the fun thing about blackberries in our yard you and eat as you pick. Glad the kids like berries!
Some of the blackberries get so big.
We probably got 4-5 gallon bags of blackberries this year. We flash freeze them and store them in the freezer for yummy treats all year long.

Kids and Camera

2009-08-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

I got a new camera for my birthday and I love it! The kids think it is great too! As I look at the pictures I see that my kids get hold of the camera on occasion. They are too cute!

Abi's ankle never ending

2009-08-29T10:49:00.000-07:00

So I realize that I am really behind in the blogging world. Abi had her screws taken out the day before school started. They had to put her out again and treated it just like a surgery. Things went well, but a week and a half later she had a infection and we ended up back at the ER. Poor thing! They started her with some antibiotics and things cleared up.

In the ER

The $1400.00 screws.

The Yellow Chello

2009-08-28T10:39:00.000-07:00

David is quite into music and loves to play instruments with strings! This year he is learning to play the upright bass. He is really enjoying it! This has been inspired by Brian with the Bar J Wranglers.

biRthDay TriP

2009-08-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

David took me on a little trip for my birthday. We had a great time together!
We saw this car and thought it was cute!
We got to see Jody, Brandon and Anne! A highlight of the trip!
We got to go see a Shakespeare play at the Shakespeare Festival. Something we will definitely go to again. It was great! Thanks to Jody for hooking us up with some tickets! We saw "The Comedy of Errors". It was so well done! Very funny and entertaining! Thanks David for the much needed alone time! Loved every minute of it!

gRaPe JuiCe

2009-08-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

So here is the grape juice that we made. It was very interesting we processed the pink juice in the water bath, which is what it calls for. Then the red juice we processed it in the pressure canner since the taller jars were too tall for the water bath canner that I have. Anyway the hotter processing turned it red. Very interesting.

Grape Juice Anyone?

2009-08-23T09:15:00.000-07:00

The wasps are going to suck our grapes to raisins if we don't pick them ourselves.

David decided to pick them or at least most of them. There were lots that the wasps already sucked all the juice out of too. Still we got a few though.

They are pretty tasty grapes! At least the kids think so. We will make grape juice out of them. David thinks it is the best grape juice ever. Yes we do drink it before it sits too long. :)

School Begins Again

2009-08-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

Crazy to think that school has started again. Summer came and went and we hardly noticed. This is David's shopping list of things he is going to need to start school. Note the boxing gloves. He is funny! He started 7th grade which is the beginning of Junior High here. I hope he doesn't need boxing gloves.

My 7th grader

The 7th graders go to school a day before the rest of the school so they can get a feel or a fill for the school and find their classes with out the rest of the students there. So David started school the day before our other kids. On this morning Abi was having surgery to get the two screws removed from her ankle, so mom wasn't home to take the pictures. I gave dad instructions and he did a fine job! He was going to be funny and take 120, but only had time for 26 before the bus came.

Running to the bus! I thought of going around to all of David's 8 teachers and taking pictures but thought that might be a little embarrassing, but maybe we will do that on parent teacher conference. :)

Back to school night was the night before school started, so we snapped some pictures of the kids with their teachers. Abi will be in 6th grade, her teacher is Mrs. Carter. (I bet teachers love blogs!) Notice she has her hospital bracelet on still. She was on lortab that day, but didn't want to miss meeting her new teacher. Mrs. Carter has been David PE teacher the past two years. William will be in 2nd grade, his teacher is Mrs. Jenkins.

Spencer is my goin' all day 1st grader, his teacher is Mrs. Crawford.
I can't believe my baby is this old!

So for the first day of school. The boys had to wear almost matching shirts. They were so excited for the school year to start. A few nights before William said, "It is going to feel so good to be back in school!" He is so funny! I hope that saying will last all 9 months!

We are at a brand new elementary it is close enough for the kids to walk or ride their bikes. They choose to ride their bikes. It will be so nice and think of all the extra exercise we are going to get!

Abi in the afternoon was finally feeling good enough to make it to part of the first day. That lortab was making her nauseous then I remember we had anti nausea medicine from her first surgery so she was a little doped up but went with a smile.

Home after the first day with cookies waiting for them to eat. Everyone had a good day.

Abi survived her half day. She went back the second day and made it the whole day. Good Luck kids hope we can all make it a great year!!!!!! Love you guys!!!!

Our Crazy 12 year old

2009-08-13T14:02:00.000-07:00

David is such a funny kid! He is always making faces and doing silly things. His latest discovery.

