Comings and Goings

Devon came home from school with these lovely spectacles. He just loved them and wore them ALL DAY LONG. He and Brooke have been avidly playing Lego Star Wars. I asked hime how long he thought he should be allowed to play each day, he replied, " three hours"! The other day we received some packages, and Dev and Brooke grabbed the boxes and headed outside. They came in just killing themselves laughing. They had drawn Han solo and Princess Leah on the outside, pretending that they had been carbon frozen like in the Movie......okay, they are playing far too long, I know!

HAPPY NEW YEARS

Between Christmas and New Years we enjoyed a lot of activity with family. My parents stayed until Friday, so we were lucky to get in the temple movie and lots of games. We have made so many treats.....its lucky we had passes for everyone to the gym so we could work some of it off. Brian and Cheryl were also in town so we were able to get together for some more family fun. We found a new activity, GEOCACHING. There is a great "mountain" trail south of the Brittners were 2 geocaches were hidden. We hiked up on New year eve day looking for the "treasure". It was a great hike for all, and we enjoyed great weather. Only 2 accidents....Natalie was attacked by a cactus while posing for Uncle Blake's picture, and Dev wiped out on a path....thankfully not close to any cactus. Luckily Michelle was prepared with anti itch and bandaids! We also had a fun time bringing in the new year with our family. I think the kids played lego star wars for 4 straight hours that night!!!

A Merry Christmas

Blessed at Christmas

We enjoyed a FABULOUS Christmas this year. My parents arrived Thurs night before Christmas so we were able to rushed around for last minute shopping before the big day. Travis and Jacquie were also intown and stayed over for 5 days.....it was a busy house, but we had a lot of fun. Dev loved his new golf set and thinks he is now ready for a real course after only 2 times hitting balls in the park. Channy was so fun and enthusiastic this year. She layed out glittered raindeer food and wrote many letters to Santa. She loved getting her American girl doll. It was great fun having little Montana around. She sings constantly and thinks she is big enough to do everything. Jacquie surprised Trav with some speedos since he has taken up swimming.....I could hardly stop laughing. They were promptly returned the day after Christmas. It is a good thing that we have a circle track around our house as it was a great course for the new scooter.

Big Time Transformation

When we moved into our house, the only thing that I wasn't too keen about was the plentiful green carpet. But....I'll have to admit that it hid a multitude of spills and dirt. So thanks for the good times, but good bye green carpet! I hadn't anticipated the huge amount of work it would be getting ready and organizing after the carpet was installed. It took them 2 days to put it in, and we just had to laugh at the chaos. Then of course we just couldn't put things back....we had to organize and chuck. This took a lot of time but it was so worth it. We love the change and house seems so much lighter. Having all this occur 2 weeks before Christmas was kind of bad timing.....but we managed to get our tree up on the 15th so I think we are doing ok.