Marsh Madness

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter

Marsh Kids 2013

These guys are growing up right before our eyes! I can hardly believe these are my babies! I love them so much! They are each such wonderful, smart, and good individuals. I am so lucky to be their mom. I am very thankful.

Chloe

Ellie

Ren

MaryJane

Porter

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

4th Grade Recorder Concert

MJ and all the 4th graders are learning to play the recorder. The concert was really fun and cute. But... you can imagine 100+ nine year olds playing the recorder in 'unison'. Even at home we encourage her to practice in her room with the door closed! And she sounds pretty good!

MJ got the special honor of playing one of the xylophone parts. She didn't tell me before that she would be doing that. She just surprised us! She did excellent on that instrument too!

Concentrating... her comes her part.

MJ plays the recorder!

Ren had to sit through the 45 minute recorder concert, thus the intense facial expression!! No, I'm teasing. He actually loves to make faces for the camera.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Prom

Porter & Bonnie - Prom 2013

For the cover of GQ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Strings Concert

Ellie played cello in the annual, regional strings concert. Here she is talking to Wyatt behind her before the concert starts.

You can't see Ellie's face or fingers as she plays, but she is getting pretty good. The cello is such a beautiful instrument!

Ellie and one of her best friends, Lucy, who plays the violin.

Friends: Anders, Tucker (who plays the cello too), Ren, Clara and MJ

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Birthday Time!

Happy 42nd, Rusty!

Making a wish! Yes, as you can see, there is a piece missing from his cake. It was him, not me. :) In addition to the carrot cake, we had a lemonade cake with lemonade frosting.

Our favorite neighbors came over for cake and singing! Thanks Bowen family!

Rusty's favorite color is blue. He likes to golf, ski and enjoys watching movies. He especially likes going to movies with his wife, but often goes with friends when it's a late movie. ;) He works as a Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator, and is really loved and respected by those he works with. He is currently the Young Men's President in our ward, so is blessed to work closely with Porter and other great young men and leaders. Rusty ran his 2nd marathon this past October in St. George, UT. He is a great father to 5 children and a wonderful husband! We love him!

Monday, February 11, 2013

Go Big Blue

MJ had a great basketball season. And she discovered a sport that she really enjoys playing! Her 2 favorites are now soccer and basketball. Her coaches were Coach Dunn and Coach Bowen. Our whole team consisted of girls and boys in our ward, as were the coaches. It was nice to know whose name to yell while cheering. :)

Bringing the ball in...

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Happy 6th!

I'm 6!

6th Birthday with Petersen cousins! Plz don't look at the cake. I was trying to create legos. Let's just say they were harder than I thought and they didn't turn out. But cake is cake... right?

Making a wish!

Those are some scary looking faces on the front row.

Ren loves to make faces for the camera.

Never gets bored

I think I have about 10 different versions of this...

Ren and Landon's birthdays are 5 days apart. We moms put out heads together and after seeing that they would like the same party with the same friends, we pooled our resources. Lego themed...You can imagine that many of his gifts were legos. And he has loved putting them together!!