Now I am all caught up on my blogging. For some reason I do it in masses. (Nine new posts this time.) I guess when I have a minute I just get it all done at once. Summer has been fun and school starts next week for all the kids. All my kids will be in school all day. I have mixed feeling about this, but they are all excited about getting back to school and meeting their teachers.

Abi went to Clear Creek

2009-08-08T13:49:00.000-07:00

Abi went to Clear Creek Summer Camp for a whole week. The top picture is before she left on Aug. 3rd and the bottom two are when we picked her up on Friday Aug. 7th.

She looks pretty Happy doesn't she? She did have a great time and survived even with a sore ankle. She only wore the boot part of one day. She took a little medicine on one other occasion, so over all pretty good. She took some pictures I just need to get them developed.

Cooper at the Hospital

2009-08-02T13:27:00.000-07:00

Poor Cooper had a couple nights in the hospital, but doing well. We brought him some things to do while he was tied down and of course made him a get well card.

He never woke up while we were there, but we still had a good time in the halls of the hospital and we had some yummy frozen yogurt at the cafeteria.

They all thought Spiderman was cool!

As we were walking out one of the kids noticed the nest on the EXIT sign.

Then there was a nest made right on the side of the concrete wall.

Thank goodness they put a orange cone underneath the nest. They will save many people from having to wash their hair an extra time during the day they visit the hospital.

Visit from Grandma Evelyn

2009-08-02T12:47:00.000-07:00

Grandma Evelyn (David's Grandma) came to see us! She is such a fun grandma and always spoiling the kids!

We decided to take her to Cabela's. The kids love to go to Cabela's! So many fun things to see.

Watch out Abi has a gun!

Spencer and William really working the scopes on these little guns. I guess I should have got a picture of what they were shooting at.

After walking around they wanted to try these cool chairs out. Cute kids I got huh?
The next day they went to the Gardens, but all those pictures are on David's phone, maybe I will post some of those later.

Carnival

2009-08-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

A stake close to us did a carnival for Special Needs people and their families. So we went and took part. What a great idea to make so many people so happy! It was really fun! The kids had a great time and ate LOTS of Cotton Candy!!!Becky doesn't enjoy cotton candy much, but she loves Popsicle!!

David had his gone before I could get the camera out.

Becky was so excited to see lots of her friends there she couldn't even look at the camera long enough to get a good picture. Note both of these pictures. Funny girl!

Thanks to those who put it on it was very nice of you all and so much fun had by all!

They fixed grandpa's heart

2009-07-28T08:13:00.000-07:00

Coming to see Grandpa and sneaking in some treats for him! He loves smoothies!

Get well soon Grandpa! The inside said "Hope your Stent in the hospital is short."

My dad had a blockage in an artery going into his heart. They were able to put a stent in and we hope that gives him many more years here with us. Not too sure what my family would do with out him!

They had a nice big couch where the kids could hang out. Very nice room! But he was glad he only had to stay one night!

WE LoVE OuR NEighBorS!!!!

2009-07-27T07:32:00.000-07:00

We really have some good neighbors which I feel really lucky to have! BJ is a total joker himself, so when you think of something to get him back with go for it.

We made the invitation and left it on their door.

This is their backyard. BJ has begun making a fire pit. Bet everytime it rains or he accidentally leaves the sprinklers on too long this is what happens. We have teased that we would love to come swimming sometime ect. Well we came up with a fun idea.

Throw them a beach party!!

We have a fishing pole set up by the lawn chair and everything. Abi really wanted to put fish in the pond but I knew it would evaporate much to quickly.

This is the view we see from our house.This is what it normally looks like. You can see the fire pit dish in the bottom there. It was funny and all the neighbors have enjoyed a good laugh. Love ya Bensons!!! Can't wait for the next time it fills up!

2nd Half of July

2009-07-26T06:46:00.000-07:00

We have had a fun summer with lots of cousins coming to visit. Sad thing is we didn't get that many pictures. We took them all swimming but just got pictures of Klea, Abi and Macee.

Madi and Spencer lost teeth the same night. It was Spencer's 2nd tooth.

William had a great baseball year. He was very excited to play machine pitch even though he was a year younger than the rest on the team. He is ready to play with the big boys. He held his own pretty good. He even hit some home runs. Good job buddy!
Go White Sox!

Our city had it's first foam party ever. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but we will be ready next year and a little more prepared. The fire truck sprayed out tons of foam for everyone to play in. They had watermelon they were giving out too. Fun tradition to start. It was on the 24th july. The foam did get pretty brown the more it was being played in.

