Pinewood derby

Yesterday was Skyler's first pinewood derby. He has spent many hours in the garage with Mark choosing a design, cutting, sanding, spray painting, and then assembling the car. It was a fun Father/Son project for them both to work on. I kept teasing Mark asking him whose car this really was, his or Skyler's. But in all reality, Mark made Skyler choose the design, help cut it out, sand it, choose the color of paint, and do the spray painting, and then assemle it. Mark did make sure he put lots of paper on the garage floor, and move the car out of the way so we didn't have yellow paint everywhere.

It was a fun night, and brought back many memories back from my 5 brothers and all their cars.

Here are a few pictures of the event.

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Here is Skyler and Brother Gaisfordgiving Skyler his award. My dad made these really cool stands for each boy to display his car on.

Aiden and Skyler with their cars.

Skyler picked this unique design for his car.

I kept trying to get him to model it after a cool hot wheel he had, but he was set on this. It ended up turning out to be a pretty cool car.

Mark and Skyler, isn't he so handsome in his uniform?

A very Happy Birthday ...

to my daughter Logan Marie. She turns 26 on March 29th. As I look back at the past 26 years, I have so many thoughts of Logan. Being the first child, she got to be our "Guinea pig" on raising children. only to find out every child is different, and what worked for her, not necessarily would work for the next one. She has been a joy in my life. A great example of who I want to become. Thank you to Logan for helping to hold our family together. And I hope you have a wonderful birthday....you deserve it!

Miniature Golfing for FHE they all got holes in one!

Logan and Skyler Mirror Lake

Nicole and Logan Halloween 2008

Kelsey and Logan at the air show 2009

Kelsey, Skyler, Nicole and Logan Dec 2009

Family pictures 2007

Family pictures 2008

cake decorating 101

Nicole decided she wanted to take a cake decorating class. Even though I already decorate cakes to a pretty much amateur level, I thought it would be a fun mother/daughter bonding thing. Besides since I am an employee at Michaels, I can take the class for free. Logan who already took the class a few years ago, thought it sounded fun to join in, and even has her friend Mariane taking it with us. (Kelsey has school that night or she would have joined in the fun, miss ya Kels!)

So with all that said, I made my first cake in the class. It was shall we say... a DISASTER!

It got stuck in the pan, fell apart frosting it, then after getting it to look "Ok" slid in the carrier on the way to class... see Exhibit A.

A:

The finished product (Exhibit B) turned out ok, as long as you look at the other side of the cake. Next week, I am going to make cupcakes and decorate them, because really , how bad can you mess up cupcakes?

B:

Let the games begin!

Whether they are the summer games or the winter games, I love the Olympics! I just finished watching the opening ceremonies, and found my self getting emotional when our athletes came into the the stadium. I feel so proud to be a part of this great nation.

There is just something about the competition of it all, the inspirational stories, all the athletes that worked so hard to get there, and the time it seems to bring the world together for a few brief weeks.

It brought back so many memories of 8 years ago when we had the games here in Salt Lake.

My favorite part of the Olympics is when the U.S.A. wins a gold medal and we get to see our flag raised, and hear our national anthem. So...for the next few weeks I will be glued to the TV. (Yea for DVR)

GO U.S.A.

Christmas with the Kosters

Christmas is my favorite time of the year for several reasons.
1. FAMILY
2. Decorating. I love to decorate for the holidays. Mark used to call me the physco decorator, but now he is used to it, and just goes along with it.
3. Celebrating the birth of our Savior.
4. Christmas music and the feelings of peace and the Christmas spirit it brings. love it!
5. did I mention FAMILY? I love getting together with my family. both my own children and my extended family.
6. Traditions, from the sugar cookies (Skyler calls them frosting cookies), candy making with my mom and sister Melinda. Clegg Christmas party complete with Bingo and chimes, Driving around looking at lights, just to name a few.

So, here are a few pictures of the days events.

I have this snowman in our entryway, that thanks to Skyler, became our secret service agent this year. I feel so safe knowing we are being protected!

Santa came to our house. Yes, the time on the clock is 12:50 a.m. and Skyler woke up at 4:00 am wanting to open gifts. We made him wait until 6:30.

The newlyweds, Kels and Riley

Addis family, Chaz, Nicole and Mia

Skyler wide awake and loving every minute of Christmas morning

Logan and Skyler, Logan had shoulder surgery last week, but managed to open things left handed. Skyler's favorite gift, was the Wii.

Grandma, Grandpa and Mia. of course she was just as happy with the gift wrap and bows as she was with what was in the package.

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We sure did!

Blessings, Birthdays, & Baptisms

This past few months has been busy for us. Each of our kids have had a major event in their lives. Two through the temple, a wedding, a blessing, and now the baptism. I feel so blessed to have four wonderfuly amazing children. here are a few pictures of a few of those events.


Sweet little Mia. We had the blessing here at our home.
We had 62 people here to support Chaz, Nicole and Mia.
and share this special day.

I just love those little toes!

Isn't she so sweet!

Chaz, Nicole and Mia

Skyler turned 8

Logan made him this hamburger cake


Nicole and Chaz found Donkey Kong 3, his favorite gift.

Skyler's baptism day

Skyler just before the baptism. Skyler's primary class

It was a very special day for Skyler. He had tons of family there to be with him. His school teacher even came. He had Riley give the talk on baptism. His primary class (minus a few, we missed you Aiden) sing a song, and his cousin Alex give the talk on the Holy Ghost. I can't believe my baby is now 8 and baptized. just like the saying "I can't believe how fast he has grown up" or "seems like he was just a baby" but ya, that is how I feel. Love ya Sky!

just a few pictures

Here are a few pictures from Kelsey and Riley's wedding. some from the temple, and then a few from the reception. It was a very nice day, the weather ended up being decent at the Temple.
It was a little chilly at night, so Noah's reception center let us move from the roof-top down to the Main Ballroom. They were so accomadating and were so helpful from setting the room up for us, to scrambling around to get the video to work and just making sure everything was perfect for us. THANK YOU NOAH'S!


The Beautiful Bride

So Happy

My Kids

My family

my 3 amazing daughters


The reception and Nicole, Kelsey and Logan

Daddy and his little girl

Logan was one of the bridesmaids

What a handsome Group of guys!

My favorite picture of Mia at the wedding

The Candy table was a hit

Nicole, Chaz and Mia

One more of the family

Melinda, Diane and me. My sisters are the best!

This is just a sampling of their big day. We had so much support from friends and family. Family came from California, Oregon, Idaho, and Arizona to share this day with us. THANKS!