Basketball

Dalton played basketball this year, he loved playing. I love watching him, his ability has gotten better over the past two months of practice and tournaments. He is number 20. He is such a good shooter.
Congratulations Dalton on a great season!

THE KLONDIKE? WHY?

I can not for the life of me understand why anyone would want to sleep in the snow when it is only 8 degrees. Russell, Hayden and Daniel along with the scouts and dad thought it would be fun, especially since it has been the only real winter we've gotten.

Dalton and I had frozen burritos for dinner heated in the microwave and decided to take the boys some hot chocolate since they forgot that. By the time we headed home from the foolishness, the temperature gauge read 8 degrees. That night Dalton prayed that all the scouts would wake up alive in the morning. I said AMEN to that!

I think my boys were ready to come home after breakfast. I packed them an already made omelet with a toasted English muffin on top that all they had to do is warm up by the fire. The Bishop tried to keep up with pancakes for all the boys who forgot their breakfast. The Bishop said to Russell,"Mama sure do take good care of you!" You better believe it!
I still don't see the thrill of a Klondike!!!

Back to the Shop Project

When we returned from Cody, we must have had some fierce winds while we were gone. The roof of the shop had been blown off and the insulation was shredded. Now, its someone elses turn to put it on this time. Thank goodness for insurance. What would have taken us more than a week with NO wind, only took them less than two days with slight wind.

While the roof got replace, Russell was able to focus on getting the lighting parts ordered.

The lighting turned out well, there should be no complaints about the shop being too dark!

The night came and Russell turned on the lights. The shop is a wonderful place to work at night with good lighting. Now the next project is the heating, then it will REALLY be a great place to work when the wind blows.

Mills Family Christmas Party in Cody, Wyoming

We stayed at a beautiful cabin in the hills west of Cody.

There was plenty of room for everybody. Each family had their own bedroom with plenty of beds for each person.

The kids all bring a gift that is age appropriate and the kiddos draw numbers and then choose a gift based on their number, until feelings get hurt because someone steals the gift someone else wants. But everybody goes home with a gift from the cousins.

Dalton and cousin Flint loved swimming in the jacuzzi tub, I don't think the floor loved it as much and they did. They do have swim trunks on.

The adults love the white elephant exchange. Russell took the apple eye pad, and the blue tooth, a sticky blue gem for the tooth. I took a fabulous picture of the Mills' 1980's blue fantasy van framed in silver. What a complete hoot. Dusty was so pleased to have the apple eye pad considering he mentioned getting one all weekend. Doesn't he look good in it?

Russell ended up with the chocolate bar, not bad. I ended up the the trained pet rocks. Couldn't have been happier.

A beautiful picture of the cabin as we left Saturday morning to head home.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for a fun weekend!!!

OUR FAMILY CHRISTMAS

Christmas this year was small and simple. The boys were expecting to see more gifts under the tree at 3 am, but the gifts were more spendy than in years past.

Thank goodness for the boys or the tree would not have made it. They all went and picked out the tree while I was at a young women's presidency meeting. I think they did great! Hayden, Daniel and Dalton all took the time to decorate the tree and our home for Christmas. They are all such great help.

Dalton's favorite gift was the k'nex and his new i-pod. Don't his new pajamas fit so nicely, and no holes to boot. YEAH!!!

Hayden got new pajama pants and a t-shirt, but his favorite gift was a i-pod touch.

Next year Santa will look for pajama pants earlier than December 20th. But, he really seems to like them. The reader of the family loves his kindle.


Now it's time to pack and get ready to head to Cody, Wyoming for the Mills' Family Christmas get together.