I'm Back!

Its been along time but i'm back and better than ever! Our whole family has changed so much. Aimee has received her lds mission call to the Fiji Suva mission and leaves december 4th she is so excited! Aubree is a utah state ambassador and loves it! Emilee is a crazy amazing pianist and spends most of her time practicing. And as of right now is saidies royalty (a prom queen kind of thing). Lynzee is the creative one of the family mostly She does anything she can personalize, organize, perform or write. She was the lead of the school plays 4 years in a row and got the prize of best speech this year. And LOVES to dance. Lance is a tracter driving fool last year he was home schooled because of a rotten teacher and mostly went to work with his dad eveyday. He was completely bummed when the school year started and will do anything he can with his dad now. I am crazy busy for now because besides being a preschool teacher and a mom to 5 kids i work in dwayne's office basically being the secretary when ever I possibly can. She's pretty much super mom!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Lynzee. What a stinker... anyways dwayne is going crazy without lance and always looks forward to the weekend when lance goes to work with him. (i know its crazy but lance is one of his best workers i guess we taught him well!) well thats us for now stay tuned for more crazy stories ( trust me there's plenty!)  - Matheson Mom

Aimee and her mision call

                                                                             Aubree

                                                                           emilee

                                                                          our family

                                                                           Aimee

                                                                             lance

                                                                        Aubree's an ambassador

                                                                      Lynzee

                                                 


        

                                                          Lance and dwayne driving tractors

Have a fantastic day!

-Matheson mom

Trip to Cedar City

We had a trip planned to see Dwayne's parents since we had a three day weekend. At the last minute Dwayne ended up staying home to work. Since Aimee got her driver's license on Monday and we left on Friday, she was anxious to drive. She drove all the way to Cedar City. On Saturday morning, Grandpa took us to Parowan Gap to see some Indian writings. He was a great tour guide. He showed us where Great Grandpa's name was on a monument for helping preserve these writings.

Here is Emilee standing in front of some of the lower petroglyphs.

We're off to do more exploring!

There were some tiny caves for the littler kids to play in.

Then we moved on to play on the siderails!

They had balancing contests!

Aubree won!

Someone took this lovely picture of me looking on as everyone else climbed up the side of the mountain. There was a lot of loose rock and it was a little tricky!

Grandpa climbed up to get a better picture of some of the writings. He was way up there and scared us all.

Emilee is not much for heights and stayed fairly close to the bottom, especially when the rocks started moving beneath her feet.

Lynzee and Aubree climbed the highest. Here is their victory pose. Lance and Aimee stuck together below them.

Coming down was the trickiest!

Lance told Aimee he would help her down because he had more climbing skills and I think it was true. He was fast on that mountain!

When he got down he decided to dig instead of joining his sisters for a photo shoot on the rock.

We did get a family picture on the cement barricade. Getting all of us up there at the same time was the difficult part.

We were going to have a picnic at a spot Grandpa knew that was 15 minutes away on a dirt road. As you can see, our tires didn't make it. It wasn't a really bad dirt road, but soon into the drive I looked out the window to see rubber flapping around. Grandpa was leading the way in his jeep and didn't see us pull over. When we got out to check the damage we could hear air escaping and the front tire was rapidly deflating as well. Guess what? No spare tire! It's in Dwayne's shop in Clearfield.

Grandpa noticed we weren't following him and came back to our rescue.

He took Emilee, Lynzee, and Aubree (the photographer) back to Cedar City in his Jeep where he made arrangements for a tow truck to come back and pick us up.

They took us to Big O tires where Grandpa got us 4 beautiful, strong, new tires.

We ended the trip a day early and came back home on Sunday after going to church with Grandpa. We missed Grandma who went to Arizona to see Aunt Jan for her birthday. It was an interesting trip -- not quite as we planned, but memorable and fun.

Trip to the Dentist

The time had come to take all five kids to the dentist for a check-up -- not our favorite family activity. There are those in our family (Emilee) who absolutely hate going to the dentist and would rather scrub bathroom floors with a toothbrush. Then, there are those who love it because of the feeling of super shiny clean teeth (Aimee & Aubree). There are those who go for the excitement of the "coin" they earn and the prize they can get (Lance). But the winner this trip was Lynzee for her absolute courage as her two front teeth were pulled. We recorded her singing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" so we could post it, but had some technical difficulty so we'll settle for a still pose.

A Road Trip with Daddy

Dwayne wanted to go on a quick road trip. When he asked for volunteers to go along, he got an enthusiastic response only from Lynzee and Lance. They had a great time exploring in the area around mirror lake. One of the highlights of the trip that we heard about was when they got to "pet a dead fish". YUCK!

Meet the Mathesons

I am new to this blogging thing and don't really know what to say. I guess the best place to start is my amazing family! I have 5 wonderful kids who keep me plenty busy, and the best husband in the world! Here is a recent picture of the whole family together. My kids from left to right are Aimee - age 15, Aubree - age 13, Emilee - age 10, Lynzee - age 7, and our only son Lance - age 4. My husband Dwayne and I are in the back.