SEPTEMBER 2010 - STARTING SCHOOL

Free splash park 5 miles from our house

Natalie Day's hubby was deployed for 8 months, leaving her and her 4 kids. One night we had them and the Wegleys over. Gary was so cute with those kids.



Rachel and Annabel Mayberry are special friends. Rachel was recently baptized.

Jenn Williams, our bishop's wife. Outfit from Natalie.

Mary has lots of people who love her! Scotty, Georgia, and Joseph are each so cute and sweet with her!

We had a tuna cracker picnic by the human maze. Ryan was so cute making silly sounds as he chased the kids.
Giant butterfly next to the butterfly house at the Cox Arboratum. All these amazing places are free!

Our family!

The week before school started, our air conditioning went out, our fridge went out, and a huge branch from a tree behind our fence broke through the fence and crushed the playhouse our landlords had left for us. Bad luck!
Ryan started working just after Mary was born. Kris Anne chose to stay in Utah for a few weeks, then join him because she didn't want to arrive with so many needs that they became the ward service project. Well, even so we had members keep our things cold in their fridges, bring us fans, lend us AC units, and come chop down the tree. Thanks!




Georgia's first day of kindergarten and Scotty's first day of first grade! They were excited to ride on the school bus and Joseph was quite jealous! Georgia played "Love at Home" that morning on the piano. We meet in front of
There are lots of great parks around our neighborhood. One has a track around it for the moms to exercise on as the kids play on the playground. Another one has our neighborhood pool. Fun!


At the last Ostvig Family Reunion in Nauvoo, we did a Cherry Pit Spit for the family olympics. One Family Home Evening when cherries were on sale, we practiced in our backyard.

AUGUST 2010 - MOVING FROM UTAH TO OHIO

For Joseph's 3rd birthday, he wanted a yellow truck cake. He also wanted to go to the "Farm Park." We combined - a farm/truck cake.
The Williams family joined us to celebrate Joseph's birthday. All the kids enjoyed going to the old fashioned candy store at the end.

Old school girls!

Looking for cows!

Still dreamy!

Surprise!

What a help! Grandma Gottfredson has blessed our lives time and time again.
There was tons of packing paper wrapped around our buckets and inside our boxes. One night we filled Mary's room with paper and had a family fun night.

Ryan's mom and sister, Emily, kept Scotty and Georgia in Utah for an extra week to attend the Clarke Family Reunion. They then drove them out in our van - a 4 day trip to Ohio!
Joseph and Mary flew out with Kris Anne. It was a long day, but they were so well-behaved! Nursing in bathroom stalls, missing a flight, riding on three different airplanes . . . we were happy when Ryan picked us up.

No kid could be more excited about riding in a plane than this kid! Kris Anne's favorite part of the day was watching Joseph proudly pull his rolling Nemo backpack behind him and determinedly walk from side to side as he went. In his head, he surely must have felt like the bigger passengers who were also carrying their rolling suitcases behind them.

Graduationht

Scotty graduated from pre-school on May 15th. He felt so proud of himself and did a great job in their program. They did a rhythm song where he played the tambourin. He tapped it right on the beat and made his family so proud of him.

What a blessing to live by both sets of grandparents!

Scotty and his teacher

Climbing Among the Goblins

"I'm as brave as a six year old!"

We went to a cool dinosaur museum where the biggest collection of dinosaur bones has been found.  It was a long drive on dirt roads, but fascinating to see how they uncovered so many bones.

Goblin Valley

Ryan had three days off, so we took a trip to Goblin Valley.  The kids loved climbing around.  The parents loved paying less than $100 for the whole trip.  We all loved being together as a family.

Happy to be munchin' sand!

Working hard to hold down the corner of the tarp.

Wow, now he's good looking!

Settin' up camp

Family Fun

Ryan's brother, John, is back in town and we've loved being with him and his family again.

Georgia's special day

Georgia loved seeing the temple and looking at all the Prom couples, saying, "She's getting married in a pink dress!"

Toast and yogurt - a perfect dinner!

Feeding "Baby Anna" in the Church History Museum.  Georgia loved dressing up and giving a gift to Baby Jesus.

Georgia loves daffodils.  

Georgia watched Scotty go to Temple Square after learning eight Articles of Faith, so she decided to memorize ten!  We took her to get her own Book of Mormon.  She was delighted and ran from the moment we left the car.