Another year gone....

I am so behind. I used to be the queen of blogging and now ... not so much. It's a sad day and I've realized lately that I really need to get back on top of it! I have about a million pages that I have to scrap for my kids. I usually do a year end page of both of them. Here's this years pictures. I love my kids! They are so cute and fun. It makes me sad to see how different they are from last year.2009 was a hard year for our family. Granted we had some good times this year but mostly it was hard. I am always sugar coating things for people and I actually kinda feel like being honest. Although we have hard times I believe that it makes us stronger and the Lord knows how to help us cope and become better people. That's all I can hope for is for the strength to make it another day, month, year.

My hope for 2010 is that it is better. I'm not asking for much just better. I know the Lord will bless us and that we can get through our trials. I love my family and I'm excited to see the happy adventures that we might see this year.

New Years Fun!

New Years day both Pocatello and Idaho Falls woke up to lots of brand new heavy snow! We were planning on sledding with the Desmonds and decided that the best snow would be in Idaho Falls. So, we packed up and headed out! We had a BLAST! The sledding was great. And so was the company!

Dale and Kevin built this little jump and had a great time with it. Here is some great footage of what they did with it... trust me you don't want to miss these videos....

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was great!! We had a ton of fun with the boys. Cahlin had a blast and couldn't open up his things fast enough. Eyan on the other hand was very distracted. The first toy was the best of all until we finally got him to open another one and then the next would be the best thing ever and the first would be ditched along the side! We are so thankful to our family members who helped make our Christmas so special and bright! We love you so much! After presents we all sat down to my mom's famous Christmas morning breakfast. She makes this awesome Christmas souffle ( when I was a kid I refused to eat it) makes orange rolls, cuts oranges and we have egg nog! I love it! I love Christmas! Now that I'm finally getting around to writing about it I'm finding that I'm sad it's over already. Here's some pics and videos for you all to enjoy!

Here's a video of Cahlin and Eyan right when they came out for the morning. For those of you that don't know, Cahlin has had this little stuffed Geraffe that he has had since he was born. His name is Jeffery. About 6 months ago, Cahlin had lost Jeffery number 2. When he sat on Santa's lap this year the only thing he requested was a new Jeffery. I have to admit it made my heart hurt, I realized that he had been missing him this whole entire time. So, Santa delivered and Cahlin got a new Jeffery! This video shows his reaction. It's very special! Enjoy!

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Dear Santa....

We had such a great time over Christmas! We went up to my mom's house so that they wouldn't have an empty house on Christmas and I have to say, I enjoyed it so much! On Christmas Eve we all got together with my mom's family and had a big family dinner. It was fun and there was tons of yummy food! After the party we went back to my mom's house and opened our Christmas Eve gifts. The boys opened up jammies. Of course! I was also given jammies! So much fun! Of course we also had to write Santa a letter telling him about his cookies and the carrots for his reindeer but we made the cookies as well! I was a cheap mom this year and I bought Pillsbury cookie dough! :) Don't tell anyone! I love Christmas and being closer to our family. I love all of them so much! Merry late Christmas everyone!!

Joneses Thanksmas

In the middle of December we were able to get together with the Jones family for our Family service project. We had it at our house this year and it was great fun to be able to host for once! Plus, a lot of stress! Our house isn't exactly huge or big and so it made for lots of noise and close contact with lots of people! But we still had fun none the less! We defiantly missed Lynette's husband Alan, the Johanson's and Dale for half the day!

To start the day we did our service project. We did a secret Santa for a family here in our town. So, we loaded up in the cars and headed out to the stores! After our shopping spree we went up to our church to have lunch, play games and wrap presents.

After the church we headed back to our house to do the cousin gift exchange. It was great fun to see the kids get so excited about everything. We even got to skype with the Johanson's in Hawaii and see all of their surprised and excited faces!

After gifts the kids and the dad's went out and delivered the presents doorbell ditching style. Katy, Mel and I went to a salon to get Katy's hair cut. Which by the way she looked extermely cute after! ( And before) We had dinner and everyone left minus Kevin's parents who were staying one night longer. It was a great busy day and enjoyed having fun with Kevin's family! Thanks to everyone for coming and making it special and to everyone who was there over skype! We love you all!

Goofball Jones

I love this kid! He's so stinkin funny! He and Cahlin were having a good time one morning during breakfast! Good thing he got the Hughes' cheeks otherwise he'd never be able to pull of so much stretching of the cheeks. I also love his eyes in this! Hilarious!

Santa!!!

The boys were lucky enough to visit with Santa on several different occasions this year!Cahlin was pretty consistent with the presents that he wanted and he kept them very small. But he was very excited about this whole Christmas thing. Eyan on the other hand didn't really want anything to do with Santa. He only sat on his lap this one time. Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he told him he wanted " bah bah bah" I guess he got the message because Eyan had a pretty good Chirstmas and was happy with his loot. :) We hope you all had a Merry Christmas season and enjoyed your time away from work and with your families.

Time with Burt and Sabrina

So, the other day when I posted about baby Aurora I didn't get all the pics up that I wanted so here's a few more from Robert, Sabrina and Aurora's visit! We miss them and love them very much!!! Thanks to Grandma Giles to letting us crash at her house for a week!!