Southern Cross Humanitarian

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This is what we are up to this week! With lots of help from many who have volunteered items for the Welcome Kits! Thanks Everyone!!! We are helping change the world!! If you want to look them up and see what we will be doing this summer when we go to Peru the website is http://www.sxhu.org

Easter 2008

We had a great Easter! Derek and Steve got home about 1:00 so we saw them after we got home from church. They had a great time at the NCAA tournament!

We had a big Easter egg hunt in the back yard, a great dinner and lots of company. Our Friends Holly and Mark Monson and their three little girls came, Jackie brought a few friends with her from college and my neice Chantel and her fiance' Dean. It was really cold and rainy. It seemed like Easter was way to early this year.

Grace picking up easter eggs

Even Lauren found some eggs

Spring Break 2008

We had a great week. We drove to Park City on Monday and skied Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday we drove to St. George and met all our cousins for Ben & Jacquie's Wedding. We went to see Horton Hears a Who, we swam, we played and enjoyed our cousins! It was fabulous! We wish we could have played longer with everyone!

Derek trying to run into me - so I won't take a picture!

Grace, Derek, Lauren, & Steve ready to head down the mountain.

All the cousins acting crazy!

The boys showing Lauren some lovin!

Savannah & Shae

Ben & Jacquie

Girls Basketball

Grace had her last basketball game last night. She had 3 jump balls, a rebound and she was the point guard so she got to dribble down the court after the other team made a basket. It was really fun to watch her this year learn how to play . She has seen enough of her siblings games to know what was going on. Savannah also had a game. Her team lost but they did alot better than the last time they played this team. I can't even count how many jump balls Savannah caused and she had a great basket. She has a basketball tournament and a volleyball tournament this weekend. Derek also has a basketball tournament this weekend. Grace and her friend Kindra

Grace warming up - Great Shot!

Savannah steeling the ball from the other team

Savannah and her team after the game.

Jackiepalooza!

Jackie's birthmonth is over! She seems to drag her birthday out all month. She had a party with a Hunk of the Month contest and pizza & cake. It was fun to have her and 50 of her closest friends (not an exaggeration) over at the house! She is so fun! Lauren also had her Sadies dance tonight - she went as barbie and her date was ken. My little girls were of course in the middle of all the fun! Derek on the other hand was no where to be found!

Flava Flav & New york - Barbie & Ken

Jackiepalooza in full swing!

And here is our Birthday girl a Big 20

Presidents Day!

We took advantage of the day off and went skiing.  It was beautiful!  30 degrees and the sun was out!  Savannah learned how to snowboard and did really good.  Grace went down a blue for the first time!  She had only been on the bunny hill with the slow chair lift.  She was so funny after lunch and we were getting ready to go skiing again she pointed to the quad (chair lift) and said "I want to go on that ride again!" Derek and I were cracking up!  She put her hands High in the air like she was on a roller coaster!   She loved the fast chair lift!  We went with my niece Chantel and her fiance Dean.   Chantel was so good about teaching Savannah how to snowboard!   This is when we love that we live in ALASKA!  

Everyone right after lunch

This is the fast Chair lift Grace Loved & the end of a beautiful day!

Grace skiing down the Bunny hill

Savannah Snowboarding

Valentines Day!

This is the picture the kids took for Steve's Birthday

Savannah put it in a frame for his Stake Presidents office

We had our traditional valentines day - We set the table with candles and heart plates and everyone gets their own personal pan pizza.  Steve feels like he should be the best valentine for his girls.  So he gives all the girls a charm for their bracelets. He gives them each year something to remember the year by.   Until they get married and have thier own valentine.  He had been doing it for about 7 years now.  This year he gave

 Grace - Two people riding a ski lift, because she became such a good skier this year.

Savannah - Eiffel tower, because of her trip to Europe.

Lauren - a Surfer, because she was the first to surf behind the boat.

Jackie - A gondola , because Venice was her favorite place in Italy.

Me - a speed boat, because I am wicked good (teenage talk) at driving the boat.

Derek of course does not have a bracelet  I get to give him a valentine and so he just got some boring ol' game for the xbox called ROCK BAND!!!!   The kids love it!   It is so fun.  They played it all night.  Savannah is really good on Vocals!  

Now we are off and running for the weekend.  Derek has a Basketball Tournament in Walla Walla Washington. So we are there tonight and tomorrow.

SNOW SNOW SNOW

Well we are out of school for the 5th day this year - 3rd day this week!  One day we went up skiing and it was awesome!!   And my brothers wonder why I was not excited about and Alaskan cruise this summer!   Here are a few pictures to remind you why in the summer I don't need to cruise to Alaska!  We even hook zoey up to the sled and have a dog sled rides! hehehe

Dereks doing his homework after school - we are so proud he learned how to spell his name!

The deck and my hot tub this morning!  Boy that is going to be fun to dig out (again)!  Notice the christmas lights are still up - No chance to take them down yet!

Hawaii

We spent a week on Maui- Steve was attending a meeting and I was just relaxing.  Steve golfed and I played at the spa.  The ocean was incredible!  I love the ocean!   We went on a whale watching trip and saw humpback whales jumping out of the water it was really fun!  Got to eat out and lay around on the beach!   It was really fun!  The kids did great they stayed with Steve's mom and dad.  We came home to highs of 23 and about 2 feet of snow!   But I just close my eyes and hear the ocean and look at my fading sunburn and it keeps me warm as I shovel the snow off the drive way!  

This is our Friends  Tim & Pat Greene who are retired so we always drag them along to our warm destinations so Steve has a golf partner and I have a spa partner.  They are great fun!

Steve's brother Don and wife Dee-Anna who were also at the meeting

Steve playing in the ocean!   The waves were huge!

I got a new Job!!

I had my interview today and was offered the job by the Make A Wish foundation to be a wish granter for my area!  My kids are so excited!  I now have the coolest job in the world!  It is a volunteer position so I will get to choose how much time I spend.  They will totally work around my schedule.  I go to Wish Granting school the end of January!