2016 at a glance!

Amee and her friends danced to Thriller during their 5th grade talent show is April.

Sami was on the dance team again this year. They placed at state, competing against 3A schools!

 This is Sami's "Twin", Raynie Martin

Jake, Yaska, and Zeke all participated in track! I don't seem to have any picture of Jake :(

Zeke did the long jump, the triple jump, the 400m, the 800m, and 4x400. For such a little one he sure is fast and sure can jump!! He doesn't love track and I don't know if we will be able to get him to do it next year, but he sure is good and has the potential to break some school records!!

Matthew wrestled and is a natural! However he tells us that he doesn't want to wrestle, just play basketball. I hope he will change his mind. He is also extremely fast! As a third grader he can out run almost everyone in elementary school, including many 5th graders

Jake had a great year with basketball. The Bulldogs had a great season and were able to go to state.

We had a lot of fun this summer in St. George with Yaska. Tom Rented a side by side while we were at the lake. The kids had a blast! I think Tom had more fun that they did. He said it was like driving a snowmobile in the sand. 

So far this school year has been filled with lots of fun, success and running from place to place. Jake is going to school at Northwest Community College. He is on an intermural basketball team. I think they have had a fair share of wins. He is now approaching finals with all A's. He has been taking 3 institute classes along with Missionary Prep. Jake is such a great kid and is so much smarter than I ever was! We are so proud of him!

Sami and the Lady Bulldogs had a very successful volleyball season. They took first at the regional tournament and 3rd at the state tournament. We had a lot of fun cheering her on and are going to miss it!

Jake is 19!! And pretty much all he got was food for his dorm! The life of an adult!!

We took the kids fishing this fall to Sibley Lake. It was a lot of fun! I am not sure why the boys where kissing the fish though. Jake and a couple of friends came too. 

Matthew is all boy all the time! I am pretty sure I threaten to stick a knife in a ball daily to keep him from bouncing or throwing in the house. 

For Halloween he wanted to be a basketball player. We ordered a Steph Curry uniform, which I later realized was coming from China. I ordered another one 8 days before Halloween. We tracked it the Saturday before Halloween and it showed it would be delivered Tuesday, the day after Halloween, I talked him into being a wearwolf. Monday morning I went to the PO Box and they said if it showed up before 2 they would call me, his party at school was at 1:45. Well, the school ended up sending him home becasue they said he had pink eye. When I took him to the Dr he was cleared of pink eye, but he did have "swimmers ear" which he got from the hot tub in the hotel we had been in that weekend during regional volleyball games. Just as we left the Doctors office the post office called and said his jersey had come, but the school wouldn't let him come back to school until he had been on antibiotics for 24 hours. 

Anyway, I really wanted him to be a wearwolf, so for Halloween night I talked him into being "Teen Wolf."

Now we have Amee's birthday and Christmas.... Let's hope it get this updated before Fall of 2017....