Yeah! Janey got her cast off and did great. She didn't even cry or move while they cut it off. She is such a tough little cookie. She went to her first week of nursery today and did great. It is a few weeks early but the leaders took pity on us. She went right in and never looked back. It is so strange to have her big enough to go into nursery. All six kids in primary, wow! Her hair is finally long enough to put in pigtails so I had to include the picture.

Ali has been fighting a sinus infection for 3 weeks and is hopefully on the mend. We've been pumping her full of herbs and nose spays and it is improving a little. Hopefully another week and we won't have to constantly carry a kleenex everywhere we go. She quite the little mother to Janey and loves to climb in her crib with her in the mornings. This week we even found her in the crib in the middle of the afternoon taking a nap. Funny girl, she climbed out at 18 months and wanted nothing to do with the crib and now she wants to be back in it. She also fell asleep in the couch this week. I had to take a photo. She couldn't have purposely positioned herself any funnier.

Hunter-I went to the BYU basketball game with my dad and brother. After the game we went down onto the court and got to slam the rims and got autographs from the players on our BYU baseball hats. I was so happy because I got to be with my dad and brother. On my birthday we woke up and my dad had put us in a jail made of string across our door. We went down and played on our new Wii fit that our uncle Don got us. We ate a Valentine's Breakfast and I got a box of Captain Crunchberry for my breakfast cereal. We went to the BYU Hall of Fame. My favorite was to see how tall Shawn Bradley was and to see how hight the highest volleyball jump was. That night was fun we made homemade pizza and got the rest of our gifts which included a flashlight lazer, spy kit and lots of football cards. There was even one with my picture on it. We watched National Treasure 2 which is one of my favorite movies.

Birthday Week!

Katy-This week I was in a Wax Museum. We had to be either a US President or someone in their family. Me and my friend Adi's president was Grover Cleveland. I dressed up as his daughter Ruth and Adi was his wife. It was kind of weird because I thought in a wax museum you would just stand still but in our wax museum the visitors could come and push your button and you would come to life and tell them about your president. It was fun standing still though. On President's day since there was no school Emily had her birthday party at the swimming pool with a few of her friends and I got to go with one of my friends. It was really fun swimming and the water was really warm. Yesterday I got to go to My freinds house that I don't get to go to very often. Her name is Rachel.

Jacob-My birthday was on the 14th. I turned 9 years old. I got a really cool army set with a boat, helicopter, guy, and gun from my grandma. Instead of a party I went to a BYU basketball game with my brother and my Dad. The game was fun. They won against the Colorado Rams. After we went down on the floor and some of the players sang us Happy Birthday and we got BYU t-shirts. It was so awesome. Before the game we got to get hamburgers and french fries. On our birthday we woke up and played and then went to the BYU Hall of Fame sports Museum. There were lots of Steve Young things and I wished I could have some of his football cards that we saw. I love football cards. I got a 4 packs for my birthday plus a folder to hold them. My mom even made me my own football card, "Jacob Brinley-Star BYU receiver".

February 8, 2009

Katy-Every other Friday at my school people come to teach different things. On Friday my class got to learn break dancing. We learned really cool moves. Also for Hope of America we are selling suckers during our lunch hour for a fund raiser. There are little cards on each sucker. All of the kids in every fifth grade class made a drawing to go on these cards and we voted on the best four. Mine was picked. It was a big heart that said "Happy Valentine's Day" with an arrow going through it. I also made a new friend and her name is Adi. She is in my class and she is really nice to me. I am in a city choir. Mr. Huish the director is really strict and makes us work hard. We are learning some really cool songs. I hope you have a great Valentine's Day!

Emily-This summer our whole family gets to go on a house boat with our Brinley Grandma and Grandpa and cousins. The houseboat has a slide on it and we will get to slide down in the water. We will get to sleep in the boat for 3 days. I am really excited. We are going to be there for Katy's birthday. This week in Girl Scouts we made cookies for two people in the neighborhood. It was fun to walk to their houses and take them cookies. We made Valentine cards for the people in the hospital. We were learning about being caring and considerate. I made cards for my family. i love to type. I love my family.

Alyssa-I like to play with Courtney and Molly. They are my friends. I like to do bubbles. I got a new car seat. I like to dance. I love hot dogs. I like toast and honey. I love to play with Emily. We play dress up and dance. I am a good helper to my mom. We found my birthday bike that was lost in the snow. Yeah! I really want to go to school. I have learned 12 of my letters and know my shapes and colors and some of my numbers. I love to go to grandma's house. I love to help my mom cook dinner. I liked going to the temple I thought all the things in there were pretty. I liked the chairs. I liked the curtains too. I like to change my clothes lots of times a day.

Janey-Janey broke her leg 2 weeks ago falling down the stairs but it hasn't slowed her down. She has a cute little pink cast. She crawled the first week but last Sunday figured out how to walk on it and has gone full force ever since. We can learn alot from a 1 year old about how to deal adversity. She is such a sweet girl. She loves pencils and pens and so far hasn't done too much damage to walls. She loves to play with her big sisters and brothers. She loves her sippy cup full of milk and a cracker or rice cake in hand. She finally hit the 20lb. mark so now faces forward in her car seat. She is a great sleeper both day and night, which mommy is very thankful for. Her curls keep getting bigger and softer and her smile is contagious!

Hunter-Last Friday we went to the Draper Temple open house. My favorite room was the Celestial room. After we went to Ty Davis' house to play. I was sad because Jake got sick and couldn't play with us. I was Steve Young for our school Wax Museum. I got to wear my friends BYU uniform with pads and a helmet. It was really tight on me. I had a hard time standing still when the people came through to see us. I kept changing position. I liked getting to tell my class about Steve Young after. I like to play basketball. We won our first two games. I made one basket. We lost our last two. I am a really good defender and yesterday I made lot of assists.