Orem Summerfest Parade

Cinder Britches makes another appearance along with a few beautiful firewomen. The cruised along in the tuk tuk fire engine. It was perfect and the rain held just long enough for the parade to finish.

Happy Birthday MOM!

Celebrating at Olive Garden

Celebrating at TOSH (the hospital where she had both her knees replaced) It was a great party! I know you don't remember it mom but you were heavily medicated! J/KGinger, Kevin, Megan, and Nate

Kevin leaving for Afghanistan

the latest news...

Starting with Kathleen, she is having both knees replaced this weekend (for her birthday). Good Luck MOM and Happy Birthday! David is still working hard as ever but now he is also doing his own hydro testing business with Keven Cottle.



Kara is pregnant and is still sick...yuck. I'm sorry. I wish I had a magic nausea removing wand. We can't wait to find out what gender it is. The ultra sound was too early to tell. Keven is bouncing off the walls because he is so excited.

Josh is working too hard with two jobs, a nursing class, and training for a half ironman. Amy did her first triathlon and survived it! The grandkids are spoiled and love it.


Jonathan is in a Masters program at BYU and is studying ARABIC. Marhaba......


Megan got married! Yes you read that right, Megan married Nate Walters on a beach in Hawaii on April 14th. They eloped and didn't tell anyone until a few weeks later. We love Nate, good job Meggie.


Kevin and Ginger moved back to Utah and then Kevin promptly left for military training and Ginger is in Provo with a pit bull, a chiwawa (I know that spelling is wrong but I couldn't figure out how to spell it right so I did it phonetically), and a horse.

Katelyn is also home from Eprhiam and is taking care of her new filly, Rose's baby horse. She is so cute (Katelyn and the baby horse).

Forsyth Awards

Yes I think we need to start the forsyth awards for 2009. I have submitted an entry for January but if you have something you think will top it then please submit. I love you all!
Amy

HO, HO, HO

Santa was good to us this year. It was funny because we didn't even open presents until 1:00 pm and that was thanks to Katelyn's strong persuasion. We missed having Kevin and Ginger with us and hope they'll be around next time.

Papa got new glasses, oh wait those are Katelyns, Mom got everyone great gifts. Kara gave Amy a knife and Keven showed her how to cut carrots by dropping them. Kara got a super duper lighter...look out...do you have fire insurance?) Jonathan gave sweet gifts from Mexico and he shaved his mustache.From Kevin and Ginger, Kate got a $50 gift card to Subway...

what better gift to give a starving student. Meggie came home later and opened gifts like it was her birthday with all of us watching, and even opened a cute one from Nate's mom (a stuffed bear and cat)-so cute!

Josh gave Jonathan some guitar music so he can seranade us all with the correct words and the grandkids had a ball opening everone elses gifts. Ella never left Kara's side, Preston drank and drank and drank eggnog, and Luke even spit up on Papa's head. We ate great food and had Kara's homemade eggnog. Overall we had a blast! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...except for Preston who got sick. (Really I don't think it was the eggnog.)

To Grandmother's house we go...next door

Over the grass and through the gate to Grandmother's house we go. The dogs know the way to bark all the way along the short and quick walk we go-o-o-o.

It is so fun to have Grandmother Cranney right next to Mom and Dad's house. We see her quite a bit more and she seems so happy to be there. We visited on Amy's birthday and she accompanied on the piano while we sang Christmas carols and Primary songs.

Thanksgiving was a total blast

Since Dad's birthday is on November 28th and Thanksgiving was November 27th we decided to have a turkey birthday. Kara, Keven and Mom decided to get him something out of the ordinary. They organized a scavenger hunt where he had to go to neighbor's houses to get the clues and then solve the riddles to find the next location. After a long walk through the neighborhood he finally found it...a tuktuk(spelling???) or a city tricycle. It is very similar to the mode of transportation used by the Kara and Kev in Sri Lanka. It drives like a motorcycle but has three wheels and a semi enclosed body. It is fire engine red, very appropriate, and he seemed to love it. Later that evening we had a driving contest weaving through orange cones and backing up. Let's just say that Kara has a lot of experience so she took the trophy. We'll see about next year!

The food was great and the company was even better. We ate with the neighbors, Dale, Mo, Josh and Erika.

We also had a lot of fun making turkey placecards with Ella, Preston, Kara, Kate and Amy. They were pretty goofy looking made of pinecones, oranges, google eyes and pipe cleaners. Since when are turkeys cute?

Happy Halloween

Off to Never Never Land! We had a great Halloween with the kids. Why is it that when you have little kids around holidays are so much more exciting? We dressed as the characters from Peter Pan. Josh was Smee, Amy-Captain Hook, Ella-Tinkerbell, Preston-the crocodile, and Luke was Peter Pan. We loved showing our costumes off and Ella would give a narrative to each person we trick or treated to on who was who. She said, "mom, everyone is going to tell me how pretty I look." This was while I was putting on her make-up...look out world!