Beacon Open House!

Rob took some pictures at the open house of their new clinic. It went very well! Thank you everyone who was able to make it!


The signs including logos etc were all designed by Rob's step dad, Don Riding.


I think this is Janet's office. She's the therapist that manages all the other therapists.


This is part of the conference room.


This is the rest of the conference room. Rob's sister Kristina is the office manager and also did all the decorating for the open house.


Rob's mom Pam provided all the light houses. The picture in the background is one Don designed and had made.


Janet's office angle 2:


I had no idea they had a play room for kids but I'm guessing that's what this is. Rob says it's a therapeutic playroom.


Half of the therapists...


Another picture designed by Don


Kristina's office


Laura's office:


Group room.


Pictures of the therapists and a ribbon from the ribbon cutting at the Sandy Chamber of Commerce.


You might be saying "Ok, it's just an office." But I'm pretty excited about it and just had to share.

Here are pictures of all the therapists (in no particular order). It's sad to me that I don't even know them.

Janet


Leni



Rosalene


Laura


Carrie


Jennifer


Jenise


Aimee

Valentine Parties!

I volunteered at Sage's and Cole's classes for their Valentine parties.


This is Cole with his friend at the right of the picture and his favorite Valentine on the left. I'll leave their names out since I haven't asked their parents permission.


Passing out Valentines and getting ready for games.


This is Cole with his Valentine bucket. He's so dang funny! He also passed out Dora Valentines to his friends. Hehe!


Sage frosting a cookie


Sage and friends coloring. It's so weird seeing all these kids without uniforms on. They had a "free dress day" that day.


Sage's Class. If you look closely you can see the back of Sage's hair. Originally the 2 braids were shaped into a heart but it fell a little by this time. I decided to add an edit to list the hairblog link. Here it is: Hair Blog

Christmas!

Suryveying the loot

There has to be board games



Poor Noah was sick

A sniper taking a water break

Glued to the Playstation

Someone ate something healthy?!

A Barbie Christmas. We made some gift boxes out of Card Stock and Ashley actually filled each one with gifts from Barbie to Ken, etc. and wrapped them. This whole scene was later transferred to the Barbie house. Ashley and I both have so much fun setting up Barbie stuff but she deserves the credit on creativity.

A sweet girl who doesn't ask for much and is always thrilled with what she gets.



And finally Santa at the ward party

It snowed!

These were taken last night. Sage and Noah were already asleep. It snowed a few more inches after this. The kids even got a snow day today but the snow is almost melted. Our neighbors said this kind of snow comes about once every 10 years. I love St. George! Try not to look at the pictures too closely. The boys were drinking orange soda minutes before I took the picture.

Noah's Latest Thrills...

Noah has found a few things that delight him but are agitating for me. To begin with: When nobody is watching him he'll pull a glass ball off the tree, take it to the tiled hallway and throw it, watching it break into many pieces. There is a glow on his face when he does this that I've seen just as I've walked in to investigate. Another thing he loves to do is throw things in the bathroom and kitchen sinks. He loves to see it go over the rim and disappear and since shoes are so conveniently placed on the floor they've become easy targets.

Thanksgiving!

Some of the kids found a King Snake. My uncle was not thrilled they disturbed him and made them put him back. Yay Uncle Alvin! Adrienne was so terrified she ran to the corner of the barn. Sorry Adrienne...it still makes me giggle. I don't know the kids names' in the picture. They are some of my cousins' kids and I don't know which cousins. If any of you recognize them let me know.


We had every meal here. This is about 1/3 of the family. 1/3 wasn't in the "barn" at the time and the other 1/3 didn't come this year. Notice the disco ball hanging from the ceiling. This is for the dances we have during the reunion. They usually invite the youth from town. We don't want people marrying their cousins right? Notice the torture devices on the wall. No really it's farm equipment and cooking utensils. I think they're even still used. I washed a potato masher with a handle that was made from a tree branch. Very exciting.


I'm not going to attempt to name all the people in the pictures though the sweet lady in the rocking chair is my Grandma Hancock! I'm so lucky to have this family!


Hans spent every waking minute in the kitchen with his Dad, Mom and Aunt Lavern. Many others helped many hours but those 4 never seemed to leave. Those dutch oven yams were amazing!

Happy Birthday Luke!!!

That's right ANOTHER birthday. What a great baby Luke was! I couldn't get enough of him. He's grown up into a funny, sweet, creative, entertaining 9 year old. I'm so thankful for Luke and all the wonderful things he brings to our family!

Happy Birthday Cole!!!

That's right we have celebrated yet another birthday in our house. Cole is 11! What an amazing 11 years it's been with this kid. It's so fun to watch his "obsessions" grow from Blues Clues, to Batman, to Star Wars, and now sports. When Cole gets into something he puts his whole heart in it. I couldn't find my box of pictures that have all his baby pictures so this is the best I could come up with.
Happy Birthday Cole!
Here are the pictures!!!

More Halloween...

This is our group of trick-or-treaters. We had more join later but I didn't get another picture.


I couldn't find Noah's costume for trick-or-treating so I improvised.