Shayne loves Christmas too!!

Merry Christmas

The boys got new skis, helmets, goggles, coats from Santa and they are in heaven. Carson said its the best Christmas every!! They are modeling a few of the ideas for you.

Happy Birthday Dad

What a great way to start your 58th year!!!! The calls and gift from home was the highlight of his day. The Missionaries and friends here made it easier to be away from home. The first picture is Dad with a new tie that the Elders bought. They wrapped it in a Christmas stocking. It is a sharp tie, they know ties.The Missionaries suprised him by singing Happy Birthday in Portuguese.
That included the missionaries who speak English, Chinese, Spanish and yes me too. After the suprise and song there was a group hug!!! Elders only.

The girls that live upstairs (Selenne, Karla, Emily and Kelly) decorated the apartment and sang Happy Birthday in spanish loudly at 5:50 am before they left for seminary and work. It is nice to be loved by family and friends!!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving in the Mission field was a bit different. For one it wasn't even a Holiday in Canada , but the 18 of us from the USA made it a holiday here. We all have so much to be thankful for especially for the families at home supporting us. We love you all and miss you tons.

The first in line for the food, the Sisters of course.

Sister Absher(she is a friend of Jacob Phelps small world) with her homemade pumpkin pies.

Elder Mcphie mashing the potatoes a bit to hard and breaking the masher!

Elder Dester and Elder Rawson with their homemade rolls. They had good reason to smile the rolls were delicious.

Of course the Dad had to carve the turkey, both of them. We consumed 36 lbs of turkey and 20 lbs of potatoes. Fifteen Elders with bottomless pits, and 7 Sisters that enjoyed home cooking without a spanish flare. We had a great day hope yours was great too.

Dance Competition

Last Saturday, Addi was in a dance competition at Century High School. She did so good and had a ton of fun. Her "Hip Hop" dance received an Excellent and her "Bunny Dance" received Overall Champion. They got a huge trophy to put in the studio and Addi got her own individual trophy.

Yes, we love grandchildren

We love grandchildren and Kellen gave us the shot in the arm that we needed to make it 8 more months without them. Look out when we get home there will be a lot of hugs and kisses to share.

Cute mohawk we so enjoyed just watching him do everything even take a bath






He loved Grandpa's vibrating chair

He loved to eat, dill pickles didn't even slow him down.

Debra and Kellen

Wow has Kellen grown, and we were so glad to see both he and Debra. Thanks Neil for helping them get to Canada. We had the greatest time loving on the both of them. We also got in a little sight seeing and missionary work. The first full day they were here we had a teaching appointment with a Brazilian lady. Kellen gave the entire apartment a new smell and it wasn't roses. Everyone smiled as Debra, Kellen and I went to the car for a diaper change.








We bundled up on Friday and went to the Zoo it was so beautiful with all the trees in their fall colors.

Debra had to come clear to Canada to make it to Boo at the Zoo. Next year we will all go except it will be in Idaho

Thanks for the visit

In September Janell and Greg came to visit we had a
wonderful time seeing the sights, laughing, eating,
and even doing missionary work. Janell can now
smile in Spanish just a well as I do.















The CN tower the food is delicious

Greg teaching a game a FHE

Riding a big bike on the island, Greg did most of the work the rest of us enjoyed the view

boys

basement

Pumpkin Patch 08

We took the boys to a pumpkin patch in IF this week and let them pick a pumpkin. Hunters only comment was "Grandma says we have to be able to carry it to keep it!" and he made sure he could find the biggest one and still carry it to the car. We love you Grandma :)

Carson and Hunter both played Flag football this year. They were both on the Broncos which made there dad very proud. :) I was really good to get some pictures of Carsons game but missed all of Hunters im not sure that happened but they loved it and had a great time. Shayne also helped coach Carsons team.

Boys first day of School in Rexburg 08

Hunter is loving school and doing great! Carson knows hes the smartest kid in Kindergarten! Im so happy we moved to Rexburg it has been great!

Hump Day!!

Hooray!! We are half-way there for mom and dad to return home. We are so proud of you guys but we are also counting the days until you come back to us. We are on the downhill side. : ) We love you, keep up the good work!

Flying pigs

If you were waiting for pigs to fly, the wait is over!
We have one pig that just kept getting out and
we couldn't figure out how, until NOW!

The pig thinks it's a game now as soon as we

put it back in it jumps the fence

and returns to the gate to be put away.

Kellen is a year old

Time flies when you are having fun. I can't believe it was just a year ago I was in the hospital thinking Kellen would never get here, now he is a toddler. Yikes! He looks too cute in his Canada shirt. We can't wait to get the Canada and spend some time with Grandma Dode and Papa Bear!

Smart Kid Smart Dog

Treyton is teaching his dog

all kinds of tricks.

Including skate boarding!

Dad's hunting partner

Addi got to go down by the river with her dad the other night and she had a blast. She didn't get to see any deer, but she still had fun with her dad.

Addi's Dance

Addi got to ride a float in the parade and she got to dance on the free stage at the fair this year. She loved it. The dance at the fair was a little unorganized, but she did a good job.