Science Fair

Caden participated in his school's science fair last week! His project was titled "Battery Factory". He learned about how batteries work and made his own battery using pennies and nickels. Three students from each grade were awarded trophies. Caden received a trophy for his project! It was fun and a lot of work, but we're sure glad it's all over with!

Fun Weekend at Badger Creek

Our family had a fun time at Badger Creek in Idaho with Scott's family! We went sledding and snowmobiling! This was our first time of using a tow rope to help us get up the sled hill! We also had fun celebrating Valentine's Day with Scott's family by having a cousin Valentine exchange and fun activities! Scott has a wonderful family and we always enjoy being with them!

Chocolate Houses!

Our family has a fun tradition of decorating gingerbread houses every year with their cousins and grandparents. A few years ago my friend gave me the idea of doing chocolate houses instead. The kids loved it so much that we have changed to decorating chocolate houses. After decorating we love eating the candy and all of the chocolate! Here is this year's houses the kids decorated!

Baptism Day!

Kaitlyn's baptism was yesterday, Saturday, November 7th. She was baptized and confirmed by her dad. It was a good, spiritual day for our family. We enjoyed having family and friends there to share this special day with us! And the luncheon afterwards was yummy! It was fun to chat with everyone! What a great day for Kaitlyn!

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!

Kaitlyn had a fun birthday yesterday! It's hard to believe she is 8 years old and getting baptized this week.

Last week Kaitlyn had a birthday party with some of her friends. Since she loves arts and crafts we had all of the girls paint some ceramic pumpkins, paint stain glass art, and make some cute necklaces. We also ate pizza for lunch and then decorated cupcakes and sugar cookies! It was a lot of fun! Kaitlyn was definitely spoiled with gifts this year! She can't wait to start working on all of the arts and crafts gifts she got from everyone!

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween this year Kaitlyn was a witch, Jackson was Tigger, Mckay was a pit crew person, and Caden was Luke Skywalker. The kids had fun trick or treating and brought home tons of candy! We hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

Pinewood Derby!

We had a fun time at Caden's Pinewood Derby tonight! He won first place! That means his car was the fastest out of 16 boys! He won each round and ended up with a total score for four races of 10.457 seconds. Way to go Caden and Scott! And thanks to both grandpas for giving us some great advice and help on the car. As you can see in the picture, Caden got a trophy to stick his car on. This Pinewood Derby involved five different wards in our stake. The other picture I posted shows only the boys in our ward. As you can see, our ward did quite well. We ended up with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners! This is probably Caden's last Pinewood Derby before he turns 11 next year, so we were so happy that he won first place!