Saturday, January 2, 2010

New Years Eve Party

Lots of Wii, we had the Richard's (-Rachel who is in Utah waiting for their baby to be born!) and Andrew B. over...Boy the kids stayed up till 1! Crazy kids! Guitar Hero, Tennis, Buzz Word... it was a blast!

Our Traditional Lime Rickeys, yummy!
And of course the midnight Toast and Kiss... Hmm....Happy 2010!

2009 in Review....

January- Last year at this time we had a brand new Phoebe, proud Sister Allie, there was hardly a photo without the Bee in it with her...
Little Lukey, he looks like a baby
The thrill of our new addition was the highlight of the month...it was colder than cold so we stayed in pretty much the whole month... We also Matched for Pedo here at Buffalo...what a relief!
February - Everyone loved holding the baby so much they had to have their own! Seriously I have no idea what happened in February it was all a blur...diapers, nursing, late nights early mornings, it was cold we stayed in...That is all I got!
March- still kinda blurry still cold played lots of Wii, were dreaming of Summer and Graduation...According to my pictures I made a ton of cookies, we got out once, and I looked Aweful! haha
April- We had some great times with our friends who would end up leaving us in May, We still miss the Harkers and Cleggs like mad! We got a drop by visit from some Utah friends the Christensens...Finally got out of the house...We were all Cabin Crazy for sure!
May....Well it really doesn't matter what else happened in May does it? We hit up a bunch of dinners, entertained family, had a party, oh yeah Adam Graduated!
June-We packed so much into June it could be a post of it's own! We went to Utah (phoebes first Plane ride) Vegas, Northern and Southern Utah, bought our Van! Drove 3 days cross country, slept in some scary places, enjoyed Adams last vacation before "Work" began...Our kids Now know what it is like to be Celebrity children...
July-Celebrating our Nations Birthday, made a fun Cake, packed up, enjoyed our neighbors we would soon be leaving and missing...Phoebe also turned 6 months! Adam started Working for real money...and Call Yuck!August gave us a House and a Yard, lots of boxes and two super hot weeks...correlating with our move Of course! Cleaning, boxing, unboxing, more cleaning, playing and running!
We all felt like this though Luke was the only one to be photographed this way...thankfully!
September- lots of playing in our YARD... running riding bikes, playing with Grandpa and Grandma, Aunt Amy and Milan and Sofia... Did I mention Allie started School!
October, my birthday, pumpkin patches, more school, more colds, a cold Halloween...
November...Maw's 90th, our trip to Vermont to celebrate, Allie 6 Lucas 3, Turkeyday on our own...8 years of our marriage celebrated...
Phoebe standing up to Luke

December brought, 3 Santa wannabe's in my tub, a Singing Lucas, Super excited for presents! A 1 year old Phoebe, our first gingerbread houses, Lamjavs for Christmas, lots of cookies, a Crazy New Years party, kids running till 1:30am!
Well that wraps it up....Glad I didn't make resolutions last year cause they would have been a Huge disappointment! I just realized last night that I only wrot in my journal 5 times last year! that is a bad record, 3 kids did a number on me, add that with moving, and well you got me. Hopefully this Next year will be more Momma winning than kids! I even made goals for the year! So we will see!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Mean Aunt Amy, and Bye-Bye

Mean Aunt Amy stuffed a pony down Phoebes pants and toys down her onesie! It was so funny!

Phoebe walked around like this for a while... OH she is cute!

Sad farewell, Milan stood out there crying for a long time while her parents got the car full and Sofia loaded in. She was so sad to go! Allie was sad too but she was Ok with is since Milan only wanted to play ponies and Allie wanted to play Princesses! haha
Phoebe saying Bye-bye!

A little more Christmas....

We Had a Merry Christmas, Now a Happy New Year!
Luke and Allie and two of their favorite gifts... Luke got a tool bench, and Allie got a jewelry box.
Phoebe found her inner elvis and her bath toy!
Yummy...
Amy when she opened her present she didn't know she was getting... A Fab Camera!
She looks surprised huh?
Above you can see the lovely GREEN Christmas we had here In BUFFALO... How dull!
Below is the picture you see when you look up Trouble in the dictionary...(the good Kind of trouble of course!) But seriously this kid is Funny! She is a Total Ham for the camera and will keep her Momma busy snapping funny pictures all year long!And the Beautiful Sofia Loving the fun!
And then we leave you with Spike JR... A big hit with the Boy and the Babies!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Fun times....

Eating Mac & Cheese, watching a show, hanging out in the living room...
Good things!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Happy Birthday Phoebe!

One Year ago this little cute thing joined out family, she has brought us amazing joy and happiness she really it the best girl, we couldn't have asked for a better 3rd child...She has slept though the night earlier than any of our other kids... she is totally easy going, very loving, sweet fun and sassy too...We love her so much, even just looking at these pictures of her when she was just born made me want to go upstairs and get her out of bed and cuddle her she is Pure sweetness...With a pinch of fire!
She had and ear infection for her Birthday so she wasn't the happiest ever on her big day, but she enjoyed her present anyway...
She got this cute little dolly which she loves!
And she is wearing her shirt that Says Dear Santa I can explain! Because she really can! It is her birthday she gets to open presents!
The cutest 1 year old! She is a sweetie! Thankfully she is feeling better! Yeah!

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Can't you hear them shouting it? These cousins are having a great time together, and they had a Fabulous Christmas! Here they are all in their new Christmas Jammies...
Allie got her Mermaid Barbie, Adam got a new BYU hat since he lost his one I got him last year!The girls looking intently for their names
OH the Joy...Look at that face!
I love these two it just shows the real feel of it all... Luke was awesome he got on a pretty good roll and ended up opening Whittney's present and Mine! hahaAmy and Munich had a nice day Munich got a new iPhone, and Amy got a new Nikon camera.
Both Amy and I got spa days, and I got a new battery for my Camera which is exciting. Jumper cables, and some RainX, a curling iron...
The kids where totally spoiled and had a blast.
It was a Very fun day, we had Whittney Crespin over with us and our friend Bev who is our adopted grandpa figure...We had a nice Pork Loin Roast for dinner with green beans and potatoes. It was yummy.

WE hope you had a Lovely Christmas and hope your New Years is Safe and that next year brings great joy and improvements for you and yours!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

2 days 3 Gingerbread houses!

I have never made Gingerbread houses before and in 2 days I have made 3! One of my own, and 2 with the kids. (Mostly Allie, Though Luke helped clean up the icing, with his mouth!) We had a fun time of it, and I am sure we will keep it up in the years to come. Though I have no idea what to do with the sugar creations now...They get kinda messy as Luke keeps picking away at them!


These are the houses the kids helped with The one below kept trying to fall apart on us so we had to put Triskets under the roof to hold it up!

Above is my house I made without kid help I am sure you can tell! haha

And here is your Dose of the Cuteness for the day....
She loves scarves!

And eating her Gingerbread man...
In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. President Gordon B. Hinckley