Blodgett Bunch

Hoops and YoYo Christmas

2011-12-23T08:01:00.008-07:00

<>Me and Sarah had some fun making smile boxes. Here is one. Me and Sarah are excided for Christmas, and it is going to be a fun one. I am aware that it is busy at this time of year, and part of that is making christmas cards. If you are in such a situation , I would try making a smile box. It is so much easier than going through all that trouble, and it takes like five minutes to make. Well, enjoy! <>Emma And Sarah Hoops And YoYo Christmas

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Neighbor Cookies

2011-12-22T18:13:00.011-07:00

Dad had Emma Sarah and Whitney make a ton of treats to bring to the neighbors. It was Emma and Sarah's first day out of school too.

Sarah's 2nd Grade Program

2011-12-22T17:56:00.006-07:00

Sarah sang in her Cowboy Christmas Program at the Elementary School and Mom Dad Whitney and Seth went to watch. Emma helped to clean up chairs afterward, so the people who went got to see her too :)

Emma and Sarah Piano Recital

2011-12-22T16:03:00.007-07:00

Emma and Sarah had their year end piano recital. They both did a GREAT job!

Sarah's Christmas Smilebox

2011-12-22T09:52:00.002-07:00

Sarah made this smilebox in honor of Christmas! Please feel free to try the recipes :)

Free recipe card design made with Smilebox

Sarah's 8th Birthday

2011-12-21T17:46:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Sarah! You're 8, I can't believe it :)

She enjoyed her favorite meal, Yaki Soba.

Heavy heavy hangover thy poor head.

Sarah insisted that this was a jammy birthday party, nothin' better.

Getting ready for cake :)

We are sure glad Sarah's part of our family :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arizona Thanksgiving

2011-12-21T17:38:00.000-07:00

We went down to Phoenix for Thanksgiving and had Grandma's delicious home cookin'. Traditional favorites with all the fixins. Thanks you Mom! We had so much fun.

Grandpa, Whitney, and Sarah enjoying the sun.

Emma being herself :)

Four beautiful girls!

Hmmmm who do I look like?

The girls outside enjoying the desert.

The girls got to see this cool golf cart that came down the road. One of a kind.

November Birthday Party

2011-12-21T17:26:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to Amelia, Alex, Laura, and Crystal!

Lots of candles on that cake :)

Halloween Time

2011-11-15T20:23:00.000-07:00

Crystal is a whiz at making costumes. Here is Little Bo Peep and her Sheep.

Our friendly ghost Ben.

Cutest Witch ever, Becca.

Repunzel, repunzel let down your hair. Very clever hair-do Laura. It's our Princess Katie.

Here is our Traditional Frankenstein dinner.

Mysterious Zebra Sarah.

Whoa!

The happiest Astronaut, Emma.

Space girl.

Fall in Heber

2011-10-04T09:41:00.001-06:00

Meg this is for you. Here are some pictures of the yard today.

Ceramic Fun

2011-09-17T14:24:00.000-06:00

The girls and I went to one of those ceramic studios in Provo and made some fun stuff. Emma made the ice cream cone. Sarah made the cupcake, and I made the skeleton. We had a great time!

Summertime

2011-09-17T13:46:00.001-06:00

Summer went way too fast for us. Here are some of the things the girls did.

Emma learned to drive the little tractor and helped pick up all the branches from the trees after trimming.

Dad and the girls went camping in the backyard.

And watched the moon with Emma's binoculars

Sarah at the dog show. Charles dressed up as an E-wok.

Emma at the dog show. Daisy dressed up as a Hawiian Daisy girl. (That's suppose to be a daisy flower petals on her head.)

We went to the Cabin and the girls loved climbing on the rocks in the river.

Emma swinging

Sarah swinging

Mom and the girls at Mirror Lake

Girls looking at the fish in the stream.

The girls painted their own Halloween canvases. Sarah's is a Spider.

Emma's is a skeleton one. It is telling an involed love story between two skeletons, you will have to ask her.

Emma sporting her new clip-in feather in her hair.

2011-07-17T17:39:00.001-06:00

me and sar made a house . check it out!

Happy 4th of July!!

2011-07-11T12:06:00.005-06:00

The kids who live around came up for the Fourth of July. We had iffy weather and by fireworks time it was raining lightly. When has it ever rained on the 4th of July in Utah? First time I ever remember. Here are some pictures.

All the girls painted their fingernails and toenails red, white, and blue for the special day.

Baby Becca and those amazing eyes.

Grampa and his "I'm the bomb" angry birds shirt he got for Father's day.

Big Sara took out her elbow on the pool slide.

Having a swim party.

Grampa and Becca having fun in the pool.

Emma's proud of her nail job.

Sarah's froggie eyes.

Grampa and Amelia lovin' the water.

Big Sara, Emma, and Ben doing the strobe dance!

Katie and her sparkler.

Ben's a big boy now.

Emma had to have two.

Sarah being proud of her flame.

Matt not paying attention to what he's doing.

