Cassidy and Max are growin' up!

I haven't blogged in awhile... but we had a big event over the past couple weeks...

That all started with the traditional breakfast in bed:

Then continued at a local Japanese Tempanyaki place. AI Sushi table side cooking complete with onion volcano pyrotechnics!

On Sunday, Max and Cass set a new record for 'family in attendance' at their primary graduation / priesthood ordination / young women transition. It was very cool. Bummer mom and dad Ogden couldn't be there, but we will make up for it when we party with them in England in THREE WEEKS.

Many special gifts (including a grandpa refinished hope chest family heirloom for Cassidy, that can be seen to the left, filled with meaningful and sentimental gifts from generations of great-example-setting women in our family)...

...and as you can see, we have a couple of happy little tweens:

Miracle!

We were 5th place, out of 5 teams, going into our final regular season game, where we barely made the playoffs by beating the number 4 team by one goal.

So, last night (in the playoffs) we had to play the number 1 seed in the semifinals, and then the number 2 team for the championship. We won our games 5-2 and 4-1 and are the new Bronze B (read: lowest level of recreational inline hockey) champions!



And yes, this is the blogworthy event that broke my blog silence after 3 months.

Halloween

Teri made Max's, and Cassidy made her own. Like, sewed it.

Max and Cass at the SLC temple

one more I meant to post below...

Utah Trip

First of all... I don't know why I have such a hard time with this blogspot program. This thing drives me crazy. So, I'm just gonna skip the captions with properly ordered individual pictures, until someone can show me how to do it in less than 3 hrs... I'll just post my photos and you can guess what's going on.

This weekend we went to Utah to take care of some business. Business of helping our kids understand where they're gonna go to college. After about 15 minutes of walking around campus, seeing the foodcourt, candy shops, bookstore, student center and many college girls, Max said "this isn't college, this is heaven". So, our work there was finished.

So then we went to SLC to visit temple square and see the Joseph Smith movie. Another great experience. Both our kids wanna get married in that temple. the movie was awesome. Between BYU and temple square, it was a GREAT day.

Then we went up to Logan to hang out with Lisa and Jeremy and Ben and Rio. We had an amazing time going to a haunted farm, playing in the park, visiting the farmers market and Logan Canyon, and even got to see Where the Wild Things Are.

What a trip!

ManApes Music Vid

Max and Cass did the camera work!

Stupid Robots - by the ManApes from Todd Ogden on Vimeo.

Labor Day Golfing

What a great day celebrating labor. We learned a lesson from the last 3 day weekend and decided not to even attempt to drive with 90% of other Coloradans to the mountains. Instead... we made a nice, big breakfast, went mini-golfing, hot the batting cages, chomped some taco bell, and went to see "Up" at the dollar movies. What a great day...