Cairo Turns Double Digits

Cairo turned 10 yesterday..SCARY!
Cairo wanted to give as well as receive on her birthday so she requested that her birthday guests bring a donation to the local food pantry. The girls who came to the party were very generous to Cairo and to the food pantry.
She is so much fun and easy to be around. What a great help around the house.
We gave her this cute Cruiser bike which is just "SO CAIRO". It's cute and stylish and has personality.
We love you Cai..PS: Stop growing..No more birthdays for you!



We had a party with the theme of Minute to Win It. A new game show that is on in the evenings featuring challenges using household items. The challenge must be completed within 60 seconds to win the prize.
Brad was the host..White hair, lots of jewelry, black shirt. He did a great job.

Bergen Visits Cedar City

We were lucky to have Bergen here for 3 nights last weekend as our guest. She is such an easy baby and was a delight for the kids and Me and Brad.
That same Friday, Sam and Cairo had a science fair at school so she went to see their projects.
Sam's project was to create electric energy from a potato.
Cairo created static electricity by rubbing wool on a Styrofoam plate.

Mountain Meadows Historical Site

While Cory, Angie and family were here for the Easter weekend we decided to take a short road trip to the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre is a black mark on Utah history and the location of the event is about a 45 minute drive from Cedar City. Brad has wanted to see it for some time and this was a great weekend to take it in. The kids were interested and troubled by the history that took place there. It was quite morbid and disturbing. A classic quote by Chasik was, "I thought today was supposed to be fun." Cory responded by saying, "Nobody promised you that." It was quite funny. To see that Chasik found the experience disturbing and "Not Fun" just re-enforced how our children have a sense of morals and know right from wrong. I have to admit I felt a little bit like Chasik. It was such a beautiful little meadow and I felt like the tragedy that occurred there was something I wanted to push from my mind. Brad commented that it is important to visit history that is unpleasant and learn from it just as we learn from positive, uplifting historical sites. It was a nice day and we created memories together with family. The beginning of a great weekend.

Easter 2010

For Easter we had a nice brunch, listened to LDS General Conference and the children had an Easter Egg hunt. The weather was beautiful with a clear warm morning. We managed to have the Egg hunt outside just as the weather turned a bit gray and started getting cold. As a fun little edible craft the kids made nests out of chocolate and chow mien noodles then filled them with candy as the eggs. All the kids participated but a few of them were hard to catch on film.