Sitting watching fireworks.

Big Sara (Alex and Crystal's foster daughter) recovered enough to enjoy sparklers. Check out that lovely orange bandage job Crystal did on her elbow.

Creative Crystal.

Lovely Larua!

Adorable Amelia!

June 26, 2011

2011-06-26T11:24:00.000-06:00

This week was finally a whole week of Summer weather. It was great! Of course our pool cover was broken and the hot tub wasn't working, but other than that it was a great week. Emma had her friend birthday party a month late because of the weather. Here are some pictures of the event.

They went swimming, but I didn't take any pictures of that because I have so many from previous years.

Emma has also decided she loves to cook. She's always making some concoction or another. She, Sarah, and her friend Calli decided they wanted to make brownies, but we didn't have any eggs, so she looked up on the internet a no egg brownie recipe and made them. This was the end result.

Here she is making some cookies and Sarah eating the dough.

Adios Elder Blodgett

2011-05-15T20:54:00.000-06:00

Wednesday this week we took Joe to the MTC. He is off on his mission to Oaxaca, Mexico. He has 8 weeks at the MTC to learn Spanish. I love the new drop off plan at the MTC, no time to cry; he's there, then he's gone.

We will miss him. He will be a great missionary.

If you want to follow Elder Blodgett on his mission, he has asked me to make a mission blog for him.

You will find it at elderblodgett.blogspot.com.

Mother's Day

2011-05-15T17:21:00.003-06:00

So this last couple of weeks have been great!! Megan and Cliff just happened to be coming back to Utah, so we called Whitney and she came up too. All 7 of my kids, and their kids here together for the last time for a couple of years. It was really fun. We took family pictures.

Awwwwwww

Baby Becca and Meggie

Alex, Crystal, Millie, and soon to be Lydia

Cute little Amelia June

How are things goin' Ben?

Matt, Laura, Ben, Katie, and Rebecca

Whitney, Joe, and Emma. Sarah was extremely ornery and wouldn't come take a pic.

Katie and the ducks

The whole fam.

After pictures we all went to eat at a Japanese Restaurant (of course).

What more could a mom and Granny ask for than this? Nothing I tell you!! I LOVE them all. They have all gone back home now and we won't be together for a long time. I miss them already.

Week of May 8 - 14th

2011-05-15T14:03:00.004-06:00

I lost my tooth can't you see! I've lost 6 now! i lost them on the morning he left. im sad because he left:( happy because i lost my tooth:) sarah

Week of May 8 - 14th

2011-05-15T13:37:00.003-06:00

ok. lets start on monday. after school, joe went to alexs to eat.he had left the crape maker out

on the drainboared. there must have been ants in the box he took from collage, beacause there were ants in the crape maker and below it. when sarahs crape was made she thought there was ant dust in it. next is tuesday. we had a good day that day . me,sar and joe. we woke up on wednesday, we were sad. we said bye and went to school. from emma.

BOB

2011-04-24T19:02:00.004-06:00

here we compare.

me and sarah were playing with our easter toys when we heard a knock at the door.it was roneys! they had a gigantic egg!!!it had chips and cheese and gum.we named it BOB. here are some pics!!

and a video!

HEY

2011-04-07T20:34:00.002-06:00

Hi!!! its emma with a new post. i just wanted to let you know how things are going. we are having a great year so far. easter is soon and so is megans b-day. happy birthday meg!!!

dog sculpture

2010-11-05T08:46:00.007-06:00

me and sarah made a sculpture. she did most of it. here is her whith it.

this is the whole thing.

this is the bottom.

we were inspiered by our puppys.

this is the head. - emma and sarah

Lost... then FOUND!

2010-10-22T18:51:00.001-06:00

Great news - Mom stopped by the animal shelter today and the dogs were THERE! They had been there the whole time but whoever Mom talked to (Dorks) didn't get it. So they are home again. The girls are very happy.

Grampa's Bad Eyes

2010-09-12T19:09:00.004-06:00

So no pictures, but this is a silly thing to happened to me today. Without Joe here I decided to make Parmesan Chicken today for dinner. I made a big batch and it looked great - I put it in the timed oven so it'd be ready after stake conference.

Got all excited to eat and I took my first bite and it was AWFUL - it was SUPER SUPER salty. Alex and Crystal and Millie were here and they were trying to be nice saying it wasn't that bad but it was awful. So I told grandma I said I can't imagine what I got wrong - there was a little bit of salt. But I put the whole amount of garlic salt - I said I put the entire 1/4 cup - in fact I doubled the recipe so I put 1/2 cup.

Grandma says I think it's like 1/4 teaspoon, not 1/4 cup. I said NO WAY - So I ran over to the computer to look at the recipe and sure enough it was supposed to be 1/4 teaspoon and I put in 1/2 CUP. My poor old eyes saw CUP instead of TSP.

I thought I could scrape off the top and eat the chicken but it had permeated the entire dish.

It was awful. But of course Alex trying to be nice ate a bunch and took the rest home.

