Joshua's birthday and Sierra's recital

Joshua's birthday was actually a month ago. I just haven't posted it yet. Better late then never, right?

Joshua is in a trance. Wow... fire.

The cake may have been ugly, but he thought it was awesome.

Obviously he turned three.

Tyler kept trying to wear the clothes that Joshua would unwrap.

Sierra had her ballet recital yesterday. She looked so pretty. I had her practice a few times and kept telling her to make her movements big. So when she was actually performing she made her movements big, but she forgot to smile. She looked so mad throughout the entire performance because of the expression she had on her face. It kind of made me sad. She was still the cutest one up there. Of course I could be just a little biased.

This is her friend that danced with her this year. Her mom and I would take turns taking the girls to dance. They became great friends. Of course you wouldn't be able to tell by the look on Sierra's face.

Rob and Tyler's Birthdays

I won some free lift tickets to Targhee a while ago and so Rob and I went a couple of days before his birthday. It was great. The rest of the slideshow is their birthday. Tyler's was on the 6th and Rob's was on the 7th, so we celebrated them together on Rob's birthday. Tyler turned 1 and we won't mention how old Rob turned. He he he :).

Valentines Date

Rob took me on a very fun Valentines date this year. And since he was in charge, he didn't think about taking a camera, so I will just have to write about it. He told me about three weeks ago not to plan anything for Valentines night. He was surprising me. I love surprises. Anyway, so I got a babysitter (thank you Jaci) and Rob made the plans. He blindfolded me at about 6 p.m. and someone came to pick us up. So I didn't even know who we were going out with. Then he led me through the snow to the car and I hear our friends Natalie and Chad talking. Chad drove us around, making it seem like we were going up into the mountains or something. It was hillarious. It seemed liked we were on dirt roads when really we were just driving on the side of the road. I bet we looked awesome. It also seemed like we were driving in a bunch of snow drifts. He was just driving in a trailer park where the snow on the road hadn't completely melted. And because we were blindfolded our equilibriam was a little off. Natalie kept saying things like "Chad we're upside down," and then he stopped and said "I need to check this out." He and Rob were such good little actors. Natalie and I were wondering if he really needed to check something out or not and Rob said "If you knew what we were looking at..." Then we drove over something huge. I don't know what. Anyway, they just took us to Chad and Natalie's camper that was parked on Philbin. It was so cute. They made us a delicious dinner and we played games. It was so much fun. I was totally impressed. Good job Rob.

I've Been Tagged!

1. Go to your documents/pictures
2. Go to your 6th file.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Blog about it.
5.Tag 6 people to do the same.
6. So here we go...

Our pictures files on our computer go pretty far back. This actually isn't the 6th picture in that file, though. The 6th picture was all fuzzy and you couldn't really see what was happening. Don't know why it's still there. Anyway, this is Sierra when she was about a year old, I think. I remember she was pretty sick. Her nose was running down her face, and she looked miserable. Her hair's a little psycho too. I still think she looks pretty adorable. Just look at those cheeks.

Tag you're it!

Tiffani Adamson

Nicki Iverson

Jeni Niu

Diedre Clark

Danielle Webb

Jessica Springer

We Love Daddy

I know I seem to post a lot lately, but I just thought that these pictures were so cute. Tyler looked like he was practically falling off of the couch and they were both out. The rest are just the kids loving on their dad. And I added a picture of Sierra skiing. We went again yesterday, and kept the camera warm this time.

Sierra's Ballet

Today was parent observation day in Sierra's ballet class. They don't let the parents watch the normal classes because it's distracting for the kids. So they have one day during the year that we can come in and take pictures and videos and see what they've been learning during the year. After that they start practicing their dance for spring recital. So here are some pictures of her cute class. I also took a couple of recordings. There is no sound however.

Sierra is the one in the video that I am attempting to follow.

In this video Sierra is the one in the back behind the girl in pigtail buns. At the end when they curtsy she kind of disappears for a second. Anyway, I thought it was kind of cute.

Our Ski Trip

Rob and I took Sierra skiing for her first time yesterday! Ahhh! It was great. We tried to take pictures, but our camera got too cold and wouldn't work for us up there. So I will just have to write about it. So, I thought that teaching Sierra was going to be simple. After our first run down, however, I thought differently. It was pretty cold up there and after our first run I was sweating like crazy because I was trying all of these different ways to help her. First we tried to have her ski behind me and hold onto my bottom. She flew right between my legs. Then I tried to hold her up in front of me between my skis. I could only do that for about 1 minute. After that one I had to sit down in the middle of the hill and take my skis and boots off. My feet hurt from barely moving so there wasn't any circulation getting down to my feet because my boots were so tight. (They're the kind of ski boots that you really have to move in and we moved ten feet in about 1/2 of an hour.) Then I saw a lady skiing backward and having her son hang onto her pole while she pulled and instructed him. So I tried that. That didn't work either. She just wasn't getting the concept. Luckily my sister Tiffani and her family was there because she showed me how to hold my poles under Sierra's arms with Sierra between my legs. That way I wasn't carrying all of her weight. So I tried that. It worked! She got the feel of it. Also, she is a little competitive. She doesn't like to feel like she's the one that can't do it. So it was really nice to have cousin Ashton there. Ashton has been skiing before and was doing it on her own about the third time down and when Sierra saw that, I could tell that it gave her incentive to do it on her own too. She was able to go down the hill by herself on the very last run. We were determined to let her get at least one run in by herself and the lift was closing. I thought they were going to stop the lift before we were going to get down. Then we would have had to hike up the hill. However, they waited for us. When we finally got down. We got on the lift and they turned off all the lights. SHE DID IT! IT WAS AWESOME! Needless to say, we are very proud of her, and my body is about to give out on me today, but it was all worth it. Sierra can ski.