Christmas Card

The Morrison Family: 2008 Update

Kerry has a new funeral home scheduled to open at the first of the year; and along with the new business venture comes increasing amounts of gray hair.
Natalie is kept busy as the Burley 11th Ward Primary President, and is also kept busy worrying about Carlie’s impending absence.
Carlie is awaiting graduation this May. She is kept busy with her managerial job at Kodiak Northwest and trying to decide whether to accept the offered tuition scholarships of BYU or Utah State.
Lacy started high school this year, and proved a valuable asset to the freshman volleyball team as their most reliable setter. Half of her male peers are looking forward to her 16th birthday.
Kasiah is in seventh grade this year. She started her first year of volleyball and excelled. She is a dedicated student and drama queen, and is still all smiles, all the time.
Hayden is in third grade. He is the teachers’ pet, sports star, animal lover, and singing/dancing fool in our family—and recently made his theatrical debut on YouTube!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,

The Morrisons

Hayden's On YouTube

Hayden and some of his school friends performed to "Once there was a snowman" for their final Christmas program at school, after performing throughout the community. Hayden is the one in the black hat and the sun glasses. He sure can dance! Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJnWjMfUzw

Halloween

I know, Halloween was a long time ago, but I decided to do a quick post anyways. Hayden dressed up as the Joker and Kasiah and her friend were pajama girls. We thought it would be fun to dress our dog up too! We all had a wonderful night.

More Funeral Home Pictures

Where the sign will be
Soon to be water fountain

Here are a few of our most recent pictures of the funeral home. It's coming along very quickly and we hope to be opened in a few more weeks!

Morrison Funeral Home

The mortuary....err....funeral home, is coming along nicely, and we have pictures to prove it!

Yes, looks can be deceiving, but this is the back....not the front.

The fireplace near the main entrance is finished--it's just that nothing around it is yet :-)

THIS is the front of the building. Tricky, huh?!

And this is a view of the parking lot and front of the building, from farther away.
Painting and carpeting are going to be started soon, and November is still the anticipated opening date. We're all so excited for my Dad!!!

Just an Update

Volleyball season is (finally) over! After long practices and even longer games, it all paid off for Kasiah with the last game of the season (pictured here). We're glad it's done, at least I am (no more picking her up after practices) but I think she is already waiting for next year to come. She was a real hustler....not to mention the cutest girl on the team. We're so proud of her!!!

My mom got this picture when I didn't know, and I figured I would let everyone else laugh with me....

This is the reason I couldn't ever participate in school sports. It would just take too much out of me!

But anyway.....kudos to Kasiah--we can't wait till next year!!

BYU @ USU

Yeah, the game got over with a long time ago, and we're just barely getting pictures up. But we did have a fun time watching BYU play Utah State in Logan.

USU was a very generous host. We got to stay in the brand new dorms, tour the campus, and get free t-shirts and ice cream! Hayden is posing (very cutely) with his Aggies blanket.

One of the highlights of our trip was getting to see our cousin Rachel, who just got engaged!

Lacy and Kasiah having fun at the game.

Hayden and Dad also having fun at the game

We all posed for a picture together right before we had to leave. What a fun family trip!

Homecoming Week!

We all had a blast during homecoming week. The most fun part about it was Carlie was nominated for a Homecoming Queen contestant. There were 21 girls in all. Carlie filled out a question ere sheet, and the first homecoming assembly she was escorted by Kyler Olson as they read the paper she filled out. The student body then voted the contestants they thought should be in the top ten. Carlie was one of them, so she got to be in the second assembly. She was escorted by her dad, and she also got to show a cute little slide show of her life. The girls also performed a VERY cute skit. Carlie didn't make it to the final three contestants, but she was perfectly fine with that. She still had so much fun, and that's what matters most. Carlie also played powder puff football, and of course everyone dressed up each day of the week. The next day, Carlie went to the homecoming dance. She went with Cody Stock. They went mountain biking for their day date, (Carlie wrecked and came back with some cuts) ate dinner, went to the dance for only about an hour, and then ended their date with the boys jumping off the train bridge! Brrrrrrr. She really enjoyed her night.

Carlie and Hayden

Top Ten Assembly

" Hippie Day"

Powder Puff Football

"Nerd Day"

Carlie with some of her friends at the first assembly

Carlie and Kyler

Carlie and Cody

Funeral Home

Here is what the funeral home looked like 2 or 3 weeks ago. It now has concrete, black top, siding, some of the rock done, and everything is sheet rocked. We don't have any pictures though, but hopefully we will get some soon. We are really liking how it's coming along and can't wait to see what it will look like in a month or so!

Senior Pictures

Carlie got some of her senior pictures taken yesterday. She still is going to get some more though. Here are just a few of the many that were taken. I love how they turned out. She is a beautiful young woman.

Bobcat Volleyball

Lacy and Kasiah had their first volleyball game of the year on the same day, at the same time in different gyms. They both are having a lot of fun playing. Lacy is the setter on her team. She does a really good job with that, not to mention she has a killer serve. Kasiah is picking up on it really quickly under Lacy's instruction. She is really playing well too. She is so little that her teammates call her their "baby" and have even have tried to pack her around like one. If you want to learn volleyball you better stop by our house around 7-8 at night, I'm sure they'll be in the back yard practicing. Go Bobcat Volleyball!!!

Twin Falls Temple Youth Cultural Celebration

The Youth Cultural Celebration was a great success. The kids worked very hard, with a lot of practice and most days a good attitude. On the night of Saturday Aug 24th it all paid off when they saw our dear prophet Thomas S. Monson enter the stadium in Filer. It was so neat to see the faces of all the youth and their smiles. I wish I could have watched it again. I thought our stake did an excellent job with their mexican dance. Kasiah and Lacy got to do a clogging special number with the Twin Falls and Filer Stake. They did really good on that too. We even saw our old neighbors the Garrards there, which was really fun. By the time we all got home Saturday night the girls were so dusty and Lacy's feet were bleeding from blisters, but so grateful we all got to be a part of it.

Cassia County Fair

Here are our pictures of our 2008 Cassia County Fair. The week went by fast. We had a lot of fun with pigs, performing on the free stage, and for the kids just hanging out with friends. Thank-goodness the weather was so nice. Another summer over.