March Madness!!

Hi Everyone!

It's been awhile since we've updated this but we have a bunch of pictures we wanted to show everyone and thought this would be the best way. We hope you enjoy the pictures of Jacob and Aaron's birthday parties (both the Logan and Las Vegas versions).

Jacob is recovering nicely from his surgery. We hope he'll be all back to normal by tomorrow. You'll have to call and let him tell you how the "Docta" removed his "Ad-di-noise."

We'll leave it at this for now and let you enjoy the pictures. Hope you're all doing well. Drop us a line or leave a comment here and let us know what you're up to! We just got our new furniture delivered so look for our house pics coming next week. We love you all.

Love,
The Laceys

Jacob's Birthday 2006

The night before Jacob's birthday we had some clowns from our new ward stop by to welcome us. Jacob was so excited and thought it was all for his birthday. They blew up balloons for the boys and sang "Happy Birthday!" It was great timing and Jacob still talks about those "Funny Clowns!"








They made snakes for the boys. Jacob spent no time in popping them!












This is a gourmet bundt cake from a famous bakery in Las Vegas that our Realtor dropped by. It was so delicious and so big, and again was conveniently delivered the day before Jacob's birthday. So after we sample a little, we re-frosted it, tossed on some sprinkles, and added a candle for Jacob's party.

Aaron's Birthday in Logan

This is Aaron's entire preschool class. They all came for his after-school birthday party. Even his teacher, Mrs. B.
A little Chicken Dance to get out some wiggles of this very active group of party-goers!
The only two girls at the party, Halli & Andie. Aren't they cute?

Party in Vegas!

Playing duck - duck - goose with a few of Aaron's new friends.



Aaron's much - anticipated puppy cake! His parents were under pressure to exactly replicate the picture Aaron had seen months ago! We had fun making together for our date night the night before.
Loads O' Loot! These kids sure know how to welcome a kid to the neighborhood.
Aaron got a Hot Kicks game, which Amy swears Jared & Nate would have played for hours as kids.

More presents...

Aaron got a cool Spiderman mask and sound effect gloves. He's got the alter - ego thing down now, as we don't know whether to address him as Aaron, "Peter Parker," or Spiderman. It seems to have given him super spider powers as he has been climbing all over everything, including his daily ritual of scaling the playhouse!
Aaron's very first Transformer! Paul & Jacob picked it out. You'll have to call Aaron to get all the details of this toy (please allow at least 30 minutes for a very animated discussion!). 

January Jibberish

Hi all,

Boy, it's been awhile since we've last posted. And boy, has a lot happened since then! I'm sure eveyone has heard that we're moving to Las Vegas so I won't bore you with all of that. We just wanted to get a quick update up along with some pictures and audio links.

Our trip to Seattle over Thanksgiving to visit Tammy and Steve was great (see picture collage below). They were great hosts and the boys had a blast. Jacob still talks at least once a day about "See-a-tel" and the space needle. We had a good time visiting with Matt and Tisha as well and seeing all the sites. We hope to make it back soon!

Christmas was great and the last two weeks have been a nice break from the regular routine of work. Although, we have been very busy getting things ready for the move and keeping the house all spit and polished for those that want to come see it. We're waiting to make further plans for a house in Vegas until ours sells so we can see what we'll have to put down on a house.

We made a goal this year of doing a better job of capturing our memories. Tonight we spent about an hour just recording the boys talking about themselves and what they're doing. Here's a clip of Aaron singing I Am a Child of God and one of Jacob just babbling about all sorts of things!

We've enjoyed our Indian summer this past month or so...it's been so nice here! We've had quite a bit of rain but it only started snowing this morning. I guess now that it's January winter will start showing it's cold side.

Amy and Mom Benson start their Broadway on Logan debut this week in the production of Little Women, a musical by Loganite Jay Richards. And on Amy's birthday (Thursday the 12th) no less! The music is beautiful and we're all excited to see it come to life on stage.

Well, that's about it. We hope you are all well and having a great start to this new year. We'll keep you posted on everything that happens with the move.

Love, Paul, Amy and the boyz...

Seattle Sights

Here are some of the pics we took on our trip to Seattle. A fun time was had by all!

(Click on the picture to see a bigger version of it)