We had a great neighborhood 24th of July celebration. We had a parade then a patriotic program then a yummy breakfast. It was also a scout fundraiser. It turned out really nice and hopefully something that will become tradition too!
Abi rode Becky's trike and finally got some takers for riding in the wagon. CUTE!

David was able to get a 60x30 flag. The scouts unfolded it and then the rest of the group was invited to stand around as we sang the National Anthem. It will be something to never forget.

We were able to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House. My mom was able to come go with us! Very beautiful. So nice to go with my family! Love you guys!

1st week of July

2009-07-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

While David was at Timberline I took the other kids down to the Balloon Festival. It is so fun to see all the hot air balloons.

We just pulled Abi around in the wagon so she didn't have to crutch everywhere. It was a fun morning!

David and I went up to Silver Lake Res. It is really beautiful up there. We had a nice time checking things out.

We had a fun 4th of July with the Mitchells. We played lots of games, ate lots of good food and did some fun fireworks. Thanks for coming to play!
While we were out that night the fighter jets flew over, which was a highlight!Here is one of the games being played. Even Abi got to play this one.

Here are all the kids. They all look so festive.

Crazy picture of most of the gang.

We welcomed David David home from timberline. Our family likes to make signs for the one arriving home after being away for a while. (Abi's idea most times!)

Here is our Timberline scout. He survived the week. We were so excited to hear all about the fun he had. David is receiving his Timberline beads. Good Job David! He learned so many good things and he hopes to use them throughout his life. We are proud of the good boy that we have!!

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME!

We took in a Owlz game. The kids had tickets from school so we used them up. It was a fun night together.

The kids liked Hootz the owl and Holly too.

Cast off day!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

Happiness on Abi's face! She did lots of drawing while she was layed up. She can draw some pretty awesome flowers!

I thought this picture was so cute of her pluging her ears. It was pretty loud and I guess she didn't know what else to do but plug her ears. Funny girl!

Wow there's the leg. Looks pretty good for being hiddin away for a month.

Now for the new addition. The Boot! She was a little freaked out to walk on her leg, but thank goodness for coach Bretey she will make it! :)

Coach Bretey

2009-07-04T08:35:00.000-07:00

HaPPy 4th oF JuLyWe were driving down the freeway and loved the bright colored rainbow. I got home and down loaded the picture and what to do know the flag was in the picture. How perfect for today. I am proud to wave the flag. That would be why we have our own flag pole in our yard. The flag has so much meaning and has a special place in my heart. I am so thankful for our freedoms and I think we live a great country! I can't help but think of some good family friends today and THANK them for the sacrifice that their dad will be making for our country the next 14 months. He leaves tomorrow for a couple months of training then off to Afghanistan. Also our other neighbors that just came home not to long along ago from their service. Thanks to all service men and women who service this country. We wouldn't have our freedoms with out you!!

Our scout arrives home today YEAH!!!! We can't wait to hear all about his adventure at Timberline.

We have a ScOut @ Timberline

2009-07-02T09:27:00.001-07:00

We dropped David off for Timberline this week.

I think he was excited. It looked like it was going to be really fun! He went with a great kid from our ward, Tyson.

Getting the hat to fit just right.
I am proud of myself I sewed his patches on all by myself and hemmed his pants all by myself too. I watch my sister do David our dads last year, so I gave it a whirl this year on my own.

This is a picture from up on the mountain where he will be all week. It is over looking Mt. Pleasant. Really pretty! I think he will have a great week although we have really missed him. Our dad was saying for all the different ways to communicate we can't communicate at all with him. We can't wait for him to get back and for him to tell us all about it! Only a couple more days. We love and miss ya Bro!!!!!

Round-up parade

2009-06-26T08:49:00.000-07:00

Our town has the coolest parade. It consists of what they call mini floats. Lots wards in the area make a float and participate. Our ward does a float every other year. Fun for the kids to be in the parade one year and watch it the next year. I am always impressed with the ideas people come up with. This year Abi got to sit on the side lines. She thought about crutching the 2 1/2 mile parade route, but decided against it. Then she really wanted the Spencer and William to pull her in the wagon the whole parade route, but I didn't really think they could do that. So she got to sit and watch the parade instead. She would work the candy a little with her cast. She would hold up her cast and people would throw the candy right to her.
Since David is now a Scout he had a honor of pulling the float. He is in the brown/orange/white shirt and red hat.
Spencer got to walk the parade the theme of our float was "If I Could I Would go to the Beach", so all the kids dressed up like they were going to the beach. Spencer had great props. he is the the blue shorts with the floatie around him.
William came over close to us to raid Abi's candy stash. He was definitely ready for the beach!

