Eric Gets His Eagle

Davis Christmas party was to have been on Monday the 21st, but due to the massive (6 inches) of snow that fell in American Fork and other areas we put it off until the 22nd.
Davis wearing his prize from the Christmas party. Jedi taking his turn getting into the extremely well wrapped gift with gloves, hat & scarf.

Jeff didn't like his turn being shortened by jill

Carter taking his turn at the gift.

Grandpa's turn

Grandma tried sitting on the box to break a seal to see what was inside of the 9 boxes wrapped and set inside each other. Kate was the winner of the five dollars. Lots of fun!

So Much snow so far this year Steve & Davis trying to break the distance record from natalie & Mackenzie. Davis, Kate, Kira & Kenzie sledding on the 26th.

With al of the snow, Davis went for the record sized snowball in our backyard.

Brinley & mom pulling sleds in the park in our backyard.

SOOOOOOO much snow.

Young Woman at Harvard

Don Debate forwarded me this video. This young LDS woman at Harvard University is fantastic.

Day of Faith: Personal Quests for a Purpose - 3. Rachel Esplin from Harvard Hillel on Vimeo.

We just wanted to wish all of our family a Very Merry Christmas. We love you!

Great Christmas Present

For all of you that read the blog, here is some great news. Cindy is expecting! No, not an alien but a little baby... Tentative due date is July 19th. I thought I would announce on blog since it is not perused that much and thought this would be a fun way to announce. Please don't pass on the info to others. I want siblings to only find out about it by reading blog. :-)

As you can image, we are excited. While this was some what planned - meaning we wanted another child as soon as it made sense physically, emotionally, mentally etc... - we still had to let nature take it's course. It appears this little spirit, like Celeste, just did not want to wait so he/she is on the way. Let's pray Novell insurance is still in place come July and that baby is healthy. Those are our only prerequisites.... past that.. a boy would be lovely... but I can handle another girl if that is to be. Ta Ta For Now (TTFN).
Ted

Angkor Wat-Cambodia

A few pics of Angkor Wat Temple Complex, and a couple shots of the floating village. Hundreds of villages live on the water of Tonle Sap, a huge lake in Central Cambodia. The Mekong river backs up and floods the lake every year, so the water rises and falls about twenty feet. Chanda couldn't stand the poverty of the lake people, and insisted that we buy school supplies for the "floating" school. Of course the "floating" store completely ripped us off, but the kids got their books and pencils.

Good Morning Vietnam

Here's a few snaps of Vietnam…We started out in Hanoi, flew south to Ho Chi Minh City, and then side-tripped to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat. While in Hanoi we stayed with the Omdahl Family. Chanda knew them from BYU, and they worked at the US Embassy.

1. Jack in the Cu Chi Tunnels outside of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). This tunnel complex connected to the Ho Chi Minh Trail which connected all the way north to Hanoi.

2. Jack at the Orphanage. The Omdahl family works with a local orphanage in Hanoi. So as part of our trip, we gathered up clothes and supplies in extra suitcases and brought them over with us. The orphanage is run by the monks at a Buddist temple.

3. Jack with Addison Omdahl at the "Hanoi Hilton" where John McCain was imprisoned.

4. Chanda found this salon near the Omdahls house which catered to foreigners. So for Vietnam prices we enjoyed manicures and full body massages.

5. Chanda and Natasha doing a morning workout in Hanoi to the amusement of the local farmers.

6. Jim eating PHU, the local breakfast. He regrets it later.

7. Jack - bartering for snacks - on our cruise ship at Halong Bay, 3 hrs north of Hanoi.

8. Halong Bay is several thousand limestone islands scattered throughout this large bay. We did a two day cruise on the bay.

9. Chanda — Morning on Halong Bay.

10. Halong Bay —Dinner toast on the "cruise ship".

11. The Omdahl home in Hanoi. All the embassy staff lived in the nicest homes in Hanoi. This is four stories. The houses are very narrow, because property taxes are determined by the width of your home.

12. Our hosts — Omdahl Family

13. Buddist Temple, Hanoi

14. Video Clip is the entrance to the Cu Chi Tunnels. The North Vietnamese purposefully made the tunnels tiny so the "big" Americans couldn't fit.

Family Reunion Video

Hansel and Gretel at Halloween

Fence is done!

We finally installed the Celeste containment system... aka a fence. Celeste will be walking come spring so we needed to install window well covers as well as a fence so she wouldn't go walking into the nearby street! Anyways.. here are a couple of pictures for your enjoyment. We hope to have a basement finished in next year or so.. after that.. we can have any overflow from Mom and Dad's over here!

Davis Girls with a lil' 'tude!

Okay... so I'm not sure posting these pics is against copyrights but I didn't see any thing on the website that said I couldn't.. so check out these cute pics of the Marc Davis Chica's!

Payback for two years of BYU fun. Hopefully next year we will be able to get them again.