Christmas 2010

All the 1st grade performed fun songs at Mapleton's "Lights On" ceremony. With Santa, doughnuts and cocoa after. Very cute!
Jake with Santa at the ceremony.

Jake with glasses for his "Reindeer Rap" song! Sooo cute!

Emma singing at her choir performance at the beautiful Provo Tabernacle one week before it burned!

The beautiful Tabernacle. Check out Emma, top left, second one in. Her mouth in perfect O as she is singing.

Tabernacle with stained glass windows in back. I am so glad we got these pictures. How sad to see such an amazing structure burn.

We decided to try to cut our own tree down this year. Unfortunately we never found one we liked. This is Jake in his make-shift boots.

We had to go down this deep ravine and it was very slippery.

The girls crossing back over the ravine.

Looking for a tree.

We ended up getting a tree at the nursery at end of our street again. We've had good luck with those trees. We love them. It's kinda tradition now.

Jake putting on the star.

Our beautiful and fragrant tree!

Thanksgiving 2010

Emma, Gentry, and Maisy put on a play depicting the true meaning of, and how Thanksgiving was created! Being thankful and sharing our bounties with others.
Pie from our pumpkins we grew! Nothing even compares to real pumpkin pie! Homemade crust too from a pie making class our RS had.

Delicious Turkey! Maybe next year we will raise our own turkeys.

Elli just loves preparing the turkey!

Family and friends!

What a wonderful day!

Halloween 2010

Pumpkins from our garden!
ooooo spooky!

Kids all dressed up for the big night!

Rob dressed up for our ward party and gave out balloon creations!

We did a "Trunk or Treat" for our ward party! Very fun!

Fall Festivities- Sep.-Oct. 2010

Strawberry Reservoir with Family on Labor Day Week End.
Jake absolutely loved being pulled around on the tube.

Jenny and Jake

Pinacca Nevada with friends to help with an Eagle Project. This was the very fun, hidden, sand dunes.

More beautiful dunes!

Jake flying down the dunes! I love the sky above!

Playing in the water hole

And Scuba diving as well! Our kids 1st time diving. They loved it! So did Rob! This is Elli

James had a blast!

The Amazing, hardened dirt peaks and caves, Cathedral Gorge!

Tons of tunnels and caves!

Truly breathtaking! It was enormous, this picture doesn't do it justice. I am in awe when I see creations such as this. This was sand and dirt that had over time, grown into these peaks of almost like rock!

Grotto Falls by Payson Lake. Our last canyon hike to enjoy the beautiful colors!

Handsome James

Beautiful Elli

Beautiful Emma

Handsome Jake

What a beautiful picture! I love these kids so much! What wonderful children we were blessed with!

Harvest Time- September 2010

This was our garden in the spring
Now much fuller, granted there are a lot of weeds, but we were very happy with our garden this year.

This was our first time growing watermelons. They were so delicious!

We had oodles of cucumbers! All sizes too!

Cucumber (tallest), zuchinni, and corn. We had a great crop of corn. 5 rows. We even froze some. 7 bags or so. Yummy!

No one could believe the size of that cucumber!

We had 11 pumpkins! We carved 4 and made 2 into pies. Sooo good!

I feel like I spent most of my september canning. Mostly pickles. Way too many cucumbers!

I also did peaches, applesauce, salsa, spahgetti sauce, tomatoes, green beans, more cucumbers, and froze peppers, zuchinni, and corn. We had a good harvest and were very blessed!

Back To School Aug.-Sep. 2010

James 17- Junior
Emma 9- 4th grd. Jake 6- 1st grd.

Elli 12- 7th grd. Jr. High