Dad

Emma and Sarah First Day of School

2010-08-28T17:36:00.000-06:00

Emma and Sarah started school this past week on Thursday. Sarah's in first grade and Emma's in third grade. Here they were the morning of that first exciting day:

Two Fashionable Gals

Here are some close-ups of each:

Fancy Hairdo - Her hair stayed cute and curly ALL DAY LONG

She is SO CUTE!

Magpie Fire

2010-07-27T06:26:00.000-06:00

Here is the Magpie Hill fire by our house. Lightening struck here yesterday afternoon. Luckily the wind changed soon after this shot and turned it back on itself. It didn't last long, but it was cool.

New Big Family Table

2010-07-08T16:41:00.003-06:00

Our new table built by the Amish came today. It arrived in a big heavy crate. Took us a while to unpack it.

Here is Emma standing in front of it. I told Mom it's so nice we won't be able to eat on it. We decided to see what it would look like with all the leaves in it.First we stretched it out. Then we put the leaves in. It's pretty cool - they are all numbered so you don't put them in wrong. When it's done it's pretty awesome.

It's pretty big.

Nick came over to help me lift it into the house. It was very heavy.

We are excited for everyone to be here so we can test it out. But Mom's going to have to make a custom tablecloth. It's too wide and WAY too long for anything we have.

Field Day

2010-05-29T12:07:00.002-06:00

So Matt and Laura drove me to the airport to leave Wisconsin. I had to change planes in Chicago. I got to the gate, and the plane and was late. Finally they got us all loaded on the plane and surprise they had mechanical problems. We all sat in the plane for two hours while they kept saying it's just going to be a few more minutes. Finally they came over the speaker and said they had a penalty because of the problem and they were over weight and because of safety regulations they didn't have enough gas to get to Salt Lake with the head winds with the weight they had. So they asked for volunteers to get off the plane. If no one volunteered they would just randomly start picking seat #'s who would have to get off. I thought hmmmmm do I want to fly on a plane that may not have enough gas to get home? Hmmmmm I guess not. So I volunteered to get off. The airlines paid for a hotel that night and I got a different flight the next morning.

So I had to get up at 5:00 Chicago time, 4:00 our time to make it to the airport when they said we should be there. Unfortunately the shuttle never showed up and around 7:00 they finally paid for a cab for me to get to the airport. So it was a race to make the plane on time. Luckily I did. Then I just barely get off the plane, and Ernie calls and said I need to hurry and go eat lunch with Emma for field day at her school. I made it to the school, but too late for me to get lunch. I did get to sit by Emma and watch her finish her lunch. Then we went outside for field day. Soon Sarah came to school and it was her field day too. It was great fun, but the wind was crazy crazy. Here are some pictures of field day.

This was Emma's field day.

Here is Sarah's field day.

Ok, so this lady in the picture above with her head cut off, comes up to me and says, "are you Sarah's mom?" I say yes of course. She says "I have substituted for Sarah's class a couple of times and every time I see Sarah I want to call her Ginny." I said "Ginny who?" She laughs and said, "Ginny Weasly from Harry Potter, she looks just like her." I laughed, but when I got home I looked up Ginny on the internet and you know what, she does look like her.

You decide for yourself and tell me what you think.

Wisconsin

2010-05-29T10:52:00.000-06:00

Last Monday Matt and Dad left for for Wisconsin to take Matt and Laura's stuff. Wednesday Laura, Ben, Katie and I left to fly out and meet Matt in Wisconsin. It was alot of fun.

Here are some pictures of their house where they will be living for the summer while Matt is doing an internship for Lands End.

It is a really rural place. In their back yard are just miles of newly planted corn fields. When they get tall it's going to be like a cool maze. We saw squirrels and rabbits and lots of birds from their back porch.

Here is the kitchen.

Here's the family room. It's really a good sized place. They are going to have quite an adventure!!

Dandelion fields forever . . .

2010-05-18T17:30:00.000-06:00

These are the horse fields at our house. Right now they are covered in dandelions. I know they are weeds, but I can't help thinking they are beautiful when in bloom like this. Every couple of years we have to spray for weeds in the fields. It looks like next year will have to be one of those years. For now I will just enjoy the spring show. In another week they will all be gone and the Grandkids and little kids can go out and enjoy blowing seeds everywhere.

Disaster Dinner

2010-05-15T18:04:00.005-06:00

So we had a good day today - we cleaned out both garages and cleaned the house. Things were running smoothly until dinner time.

The plan was to have Pepper Steak. I cut up and browned the round steak and the onions. Then I realized I had forgotten stewed tomatoes. Plus Mom forgot she was supposed to take dinner to somebody and needed a salad. So I ran to the store to get the tomatoes and the salad stuff. While I was gone I left the pepper steak to cook and asked Mom to watch it.

When I got home I opened the pan and it was BURNT TO A CRISP. "Sorry" they all said as we gave Jake a nicely cut up meal.

