We miss you Max

I can't wait to see you this week in FLA. A little sunshine will do all of us good. I'm glad you got to the temple today to do baptisms. It is such a sweet experience. You are the greatest 1st son I could have asked for. Keep being who you are and doing what you're doing - the Lord will guide you through all things.

Love you,
Dad

Amusing

I think it's funny how rarely we all post...maybe it's a good thing though, cause it means we're talkinga lot more than before. Well, in case anyone does see this, I miss and love you all and cannot wait for Florida...Peace out homeskillerts...-max

Saving this blog

Hi family -
We have been remiss in blogging - afraid it gets easy to rely on cell phones and the Schickie blog. Exciting news for Brooke and Luke, huh?! You guys will likely have a whole slew of new cousins over the next ten years.

It was a great weekend with celebrating Christmas at Auntie and Uncle's. They made a very nice dinner for us, we went to Kirtland to see the Nativity Display - there were over 750 nativity scenes there. It was beautiful and Rich and Joanne really enjoyed it. Mark Lewis has his own collection on display there - over 1000 characters/pieces. Quite amazing and artistic as you would expect.

They were very generous with gifts and the house has become very musical with Nanos and Ipods humming about - Dad is converted to Itunes, and seeing the beauty of it's simplicity.

They LOVED their StoryBook so thank you for all the memories that you took time to write down. Uncle Rich said that it was just this past week that they were talking about how big you all are getting and that pretty soon you wouldn't want to go spend the weekend there anymore. They talked about whether you guys would even remember all the things that you have done with them. So, it was a perfectly timed gift - and they will treasure it. Thank you for being the kind of kids that care about memories so much.

Tonight the Klopps and Weights are coming over to decorate gingerbread houses - and sing some carols. Starting tomorrow, I really need to think about packing the car - Can't believe that 2 weeks from today is Christmas Eve.

We are planning to go see Temple Square on Sunday night - Dec 23rd. That is Ya-Ya's bday and Kay-Kay and Wa-Wa's anniversary, it always has been a special day. That will be a good place to celebrate.

I love you - Have a great week!
Mom

A note from Soph

CALL ME. Max I need to hear from you more. I am starting basketball. I am blue. It's sweet!

Now of course when I'm allowed to take my earrings out, I'm done with soccer. And when I was doing soccer they were stuck in there. I haven't put the piercing ones back in since I could take them out. The first time Mom tried to take them out she pulled at them, they were really tight and she said they didn't want to come out so she stopped. I have six pairs of earrings. The reason I haven't been blogging is because Mom hasn't gotten me an account yet.

Today and tomorrow we don't have any school. Because of parent teacher conferences. FOUR DAYS OF WEEKEND! They made this new stupid grading thing for our report cards. (Mom says its just because they are new) I don't agree with her. There's like E's and M's instead of A's and B's...I wanted those real grades!

At Faith in God I made a journal. Well actually we just put paper on a composition notebook. Mine is orange and pink and yellow and red... and all those kind of colors. It is polka dot on the front and solid orange on the back.

That's all for now.
Soph

Countdown

I am so excited that in 2 weeks, I will be at the airport picking Max up! WOW. It has been a long time for this mom to miss her kid.

Tomorrow and Friday are conferences so the littles are off of school. Should be a nice relaxed couple of days. Jack and I are going to head to the library for some research materials for his Trek History Day project and Sophie needs to read a Nancy Drew book over the weekend, but that is about it.

I am catering a scrapbooking event with a friend on Saturday, so we will be making 150 lunches and dropping them off. We always do it for our own events so another consultant asked if she could hire us. Will have to see if it is worth it.

Very happy to have Grandpa Dick coming this next week. I had drawn his name for Christmas so my early gift to him was the frequent flyer ticket to come for a week and work on the Africa book that he wants to put together. Dad goes to Orlando next week so it will be nice to have my dad here.

Next week is Primary Program and Priesthood Preview for Luke. Seems like just yesterday that Max had his Priesthood preview. Speaking of Luke growing up - MAN, he is definitely the "stinkiest" pre-teen we have ever had. I practically have to peel his smelly UnderArmor off of him. Yuk. Fortunately he finds the entire subject pretty darn amusing.

I love you all. Be good, and remember who you are. Don't do any bad things. Does that about cover it?

Love-
Mom

All My Loving - The Beatles

80's Dancing

80's Dancing Car Ride :)

80's Dancing Shopping

Can't remember if i posted already Tia and I

Carson and I

Megan and I

Michael, Chase, Zack, Maximus, Mark

Melissa and I

Liz and I

Ward Dodgeball...men team
Ward Dodgeball whole ward

Mark and I

Guitar Hero II Wyatt and I

The Girls ask guys Preference Dance

Ben, Me, Brett, Tim, and Britton

L. Tom Perry is coming to speak to us tomorrow, so that should be very neat. I love you

max

Funny comparison

I think this is the picture that Ya Ya said the picture Max just posted, reminded her of.