New address
3366 E 2170 S
St George, UT 84790

A POOL!!! Do you think it needs cleaning? Don't worry I'll have it clean by the time you visit. This is one of my favorite features of the new house we bought in St George, I'm so excited I took just a few pictures!!! I have more, but thought this was all the patience you could endure.

I just love my pool guy, but he has his work cut out for him.

The kids will love the slide. I love the pool guy

into the pool area

from the kitchen looking into the family room, the walls are peach color, but we've been painting and they are now tan.

Entry way looking into the living room, green walls painted tan now

looking from the family room into the kitchen, to the left of the bar is the dining room

Master shower (walk-in)

Master tub

Master bathroom, much bigger than I'm used to!!!

Master bedroom

upstairs appartment.....now come and visit....you'll have your own space with your own entrance.

Front view of the house

Front from another angle.
We've been busy cleaning and painting, and are about ready to move except that Mariah and Nolan want to finish school in Enterprise (they actually don't want to move at all) I don't know if we'll just take Mason and Dylan out of school and transfer them now or wait for the year to finish up. I'm ready to move out of the snow now though. More has been melting each day though. The new address is at the top of this blog.

Happy birthday to Jason today!!! Wish we could be with you

I don't know how many times I've read this book with my children as they were learning to read, but this is the first time that the story affected the child like this. Mason is reading these short books, and as he was reading this one to me, about Bob who hops on the bus with his dog, and a few other people hop on. Then at the "lot", they proceed to hop off, last being Bob, but the dog is left on the bus, Mason was so sad for Bob, who sobbed and sobbed, that he began to cry, I thought it was so cute and tender, I had to get my camera with the excuse I was going for a tissue.

Not to worry, the story ends well, with Pops the bus boss, getting the dog back to Bob. I recommend this book!!

It finally warmed up a couple days here and the snow started melting, then the rains came, but that didn't keep us out of it, our feet are still webbed you know. Mason wanted to make a boat and sail it down the flowing gutters. We had a couple people driving by who commented about us being the only ones out in the rain, which was true. I thought that was the end, but just a day later, it turned cold again and now we have about 15 inches of snow again and still coming down.

Mason having fun with Grandpa Fred Mertlich during a visit just before Christmas

Ryan's birthday Dec 22nd, there's a lot of candles on that cake huh?

27 to be exact

Dylan, Ryan, Mariah, Nolan, and Mason

The snow kept coming and made for a white Christmas, and some shoveling, notice Mason's bike buried to the right.

Mason, Nolan and Julie. The snowplows bury us, see the bank behind us, the school is what's across the street.

The snow is still here, but melting some during the day and freezing at night, here is a neighbors house with the longest ice cycles I've ever seen

everywhere I went this day, I saw ice cycles backed by the beautiful sun, it was really fun to see

I'm a little slow, but this is why we put ice cycles on our Christmas trees, it really happens in nature.

Mariah got the "Student of the Month" for the month of January in the 11th grade. They had a nice luncheon for the students and their parents, and a letter from the teacher who submitted her name.

Mason got to bring "Wrinkles" home from school and enjoy him for a weekend, then write about the fun they had, he read "Puppies are Like That" to Wrinkles.

Then he had mom make Wrinkles some pajama pants. It is now Jan 22 and there is still enough snow on the ground that I can't see more than a patch of grass in our yard, but it is melting a bit. 45 min away in St George, it is warm enough that I had to take off my coat AND sweat shirt.

Which would you choose to fill up at.....1.67 a gal or 2.49 a gal, gee I think I might drive to the next station. They've since gotten more competitive on their price. Today gas was at 1.41 at the Smiths store.

I was helping with the Kindergarten class and got to look at their "I'm thankful for..." papers, I saw paper after paper that looked like church papers instead of school papers, it warmed my heart and I had to share this one with you, I don't remember who wrote it but it was precious.

Ryan and Dylan at the Ward Christmas Party, good food and a great nativity program by the primary children.

Mason and Nolan

Of course pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus, Nolan is sooo excited to be on Mrs. Claus' lap!!!

"Stocking Stuffers" a play that the High School put on. Mariah played a doll in one of the scenes, we thought she was just the cutest doll, she's our doll.

Mariah on the left, after "the people" leave, the dolls come to life.

The funniest part was when she sat down on the bed and her shoe went flying off, she kept her cool and went on as if nothing had happened, here she is with out one shoe, I think the blob in the right corner is the shoe.

singing carols with the audience and Santa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nolan!! He is now a teen-ager, says he doesn't feel any different, boy is Dylan happy to be there? he didn't want to be in the picture.

Dylan, Mariah, NOLAN, Ryan, and Mason

Well, we all got the same storm, some just got a little more snow than others. It's night so the pictures are a little dark, they're across the street at the High School.

Nolan, Mason, Ryan and his dog Lacey, and Dylan

Ryan

Dylan in back with the snow ball, Nolan in his snow cave, and Mason in front

Lacey checking out the snow cave Nolan was in