looking to summer

So we are so tired of winter up here in idaho that we are already planning our summer vacation. We are going to try and go to the grand canyon and to zions and bryce canyon in June. None of us have been to the grand canyon so we thought it would be fun since I have the summer off to take a real vacation. We haven't had one of those before with all of us so it will be fun. The kids are even excited about going which surprised me but hopefully it will stay that way. So hurry up summer I am ready for you.
We are officially on for Feb 7 for Tristen's baptism. He is excited and so are we all to get to go down to mom and dad's. it will be a fun weekend and a special one for Tristen and plus Brennan's homecoming is that week so it will be double special.
Only one concern for the moment and that would be where is Talisha? I heard she left home and nobody knows where she is and if she is okay. I couldn't imagine feeling so bad that you couldn't go home. I hope she know that there is nothing so bad that you can go home and face with your family. so if Your out there Talisha, come home and let us help you we love you.

Baptism news

Yes, now that we know when Brennan is coming home we can finally set a date for Tristen's baptism. He keeps asking when it is going to happen and finally we can tell him. I believe, not 100% sure because it depends on Carri's ward ya know, but hopefully it will be on Feb. 7. We are trying something new this time. We will be baptizing him in Huntington so then we can just drive down to Moab the next day for Brennan's homecoming. So everyone is invited to come to both, hope that is okay that I said that Carri. We are all looking forward to a trip down south to see everyone, all of us except Braxton. we will be spending the day traveling down on his b-day. He isn't too happy about Tristen getting all the attention when it is his time of the year, but somehow I am sure he will be sure to get the attention and make sure that we make this up to him. He is however happy to be able to get to go to grandma and grandpa's and see everyone just like the rest of us are. So not to take away from Carri's excitement of Brennan coming home and his homecoming we just have something more to celebrate together.

whew complete

So over the christmas break Dan and the kids worked really hard on fixing up some rooms in our house and as of yesterday they are done!!!! We are so excited to have new paint and new carpet in Nikieshia's room and D.J's room they look totally awesome. We also spent the weekend deep cleaning Tristen and Dakota's room some how everything in the basement got thrown in there and it was NASTY So we took the rest of the weekend to clean it up and ended up moving Braxton in with them so they got a new bunk bed which is really nice. Maybe now they will sleep in their room instead of everywhere else. We also got new curtains for the kitchen and the bedrooms my house is starting to come back together after having been pulled apart for quite a while. Nikieshia has gone with no carpet since sept. so it is great to see a clean nice room that you aren't afraid to walk into. That is the celebration at our house. to give you an idea of how junky they were we hauled away two trailer loads of garbage. man if feels so much lighter.
By the way for those of you who don't know my new email address yet it is: polly@bridgemail.com email me I would love to hear from you all