So then we had to decide what to have - we had some chicken so we decided sweet and sour chicken. Joe helpfully jumped in to make the sauce. He kept asking me ingredients and portions while I browned the chicken and peppers. He got to the vinegar (the last ingredient) and we were down to literally our last drop - he was 1/8 tsp short, but it would be fine. He went to put it on the stove and I said, Joe it doesn't look right - it's all bubbly. He said "Well it had calmed down but when I put the vinegar in it reacted with the BAKING SODA!" He stopped, realizing right then the mistake he had made. He had made the same concotion used to erupt Mount Emma.
But since Joe was running down to Sister Lee's to take the salad to go with her dinner to somebody in the ward, he figured he'd just borrow some vinegar, since we had another can of pineapples, etc.

So Joe gets back and has a plastic cup of 'vinegar'. He smells it (fortunately) before he puts it in and says "This doesn't smell right" - He dips his finger in and tastes it "This doesn't taste right" - THEN HE TAKES A DRINK OF IT. "It's Water!" he says. So somehow Sister Lee got mixed up and gave him a little cup of water instead of vinegar.

So we ended up using some Apple Cider vinegar we had - and HOPEFULLY we all wont' get sick. What an adventure!

Pancake Shapes

2010-05-09T09:27:00.003-06:00

We have always tried to make different shapes when we make pancakes. Mickey and Minnie Mouse are popular. However, this morning I just poured a glob on the griddle for Sarah. Joe noticed and said "if you added a beak and legs it could be the pigeon" (from the Pigeon books). So I did. I think it turned out pretty well. Sarah devoured the 'pigeon'. "Don't let the Pigeon eat the pancake!"

Spring Break

2010-04-19T14:24:00.002-06:00

For Spring Break we went down south in Grandpa and Grandma's fifth wheel trailer. It was fun. We had a few unexpected problems, but it all worked out ok and we still got some fun in the sun.

We went to a place called Sand Hollow. It is only about 15 minutes from St. George.

Here we are diggin in the sand.

Joe dug an enormous hole for the heck of it.

Here are the girls in it.

We rented a rhino. This was Ernie's favorite part. We don't have a picture of him in it though as he was taking all the pictures. Ernie, Whitney and I went for a rhino ride and got lost. Poor Joe was back at the trailer with both girls waiting for us. The sand dunes went for miles and miles straight up in the mountains. It was pretty incredible.

We drove up into the hills to have a picnic lunch. Here are Joe and the girls waiting for us to bring the food. We had to take two trips in the rhino.

Here are the girls at the lake. Looks like they are throwing sand at Whitney.

The lake was pretty warm. You know it had to be to have Ernie get in. The temperature was just about the same as Bear Lake in August. I would love to go back sometime in the summer, I bet it would be the perfect temp. for me.

Emma got buried up to her waist. She was standing up in this picture. It was no easy feat to get her out either. All in all is was a great vacation. We had a blast. This is a place I would love to go to again on vacation.

Joe's FBLA firetruck ride

2010-04-19T13:18:00.000-06:00

Wasatch's FBLA chapter took first at State this year.

Every time they take state they get a ride down main street on a fire truck.

Here's Joe riding in the back.

He took 3 first place, and placed in the top 4 of the 10 events he competed in.

I don't remeber how many seconds and thirds places.

Ernie, the girls and I went to watch the fire truck go up and down main street and take pictures.

The girls were so excited to see Joe when he got off the truck!

2010-03-29T16:05:00.000-06:00

We went to Aunt JoAnne's house for the annual Blodgett Easter Egg Hunt.

Here are the girls with the Easter Bunny!

Emma said to me, "Mom, I know a guy dressed up like a bunny when I see one".

Oh dear!

Ready set go!

Cute Shots of the girls.

Alex, Crystal, and Amelia were the only other members of our family who could come.

Cule little Millie and her egg adventure.

What a doll!

Joseph Region FBLA

2010-03-03T16:21:00.001-07:00

I am loading a copy of the article in today's newspaper about the local FBLA. Joseph did well.

Ice Skating Fun

2010-02-26T16:35:00.001-07:00

Emma got to go on a school field trip to the Midway ice skating rink.

She was having a blast. She was doing great. She had a few tumbles, but there was always someone to help her up.

Here she is with her friends Callie and Bailey. What cute girls!

Pulling Teeth

2010-02-26T11:48:00.002-07:00

Sarah went to see Dr. Ellis, a pediatric dentist, on Tuesday to get her two bottom front teeth pulled. out.
This is right when she came home. She was given 'sleepy juice' at the dentist and she was really out of it. She kept trying to walk and falling down. She got really mad at us when we wouldn't let her walk on her own.

Here is a picture a little while later with her holes in her mouth. Sarah had shark teeth. Meaning her big teeth were coming in behind her baby teeth.

This is a while later. You can see her big tooth is moving forward. Yay! Her other one is just coming in.

Haircut Day

2010-02-08T18:00:00.001-07:00

While Ernie is out of town, we went to get the girls haircut. They both look great!

