The Olson Family

This year Terry's brother Cordon, who lives in Atlanta, decided it was time to bring his 4 kids up here for a visit. They decided they wanted to come during the winter so that they could do snow activities. So the first day they got here, Terry's mom rented out the church and we had a big family get together with extended family. The next day, we decided to take the older kids skiing/snowboarding. I was super excited to go skiing cause I haven't been in years. Unfortunately, the morning we were going, I walk into Damon's room to find him and his bed covered in diarrhea. So that meant I had to stay home with a sick boy, while Terry and Blake went skiing with the other kids. I was disappointed, but Blake had a great time. He decided he wanted to snowboard. Terry said Blake had a bad fall pretty early in the day, and was ready to just quit. But Terry made him keep trying, and he ended up getting the hang of it and had a blast. Terry didn't manage to take any pictures though. The next day we all went up to Island Park and stayed the night in Terry's uncle's cabin. It is such a nice cabin and has tons of sleeping room. We played in the snow and snowmobiled the whole time we were there. It was alot of fun.

Ashlyn playing in the snow.

Ashlyn and Jackson.

They buried Jackson in the snow.

 Cute Bently

The beautiful Miss Kassidy

The handsome Taylor

All of the cousins that made it to the cabin.

The sweet Damon

The beautiful Miss Ashlyn

The day after making it home from the cabin, we had family pictures taken by my friend Julie Denning. We were hoping to get a full family picture, but unfortunately Terry's brother Trace and his family were unable to make it down for the weekend...

All of us.

(Excuse the pregnant looking girl on the right. Looks like she is retaining water or something, though I can assure you she is not pregnant even if she does look like it! UGH! Please tell me why my face looks so huge!)

Grandma and Grandpa with all the kids.

Our cute family



Valentines Day

This year for Valentines Day, we decided to keep it simple and spend the evening at home with the kids. The weekend before, Terry and I went out to dinner and a movie and decided to just count that as our Valentines date. The morning of V-day, my friend Mindy took all of the little girls in the neighborhood, and did there hair in this really cute french braid that was in the shape of a heart. The girls loved it, and were so excited to all be going to school with the same hairdo...

Here's the front view of the hair.

Hailee, Ashlyn, Ellie, Emma, and Danika

(this was the end of the day, so their hair got a bit messy before the picture.)

And the back view.

For dinner I decided to decorate the table all festive...

I made french dip sandwiches, and heart shaped rice krispy treats. And because there were candles on the table, the kids insisted on turning off every single light in the house so that we could eat by candle light. It was romantic!

Lakers Game!

A few weeks ago Terry was able to score his company's season tickets for the Jazz game on the night they were playing the Lakers. Terry has always been a Lakers fan, and has turned me into one as well. It was such a fun night! We stayed the weekend at my parents' house in Clearfield and caught the train at the Layton station and rode it down to Salt Lake. We were soooo excited when we got to the stadium and saw how awesome our seats were! We were on the fourth row from the court, and right to the side of the Lakers' bench. So we were practically right there by the Lakers. It was so fun! The dork that I am kept yelling out Kobe's name so that he would look at me, but he never did. I would like to assume that he just couldn't hear me, rather than he was just ignoring me. The kids were back at my parents' house watching the game and saw us on t.v. several times. So once again being the dork that I am, as soon as we got back to their house, Terry and I watched the game again so we could see ourselves. Yep, we are cool! We did see ourselves but weren't as up close as I had imagined. In fact, if I had known how far away from the camera we were, I wouldn't have been so self concience while eating my personal pizza, with fear of being caught on t.v. stuffing my face! Oh well, lesson learned. Anyway, here are the few pictures I was able to take while at the game. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of ourselves....

We pretty much just took pictures of Kobe. He's our favorite. I did get some more pictures, but they turned out pretty blurry.