McKay won Region Championship in PF debate!

As most of you know McKay has now been on the WXHS debate team for about 1 1/2 years. He took 5th in State last year in Congress and he had many other wins last year too. Well this year he deiced that he was going to try some new and he changed categories, which you normally do not do on the Debate team. You start the 3 years with one place and stay there. But not McKay. He wants to try and get a scholarship in Debate so he deiced to try and do PF = Pubic Forum. In PF you have a partner and you debate together. McKay's debate partner is a guy named Tuscan.

When they go on "stage" Tuscan write all the facts down and sets the case and McKay is the closer. They have met teams that have debated for almost 3 full years together and beat them. And like the title of this post stats they are Region Champions.

There were 6 schools and many PF teams and McKay and Tuscan beat them all. They are very "young" together and both Juniors. They competed at Varsity Level and many times are the underdog. But they did it, they took Region ;o) They were the best team from WXHS too!!

 The little coin says Region Champs in PF 2012. Way to go McKay and Tuscan!

Next week they are going to the National Qualifier to see if they can make it to Nationals. Here they are true young and the under dogs but you never know!!

McKay going to Sweethearts Dance at Woods Croos High School!

As you have seen McKay was asked to go to the Sweethearts Dance with a good friend. The Teenagers over here do this a lot. They ask their friends not just the ones they have a crush on:o) So this time McKay went with a friend.

McKay and Ashley ready to go to the dance. And see he is even wearing a PURPLE tie:o)

They ALWAYS go as a group to the dances and here is the people McKay went with. Do you see the girl in the "peach" dress. That is Baylee McKay's "girlfriend" :o) They went together for the Christmas Dance but you never go with the same girl twice in a row so he has to look at her from afar :o)

McKay had a great time and he is beginning to like dancing better. He was a little worried at the first dance but now he is going out there and giving it all like he does with most things in life :o)

McKay was asked to Sweethearts Dance

We heard a knock on the door and Lulu went barking like crazy as always and this is what we found outside our door:o)

A heart attack was on our door..... McKay was asked to go to the Sweethearts Dance.

This was from one of McKay's good friends Ashley.

 Hearts all over what a cute idea.

We answered back with 7 windmills 3 feet tall (About 90 cm) and a poster. We wrote "I would be blown away to go to the dance with you". On the "wings" of the windmills it said yes,yes, yes. We put those in her yard and the poster by her front door. I wish I would have gotten a picture it looked so cute!!

Saturdays at the Holbrook home!

I will have to make a statement you really should be a dog in our home. Here are a few pictures so you can see why ;o)

This is what we found when Lincoln and I can home from the Coop on a Saturday morning! Look at them both they are for sure not working too hard or have gotten up early :o)

Look at Lulu here. She is piled up like the on a body pillow and wrapped up in her very favorite blanket. It is the one Mika got at her graduation from High School and Lulu LOVES it. Can you see Mika has put Birdie right in there with Lulu :o)

 Can you find her-Lulu here? She is warm and toasty with Mille :o)

Again see Lulu tugged in on top of a pillow and Lincoln working. Like I said from these pictures you can easy see, that you should be a dog in our home :o)

Millika at her 2nd Indoor Track meet at Weber State University!

Millika went to her 2nd Indoor Track meet at Weber State University in Ogden. This meet is harder because the track is very short and that way there are a lot of turns which makes it a little harder.

Today Millika was going to run in the 800 meter's race. She is a distance runner so these indoor meets are harder for her. But she did good.

There were 47 girls running and she took 16th place. She ran the 800 Meter in  2 min 39 Sec. and that is again a PR for her. She is starting to like track but her heart will always be with Cross Country, and my heart is there too :o) And she took 2nd place in her heat, way to go Mille.

The girl in the black on the inside by Mille took 1st in the heat and Mille took 2nd

Hugs from her good friend Haily after the race ;o)

Millika's FIRST ever indoor Track meet at BYU

Millika went to her first ever indoor track meet at BYU - Smith Field-house in Provo. She was going to run the mile (1,6 KM) and this was a distance she is not always the best at. Her best is about 3 miles/5 KM.

There were 86 girls running and she was really nervous for this first meet. She has been so use to being the fastest and now here was a new challenge.

Well she did pretty good. She ran the mile in 5min 53 sec and that was a PR (personal record) for her. She came in as the 2nd fastest from Woods Cross High School and as number 28 out of the 86 girls that ran. Not too bad for her first race at the High school level in the mile distance.

This is totally what she looks like when she comes in close to the finish line in a sprint. It is so fun to see her run.

Christmas 2011

Better late than never. Here are finally a few pictures from our wonderful Christmas season. We had one of the BEST times ever as a family and enjoyed every minute together! Of course we missed Mormor and Morfar but that is life!

Grandma have a great time. We all enjoy the time so much!

Grandpa opening up one of his gifts. See the pretty candles :o)

McKay and Millika got the came they wanted for months. I guess they like it :o)

American tradition Christmas socks! The sock was just not big enough :o)

Lulu was helping McKay open up his sock! 

Mille opening her sock, maybe she got a thimble in the mass of gift! 

Mika's harvest for Christmas 2011. She got a few things:o)

McKay's harvest for Christmas 2011. He did get a few clothes and he is okay with that now!

Millika's harvest for Christmas 2011. See the 2 pineapples. Yes, she does love to watch Psych ;o)

 We were thinking about mailing Lulu over to Morfar. But we would miss her too much :o)

We had, like I said before, one of the very BEST Christmases in years. We played, relaxed and just enjoyed being together as a family!