Happy New Year!!

2011. Wow. A New Year.

I'm pretty sure I didn't achieve last years resolutions yet. 

This is an IMPORTANT year though.

It's my big !40! in June.

So I'm taking my goal setting to a new level.

Here are a few things I plan to accomplish 

by June 11th of this year:

1. Attend the temple 40 times.

2. Run 40 miles a month. (yeah, I know.)

3. Read the Book of Mormon (just once - not 40 times)

4. Get accepted into the COTA program...crossin' my fingers.

5. Maybe I'll be nice to my kids 40 times - just till June.

6. Do 40 loads of laundry...hahahaha I'm just bein' silly now.  I think I do 40 loads a week.

Anyway - I may add and take away as the year goes on - but I can say this:

2011 is going to be an awesome year!

Just Dance...

...is JUST PLAIN AWESOME!!

Go Maddie! Go Audrey!

Totally can't wait to catch
Spencer doing 
Hammer-Time!
Thanks (you know who you are) 

for the bestest gift ever!

Top 10 of Christmas '10

Another Christmas come and gone.

It was a perfectly awesome day.

My top 10 faves:

10. Spencer and I WAKING UP THE KIDS.

First and Last time ever.

9. Traditional breakfast at Denny's

8. Daphne's new jingle-bell collar

7. New 'unlimited texting' phones for the boys

(hooray Aunt Leah & Uncle Shea!)

6. Maddie's scream when she saw her 'mall' gift card

5. Rydge's whoop whoop when he opened his nerf gun.

 4. My door almost filled with Christmas pictures.

(This is a super FAVE of mine)

3. Ham, mashed taters, corn, and yum yum salad...

all piled on a fork together. Then pumpkin pie

to wash 'er down.

2. Gifts from the best gift giving

husband in the history of the world!

1. A perfect day spent laughing, talking (some long distance!), and playing with the people I love most in the world.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas = Winter???

Isn't this the time of year that

we scrape frost off of our car windows,

bundle up before going outdoors,

& enjoy a cozy fire in the fireplace?

 But if you live here in the H-Town suburbs

you enjoy instead humid, swamp-like temps,

short-sleeves and shorts, 

and AIR CONDITIONING!

Yes, my air conditioning is running as I type.

Merry Christmas!!

Bright lights...

Today I left for an hour.

I came home to this.

If you can't tell, it's a twin mattress

at the bottom of my

STAIRCASE. 

Apparently sliding down the stairs

on this bad boy is "beast".

Seriously. 

And why is it they just 

leave the evidence for me?

Not the brightest lights on the tree,

are they?

Impossible.

Seems completely impossible my boy

is old/ big enough to play on the freshman 

basketball team.

 Go Bearkats!!!

P.S. I haven't a clue what a bearkat is....

Gigi's b-day

I ran across these pics from Gigi's b-day back in August.

Spencer and I went out with Bubs and Gigi 

and left these crazy boys at home 

with Rydge in charge.

When we returned from our outing - 

we entered to the "happy birthday" song

and the first cake Tyler had ever made.

Thanks to Joe and Jaren - it was also 

the most creative cake ever.

 Included in the varied ingredients were

 cocoa krispies, chocolate chips, Kool-aide, 

chocolate milk, sprinkles,

and who knows what else.

And you know what??

It was AWESOME!! We ate every bite.

 Rydge was a rockstar babysitter.

We paid him in....
Frosting.

Bleck.

Group Projects.

In Anatomy/ Physiology.

Bleck.

Family Pics

Beautiful blue-eyed babies!!

 And howz' bout these beauties?

It's Christmas card time.....

My most favoritist time of the season.

So send me some pics of you and your fam!
I'll be checkin' the mailbox everyday!