Idaho Girls Scholastic Chess Tournament

Last weekend was the Idaho Girls Scholastic Chess Tournament! Michaela and Leah went to it this year and both got great results! Michaela played 4 games and Leah played 5 games.

Michaela got 3rd place Overall with 3 out of 4 points!

Leah got 1st place in 3rd Grade with 5 out of 5 points!

Josiah David Abernathy

Josiah David was born 2-23-2011 at 7pm! He is 8 pounds and 20 inches and is the cutest little man!

Noah loves to hold him and wants to do it all the time! :D

Idaho Chess Championship of 2011

Last Saturday through Monday was the Idaho Chess Championship of 2011 which was held in Twin Falls! Caleb and his chess buddy Caleb Kircher both went to the event with good attitudes. They had 6 total games throughout all three day. (two each day) Each game had a time control of 2 hours aside and after 30 moves, both players would receive 1 more hour. That means that each game could go on for up to 6 hours, but most of them only went to 4-5 hours.

Caleb got Overall Champion with 5 out of 6 points! He is now the Idaho Sate Champion of Idaho for 2011!

Caleb Kircher

This is part of Shoshone Falls that we went to on Monday afternoon. If you would like to see more pictures of the falls and the tournament, please go here.

Christmas 2010

We had a very good Christmas this year! We read the Christmas story out of Luke and talked about it before opening presents. We had a full Christmas dinner with Turkey, stuffing, seven layer salad, potatoes, green beans, and gravy! Here are some pictures of our Christmas!

Our Beautiful Christmas Tree!

Michaela got a new BSU Bronco Football Shirt

24K Earings from our Aunt

I got Pumpkin Butter which is sooooo good. If you haven't tried some, you need to! :D

Noah opening his first present

Michaela got two Christian Mystery books

That is a cute penguin pillow Leah

Bethany

Nathan had to go to work right after presents so he didn't get to enjoy Lunch with us.

Spending Christmas Eve at the Fox's House

We were graciously invited to the Fox's house for Christmas Eve! We went through a Bible devotion about Christmas and talked about Christmas and what it means to us. Then we sang a couple of Christmas Carols with the Fox girls accompanying us with their instruments. We talked and eat snacks they provided after the devotion. We played this awesome game (mostly cause it is all about whacking people with newspaper!) called Animals. And then we played four on a couch in which my team (Megan, Morgan, Leah, and I) won! We had to leave, because Noah was getting sleepy. A big thank you goes out to the Foxs!

Animals:

1.Everyone picks a animal that they are going to be and the sound that it makes (i.e. Dog - Ruff)

2.Pick someone to be it and he will stand in the middle, and the rest will sit in a circle around the person.

3.Someone sitting in the circle will say a sound of an animal that was picked by the other players.

4.Whomever's sound was said now has to say another animal sound before the person in the middle hits them with the newspaper stick.

5.Repeat 3 and 4 until someone is hit before saying a sound.

6.The person who got hit is now it and the one that was it will now sit down where the person who got it was

7. Before the person sits down, they must call out a sound or else the now it person can hit them and they are it again

8.If a person says the animal sound of the it person, then that person is now it

Mr. Fox

Mrs. Fox

Morgan Fox