New Year's Eve

Today was really pretty. There was snow on the mountains and lots of clouds but the sky was so blue. I liked the sunset too. We don't have any big plans for tonight. We are just going to play some games and stay home, I don't have to work until tomorrow night. Not very exciting!

Happy Birthday Judy!!

Night Snowboarding

Colton snowboarding on the rails last night at Brighton. I don't know how they can stand to be out in the cold for 10+ hours a day, but they just can't get enough of it. He is getting really good and is anxious for me to go with him, I am afraid of breaking my leg though! I bought some passes so I will have to go pretty soon.

Christmas Day

I got up early and got ready for work and then woke up the kids at 7. They just hurried and opened presents so I wouldn't miss anything. I told them that they would have all day to play with everything. I worked until 5pm and then we went to dinner at the Taylor's house. We played air hockey and other games. It was a lot of fun. I even made eggnog pie, I think they liked it too! Chris built a stand for the tree last week, YEA!! Thank goodness I have great neighbors here. The Bullmore's were going to come and visit this week from Flagstaff but the forecast shows snow every day for the next week so they decided they better not come. The roads get really bad over the mountains so it is probably a good idea if they don't. We are disappointed though.

Christmas Eve

First thing this morning we went to clean the church with 2 other families. The Taylor's went with us and when we were finished we went to lunch at a new Chinese restaurant close to our house, it was good. We went to watch "National Treasure" and when we came out of the theater it was snowing and the wind was blowing really hard. It did make for a nice white Christmas morning. We came home and the kids each opened a pair of pajamas. You can finally see Colton without braces. These are just snow covered flowers in the front yard, they looked kind of cool.

Colton Snowboarding

Colton has been snowboarding 3 times this season so far. He would go every day if I would let him. He took these pictures last weekend but he resized them so they are kind of hard to see. Colton is wearing the Jazz jersey, Chad is in the green and white, and Dillon is wearing red. I am waiting for the day that he breaks something. I just tell him to make sure he tells the ambulance to take him to my hospital! Oh ya, Colton got his braces off last month but he hasn't let me take any pictures of him showing teeth yet.

All of us at Temple Square

I'm not sure why we don't have any pictures of Corey but she was there! I'll take some better pictures of everyone looking at the camera next time. Those were pictures that the kids took.

1) Chris and Shelbi

2) Courtnie

3) Preston

4) Erika and Colton

5) Keaton

6) Erika and Shelbi

Temple Square

For family night this week we went to downtown Salt Lake to see the Christmas lights at temple square. We went with the Cederholms and went to a Vietnamese restaurant for dinner. It was really cold but very beautiful, we had a good time.

Christmas Lights

We are getting excited for Christmas. We had our Christmas tree up before we went to Arizona for Thanksgiving. The girls brought all the boxes up from the basement and put it together themselves. The tree has since been knocked down by the dog and the stand broke so we don't have a nice tree now! It is leaning against the wall in hopes that my neighbor Chris has a brilliant plan to build a new stand so we can have a tree for Christmas. The Cederholms (Chris and Courtnie) also put up our lights outside while we were out of town. What great neighbors we have!

Mike's Birthday

December 8th.
Mike's birthday, it is one of those hard days but we try to make it a happy day instead of a sad day. We made a cake and sang happy birthday. We like to do this every year, just a little way to remember him on his special day.

December 1

This is the first real snow that has fallen this year. Erika made a good attempt at shoveling the drive but she didn't get very far. Rico loves the snow too.