We spent the day at the park--it was a glorious day, as you can tell by Erryn and Nick's smiles.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
End of the Day
We spent the day at the park--it was a glorious day, as you can tell by Erryn and Nick's smiles.
Nick's day at the big game
Nick loves to go to Jake's football games...who could resist playing on the equipment laying around the field?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Abby at the Carnival
Fun pic of Abby at the school carnival--she won this game, but you won't believe the prize--they were giving away little goldfish--live! It was a pretty good gimmick--the child won a real goldfish, and then the small bowl and some starter food was $2 more...pret-ty clever.
Homecoming Week
Morgan doing his 'best James Dean.' The seniors chose the movie 'Grease' as their theme, so Morgan went all out for school spirit.
Jake's Dream Car
We couldn't miss the car show--it only had about 10 cars, but they were SWEEEET! Jake is convinced that Mustangs and Corvettes are the only cars that should exist.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Life after Summer
I love summertime--I seriously, actually, literally, and sincerely love having my kids home for the summer! I go through withdrawals for the first few weeks of school each fall. This summer was packed full, as usual, and the school year will be packed just a full...
Jake has hit the football field running. He lives for football. It is also his first year of high school, and he is excited for the big life--classes, football, and cute girls. What else is there? Oh, he has started playing piano, and he likes it, no kidding.
Morgan is a senior and love it--he rules the school--he is taking a gazillion AP courses and will be a very, very, very busy boy. He expects to throw in his job, video games, and dating into that pot o' fun...
Abby just started 4th grade AND the viola! She is walking on the clouds with this viola. She absolutely loves it. She has some good friends, and she loves acting--unless she has a audience. She gets that from me...the mama.
Jason is on break from BYUI, he goes back in January. He will be working full time and living here for the next few months. He loves being back in the old neighborhood with the old gang.
Erryn is a junior this year, but she says there just aren't any boys worth dating right now. We aren't complaining at alllllll. She lives for volleyball, but opted out of it this season so that she could get a job. She wants to start saving some serious money for college and a mission--and babysitting just isn't letting her rack up the cash fast enough. She is in two performance groups (they have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall next year! They performed in DC last spring) and is excited for the plays and musicals lined up for this year--Dracula, Kiss Me Kate, Taming of the Shrew, and Guys and Dolls--looks like a very entertaining year--I'm pretty sure the school district knows Kiss Me Kate and the Taming of the Shrew are essentially the same story...good times! Erryn spent a lot of the summer volunteering as an assistant coach at the Rec Center--she coached track and volleyball for little kids--she loved it.
You are looking at the new Personal Progress Leader for our ward's Young Women! I am having so much fun with this calling, and the girls are just incredible. Clint is having the time of his life working in the nursery! He loves it, especially after a pretty long gig in the bishopric...
That's enough for now--celebrate the beginning of the new season! Clint and I absolutely love FALL!
Jake has hit the football field running. He lives for football. It is also his first year of high school, and he is excited for the big life--classes, football, and cute girls. What else is there? Oh, he has started playing piano, and he likes it, no kidding.
Morgan is a senior and love it--he rules the school--he is taking a gazillion AP courses and will be a very, very, very busy boy. He expects to throw in his job, video games, and dating into that pot o' fun...
Abby just started 4th grade AND the viola! She is walking on the clouds with this viola. She absolutely loves it. She has some good friends, and she loves acting--unless she has a audience. She gets that from me...the mama.
Jason is on break from BYUI, he goes back in January. He will be working full time and living here for the next few months. He loves being back in the old neighborhood with the old gang.
Erryn is a junior this year, but she says there just aren't any boys worth dating right now. We aren't complaining at alllllll. She lives for volleyball, but opted out of it this season so that she could get a job. She wants to start saving some serious money for college and a mission--and babysitting just isn't letting her rack up the cash fast enough. She is in two performance groups (they have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall next year! They performed in DC last spring) and is excited for the plays and musicals lined up for this year--Dracula, Kiss Me Kate, Taming of the Shrew, and Guys and Dolls--looks like a very entertaining year--I'm pretty sure the school district knows Kiss Me Kate and the Taming of the Shrew are essentially the same story...good times! Erryn spent a lot of the summer volunteering as an assistant coach at the Rec Center--she coached track and volleyball for little kids--she loved it.