"IF I COULD I WOULD"

This is Becky's ward's float. They always have great ideas. It is a singles ward, so kinds funny!
Oh and Becky just loves every minute of it. You can definitely tell when she is happy and she was happy!!!!! So many lessons to be learned from her. If the simple things could make us all as happy as they make her we would be pretty happy! They were giving out candy kisses. Pretty cute!!!!!!!!!! Fun times! We all love parades.

a tribute to David

2009-06-21T22:34:00.000-07:00

I followed David around the yard on Father's day and snapped a few pictures of a few of his favorite things. He found some goods in the garden. A cabbage and strawberries.

He loves to watch his bees.

Loves to work in the garden!

Loves to play with his kids. Notice the baseball mitt.

We made him a yummy dinner but only got pictures of the dessert. His favorite blueberry pie and cheese cake. Pretty tasty!
David is such and good father and provider for us all. Thanks for all you do for us. We should honor you every day of the year! Love ya!!

Look what Spencer found

2009-06-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

It is so fun to find things to that you can eat in the garden. Spencer thinks it is so fun when things are ready or almost ready to pick. We have a few strawberries and then some tomatoes are set on, now it is just waiting for them to turn red.

David's new Love

2009-06-20T07:46:00.000-07:00

So David has a new sport that he is loving to play. He has been wanting to play lacrosse for a couple years now, and our city just this year added it to their rec program. We really aren't too familiar with it all , but we are learning it.
They wear pads and a helmet 'cuz there is a lot of pushing and throwing the stick around. It is a fast paced exciting sport.

Strawberry Days Rodeo

2009-06-18T22:00:00.000-07:00

And this is the reason to go the the Strawberry Days Rodeo!!!!
These are the yummiest strawberries and cream you will ever get! They used to be just a $1 and this year they were $1.25 still pretty good treat!
William had to get in his cowboy gear. Pretty cute! Thanks to Kristin to thinking of us, when her friend were unable to use their tickets, and offered them to us. It was the perfect night to have ticket because it was free kids night too. Fun times! We enjoy rodeos and even better with a cup of strawberries in hand! Oh wait we each had two cups. Our dad just couldn't resist a second round.
This is the cash cow event. They tape cash all over the cow and let the kids run after it and try to get the cash off. Kinda funny! With 100 kids running after it the cow doesn't have a chance.

doughnuts for A's

2009-06-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

Did you know if your kids take their report cards to Krispy Kreme they can get free doughnuts. Yep up to 6 a piece. We had a doughnut adventure for sure! We weren't sure how it all worked so I decided to buy some first. I have a card where I can buy one dozen get a dozen free. So I got all those. Then we handed the report cards over and the kids each got 6 doughnuts a piece. (which equals 24) Then we all got a free warm doughnut. Yes that equals a lot. 56 to be exact! We did end up sharing with my brother and we shared some with Logan family. We didn't get any pictures of them actually eating any doughnuts, by the time I got the camera out we were all sick from eating too many doughnuts.

Oh we were so happy that Anne came on a freight run and got to share this adventure with us! And can you tell by all the pictures Becky was just loving the night! Oh another note I spent $8.62 and we got all those doughnuts. What a deal for KK doughnuts! YUMMY! When I told my sister in law that it was $8.62 she thought I said I ate 62 doughtnuts. That would be an interesting site!! Remember don't throw those report cards away before you cash in!!

home made firework

2009-06-14T18:28:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when you leave the fire starter to close to the fire you just started. It made quite a loud sound and melted pretty good. Glad it wasn't any bigger than just this.
I can only imagine what might happen.

What phase 10 can cause

2009-06-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

We are playing a game of phase 10. It can go on for ever so when we play at different times we are just going to pick up where we left off. I think some of us made it to phase 3 so it is going to take a little to finish up the game.
Dad gets to sit between both little boys that means he will play three hands. :) Sometimes when you have lots of people playing some of the kids wander. He is David doing a little wandering. He has always loved paper and like to create anything with paper. Here was his idea this night.

Funny boy!

lOts O spOrts

2009-06-13T17:59:00.000-07:00

We had some of our cousins in town this weekend and they got to see William and David play some sports. William had a baseball game and a soccer game. David had a Lacrosse game. Macee was happy to help Abi carry her pink purse. It was so cute. Just what Abi needed to help her through another week some cousins!
William is on the White Sox this year. He is playing machine pitch. He is very excited to be able to run more than one base. Actually he has even hit a home run in this league. He is so excited!
Changing from baseball to soccer. At least they were at the same park.

