Fiesta at the Ellingtons'

We brought Pink Grandma to Wayne's house...Wayne and his son, Matthew, just moved to Utah.

Pink-G gave Lyla a pink triceratops for her 1st birthday.

Pink-G with JeNae's fam.


The boys chowing tamales and watching ultimate fighting.

Yum, dinner was good. Now what's for dessert?

Marie Calendar! Yay, can't beat $6.99/pie month!

Happy first birthday, Lyla!

Spending a Week in Utah

Cameron's birthday is March 5th, so we celebrated it last night at a sushi place. Then we came home and made warm chocolate melting cake!!!!

Lyla will be one on Tuesday (we'll celebrate her b-day tonight).

The weather was warm and beautiful yesterday and some partook in a snowball fight. Today JeNae, Jayson, Cameron, Spencer and Randy are snowboarding while Emily, Renee and Rick are hanging with Lyla.

Below is a video of Lyla trying to wake up Uncle Randy. She's soooo cute!

Free Snow, Shovel All You Want

Katie's son, Derek, and Spencer and Emily playing in the snow last Saturday. We had another big storm on Tuesday. I'll take a picture of the snow we have now and post it soon. I misplaced my camera, but found it last night, so I'll get busy tomorrow (Friday).

Happy Birthday Spencer!!!

Spencer turns 10!!!

Lyla is getting so big, and she's quite sophisticated too!

The Greatest Snow on Earth

A perfect day for snowboarding/skiing.
Left to right: Renee, then Renee's cousins Evan, Pam, Brandon, & Cameron


The Crows (minus Walter--who was tuckered out from skiing the day before)

Below are a couple of videos (keep in mind that I couldn't see well from the glare of the sun). They are of Cameron at the terrain park. Oh yeah, this is at Powder Mountain, Eden, UT.

Tri-Oaks Wins Their First Game!

Unfortunately, my camera was on "scenery" setting, but you can get the idea...

Cameron, played most of the game and did awesome!

This picture I took this morning--cool clouds floating thru the canyon--but this is why the camera was on "scenery"...oops.

SPENCER'S THE CHAMP and on to the Pinewood Derby Districts!!!

Spencer kicks it at the 2009 Pinewood Derby!

My little CHAMP takes 1st PLACE!!!!!

As they say: "Third times a charm"

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But here's where it all started...first came THE FAMOUS HOT DOG of 2007

I am the Hot Dog Man...the Hot Dog Man...the Hot Dog Man!

Yummmmmmy!
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Next was The Pencil #8 of 2008 when Spencer was 8...

Spencer has a gift for making the favorite and most memorable cars!

Spencer's Pencil made 4th place in Speed too!

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Enjoy the 2009 Derby Winner's Race! He'll be a District Celebrity soon!

Kitty has a new buddy...

Move over Grandpa Rick. Kitty has found a new tummy for relaxing.

After Cam unpacked his suitcase, I made him the most important meal of the day...

Nooo, not breakfast...it's warm chocolate melting cake with ice cream:O

Cameron is tasting his fresh-out-of-the-oven cake...

And is savoring the yumminess of the delicacy...Then, he had dinner;)

YIPEE! CAMERON IS HERE...

Cameron is here!!!! We thankfully found him. We had waited at the "Park and Wait" and his flight was listed as "enroute". Then the arrival time came and the sign didn't change. We went to the parking garage and parked and went inside. As it turned out, Cam's plane not only had already landed, but it landed early. (Stupid airport sign--you can't trust it.) So, while we were inside looking for Cameron, he was outside waiting for us (in the cold). We eventually found each other. Now Cameron is setting up his bedroom (after he showed us his "Micro-T" car--it goes really fast!). There is no school the next two days, so we'll have time to settle in. Tomorrow is Lacrosse practice at 4 pm. LaCrosse is Mon-Thurs @ 4pm, Wed is Mutual and Thurs is church basketball--we're so excited to get to watch Cam.

The last picture is of Glenn Close at the airport-hehe-while we were looking for Cam, an airport employee came up to me and said, "Do you know who Glenn Close is?" I said, "yes", and she said, "She's standing right over there at the United counter." Funny huh. The Sundance Film Festival is going on right now. I snapped the pic w/o my flash--it's fuzzy.)

The Last Bird Leaves the Nest

Today Randy packed up the VW and headed to California to be closer to Katie and look for a job. He's really excited and we are excited for him. See ya soon, BooBoo Boy!

Yay for Wednesday!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

It's a fabulous day to be alive. The sunrise looked so beautiful peeking through Weber Canyon this morning. (Second pic is a few minutes later--the sun rises quickly :p ) Did anyone see The Office last night? Our family should get a radar gun!!! We would have a blast!

Get Out the Shorts?

Ok, so I can't stop noticing how much warmer it is here in California compared to Utah. It's a good 30 degrees higher.

When I picked up the girls from school today Anna said: "Mom, right when we get home I'm running in and putting a skirt on. I was so hot today!!!"

DEBIT CARDS--USER BEWARE!!!

Be careful using your debit card (if you use one). Some slime-ball bought six plane tickets with our debit card # in Italy @ $2200 total:(

Don't let your debit card out of your site and don't use it on the internet. We are going to use cash for restaurants, etc. just like the good ol' days.

PS: Our card wasn't stolen, so someone got the # from somewhere...

Have a nice day:) Love Mom

Bullet Blow Out!

:^O Yummy!!

Do guys EVER read the instruction manuals first?
Mom & Rick, thanks for the Magic Bullet Blender! Fortunately since it's first use we (Jayson, rather) have mastered the bullet after much help from Emily on the clean up crew. Er...Muchas Gracias! It has definitely become our favorite kitchen toy!

Team Jacob Has Overcome!

Lautner back as Jacob Black in `Twilight' sequel
15 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Lautner will be back to morph into the monstrous Jacob Black in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon."
There had been talk that a bigger, buffer, more menacing actor might play the role when the second of Stephenie Meyer's hugely successful vampire novels hits movie screens come Nov. 20. Lautner, by comparison, appears lean and sweet-faced in part one. But distributor Summit Entertainment and director Chris Weitz confirmed Wednesday that Lautner would be returning.
Stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will also be returning as the saga's doomed young lovers, high schooler Bella Swan and brooding vampire Edward Cullen.
Catherine Hardwicke's "Twilight" opened at No. 1 with a whopping $69.6 million at the box office in November, the biggest opening ever for a female director. It has since grossed about $177 million domestically.

Great job McKalynn for cheering loudly! Love G-Nay (Danger Magnet)

Let it snow...

It snowed last night...and today it's beautiful out!

Anna & McKalynn always sledded at our house, but now we're sledding by ourselves:(

We made some sweet trails in the front and backyards...

Rick crashed and burned a couple of times. Everyone is welcome to come play in the snow with us!

Anna's 1st Dance Recital

December 18th, 2008 - getting out the prerecital gitters.

Anna was 2nd from the right, smiling from ear to ear!


For the sake of this picture (and bcuz I don't know), we'll just say that the other girl was way off on timing. LOL.

She's ready for the big time now!!! She had a blast and is doing so well in dance. And most importantly, having fun!!!

Aren't They So Cute (so cute, you wanna puke?)

I'm teasing, there's no vomiting here. Randy and Katie took a trip to the happiest place on earth (P.S. mom, of course the happiest place on earth resides in California hope you know.... move back!!!) Anyway, I stole these pictures from one of their facebooks and put them together. How cute is this?

ATVing

Rick (Freddy Jr) ATVing. Wasatch Mtns June 2008.

PURPLE

Freddy Jr loves the color purple. Phoenix Suns game...Oct 2008.