Tessa Laughing at Noah

Here is Tessa playing a game with Noah, she loves playing with her brothers as you can tell.

Will Wedding Dancing

Will's first wedding dance experience was at Abby's wedding when he was just 2, but still managed to dance all night. Maggie's wedding was his chance to take it to the next level. He started out kind of shy, I was surprised that he didn't want to go dance with us. But after warming up to it he couldn't stop himself. He just got right up in front of the band (who was great by the way) and started busting some moves. Even the band commented on his dancing a couple of times, saying "awesome dancing little man" and "we're getting tired just watching this kid!" This video is of him dancing with Maggie and Abby to the song "Hey, Soul Sister" by Train.

The Start of the New Garden

While I had some time off this year I decided it was a good time to start cleaning up the large unused area behind the garage and start doing making a serious garden.  I was inspired by our success this summer with our sweet corn and sunflowers, and we always grow decent tomatoes.  I was also inspired by our neighbor Jack and his extensive gardening for selling at the farmers markets and all the people that he works with in the area who are really creating a network of locally grown food and using it at home and in their products.  As you can see, even after some work this fall, the space has a long way to go, which is why I wanted to put these photos up.  The space is about 33'x33' and has good sun (especially since I have done extensive trimming to the tree in the back.)  I have started clearing weeds and removing some of the pea gravel, with which the whole space is covered.  Hopefully we can have good growing conditions despite the gravel and weed problems.  Once I can till it next fall, I will try to level it some more too.  Current plans are to have tomatoes, at least 4 rows of sweet corn, some giant sunflowers, and a good sized pumpkin and cucumber patch.  I'm going to stick with things that I know grow well here in Utah.  I don't expect any more progress until next March, since everything got covered with about 6" of snow the day after these photos were taken.  Next step will be ordering seeds!

Bowling!

On Friday I took the boys bowling at Orchard Lanes, it was a great time.  The presure was on since Noah had beaten me last time, so I made sure to concentrate this time.  Noah picked up a couple tough spares and Will and I each had a couple strikes.  The boys' favorite part was playing the games in the arcade and winning tickets I think, ski ball and "Deal or No Deal" were a big hit.  I don't know that I have any junior PBA stars here but they do love going bowling and gaming!  It was a great time!

Favorite Videos

Here are some of our favorite recent movies of the kids, you can still check out the rest of the videos on youtube and vimeo. Enjoy!

Snow's coming...

There's not much that excites the whole family as much as snow, and we could be in for a good storm this weekend. We always love to hear a forcast of "feet" in the mountains, and some significant valley snow as well. I can't wait to hit the snow with the kids soon. Brighton has been open for a week already and it's killing me! Let's ride!

The new blog about the family

Here is our new blog to follow the Leinberger family in Utah. There is a link on the right to see all the videos that are on YouTube and there will be more to come. For those of you who have followed us on the Bradford Leinberger Photography blog, that will now be devoted to photography and this will be exclusively for the family. Follow them both!