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Well there you have it, only about a year and a half late!

Bear Lake

I can't believe the 4-wheeler was able to handle all that weight!
My cute Oma and Opa!

We went to Bear Lake over Presidents Day to spend some time with the fam, it was so much fun! We went sledding--I haven't been sledding in a long time- I had forgotten how fun it is! We packed our selves onto tubes and went flying down the hill. We tried to convince Oma and Opa to go, but they were content to just watch. It was good to get away and not have to worry about homework for a weekend.

Idaho

Last week it got down to -19 and I was cursing Idaho. But today I came across some pictures I took last summer, and they gave me hope. Somewhere underneath that crusty brown snow there is a beautiful grassy field.

Ezra's Z Goals

Graduate College
Get a private pilots license
Start a successful business
Learn to play the piano
Raft the Grand Canyon
Have a family
Invest in the stock market
Design my own house
Own a plane
Learn another language besides Spanish
Teach my children of Jesus Christ
Build a tree house
Be a financial planner
Cruise the Caribbean
Predict the weather
Overcome weaknesses
Buy a farm
Invent something
Start a tree farm
Provide for my family
Visit Machu Picchu Peru
I want to own a tractor
Live in a big city for at least a year
Put off the natural man
Be co-owner of a business with all my brothers
Buy my parents something big
Travel
Help someone through college
Publish a book
Climb a Glacier
Own a restaurant
Get to know the lord better than my best friend
Fly a P-51 Mustang
Become a history buff
Go to a pro Foot Ball game
Provide for needy families
Meet a president
Be a tour guide
Memorize all the countries and their capitals in the world
Teach my family to walk in the ways of the lord
Go through all the temples in the states, and other countries
Read many books
Memorize the Scriptures
Serve a mission with my wife
Grow watermelons
Scuba Dive
Coach
Talk with the prophet
Study Hebrew
Teach

Jessica's Z goals

Become the kind of person God wants be to be
Fall even more deeply in love with my wonderful husband
raise a righteous family
Have lots of Kids
overcome my weaknesses
make sure all my family members know how much I love them
bring people to the gospel
learn to love purely
work at the temple
go on a mission with my husband
Go to Jerusalem--become a scriptorian
Do family history work
meet the prophet
Help change someone’s life
write my personal history
become an accomplished artist
make my home beautiful (so everyone feels welcome)
graduate college
organize a relief effort
plant a beautiful garden
Write and illustrate my own children’s book
donate to charity
make friends with strangers
learn to cook like a pro
become an expert mountain biker
do humanitarian service
read hundreds of books
learn all the hymns
Have my own farm with chickens, pigs, rabbits, ducks, cows, horses etc.
go all out decorating my house for each holiday
Learn to play the guitar
sing a solo
learn how to sail
swim with the dolphins
explore places I've never been
Go to Europe (see the Sistine chapel)
make up a funny joke
learn to juggle
visit a castle
see Broadway plays
try all flavors of ice cream and jelly beans
buy a sparkly pink old fashioned truck
see the northern lights
have my own art studio
go back to the places I have lived (California and Michigan)
Learn how square dance (so I can do it with my family)
Go scuba diving
Learn to speak Spanish and sign language

I love you Mom!!

Christmas Break!

Last semester the doctors and therapists told Ezra that it would not be a good idea for him to go back to school, they said that he still had a lot of recovering to do. Not to mention the fact that his short term memory was still a bit off- along with his math skills. But Ezra had a different plan in mind, he was determined to get back and try to salvage his classes even though he had missed a solid month of school. Ezra worked so hard to get caught up, for days at a time I hardly saw him.

The semester finally ended, and neither of us were sure whether we would pass our classes. We looked forward to the arrival of our grades with much anticipation. And about five days before Christmas we got our grades. We found out that we had both passed all of our classes and our grades ended up better than we expected. We were so excited, we couldn't have asked for a better Christmas present!

Me and my cute sisters!

Ezra on Christmas Morning!

After the crazy events of a semester that seemed to last forever Ezra and I were thrilled to be done with school and have to whole ordeal of Ezra's accident behind us. We had the most wonderful Christmas break, the majority of it was spent down in Alpine Utah (the most beautiful place on the planet). We had so much fun...

