Neihborhood Circus

Our neighborhood has a kids circus during the summer. All of the proceeds are used to make school supply kits. Alex was in it last year, Amiah and Sam decided to be in it this year. Daniel decided his job would be to buy and eat goodies all night while he watched the circus. It was held last night at 8pm, alot of craziness but we all survived and I think everyone had fun. Enjoy the pictures!!

Sam was a lion, he is in the camo shorts

Amiah was an elephat, is the back half of the 3rd elephant in line.

Amiah was also a caterpiller during 'The ugly bug ball' she is the head of the yellow and green caterpiller.

Sam was also a muscle man. Alex helped to choreograph the routine but he has been at scout camp all this week so he wasn't here for the circus.

muscle man Sam

Train Tour

We went to the Union Station in Ogden last week. Disney was promoting their new 3D movie "A Christmas Carol". They had a train that we toured that showed how they made the movie. It was pretty cool. After the train tour we saw a preview of the movie. 3D is really cool. The movie comes out November 6, on Alex's birthday. Jim Carey is Scrooge. Collin Firth is Scrooges nephew.
We had to wait in line for 3 hours! I'm not sure it was worth the wait but we made it.

Sam, Rachel, Daniel, Elizabeth

Sam and Dan on a trin inside the train depot

Sam, Amiah, Dan, Alex in the first car

Sam, Alex, Amiah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Matthew, Daniel

Sam, Alex, Amiah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Matthew, Daniel

On the way out the train

Sam, Elizabeth, Rachel

Matthew, Alex, Dan, Amiah

Nibley Heritage Days 2009

Nibley Heritage Days was June 15-19th. It is always a lot of fun. This is the bike parade on Monday night.

Amiah holding Isabella, Dan and Sam in the bike trailer, Alex pulling the bike trailer

Alex with Dan and Sam, they are wearing big glasses. The kids decorated their bikes and the trailer for the parade.

One of the funnest parts of Heritage days is the children's play. Alex and Amiah were in it this year. They performed "The Goose Girl" by the Grimm Brothers. Alex was King Dimitri, one of the main characters. Amiah was a maiden. She is in a purple skirt in the back left hand corner of the above picture. I helped sew costumes for the play, I think Amiah is wearing one of the skirts I sewed.

Alex as King Dimitri with his "son" Anton.

Alex and Amiah before the play.
The kids practice the play everyday for a week and a half then perform is Thursday and Friday night. Alex managed to talk Grandma and Grandpa Orth into coming from Pocatello to watch the play, Aunt Shelly, Aunt Delain, Rachelle, Elizabeth, and Matthew also came.

After the play they always have a movie in the park. This year we saw Madagascar 2. My kids sold light sticks for a quarter. This is our third year selling them, they always have a lot of fun.

Pictures of Isabella

Here are some pictures of Isabella with her brothers and sister. We are all having tons of fun with her. She already has such a fun personality!

Isabella(2 mos.) and Alex(12) November 2008

Isabella April 2009 (7 m0s.)

Isabella (3 mos.) December 2008

Daniel (7) and Isabella (7 mos.) April 2009

Amiah (9) and Isabella (3m0s)

Sam(4) and Isabella(6mos) March 2009

Sam is sharing his Tang popcycle with Isabella, she thinks it is very yummy

and screams when Sam puts it back in the freezer.

Isabella (5Mos) February 2009

Her tongue sticking out is so cute!

Isabella (6 mos.) March 2009

This is a dress I bought for Amiah when my sister Liz got married. Doesn't Isabella look adorable?

Alex's Broken Arm

Isn't Alex cute with his camo cast!! I had to take a picture of him with it before he gets it off. He broke his arm Friday, March 27, 2009. He was playing basketball at the Elememtary school with some of his friends. One of his friends fell, Alex stepped on him and fell on his arm. We took him into the instacare the next day for an xray. I was sure it wasn't broken... It is a left radial buckle fracture. The bone didn't crack or split, it was compressed when he fell on it, causing the bone to squish together and bulge out a little bit by his wrist. Alex was very excited he broke a bone. They even gave him a water proof cast so he could shower.

Zion's Bank Scholarship

Zion's Bank has a "Pays For A's" program. If your middle school or older student takes their report card in Zion's Bank, Zion's will pay them a $1 for every "A" on their report card. They are also entered into a drawing for a $100 and $1000 scholarship that is deposited into their savings account. Alex won the $100 scholarship for winter term. This is a picture of the bank manager presenting Alex with the certificate in his first hour class. The whole family was there to see the presentation (and to embarass Alex). This was on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 7:40 am at Spring Creek Middle School.

Egg Roll 2

These are some pictures from the egg eating contest at the egg roll.

Alex
"Deviled Eggs" Dave made for the deviled egg contest.

Amaih and Daniel

Daniel

It was so funny watching Sam. Each kid got 2 eggs to eat and whoever was done first was the winner. He shoved his first egg in his mouth whole. It was so funny watching him trying to chew it up and watching his little cheeks bulging.