You are looking at the new Personal Progress Leader for our ward's Young Women! I am having so much fun with this calling, and the girls are just incredible. Clint is having the time of his life working in the nursery! He loves it, especially after a pretty long gig in the bishopric...
That's enough for now--celebrate the beginning of the new season! Clint and I absolutely love FALL!
FHE!
The Walker's present FHE! This was our opening song, Book of Mormon Stories, so I'm not sure what Jake's was looking at...and our sweet dog, Cooper, wanted in on the fun!
Alma and Korihor
I explained that we would be studying the story of Korihor by performing a reader's theater. Erryn, looking a little perplexed, was the narrator, Jake was Korihor, and Nick was Spider Man. Of course, there were other parts, Morgan was Alma, Abby was Giddonah, and I was the photographer. The sun was going down, but we still had fun! I wonder what the neighbors thought...I had tried to find a 'script' of Korihor's adventures, but had no luck, so I made my own. It was the scripture story verbatim, so we just let loose as we acted out the story in scripture language!
Korihor Preaches
Korihor tried to teach the people that God did not exist, that Christ was not coming to the earth, and that the prophets were leading them astray.
Alma
Korihor is brought to Alma, the chief judge, and Alma explains the truths of God and Christ, our Savior.
Korihor is struck dumb
Korihor asks Alma to give him a sign that God exists...Korihor is struck dumb, never to speak again.
FHE
I couldn't resist--this photo is worthy of a professional framing! After we played for a while, we came inside for treats and a discussion. All the kids had something to say about what they learned. It was great to talk about the story and what we can learn from it.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Erryn's Choice
This is the 2nd photo, bad photo, of Erryn's American Idol experience. All I had with me was the cell phone, great quality, I know--the details are with the next photo...
Erryn Won!
Our Stake held a Tri-Stake competition patterned after American Idol. All who wanted to participate had to audition in front of the Stake Youth leaders, if they made it to the next level, they were to perform in front of all the youth, then the youth would vote on the winner. Erryn and 5 other youth made it to the finals! It was designed to be Karaoke style, but Erryn persuaded the judges to let her sing her own song a capella, and they agreed. She did a marvelous job! She won! She received a $50 gift card, and she immediately decided to donate it to charity.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
Model behavior
The Walker sisters unite--the girls were bored one afternoon last week, and decided a photo shoot was the answer. I
Nick is the Man
Ok, so we were at church yesterday, singing the perky opening song with gusto, big smiles on the Walker fam's faces, waayyy up front in the 2nd row of the chapel benches, when Nick turns to me and yells, "THAT'S TOO LOUD!" It was the funniest thing ever. He was completely serious.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
UPDATE
Whew, life is exhausting. Erryn is currently in Washington, D.C., with her choral performing group. They will spend 4 days out there for a festival--plus touring, of course. I tried to bribe them to let me be a chaperon...but every single parent wanted to be one as well...I didn't make the cut (a dad who has a medical career got the gig, they thought his medical background would be helpful in the event they need a doctor--whatever).
Jake is working hard in his "football offseason." Football is his life, but he is involved in other sports to keep him in shape. He has decided he loves this competition lifestyle, but loves the contact of football ever so much. His personal reports of each football game go a little like this, "I hit this dude so hard he didn't get up for 5 minutes--it was sooo cool!" Yeah. Each of his bruises has a story, and his collection of bruises has a class system--the bigger and uglier the bruise, the higher the social status. He is so proud.
