Easter Dresses......

The finished product. We went to the fabric store for "SOMETHING" and this is what we found. She wanted a flower and a ribbon/bow.

The girls and their new dresses. Meg would not cooperate so there is no picture of her by herself :)

No longer a "Beehive" She is excited to be a Miamaid and hang out with the older girls :)

A New Dress

The finished dress.

she got a little pooped out and feel asleep while I sewed.
the finishing touches.
Two years ago I made the girls Easter dresses. Brandon was out of time and we went to the fabric store and spent a "TON" of money. We bought patterns and material to make a few dresses and some skirts. Well I got 2 dresses done one for each of them. Mckenzie still wears hers and of course Megan is way to old to wear her's. Last weekend we were supposed to go to Minneapolis to visit the Hoyts :) well when Friday rolled around all the flights were full. So we had to stay home. Mckenzie asked if she could help me make her a dress. So Friday night and Saturday we made a dress. It turned out so cute and she did do most of the sewing, with a little help of course. She was so proud. I will post a picture of the finished product on her.

Happy Birthday Megan ~ 14 years old...yikes!!!

She got her favorite cake BTS cake.

3 grandpas came to help us celebrate.

Earings she has been wanting for so long. She wore them today and they broke.UGH!

New white vans yeah!

We had the family over for dinner and cake. It was lots of fun. Everyone in Utah was there and Grandpa Kortz came from Napa. He flew in for dinner and the party he went home later that night. Thanks Grandpa for coming!!! It was fun to have you here.

Maybe we should find new sport....

Megan with her new tatoo. It was hit hard. You can really see the stitches from the ball.

This is really gross, but kind of cool.

Megan at her first Volleyball game.
Softball seems to have it in for the Dorney family. Brandon has 2 pins in his hand. Meg has the strings across her forehead. She was at practice the other night. They practice in the gym at the high school. The girl she was warming up with, thought she was looking then... BOOM!!! it hit her forehead!! Maybe we can get her sold on Volleyball..... Yeah right that will never happen:)

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us, to let us know they are Happy.

A Day Filled with lots of fun.

Brandon had his thumb/hand fixed today. Last Saturday we took the girls to an inside facility to practice softball. Mckenzie was pitching to me. Wow am I too old to do that :) Meg was hitting with Brandon. He was close to her but behind the net. They were doing front toss. He tosses the ball and she drives it right back. Well she hit it so fast and hard he didn't have time to pull his hand back. So needless to say she drove it right back at his hand. It broke the joint between his hand and thumb. Saturday when we went to the Dr he showed us the x-ray. Yeah you could tell it was broke. But when we saw it today. WOW yes it was totally broke, a big piece. She did a great job on it. It was a clean break and lined up well when he moved it back together. So the good news was he did not have to open his hand up to put in a screw. He has 2 pins in his hand instead. Much easier!! I was talking to Meg the other day making sure she knew it was not her fault and no one was blaming her. She said I know. But I am proud I broke it. That means it was a hard hit ball, and she did exactly what he said. "Hit it hard and drive it back" at least she is honest :) While I was waiting for the Dr to come tell me all went well. Lots was going through my head. He was getting the Michael Jackson drug propofal. So that was a little nerve racking. The last time I was in a waiting room, waiting for surgery to end. The results were not what we wanted to hear. I knew he was in good hands and the other situations were very extreme, and much different. I knew his results would not be the same as the others. But our minds like to play games on us. From the time I left him on the gurny to the time the Dr came out was 35 minutes. So that was a relief. We have a long road of recovery ahead. Glad its over and the healing has begun.

Happy Valentines Day, a day late

Megan no longer plays for the Viperz........

She now plays for "RIPTIDE" After many tears, long nights and several changes, the Viperz are no longer. Megan tried out for a 3 teams. She was asked to play with 3 teams, one she did not even try out for. After much anxiety she was invited to play with Riptide. We are very excited for her. She can't wait for the season to start. As Viperz we played Riptide often. Sometimes we won, sometimes they won. They are a great team. The team is in our area, and they practice at th High Schol she will attend.(yes very close) One of the coaches is the High School coach. That is a good thing too. We are very sad to not be with the Viperz family, but all good things must come to an end. Change is not always bad. Meg has been very good just rolling with the punches. When she makes up her mind to do something ~ she goes full force. Now on the other hand, when she doesn't want to do something ~ look out she puts forth about a 10th of an effort, if that :) She knows what she wants. We love you Meg!!

Megans Dance Recital

Megan has been taking a Dance class this last quarter at school. I can not say enough how much she loves to dance. Holy cow!!! Every day after school, after dinner, before bed she was dancing. She had a great time performing for us. It was so sweet for Grandpa, Nick and the girls to come watch. They brought her flowers and all. It sure meant a lot to have so many people there. I think Grandma went the next day. They had 2 performances the following day. I went to one and Grandma went to the other.

What would a party be with out a little Hannah Montana. We watched the movie, rocked out to the songs, and tried to learn the Hoe Down Throw Down.

Not sure who these ugly people are. We found them on the street. Excuse me you have something in your teeth!

Brandon watching TV with Mckenzie and Alexa with their matching PJ's.

3 hotties going outside in the snow to sit in the hot tub. Didn't know anyone could be so ugly :)

Mckenzie and Alexa in their matching outfits.

Char checking on our experiment.

What would a Kortz get together be without doing something like a HillBilly. Christmas Day we made Turkey, Ham, the whole meal. We forgot about the rolls. We all wanted rolls so about 90 minutes before the Ham and Turkey would be done. Char had a great idea. Since the ovens were being used we tried to raise the rolls in the dryer. Guess what it worked. Michelle put the shoe dryer in it. We place the pans on the show shelf with a wet towel and turned the dryer on for about 30 minutes. They tasted great and didn't take all day. Way to get out of a pinch.

Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve all the kids slept together in Michelle and Dereck's room. It was so fun for them. they acutally even went to sleep :) Of course the next morning they had to wait for all the cameras to get ready and come out in a line together. Just like we had to do when we were their ages. We used to hate that. Here we are doing the same thing to our kids. Santa was good to us all. He must have spent hours getting all of our gifts together and set out.

Christmas Pajamas

Char read us "The Night Before Christmas" and then we opened our pajamas. The Erickson and Cordes families don't do pj's, but they did this year with us. The kids thought it was cool. Grandpa got new jamies too. Some how is shirt was a boys large put into the mens large, and no one noticed until he put it on. It was very sexy we could see it muscules:)

Christmas Eve Entertainment

The kids made this cute play all by themselves. They put the costumes all together too. Look at Brocks tights. They were the best. Dallin was wearing Mckenzies tall black dress boots. He must have heard someone making fun of him :)

A family that "ROCKS" together stays together....

Skating with Santa....

We went to the Galivon Center to ice skate last week. We had so much fun. Santa was there, and we got pictures with him. It was cold but lots of fun :)