Nate's Turkey Trot

Nate is such a motivated young man. He decided this past November to participate in his schools Turkey Trot. It is part of his plan to be more healthy. What helped motivate this plan was a bet that Jer offered to all the boys at halloween to not eat candy and desserts for a whole year for $200.00. Nate was the only one who took him up on the bet.     

 In the Turkey Trot they ran a total of 1 and 2/3 mile and Nate ran the entire thing in the cold air that day without stopping . He actually finished in the top 1/3 of the kids. he had lots of supporters that day including his Nanny and Aunt Heather, Grandma and Grandpa Fergi and his two little brothers, oh and mom, of course. He is still going on his bet of not eating treats with 4 1/2 months down and 7 1/2 to go. He is determined to go the whole year. We are so proud of our Nater's

Sand Dunes

We took a short trip to the snow canyon sand dunes our Aunt Mindy and cousins Seven, London, Dallin, Brighten and Holland and a couple of their friends.

 Me, Jer, Pierce and Sev had a jumping contest to see who could jump the furthest down the hill with a running start. I felt like a kid. Jer won, of course. Brycena and Paycen and Jer and Pierce had a few races with me being the ending point. Its harder than you think to run in sand. Needless to say we wore ourselves out so we ended our day with some big cinnamon rolls from great harvest. (Caden couldnt be with us because he was still on a scout campout rock climbing in Pinevalley).

We had a blast! Nate, Sev and London dug caves into the hillside almost deep enough to fit their whole body in.

Snow

          

We were so excited to go up and sled down the reservoir hill in pinevalley on presidents day when it snowed. We got all the way up there and they had closed the road leading up to the big hill. We were so disappointed but decided to play in the snow just right off the road anyway. We stayed for a little more than an hour and made a little snowman, a snow fort, and the big boys and dad hiked up across a field to get to a small hill, which they couldn't reach because of a creek they couldn't cross, and back and of course had many snowball fights. It seemed that it was plenty of snow fun for everyone and when we were done we remembered how wonderful it is to live in St George where we can go visit the snow and then be done.

Family Fun

These are just some pics from lst year that shows some of the fun things we like to do in our family.This was taken at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. We call it the doughnut factory because of Brycen and Paycen, they think of it as a factory because we get to watch the doughnuts made in the window. This was a trip to vegas to buy school clothes. We also went to circus circus to make it a whole day of fun. The next picture was one from circus circus.

 This is Brycen and Paycen wearing their rain coats out playing in the rain.We play out in our backyard all the time!

The toilet paper castle. This happens at our house regularly. Sometimes its just left as a surprise for whoever finds it and sometimes we like to knock it down over and over.

We took the chance this last fall to take each of our boys on a special short trip. Pierce and Caden each got to go to a BYU Football game.

This is classic Brooksby/ Neyman household.

This was a late night run to get In n Out burger and bring it home for everyone. It must have been around 10:30 at night. YUM!

Brycen and Paycen pretending to be kitty cats.

At our park getting soaked even if we didnt wear our swimsuits. We love taking walks down to the park to play some frisbee or football catch and to run in the splash pad when it gets hot.

One thing this family knows how to do is just have fun. I love my boys so much and wouldnt trade having a family full of boys for anything!

Feeling The Spirit

I just had to get on here right away and tell of the sweetest thing that happened on Sunday. Nate asked if I would go and bear my testimony with him in sacrament meeting, so of course I did. As I was going up Paycen was begging to go with me. Nate and I both bore our testimony and sat back down. Paycen continued to beg to get up and bear his testimony. Finally Daddy took him up. Brycen decided he would go too. Paycen was first to bear his testimony. He grabbed the microphone and without any prompting from Jer he said "My name is Paycen. I like to say I'm thankful for my family and help us to be safe. I'm thankful for Jesus." Then daddy helped a bit to help him finish. It was so adorable. Brycen did a great job too with help from daddy and of course we loved to hear daddy's testimony. When they came and sat back down Paycen gave Jer and I each a big hug and told us he was proud of us. He just kept giving me kisses and hugs, you could just tell that he felt something special had just happened and that he had felt the spirit.