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.

flying over Lake Powell

Coming in for a smooth landing

Halloween
Three fairy princesses and one combat soldier



School

The kids are loving their new school and have adjusted quite well.

Learning basic math skills

Problem solving and botany

Putting on a play about ancient Egyptian civilization and learning the Egyptian alphabet

Swimming

The kids are getting better and better in swimming.














M's best stroke: the butterfly

K kicking some booty in the Butterfly - way to go!

SkyFest 2008

This weekend, Cedar City hosted a sky fest. For 3 days, we got to wake up to the sight of hot air balloons invading the skies.The balloons would take off early in the morning

...and once they were safely on ground, radio controlled airplanes hit the skies.

Some of them even dropped candy from the skies!

Saturday evening was filled with "balloon glow", dancing and fun!

Even Henry got to come :)

It got pretty hot being so close......but we had a great time

Stars, galaxies and the Lake

We finally made it up to Navajo Lake. It's only about 26 miles up the mountain and is beautiful. Now that we realize how close it is to us, we will definitely be making more trips up there.

Just a nice, relaxing afternoon - O eating the chips while the other kids are on the raft.

This is K and her friend J as they set of on an adventure - ...before realizing that they don't have oars or a rope. About this time, they were yelling at each other to kick and "go that way!" They were awfully afraid of falling off the small raft as they thought there might be a water snake in the water. But, ...they did fall, and went back in
the water again. No water snakes today.

K and I went to a Star Gazing Party at the Cedar Breaks National Monument. Although we were a little freaked out driving up the mountain, just the two of us at night, we had a great time. From professional star gazers with amazingly HUGE telescopes to self professed "star geaks" with home made, but still amazing, telescopes.

We got a good view of Jupiter and three of its moons, Uranus, nebula's, the Andromeda Galaxy and lots of old, new, and fabulous stars.

Steve has been working very hard

...doing what he loves





He passed his FAA exam's to be an Instrument Rated Pilot.
He now gets to wear some stripes on his shoulders...
He won't be mistaken as a missionary missing his companion anymore...

I've been trying to catch Steve in his "new" uniform... - but this is the best I could do...

Next up is his Commercial class. We can't believe how blessed he has been to move along so quickly.

Yearbook Yourself

Ok, so we found this web site that lets you see what you would have looked like from 1950 - 2000. We laughed so hard! We just had to share some of these.

First off, here is Steve like you've never seen him

And... our favorite from 1998

Mine didn't turn out quite as funny as Steve's, but here it is....







































And lastly, 1998...(I think I've had this hairdoo..)
We had such a good laugh.

Were does the time go...?

M's favorite part about playing soccer are the games.

He would rather give it all on the field when there is an audience, than to over exert himself in practice .

Going for Goal!!!!

I think the other team is trying to get him...

Yeah... they got him...

"oh no! I can't watch this."

E: "I wonder if anyone will notice if I take a few pictures..."





















.... Oh, busted! Me: "E, what are you doing with the camera?"





We couldn't live in C City without experiencing the Festival of Festivals here. Through getting to know the right people, we were able to get free tickets to go see Cyrano de Bergerac in the outdoor Shakespeare theater. It was such a great experience! It made me realize how many words we have lost in the English language. When Shakespeare describes something, you know exactly what he means, versus the standard "That's awsome!" we use today to describe anything good.








The play started at 8pm and ended after 11 pm - but it was a beautiful evening, the actors were fantastic and the crickets made a great back ground chorus.

After being out of school for almost 3 1/2 months (including the month or so of home schooling in May), the time has come to start again... This time, one year older and wiser.
Here they are dressed (minus K's shoes) in their very lax uniform / dress code. They are going to a brand new Montessori Charter School. Because the building still needed some finishing touches by the first day of school, the kids got to attend 3 days of school at SUU. They came home excited that they had gone to 'college', but tired, because they had to "walk for miles between each building".

The kids are swimming Monday - Thursday after school. M and E are now on the Pre - team level and are working hard to be able to compete in the next swim meet. M insists on wearing his cap over his goggles, just like Michael Phelps did in the Olympics. Most parents only take pictures at swim meets and I haven't wanted to stand out too much by being the only parent taking pictures at practices yet, so I will post some pic's of the kids swimming after their next swim meet.

But... I do have footage of the youngest Price swimmer, working on perfecting that free style stroke...

Steve flew to St. George early this morning. Hopefully, I can post that he is an instrument rated pilot soon.