Hurricane Rugby

Hurricane's first ever Rugby team
They start with a prayer
The "B-dawg" making sure he looks good before he goes out and gets trampled on!

"B-dawg", Phonso, and "P-dizzle"
Braden and Phonso... We so don't understand this game, but it has been fun going and watching. There has been so much support, it has been amazing! And for the fact that this is our first year playing, we are doing pretty good!

NASCAR

Chris has always wanted to go to NASCAR... (well, ever since he started to watch it!) My brother-in-law goes quite often, so Chris asked him to get us tickets when it was in Vegas. So, we got tickets and went... Chris' driver is Jeff Gordon (J.G.)
The Thunderbirds did a "fly-over" right after the National Anthem... it was cool!
...and the race is on!
There weren't very many "cautions" in this race- it was mostly green-light... J.G. led about 250 of the 267 laps. Jimmie Johnson came and took it about the last 15 laps!
Jimmie Johnson doing his burn-out just before the victory lap!

Preferance

Kyler got asked to go to preference...
There was a knock at the door about 10:30 pm, when we opened it, there was a vase of black roses on the mat with rose petals all over the mat. We brought it in and he opened the card. It didn't say who it was from... so we went back out, looked around to see if there was anything else- NOTHING! So we picked up all the petals to see if maybe something was written on one- NOTHING! So we just figured there'd be more to come... Sure enough, the next day at school, he gets this pizza delivered to him
His friends ate off the missing pepperonis!

Ice Skating

For Young Men/ Young Women, we went ICE SKATING... The kids really enjoyed it! Shania was a pro!
Braden, Kyler, and Micah
Braden
Kyler
Shania

Home made Spud Nut Doughnuts

Today we had mashed potatoes, and we had left-overs! So I decided to make spud-nut doughnuts...
Shania helped me. I could not have done it without her!
When I was growing up we ALWAYS made home-made treats on Sunday afternoons. I find myself still wanting to do that! It is a great memory I have of my parents and my siblings making home-made treats together. My dad made molasses candy a lot- that is probably my most favorite thing we would make!

Christmas '09

Our Christmas tree
The excited TEENS on Christmas morning.
The men were in charge of cooking Christmas breakfast
We had a really good breakfast, as always!
Christmas night we had the kids dress up as Grandpa read to us the Christmas story from the scriptures.

Holy Bountiful Baskets!

I participated in a "co-op" called "Bountiful Baskets" this is all the stuff I got on the main basket... I could not believe how much produce I got for $15.
Here's the list of stuff I got:
8 Bananas
1 head of Romaine Lettuce
1 head of Cauliflower
1 bundle of Broccoli
6 ears of Corn
1 Cantaloupe
2 Avocados
1 Butternut Squash
14 Oranges
9 Honey Crisp Apples
20 small Red Potatoes
3 Mangoes
10 KiwisI even shared some with my sister-in-law, Lindsey.



If anyone is interested in doing this, they do it every other weekend at the Coral Cliffs Cinemas. You have to get on their site: http://www.bountifulbaskets.org/
on Tuesday and order your basket. My suggestion: unless your family eats alot of fruits and vegetables, share it with someone else...