Halle had her first gymnastics meet last week. She did awesome! They have 3 meets and if they can get an overall score of 34 at any of the first 3 meets they can go on and compete at the next 3 meets, as well as move to the next level in June. She earned a 34.6 at this first meet!
On the beam!
The bars!
You can see she has her salute down!
This is Halle with her scores after the meet! 
Tennis season officially started this last month. The team is doing great with a 6-0 start on the season. Here they are celebrating after one of their victories!
The huddle before the match starts!
Chip came to town this week to visit and watch the team play,
Here is Josh & Cosmo. Another funny Josh story: I told Josh to go over to Cosmo because I wanted to take his picture. He wasn't too happy about it and said, "I'm not stupid ya know, I know he is just a break dancer in a cougar costume, and I know because I just pulled his tail off!" 
We have had so much snow this year!
Halle & Jordan making a snowman!
Josh, Jordan & Halle with the finished product. 
We had a great Christmas this year! We spent Christmas Eve at home. Josh & Halle wanted to make and decorate cookies!
Of course, pretty quickly the rest of the kids wanted to "help!"
Christmas Eve dinner!
After dinner we watched home movies and
Matthew & Jordan
The kids LOVED their matching BYU Pajamas (well most of the kids, ok, some of the kids LOVED their pajamas)
Christmas morning!
Well josh didn't start his birthday out on the brightest note, he had to have a tooth pulled first thing in the morning and because the tooth was so infected it was hard to get it completely numb! Here he is trying to recover from the trauma. 
Fortunately, Josh recovered quickly and that night we rented out Soldiers Hollow sledding hill for a private party, we had about 150 friends come up sledding with us! It was so much fun!
Happy Birthday to Josh, our best Christmas present ever! This was Josh's picture for his birth announcement!
Josh @ 7 months!
I decided to put some of Josh's favorite things on this post!
Tyler and BYU Football are on the top of Josh's favorite things list!
Josh LOVES boats, here he is getting an early start! Josh would just go sit on the Polaris' waiting for someone to come give him a ride.
A few years later, still sitting and still waiting for someone to come give him a ride!
Josh is the most helpful kid on the boats, he always wants to tie up and do all the ropes by himself.
Last summer Josh pulled me aside and privately (very proudly) told me that he "was only 7 years old and knew how to drive 5 different kinds of boats, a polaris, a ski boat, a cabin cruiser, a dinghy and a yacht, and it could be 6 boats, because he knows how to drive both polaris'!" Go Josh!.jpg)
Santa makes the favorite things list for sure!
Another favorite, his dad & skiing!.jpg)
I didn't mean to start with this picture but somehow it ended up here, I just wanted to wish Jordan a happy 21st birthday and let her know how proud we are of her and how much we all love her! The boys on Brad's tennis team always tell me and Jordan that we are like the same person and say the same things and even think the same things. I am always proud to be connected to her in anyway!
Here is Jordan a couple of days after she was born. Being our first baby and the first grandchild on both sides of the family, it was months before she was put down or didn't have a crowd around watching every grimace or diaper change!
Here is Jordan on her 2nd Birthday!
I had to put in this picture, not because it was the greatest picture I had of Jordan, but because it reminded me that I have gotten old enough to have a 21 year old daughter.
Here is one of my all time favorite pictures of Brady, Steph, Tara & Jordan. If Brady hadn't died they would have all been in high school for one year together (9th, 10th, 11th & 12th grade)..jpg)
Jordan & Tara! One thing I really love about Jordan is that she has always taken her role as the oldest cousin and sister seriously. She has been such a good example to her little brothers and sisters and has really loved them and taken care of them all!
Grandpa & Jordan, there are certain perks to being the first grandchild. My younger kids will probably never see an igloo unless they go to Alaska!
Had to put in this picture because it is probably the only picture in existence of Jordan cooking. I know this because this is probably the only time she has ever cooked something!
Steph & Jordan before homecoming.
I was sad thinking that my little girl was growing up and then saw these pictures and realized she will never really grow UP! Sorry Jordan, I couldn't help myself with that one!
Since Jordan has been in college her birthday has always been in the middle of finals. Of course she has a final today at 4 pm, so here we are celebrating at 7 am, as she is walking out the door to the library!
Happy Birthday Jordan, we love you! 
Here are the girls slaving away in the kitchen!
The whole Abbott Family! (or most of them)
Brad, John, Matthew & Josh all went to California. Brad had to do some recruiting so the boys went along. We ended up having a girls weekend with lots of chick flicks!
