Sochi 2014 Here We Come!

A few weeks ago, we attended our first training session for our 2014 Winter Olympic Curling team ;)  I have to say, Curling is WAY harder than it looks, not one of my best sports that's for sure!

such concentration

Our Curling Coach was very intense, she did take a liking to me however and commented on the awesome "penguin dive" when I released the stone  (basically a nicer way of saying that my belly flop onto the ice wasn't really going to work if we wanted to win).

A Trip Down South

We took advantage of the long weekend and headed to St. George with our friends, the Jones and Mortensen's.  We had a blast just hangin' with good company, got some good grub, and a ton of laughs. The boys were able to get a few rounds of golf in while the rest of us hiked around Snow Canyon.  We even got a day in at Vegas! 

 Thanks to Molly for these pictures, I didn't take my camera out once.
Best Buds!  Franklyn was a good sport and didn't mind getting his hair pulled by Eli

Thanks Granny B for letting us borrow the mini-van!

Happy Valentine's Day

Christmas 2010

Better late than never. . .

We had an awesome Christmas season full of parties, get togethers, family and friends. 

The Traditional Ugly Sweaters!

Best Buds!  Little Owen, Little Mortensen, Little Jones, and Little Whitchurch

Christmas Spectacular with the Rocket's

Our WARD PARTY. . . Zach was asked to be a Roman Soldier!

Our Angel

Christmas Eve Dinner at Granny B's

Christmas Morning

Eli Meets Santa!

We went to our neighborhood "Breakfast with Santa" and Eli got to meet Santa for the first time!  It went better than I would have expected, but you can see Eli's train of thought in the photos we snapped.

So far, so good.  Eli is given a candy cane and ready to tell Santa that he has been a good boy this year

 Soon, he realizes that there is a bunch of kids laughing and looking at him so he gets a little nervous

 And finally the crying begins.  Santa sure looks anxious to give him back to mom.

Can't wait til next year!

Let The Battle End

Well, once again we made it through November!  November brings many things to the Whitchurch home - our wedding anniversary, cold weather, Thanksgiving, etc. However, around here it also means football . . and more importantly, the Holy War!  The war between good and Utah.  This means the beginning of cat fights, snide comments, 8 hours of football every Saturday (thank heaven for bye weeks), I could go on and on.

I grew up going to BYU football games. Every Saturday, BYU football was on TV. Papa Burton has had season tickets for who knows how long and one of the first songs I ever learned was the BYU fight song. Zach on the other hand literally grew up feet from the University of Utah. The Whitchurch Family lives, breathes, and sleeps Utah football.  Now that we have a son, our passion for our teams seemed to be escalated even more.  We are anxiously awaiting the day when Eli is able to decide for himself which school he will cheer for.

         When Zach gets Eli dressed                          When I get Eli dressed

 This is what we decided on for Saturday's game. . .  and look how happy he looks. 

So farewell to the last ‘real’ season of the BYU/Utah rivalry in the Whitchurch abode.  Although they will still be playing each other, it won't be quite the same. . .It's probably a good thing!