Tanner

Tanner was involved in a bunch of things during Christmas this year.  One was the High School Orchestra concert.  He also performed with the community orchestra and choir in the Messiah.  Both were great concerts.

 

 

 

Snow Shoveling Time!

We had a lot of snow just before Christmas on a Sunday morning, so Greg and the boys went outside and tackled the neighborhood.  They picked up one neighbor, Jesse Jorgensen, and he helped with the shoveling.  By the end of the afternoon, they had shoveled 16 driveways, and had gathered two more neighbor boys to join in.

This was taken at the beginning the project.  They weren't smiling so much after all the driveways were cleared!

 

 

Abby

Abby has taken dance from Heather Wilson for two and a half years.  She just loves it!  She's made some great friends in the class, and has learned a lot from Heather.  Heather is one of the few dance studios in town that uses age appropriate music and moves for children to dance.  Heather is just wonderful and does such a great job! 

This Christmas, she had a family recital, and here are some of the pictures from that event.

 

Abby was given the opportunity to choreograph her own dance and she and her friend, also named Abby, made up their own dance.  Abby is the girl on the far left of the picture.  It was a cute dance!

 

Abby got a perm!  She has wanted one for a while, so I finally gave in and made an appointment for her to get it done.  She loves it!

Abby is so special in our family!  We love her smiles and her happy ways.

Jesse

Jesse loves basketball.  He has had practice early mornings at 6:00 before school.  He's really dedicated.  The rest of his activities, like playing the violin, he likes, but mostly does it because of mom.  He's a good student and works hard and we love him!  He had his 14th birthday this Thanksgiving and we had a party for him.  Jessica Wallace, Maryssa Miles, Spencer Felkins, Alex Sessions, and Jeremy Haslem all came over and watched a movie.  He got Wii Resort Sports for his birthday, but we ended up having leftover wedding reception cake for his birthday.  I don't have birthday pictures of him, but I have these other pictures of him.  We love you Jesse.

Jesse had his finger smashed in class and so greg and Jesse drilled a hole in the nail to relieve the pressure.  OUCH!

Can you tell how excited he is for the concert?

Jesse is on the 8th grade basket ball team for Roosevelt Junior High School.

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Christmas Shopping

With all of the family stuff going on, we were able to sneak out for a bit and get some Christmas Shopping done.  In fact Sarah, Bev, and I were able to make a run to Spring City to see Uncle Joe and Aunt Lee for the semi-annual pottery sale.  Great Fun!

I know the picture is small, but I stole it off Uncle Joe's face book page, and can't seem to get it any bigger.

  This is Aunt Lee, Bev, Rachel, Sarah, and Zina at the black friday pottery Sale.

Sasha and Mason Sullivan Reception

The day after Thanksgiving, we had a wedding reception/open house for my cousin Mason and his new bride Sasha Sullivan.  They got married this summer, but were finally able to make it out to Utah for Thanksgiving.  So, there was an open house held at the Sullivan home in Provo.  They currently live in New York, so this was a big Thanksgiving trip for them.

Tanner and Jesse both went to the reception for the whole time and helped cleared tables and take coats.  I love these pictures and I know they are all so similar, but bear with me.  I don't get to see them enjoying each other too many times.

Sarah, Rachel and our cousin, Shannon Crosby

Josh and Bev

Bev and Tika

Megan Crosby and Esther

Marc and Bev

I had to take this picture.  Mason and Esther are both naturally blonde.  Esther showed up Thanksgiving morning with brunette hair, and Mason colored his for Halloween to be Edgar Allen Poe and it never came out.  So here are the rebellious cousins who drastically changed their hair!

Jesse's new thing is to have really big eyes in pictures.

Finally, the bride and groom.

Mason and Sasha Sullivan

 

The cousins - Marc, Jessica, Madalyn and Abby

Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving was so much fun this year.  I have so much to be thankful for!  After the race, we came back to Mom's house in Lindon, and I was supposed to cook the turkey, but I crashed on the couch.  Uncle Robert and Dad saved the day and got the Turkey going and dinner started.  We had a full house for dinner.  Aunt Sara and Uncle Robert with Mason and his new bride Sasha, and Andy; Uncle Joe, Aunt Lee and Zina with her friend; plus Josh's family, Mary's family, Tika, Sarah, and all of my crew.  It was great fun.  After dinner, we learned a new game called times up.  Zina taught it to us.  They play it all the time at the Wasatch Academy in Mount Pleasant.  It's a combination of Charades and Catch Phrase. 
We stayed up late at night and visited with Sara, Dad, Uncle Robert and Sasha and Mason. 

Aunt Lee and Andy Sullivan

Aunt Lee, Dad, and Uncle Robert

The turkey was still frozen on the bottom, so it took longer than planned to get it cooked, but it all ended well, and there weren't any leftovers.

Tanner and Jesse

The big table Dad had custom made is really great for Thanksgiving dinner!

Abby and Marc

Spencer and Marc

Greg and Tika

I took about 15 pictures of Sarah.  I think she is beautiful!

Uncle Robert playing "Times Up" and being Colonel Klink. 

I also think that my Aunt Sara is beautiful.  When I grow up, I want to be like her.

I am so grateful for my family, my life, my husband, and my children.

Thanksgiving Run

The Udall tradition since I was little, is to get up and participate in the Turkey Run organized and done in Orem.  Now all my kids participate in it and for the first time ever, the kids were really excited to do it.  Abby ran in the 1/2 mile race, Spencer ran the mile race, and Tanner, Greg, Jesse and I ran the four mile run.  You can tell from the pictures that Esther and Cameron, Sarah, Tika, and Josh's family all participated in the event too.  Mom had her knee replaced and was unable to run this year, so she and Dad stayed at the house and got dinner ready with Uncle Robert and Sara.

You can tell from the pictures that we had to get up early, and the sun wasn't up yet.  We laughed about all the reflective gear and the way it shined with the flash!

It was a great event.  We discovered that all of our kids are really good runners!  YIPEE!  We couldn't keep up with Spencer.  They all did great.  Esther and I finished in 28 minutes, Spencer and Abby both won a pie, and Jesse beat both Tanner and Greg. 

RJHS Christmas Concert

We had the annual Christmas Concert for RJHS on Tuesday, December 8th.  I am taking my advanced orchestra class to St. George to the Music Educators Conference in February, and they wanted a picture for the brochure of events.  So, right before the concert, my friend Steve Puro, came and took the picture of the class. 

He then stayed for the rest of the concert and took these great pictures.  I was also asked to send in a picture of me, and I was just going to send in the school photo, but he took one of me too.  Thanks Steve! 

You can see Jesse in one of the pictures of the orchestra performance.  He is right in the center on violin.  The orchestra played really good, and the night was a success.

Christmas Pictures

Here are my attempts at getting a good picture for the Christmas Card.  The kids were finally willing to participate, but just wanted to be goofy!