Winter Olympic fun!

We had the opportunity to go to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Since we live so close. On our way to the Olympics, we stopped by Mt. Baker and went snowboarding and tubing with the Lindsey's. We had a blast. It was fun to be there, to get the Olympic feel. Go USA!

Beautiful Lindsey and Mt. Baker

Playing in the "snow cave"

Bret's a pro snowboarder

Cute cousins

Barben Crew Bob-sledding

The Olympic Torches

Olympic fun

Go Canada when the U.S. is not playing them in Hockey. So in this case, Go USA!

Homeschooling Adventures

This past couple weeks I have decided to homeschool all my kids. With all of their extra curricular activities we felt we were not home together as a family as much as we wanted too. They have a great homeschooling program for support here. We thought we would give it a try!

Basketball is one of the extra curricular activities we are currently involved in. (Lindsey, Bronson, Bret, and Jake are all playing this year.) Lindsey is also taking a tumbling class and Brooklyn is taking ballet classes. Brigham and Jaxon also enjoy taking a kids tumbling class.

Having fun at the Science Discovery Center

Brooklyn in the butterfly exhibit at the museum

Exploring the Fort Casey lighthouse

The fun mirrors that we spent a lot of our time playing on.

One of our home school projects is starting a garden. This is the kids with the starters for our garden. This is our first garden experience, we are excited!

Lovin' the Lindseys

We have enjoyed having David and Jeanne's family close by. We have gotten to know them a lot better and our kids have enjoyed playing with their cousins. They are all so sweet and lovable. Jeanne is such a great cook, she is such a good mom, and I hope some of her patience will rub off on me. David is such a hard worker, great business man, and such a fun brother/uncle.

Cute Eliza

Alice enjoying her ice cream

Brooklyn and Sophia the birthday girls