Sarah's front shot.

Here is the back shot of Sarah's hair. Her hair is getting soooo long. Wish I knew how to turn this picture. I think you have to do it before you upload it. Sorry.

Here is Emma's front shot. She cut it really short.

Here is the back shot of Emma's hair. She thinks it looks just like Meg's hair.
It certainly is bright.

Emma in NewsPaper

2010-01-20T17:24:00.002-07:00

Emma was in the Local Newspaper, the Wave today. She is pretty excited

Joe's Wreck

2010-01-04T18:42:00.012-07:00

Joe and I went down to the wrecking yard to get the stuff out of his car - most of it was in his trunk. It was the first time either of us had seen the damage up close. It is a miracle they are alive. I'm not going to comment on the photos - just enjoy.

This is Joe's Door

Christmas Eve Visit from Reindeer!

2009-12-24T08:23:00.002-07:00

This morning Mom and I were out in the kitchen, and Emma and Sarah were in our room. All of a sudden we heard them shrieking and yelling. They came running in telling us their were "reindeer in our front yard". I grabbed my camera and Mom and I went in to the room, and sure enough, there were 4 'reindeer' out in our front yard, eating Mom's rosebushes. Two of them even had antlers.

The fourth one seemed to be the oldest (at least with the biggest antlers). He seemed to not be doing much eating - just watching out for the others. He was the only one who seemed to be watching us.Emma and Sarah were pretty excited. They were convinced these are four of Santa's reindeer. They had figured out the names for all of them. We were surprised that Jake didn't freak out. He obviously was too cold in the garage and didn't hear them (Nice watch dog). Mom actually let him in the house so he didn't disturb them so we could keep watching them. They moved across the yard toward the field.Eventually the big watcher wandered over to the side fence and then hopped over the fence.One of the others hopped the fence, but the other two (maybe the younger?) went down to the driveway and around. By now I went outside to get pictures and they took off bouncing across the field. Emma and Sarah were freaking out at how they 'flew' across the field.So it was a pretty exciting morning with a couple of Christmas Eve visits from Santa's reindeer. I guess they're just prepping for their visit tonight!

Emma's First Piano Recital

2009-12-21T19:36:00.002-07:00

Tonight, Emma played in her first piano recital. It was at the Nursing Home in Heber. She dressed nicely and did a great job. She played "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".

Before she was just a little bit nervous.

She is introducing herself and her song.

Here she is playing her song. She did so good!

Glad to be done!

GREAT JOB EMMA!

Emma's School Christmas Concert

2009-12-21T19:29:00.002-07:00

Emma sang in her school 2nd grade Christmas concert last week. It was a 'cowboy christmas' so they were all dressed up like cowboys. She sang every song, and roasted marshmallows over a campfire for one of the songs. Here are some photos from the event.

Heading to the campfire

Roasting marshmallows

All Done!

Because Sarah is in afternoon kindergarten, she was there watching with her class while we were. Here are a couple of photos of her:

Motorcycling Guinea Pig

2009-12-07T16:15:00.002-07:00

Today Sarah decided she wanted to play with two of her birthday presents: Her guinea pig and her remote control motorcycle (made for dolls). The only funny thing was she decided to play with them TOGETHER. This was the result:

This is not a doctored up picture. The guinea pig actually sat on the motorcycle for a long time - long enough for us to laugh at it and then get the camera and take a few pictures. Pretty funny.

Sarah's Birthday

2009-12-07T16:06:00.005-07:00

Sarah had a fun birthday. She is so cute. She turned 6 on December 5th. Her hair is getting so long. Hard to believe our baby is now 6 years old.

First in the morning she had a party with several of her friends. Joseph played "Don't eat Pete" with them. They all had a good time.

Then in the evening we had a family birthday party. Megan and Cliff and Nick and Whitney came up.

We had yaki-soba that Cliff made and then we all enjoyed Sarah's "My Little Pony" cake. I think we were singing to her in this picture.

It was a very fun day. Then today (Monday) she went to school with Lisa and had her school birthday festivities. It's so fun to celebrate birthdays. At least until you get old. Then it's only fun if your family's around and you can put a LOT of candles on your cake.

Chocolatey Faces

2009-12-03T11:56:00.006-07:00

Last night Matt, Ben and Katie came up for a quick visit. Ben helped Dad and Grampa, and Katie played with Emma and Sarah. After they helped us do some stuff, we had a quick ice cream treat before they left.

I got a kick out of Ben after he finished his ice cream with his spoon, it wasn't enough, so he went for the 'drain the chocolate directly into my mouth' approach:

He was so proud of his chocolate moustache. It cracked me up - I had put my camera away, but he was definitely posing for the picture, so I HAD to get it back out:

He loves his grampa.

Katie was so cute - she had a little clip in her hair.

And of course she had her own chocolatey mouth.

And never forget, she LOVES her grampa.

(Last night she was actually loving her granny also).

