FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS

TWO BIRTHDAYS PLUS A NEW BABY ON THE 26th

CREED'S BIG DAY THE 11TH

SYDNEY'S BIG DAY THE 25TH

BABY CURTIS WILL BE COMING OUR WAY

THE END OF THE MONTH

Creed celebrated his birthday in California with his family

The family celebrated Sydney's birthday the Sunday before her big day

Natalie made this cake for Sydney - a beautiful cake Nat

Mother & Daughter

Natalie and Carlee lighting the candles

Help blowing the candles out

Tayler loves to lick the frosting from the candles

Cutting the cake

Yummy cake and great ice cream

Natalie and Shannon helped serve the kids

Sisters are forever..........brothers too

Cousins had to put Syd through the spanking machine

Old pictures of the adult kids were brought out and enjoyed

Adults relaxing while the children are playing down stairs

Only 5 more days Shannon!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CREED

FEBRUARY 11TH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OUR LITTLE GUY

YOU ARE NOW 2 YEARS OLD

We missed Creed's birthday by just a few days, but we heard that he had a fun one. We miss him, we were so happy to get the opportunity to be with him for a week. Love you little man!

You are so cute when you sleep He is the happiest 2 year old, we love you

BASKETBALL WITH THE RIUDELS-FEBRUARY 2011

SYDNEY AND COLLIN HAVE BEEN ON BASKETBALL TEAMS FOR DRAPER COMMUNITY SPORTS. JAY THE COACH FOR BOTH TEAMS. THEY HAVE BEEN ENJOYING THEMSELVES AND I AM SURE THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW AWESOME THEIR DAD WAS FOR WILLING TO TAKE ON SUCH A BIG PROJECT WITH THE CRAZY SCHEDULE HE HAS. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE MISSED A GREAT GAME WITH COLLIN. HE MADE 14 POINTS OUT OF 17, WAY TO GO! SYDNEY IS NOT AFRAID TO BE WITH ALL THOSE BOYS ON HER TEAM I AM SO PROUD OF BOTH OF THEM.

BEFORE THE GAME SYD WAS MAKING LOTS OF BASKETS WHILE PRACTICING

THE COACH/JAY

SYDNEY IS A GREAT DRIBBLER THE OTHER TEAM IS ON HER TRAIL
SHE IS AN AWESOME BASKET BALL PLAYERJAY WAS GIVING A COUPLE OF HIS KIDS SOME SUGGESTIONSLET THE GAME BEGIN COLLIN WAITING FOR HIS TEAM MATE TO PASS THE BALLTHROWING THE BALL BACK INTO THE COURTGREAT THROW COLLINANOTHER GREAT THROW THE OTHER TEAM IS TRYING TO KEEP COLLIN FROM SCORING

SHANNON'S SHOWER-FEBRUARY 5th

FAMILY SHOWER FOR SHANNON

NATALIE HELPED ORGANIZE THE SHOWER, SHE ALSO MADE YUMMY CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICHES AND PUNCH. SOUPIE AND CARLEE BROUGHT HUGE CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES AND BERTHA HELPED WITH A VARIETY VEGETABLES. SHANNON FROSTED THE MINI BROWNIES FOR ME SHE ALSO SURPRISED US BY MAKING SOME BEAUTIFUL MINI CHEESE CAKES.

BERTHA'S FAMILY GAVE SHANNON SOME WONDERFUL THINGS SUCH AS THIS TV MONITOR AS WELL AS CLOTHES A DIAPER PAIL AND GIFT CERTIFICATE.

I GAVE SHANNON THIS LITTLE OUTFIT, IT'S A CATTERPILLAR THAT SAYS SQUIRMY ON IT, I LOVE IT! NATALIE GAVE HER THE BIGGEST BOX OF DIAPERS I HAVE EVER SEEN!

BERTHA EVEN FOUND A NAVY BLUE & WHITE NAUTICAL CRIB SHEET!

SOUPIE, NATALIE AND I GAVE HER A LOT OF DIAPERS AND BABY CLOTHES. ROBIN GAVE SHANNON A CD THAT SHE AND HER FRIENDS AT THE "Y" CREATED WITH SPECIAL SONGS JUST FOR THE BABY. COOL IDEA ROBIN! EVEN BEFORE WE THOUGHT OF A SHOWER, SHANNON'S SISTER-IN-LAW, NICOLE GAVE HER A WONDERFUL DESIGNER STROLLER. I'M SURE SHANNON WILL LOVE TAKING THE BABY FOR WALKS IN THIS STOLLER AS IT MAKES FOR A SMOOTH RIDE FOR THE BABY AND AN EASIER STROLL FOR MOM.

SHANONNON WILL HAVE FUN PUTTING HER BABY IN THIS OUTFIT WHEN THEY GO TO THE BOYS BASEBALL GAMES......BATTER UP!

THE WEEKEND OF THE SHOWER, ROBIN WAS HERE FOR THE SHOWER AND HER DAD CAME INTO TOWN FOR GUARD SO THEY SPENT SUPPER BOWL SUNDAY WITH US.
JOHN WAS HAPPY THAT SOMEONE OTHER THAN MYSELF (WHO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE SUPPER BOWL) WOULD SIT WITH HIM AND ENJOY THE GAME.

THANKS PAUL AND ROBIN!

CALIFORNIA TRIP JANUARY 27th - 31st

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27th

THE SANTA BARBARA ZOO

This is one of the highlights to my trip. I loved watching Creed get excited about all the animals.

Creed also loved the play ground at the zoo. I think he slid down this hill about a hundred times!

The gorilla was sitting right up against the window. Creed had a great view of this big guy.

Grandpa John gave Creed some food to feed the fish and ducks. Creed really loved throwing the food out and watching them all fight over it.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28th

SANTA MONICA PIER

We enjoyed walking around the pier and checking out all the verdure's and performers. The day was warm and sunny. The pier was full of visitors and excitement.

Grandma never got as warm as we would have liked her to be, but she was a good sport and dressed accordingly and let us drag her around to all the places we thought she and Creed would enjoy. All in all we think she had a good time, but the trip was just a little too long for her. I think it took her a week to re-coop afterwards.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29th

We stayed home and rested

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30th

Sunday morning the Strong's arrived back home from their cruise. Grandma Ellen was packed and ready to go, so we left late morning and arrived in St George early evening. Jean and Vince let us stay with them. Monday morning we headed for Ephraim to drop off Grandma. That afternoon we were home and ready for bed. It was a fun, but long trip for all of us. We loved our one on one time with our little boy Creed.

Thanks Mike and Niki for the beautiful blown glass ship and yes it is in my curio, I would not put it anywhere else.