We've been tagged

So, Colby tagged us quit some time ago and we have been slackers. this is just me and Lizzie. Sam and Trey are still 'thinking'
Paula:
1. I love shoes. Running, hiking, dress, casual it really doesn't matter.

2. Food is almost an obsession. I love to eat. Trying new foods is one of my favorite things and it makes me happy. I love to cook. (told you I was obsessed) I don't even mind doing the dishes afterwards. Learning new ways to cook and finding new recipes is a hobby for me. Sometimes I bake/cook just for the fun of it and then make my friends eat it all so I wont gain 50 lbs. in a month.

3. I love watching sports. Baseball is probably my favorite. Football is great and I can even enjoy watching golf and soccer. I would love to go to Wimbeldon, The Masters, The Super Bowl and the World Series. (NASCAR is NOT a sport and I don't like it at all!!)

4. Working out is an addiction for me. I have discovered that if I go more than three days without running, yoga or some form of exercise I become a monster. My Dad says he's the same way so maybe it's genetic?!

5. I really love music. My ipod is my friend!! Give me some good 80's rock music some fabulous piano music, or just some good ol' country and I am a happy camper!!

6. Watching my kids grow up brings more emotions than I can explain. I am so proud of them and the accomplishments they are making, but Lizzie is 4 1/2 and that means she's not a baby anymore and that makes me sad. I am living vicariously through friends and family who have babies and it's really fun!

7. I have the most patient husband in the world. Hello, trying to live with me is like living with a volcano. Most of the time it's peaceful, but when it blows, you better watch out!!

8. I hate dirty floors. When I was little I hated walking on the floor of my grandma's boat at lake powell because there was always sand,food,water on the floor and it literally made me sick. I still am that way, my floors have to be vacuumed and moped or I go nuts. (Hotels kind of gross me out only because of the floors!)

Lizzie:
1. I love being around my friends. I have to have someone to play with at all times or my life is over!

2. Singing is great. I do it ALL the time. Making up my own songs or just singing songs from the radio, primary or our favorite CD's it really doesn't matter.

3. I am a mamma's girl.

4. Princesses Rule. What do I want to be when I grow up? sleeping beauty.

5. My thumb is my friend. It's always there when I need it and it always knows how to make me feel better.

6. I don't really like being a big kid. I try to do as little for myself as possible so that I can stay a baby.

7. "Ballet Music" is really great. I could listen to the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" twenty times a day.

8.I love to play dress-up. Everyday it's necessary to see how I look in a particular outfit. I have about a hundred dress-ups and they are all used on a regular basis.

Pinewood Derby

This was actually a month ago, but I am behind in my posts, so I am going to just keep going!! Trey had a lot of fun making the car. He went to one of our friends house and cut out the car and he could hardly wait until the race day. He did really well on the first heat, he took first place by a big time difference and then everything went downhill after that. His wheel came off on his next heat, and on the third heat two wheels came off!! Yeah, we wont be using that particular brand of car again. He was a little disappointed, but he still had a great time. This year they gave the last place car a huge prize, and I told Trey that we should have tried to get last place instead, but he wasn't so sure. Trey has really enjoyed scouts this year, it's nice to have so many boys his age in our ward.

Sam's class play

The fourth and fifth grade classes did a play this year that talked about ancient civilizations. Sam was in the Egypt section. She played the skeleton 'Lucy'. She woke up and took the modern day children on a tour of ancient Egypt. There were also parts from china. Sam's two best friends, Brody played a Roman soldier and Issac was king Tut. It was such a cute play with great music and the kids all did a great job. It's sad that this will be her last year with little plays like this. She is growing up so fast!!

Ice fishing at Farrish Winter Park

We had a great time with our ward at Farrish. Trey had a goal to catch a fish before we left, unfortunately he didn't catch one. But some of the other boys in the ward did. Lizzie had been with Sam and didn't know that we had two fish by us. She came walking over and we told her that Payton had caught a fish and pointed to it. It was buried under some snow and it hadn't moved at all, until Lizzie got there. It started moving and the tail and body came out of the snow,...well, Lizzie about crawled out of her skin. she screamed and started dancing around and wouldn't let us put her down for the rest of the time we were fishing. It was so funny! Fishing was her favorite part of the day she said later, but just not actually catching the fish!!

Farrish Winter Park

Our ward goes up in the mountains every year and rents an outdoor area. there is sledding hills and a frozen pond. The kids had a great time going down the hills. They are huge hills and you go forever. The worst part was having to hike back up the hill after you sled all the way down.

Letter to Argentina and Paraguay

This is the letter Lizzie sent to mom and dad and Ryan. It's just so...Lizzie!!
Hi Grandma and Grandpa and Rynan,
I am doing 'gynastics'. I do backbends, cartwheels, do balance 'beans' and trampoline and I do swining and jumps. I am already in school. I go to a church that's right by our house, my teacher in my primary class is mom and my preschool teacher's name is Miss Amy and my 'gynastics' teacher's name is Mr. Zach. My teachers are funny. It's winter. And I love the weather it's really pretty. My sister and brother are at school right now. Hos are you?
On Monday we went swimming. My brother and sister are in swimming lessons, just letting you know. I can swim so good by myself but that's only when mom and dad catch me. Sometimes with my sisters and brother, too. We can see Pike's Peak from our house. We have a new house. It's a chocolate house (fyi, it's brown so she calls it chocolate). We moved all of the stuff in the house, of course I got a new bike, it's got a horn on it, beep-beep!
We have a fridge that we never had before. I love my fridgerator because it has water in it that you can put in your cups and it only has cold water and you can drink it, so anywhoo. (I'm typing exactly what she says!)
I watch High School Musical a lot. I love Princess and the Pauper (a Barb ie movie) did you know that Carly and Cassidy gave it to me? How's Argentina?
We go to Mr. Bigg's a lot (it's like a 49th Street Galleria, but better) We go to Focus on the Family too and some of my friends have their birthday parties there and it's really fun. And what else I do is go to a fun school that's really fun. My 'gynastics' class is really fun. Colorado is a big state. And anywhoo... I go...my mom is going to let me go to ballet when I grow up. I have to be in kindergarten thought, it's going to be a long time before I go to ballet. and anywhoo...
I have a princess room and a princess bed and my whole room is filled with princess and I love princesses. and anywhooo...thank you for Mr. Gingles and my care bare blankie. I know that's kind of funny because my dad's name is "Mr." and my Mr. Gingles is a girl but that's what I named her. I miss you in Argentina and Paraguay. I'll be fourteen when you come back (not quite!!) Maybe seven when you come back I mean. Well, anywhoo....
I have a lot of new friends and my sister and brother are having a lot of fun ion primary and it sounds like they are having a lot of fun and I think that's a good thing.
Adios!! bye bye spaghetti oh's
Lizzie

Swim lessons

Sam and Trey have been taking swimming lessons on Saturdays and they love it.