Sarah's New Pet

2009-12-01T17:10:00.002-07:00

For Sarah's birthday she has wanted a Guinea Pig for a year (or more). We decided to go down to Provo and pick up her new pet. She was SO excited. Emma went with us to the store so she could look at the Parakeets, since that is what she wants to ask Santa for. She settled on the light blue ones. So hopefully Santa can bring her that (if she's good).

Sarah's Guinea Pig is a boy and he has already had a lot of names. Not sure which one is going to stick, but they included Tiny, Bugsy, Ginger, and probably a few others I don't remember. But she loves to pet him.

He is a very nice pet - very calm. He has a nice little cage that sits on top of Sarah's desk and she has to feed and change his water every day. She fed him carrots this morning.

The first thing she did when she got home from school was go get him out of his cage and hold him some more. Then she and Emma had to go feed Ben the horse so she put him back. But she has him again as I'm typing this. Mom's kind of tolerating it. Having a big rodent in the house on purpose.

November - December Birthday Party

2009-12-01T17:00:00.004-07:00

On Sunday night we celebrated all the birthdays from November and December. It was fun to have EVERYONE here, including all the birthday people.

Cliff and Emma - these two sure are silly.

This picture shows us all blowing out the candles. We ended up putting 179 candles on the cake, since that's what all our ages add up to. The birthdayers included Grampa, Cliff, Nick, Alex, Crystal, Laura, Sarah and Amelia. We all blew out the forest fire together.

We were singing happy birthday. Sarah was closing her ears because she was afraid of the big fire that was on the cake.

The lighters - it took an entire team to get them lit. We ended up bunching the candles together to get them all to fit.

Laura, one of the birthdayers and cute little Katie. Katie loves her grampa.

Cute little Ben. Ben loves his grampa.

There is the cake. We got all the names on the cake. When I was typing up the names I typed "Cliffinator" and then when I got to the store the lady didn't speak very good English so she asked for the paper - I had to give it to her. I tried to explain "Cliff" but it obviously didn't come across - so he was the Cliffinator on the cake.

Cute little granny. She loves grampa.

The newlyweds.

The other newlyweds.

A closer view of the cake.

She loves her grampa. And she sure is cute.

Little Amelia enjoyed her first birthday party. She loves her grampa too.

Decorating our Christmas Tree

2009-11-28T10:18:00.006-07:00

This morning was like a preview of Christmas Morning. Mom had told Emma and Sarah they could put up Christmas Decorations today, so they were both up at the crack of dawn - counting down the seconds until it was time to break out the decorations.

Joe and I carried up the tree. For a change this year, Grandma wanted to put it in the 'nook' where the table normally is. We all like it a lot there. This may be its new home. Joe, Emma and Sarah spent some significant time decorating the tree. Joe realized this may well be his last time home decorating the tree. Next year at this time he'll be a freshman at BYU and then for the next two Christmases he will be on a mission. Exciting times.

Emma's going to write comments between the pictures.

today we put up the christmas tree. me,joe,and sarah decorated it.

we decided that we would make it difrent this year.

it was fun.

Amelia's First Visit to Grampa's

2009-11-28T10:08:00.003-07:00

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving everyone came to Grampa's. The most significant guest was Amelia- since it was her first visit to Heber in her LIFE! She was a sleepy girl, but woke up just before she went home for pictures.

It was so fun to have everyone here. Looking forward to seeing them more during Christmastime.

Full Moon

2009-11-02T17:49:00.002-07:00

So just now I was cooking dinner and all of a sudden I hear howling from Emma and Sarah. They came running in to the kitchen howling and yelling "FULL MOON, FULL MOON". They were howling at the moon! So I had to take a few pictures of the werewolves and their moon.

Sarah's not too happy here with the photo.

Sarah wouldn't come outside.

These are Emma's comments:

it is a FULL MOON!!!!! we took a bunch of pictcers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i was the only one who went out side!!!!!!!

Funny Sarah

2009-10-05T19:42:00.001-06:00

So just now Sarah was helping me take my socks off, and she saw a big scab on my shin. She commented on it and I told her that Mom keeps wanting to tear off the scab. She said "Yeah, you have to be careful around her."

Made me laugh.

Dad

September Snow

2009-09-30T17:35:00.002-06:00

It started snowing about a half hour ago. It's really coming down now. Emma and Sarah just came back in eating snow.

Wasatch has a home game tonight - Joe has to play in the band. Snowy and cold. Odd for September.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Emma and Sarah's Great Halloween Decoration Put-Up

2009-09-28T19:50:00.003-06:00

today we put up the halloween decorations. and the new ones were cool!

Painting Pumpkins for Family Night

2009-09-28T19:31:00.003-06:00

So tonight for family night, after our lesson, Mom had everyone paint pumpkins.

Joseph started with a pattern, then abandoned it. He free-handed his pumpkin, who he named 'Pierre'.Emma Painted a cute skeleton on her pumpkin.

Sarah painted a scary Frankenstein on hers. She calls him 'Frank'.

Here's our little family painting pumpkins.

