NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY!

Everyone (big and small) is invited

to join us as we celebrate 2010 at a

New Year's Eve Party!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

7:30pm until 1:00am on the 1st

At The King's Home

Bring a treat to share if you

would like. Fun for everyone.

Live band FADED JEANS

Giant blow up slide

Food and Bon Fire!

Dress warm - the party is outside!

Don't miss it!

I L O V E Christmas Sunday!

All my life part of Christmas is getting a new clothes to wear to church on Christmas Sunday! My very favorite is when Christmas Eve falls on Sunday. It just makes the day so perfect. All of the shopping is done, the house is clean, and it is a day of rest! It is almost like having 2 days of Christmas!

MERY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS!

Me and my totally hot husband!

Addy

Alyssa

Amanda

My little boyfriend Tanner!

Keeping the Tradition

Christmas just wouldn't be the same if we didn't make ginger bread houses for family home evening. Tanner refused to help because last year he ate so much of the candy he threw up. He really believed that if he helped this year the same thing would happen. Hopefully he will get over his fear of ginger bread houses someday!

Princess Amanda

Winter Wonderland - was the theme for the school Christmas dance this year. Amanda could hardly wait to show off her new dress, her perfectly straight teeth with no braces, and of course the sparkling crown she wore! I have to say that she was looking pretty dang cute!

Ward Christmas Party 2009

The great part about church Christmas parties is even the teenagers will sit on Santa's lap!

And They're OFF............. number 2

After 2 1/2 years Amanda got her braces off on December 10th! It amazes me how much older her and Alyssa looked the minute the braces came off!

BEFORE

AND...... AFTER

I HATE school projects!

Yes, I do! Especially ones that kids are not able to do without parental help! This project that Amanda had to do for Tech (?) took us at least 30 hours to complete. She had to design a house on the computer at school, and then their teacher printed a pattern and they had to construct the house. You could use foam board, cardboard, or wood. Then they had to paint, decorate the inside, and landscape the outside. AND she only had 2 1/2 weeks to complete it, AND it was due the week they had their final tests for the semester! SERIOUSLY!

It did turn out pretty good! The landscaping looked really cool!

The roof was removable so you could see the inside was decorated.

Merry Christmas, Justin!

This past summer Justin decided it was time to add a mantel to our fireplace. SO he had a company come out and take measurements and build him the mantel he had pictured in his mind. It was finished and installed 2 weeks ago. The only problem we had with the picture perfect mantel was that it didn't look good, at all, in our family room, after it was installed. I know that is a HUGE problem! So after looking at it for a few minutes Justin decided that it needed to be re-installed in the living room! He was sure his masterpiece would look good in there, and so it does! We had our handy, do it all, guy come over the next day and help us re-install it on the other side of our fireplace. I L O V E the way it looks in the living room! Who would have known!

Maybe is NOT an answer!

Every once in a while, after Addy has gone to bed, she will leave a note for Justin and I, on her dry erase board, for us to see when we come check on her before we go to bed. This is what we found the other night. I was totally cracking up.

What kid does their research to find out what everything on their Christmas list will cost? Earlier in the evening she must have had other things on her list because she asked me if $500.00 was to much for us to spend on her for Christmas. She must have re-thought, re-calculated, and now we only have to spend $320! AND if she can't have all of it I have to RIGHT why!! AND maybe is NOT an answer!

District Cross Country Meet

I know this news is so 3 weeks ago, but I needed to make a post for my own journaling purposes! Nov. 8th was the district cross country meet, and the night turned out great!

Amanda ran a mile and a half and took 14th place, they gave her a metal! Addy ran 1 mile, took 2nd place, and got a metal, and Tanner ran 3/4 of a mile, took 19th place, and got a ribbon because they only gave metals to the top 15!

I am really proud of their dedication and determination! They practiced running before school, 4 days a week for 2 1/2 months. I need someone to make ME get out of bed early every morning and make me run!

The 5th and 6th grade girls took first place as a team!

Tanner sprinting to the finish!

Amanda running in style in her black knee socks!