April 2013

April was the end of Braden's Karate class and he earned his yellow belt.  I was proud of the brave boy he was to spar with other boys in his class.  Tina and Sydnee also sang at the mall.  On a side note, I turned 33 this year!

March 2013

March was full of fun with 2 holidays - St. Patricks Day.  We made a few "Leprecaun traps"

 Braden got Baptized on the 23rd which was Great Grandpa Daines' birthday.

 It was a special day full of the spirit.  We feel so lucky to be so close to family to support him on this special day.

 The Chambers annual Easter egg hunt.

 Our Easter Egg hunt

 The easter bunny helped Santa bring Tina's christmas wish - he told her he would after the snow melted:)

February 2013

Braden Turned 8!!  We celebrated at the jump zone - a building full of trampolines, any child's dream:)

January 2013 - our lucky year

My baby sister Joanna got her mission call to Tulsa, OK!  She left for the MTC on Jan 2nd, and we got to tag along.

 The final goodbye.  We miss her, but are very proud of the missionary she is!

 We also had to go sledding at the nearby park before school started again.

Fall Catch up 2012

Wow, it's been a long time...We have had a lot happen in the past 7 months, so let me start back and work my way forward...
October 2012 - Happy Halloween!  We inherited a very nice camera that I am just now getting uploaded:), I don't see any pictures from October though:(  I also got a job working at nights cleaning at the university.  I feel like a ghostbuster with my backpack vacuum.

November - Happy Thanksgiving! - The kids entered the reflections contest with the theme of "The magic of a moment", and all won a ribbon.  Brooklyn painted a picture, Tina performed a play, and Braden's cookbook - "Microwave Magic" went on to regionals!!

 December - Merry Christmas!  This December was full of recitals, performances, and we had to throw in a Christmas tree party:)

 My soon to be Aunt Sandy, invited us to a fun cabin to see Santa Claus and have hot wassail and treats.

 The annual Chambers Christmas Party gets more fun every year!  The girls made a play, and involved the younger cousins.

our Annual Line up...I felt weird not holding a baby!

 Dave always gets really excited reading Santa's letter:)

 Lined up waiting their turn to open presents

 I got an ipod touch!  Now I can listen to Pandora or podcasts at work!

So that's this year's wrap up.  I will break up the posts to make them easier to read!

Summer Recap

Well, we are just a little behind.  I feel so lost without my camera.  I'm relying on Dave's iphone, and it's not the same.  We listed about 120 things on our summer bucket list.  And we got about 70 things done.  I think we will continue it next summer:)  We have also started a much smaller fall and winter bucket lists.  I am loving the ideas on pinterest that don't require any money, but do require lots of fun!  So in August, we moved across the street.  I will have to post pictures...when I get a new camera, but I can definately wait since we will be here for at least another 2 years!  That's right.  My dear neighbor Sarah, has agreed to rent out her house to us on the condition that we stay for 2 years.  That is music to my ears!  Now I can start to settle down!
Here are some of the documented activities we did: We went to Lake Powell with the Daines family in June to celebrate my Grandpas 80th birthday!  It was so much fun.  The whole time I was really amazed at how well the kids got along!  Fun all week long.  Then in August, we planned a camping trip to Flaming Gorge.  Dave's parents joined us for the last part of the week and we got to boat, tube, fish, and play in the water.

 Feeding the fish at the Flaming Gorge Dam

 Kids fishing

 My favorite: tubing with the kids makes me giggle!

 Tina and Braden tubing

 Kids driving the boat with Grandpa

 Cole had to hold Tina's hand in the boat:)

 Don't you love Cole's life jacket?

 For Cole's birthday, we had orange food and had to wear orange clothes - his favorite color

 Even Dave dressed up!

 We went to the Brigham City Temple open house - I can't believe it's done already!

 First day of School...

 Braden played baseball in June 

 Lake Powell with the floaties

All the kids decided to have a dance party on the top.

Along with the settling comes the busy-ness of figuring out finances, places for things, and activities to do with the kids.  Tina is continuing TaVaci with her cousin Sydnee as well as piano lessons and orchestra, Braden has joined Karate held at USU which he loves, we still have to get Brooklyn into either dance or gymnastics, and Cole is our tag-along.  I have aquired about 9 piano students (whom I adore!!) and also a job cleaning at nights at USU.  And Dave has started going to the gym in the morning.  Talk about stuffed schedules!!  I think we have it pretty much under control though now.  I guess I'll have to figure out how to survive the holidays!
And hopefully I can be more dedicated to updating anyone who is interested, or at least have a place to keep track of what's going on:)