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!

Labor Day Weekend!

We spent Labor day at the lake this year! Big Horn lake is about 45 minutes away and we all love spending the day there! We also went to Big Horn canyon afterwards, which is gorgeous! Here are a few pictures from that day! =)

Optimist Camp

One of the best parts of my summer was this camp I helped at for a week. Its the third year I've been a counselor there and I absolutely LOVE it!
The Optimist Special Children's Camp takes place at the Lions Club facility near Red Lodge, MT. The camp is available to children with special needs ages 8-21, and approximately 50 campers attend each summer. The Optimist Camp is offered at no cost the the children and their families.
This really an incredible life changing experience. Its a lot of work, and by the end of the week all of us counselors are completely exhausted but it is SO worth it! The kids look forward to this camp all year... for one week they are loved, and excepted by everyone. We do activities with them, play games, have a carnival, a dance, and pretty much just spend the whole week making sure these kids have the time of their lives. Here is a 2 pictures from my week there. One of them is of my campers and other counselors in my cabin that week. There are about 3 counselors to every cabin and each cabin has about 5 kids. The other picture is with one of the kids who called me his girlfriend all week! The whole week he followed me around like a shadow, so someone snapped this picture for me at the dance we had during the week =)

California

Carol and I (Cori) went to Cali in June with a bunch of kids from our church for a youth conference there. It was the second time I had been to the conference, but Carol's first time. We absolutely loved it! We drove down there in our van with 9 other people. We left on a Thursday, got there Friday morning, spent Friday Saturday and Sunday there, and then Monday at the beach, then drove home Monday night and ended up back in Powell Tuesday evening! It's quite a drive but totally worth it! Here are a few pictures from our trip. We didn't take as many as I would have liked to but some is better then none I guess!
The pictures are of the beach on Monday, me at lunch with 2 of my friends I had met there, and Carol and I at the beach! =)