Happy 11th Birthday

Ian had a fun birthday with friends this year. They ate A LOT of pizza (I forget how much BIG kids can eat)and had a BLAST skating at the Olympic Oval.

I can't believe he's a big 11 year old already. We are sure glad he's a part of our little family!

Merry Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas season. I'm always a little sad to see it end. We stayed home this year and had our own little quiet, stress free Christmas. Here's a look at some of our highlights this month.


Ian and I went to the Olympic Oval to skate. We had a great time. I used to go Ice Skating all the time as a kid at the local outdoor rink. Even though it's been well over 10 years since I last skated, I managed to not fall once (I'm not sure if I would have been able to get up if I did).

I bought a pre-made gingerbread house kit and this is how it turned out. Despite every effort to help save the poor house, it wouldn't stay up. The kids still had fun, and I'm learning to not be so stressed and just let the kids take over.

Our Christmas Eve Festivities included - watching movies, eating snacks, reading the Christmas story from the scriptures, and opening new jammies.






Christmas morning was fun and chaotic with presents, boxes, wrapping paper and plenty of giggles.


The kids both got new snow gear and they eagerly went out into the back yard and played and did some sledding. Morgan looks like a cute pink marshmallow :).




Morgan can't stay away from her new "baby alive", it poops and pees, squeals, cries and laughs

Christmas is always filled with lots of games, Jeff has beat both Ian and I in scrabble two nights in a row. He's just too good with finding words.

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New Journey

I started a new journey yesterday, and that is a quest for a healthier lifestyle which I'm hoping will result in permanent weight loss. I'm not starting any fad diet or using any weight loss pills, but I am reading this book called "Healthy for Life" by Dr. Ray Strand. It has been a real eye opener for me. I don't usually put things out there in the open for the whole world to know what I'm doing (especially dealing with weight issues and weightloss), but I feel that by doing so will help me be more accountable for my new lifestyle. I'm going to admit that I'm nervous and scared of failure, and that my motivation will quickly go away (like it has in the past), but I'm determined more than ever to be healthy, to look healthy and finish what I've started. So I hope you don't mind that I periodically let you know how my new lifestyle is going and I'm going to post before, during and after pictures as well.

Halloween 2009

Our Halloween week started off with a neighborhood party. We played (of course), decorated cookies (they didn't quite know what to do with them), and played games, the girls were so cute, we played duck duck goose, and when they'd say goose, they ALL got up and ran around chasing each other. Here's a few pictures of our PaRTy:








On Friday we ventured over to the school's Halloween parade. We re-used a costume that Ian was in 2nd grade, a Colonial Soldier, he loves history, I love the fact that he wants to be completely different that what is the normal or most popular thing to be.

we dressed Morgan up in her ladybug costume from last year for the school parade.

Jeff had some vacation days to use up so he took Wednesday-Friday off to work on this:

his mad scientist lab

this is only a portion of what he did. He had the outside taped off, spiderwebs, and 3 different scary music soundtracks playing in different locations. He even went as far as shaving his head for.

And here are the pictures of Jeff and the kids all dressed up. One of these days I'll get my act together and find a cool costume that I can make, I'd love to dress up too, but can't find the time to make a costume for myself.