February 7, 2005
Well, we had a very nice Christmas and the kids all seemed to enjoy the holidays.

The snow finally came in the middle of January. We received approximately 5 feet in three days with intermittent rain as well. Church was cancelled due to the snow so Wade and all of the neighbors spent the day shoveling snow throughout the neighborhood.

Abby turned 8 years-old on January 31st and is excited to get baptized this saturday on February 12th. She had quite a birthday party last Friday night. She called it a "Late Over" party where 12 girls came over to watch a movie and stay up late (10:00 p.m.). They really seemed to have a good time. Wade got some great video of them dancing for a few minutes after the movie and will post it on Abby's page soon along with some photos.

It snowed a little last night and Sam spent a good hour or so shoveling the walks all by himself with a small toy snow shovel that he got for Christmas. He was exhausted!

Wade tore a muscle in his right calf last Wednesday while playing basketball. He has been hobbling around ever since but it gets better each day. No more basketball for a while.

Jenny has been spending a lot of time helping out a friend who has a sick baby. She also got Abby signed up for a choir.

December 14, 2004
Both Abby and Sam are now moved into their new rooms. Once we got to it, painting Sam's room went really fast. It is blue (about the color of the blue used on this page). They are both doing well downstairs and haven't been scared yet. Kate is now asking, very sweetly, when we are going to paint her room "pink and purple." We're not sure what we are going to do about that...we really don't want to paint anything on the main floor. Maybe she will be happy with a few pink and purple decorations.

Maddie has a new nick name. A few days ago Jenny found a small "Santa Hat" in storage that fits Maddie perfectly. She loves to wear it and smiles big when we call her Maddie Claus. We will try to get a picture of it up soon!

It has been quite warm in Logan (40's) for the last week or so with lots of rain in the valley and snow in the mountains. It was really quite nice to be able to avoid all the shoveling!

We are nearly ready for Christmas and Jenny has put together our Christmas Letter this year. It will go out in a few days once our pictures come back. We had a friend take a picture of all of us that we will send out this year.

We never did make it to the party in Aurora due to the length of the trip. We missed seeing everyone but look forward to the Grandparents visiting us on Christmas. We will try to get some pictures taken and up on the website soon. Wade is also working on getting some more video clips up before to long.

Wade's friend, Al (Alfie) Anderson has been sending him a number of photos from their youth that are now up on the site. If you want to see just how much goofier Wade looked 20 years ago take a look.

December 6, 2004
Well, Abby has moved into her new room and seems to really like it. She is spending a lot more time in there reading and such and is excited to get her first alarm clock (but she couldn't sleep the firest night in anticipation of the alarm going off). Sam's room is next. It has been cleared out and may get painted as soon as tonight.

It has kept pretty cold in Logan but todays today's high temperature has been 30 degrees. That is pretty nice for Logan. It is forcasted to remain fairly balmy for the next few days (if you can call the 30's balmy).

Jenny's family is having a Christmas party on Saturday in Aurora, Utah which is about 4 hours South of Logan. We aren't sure we are up to spending eight hours on the road with the kids or if we can afford the gas to go. Our van is pretty much a hog when it comes to fuel.

November 29, 2004
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Wade's family all got together at our home for the holiday and it was very nice. We were quite worried that the projected snow storm (it was -2 today) would prevent everyone from making it through the canyon but everything worked out just fine. The left-overs are finally running out and we are now looking toward Christmas.

The kids all went to Salt Lake to stay with Jenny's parents for a couple of days while we went Christmas shopping and spent some time together seeing movies (The Work and Glory film is great! and Napolean Dynamite was hillarious!). It wasn't long until the children were missed and we arranged to pick them up a bit early to beat a snow storm.

Jenny and the children began decorating the house for Christmas yesterday and everything is looking pretty festive. We decided that Abby and Sam will be moving to their own rooms in the basement and, to help them get on board with the idea, we agreed to paint their rooms the color of their choice. Abby chose pink and Sam chose blue. We finished painting Abby's room on Saturday night and boy is it pink! We're talking Pepto Bismol Pink! Strawberry Milk Pink! It looks like the Pink Panther exploded! The best thing about it is that Abby LOVES it! Sam's room will probably be painted this weekend.

These moves will allow us to move Maddie and Kate into the same room and move the office upstairs into Abby's old room. The goal of the whole ordeal is to separate Sam and Kate, who are currently sharing a room, to see if it will help them get along a little better. For some reason there is a lot of competition between the two of them right now and we wonder if giving each of them their own turf will help a little bit. Hopefully absence will make the heart grow fonder.

November 11, 2004
Happy Veteran's Day!

It looks like we are finally starting to settle down for the holidays. Wade's family is coming to our house for Thanksgiving this year and we are excited for that. We got the yard ready for Winter last weekend which was plenty of work. We had a good time trying to make our vegetable and flower gardens grow and were thrilled with our little harvest.

Wade is still working at USU and finished his Master's Degree in Instructional Technology over the Summer. Every Fall he does a bit of travelling for work and is thrilled that it is over for this year. Wade was recently called into the Bishopric of our ward and is still getting used to the idea. Regardless, he is thrilled to serve. He is also beginning to contemplate a PhD but no news yet.

Jenny is teaching the "Teachings of our Times" lessons in Relief Society and really loves it. She has been having a lot of fun watching the children grow and spending a lot of time in the gardens. Since we have moved into the new house Jenny has spent a lot of time arranging and laying out the landscaping. As always, she is run ragged getting everyone in the family where they need to be (especially on Sundays when she has to get everyone ready alone!).

Abby is now in the second grade at Wilson Elementary (Mrs. Hansen's class) and is doing quite well. She was a bit concerned at first because all of her First Grade friends ended up in different classes but she is getting along good and they all meet up at recess and after school.

Sam is in Kindergarten (Mrs. Palmer's class) and LOVING it! He is already reading quite well and is really maturing. He is still a silly as ever and has a lot of fun teasing.

Kate just turned three on November 2nd and is very cute. She seems to feel a bit left out with the older two going to school but as the baby gets older she is gaining a . Her nursery leaders at church sure love her and she loves them.

Maddie is now seven months old and playing a lot! She is very happy and likes to sit up and check out what is going on. She gets around by rolling on the floor and we have to watch her close!

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