Our Little Village

Our back garden looks so beautiful during the

summer months.

The street that we live on, the boys love riding
their bikes out here.

We love how beautiful the skys look here!!!

Jakeb's school just finished being added onto and

it is awesome.

Houghton Church it was built in the 13th

Century. The boys love walking on the

grounds. Coles school Nativity play was here.

Houghton Mill Tea room, you can come here and

get some tea or something to eat.

Houghton Mill is one of the oldest working Mills

in England and you can get fresh flour from here

during spring-fall.

The boys love going to feed the ducks at

the river.

One of boys favorite things to do is to walk to

the mill and go across the bridge to see the

cows and sheep in the pasture.

Jules and the boys walking across the

bridge at the mill.

The village is full of old cottages like

this one.

This is our town center it has our clock tower

village store and post office.

Easter 2009

This easter we celebrated it at my
Uncle Richard and Aunt Janice's
house with all their kids and grandchildren.

Being in Utah we were forced to have
the easter egg hunt indoors due to
the snow still covering most of the ground.
Even though it was indoors the adults did
a pretty good job of hiding the eggs.

As you can tell, and as my sister Traci would say,
"They scored".

Daddy's Home

Daddy's home and we are sooooo happy!!!


Now we can be crazy with daddy,


and Carson finally opens his eyes to this craziness!!

I have my boys home again: James, Jakeb, Cole,
and Carson. What joy it is to hear the running
around and rough housing of boys.

IMAGINATIONS!!!!!

WE ARE.....................

Superheroes!!!!!! They found my headbands and have used them for masks. Jake is batman and Cole is Spiderman.

Pirates!!!! So they think that having any type of red bandana like the pirates make them a pirate. I think that they look a little like someone from the 80's, but it is what they think that matters.


More Superheroes!!! All superheroes wear boots and fly. These are actually my boots that are obviously way to big for them, but they run around in them like that are real superheroes.

DADDY!!!!! They love to wear daddies hats and say that they are daddy. They also love to look at sporting magazines just like their dad. Boy they are making their daddy proud.

Thank You Grandma!!

For Valentine's day Grandma Pratt made the boys their very own fleece blankets. They abosolutely love them. Jake chose a motorcycle blanket, and Cole Chose a pirate blanket.
Thank you Grandma, We love You!!!

New Years Eve

We went down to Jon’s house in St. George for New Years Eve; We had a blast. We had sushi for dinner prepared by Keri, and tempura vegetables prepared by myself. The next day we went to Zion’s National Park and had so much fun, once it warmed up a little.

Christmas 2008

This year we were able to spend Christmas at my parent's house in Utah. We had a blast. We played tons of games and ate lots and lots of yummy food and candy. We had a huge snowfall Christmas Eve, which definetely gave us the white Christmas we had all hoped for. The kids even got to go sledding in my parent's front yard. Jakeb loved to sled, but Cole had his reservations(maybe it was the cast he was wearing?!?!?) What would have made it the most perfect Christmas ever would have been to have James there ---- We Missed you hunny.