Birthday Month!!!!

March is the month of birthday's for our family! So much has been going on! Happy Birthday to: Kourtni, Ryan, Ashley, Grandpa Madrishin, Grandpa Moore, and Melissa!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWINNERS!!!!

Ryan & Ashley are 10 years old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA MOORE!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!!

March is the Month for Birthday's Here!

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY KOURTNI!!!

Where is Summer?!

Hello, this is Kourtni posting! Actually, most of the time it is, because my mom just doesn't have the time to figure out how too! It has already been one longggg month of going to school here at BYUI. I am really enjoying it! It is awesome being back with a bunch of mormon kids & it's really cool going to classes and being able to talk about the gospel. I loveeee it here, besides the weather. It actually was really nice for along time at the beginning of January, but just this past week it's snowed everyday & night, which then the temps drop..blah....it is soooo cold walking to classes!! Although I have to say, the snow has been pretty fun, with all the sledding and such going on. But man do I love Summer!!!! Can't wait for it to warm up!


Well all I know about home is that everything is going well. Virginia just got alittle bit of snow, but more like ice. So the kiddo's got acouple days off of school. Big whimps (school district). Everyone is back to the school routine, and Melissa is back to Relief Society joy!

Yay it's the weekend! I've been looking forward to it! Hope everyone has a delightful one! :)

Back to the West and leaving Kourtni

We headed to Utah on December 31st to make our way to Rexburg, ID where Kourtni will now be attending school. It was a nice trip with nice weather! We stayed in Utah for two nights and Thursday we went with some family snowshoeing at American Forks, which was very fun! We enjoyed staying at the hotel alot and relaxing too! Thursday night we ran over to Temple Square, it was beautiful with all the lights and such! Friday we caught the Salt Lake Express Shuttle and took the trip to Rexburg and it actually went quite quickly. We stayed at our families home and moved Kourtni in on Saturday. Man, did we spend that mooooolahhhh!!!!!! So now Kourtni's back West & the families still in Virginia, how does that work?! Oh well, we know she will be having a blast!

This is where Kourtni lives now right up by the new Rexburg Temple!

Late!

Merry Lateeeeee Christmas!!!!
It's been pretty busy around here lately so no time to sit down and blog!
Trying to write up our Family Holiday letter, so look out for that sometime!!

Hmm...

So there probably has been alot of new things going on, if only I could pinpoint exactly what. Well first off, we have been veryyyy busy shopping and getting all of Kourtni's school things together. She will be leaving for BYU Idaho on January 1st, so not very much time! Kayleigh made the high school swim team and is keeping busy with that now! Kyle was ordained a Deacon, so now we get to see him pass the sacrament!! The twins are doing just fine. Ashley is in her 4th grade spelling bee, she is such a smartie pants! Last of all, Derek...he is busy...with the xbox and computer games, forget school! Well life is getting very busy! Hope everyone has a Happy Holiday!!!!!

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY KAYLEIGH!!!!

Today is Kayleigh's 16th birthday! She is full of life, and very crazy and original! For part of her birthday we picked her up after her first class, and told her she had a dentist appointment and was going to get her wisdom teeth pulled...that didn't go over too well. So we drove off towards town but then set off to Tyson's Corner, one of the largest malls in VA. Needless to say, it wasn't all that I expected, but it had Kayleigh's favorite store Delia's so we had to go there. It was an enjoyable day with the girls! Tomorrow she is having a party so we'll see how that turns out! But.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYBIRD!! WE LOVE YOU!