Snowboarding

So I took Connor snowboarding today. Josh says snowboarding is scary, so that's why I took Connor. Connor is 3 years old and still in diapers. So if he's smart, he will tell all the girls that he started snowboarding when he was still in diapers. They'll be really impressed. I had to put tights on him to keep his legs warm. They are Kaytlynns tights and are white with pink hearts on them. I put some socks over them so people wouldn't see them. It seems a little bit cruel to put those tights on my wild, little, crazy boy. People still saw them. They said he will always wonder why he has a tendency to cross-dress when he grows up.

So we got up there and went to rent a snowboard. I have been looking for a tiny snowbard and have not found one yet. They said they didn't have anything small enough--no boots to fit him. So I rented these cute little skis for him. At Sundance, you have to walk up a hill to get to the bunny hill, which makes no sense. I couldn't carry Connor in his clunky boots, my snowboard, and his skis, so we just went up the regular lift. Connor did really well. Everytime we stopped, he would get upset and want to keep going. I couldn't quite let myself just let go of him, though. So I held onto him the whole way down. We got to the bunny hill and the poor kid just couldn't grab onto the tow rope. So we took his skis back and went up and snowboarded down holding Connor. He liked it. When we were leaving he kept telling me that he wanted to go back up the mountain lots of times and didn't want to go home.

Connor is wild. We've been sledding a few times and he won't let anybody go with him. He wants to go alone. He runs up the hill with his sled and puts it down, then makes a running jump head first into the sled. He aims for the jumps. He never wants to go home after sledding either. This was the same kid who was going down the steep bouncy slide alone at 2 years old. The slide was for 6 years old and over. This tiny little kid going down. Funny.

Us

Okay, so I'm going to try to keep up with this stuff. Blogs seem a little more high class than Facebook and Myspace. High class certainly isn't me, but I'll give it a try anyway. I did not send out any Christmas cards this year. So here is an update on us. Brad and I are living in Spanish Fork with our 3 kids, Josh (5), Connor, (3), and Kaytlynn (2). Brad works from home for TGN and has worked there for over 3 years. I am a sub at the post office, so I deliver mail. I am starting a job soon at an assisted living type place that is right across the street from our house. Brad still wins, though. He doesn't have to walk as far to get to work.

So Brad and I got season passes to Sundance for eachother for Christmas. It took forever to finally get up snowboarding. Either we had no babysitter, our passes were blocked out for a week, or we had to have 4 wheel drive or chains to get up the mountain. So we finally went and Brad cracked some ribs! Augh!

So here's the story of how our little family came to be. I graduated from BYU and decided I wanted to work out of the country. Brad was in the Royal Navy. I ended up working for the Navy MWR in Bahrain (A little island in the Persian Gulf) Brad was there for the war. We met at a club in Bahrain. Brad had to leave to go minesweep so all the ships could get into Iraq safely, and I decided to go home after hearing rumors of all the bad things that were going to happen to Bahrain. Brad got home a couple months later and came to visit. He bought me a ring in Greece, and we got engaged in Vegas at the Belagio fountain show.

I moved to Scotland and we got married and had Josh. We were there for almost 2 years until Brad got out of the Royal Navy and then we moved to Utah. We've been here for almost 4 years and just recently had our 6 year meeting anniversary!

Quotes from the kids

Connor: "Josh, I don't have all day." (So funny because that is exactly what he has)

Kaytlynn: "Ta daaa!" (She obviously doesn't know how to use this yet, because she says it randomly all day)

Josh: "I don't want to go to the doctor for 100 days. I don't want to be 6." (This was after he got shots and the doctor said to bring him back when he was 6.)

Kaytlynn: "Its mad-jet!" (It's magic--she says this with hand gestures--also randomly)

Kaytlynn: "I surbibed it!" (I don't know what she survived)

Josh: "I was a dinosaur last night at Halloween with razor sharp teeth" (Everything was last night)

Josh: "Do you want to play again, Car? Maybe you can win the next one." (Josh is so good at video games. I cannot win.)

I left the room for a short time and when I came back, the kids had the lights off and were hiding behind the couch and said "Surprise!" Kaytlynn said it about 5 seconds after the boys.

Josh: "Car, Kayt-winn's getting away! Go get her!" (When Kaytlynn makes a run for it.)

Kaytlynn: "Car, I wuv you."

Gosh, maybe Connor doesn't talk as much as I think he does.