Merry Christmas!!!

Dear Santa, Let me explain...

Christmas was soooo fun this year!! Zane's family came to visit us over the holiday and my only regret is that they weren't able to stay longer. The presents were overflowing and, of course, they were mostly for the kids. It was so fun to watch each of the kids open their presents. I think I had drilled it into Dalin's head that he wasn't allowed to touch the presents a little too well because I ended up opening most of his presents for him. He kept looking at me like, " are you crazy, I'm not supposed to touch those" He got a cozy coupe car from santa and has had more fun with it than I could have imagined! Ciara got quite a few elephants and several of the Barbie's and toys from the Diamond Castle movie and has loved playing with ALL of her toys. Dalin enjoys playing with Ciara's toys too but I think he's only doing it because it drives Ciara crazy, hehehe. Mom, George, Chantile, and Jasmine came over that evening and we had a great dinner and family home evening. It was great fun. We sang caroles and had a great lesson from Travis about the first vision. Here are some pictures from the crazyness.

New Blog

I've made it my New Year's Resolution to keep the family fitness journal blog up to date. We'll se how I do, try to keep me on top of it k? Anyway, if you want to check it out here's the link. I hope it helps and motivates you!
http://familyfitnessjournal.blogspot.com

Dalin's Big Day

I can't believe my little man is a year old. Here are some pictures of his big day. We had fun celebrating. Dalin had fun with the cake!! He was a little confused about the presents. I've been telling him NO any time he gets close the the Christmas presents so he couldn't figure out why I was letting him open some. He was quite hesitant so sister and I helped him. Enjoy the pics!

My Little Budding Artist

When we finished the basement we put our old kitchen table in the living room for Ciara to use as a "craft table". She has a lot of fun drawing and coloring and creating. I decided it would be fun to put all of her artwork on the wall above the table. I pulled all of her pictures that I've been keeping in a binder and we stuck them up on the wall. There ended up being a few more than I thought! Since taking the picture we have added to the wall. The art almost stretches all the way the the edge of BOTH walls.

Tis the season

It's been forever since I've blogged, it seems like I just updated it. So this is another catch up session. Thanksgiving was wonderful. We had so much fun in UT with all of our family. We did miss everyone that was here in MT. Ciara had more fun playing with her cousins that I thought possible. She wanted to go out everyday and jump on the trampoline, even if it was freezing out. Darci has some cute pics of the kids playing together. I tried to copy them to my blog but since they are in a slide show format it wouldn't let me. You can click on my link to their site if you want to see them though. We all, of course, ate too much and I even went shopping on "Black Friday" I didn't get up at O'dark thirty though, I'm not that committed.
When we got home we had a huge birthday bash for everyone. Matt's birthday was in November but we weren't able to get together. Zane and Jasmine's is the first, Griffin's is the fourth, and Dalin's is the tenth

Ciara addressed the card herself

Can you believe I'm married to a 30 year old?!

All the party goers

I can't believe my little man is going to be a year old in less than a week. This year has just flown by. At this time last year I was cursing the doctors for not inducing me...Actually my due date was a year ago today. Yes, he was late, just like his sister. But worth the wait.

Look at the toothy grin!

So, I'm gearing up for the holiday season, as I'm sure most of you are. I've been shopping and racking my brain for gift ideas for everyone on my list. The girls on the list are always easy, it's the guys that take forever. I never know what to get any of them. I've also been searching high and low for a nice nativity set that's not to pricey. I think I've ruined it though because I REALLY want the Willow Tree set so every other set is just not going to be good enough. The willow tree set is so expensive I can't bring myself to buy it. I need to just start with Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus, but I'm kind of an all or nothing kind of girl so it'll just bug me to not have the whole set.

This isn't the whole set but it's would be complete enough. The entire set is like $280.00, I just can't rationalize spending that kind of money on something I only have out for 30 days out of the year. Anyway, I've got a pile of presents to wrap and it's late so I better get on it.