David's peculiarity

I open my freezer and this is what I see.  I guess David likes his blankie to be cold.  Strange kid.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

We got tickets to see the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" for Christmas.  Here are pictures from the event at the Ordway Theater in downtown St. Paul.

Christmas day

A month of performances

December was a month of performances around here.  Following are pictures from various concerts, recitals, etc. from December.



Marissa played the piano at the beginning of her band concert while people were finding their seats.



Marissa's first band concert.

After the band performed, the 5th grade classes sang several songs.



Steven played the trumpet for his band concert.



Amber and Marissa played a duet of "Beauty and the Beast" for their piano recital

Megan played "What Child is This" for her violin recital

 

The Bishopric played "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" for the ward Christmas party



Megan and Maria sang "Baby What you gonna be?" for the ward party, too

 

Steven sang in the Middle school Men's Choir



Megan and Amber sang in the high school choir concert (postponed 2 days because of snow)



 

The girls got to sing together for the last song of the concert (Amber bottom left, Megan top right)



Decorating the tree

Everybody helped trim the tree, even Zoe the dog.  I don't know why David has no shirt on, he tends to take it off after about 4 pm everday.



Clary added her own decoration to the tree!



Blizzard in Minnesota

We had record snowfall Saturday, about 18 inches in 24 hours, and today we are digging out. It is the most snow we have ever seen. The subzero temperatures haven't kept the kids in the house. They have had fun making snow caves and trying to walk through the snow. Here is a video and some pictures from the weekend. Winter in Minnesota, you gotta love it!

 Clearing the walkway.  Thank you girls!

 Megan, David and neighbor Sam at the snow cave moments before it collapsed!

 Steven in his snow cave.

 Marissa is all bundled up on our nice cleared walkway!  The temperature was 0 degrees with -20 windchill!

Megan and Amber discovered it was just easier to lay on the snow instead of try to walk on it.  You sink up to your knee when you walk on the snow!

Another great work from Amber

Amber had an art project that she had to finish over the summer, so, of course, the day before school starts she gets it done.  We LOVE it!  Can you tell who it is a painting of?

Amber and her model, Megan

David's Labor Day Birthday

David enjoyed his 6th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's, one of his favorite places.  What a great way to end the summer!

David and his friends at Chuck E. Cheese's

The cake did have two light sabers on it, but it got squished somehow! He didn't seem to mind!

Summer fun!

So this has been a fun and busy summer. So busy that I didn't take the time to blog about it. So here is our summer in pictures, hopefully in chronological order with a few descriptions. Enjoy!

A visit from the Stantons for 4th of July!

Amber and Megan were on the same summer soccer team.

Mom and the kids went camping at Plum Creek in Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Steven attended Camp Grey Wolf, a leadership camp.

Family Reunion time! We had back to back reunions this summer. It was great! The Westover Reunion was in Heber City, Utah and the Stotts Reunion was at Aspen Grove, a BYU alumni camp. We had a blast and loved visiting with family!

Working on our banners from Grandma W.

Sammy, Nicole, Amber and Kenzie--We love cousins!

On the chair lift in Park City

Emilie and Megan on the super slip-n-slide!

All of the youth aged cousins at the Jordan River Temple

The seven Westover siblings

The whole Westover family!

We said goodbye Saturday morning and then went to Aspen Grove!

The whole Stotts Family!

The kids loved being in their age groups doing all sort of fun activities.

While the kids were in their age groups, Maria and Kelly did the high ropes course and hiked Mt. Timpanogas!

Uncle Adam took Amber's senior pictures while we were at Aspen Grove

Megan and Steven at the Family Dance!

David showed us his moves at the dance!

We drove through Yellowstone National Park on the way home and saw some amazing sights and animals. We enjoyed all of it except the stomach flu that went through the family while we were there.

David and Great Fountain geyser

At Mammoth Hot Springs

We got home from Utah and left one day later for Girls Camp in Nauvoo, Illinois.  Maria went along as an assistant cook.  Fun!

Amber writing in her journal at the Old Nauvoo cemetery

Megan and her company on a handcart trek on a steamy morning

At the Nauvoo Temple

The Nauvoo House, where we stayed

The last weeks of summer were spent around home and enjoying Minnesota.

At the Minnesota State Fair!  What a party!

We finished off the summer with an evening of theater: WICKED!

It was a great summer and we are sad to see it come to an end!