Ariana Chanel

I hired my new sister-in-law's photographer to take pictures of all the Goold Grandkids, the hour before the wedding. This is my niece, Ariana Chanel. She's 6 years old and such a beautiful girl!

I love this picture of my brother, Paul with his kids!

Katrina and Ari are special friends. They had such fun together at Magic Mountain. They are actually the same height, but Nina is wearing heels!

I love that when Ari laughs, she covers her mouth, too cute!

Ari and Ben are in the same grade, she is about 4 months older than him.

Capri Sun Purses!

I found this super old picture from an Activity Day Girls sewing project I helped with. This was taken BEFORE I was YW President and now I'm subbing in Activity Day Girls, so it's been 18 months! Anyway, I thought it was cute because all the girls except the front 3 are Beehives now. Rachel is on the far left, next to cousin Eliza. Emma is in the back, second from left side. She and Rachel have changed so much in such a short amount of time! We drank so many Capri Suns to make these. I saw some larger ones for sale in Wal-Mart the other day. Weird.

Looks like I need to hit the Mid-West!

I have visited 30 states (60%) and forgot to check Wyoming. Oops! I looked into flying my family to Illinois to see Nauvoo and Carthage, last week. And then, I looked at hopping to Philly to visit my brother and his wife (they're moving there next month for Medical School.) Fun dreams, since it takes about $500 bucks each person! I wonder if I'll ever get to these other states? I do want to see Nauvoo, but really don't care about the other states.
Create your own visited map of The United States

Ben's BDay

OK, Ben turned 6 two months ago and I posted about his friend BDay party, but I didn't post this. My parents came up and surprised us with a visit. The kids were so happy to have them here! Ben especially loves G'pa Goold.

In the Idiart family, the girls strongly outweigh the boys. This pic shows Ben with his brother and 3 male cousins (He has 6 girl cousins!)

Silly Shots of Spring

Remember the last time Emma had a sleep over? No? Click HERE to be reminded. The next time she had a sleepover, the guys were camping, so I let her and her friend sleep in MY BED. They fell asleep watching a movie at about 10pm (tired after a track meet) and I couldn't resist taking this.

Josh was involved all year in a Samba Group that met once a week to practice. He played at school functions with his Group. He's also taking guitar and piano lessons and plans to join The Band in Middle School. He wants to learn drums and electric guitar in The Band.

Rachel and a friend got together to make a diorama after studying about the Oregon Trail. Luckily her Aunt Allison had some old school cowboys and indians and we found a cougar to place in the mountains to make this scene BYU approved. She did a great job. Rather than keep it, we took a photo to never forget all her hard work.

Katrina had an AWESOME time visiting our family in Idaho. She hung out with the little ones, just like she does at home. She spent lots of time on the trampoline, too! I love this pic of her. She has such funny expressions, I think she'll be great in the Drama Dept. someday!

When I went shopping for clothes for Dan and Madi's wedding, Ben saw this outfit. He just HAD to try it on. He wanted it SO badly, telling me that his friend Kelden wears cool clothes like this and he REALLY needed just ONE cool outfit. He looked so handsome, I couldn't say NO. He's 6 years old and this is the first outfit I've bought him. He's the Hand-Me-Down King. When I wanted a picture, he made his embarrased/pretending to be mad face.