William with some good friends. Matthew, Tyler Bradford and Licoln. Coach Ceasar in the back ground. Fun time playing soccer.

Friday date

2009-06-12T17:49:00.000-07:00

So we have been trying to do a little more dating, each other of course. We had the idea to go on a hike. It was really fun! We went to the dry creek trail head and hike up a little way. It was very neat to look out over the valley. The creek wasn't so dry. It was really loud with lots of water running down it! Very pretty hike and lots of the wild flowers were in bloom.

David's first Temple trip

2009-06-12T17:34:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that David is old enough to go to the temple. For sure an exciting time! So the story this week was that he was really supposed to be at Scout camp this week, but it was canceled due to the Swine Flu at the scout camp he was to go to. So good things come out of what you might think is bad. When I heard that the youth temple trip was scheduled for the same week I was dissapointed, but it all worked out. Scout camp will now be the August.
So Logan and David had a baseball game that wanted very badly to be to so I was there waiting to run them to that. I was glad I had the camera and thought to take a picture. Handsome Deacons!

Cast Day!

2009-06-10T15:13:00.000-07:00

The last few minutes with the splint on.

The X-Rays looked good and it was ready for the cast!
Dr. Wells putting the cast on. Purple of course!

All new and stylin'!
Abi has moved into Becky's sitting room! Thanks Beck for being so patient! Abi has her set up in there.
Her cast even matches her toe nail polish. Couldn't have been a better match. Abi wants to get a silver sharpie to decorate her cast with. I think she will keep it clean for a few days though. She gets to wear this cast for 4 weeks then a walking boot for 4 weeks. It is going to be a long summer. But remember she is the queen for the whole summer! :)

LOVE to the Queen

2009-06-07T15:01:00.000-07:00

Brotherly love! David has been very good to help Abi when needed or when she calls! He is better at bending over then I am and it feels better to her when her leg is held up. Thanks bro for your help we couldn't have made it with out you!

Bathroom run!

Abi was so happy when a few of her coaches came by to see how she was. They brought by balloons, a teddy bear and some candy. It made her happy! Thanks for coming by coaches!

We took her for a little walk on Sunday. She is getting a little cabin fever. We rigged the chair in the wagon and went around the block. She seems happy to be out for a short walk. Yes she is the queen! We decided not just for the day or week, but for the summer! Enjoy it while you can sweetie!

Dad said it was good therapy for his knee to pull her. :)

Well wishers

2009-06-04T08:08:00.000-07:00

So Abi had surgery and had two pins put in her ankle. She has a splint for a week then we will go back and get a hard cast next week. She will have to be on cruchtes for 4 weeks then a walking cast for 4 more weeks. Hopefully be back to the gym about then and the pins out in 4 more weeks. For now we will just take it a day at a time and keep her dopped up on Lortab. She has had many well wishers would think it was Christmas around here! She is so lucky to have so many people that care about her! And actually it has helped make her focus on something other than what she can't do. So THANKS!

Whitney and Breanna made this little performance up just for Abi. It is really cute!!!! Good Job girls!

One of her other friends made this poster and brought it by. So fun! Abi loves candy so she was so excited! Thanks Sam!
Here are several other things that people have brought by. Thanks so much for helping the time pass by a little quicker and with happiness. Thanks everyone!! I think we will make it!

Abi's sad start to summer!

2009-06-02T07:27:00.000-07:00

This was Abi on Saturday at her meet and this was Abi Monday morning. SAD!!!

Yes she broke her foot at Gymnastics practice. Luckily I was still at the gym walking the track. I heard a scream from down below and I knew that was my daughter. She was going over the chunky vault mat and landed between the landing mat and the chunky mat. Broken ankle was the verdict. She had a ride to the hospital in the ambulance and all. I questioned was that really necessary and they told me they would give her some morphine to help with the pain. I made the quick decision that would be the best. Then deciding whether I ride in the ambulance with her or drive my van over. I decided to drive over but asked if brother David could ride with her. They said yes. So went out to get in and they made David ride in the front seat with the driver so he could wear a seat belt. What's the point of that? Oh well, she going to get pain meds right? Well sad thing the paramedic hit the artery instead of the vain, so no pain meds for Abi. The paramedic did feel bad. She was a little traumatized but made it to the ER okay.

She had a lot of swelling in her ankle. They took her in for x-rays then we had to wait along time for the specialist to come.

