Merry Christmas from the D Drapers

We weren't able to get Christmas cards out to everyone, either (way cute picture, Willey's!), but wanted share our latest, too.

Kenzie (15), Camrie (7), Darren (Older), Sadie (4), Rylie (9), Angee (Old), Mason (12)

Note that Cam is usually much happier - not sure why she wanted to hide in this one. That happens. :-)

Merry Christmas!

Fun Times at Hires and Cute Draper Grandkids

The Hires tradition continues. I had a fun outing to Hires with some of the Drapers last Monday.










Who else wants to go to Hires? Just let me know and I'm there!

Capitol Reef - by D

My dad, Mason, Rylie, and I went on an awesome hike in the Upper Muley Twist canyon of Capitol Reef last weekend. There were several arches, a section of narrows, a small waterfall, and an array of beauty to behold - not to mention, an ample supply of great company. While the weather was a little windy, we couldn't complain too much with +80 degree temperatures. I sure enjoyed the time we were able to spend together.(Check out the kids sitting in the cool shade of the arch.)

Denny Family Christmas Party Photos - Many More to Come!

Fall Hike, 2008

Friday was one of those good days. My dad, Josh, Mason, and I went to the Uintahs for a little fishin' / hikin' action. Talk about beautiful. The leaves were changing and the weather was perfect. We even caught fish: about 20 in total.

When did Jennica pass 10 years old?

Unless I'm mistaken, that is Jennica holding a VERY LARGE dog, and DRIVING! When did Jennica get to be such a grown up? Can somebody please go downstairs and see if she still has her school in the basement? I'm sure she's down there teaching Kenz right this minute! In the meantime, I'm pretty sure today is a special day for Miss J. We hope you have a SPLENDID birthday Jennica. We love every grown up inch of you!

Gorgeous Emily is having a birthday.

Three things:

First: Apologies if I've ever posted this darling shot of Emily celebrating what I would guess to be her FIRST birthday! She's had at least a couple more since this picture was taken.

Second: Have you ever seen a child look so thoughtfully at a cake before? She's all, "Are you serious? That is for ME? There must be a mistake." It is for you Emily, and I bet you look at your cake today with exactly the same look!

Third: We love you Emily. You're an awesome daughter, sister, mother, aunt, niece, wife, friend, cousin, daughter in law, granddaughter! (Did I forget any? I had no idea Emily wore so many hats, but you didn't forget, right Em?)

Kynaston Update

Sorry it's been so long... I keep looking at my christmas pics to share but I didn't take very good ones this year. The carving of the flag pole is my favorite. Our family is doing fine. We've had some pretty cold weather this year. The past couple of nights have been in the low single digits.

1969 was a VERY good year!

A VERY good year indeed. Just look at that gorgeous blond bouffant. If that doesn't say, "Hello world. My name is Sandee, and I just spent two hours ratting and curling my hair, do you dig it?" then I don't know what does. And while we doubt you'll spend quite that much time ratting and curling your hair today (38 years later) we do hope you'll still be saying, "Hello world. My name is Sandee, and today is MY birthday. Now let's get on with the party." Yes, let's make 2008 a VERY good year. A VERY good year indeed. We love you Sandee. Happy birthday!

Jaxson, meet your big sister.

Hi Jaxson...You probably didn't know you had a big sister did you? We'll here she is. Her name is Becca! Best of all Jaxon...today is your big sisters birthday! So be sure you help your Dad and little brother make a cake, blow up some balloons, and wrap some presents for Becca. And make sure you tell her for all of us: We love you Becca. Happy Happy Birthday. And happy December too!

Draper Thanksgiving

The Draper clan had a great Thanksgiving day. All the kids that live within 500 miles came. There was plenty of yummy food and yummy pies and card playing. We even pulled out the old Nintendo and played some Dr. Mario. We discovered that some of us are smarter than a 5th grader, but not all of us. :) There was also some football, while most of the tackling came from Jaxon. Sadie enjoyed her first Thanksgiving, but not the mashed potatoes. That's about it.

Happy Tons of Birthdays

Us Drapers just finished celebrating a ton of October birthdays. Becca will have to post some pictures of Hudson's blessing, but here's some pictures from the celebration:

What's a Draper get together without some football? I'm not sure who has more fun, the kids under 12 or the kids over 12.
Heather had to be quick to get in the blowing out candles picture.
Cute little buggers. Cam is 3 and Jax is 2.

Happy Birthday Heather.

BRING ME CAKE! I want to squish my fingers in it and then smear them all over my face. And my dress. And my Mom's face. And any face that happens to be saying "Ahhhhh BOO!" to me. I just want cake, that's all. And then maybe a little poop and a nap. Not necessarily in that order. Have a CAKE filled birthday Heather. We love you.

Jenn and Ben go Fishing!

I thought it would be fun to share some pics of Ben and I when we went fishing with some friends.... it ended up raining so we didn't even stay on the lake, but it was fun to have a fire and stuff!

It was really windy so the pics are bad, but I thought that was a nice one of Ben eating a hot dog! Haha....

Introducing...

Hudson Wesley Torsell

Born August 28, 2007 at 2:50 a.m.

9 lb. 2 oz. (at least 2 lb. are in his cheeks alone!)

20 inches long

(Sorry I didn't have pictures of Becca or Ryan with him...I'll have to take some more tomorrow)

Guess who's at Snow?

I am officially big!

I'm going to school at Snow!

I started on Monday, and I am loving it!

Of course, I've been to the Ostler's house 5 out of the 7 days I've lived here!

I'm really having fun, and loving my classes!

Yellowstone - Drapers

Thought I would share this picture from the Draper Family Vacation 2007 - Yellowstone. There's getting to be quite a few of us. I think there were 15 adults and 11 kids. Talk about your makings for fun. I'll try and post more pictures later. I do love pictures.

Jennica's Graduation

Woo Hoo! Jenn graduated yesterday! It was a fun day!