Howard Legrand Lamb - March 2015

My Grandpa Lamb died in March.  Darrell and I had the opportunity to go to the funeral in the valley.  Although funerals are a sad time, they are also a good time because of the reuniting with family.  

This is a picture with my dad and his siblings.

These are then and now pictures:)  This is all the Lamb cousins many years ago (minus a few who were not yet born).  I'm in the front row 3rd from the right, holding my little brother Nick.  Brother Brett just to the left of both of us.  My sister Stephanie being held by my mom in the next row above Brett.  My dad is in the middle on the top row.  My youngest brother Brandon is not yet born in this picture.

These are all the cousins now (minus one who lives in Hawaii and couldn't come).  I don't think we have all been together like this in many many years.  It was fun to get a picture with everyone.

Valley Trip - March 2015

We went to the valley to visit in March.  We played with family and even got to see Great-Grandma Ford.  We went to the park and a movie during the visit.  The cousins had fun together.

These pictures are from visiting Cabella's.  Living in Snowflake our kids have been "deprived" of all the big city stores.  They love to see all the animals at Cabella's and watch the fish.

This picture was taken after watching Cinderella at the movie theater with cousins.  

Derek found some scrap styrofoam at Grandma Lamb's house and built what he called the "Peoria Arizona Temple."  Yes...very creative.

Derek's 10th Birthday - March 2015

I can hardly believe Derek is 10!!  Where has the time gone?  It hit me that he will be living in our house less time than he already has...nuts!

These are pictures from his quaint birthday party...a few cousins.  They enjoyed some outdoor fun, pizza, and cake.

His birthday cake of choice was sheet cake.  A corner of it is missing because earlier in the day the Sister missionaries had dropped by and Derek shared with them.  It's hard to tell in this picture, but the candles are being propped up by toothpicks.  I mean really...who invited those.  A huge candle with a tiny stub to stick in the cake...does not work!

New Years Eve 2014

We decided to have a New Years Eve part this year.  Of course my well laid plan didn't go exactly as I expected, but we still had a lot of fun.  First we made and decorated sugar cookies.

This idea I found on Pinterest.  You take your leftover wrapping paper and make a huge ball with prizes wrapped throughout.  Each person takes turns ripping into the paper while another person rolls a dice.  When the dice lands on a certain number the dice and ball pass.  It ended too quickly...should have used more tape:)

We then played some minute to win it games.  This game involved putting a pair of panty hose on your head with a ball in one leg.  You then try to hit over as many cups as you can.  It was quite entertaining to watch.

It snowed so of course we too a break to play in the snow...no shoes of course for the kids...I mean snow isn't cold or anything...right?

This game was keeping a balloon in the air with a fly swatter.

Of course what is a new year's party without party hats:)  Emily was upset because she didn't win the fancy hat Derek is wearing.

Darrell was the only one who was able to finish this game.  The object was to get all the cups to stack together as you pull out the notecards.  I was quite impressed:)

Christmas 2014

This is a collection of pictures from various activities during the Christmas season

Grandma and Grandpa Brimhall took all but the very youngest of the cousins to the grand canyon on Christmas Eve.  They stopped to have breakfast at I-hop.  They had a very fun filled day.

Dance in Gary & Sarah's garage:

Romeo and Juliet a production put on by the kids.  Emily was Juliet, Daralyn was Romeo, and Sarah was the priest (I think that's what she was).

Also on Christmas Eve we dressed up as shepherds to look for baby Jesus.

And of course Christmas morning.  We had Aunt Becky, Uncle James, and Uncle John with us on Christmas morning, so that was fun.  Derek passed out gifts and saved all of his for the very end so he could open them all at once