High Pointer Club

Delaware

New Jersey

Carlton and Lindsey have joined the High Pointers Club. They made a family flag and they are attempting to hike to the high point of each of the 48 states. They are off to a great start with Delaware and New Jersey taken care. (You could drive to both of these places) It will get a little harder from here on out; and those in the West will take a little more effort. They are going to try and get to a lot of the Eastern stated while they are there for 4 years.



More info at highpointers.org

Andrew wins Sterling Scholar at DHHS

Andrew was selected to represent Desert Hills High School as this years Trade and Technical Sterling Scholar Winner! He had a high standard to live up to: Danielle was runner up to Science Sterling Scholar at PVHS, Lindsey was Dance Sterling Scholar at PVHS and Dawson won the Social Science category at DHHS. Hopefully all those nights of studying working toward good grades and activities that we encouraged, and leadership and service opportunities that the kids participated in have helped them not only to be good scholars but good citizens, as well!

Christmas Tree Hunt 2011

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On Saturday, December 3 we went on our traditional Christmas Tree Hunt. We were joined by the Suttner and Saaralainen families and friends. We stopped in Veyo to buy our tree tags. It was cold and snowy so we knew we were in for a colder than normal tree hunt.
Dan tried a rode down in a canyon thinking it would be protected from the cold wind. We went 4 wheeling and forged a river and bottomed out and dented Dan's truck a bit, but didn't find any worthy trees. So we went on up to our usual road that heads toward Pinto from Pine Valley.
We had to have the Suttners park their car and load in with us because the roads were snowing and slippery. There was a lot more snow than usual but we were prepared with snow gear so we trenched up the mountain in search of the perfect tree.
The Suttners and Saaralainen's found big, beautiful fluffy trees but we were all cold and tired the time we were looking for ours so we settled for a nice straight 10 ft. tree that would just need a little grafting.
We had yummy dips and chips, hot chocolate and rice krispie treats and of course shared a box of chocolates as per tradition. It was a great time and more Christmas memories were made. We had to hurry back down the mountain and get Andrew changed so he could play in his first Washington City league basketball game of the year. They won!