Road Trip June 2009

Logan Baseball May 2009

Logan had a great season with his Super League Baseball Team the Cache Colts. He was the starting pitcher, but also played a number of other positions...I think his favorite was 3rd base. Here he is pitching, batting, and running. Oh and I have no idea why these guys and weezer.com showed up on this...it's never happened before!

Katelyn Dance Recital May 9, 2009

Katelyn has been taking ballet and tap again this year. Her recital went very well. She loves it and has learned a lot of new steps...her tap riffs are amazing! Here is a little taste...In the black leotard (Ballet Technique) dance Kate starts on the right side in the short sleeve black leotard and ends up in the middle. In the yellow costume (Ballet Performance Dance)Kate start in the middle, moves to the left side, and in the end is standing up on the back row on the right. In the newsies tap number Katelyn is the one in the brown nickers, light vest and plaid shirt. Enjoy!

Spence Soccer

Spencer played soccer again this spring. A couple of the games were rained (or snowed) out and at the end of the month he was saying he thought the season went too fast and wished there were more games to play.

Old School Fort

With such a wet spring, we spent a lot of time indoors. One day the kids were complaining about not being able to go out and play, so I showed them how we used to make forts using all of the chairs, stools, and blankets in the house. They thought it was awesome! They watched a movie and read books in their new hideout and mom had a good idea for a change!

Matthew....kickin' it

With Spencer playing soccer this spring, Matthew decided he better learn too.

It's in the Genes...

Here is Matthew showing you his very best Mozart impression...I especially loved how he took the sheet music down and repositioned it! I had to post this for all the pianists in the family.

Spencer's 6th Birthday

Happy 9th Birthday Katelyn!

Some of Matthew's First Steps

Happy New Year!

Jay has said since we got married how much he wants a motorcycle...so, I broke down and bought him one this year for Christmas. Okay, so it wasn't exactly what he was hoping for;) We spent a few days putting it together and it will shortly find a place on a wall in his office. Logan also got a puzzle of something he enjoys...baseball!

A Warnick Christmas 2008

Spencer's Christmas Program Dec. 18, 2008

The Kindergarten classes really outdid themselves with this program. They sang all the old favorites...Up on the Housetop, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nick, Rudolph, Must Be Santa, and also a couple we had never heard like this C is for Christmas which quickly became a favorite at our house. Spencer did a great job! He is on the front row on the right...short sleeved green collar shirt and blue pants.

Katelyn's Ballet Class Dec. 9th and Christmas Recital Dec. 13, 2008

Katelyn has become even more graceful this year...she is loving her ballet class and she took up a tap class this year too. This was her Christmas performance on December 13th...she was a snowflake. (Incidently, her teacher formed all of the crowns for her class out of silver pipe cleaners, even up close they looked like real tiaras!)
Katelyn is the first one out on stage and on the front row on the right. Sorry it's so fuzzy, we were on the back row.

Matthew's 1st Birthday Nov. 28, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving...

...from our gaggle of Turkeys! Jay's mom sent us this life size turkey to "protect" our home (he was dressed as a pilgrim complete with gun). He sat inside our front door on his own little chair. He gave me quite a start a couple of times, when I walked in the dark room and saw the outline of someone sitting in a chair!

We had a great Thanksgiving. We drove up to Rexburg for the day and spent it with our Warnick family. It was good to visit with everyone, the food was delicious, and Logan & Jay got their football fix. We are so thankful for so many things, life, health, our family, friends (all over the country), talents, a job that allows Jay to work from our home, a warm home in the cold winter, and testimonies of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Logan shoots and scores!

Logan has been bugging me to upload this since November (been a little busy). This was a great play that I actually got on camera from his rec team. He just finished playing for that team last Saturday and has been practicing with a Super League team since the week of Christmas. They played in a tournament over the weekend. They haven't won yet, but all the games were close and they have good potential. So this is Sam to Logan and In...

Happy Halloween 2008

This year Halloween was a little different...the elementary school decided to do parent teacher conferences the day before, so there was no school for two days, the kids didn't wear their costumes to school or really have class parties. They did the carnival indoors on Halloween (how they always do it in Rexburg). A lot of people were bugged though because usually it is earlier in the school year and outside where there is more room for people to get around. We sort of threw costumes together with what we had and our only purchases were Katelyn's witches' hat and broom. We did carve pumpkins too, but couldn't find our digital camera for a few weeks, so had to use our old 35mm and haven't developed them yet.

Logan decided to dress up as Jaycee Carroll (he was the star of the USU basketball team last year...he has now graduated and is playing in Italy this year). Logan was funny, he kept saying well since this is my last year of Halloween (dressing up, trick or treating, etc)... He thinks he is too old and mature to participate.
Katelyn was a witch this year, and a very cute one at that! She dressed in black and used Spencer's Spiderman cape (thanks Di) and wore the orange Halloween socks my mom sent. She loved trick or treating this year and didn't want to stop to come home for dinner.