Making gingerbread houses

Playing games

Singing Christmas Carols

Going to Temple square

Playing in the snow

Watching Christmas movies

Going sledding

Attending parties -Ezra and some of my cousins did a puppet show for the whole family at my Aunt's annual Christmas party that had us about in tears from laughing so hard.

Christmas day was so fun! Ezra got to experience the beautiful chaos of a Christmas at Oma and Opa's house. We exchanged presents, ate lots of good food, talked and laughed. It's so much fun no one ever wants to go home.

We could not ask for anything more.We have been so blessed, we will be forever grateful for our wonderful families.

Ezra

Ezra is doing great! We are both back in school trying to salvage our classes (good luck, right). He is feeling much better. His aches and pains are starting to subside. Hopefully he gets his senses of taste and smell back soon. I'm not a very good cook so maybe it's a blessing in disguise....who knows. Anyway, we are doing much better thanks to all the prayers. Love you all!

EZRA

Ezra has been doing great! He is feeling much more like his normal self. His headache has finally started to go away. We went to therapy for the first time on Wednesday, we originally had to see three different therapists, but two of them passed him off on his first appointment. Now if we can just get through speech therapy we should be good to go!

EZRA

Ezra kind of had a rough day today. He's sick of just sleeping, we've tried to explain that it's good for him right now, I don't think he buys it. He was more active today and it totally wiped him out. He wants to get back to normal so bad, we keep telling him that he is going to have to be patient.

EZRA

After a bumpy ride in the RV Ezra finally made it to Twin Falls, We will be staying with Dave and Shanna until he is feeling better. When we told Ezra that he was going to be able to leave the hospital he said, "aren't you supposed to feel better when you leave the hospital?" He also said that he wouldn't mind driving the RV back to Twin. ( :

He's still feeling pretty crummy and we've got a little bit of a road a head of us before he's back to his normal self. We are just happy that he is doing as well as he is and he's happy to finally be in a familiar place. We start therapy next week.

EZRA

This is the life flight paramedic that took care of Ezra on the way to the hospital, he was the nicest guy. When Shanna and I first got to the hospital he came and talked to us. He said that Ezra put up a pretty good fight on the way to Boise.

Ezra is going to be able to leave the hospital tomorrow. Luckily, they said that we will be able to do out-patient therapy in Twin Falls. He has been able to go on some walks around the hospital and has done really well. The doctors and nurses are all surprised at how quickly he is progressing. Thanks again!

EZRA

Ezra was released from the ICU yesterday and is now on the neuro floor. His motor skills are good, and he's been working on some of his cognitive skills. We are very optimistic, he seems to be getting better everyday. Thank you for all your prayers and support!

This past weekend we had quite the experience. We were almost half way home from Montana when we found out that I-15 was closed! We asked the officer if there was any other way and he said, "you better just find a hotel, this road might be closed for a few days." If it had not been for the armed police officer standing guard Ezra would have braved the icy roads anyway.

We decided on another rout that would bring us home to Rexburg. Our ride home ended up being pretty exciting, we passed two ghost towns. In the end we added a few hours to our trip but Ezra got us all home in one piece.

Ezra's Quote of the Day

There's no time to stop and smell the roses, just grab one and go!

Hooray!

Well we're about a month into school and we are ready to quit! Just Kidding! School is good but we are very busy! I paint all day and Ezra does accounting til he can't take it anymore- don't ya love college.
Actually, we have done some really fun stuff: demolition derby, ice caves, kung fu panda, rodeo, Lord of the Rings marathon. Now we are just trying to figure out what we are going to be for Halloween.

I made a fishing pole out of a stick from the beach! He couldn't resist the cheese!

Lake Powell!

What a cute little brother!

Keepin out of the sun!

a little special!

Are you a farmer or something? Nice tan-Ha!

Finally got up, but way to chicken to let go of the rope!

She always makes it look so easy!

There she goes!

funny faces!

Wow Dad, I didn't know you had it in you!

way over the hill but still able to chill!

Patrick walking on water!

way too much fun!