Finally a new post to the Roderick blog!

I'm finally taking a minute to update the Roderick blog. We have been busy, as usual. I'll give you a little update on each of us.

Chad played 3 on 3 basketball this year. It's a lot of jungle ball. In this picture, they are trying to figure out the difference between wrestling and basketball. (He's the one on the floor.)

Chad started wrestling a few weeks ago. He and his dad are having a great time with this. He has won some and lost some. Whenever he loses, he always thinks the other guy is "cheating." Jeff has been waiting a long time to have a son he can help wrestle. We can only hope that Chad will enjoy it as much as Jeff does!

Morgan has been taking dance this year in Rexburg. She has really enjoyed it and done very well. She got to perform at half time of a basketball game at Madison.

Morgan also played basketball. Jeff coached her team. She loves having her dad coach. She really surprised us how agressive she was. She progessed a lot!

Mataia (#4) is back in volleyball season. She has had 4 tournaments in Salt Lake and they have done pretty well. It's fun to see how much they are learning and getting better each week. We have 4 tournaments left in the season - two local ones and two more in Utah.

How did this happen? Our little girl is not little anymore. She had her first night dance at the Junior High in December. She looked more like 16 than 12! She was beautiful and had a great time! This is a picture of her and her friend, Joslyn before the dance.

We are big American Idol fans around here. The girls are especially fond of David Archuleta, the runner up on last years' season. (They call him David Hotchuleta!) He had a concert in Pocatello and we got tickets and took the girls and a friend. They had a ball! Jeff and I had a ball watching the girls! In the above picture are Morgan, Mataia, Peytan Crapo and Bradyn Bartschi.

Kace is still mom's little buddy! We are both enjoying our time together while the other kids are in school. He has preschool twice a week and we both enjoy that also!

Kace LOVES his big brother, Chad! They are such good friends. He is Chad's little shadow. Kace is still a little clown. He says some funny stuff and keeps us all laughing. He pretty much gets whatever he wants, too!
Jeff's twin brother Joe and his family came to visit over New Year's. It was tons of fun playing in the snow and hanging out with them. This was a picture at the nearby sand dunes where we went tubing. Left to right: Morgan, Jeff, Kace and Joe.

Kace really took a liking to Uncle Joe while they were here. He wanted Joe to sit and watch him play the Nintendo DS for hours. I think Joe kinda likes him, too!

We are ready for spring to show up here in Idaho! We thought we were done with winter, but then Mother Nature hit us with a full on blizzard yesterday. We have had a couple nice days where the weather teases us with what is to come. Mataia informed me yesterday that there's only 45 days of school left until Summer Vacation. Yahoo! I'll try to keep this updated a little more often......no promises, though!