Spencer wanted to dress up as Harry Potter again this year which was great for us. He is so cute and everyone could always tell right off who he was.

Matthew was our little giraffe. This was a costume that Spencer wore a few years ago, but Spencer was older and liked the hat...Matthew wasn't so sure.

We had a fun day...it was beautiful and warm which was a welcome switch from the freezing, snowing, windy, cold Halloweens in our past. Logan had school, but it was Friday, so he got out early. Then we went downtown to trick or treat at the businesses. After that we came home and got ready to go to the carnival at the school. We trick or treated our neighborhood, had some soup at the neighbor's, and I passed out candy with the little ones while Logan and Jay went to the first USU basketball game of the season.

Matthew end of Sept. - Nov.

Matthew (and Jay) on Halloween at our Elementary School Carnival. He was a giraffe this year, but he hated the hood, so we never did get a picture of him happy or smiling in his costume except when he feel asleep in his stroller while we were trick or treating down town and his giraffe head was next to his face. He also loves to take his socks off, so we are always missing at least one. I think he might be eating his toes in this one.

Mom and Matthew outside our front door. Spencer is loving taking pictures these days. Every time I turn around he has taken the camera and is snapping pictures of something. The funniest is when he puts the movie feature on and does the commentary as he shows you around the house. Spencer actually took this picture (one of the few that we kept)...what did we ever do before digital cameras...oh yeah, we would pay to develop the roll and find out that all the pictures were of the floor, out the window, some you couldn't even figure out what they were and waste a whole roll of film.

This was the day of Matthew's first haircut (before and after). I have never had to cut any of my kids hair before their 1st birthday, but I just couldn't stand it any more. He was really tired, but we took a couple of inches off around his ears and evened it up everywhere else. He is actually ready for his second haircut any day now.

I love this picture! We had a barbeque when Jay got back from his trips in late Sept. and this was Matthew playing on a blanket while dinner was cooking.

Matthew is now 11 1/2 months! Where has the time gone? We are busy trying to keep up with him these days as he is into everything and crawling all over. He cut two teeth this week making a total of 5, three on the top, two on the bottom. He absolutely loves balls and "passing" them back and forth to you. We think he may want to be a drummer because he loves beating everything in time, which is great until we go to church and he is pounding on the doors and chairs in Sunday school;) He has also found the piercing, shrill scream that so many little ones are so fond of. He's pretty proud of it...it's driving the rest of us sort of nuts! Needless to say, we are spending most of our hours at church in the hall or mother's room. It is going to be a long 6 months until he can go to nursery.

He says dada for sure and knows exactly who that is...he adores Jay and lights up every time he comes in the room. He's quite stingy on saying mom and reserves that to once a week or so when he knows that nobody else around will meet his needs as quickly and accurately as he needs them to. He also says tickle, uh-oh, peek-boo, Jesus, and a lot of other things we don't always understand. He started clapping recently, too. He is trying to walk around the furniture and we've only had a few mishaps with falling and hitting his head on the vast expanse of tile floor in our house. We can't believe he will be one in a few weeks! We'll post some more then.

Happy Birthday Jay!

Tomorrow is Jay's Birthday...he is on a business trip in Tennesee so we thought we would show a few pictures and brag him up a bit, so he would know that we love him and are missing him and wishing we could make his day great! We are going to have to celebrate all week just to make it up to him.

Jay was born September 20, 1970 to Loyd and Jane Warnick in Upland, CA. He is the youngest of 5 and I'm told that all of his older siblings adored him and between his mom and sisters he really had 4 mothers. He grew up moving back and forth a few times from CA to UT. He loved playing baseball growing up and has enjoyed coaching all of Logan's teams these past few years.

Jay graduated from Taylorsville High School, Ricks College (Journalism), and Utah State University with a degree in Horticulture. He served an LDS mission to Milwaulkee, Wisconsin. He spent the first 11 years of our marriage and his career as a fields director and groundskeeper for the University of Utah, BYU-ID, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Seattle Seahawks. (Hence all the moving). He now works for World Class Athletic Surfaces and sells the paint, stencils, and all to keep the games going.

Jay is such a wonderful person. He is a loyal friend and companion. He never says anything negative about anyone. He is a fantastic husband and father to our 4 children. He is always trying to figure out who needs a little help and has helped countless people with sprinklers, landscapes (both design and installation) and helped the masses move in and out of different neighborhoods (the joys of owning a truck). He sang in a quartet in our Salt Lake neighborhood for a year or so in 2000. He loves fly fishing and airplanes. If he has one unfulfilled dream in his life it is to be a pilot. He still has hopes of owning a motorcycle or an airplane...we'll see. His favorite color is green and he was recently called as the Elder's Quorum President in our new ward (they just split our huge ward).

There is a lot more to Jay than all of this, but I hope I hit some of the high points and you learned something new about him. We love him lots and hope he has a great day. Jay is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I am so thankful to be his wife. Happy Birthday Jay!