Price Family

Monday, September 21, 2009

July, August, and September... how the time flies :

Baby is born

Adelaide Pearl Price joined our family on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 - weighing 7 lb's 4 oz and measuring 19 inches long. What an amazing joy she brought us.

Elisa celebrated her 8th birthday just 3 days later. Grandpa Price came down to see baby Adelaide and to celebrate Elisa's birthday.

On July 24th, Elisa's birthday, the kids got to march in the parade with Steve for the pilot school. Olivia rode inside the plane going down mainstreet as he kids threw candy out - while me and baby enjoyed a quiet morning at home. Later Aunt Stephanie and Ethan came down to visit and everyone went to the movies later that night.

Two weeks later, Grandma Price and Aunt Danielle and Uncle Kyle came to visit. The kids continued to have swim practice 5 days a week and have a few more swim meets. Life was a little crazy, but great!

Elisa's Birthday Party

In the end of August, Grandma, aunt Stephanie, Ashley and Ethan came for another visit. We managed to take a trip up to Navajo Lake while they were here.

Baptism
Because it was easier for all of us to travel up to SL than for the family to all travel down here, we decided to have Elisa's baptism and Adelaide's blessing up there where we could be close to family and friends.

It was great to be back. Elisa had a beautiful service - Katrina played a violin solo after the baptism.

After the baptism, we had a picnic at the park. Here Elisa is holding up her cake that the girls from Achievement Days made for her.

Blessing

Pictures in St. George
Since our weekend went by so fast, I felt I had really not had a good chance to take pictures of these very special occasions. So yesterday, after church, the kids and I drove to St. George to take some pictures on the temple grounds.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Richfield Swim Meet

This last weekend Steve and the kids went to Richfield for yet another swim meet. Unfortunately, I was too pregnant to go, but Steve did a great job documenting the whole swim meet. The kids all did very good and placed well, but most importantly improved from all of their previous times. They are having such a good time swimming, but are also putting in some serious training. Olivia hopes to be in a "swimming video" like one of these next year......

Elisa swimming her favorite stroke - backstroke, she is in lane 3 (her coach wants her to try competing in an older age group next year)

Here is Michael's backstroke. He is in lane 1 wearing his favorite blue cap with the American flag on it.

Katrina had considerably tougher competition than the other two and she lost her goggles early on in the race which kept her head up higher. She did good and still beat her old time. She is in lane 2 wearing a silver swim cap.

Elisa swimming 25 m Butterfly

Michael swimming 25 m Butterfly, he is in lane 6. There is a slight exchange between him and the swimmer in lane 5 who informed Michael that he was going to "kick" his butt.... Oh well maybe next time...

Katrina's 50 m Butterfly. Lane 3 :)

Elisa swimming freestyle - lane 4

Michael's 50m freestyle - lane 1

Katrina 50m freestyle - lane 6

The IM's - Individual Medley's. Elisa was put in a heat with the boys and did fairly well, considering she had major trouble with her goggles. Michael remained in the lead until the breast stroke - which is his hardest stroke. Once he gets that down, he will be a tough competitor. Katrina did great and really made a big improvement on her time.

... I tried to updload the IM's, but because they were over 1 minute each, it took way too long.

On the Medals platform

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Utah Summer Games

This year the kids had the chance to participate in the Utah Summer Games. What a fun experience it has been for them!

From going to the opening social...

to marching with the athletes in the Opening Ceremony...

to the spectacular fireworks...

and of course, competing...

This was probably one of the only mid-competition shots that turned out. This is M competing in backstroke. All the other pictures (taken by Steve) were captured with the kids underwater...

They all did SO well! We are so proud of them, they all improved their previous times. At the end, we were left with one puzzling question...

How did this girl, who can't even walk a mile, ride her bike for very long, or exert herself physically at ALL

end up with THIS?....

That is 4 GOLD medals and 1 SILVER medal!
She was amazing to watch. Her favorite stroke is backstroke, and she was leading the way in the 100 M backstroke by 2/3 of the lenght of the pool. In two of her harder races, the 50 M Butterfly and the 200 M freestyle, she was the only girl in her age group competing, so they put her in a heat with the boys. Even then, she had a significant lead in the pool. She really has surprised us all with her ability to give it all in the pool!

