Cason's Engaged!!

I can't believe my little brother is getting married! He got engaged a little while ago and they are getting married May 23rd. Her name is Marie and we all love her and are so excited to have her be part of our family. They make a really great couple! Congrats, Cason!

Kindergarten Folk Dance Festival

Tonight Ellie had a Dance Festival at her school. They have been practicing for weeks for tonight's performance. They learned 6 songs and dances from different countries. It was really cute and Ellie did a great job!

At the end they had a "surprise dance" where the families came up and all participated in a Freeze Dance.

Nicolas was feeling a little left out because I kept taking pictures of Ellie. So he would make funny faces and tell me to take his picture too!

Ellie and Matt after the performance

Update!!

So I finally decided to return to the blogging. My little sis just moved to Hong Kong for the next few years and so I am mainly doing it for her so that she can stay updated on what our family is doing. We found out we are having another boy and couldn't be more excited. Here are a few pictures from the last couple of months. I haven't taken too many pictures lately, so this is all I have for now.....

Ellie holding Nicolas on his 3rd Birthday

His new boogie board

Blowing out the candles

Random shot of Matt and I (the only one in the last 3 months that I have!)

Easter Sunday (Scotty, Ellie, Liza, Luke, Ruby and Nicolas - Janey was sleeping)

Egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Green's house

Good News and Bad News

Okay, the good news is that I am finally pregnant! We have been trying for quite a while and are so excited! I am 12 weeks today and am due on my 30th birthday, June 30th.

The bad news is that I think I am going to be done with blogging for a while. I just don't have the time. I will still try to keep up with all of yours, but for now I am going to be taking a little break from my own.

Hope everyone has very happy holidays!

Trip to Utah

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Our family went up to Utah and met all of the Green family and some of the Staffieri family. The kids loved the cold weather and the snow! Luckily there was no snow in Provo. We went up to Park City one day and there was some man-made snow that the kids got to play in. They went on the roller-coaster up on the mountain a couple of times also. The kids got to go horseback riding the first day we got there. Matt's good family friends have some horses that we were able to use. Then Saturday was the big football game! It was pretty boring until the end and then it was stressful just like the game last year against the U. Luckily we came out on top! Unfortunately, Markell wasn't able to play much because of his ankle. He could barely even walk on it after the game. It was the last home game for the seniors, so it was pretty sad. Hopefully he can be back for the bowl game. Here are some pictures from our trip (sorry there are so many!).........

The Girls - Ruby, Janey, Ellie and Liza

Cason, Ellie, and Matt

Ellie and Nicolas after riding the horses

After horseback riding they went for a ride in the "Rhino"

Ellie showing off her new cold weather gear

Marie, Cason, and Nicolas

Ellie with her snowball

Nicolas getting ready to throw his snowball

Tony (Ash's husband), Matt, and Will (Whit's husband)

Ashley, Mom, Whitney and Chelsea

Chels and Matt at the stadium an hour early!

Chelsea, Maria (Matt's sister), and Anna (Markell's wife)

Markell and Matt after the game

The family after Kell got his "senior blanket"

Dad, Matt, and Markell

Football, a Broken Nose, and some Bowling

So our weekend consisted of just that.... Saturday morning Matt goes to play football and calls me an hour and a half later with some "bad news." If you look closely at this picture (sorry for the major close up!), you can see that his nose is about three times its normal size and it is crooked. Well that is because he dove to get someones flag and landed on the guys cleats and broke his nose! Leave it to Matt to be the aggressive one in a little pick up game of football! So now he has to go get it re-set next week which I am sure will not feel too good.

Saturday night we went bowling with Matt's sister, her kids, and grandpa. The kids had a blast. After we had been there about an hour it turned into "Extreme Bowling" where they turn down the lights and get the disco ball going and blast the music. At that point Nicolas was done bowling and he was turning on his dance moves. For some reason this kid loves to dance and he has the funniest dance moves and facial expressions. We were all dying!

Nicolas had such a great time bowling that for the past three days, EVERYDAY, he says, "Mom, remember when we went bowling? That was so fun. I want to go bowling again!"

Snow White and Bob the Builder

We have had a fun Halloween week. The kids are a little pooped! Last night we only trick-or-treated to about 10 houses before they were ready to come in. They were more excited to pass out the candy to the other kids. Glad it is all over! Now I have to figure out what to do with all of this candy!! Here are some pictures from this week.....

The ward Trunk-or-Treat

Ellie's school had a Halloween parade

Her Kindergarten class

This is Nicolas with his new dancing facial expressions!