Family, family, and even MORE family

Over about the past month, we've had our cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents over on my mom's side. We've done a lot of fun things and created a lot of memories. Here are just a few pictures that pretty much sum up what we've been doing.

Don't you just love those little face thingamagigs? Here's Maddie hitting a home run! ( Which is quite a shocker really, but IguessIshouldn't talk.)

Reid is what we call " our little pro baseball player," because unlike the rest of us, he's the only one who really has a chance of hitting a home run.

This year, our grandpa took us to the ROCKIES game! We got the best seats, right above the dugout! And every so often, a player would throw us a baseball. And guess what, he thru one right to Reid. I still can't believe it.

Here is me, Maddie, and Reid all sporting our baseball attire. Oh, and you see that bag I'm holding? Yep, well that held what I' d like to call " The Motherload!" Yep, we were chowing down loke we hadn't been fed in a week.

Maddie and I were playing around with the camera during the game, and I decided to upload this picture just to once again show Maddie's love for peace signs and all things good.

There was a ride at Vail called the bull ride. What it does is try buck you off its back by spinning and going up and down. We all went on it , except for Maddie. ( That, of course, is understandable considering that try not to get bucked off by a bull is on the top of most of our Things To Do Today) This is Grant trying to ride the bull, he was pretty bad stuff until he got on and started freaking out that he didn't even make it past level zero.

Well, unlike Mr. Chicken in front of me, I bravely rode the bull, and made it to level three!

Reid made it to about level two, although, even though we all know that he only made it to that level, he tries to boast that he surfed the bull.

Here we all are at a meet watching Maddie swim two lengths of the pool breaststroke. For her first year of swim team, she did pretty good! She was probably a little embaressed though, because of all of us whooping her on.

We found this really neat rock at Vail that overlooks the mountains, and we decided to take a picture. So if you're reading this and thinking that all Colorado is, is a giant square, it'll show you that the giant square has a lot to offer.

We rode up the mountain on a gondala. At the top of the mountain, there was a little observatory that named and talked about some of the mountains that Vail overlooked.

This is what a gondala looks like. ( Just a little help for those of you who are scratching your heads.)

This is Keystone where our fondest memeries will be of forgetting all of our luggage! We were about halfway there when we relized that we left our stuff at home. Even without our luggage though, we all had a fun time on the lake.

This is were most of our time was spent at Keystone.... the pool. We played a lot of games and just sort of chilled.

Just Another Day at the Pebbles

It was Mothers Day this Sunday and Mom hit the jackpot! A nice perfume kit! From Dad! Oh yea!

We'e decided to make book jackets for all of our scriptures, and as you can see, they really show our personalities. Try and guess who's is who's. The Mickey Mouse paper should be pretty easy.

Reid had to make a diarama for school and it was on the wombat! I helped him make it and it was pretty fun.

Madddie went to Bunk with the Beast at the Denver Zoo this week and she had a great time! We were all pretty worried about her though, even Grant kept saying, " Maddie, were Maddie go?"

I went to CU college up in Boulder Saturday with my friends Kaylee and Sarah. Sarah is the one who invited me and her brother goes to college there. We had a lot of fun and want to do something like this again soon!

Dad's Birthday, Easter, and more

We got a playset and it is the new thing for the Pebbles Family! Here is Grant climbimg the rock wall. We're afraid that one day he 's going to slip and , well, bye- bye Grant.

Grant doesn't really like the swings because if you notice, his feet can't reach the little holds. Oh well, he'll grow.

Maddie, Reid, Grant, and I all got hymm books, scripture masterys, and scripture markers.

For easter, Grant a little ball and bat set that he plays with ALL the time now.

Mom suprised one day after school and said that we could go to Mcdonalds and get a sundae. Yum! Thanks mom!!

It was dad's bithday and we (okay, okay, mom) decided to make him his favorite cake,( drumroll please) carrotcake!!!!!

Every year dad protestes that he WON'T wear the legandary birthday hat. Every year he wears it anyway. ( We sweet talk him into it) This year though, he was positive that he wouldn"t wear it. After a few promises and threats, he finally gave in. The kids have one another battle! (and mom)

Happy Birthday DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Throughout the Easter Week, Mom decided to do a special lesson on Easter each night. One night, we made a LOVE ONE ANOTHER sign that had to be filled with nice sayings by the end of the week, it was pretty cool.