This is before pain meds and then after pain meds. What a difference. Thank heaven for pain meds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luckily dad had his phone with him so she could email and text. She thought that was pretty fun!

And my good friend Jane came over to pickup David and take him home and she brought the camera. Abi was entertaining herself by taking pictures.

She wanted one last ride in the wheel chair before she left. Dad was going to just carry her out, but this made her happy to ride. Oh and the orthopedic surgeron said surgery the next day.

Her brothers were thinking of her while she was away! Abi is normally the sign maker at our house, but the boys are learning! She loved it!!!!!!
Over all it is really sad, but we are greatful it is just a broken ankle that will heal in a few months. Nothing life threatening or that will last forever. We really do have much to be grateful for and can't complain too much. It will just make summer a little slower for us which will probably be nice. Abi really just wanted to get out of summer jobs, like mowing and weeding. Now if she could have figured out how to do that without missing gymnastics too???? HUMMM??? She is really sad we won't be going to the summer games this weekend and she will miss the state meet, but oh well. It isn't the end of the world. These things are bound to happen right when you do these kind of sports RIGHT? We love ya Abi and hope you get better real soon!!!!

Slackline in backyard

2009-06-01T07:20:00.000-07:00

David and the kids dung some holes and put up some poles for the slackline. They are pretty beefy! They should provide hours of fun right in the backyard. They are right down the center of the orchard. Fun Times!!!

baby killdeer

2009-06-01T07:06:00.000-07:00

So the bird eggs hatched. The kids have been so excited! The baby birds have been running around the back yard. We got up pretty close and the mom bird didn't like it. She was cherping like crazy!

Schools Out for Summer!

2009-05-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

The Bretey kids last day of school. Hard to believe another school year has come and gone. The only year my kids will all be in Elementary school.

Spencer had a great K-garten year! We were lucky enough to get Mrs. Paxman again! She was William's K-garten teacher too. Spence has had a great start to his many years in school!

William has really progressed nicely this year! He had a wonderful teacher, Miss Oliekan. She was also Abi's 1st grade teacher. He had a great class and learned so many great life lessons this year as well as academic lessons. He is a great reader, good at math, and loves art!

Abi has had a good year with a great teacher, Miss Smith! 5th grade is a fun year to learn about American History. Abi's class was a challenge, but the teacher hung in there and made it a good year even though there were moments that she wanted to quite. Abi teacher says she is so helpful too.

Daivd had an amazing teacher as well. He has been in the Accellerated Learning Lab Program aka ALL. It has been a great couple years that have been challenging yet fulling. He has learned so much and had so many great experiences. We are proud of him for wanting to do something and sticking to it and accomplishing it! Now he is already for Junior High next year! I am not sure I am though.

I am so proud of all my kids for all their hard work and the way they act when they are away from home. Their teacher's feed back is always possitive, which is a relief as a parent. Luckily we have had great teacher that really care too. Thank heavens for good teachers! Thanks for a great year!!!! Now lets make it a great summer!

Spencer's End of K-garten

2009-05-28T06:09:00.000-07:00

Spencer had Mother Goose Olympics. They had about 10 different activities for the kids and then a otter pop at the end. Fun times in K-garten!

K-garten Graduation day. Hard to believe he is really that old. He had a great K-garten year! Next year he will be in school all day and I will be home all day alone. I am going to miss you Spence next year.

Cutest Kindergartner around!

David and Spencer's Birthday

2009-05-22T14:04:00.000-07:00

David and Spencer share a birthday. They both think it is pretty neat! Spencer wanted a pommel horse cake, and this is the best mom could do. I know nice try. :)

Spencer wanted to have a pinata so we made one. He decided to have a mouse. It was going to be gray and at the last minute Dad decided to make it Ricky Mouse. Cousins so Mickey Mouse. Spencer thought it was pretty cool, and for last minute paint job it was pretty neat! Good Job Dad!
After Spence got out of school I took him and met up with dad for a birthday lunch at Wingers.

Hard to believe my baby is 6 years old! We love ya Spence!! We love you too Dad!
Happy birthday boys!

These pictures are of the Actual Birthday

These pictures are at Spencer's party a couple days later.

HoMe rUn CeLeBraTion

2009-05-21T22:00:00.000-07:00

David made his first home run ever! It definitely deserved some celebrating so we headed over to Emmet's and Ethel's for some ice cream treats. For this picture David had to borrow Becky's ice cream cone, because he is the fastest ice cream eater ever! Thanks Beck for sharing for the picture!

Good Job Bro!!!!!!! You are quite the baseball player!!!!
We all love to come to the ball field and watch you play!

