Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of our family pictures. Ryan had to jump the stream each time we posed as a family. Good thing our camera had a 30 second delay and we could take 6 pictures at a time :)

This my favorite picture but I don't think I am going to use it for our wall or Christmas cards because you can't see Lindee very well. If she would have been on my knee it would have been a winner.

Jenna took this picture of Ryan and I! She did a great job.

I think this picture is the winner even though Lindee isn't smiling. By this point her feet were soaked and she was cold and didn't want to pose with all of us again.

We tried to take a picture of all of the kids but Lindee was done and wouldn't pose anymore so none of them turned out. Plus all the boys wanted to do was play in the water and snow. If you notice all of the kids jeans are wet at the bottom by the time we took individual picutes. We did get this cute picture of Ryan and the girls.

Jenna's Concert

Jenna is in 5th grade this year and the school has a 5th grade orchestra. We went to the music store and Jenna chose the viola to rent. She has really enjoyed learning to play. Recently she had her first concert. They got to dress up in their halloween costums and play a few renditions of Twingle Twingle little star. I thought it turned out pretty good concidering they have only been playing for about a month.

Boise Temple

We were able to go to the Boise Temple Open House! It looks so beautiful with all of the dark wood in it. It really meant a lot to take our kids there because that is where our family started 13 1/2 years ago!!

The Ussing clan

All of with the temple in the back ground. This is all of Ryan sibblings. We were missing 2 peole though. Kristians husband Chris and their daughter Rachel.

Here is just one of our family.

Brigham City

We took the opportunity to go to the Brigham City Temple open house. It was beautiful inside. It had a peach theme to it with peach pedels increaved into the woodwork and on the tiles in the floor. We had reservations but we still waited in a 2 hour line to get in. But what a great opportunity for our kids. We plan on going to the Boise open house in a few weeks. The kids will get to see inside where Ryan and I were married and our story started!

ALl of us outside of the temple. We set up the tripod and got a great picture!

Before we went to the temple we went to the Brigham City Cemetry where Ryan's grandparents are buried and his great grandparents. We couldn't find them so we went back after we saw the temple and found them.

Fair and Birthdays

Ryan and Jenna's birthdays are a day apart. We went to the Utah State fair to start off the celebrations. We walked around and looked at all of the animals and exhibits. We saw this huge kholribi

and then the kids got to use their one free ride they got for reading so many minutes at the summer reading program. Jenna and JT picked the Zipper! They had a ton of fun and admitted it was a little scary.

Luke wanted to know what it was like to fly so he chose the hanglidder ride and Ryan went with him.

Lindee loved the Merry go round!

After the fair we hopped back in the car and I drove us to where Ryan was picking out his birthday present. He had no idea what I was getting him so he was so excited when we drove up to Sportmans Wearhouse and he know I was getting him a gun. He has always wanted a hand gun so I finally gave in and let him pick the one he has had his eye on! When we got home we went shooting so he could try it out!

On Sunday we had Jeff's family over to help us celbrate.

and he got to open the presen that the kids got him. A red tie for the Utah Utes! We looked all over for a UofU tie and couldn't find one so red will do for now!

Jenna turned 11! She wanted to decorate her own cake so she invited the neighbor girl over to help her. It looked really cute until they put all of the springles on it. But she loved it because she did it.

Jenna got a ripstick and ramp (to share) and a new game for her DSI.

Pre-school

Lindee has been waiting forever to finally be starting school. I did joy school with her last year with 6 other moms, but this year she started at a preschool 2 miles from our house. She loves it and asks everyday if she has school. She goes 3 days a week for 2 1/2 hours and couldn't be happier!

First Day of School

Here are all of the kids on the first day of school. I always have mixed feelings when the kids return to school. But the kids don't. They couldn't wait to get back to school so they could play with all of their friends they hadn't seen all summer.

Jenna is in 5th grade.

Luke a 4th grader.

JT or, John as he likes to be called, is in 2nd grade.