41st Birthday

Well its that time of year again.  Brian turned another year older. 

Here is how he celebrated.

January

Not much going on here, but I thought I would post my bookshelf all filled and in place.  I love, love, love it.

Christmas & New Years

New Years

It was fun to have Grandpa and Grandma Williams here for new years.  We had good food, games and barely were able too keep our eyes open till midnight.

Christmas was also wonderful.  We were lucky enough to have grandparents from Christmas till New Years.

Here is the kids decorations for our Christmas Eve Dinner.  We tried a little Fondue with Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches.  It was delicious!

For Christmas Eve we always get a new game to play as a family.  This year we got Just Dance 3 and had a lot of fun watching everyone boogie the night away even Grandpa and Grandma Manwaring.

Ready for Christmas morning

After church ready to open presents, finally!

Grandpa and Grandma joining in all the opening fun

I hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas too !

Piano Recital

So I have been begging and begging my kids piano teacher to do a recital. 

She finally gave in and the kids did pretty good for their first recital.

Megan's Debut:

Braxton's Debut:

And the yummy cake I made:

Thanksgiving

Here are some late posted photos of our fabulous Thanksgiving with the Owens and Petersons.

The Deseret Museum

Megan made a new friend

Thanksgiving Dinner

After Turkey relaxing time

And the Jumping Club

(You know you want to join)

Thanks Beth for a great Thanksgiving

Lego Robotics Competition

Braxton has been on a Lego Robotics team this year at school and yesterday was the big regional competition. 

JCMS Lego Team

Here they are practicing their verbal presentation on E-Coli

Here they are all set up in the pit waiting for their time to compete.

Braxton’s turn at the robot mission pest control.  It worked great in all the practices, but poor BoB( the robots nickname) got stage fright and his mission was unsuccessful =(, however the team ended up in 8th place in the robot missions category.  Go JCMS!

Waiting for the judges to start the awards ceremony.

Awards ceremony: 

The good news we don’t have to go to state competition and we learned so much that next year we will do awesome.

Braxton High Fiving all the judges.

Halloween Fun

Here are some pictures of all our Halloween fun.

Spooky eyes

playing games at the stake

Fall Family Fun Fair

 

Drilling Pumpkins

Braxton’s drilled pumpkin

Megan’s regular carved pumpkin

And finally our Pink Ninja

ready to get her some candy