Masquerade 2013

Last weekend we had our annual home school gala here in Powell. It is for home school students ages 13+, alumni, and parents! It was a really fun event to get all dressed up and dance for the evening! The theme this year was "Midnight Masquerade".

Billings Montana Competition

Here are a few pictures from the tournament we went and competed at 2 weeks ago in Montana! They all got either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in sparring (fighting) and poomsae (forms)! Cori also received the "Best Female Competitor" award. It was a pretty successful day for the Siggins family!

Taekwondo Demonstration

This is our part of the demonstration I coordinated for our Taekwondo Tournament here in Powell in March =) All 6 of us got to do this part together!

In the box!

This is a box from one of the Christmas presents and Charity decided she wanted to see if she could fit... well she did! She is pretending she's stuck. Quite the facial expressions this girl has!

Christmas!

This is Christmas Eve and these girls were READY for Christmas as you can tell!!

Tree...take 2

After about a week with the first Christmas tree it died on us! The girls were all pretty bummed so we went and bought a new tree downtown. Not exactly sure what we did wrong with the first one, but it didn't last long!  This is the second tree we bought, and it lasted for quite awhile! The memories from getting the first tree were pretty great, but we probably need to do some research on keeping it alive =)

December update

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to give you an update as to what has been going on at the Siggins house this month!

All of us kids have been very busy all month finishing up with school for the semester! Carol and I have midterms due this week and the rest of the girls are finishing some last assignments before the next semester starts.

Dad and Colby have been busy working. My brother actually works for my dad now! He's basically like my dad's assistant, which is awesome.

My mom has been busy taking care of our family... 9 people! Yes, it's as crazy as it sounds sometimes! =) She does an incredible job though, and none of us can figure out how she does it! 

We have been preparing for Christmas; lights, ornaments, decorations, goodies, parties, and more! We are planning on having Christmas here which hasn't happened in years, so we are looking forward to just being at the house during the holidays. 

Hope you all are doing well!

Merry Christmas!

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." ~Isaiah 9:6

Red Belt

The last taekwondo test in November Charity and I both passed! Charity now has her bumblebee belt (Yellow with a black stripe) and I have my red! That's the second red belt we have in the family... Hopefully one day we will all have black! 

Here is a picture of the new red belt!

Christmas Tree Hunting

This past week we went up to the Big Horns to cut down a tree! This is the first real tree we've had in years. Normally we just take our tree out of the box and put it all together but now that the younger girls are getting big enough to bear the freezing cold to go get one we decided to cut our own this year! Here are a few pictures from our adventure =)

These girls were ready to go!

Trudging through the snow. It was 3 feet deep in some places!

The spectacular view from the top.

Dragging the trees back! (One for the grandparents and one for us!)

Tada!

Mission accomplished.

This is what most people call red neck, but it totally worked! =)

Family Pictures

We recently had our family pictures taken by a good friend of ours here in Powell who is a photography major. This is just one, but be expecting a Christmas card over the holidays with more! =)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever." ~Psalm 118:1~

Hey everyone! Just wanted to apologize for the lack of updates recently! I took a trip to Georgia to visit a friend of mine for 10 days, and things have been crazy around here since I got back. I will be writing a post about my trip soon, but I don't have all the pictures yet, so I'm going to wait till then. I included the most recent picture of the girls and I in this post just because though (sorry the quality is bad, it was taken on my computer!). Also, we have some exciting news! No, there's no baby coming haha =) We got our family pictures taken earlier this week, so we will be posting those very very soon! And the plan is, to send out some Christmas cards this year too... But we'll have to wait and see on that one. =)
Hope you are all doing well!

Cori

The New Belt

Here's a picture of Charity with her new belt and certificate she received a few weeks ago! =) So proud of that girl... she did great!