Swarm

2009-05-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

So we have had two different swarms of bees in our yard in the last couple weeks. The first one flew away and the second one David and David were able to capture and put into a hive box. It Was all very cool and way exciting to get free bees! We don't think they were our own bees, but we aren't for sure. Our hives seem to have all their bees Abi said after she counted them all. HA HA!!

So this was the first swarm. It landed on the lilac bush.

Here are a few pictures of the swarm that was in the peach tree. My bee keepers are capturing them.

The other cool thing in our yard this spring is a kill deer bird sitting on her eggs. She gets quite crazy if you get too close. I will have to post some pictures if and when they hatch.

Baby Chicks

2009-05-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

Okay so some of our neighbors got these chicks for the kids for Easter and I just had to post pictures of them. They are so cool. I guess someone shoots dye into the egg and the chicks come out colored. They eventually go back to the normal color they will be. My kids thought they were great.

Mother's day Kid fun

2009-05-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

The kids were having fun riding Becky's trike and hooking up the wagon. They were pretty cute!
Then we went to the park to do a little slacklining. Abi got a Slackline for her birthday. David saw it at a Outdoors Expo Event. It is pretty cool and the kids are only getting better and better. There are some pretty cool footage on You Tube of some pretty cool slackliners. The kids think it is great!

It was a fun Mother's day! I should have taken picture of the fabulous meals that were made for my by my family. They were delious! Thanks fam!

Happy Mother's Day!

2009-05-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers! This picture was taken when I was 3. My mom is in the back and my grandma Pratt is holding me. I am lucky to be named after my my grandma's Virginia Mae Adams Pratt and Klea Washburn Palmer. Thank you all for a wonderful heritage. I tried to find a picture of my grandma Klea, but I didn't have any success. She passed away when I was 8.

Here are all my siblings when I was the baby. My older sister was my second mommy. She loved me and was so excited to have a sister after 5 brothers. And of course we were all excited when our littlest sister arrived Becky!

Becky was and is the joy of our lives. She is about 3 in these pictures. She loves animals especially kittens when she was young.

I love you mom! Happy mothers day!

And this is what makes my mother's day great!

I love my kids! Thanks for the great day! I am glad to be your mom!

Abi's 11th B-day

2009-05-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

Abi had a great birthday! She partied with a few friends from school.

Love ya Girl!!!

Where does the time go?!?

2009-05-07T14:34:00.000-07:00

WOW where does the time go? It seems to slip by so quickly! We have been very busy and with a hard dive crash in the middle of everything, blogging has been put to the side. I do have TONS of pictures to post, so I will try to get them posted in the next little while.

Hope Of America

2009-05-05T19:27:00.000-07:00

Fifth grade students from all over the county can participate in Hope of America, if they choose.
I think it is a pretty amazing program teaching patriotism and American History. David did it last year and Abi this year. Despite the crowd I still think it is worth attending.

I Love America

This is an older women dancing group. Jean's Golden Girls. They really got the groove. This one is a 92 year young lady doing the splits. Pretty amazing!!!! I am not sure if it is Jean herself, but how would you like to do that at 92?

This is America

Thank you Military!!!

We Can Be A Light

Sherk Berry

2009-04-25T16:49:00.000-07:00

We had a sherk berry in out bunch of strawberries.

Another break

2009-04-17T08:21:00.000-07:00

We took a small road trip. Our first stop was my favorite store

Smith and Edwards Country Boy's Store. I found some good buys. Our next stop The Aerospace Museum at Hill Air Force base. This is another free museum and worth a visit. David was in heaven since he plans to join the Air Force.

Next stop we didn't get picture, but we met Angela and Stan for lunch and dropped off Klea.:( It was fun while it lasted Klea! Thanks for coming to hang out!
Then we headed to Temple Square. It was so beautiful with all the tulips and spring flowers blooming.

I loved these flowers on these bushes.

Me and my 12 year old.

My cute kids! love you guys! It was a fun break!

Swim break

2009-04-16T07:10:00.000-07:00

We took a break to go swimming. Always fun on a snowy day!!

Here is William showing me he really needs a haircut! :) He is such a funny kid and oh so talented!

Spring break

2009-04-16T06:49:00.000-07:00

We did some fun things during spring break. We did wake up to this on Thursday morning though. We were all surprised. There was a lot of snow!

We headed down to BYU for the day to take in a couple museums.

