HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

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Our Shocking News for 2011:

We are MOVING asap.. We found out shortly after Christmas that the rental we are in not only has a major roof leak that has completely rotted out beams by our front door and is covered in moldy insulation; But the sump pump under our house was not working and there are several large puddles of stagnate, mold covered water dispersed throughout the entire crawl space. In light of this new information and the lingering illnesses we've been experiencing since all of this was discovered has led us to want to "get out of dodge". We have been searching the classifieds to find a place and have gone to several potential homes only to be disappointed with them. However, it seems Heavenly Father has sent a major blessing as a home which is very comparable to our old house in Eagle Mountain is available for us to rent starting the 1st of February if not sooner. The family renting it to us are really wonderful people and we are excited to be working with them.

We are really looking forward to this new year in the hopes that it will be filled with more wonderful memories and maybe just a smidgen less stress than 2010. Dave and I have set goals to get in shape and have a killer summer so that we can take the kids to Disneyland next fall. The kids are going to work hard to excel in school, which they are already achieving. The Babies are going to work on growing strong and playing hard. All in all I think we have all set achievable goals for this new year. Hope this new year is a better year than last year for you too!

Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We spent the week leading up to Christmas learning about the Savior's birth, making homemade puzzles for Santa, baking yummy goodies and watching movies. Chirstmas Eve day we got the house all ready for Meme, Popop and Ali to come stay with us. That evening we ate a yummy Pot Roast dinner and then decorated sugar cookies and fried fattinman. Just before it was time to go to bed the kids opened their Christmas jammies and Christmas books.
Jocelyn drew Santa on his Sleigh with Rudolph out front leading the way.
Ethan drew the toy Big Foot in the mountains with snow falling all around.

Showing off the new jammies.

SANTA CAME!!!

The kids woke up bright and early Christmas morning and ran downstairs to check things out before waking mommy and daddy up. Luckily Santa had left out two new Leapster Explorers which allowed mommy and daddy to get an extra half hour of quiet time before the unwrapping craziness began.

Eventually Christmas was rough on daddy as well as Preston.Caitlyn was helping mommy clean up after all the craziness was over. She is such a funny girl.

Snow Day :)

Honestly, our winter has been pretty pathetic here in the "Arctic North". It has been fairly warm so we've had a lot more rain than snow. However a few days before Christmas we did get a few inches so we bundled up all the kids and let them go crazy in the backyard. This was Caitlyn's first legitimate experience in the snow and getting to play with it. She had a great time.

She fell down quite a bit because she still isn't the strudiest of walkers.

She thought pushing the snow around was about the coolest thing ever.

5 months old

Time is just cruising by and my littlest man is 5 months old. He is becoming much more active and social. He laughs and smiles most of the time. He still does not sleep through the night which is pretty rough on mommy. We started introducing solids this month and so far he is a big fan of squash. Here are some fun pictures of playtime...