Happy New Year, welcome to 2010!!

It's that time of year again to reflect on the past year and look forward to what the new year will bring. It's also time to make those new years resolutions that most of us never keep. I thought this year if I think of realistic goals, ones I know I can do, then maybe I will be able to keep them.

This year my goals are SERVICE. Serving my husband, my children, my family, in church, and those around me. I think this is a realistic goal. Its hard to be unhappy when you are serving others and when we are serving others we learn to love them more. FAMILY, spending more time with my family and strengthening the bonds that are already there. Last, but not least BEING PREPARED. I have been working on this one for years, but I don't feel any closer to being done yet. This will be the year that I will finally get our 72 hour kits complete. I don't want to only be prepared with the necessities, I also want to be spiritually prepared as well.

These are my New Years Resolutions, I'll let you know how it goes.

Merry Chirstmas

We hope ya'll had a Merry Christmas. I love this time of year and the spirit that is here. I love to see the excitement on my childrens faces and to smell all of the wonderfuls smells of christmas, but I especially love being with family and friends.

On Christmas Eve it started to snow and Carson came running over to me to tell me. He said, "Mom, it's snowing outside, it must be a Christmas miracle!" I had to laugh because it was so sweet. It doesn't snow much in Texas if at all and he thought this was a miracle to get snow for christmas. It helped him feel like the Christmas' he had experienced in the past. It was like a little bit of home here in Texas so I guess in a way, to him it was a Christmas miracle. I wish everything else could be so simple.

























We told our kids they couldn't come down until 8 am (mean I know) since Payton wouldn't be awake yet, but by 7am the boys were downstairs oohing and awing over all the presents and what they thought might be inside each of them. By 7:30 we were opening presents. We were too tired to fight back.





















We had to wake Payton up on christmas morning, so she was still sleepy when we brought her in the family room. We were so excited to see how she would react to opening presents and to seeing her pink coupe car, but she was still sleepy so we just set her in it and she just sat there for a while, then we tried to give her other presents to open, but she just wanted to sit there in her car, and to even think about trying to take her out of it was a mistake. She just screamed at us so we left her in it most of the day.We were able to spend Christmas with my Brother and his wife before they move back to Utah in a few weeks. We are sad to see them leave, but are grateful we got to live by them for the year and a half. It was a blessing to us.

Thanksgiving and Birthdays

Payton gets pretty crazy when she plays, here's some entertainment for you.


The boys recently celebrated their birthdays and Grandma had sent them presents, unfortunately Payton found them first and ripped them open. This is me trying to salvage them.

We made a quick trip to Utah for Thanksgiving (Sorry to those of you we didn't get a chance to see)here are a few highlights from our trip. Temple Square, the moon was so pretty that night so I had to take a picture.

This was carsons expression the whole day because he was sad the trip was almost over, but the lights behind him were awesome.

Happy Holidays

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