Moving Week

I just had to take a quick break from packing to post this. It really cracked me up...I hope it makes you laugh too!

Oh, we're moving to North Y Mount housing (BYU campus in Provo, Ut) this Saturday. More pictures to come.

She's a Natural Ballerina

Maren wears her adorable tutu Grandma Bryce gave to her for Christmas, made by Katy Bryce. I turn on classical music and she dances away. I thought it would be fun to put her in ballet, but I'm afraid "they" will ruin her natural abilies. I love to watch her dance, I forget all about what I need to be doing and watch Maren dance. She is so graceful and beautiful and I love her so much!

This is my favorite...so Angelic, so Graceful, so Peaceful.

Here Comes the Sun!!
When we got home from Arizona, it was cold. Have you ever seen the temperature in your car read -5? Well, I did and it was scary. It snowed for several days and the clouds would not go away!

Finally, the sun came out to play and so did we!

Snow Angels

Eating snow, aka, keeping well hydrated.

After Jorden got home from school we went

outside again and shoveled the driveway

Look at all that snow! You Arizona people are thinking "how pretty" right? Well, not when it's 14 degrees at 9am and you're taking your daughter to preschool, loading up all 3 kids, and scraping your car, getting the car unstuck, and driving on ice. Okay, so I need to make an attitude adjustment about snow. The sunny days are really fun....I just hope there's enough to keep me sane through the winter!

Christmas & New Years in Arizona

We were very blessed to spend 2 weeks in Arizona with our families. This year all my siblings and their families were there! My mom and dad, 7 kids, 4 spouses, and 8 grandchildren. For New Years we had 2 parties with the Marbles, Biglers, and Friends. Enjoy!

Christmas Eve in our matching pjs. Jeff&Jenn's family not pictured because they were feeling sick, sorry, I just had to post the picture anyway! Love you.

Bryan and Maren


Christmas Morning

Success: Celiese with all of her gifts at one time.

Luke's first Christmas...feeling better after
4 days of antibiotics (he had 2 ear infections)

Maren, Olivia, Chelsea New Years Pary 2
Rook Tournament
Dad&Mom VS Scott&Johanne

Celiese&Ella

New years pary 1
Some of my favorite people

Lani, Becky, Me(of course), Mary

Luke&Ethan

Luke loves him!

Maren loves to follow Olivia around

and play with her all day!

Celiese painting her chair

Maren painting her chair

Grandma Bryce had chairs for the girls to paint and

they really enjoyed it!

Uncle Bruce reading a story

Four of the Five babies born last year!

Luke, Haley, Jackson, Brayden

Swimming in December in Grandma&Grandpa's Pool

Luke getting to know his Nana.

Maren, Celiese, & Wyatt Jumping

New years: the pinata line

Maren hitting the pinata

Marble Nutcracker Suite

A video of Maren leading the orchestra and Celiese preparing the dinner theatre.

Cast Members

Clara/Conductor - Maren Marble

Little Brother - Luke Marble

Sugar Plum Dancer/Waitress - Celiese Marble

Nutcracker - Nutcracker Doll

Once upon a time....(to be exact...Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 around noon)

"Clara" recieves a beautiful Nutcracker Doll from her Grandma Bryce in the mail. She chreishes and kindly takes care of the christmas colored soldier.

She dances the day away with her new friend hoping to never be seperated.

When suddenly, her little brother gets a hold of the Nutcracker's arm and begins to eat it (for it was just the thing for a teething baby)!



"Clara" sees her joyful brother and continues to dance and enjoy the day.

The "Sugar Plum Princess" was glad to dance alongside "Clara" and feed the lunch guests PBJ's, apples, cumcumbers and--of course--milk.


The End

What's for Dinner??

This is funny...I had just decided to come blog when I saw Luke in the fridge! He crawled over and opened the fridge all by himself...poor kid, only 9 months old and already having to fend for himself (because he's the third child we forget to feed him sometimes). But really...this shows he is very self sufficent and maybe he'll be a great cook like his Uncle Vance! We hope you enjoy the contents of our fridge....ketchup anyone?

Happy Turkey Day!!



This year we had Thanksgiving with just our little family. We really enjoyed cooking and eating together. We missed the gila valley and our families but had fun anyway. Jorden helped out a lot with the cooking and did most of the dishes as well. Celiese helped make the jello and Maren helped by playing with Luke.

We are very grateful this year for all the blessing Heavenly Father has given unto us. He has blessed us with wonderful family and friends who help and support us. Thank you all for your love and encouragement! We're grateful to have food, vehicles, beds, health, and so much more. When we think of our many blessings each day it helps us remember how fortunate we are to have the neccessities of life and the joy of children in our lives. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and we missed you lots!

Weekend at Bryce Bed and Breakfast

This weekend we visited my brother Jeff and his family in Payson, UT. We stayed Thurs, Fri, and Sat night and going to church with them today. Hannah is 2 and Celiese and Maren had lots of fun together. Leah is their baby, 5 months. (luke was asleep when the picture was taken) We played tea party, went to the park, and read books. It's fun to get to know Jenn and my nieces better. It was nice for the girls and I because Jorden had a lot of studying to do. Jorden has 3 tests this week! He got an A on both his chemistry and calculus tests last week. Yeah! We're very proud of him. It snowed again Tuesday and it's been pretty cold...but we're getting used to dressing warm and going outside anyway. Love you all..hope you have a great week!