Fun, Fun, Fun here we come!

Merry Christmas Baby!

In the midst of Christmas Morning!

Christmas Day visit to Grandma and Grandpa "Darling"

The girls in their new coats

Bubba and his pirate ship

Hanie's Loot

(Missing the "million" LPS)

Bre's Loot

(Missing Ipod and Ihome)

Sam singing "Bad Day"

Dancing to Alvin and the Chipmunks

Tyler and Sam dancing and singing

Hanie hanging out at the cabin

Sam and Ty ready to go out and play

Sam and his cool goggles

Syd and Bre

Hanie and Dad

The gang

Christmas Eve shock!

An attempt at our Christmas card pic

(turned out great, huh! j/k)

Here is the real Christmas card!

Santa's visit to pre-school

Sam made the snowman all by himself!

It been very busy around here! We had a great Christmas spent with family. We also got to go up to Grandma's cabin and have fun playing Xbox, riding snowmobiles, and of course eating lots of good food and treats!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...........

Here are the beautiful lights I hung up this year!

I really loved hanging off the tip top of the roof

to put the top ones on!

Front Porch

Front Porch
Front Porch

Family Room Tree

All Homemade ornaments

Each year we paint a new ornament for our tree





Fireplace w/ Stockings
Living Room Tree

All White Ornaments

We have had fun putting our Christmas decorations out this year! Grandma let us borrow her LGB train to put aroung our tree this year. Luckily the novelty has started to wear off, we thought we were going to take it back the first day! Mommy was the lucky person who got to hang up the outside lights! After dangling off the little roof above the kids windows to hang the lights, she automatically voted that Dad gets to hang the lights from now on! We went over to Grandma Dutchie's on Sat. and Grandma invited us to paint ornaments. Sam painted 8! He painted them all orange or green. The girls each painted a couple of cute ornaments. Dad and Mom even painted one.

We feel very blessed this Holiday Season! We have so much to be grateful for!
We hope you all are blessed with the loving spirit of our Savior!

Playing Catch Up!

HaPpY HaLloWeEn!!!!!

Mommy's little "MoNsTeRs"

Jedi Sam

Penny (from Hairspray)

Baby Bre

We had a great Halloween! Bre was a Baby, Hanie was Penny and Sam was a Jedi. The girls are getting old and it makes me sad. They both ventured out with friends this year. Hannah came home with the "Motherlode"! Her bag was filled to the brim. Hannah went out with her friends, Anna and Jane. Breanna went with her friend Cassidy. Sam and Dad hit our neighborhood.

I made Sam's costume the day before Halloween...................yes, I am an idiot! Every year I tell Jeff that I am not making Halloween costumes, but then I hate to pay big bucks for ugly costumes! So, after coming home from our trip and getting ready for our first craft boutique, I manage to talk myself into sewing a costume. Stress reigned supreme at our house, and I was not pleasant to be around..................................so, next year I'm NOT making any Halloween costumes (ya, right?!?!?)

This week we have had a round of the sick bug. It seems like every Thanksgiving and Christmas someone is sick! I fill like shoving Vit. C down everyone's throat!

Tales of Our Trip & The "Fun" At Home

Jeff and I got to escape reality for awhile! It was GrEaT!!!!! We spent a week aboard The Mariner of the Seas. We were able to go with his family! We had soo much fun! Here are a few pics from our trip.

The Mariner of the Seas

The Gang checking out the ship

Haiti

Jerri Ann & Steph soakin' up the Sun

Baptismal Font at the Mayan Ruins

Grandma & Grandpa at the Mayan Ruins

Jeff & Me

There was an awesome spirit at the Mayans Ruins. As soon as I walked through the gate I could tell that I was on sacred ground. An incredible experience!

We had a great relaxing time!

Here's the gang, minus grandma & grandpa, who where busy in meetings!

Stephie, came and tended the kids! They love her so much! She had quite the time. Between her school test that kept changing, Sam opening the door on the freeway, Breanna's ringworm, Hannah's cold and all the other fun kid stuff, she said she isn't ready to have any babies in the near future! Sorry!

Weekend Wrap Up!

My Beloved Harvest Moon Beige w/ a Cream Convertible Top Slug Bug fund has been turned into a...........................................................

Dog Fund!!!

Our sneaky little kids turned my slug bug fund into a dog fund!!! They came downstairs last week and told me they had $30 to go towards a dog. I'm like, where did ya get the dough? "Uhhhhhhh(incredibly long pause) it use to be the slug bug money".

Then to "help" the situation, grandma gives them each $11 for cleaning! Thanks Mom!:P Well, they have about $55. Good thing the dogs they like are about 10 times that much! Jeff, isn't much help either, he takes them by the pet store, helps them look at puppies online. UGH!!

We Got Snow!!!!!

The kids were soo excited to look out the windows on Sat. and see it snowing!

The Mountains just above us are covered in snow! We went from Summer to Winter.......no Fall.

Jeff and I spent the weekend getting stuff ready to sell at the Quilted Bear in Provo. It has been a HiGh StReSs weekend! Tomorrow I will go in and sign a contract, give them my first born, and then set up! Wahoo! We will then see what the masses think! I am so nervous!

Daddy Daughter Date Night................Yee Haw!

Dad and Bre
Dad & Hanie

"Enough already" "Daaaaad!"
We are a happy Family



Jeff, Bre & Hanie went to the Stake Daddy Daughter Night on Friday. They all said that they had a great time. Bro. Hawkins spoke and Abbie bore her testimony. Jeff said that it had him choked up. Hannah said she had tears in her eyes when Abbie bore her testimony. They were taught a line dance, The Boot Scootin' Boogie. For refreshments they had pie and ice cream. When they came home they showed off their moves to me and Sam. Jeff was so pumped up that he had the great idea of installing wood floor in half of our family room at the new house, so we can dance. I think that is totally fine, since we are "never" going to build.