"The Great Girl Scout Cookie Exchange"

Remember Kate, the "Entrepreneur?"   Well, she's back at it once again.  Kate happens to be a girl scout and has looked forward to selling girl scout cookies from day one.  Finally the opportunity came around and Kate made a personal goal of selling at least 50 boxes of cookies.  Kate created and sent out a mass email which described her goal and a brief description of all of the flavors of each of the cookies that were available-she made them sound irresistable of course.  Well, Kate's Uncle Shawn responded right away and put in his rather large order of GS cookies-a whopping 9 cases which totaled 108 boxes!!!!  Kate was beyond thrilled to put in those kind of numbers on her order sheet.  Here are a few pix and a short video clip of the whole experience. 

What a goofball!!!  This was the highlight of Kate's career so far.  Thanks Uncle Shawn for making it such a memorable experience for her!!!  By the way, Kate ended up selling a grand total of 238 boxes!!!

The newest member of our family...

We decided to adopt!!!  Meet "Gracie" which is the newest member of our family (along with the chickens and Harley of course).  Heather and I decided it was due time to get a run around car and stop pouring money into the gas guzzlin' Suburban to do everything we needed to...especially now since gas in nearing 4 bucks!!!  We found a perfect car for us-a 2009 Subaru Outback.  Here's the best part...last week we put in $30 of gas and it lasted the whole week with everywhere we needed to go! 

 I think we're gonna keep her...

Ski day at Wolf Mountain!!!

We decided to finally take advantage of G & G's Christmas present and go skiing with the family up to Wolf Mountain a few weeks ago.  Clayton even decided to come down from Logan to meet us there for the day.  It was a perfect day...not crowded and not too cold.  Below are pictures and video clips that sum up the day for us. 

Video clip of Liam, Chloe and Kate:

 

Chloe, Eli, Liam & Heather come off the lift:

 

 Chloe and Kate riding up together

Liam is prepared for anything to happen

Chloe had so much fun

Ok, so here's the funny part of this post.  In this video clip you have Kate who is trying so very hard to shuffle up to the trail that Chloe is on, Chloe doing her best to help.... but it just doesn't quite work too well....

 

...and the outcome of Chloe trying to help Kate:

 

Despite the struggle that Chloe and Kate had, we all had so much fun together that day.  We decided to have dinner at the Timbermine on the way down Ogden Canyon...a perfect day.