I thought this picture was funny with all the cars lined up of friend that were coming.
We started out at the Walter Wick exhibit at the museum of Art. It is a lot of Eye Spy art. It is a free exhibit and it really fun. This is my illegal picture. So that is why I only have one. Bummer! It is worth checking out no matter your age!

Then off to the Bean Museum. The kids always enjoy going here to check out all the animals. It is also a free museum. The best thing of Spring Break was that our cousin Klea came to join us for a couple days! Thanks for coming Klea, you were definitely the spring of our week!

Two headed snake. Kinda cool! And we can't leave with out getting a picture of Shasta the Liger.

Here is a picture of princess Saylor getting carried up the stairs.

Easter

2009-04-12T16:23:00.000-07:00

Coloring eggs

Abi with her punching ball she got from the Easter Bunny. They were really cool!

Abi's Bar Routine

2009-04-11T16:35:00.000-07:00

This is Abi's first sanctioned meet. She was able to get the score she needs to advance to the next level. She just needs to keep getting those scores. Good job Abi!

Family Skate Night

2009-04-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

The kids school PTA hosts a free skate night. It is a fun event, but we haven't gone too much. The kids had a great time and I think even David had a good time. They are able to ride roller blades, skates or scooters. They had a pretty fun time.Abi on her roller blades.

David and Abi skating together.

Spencer on his scooter.

David enjoying his time at skate night too!

William cruzin' on his scooter.

And there's our dad having a great time on his blades.
He is a good skater and not too rusty after his knee surgery.
Thanks to the PTA for a fun night of skating!

Ski day with Grandpa Bretey

2009-04-03T16:04:00.000-07:00

Grandpa Bretey takin' a spill.

I don't know the story behind this photo, but I can only imagine the powder was great for skiers. They all had a great day.

Takin' a lunch break. Abi is a girl after her dad's own heart!

David and Aunt Michelle. She is the real ski queen! Thanks for coming Grandpa and Michelle. It was a big mountain, lots of powder and a real fun party!!!!

Vinyl

2009-04-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

I decided to put up some vinyl in the kitchen. Kinda fun to change things up a bit. This one is on the beam that supports the new addition.

This is above the back door.

Spence was the photographer for these. He loves to take pictures for me.

Art week at school

2009-04-02T15:48:00.000-07:00

Abi and Spencer during art week.

Abi's collaborative box sculpture. Very creative!

Spencer's painting.

William's self portrait.

Abi's clay sculpture.
Good job kids you make your dad proud. :) You are all becoming good little artists.

Flowers!

2009-04-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

On of my latest obsessions is making flowers to put in girls hair. It is really easy and really fun! Abi it loving them and we have done lots for gifts also. This string of them we gave to one of Abi's best friends. Then she had to where a few of her for crazy hair day.

BYU Science Fair

2009-03-25T19:04:00.000-07:00

David was so excited to go to BYU for the Science Fair. He went all decked out in all his BYU attire.
There were about 260 or so projects from all over Utah County.
It was an all day event. David was in heaven especially after the judging they had some student activities for the kids to participate in. David stood in line for the Air Force ROTC fight simulator. It took most of two hours but way worth it when he shot a plane down and got a ROTC t-shirt! He was thrilled!!!!! He was living his dream. We wants to join the Air Force and possibly the ROTC. He couldn't have had a better day!
We headed across campus for the awards and they announced,
"The winner for the Presentation Award goes to David Bretey III."
He even got a $20 check. Pretty awesome! I thought the project looked pretty sharp and I guess others did too. Good Job Bro! You did good work and it turned out to be so worth all the work and stress.
Sad news is he didn't win the Lego contest, but that is okay. We gave it a good attempt.

Skiing

2009-03-21T20:47:00.000-07:00

David took the big kids skiing to the Canyons ski resort. They had a great time! I was a little worried about David's knee, but he seemed to do okay. It is nice they were able to go since David and Abi both have their Ski Utah passes. With the passes they get some free passes to all the ski resorts. They have another trip planned and Aunt Michelle and Grandpa Bretey are coming. David got a great deals on some passes, so it should be a fun time for all.

These videos are fun! David thought it was pretty cool to do the ski jump. Abi's legs were sore after a day of snowplowing, it probably only helps her gymnastics though.

Beginning of Spring Competition Season

2009-03-21T20:34:00.000-07:00

Abi has begun her Spring competition season. She is quite excited. She loves to compete! She did pretty good she got 4th over all in her age group.

One of the funnest parts was that some of her Palmer cousins came to see her compete. She was so excited that they came.

One more shot with the Palmers.

We had a great time with you guys.
Thanks for coming and come back and see us soon!!