Castle Rock State Park

It was a very overcast day but we decided to brave the elements and go on a 4 mile hike at the Castle Rock State Park. If you like cloudy days it was the day to be there.
Mike, Diane and Jeff had a lot of fun climbing and finding places to hide. This is just one of the many rocky climbs that they went on. There were huge rock formations throughout the park. This is just one of them.
Mike and Jeff, the shadow men on the mighty peak. Oh my, it is really far down from here!!

Lookeee here!

Ok. I am hooked on this digital stuff. This was the third or fourth try for this page and I finally did something that I really like. I ordered my own adobe photoshop elements version!

Christmas photo

I'm not sure how well these photos will blow up. We tried to take a family picture at a friend's house but she didn't have her camera on a high resolution.

Santa and Christmas mix

Parkers first visit with Santa. Started off ok:
Ended in tears:

Parker enjoyed the Christmas mix. He loved playing with the bag. He even liked eating it too. I only gave him a couple of pieces but once he finish one peice he would come back for more.

Clapper

Parker just started to clap yesterday at dinner. We thought we would get it on video for everyone to see. He is in the mode of copying everything that we do. I clicked my tongue yesterday and now Parker will do it. To listen to the video you have to pause the music on the bottom right of the page.

Once there was a snowman

Peter stayed home to study today so while Katie and Madison took a nap, Hannah and I made a snowman. It was great packable snow. Then we made cookies to deliver for a secret santa going around our ward. Then Hannah unrolled rollos for pretzel/rollo/pecan treats for a party we are having tomorrow night. Tonight we are going to our ward Christmas party. The girls are very excited.

Fabulous Hawaiian Fun!

Now that we know how to post on the family blog we will add a few pictures from our trip to Hawaii! On the first day we drove around the Kona side of the island and visited several of the historic sites. The picture on the left was taken at Pu'ukohola Heiau. We attended a Luau that evening at the hotel. On the second day we drove south and visited more sights. On our way back to the hotel we saw the temple off the road. We wandered our way through the streets and found the temple. The temple was closed so we walked around the grounds. That evening we wnet with a tour group and drove up to the top of Mouna Loa (one of the tallest mountains in the world) and saw the huge telescopes. The sunset view was spectacular! We also went snorkeling, which was wonderful. The water was the clearest blue and very warm. I didn't think that I would enjoy the day, but it was one of the most fun.

Ward Christmas Party

Our Victorian Christmas Party fancy costumes. Anyone willing to go out on a limb could come to the Rose Photography shop to have their face recorded for posterity.

"Muffin man" houses

We went to JoAnnes yesterday to find a stocking for Madison. While we were there we saw some gingerbread houses. Hannah kept asking when we could make "Muffin Man" houses. We made snowman cookies and decorated them to take to friends and today she got to decorate her first "Muffin Man" house. Katie decorated a cookie as well, but as you can see the candies are gone. The christmas season really is fun with kids around!

first snow

Today we woke up to the first snow. The boys downstairs already have played in it.

Parker crawled right into the basket and couldn't figure out how to get out.
Sleepy boy.