Polar Bear Challenge

This summer Melanie and Russon dug a pool. Unfortunately, they have not added a pool heater yet. All the boys did the Christmas Eve polar bear challenge...however, only a brave few did it again on Christmas night. The first night I took still photos, however it was so funny that the second night a shot a video. As you will see...Uncle Josh is a tease, but he will always make it fair.

Christmas in Arizona pt.1

For the Christmas holiday we spent our vacation in Arizona. Melanie and Russon were great hosts always keeping us entertained. On Christmas eve we went to ASU and hiked A mountain. It was a pretty steep hike, but not very long. There was only one casualty...Melanie's shoe!

Christmas Project

So this year I took on the task of creating the family calendar. Melanie designed one over 10 years ago and every year since dad has always asked her when we were going to do another calendar. It took me so long to compile the pictures, clean them up in photo shop and group them together in a collage for each month. Although it was a super long process, I am so happy with the results. Below is the cover where I got a little carried away with the creative juices.

Finals

As many of you know, Josh has been in his first semester of college at Boise State. Being his first classes since high school and taking some advanced classes, he had to be disciplined in his studying. In this picture he is studying for his math final with his friend, Andy. They used the back sliding door as a "marker board" but as the sun set they could not see their writing so Josh had the brilliant idea to put paper on the back of the window and voila...a white board.