HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JESSE!!

21 years ago our family got an amazing valentine!!

wE Love you so much and are grateful you are in our family.
We hope you have the greatest birthday today.
You're in our thoughts and our prayers.
Love Eternally,
Dad & MOm
xoxoxox

Little Miss Turns 2

You don't even understand how much fun she is!!! Or how busy she's kept her mother and she's only just turning 2!!

Our First Grandchild!!

Happy Birthday to you Kamma-lamma-ding-dong!! We love you so very much and are very grateful you're in our family!!!
 
We hope you have the greatest 7th birthday today!

Baylee Ellen Turns 6 and WE got to be THERE!!

Birthday's are my FAVORITE holiday and it's no fair that we don't get to be there everytime our kids and grandkids have one! So, it's our goal to at least go to one birthday party a year. This year we got to go to Baylee's. It was so fun to be there. We got to celebrate on Sunday and go to school w/ her on Monday (with cupcakes)

We also got to all go on a train ride to Ogden to visit the train museum. That was super fun.

We Need a Little Christmas Right this very Minute!!

 
This year I decided to do something different w/ the Christmas tree. I found a bunch of 4 x 5 pictures of Jesus that I tied w/ ribbon all over it. Then I just put silver balls and lots of snowflakes stars and tin tinsel all over. We think it turned out beautiful and left no one wondering WHO we believe in!
 
This is our main Christmas present, the kitchen floor ~ oak. We absolutely love it!

Arlin also built me these picture rails

And 2 of these beautiful end tables!! Arn't I the luckiest girl ever?


 
 

The sisters and Neil & Maddy came over for breakfast, we had waffles w/ strawberries & whip crm, bacon, hot cinnamon milk, hot cocoa & orange juice. I think that should be traditional ~ it was sooo delicious!

Christmas Eve 2010

My favorite thing to do for Christmas is get new jammies for everyone! I love finding them (sometimes able to coordinate them all) and then we open them on Christmas eve. We've been doing that ever since our kids were born and still do it, even for grandkids and kids in law.
 
 
 

This year was a little too rough for us cause we didn't have even one child home for Christmas ~friends of ours took pity on us and invited us for Christmas Eve~ that was tons of fun cause they had a little talent show and invited us to participate. (as long as we didn't upstage any of the performers) so, we didn't.......

Lookey who Moved Into OuR FamilY!!

And now we have 8