Our next champion, had some tough competition...

and needed some time to realize he should be proud and happy about receiving 1 SILVER medal in the 100 M Butterfly and 1 BRONZE for the 100 M backstroke.

His greatest accomplishment was competing in the 400 M freestyle, by far the longest distance he has ever competed in. He swam a nice steady pace and finished a close 4th. We are SO proud of him!

Our other champion also faced some intense competition, but did well for her first Summer Games

After coming in a close 4th (or 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th) in many of her races, she took home 1 SILVER medal for the 200 M backstroke, 2 BRONZE medals for 50 M backstroke and 100 M backstroke.

Although these kids are definitely champions...

the real "GOOD SPORT" award goes to this one:

...She sat patiently at the poolside for 5-6 hours a day for 3 days, cheering on the other kids!
She even managed to snag some medals for herself when the other kids weren't looking.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas came! Along with the snow...

The build up to Christmas was full of some fun traditions!

Here is our annual gingerbread house making in progress

Another tradition is to eat all the candy that doesn't make it on the gingerbread house...

...until we feel sick, of course.

That night, M and O were simply too tired to make it to bed. Here they fell asleep in the middle of playing.

Our Family Day!
We pick one day before Christmas that we call our Family Day. We go out in the morning and spend all day doing fun stuff together.
This year, we went to breakfast at Denny's, where we drew names for presents to be purchased at some time throughout the day. Then we drove to St. George, where we went bowling. ...And, not to brag, ...but I really kicked some booty.

After that, we shopped at the outlet stores for our Christmas presents. But O, was really informative and told me straight away what they had bought for me.

We then went to the movies to see Tale of Desperaux and ate dinner at Olive Garden. That's when the snow really started to come down, so we thought it best to start heading back to CC. It was a good thing as I lost control of the car only going 25 mph and almost slid right into two parked troopers. We eventually made it safely back after stretching our ride home for an hour an half.

Christmas Eve
We had a full house. We invited two families over for dinner. Of course Santa was able to drop off some PJ's for the kids as he made is way around other parts of the world.

Christmas Day!

Another fun tradition!

Tearing down the fully edible gingerbread house...

The kids have had so much fun playing in the snow, and we have even discovered some great sledding hills.

Here the kids are playing right outside our house.

We had a great Christmas!

And now, to close this post, I end with some of our best talent!
Enjoy

This was filmed by the kids, so sorry for the bumps!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Christmas is almost here!!!

With our Christmas tree and other decorations up, it's finally begining to feel like Christmas.

One tradition that we have is that the kids always get a chocolate Advent Calendar (where they open the small, paper doors for one chocolate every day until Christmas). Well, ...this is how I found O with her calendar - just on the second day...

24 pieces of Chocolates in two days :(

Yesterday we went to the annual Christmas Parade that C City hosts. I must say, I was impressed by their floats and even found it more entertaining than the 4th of July parade. The weather was also beautiful!

We had a great Thanksgiving up in SL. It was really fun to be back. On Thursday we had Thanksgiving with Sonja's family and my mom who was experiencing her first Thanksgiving. Saturday we had the Price Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera - but Helaman sent me this picture from Sunday which was baby A's blessing.

He is such a good baby - and cute too!

Since I have been such a slacker in updating our blog lately - I thought I would throw in just a few pictures from when my mom was here visiting (all taken from her camera - it seems I have really been a slacker with my own camera). It was her first visit to C City, she loved it and we had a great time.

Outside the Old Rock Church

At Lefty's Hideout - a shabby, but great Mexican resturant

O - celebrating her birthday with a birthday cake from Grandma Price. She did not leave that cake until it was time to eat it. By that time, several swabs of frosting were missing - and the evidence on O's face was indisputable. :)

Out for a morning stroll in our deserted neighborhood

Enjoying a day on the Temple grounds in St. G.

Heading up to Cedar Breaks.

E, climbing to new heights.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wow - I am finally updating our blog!!!!

Congratulations Steve!!!! Now a Commercial Pilot!

Steve flew down to St. George today and passed his FAA exam to get his Commercial Pilot License. He has had a fun few weeks flying around Southern Utah before the winter sets in.