Mom of course had the most artistic one of all - a witch.

It's not even October and today Mom and Emma and Sarah put up all the Halloween decorations. Sarah is as much of a Halloween nut as Mom is.

Fun Fun Fun.

Dad

BYU Disaster

2009-09-20T18:09:00.002-06:00

I have no photos to record yesterday's awful BYU game - needless to say it was very depressing. We all left before the 3rd quarter had ended, and it got worse after we left. But today is a new day and my theory is that since it was SO awful, it will be easier (hopefully) to forget and move on. So much for national championship hopes - that was probably a dream anyway. The reality is that Florida State was just MUCH better than BYU yesterday. At least we can hope for a Las Vegas bowl again...

Dad

Sarah's First Day of Kindergarten

2009-09-12T12:14:00.001-06:00

Friday Sarah went to her first day of Kindergarten. The night before we went to the back-to-school night and she saw her class.

Her teacher is the same teacher Emma had in Kindergarten, Mrs. Palmer. We really like Mrs. Palmer. Sarah ended up doing her 'test' with Mrs. Palmer so she had already met her the week before.

She was very excited to go off to school. She had a cute hairdo and her cool new backpack ready to go.

Emma was a BIG sister and went down to Sarah's class after school and retrieved her AND Gracie Hemeyer and shepherded them to the bus. Sarah was so excited to ride the bus. When they got off and I was out there to give them a ride, Sarah decided she wanted to WALK home from the bus stop - so she and Emma did.

It was a great first day - and she's excited to go back next week.

Dad

Mom and Dad Anniversary Golf Game

2009-09-12T12:09:00.004-06:00

For our anniversary Mom wanted to go golfing. So we snuck over to Wasatch and golfed at the end of the day. We were supposed to go 9 holes, but the guy told us to keep going through 14. So we did. Here's Mom in the cart.

Considering how long (probably like 7 years) it's been since Mom golfed, she did amazingly well. Enough she liked it and wants to go back again.

Of course Mom didn't have to bribe me too hard to golf. It gave me the golf bug.

Dad

Mom and Dad Anniversary Horse Ride

2009-09-09T18:02:00.003-06:00

Shock of shocks - Mom decided that for our 27th Anniversary on Monday she wanted to go on a horse ride. We also ended up golfing and going to dinner. So we had one of the kids' "Day Dates". It was very nice.

We took Ben (the horse) and one of Bob G's horses he let us borrow.

What a hot chickie!

We trailered the horses over to Midway and went up into Dutch Hollow. Here we are getting ready to ride.

This is the Bob horse we borrowed - he was very well mannered and had a fast walk.

Mom rode Ben (the Horse). Unfortunately Ben likes to trot instead of walk fast and the result was Mom was VERY sore the next day (and the next). I think she's finally recovering now but she still had fun (I hope).

We rode up the mountain a way and went to "Heber View Overlook" so we could see the whole valley. It looks more hazy in these pictures than it was - it was a spectactular day and near perfect weather.

There's my cute little chickie again... Although she doesn't look too happy in the picture. Maybe she was starting to feel the soreness.

The Fat Cowboy

Just to make sure you didn't think we walked the whole time, here's a shot of Mom riding:

And the Fat Cowboy again:

About the time we were turning back to the trailer, we decided to call Joseph and had him bring Emma and Sarah and come to the trailhead. So we could take them all on a ride. Mom stayed in the truck and read while Joe and I took Emma and Sarah out on a little loop.

All in all it was a VERY fun morning - then we all went to the Dairy Keen for lunch.

The golf game will be a separate post.

Dad

Emma's First Day of School

2009-09-09T17:59:00.002-06:00

A week ago, on Tuesday, the first, it was Emma's first day of Second Grade. Her teacher is Mr. Neal. We went to the school the night before so she could meet her teacher and her classmates. She found that a new girl that moved into our ward this summer is in her class and sits right next to her.

Emma looked so cute on her first day.

Unfortunately she got sick the next day and missed both Wednesday and Thursday. But she's all better now and is enjoying her class.

Yesterday, while Mom was school shopping with Sarah, I went over to school and ate lunch with Emma. I had tacos and she ate an enchilada. It was a good time.

Bike Ride Down Provo Canyon

2009-09-08T17:40:00.005-06:00

I didn't finish up the Yellowstone trip - if I get more time I will do that later (or have Mom do it). I need to get current so I can remember current events.

A couple of weeks ago Emma, Sarah, Joseph, Mom and I went on a bike ride in Provo Canyon. We started up at Vivian Park and rode down to Bridal Veil falls.

Sarah was ready to go.

The only camera I had was my iPhone so these photos aren't the best. It was a fun ride.

This was the only picture I got of Mom riding. She was riding by me.

My bike's handlebars were very loose so it was a wild ride down for me. A couple of times I had to stop and pound them back into place with a rock.

The girls really enjoyed playing in the water at the bottom of the falls.

And then after the ride they played on the jungle gym back up at Vivian Park.

