Together we sing!

Both and Audrey and Celeste love to sing and have been in choirs for the last 4 years.  In March 2011, their choirs came together to sing.  Here are the two songbirds (Audrey - Chief Kanim Middle School 8th grade choir and Celeste - Fall City Elementary 5th grade choir)

Celeste Rodriguez - Girl Scout

2011 was a fun year in Girl Scouts for Celeste.  She is with a great group of girls and leaders and they have a lot of fun.  Sadly the troop hasn't been as active this school year, but tweens do get older and find other things to occupy their time.  Here are some memorable moments from 2011.

Searching for snow...at Grandad and Grammy's

Well, we had to search, but we found snow!  We took a little trip to Redmond, OR to spend some time with Grandad and Grammy while Dad and Becky went to look at Utah State University.  You can tell this is old, because during this trip we found out Becky got accepted to BYU.  Now she had a decision to make...cougar or aggie?  Let's just say she made the right choice (not that I'm biased or anything).  She is now in her 1st year at BYU and loving every minute of it.  Sorry, Becky I know I was more than obnoxiouly persuasive last Winter.

 

 A hot chocolate morning for Natty and Sophia snuggling with Grandad and Grammy

 We love BINGO with Grandad and Grammy.  They have had this game for years and we love playing it every time we visit.

 Pick a good one, Grandad!

 We stayed at the Eagle Crest Resort near Grandad and Grammy's house and had a ton of fun playing in the snow, and swimming.  Tim and I even played a mean game of raquetball (I won of course!  Well, not really...Tim beat me wearing socks no less!  It was a sad day...)

 Our cousin Josh celebrated his 14th birthday while we were there.  Happy Birthday, Josh.  We are so glad we could be there to celebrate with you!

 Another fun pastime is card games.  Hearts and No Peeky were 2 favorites.  Ah, Becky...you always love to get your picture taken.  She is even wearing her Aggie sweatshirt.  I wonder if she wears that at BYU?

 Naptime!

We love Grammy!

Sophia's baptism pictures

It's hard to believe our little Sophia turned 8 last year and was baptized.  We are so proud of her and the choices she has made to follow her Savior.  Here are a few pics I took of her for her annoucement...she was a trooper...outside in December in short sleeves.  We love you, Sophia!

 

 

The 3 kings came!

Once again, The 3 Kings visited the Rodriguez household, bearing gifts to all little ones (and big ones) who left their shoes out the night before.  January of this year we awoke to this!  Thanks kings!

Christmas in Pennsylvania

We traveled back to PA last Christmas and oh the fun we had.  The best part was we had almost everyone together!  It was a Rodriguez reunion!

Pappy with Aeden.  "Who is this strange man I call Grandpa?"

Vanessa and Steve made the girls the cutest aprons and cookie mix for Christmas.  So creative!

Crazy Gionvanni!  It was so wonderful to see our cute grandkids!

We always love to hang out with Oliver.  We miss you!

Josh, Mia, Giovanni and Aeden.  Florida is so far away, it was wonderful to be with them.

 

FOUR GENERATIONS!

During out time in PA, we spent the afternoon with our wonderful friends, Louis and Fran in New York.  We had Aunt Fran's famous Eggplant Parmesan and she gave me her even more famous secret cheesecake recipe! 

We also stopped in to see the Peet family, our neighbors and great friends in Newfoundland.  We had dinner and had fun playing drums, wii sing along, and  air hocky. Oliver got his first strum on a banjo!

Sophia misses her best friend in PA, Makenna.  They had some fun times together.

Sophia is baptized in Honsedale, PA!

Grandpa and Gradma Worth came for the Baptism from Virginia! 

oh, the boring plane ride back home....

Natty kept herself occupied with all her goodies she packed in her bag.  We miss you Pennsylvania!

....no excuse

I am ashamed to say the family blog has fallen by the wayside.  I see my last post was about Christmas 2010 and here we are almost in November 2011!  Family is busy...my photography business is going great, but it leaves less time for family blogging.  Soon, business will slow down after the holidays and I'll have more time to catch up.  More to come...