Another night we made little tombs out of food. They were really yummy!!!!

Spring Break

This past week was spring break. We didn't go on vacation, instead we had some special moments of our own right here. Everything from blizzards to getting a fish was happening right here at the Pebbles Family household.



This is what the storm made our yard look like . ( It may not look like much, but that is because it was the day after the snowstorm at about 3:00 when I took the picture and all the snow was starting to melt sooooo.......)

This is the snow that the neighbors across from us shoveled from their driveway.( Boy am I glad I didn't have to shovel our driveway because at 6:00 in the morning ,when it's like 6 degrees out, shoveling snow just isn't the picture I would've had in mind when thinking about Sring Break.)

We get the cars washed here every Saturday, and this Saturday wasn't any diffrent. ( Although I like having clean cars, why would we wash them when it is supposed to snow in TWO days? I guess the cars really needed a wash.)

My friend and I caught a ladybug when we went minni golfing. This ladies and gentlemen is Spotty.

This is Spotty's carefully desighned house that was built from twigs, leaves, ribbon, a jar, and rocks. Oh, and grass.

My friend Whitney andI went minni golfing and had the time of our lives! This is just one of those pictures that you take and just doesn't turn out but yet is pretty funny. We were showing each other the funniest faces we could make and then the flash went of and.... ugh.

Whitney putting the ball into the hole. Yep, it's pretty obvous who one the game.

OK, so we driving aroud because we had our floor getting worked and we had to be out of the house All DAY! We bought some Robin Eggs fromt eh store and gave Grant a blue one. 5 minutes later, he was out.

Isn't he cute when he is sleeping?

This is the fish that the family earned if we cleane the basement. Trust me though, it is not like we get a fish every time we work. Our dad owed us a fish and the basement was like nothing you have ever seen.9 Oh, we named the fish Snips.)

Whitney and I found a hole were you had to go through a cave. We found a Boo thingamagig on the wall an tried to be as scary as possible. I think we made the cut.

Whitney wanted to sit on the rock and I let her. I have to admit that she did do is on my part because I couldn't get her to fit in the whole picture when she was under the Boo thing.

Whitney and I.

We went to Dell Taco one day for lunch. Just thought that that might be important to incloud.

Maddie and Reid taught Grant how to pick his nose one day. He was quite fasinate by it and continued to do it the rest of the day. ( But he is way past that stage now. He has now mastered wiping it on others.

Our House

For those of you wondering what our house looks like here you go.



Isn't this a really pretty house? Yea, to me it kinda looks like something that comes out of either Martha Stewarts magazine, or from My Little Pony.

We, I mean I, like this " Popcorn" tree. It isn't actually popcorn, as hopefully most of you know. It grows cherrries, andthe smell is really good! OK, just ignore the random thought of the day.

Mom and Dad got a new chair and are very proud of it. he cushions even match the house!( But then again, why wouldn't they.) Yep, the bench is so special that we aren't allowed to do the following:

• sit on the bench
• touch the bench
• breath on the bench( how interesting is that?!)
• or even think about the bench

Another picture of " The Bench"

The Dancing Machine

This is Grant dancing to his favorite song, Burnin' Up, by the Jonas Brothers. He knows the words and everything, which frankly, we find quite sad. Anyway, the funniest part of the whole thing is some of his dance moves. So good luck to all that watch this. {Believe me, you'll need it.}

More of the Pebbbles

This is one of the boards that the girls made at Activity Days with their mom.

This is Maddie playing school with herself. They are learning about the U. S. A. Figures though, since she is learning the same thing in school.

This is Ellen with her viola. She has a concert coming up this Wednesday and is going to play in a duet and in a quadrant, along with the rest of the orchestra.

This is one of the songs that she is playing.

Reid got a football book from the school library and has been reading it 24/7.

OK, don't laugh, but this is Grant and his new camera that he got for Christmas. Every time I'm getting ny camera out, he runs and gets his too. { Thankfully he hasn't relized yet that it is fake, not real. We think this is because of the little pictures of animals that show up in the lense and change every time he pushes the button.}