Ivan Seth Jones

In case you haven't heard, Ivan joined our family last month.
You can check out our blog for pictures and what not.
Take care!!!

Derby Cars

I'm tired of looking at Kevin's family, so I thought I would throw these up for fun. Feel free to add shots of your own cars.

Brant

Kevin and Lisa's Christmas Letter

We emailed this letter, but for those of you for whom we don't have email addresses, enjoy! To view a larger image: click on the image, then use "CTRL +" to zoom even more.

Braxton's Baptism

Braxton had a great baptismal service. Thanks to all who participated and attended.

Trick...or treat?

I think it's a treat, but I'm not in the video :) Enjoy!

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Hambrick Photos 2009

Here we are trying to look like we get along. Another year has come and gone and we've grown older and wiser...and here are the pictures to prove it!

Our Recent Summer Vacation

We recently went on a summer vacation through seven states (CO, WY, UT, ID, MT, WA & OR). Our trip brought us into contact with a lot of family members, some unexpectedly (see the picture of us with Clint and Jen on the BYU-Idaho campus). We also stopped at eight temples, including the Oquirrh Mountain open house. It was a great trip. Thanks to all who allowed us to visit with them. Kevin, Tiffany, Tara and Lacey's kids at Robinson Lake Park, outside of Moscow. I won't try to name them all. I remember seeing similar pictures about 25 years ago.

Summer fun. Braxton, Raya (crying), Koper, Weston and Kanyon. (Braxton and Kanyon get their muscular build and dark complexion from their dad).

BYU-Idaho campus: totally deserted on this weekend except for Clint and Jen.

You can see how excited our kids were to visit each temple.

Visit to the Homestead

Our New Addition

Maura Backlund Zirker was born on Sunday, July 12. She weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. and was 19 inches long. She and Jaime came home Tuesday to join the rest of us on summer vacation.

trouble deciding what's for dinner?

A friend and I recently started a cooking blog and I wanted to invite/persuade/encourage you all to go look at our delicious recipes! Most of them are pretty simple and fast (note-I said MOST. I do occasionally throw something tricky or a bit more lengthy on there. It's always worth it though). We make "normal" food, and foreign food, and side dishes, and lots of dessert and other stuff (click on the links...I'm trying to tantalize you with a sample of some of our favorites). Check it out!

http://twolittlechefs.blogspot.com/

What?!

Kanyon said to Lisa the other day, "Hey mom, look, I'm a barber pole!"

The Do You Know? Game

You can run, but you can't hide from the Zirker Clan...

After almost a year here in Vegas, Buddy's finally sitting down and getting to know some of the men in Elders' Quorum. We have more than a few Physical Therapists in our ward, and one of them happened to strike up conversation with Buddy today. He's planning to open up a clinic near Moses Lake, so Buddy threw out Warden. Turns out he grew up in Warden. So, naturally, Buddy mentioned the good Zirker name. And you can bet your bottom he knew Zirkers! He specifically mentioned Brant & Erik, so he may be around your age. Anyway, his name is Chris Cox...ring any bells? And while we're on the subject of people who know Zirkers, we had some wardmates from Provo move to Moscow for grad school last year. I can only assume that one or more of you have run into the Crandalls, and I was curious.

If you're not humming "It's a Small World" yet, feel free to start now.

Happy Easter!

In case you forgot what the kids looked like. Lisa made the girls' dresses.

Hallee's Big Donation

The blurry shot above shows how long Hallee's hair was previous to a week and a half ago. She was growing out her hair to donate to Locks of Love. Last Wednesday we returned home with 2 long pony tails to mail off.

It's Official

Well as many of you know we were expecting that we would be having to move this summer. We have really enjoyed our time here in Omaha and have been sad about the prospect of moving. It is now official and I must admit we were really stunned when we found out but now we are pretty excited. We know we have to make the best of every situation that comes our way and we really think that we can enjoy the next five years of our lives. Now living in Omaha we didn't expect people to come and visit us but in this tropical paradise we better have a few more visitors. So any guesses???????? Drum roll please we are moving toooooooo Miami. All are welcome. We will let you know more details as they come our way.

My latest project that needs help...

I entered this, my finished project into a felt food photo contest. WIll you please go vote for me!

http://www.buggabugs.blogspot.com/ Click the #13 bubble on the left side. Sorry if you're hearing this twice but I could really use the votes. I could win free patterns to make more felt food. it's an obsession right now!--Lisa

Who'll Break the Ice?

This blog has been a little inactive for the last month so I thought we would post. Anyone out there aware that today is Lacey's b-day? I would have called her but I fell asleep on the bed around 8:30. Sorry Lacey.

Here are a few pictures.
This first one is of the new Ochre Hills temple in Herriman (or Riverton), Utah. We were out there last Sunday for Lisa's grandmother's funeral.


Braxton in the tree in our front yard.

Raya either smelled something funny or did something smelly.

Adria eating a cupcake at the school carnival.

Kanyon doing the same.

Take care ya'alls.

Just Some News

How do you announce that you are going to have #6? We are looking for any suggestions. I guess you could post it on a family blog for all to read.

Our family is looking forward to welcoming a new addition in July.

Las Vegas

The winter weather here in Provo sent us to Las Vegas last weekend in search for some sun. We went with cousin Amanda stayed with Brandon and Michelle. We did end up having one sunny day and we used it to take a look at the Hoover Dam (surprisingly enough we didn't find the Allspark, but we did find one very posh men's room in one of the towers on top of the dam). We did the usual, spitting off the dam and laughing at t-shirts with dam jokes on them. Brandon and Michelle were excellent hosts and we would recommend their very cold pool and very warm hot tub to anyone.

Hi from Moscow!

I am really bad at this and the last time I tried to post to a blog I couldn't get a picture to load, so we will see how this goes. We had an awesome Christmas with our three daughters here and no sons. No, I don't mean that it was awesome because our two sons weren't here--I mean it was awesome because our three daughters were, but it would have been better if the sons had been here also. Anyway, it was a fun week full of baking gingerbread houses . . .


Christmas pageants that included stray animals such as tigers . . .


Playing with grandpa's new toys . . .


And meeting new friends . . .


Yes, Amanda brought Mat Taylor home for us to meet and as you can see we really made good use of him. He is a great babysitter and, as the kids learned, slightly ticklish. We thought he was great and can't wait to bring him back to Moscow when the weather is slightly less snowy. All in all it was a great holiday, and I have been sad to see it end. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.