Morgan is looking at colleges, trying to decide where to go. Ahhh, to be young and frivolous again. Abby is in a student choir at school--they are focusing on Disney music right now, so we have been singing all sorts of classic Disney songs--Supercalifragilistic...zippity do dah...it is a hoot. Today she had a wonderful activity in 3rd grade--they were involved in a re-enactment of Ellis Island. Each student has been researching an actual immigrant from the early 1900s, and they went through a series of checkpoints just like Ellis Island. I had the privilege of being a processor--I was in charge of the Loyalty Oath. I double checked their paperwork, verified that they would not be deported, had them recite the loyalty oath (explained some of the words and meanings to the kids) and shook their hand as the newest US citizens. It was amazing. Nick is honing his stand up comic skills nicely, making us laugh a his 4 year old humor (mostly consisting of quoting Spongebob lines over and over). By the way, he refuses to accept the fact that he is required to be 4 for an entire year. Today he informed a family friend that he is 8, to which I mentioned, "honey, you are still 4." He simply looked at me and flatly stated, "I'm not 4 anymore. I'm 8." How do you argue with that logic?
Jason is officially starting his Sophomore year in college. Daily he is surprised and baffled at how fast the money goes. Go figure. He is quite the social butterfly, attracting a variety of boy crazy college girls. Some are stalkers, some are psychotic, and some are sweet spirits.
We do have a new addition to our family, Donner the spectacular Siberian Husky. He is 6 months old--we found him at our local pet shelter 2 weeks ago and fell in love. He is full of energy and so sweet. He gets along swimmingly with our 2 year old Wheaton mix, Cooper. They are both friendly, happy, playful dogs. So if anyone wants to break in, the dogs won't stop you. I guarantee it. They will, however, lick you to death as you walk out with our valuables.
Jake is working hard in his "football offseason." Football is his life, but he is involved in other sports to keep him in shape. He has decided he loves this competition lifestyle, but loves the contact of football ever so much. His personal reports of each football game go a little like this, "I hit this dude so hard he didn't get up for 5 minutes--it was sooo cool!" Yeah. Each of his bruises has a story, and his collection of bruises has a class system--the bigger and uglier the bruise, the higher the social status. He is so proud.
Morgan is looking at colleges, trying to decide where to go. Ahhh, to be young and frivolous again. Abby is in a student choir at school--they are focusing on Disney music right now, so we have been singing all sorts of classic Disney songs--Supercalifragilistic...zippity do dah...it is a hoot. Today she had a wonderful activity in 3rd grade--they were involved in a re-enactment of Ellis Island. Each student has been researching an actual immigrant from the early 1900s, and they went through a series of checkpoints just like Ellis Island. I had the privilege of being a processor--I was in charge of the Loyalty Oath. I double checked their paperwork, verified that they would not be deported, had them recite the loyalty oath (explained some of the words and meanings to the kids) and shook their hand as the newest US citizens. It was amazing. Nick is honing his stand up comic skills nicely, making us laugh a his 4 year old humor (mostly consisting of quoting Spongebob lines over and over). By the way, he refuses to accept the fact that he is required to be 4 for an entire year. Today he informed a family friend that he is 8, to which I mentioned, "honey, you are still 4." He simply looked at me and flatly stated, "I'm not 4 anymore. I'm 8." How do you argue with that logic?
Jason is officially starting his Sophomore year in college. Daily he is surprised and baffled at how fast the money goes. Go figure. He is quite the social butterfly, attracting a variety of boy crazy college girls. Some are stalkers, some are psychotic, and some are sweet spirits.
We do have a new addition to our family, Donner the spectacular Siberian Husky. He is 6 months old--we found him at our local pet shelter 2 weeks ago and fell in love. He is full of energy and so sweet. He gets along swimmingly with our 2 year old Wheaton mix, Cooper. They are both friendly, happy, playful dogs. So if anyone wants to break in, the dogs won't stop you. I guarantee it. They will, however, lick you to death as you walk out with our valuables.
Jake is the man!
There is our track star now--waving to us, his fanclub. Jake is smack-dab in the middle of this photo giving a macho acknowledgment to his camera happy mother.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Surrealism at its best
This was just cool--no photo shopping, just a very beautiful pink and blue background, with our four awesome older children!
Go Joseph number--this is adorable, but the lighting is bad (actually, the lighting was incredible for the performance, but not for my filming)--Erryn and Morgan are both dancers in this number, both are on either side of the pyramid arch. Erryn is in a purple dress with pink tights and Morgan is in a gold jumpsuit, the tallest one. They were so great--
Danger
Can you believe this is the same little Nick who gives loves to his stuffed lion and tiger? Fierce.
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