The Best of the West Family

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Race Day and Tornado Clean Up

We ran our first 5k of the year. It was a cold one!

Michael was nice enough to run with the kids in the stroller.

Joshua sprinting in.

The whole race crew. We all hope to improve our times throughout the year!

Dallin sprinting in!

Jenny running in!

Leah sprinting in during the 1K

The day after Christmas a tornado hit our city and a neighboring city. Our community has been great with coming together to help each other out. My house was 4 miles away, so we were fine. My sister's house was a block away from the tornado, but their house was fine.

It is crazy to see the destruction and realize how much we are not in control.

It is great to see so many churches and organizations working together to help clean up. Michael went this weekend to clean up. I stayed home to watch the kids, since it is too dangerous for kids to around. We will help gather school uniforms and what not for the kids who have to start school with nothing. It does make me proud to see the community helping each other out. We do live in a great place.

Merry Christmas!

My Mom came down for Christmas. We had a great one!

All set up for Christmas. Michael likes to stage for the presents just sos for Christmas.

Grandma got lots of baby time.

Christmas was nice and warm so we played in our backyard at the creek.

Unwrapping presents is fun!

Dancing with Just Dance. :)

Hungry hippo game can be intense.

We had a great visit with friends! We miss them!

Lots of book time!

We don't have snow for sledding so cardboard and grass will do.

We also love to roll down hills.

Rylan just choose to go down head first with Grandma's help.

Michael finally got to use our fire place. He is really enjoying it.

We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends! We love celebrating the Birth of our Savior!

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Jump and Paint

My boss was working on a house down the street and the old owners left a trampoline. He said if we could move it, then it was ours. Michael and a couple of boys rolled it over the fence and walked it down to our house and then we lifted it over our fence. ha ha I am sure we were a quite a sight.

We have been having fun every day jumping!

Kid on Sunday morning. They are looking cute. The boys had their Christmas party on Friday. I was in charge of Dallin's. I forgot to take pictures, but it turned out okay.

Michael had his painting class. It sounded like they had a great time!

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Christmas Pajamas!

They look so cute in their pajamas.

The boys had pajamas with the Principal on Thursday.

The Principal read to them and they got hot chocolate.

Our friends got us pajamas for Christmas so it was perfect to wear them that night.

The whole crew ready to head out!

Sunday, December 6, 2015

It's beginning to look like Christmas!

We went to our city's celebration for Christmas. The kids went "sledding." Even Evan had a turn.

This is how we sled in Texas. ha ha

We are waiting for the tree to be lit

The tree is lit and the lights dance with the music

We had fun with friends and family there!

We had a band at our Church Christmas party. They sounded great!

Our Nativity. The kids did way better than I thought.

We put up a tree. The kids had fun decorating it.

Yay for Christmas!

Joshua Birthday

We went to the Naval Aviation Museum in Florida. We had a great time! It was really neat!

Joshua wants to be a pilot so he was in heaven!

The kids enjoyed all of the planes.

Joshua did a flight simulator. He loved it!

This is wha tthe outside looked like. He kept saying how cool it was.

Opening up presents on his Birthday.

Death Star Cake

Joshua loves math and science. He wants to be a pilot and if that doesn't work out than a geologist is his second choice. He loves Star Wars and Legos. He is a great leader. We feel blessed to have in our lives!