Jenny's Baptism

Jenny and Jake

                                                              Bailey and Jenny

 

Owens Family

 

Our Family

 

 
                                                 Grandma and Grandpa Owens and Jen

For Jenny's baptism we decided to go up to Utah and do the baptism in Monroe. Grandpa and Grandma Owens are missionaries in the Spanish Branch and it fell during fall break so we got to go and enjoy family and SNOW even. It was a very special day and besides Zane trying to climb into the font "TO SWIM" with Jenny.. it was wonderful.

Jenny's Eight!

Our Jenny turned eight this year.. and this picture makes me laugh cause she is our silly, sweet little goof ball. Jenny is such a joy to have in our family. She is our peacemaker for sure. Shes eagar to please and always willing to trade to keep everyone happy. She was excited to get baptized and all about legos this year for her birthday. She was suppose to get a birthday party this year but we decided to just have a low-key cousin sleepover roller-skate party :) She was so excited about having her cousins come and it was so nice and easy for me too.

 

Legos Presents

 

The Gang ROLLER SKATING

 

                                                             
                                           Braxton and Josh..who quickly volunteer for Zane duty

                                                            Bailey (see the look of exhaustion )

                                                           Zane only lasted 10 minutes

                                                                 THE CHAMPIONS

I can't belive how HARD roller skating seemed to be for the kids.. I don't remember it EVER being that hard ONLY sooooo FUN. Megan was the only one out of the kids that could go without the walkers.. Jenny wouldn't quit and these two girls stayed the out there the WHOLE hour or so we were there. Everyone else pooped out on us. It was a fun experience and I think I'm going to make them go AGAIN.

School Pictures 2012

The big kids

The girls

Onery Josh.. refused to SMILE

Jenny running away from Josh after trying to get him to smile by "tickling" him

 

The kids have been in school 2 months now.. I am finally getting to blog about it. Josh started 7th grade and decided he is a "TEENAGER" and teenagers have attidudes. We assure him that HAPPY teenagers lives are ALOT better then GRUMPY ones. Hes still working on beliving us. He is liking changing classes and is going well in school, He does have alot of homework though. Josh is now 5'9" and size 11 mens shoes. He is going to be tall for sure.

Bailey started 5th grade.. and was happy to have one of her best friends in her class with her again this year. I was so happy to find that out. She has a hard time with her teacher this year because she raises her voice alot at the kids and Bailey is scared to death of getting yelled at. Unfortunatly thats life and sometimes that happens.. She is getting all A's and is VERY CONCERNED about getting good grades. She is my worrier. I hope she relaxes some but still keeps those grades HIGH too :)

Jenny started 3rd grade and likes her teacher and her class. She is happy and loves school. She is still in speech and I hardly can tell anymore. She gives me hope for Zane. :)

HERE's  To the year 2012

Girls FISH too (and Brady)

Bailey

Jenny

Brady

 

The Fish

Bragging Rights

Pictures

When the boys got home from the fishing trip and girls and brady were DYING to go so of course Jake and Uncle Billy took them on a little day trip.

Fishing Trip Part 2

 

                                                              
The boys got to stay at a BIG CABIN RESORT it was Closed and EMPTY but Brother Beamer had a Key so they even got to sleep on BEds. Grandpa was SO HAPPY because he was so worried about being cold.. grandma even stayed up the night before they left till the wee hours to sew him long johns... purple ones :) The boys had fun and CLOWNED around ALOT! Hopefully I can get the boys to get on here and record something too.

Fishing Trip Part 1

The boat ...and the rail road track

 

I have been waiting and waiting to finish my Canada blog posts hoping I could get Josh and Jake to post the fishing trip and explain the pictures but its not happening so here are some pics of the big fishing trip they took with Grandpa Manwaring and the Beamers.

Oregon 2012

I did not do a good job taking pics.. but we met up in Oregon on the way home and had our Manwaring Family Reunion. We had everyone there but Kim and Lynn. It was so Pretty and it was nice reconnecting with the whole family.