Yellowstone Trip

2009-09-07T15:21:00.011-06:00

Mom, Emma, Sarah and I went up to Yellowstone for a trip after all the wedding festivities. We left on Wednesday night and drove up to Star Valley. We arrived late, like midnight, and missed the turn to our cabin and drove WAY up this canyon dirt road - finally we realized after about 20 minutes of driving we had missed it, so we turned around and went back down. But finally we found our cabin. It was a very cool place.

The next day we drove up through Jackson on our way to Yellowstone. We stopped in Jackson for lunch.

We drove through Yellowstone - we had to stop because there were buffalo crossing the road.

We stopped at Jackson Lake and went out on a boat cruise - it was a little too LONG for the girls, and it was unusually hot. When we were outside it was fine.

We stopped to look at some cool waterfalls.

We stayed at West Yellowstone that night. The next morning we ate breakfast at a "Hub"-like place and across the street they had these painted buffaloes. They were VERY cool

This BLOG is a pain - so I'm going to POST this and add more later.

Dad

Grandma and Grandpa Blodgett's 60th Wedding Party

2009-08-11T15:46:00.018-06:00

This is a picture the night before the party when a crazy storm blew in. We had chairs rolling across the yard and tree limbs down all over the place. It was wild. The picture doesn't really show how nuts it was. I haven't seen a storm like this one in alot of years here.

Before alot of the guests came, Lynn wanted to take a family picture. Here is almost everyone. Ernie and Lynn are missing as they were setting up Lynn's camera.

Grandma and Grandpa
Happy 60th!!

People having lunch in the back yard.

We had live music. Ernie's cousin and his son were playing for us. They were really good. Lots of fun.

The morning of the party, we woke up and checked the pool and the heat had been turned off. I think when the power went out from the storm it turned the heat off or something. Anyway the water was pretty cold. The kids didn't seem to care, they got in anyway.

Later there was some trampoline competitions. I don't have the pictures of the heavy duty competitors, but it was fun.

Of course what would a Blodgett get together be without the dry ice bombs?

Swimming and Haircuts

2009-08-04T21:20:00.008-06:00

Tonight Matt, Laura, Ben and Katie came over to the house so Ben could get his haircut by Granny.

While the haircut was going on, Matt and Katie went swimming.

Katie loves the water. She was only serious when she'd look at me for a picture. The rest of the time she was splashing around.

She's a pretty serious child. She makes me laugh.

Ben is the cutest little guy - what a good natured little boy. He was trying to smile with his fake smile, then his mom was telling him to say ice cream or something - that made him laugh and we got this photo.

Soon Emma and Sarah joined the swimming.

Emma is quite a little fish. She can swim all over the place and jump off the diving board all by herself.

Sarah is also a good swimmer. There are so many times when she has an Alex face, but this isn't one of them.

Here's the little boy - final product. He was trying hard to smile without his fake smile.

What a kid.

Whitney and Nick's Wedding

2009-08-04T15:06:00.003-06:00

I love this picture of my Grandson, Ben!! He was out watching the truck destruction in his bare feet, eating an oreo.

Here the kids are decorating Nick's beloved truck!

This is the yard after everyone left.

Here's the cake smash!

The happy couple!

Ok, so I learned that you do the lst picture last and the last picture first. Whit and Nick wanted their reception in the back yard at our house. Here is the whole family. We will add 4 new members to our family in 2009. Laura and Matt had a new baby in March, Katie. Nick is now our newest son. Cliff Parkinson is going to marry our daughter Megan in a couple of weeks, and Crystal and Alex are expecting a little girl in November. We are growing fast! We need a new kitchen table!!!!!

Our daughter Whitney got married a couple of weeks ago, on July 17, 2009. She married Nick Jorgensen who lived in our ward. Whitney is our 4th child and our 2nd daughter. They got married in the Mount Timpangos Temple. It was a great day, but super hot.

Ernie and Lisa Forever

2009-08-04T13:24:00.001-06:00

I really am not a fan of scrapbooks. When my children grow up and leave home, I just hand them their life in a box. Too much work and time.

I really do enjoy reading other peoples blogs, so I decided I will try this thing digitally. Much easier and no glue involved.

So to start, Ernie's sister Jill is doing a book for Ernie's parents 60th wedding anniversary. (Which by the way is at our house this week) We had to find a wedding picture of ourselves. Here is Ernie's and mine at the Jordan River Temple almost 27 years ago.

This started our family, The Ernie and Lisa Blodgett family. We have 7 beautiful children and 2 almost 3 grandchildren. Sometimes it seems like we have been married forever, and sometimes it seems like we are just starting. When I look at this picture, I realize how young we were and how lucky we have been. Life is good and the journey so far has been fun. We are no longer young, but we both feel just the same as we did then, (it's funny how that works). Of course we don't look the same, and sometimes it suprises us what we see in the mirror or in pictures of ourselves. So I think I'll start our blog with us as we see and feel ourselves to be, The Young Blodgetts!