Allison @ 8 months

Allison is great with the army crawl and rolls!
She loves to clap!
Gives kisses
She almost has six teeth
22 lbs
She only likes rice cereal, Cheerios, Kix and Crackers
Plays peekaboo by herself with a blanket in her hands
Very determined when she wants something
We adore our little girl!
She is well LOVED!
And makes us all so happy :)

The Forgotten Carols - Michael McLean

Music that stays in the HEART & MIND of the listener!

Today is the day of listening to the lyrics -

"I cry the day that i take the tree down"

Having to say good-bye to Christmas for a few seasons, taking down decorations, the sights and smells all bring wonderful memories to the surface of joyful emotions and a few tears.

So many good times associated with the Christmas Season,

"surrounded by sweet memories"

Christmases celebrated with family

A Christmas celebrated with my Husband

The excitement of Christmas with my little children

"touched by love and things i treasure"

"I WANT THE SEASON TO LAST ALL YEAR ROUND"

I love the true meaning of Christmas! The gift of HOPE, we can always dream of a Christmas coming again once a year, we have hope in Christ who has given us this gift of Christmas. We have many things to look forward to in life and especially the day we HOPE for, the day we get to be with our Father in Heaven again and our Savior and loved ones. May the spirit of Christmas continue to be in your hearts because that is what can last ALL YEAR ROUND!

Baby Allison's first Christmas Ornament :)

Piano

We have a Piano in our home!

A Baldwin, console piano. It's just right for a beginner :) ME

i am so excited to start playing again. It has been a long time! The kids love it and we have already had many moments of sitting down together on the bench with Penny singing & Dallin letting me help guide his fingers. Today we were having fun with the simple melody of playing Head, shoulders, knees and toes. I am thrilled to have music in the home. Now it's time for lots of practicing!

Happy New Year

 

A few of my favorite things for 2010

Yummy Food - Chestnut wraps, PARTY mix

Snowmen

Watching the movie - Sound Of Music

Cute kids

Dear 2009

Top Ten List

Baby Allison
Her flower - Calla Lily , content as long as mommy is holding her, and growls instead of giggling.

Sweet Penny
loves puzzles, stubborn with lots of love inside too, will do anything for sugar

Dallin
loves his bike, bilingual kindergarten class, inventing things with garbage

Rolo
currently reading Screwtape Letters C.S Lewis, a Professional Engineer!!!

Staci
trying to stay sane raising three kids, it has not been easy but worth it! pocketing all of the baby's tax return, i have earned every penny this year ;)

Hobbies
Golds Gym, coloring, cleaning, holding baby, pathological photographer

Family
Reunions, amazing parents,
a mom staying with me for two weeks plus after having Allison
(a big shout out of Gratitude)

Friends
great examples

Love

Religion



It has been a blessed year!
&
We wish you a Happy New Year

A Magical Christmas

It is so fun to watch the excitement of Christmas morning!

We had a Merry Christmas and we hope everyone continues to enjoy the Holiday and soon a Happy New Year!

Twas the night before Christmas

Allison the curly elf

Delivering Goodies :)


can you tell which one is really sleeping?

The Christmas tree and snowflakes in the kids room......

& & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &

AND

TWAS

THE

NIGHT

BEFORE

CHRISTMAS

&

I

SAW

MOMMA

KISSING

SANTA

CLAUS

:)

MERRY KISSmas

Christmas Eve 2009

The kids are anxious for Rudolph to come tonight!! We will be painting pictures today for Santa:), baking some Ruldolph cookies and having a relaxing evening reading the scriptures and pondering on the True meaning of Christmas Eve! My heart is full in many ways and i am so grateful for this Christmas season!

Christmas Festivities

Sleeping by the Christmas Tree & reading Christmas stories

Baking lots of Goodies, (my little man dressed like a wiseman :)

Teaching the kids the importance of service and of giving gifts!

&

This morning i surprised the kids by waking them up with Christmas music from the train and a frosty the snowman BREAKFAST!

WE LOVE FROSTY
&
Now we are making lots of snowflakes so we can have a White Christmas :)

December 21st

Established 2002

reminiscing sweet memories of a beautiful winter day in Bountiful, UT

the Christmas season
the happiest time of the year
Favorite winter songs -- Later on, we'll conspire, As we dream by the fire, To face unafraid, The plans that we've made,Walking in a winter wonderland!

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe,

Help to make the season bright.

JOLLY Twins

DOUBLE THE TROUBLE :)

Dallin and Penny dressed up in matching clothes, they thought they looked pretty cute ;)

JOY

North Pole Express

Happy Days

its Dallin's birthday tomorrow and we started celebrating yesterday. Smiley cookies delivered to his kinder class yesterday. Decorated Rice Krispie TRAINS with candy last night with friends.



And today as a family we took a ride on the North Pole Express!

The train ride to the North Pole was GREAT! It was neat to ride on a train, it was smooth and fun. The train traveled along the payette river and it was beautiful. The river was iced over in some spots and a little snow on the mountains. The kids were given letters to write to Santa and a Christmas coloring book to color on our way to the North Pole. There were also a few carolers that came and sang with us and treats from the snack bar! When we arrived at The North Pole Santa was there to great us all. We had milk and cookies while we waited for our picture with Santa and then the kids were given a candy cane from Santa. It was freezing outside but they had a fire built and the carolers singing, a lot of Christmas cheer! It wasn't too long of a ride and the kids really enjoyed the adventure. Santa even visited more with the kids on the ride back. I was very impressed with the friendliness of all the workers. We had a wonderful time and we all loved it :)

Thanksgiving 2009

Life has been busy, busy! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family at our house.

Baby's 1st Thanksgiving

Sweet Baby
so glad you're here
to bring fun and smiles
to Thanksgiving this year

Sweet baby girl
look what you've done-
you've blessed our whole family
with love, little one!