How you know

your four year old got hold of your camera....

the hard evidence

Play by play of Charlie in about 1 minute

This is one that I took earlier in the day, the reason the four year old got his sticky fingers on the camera........so cute.

New Years Resolution

After being inspired by a friend, instead of making a llllloooonnnnggg list of resolutions that I may or may not (mostly likely not) accomplish I wanted to choose a one word representation of what I would like to overall aspire to work on in 2010.

The word I chose is

I chose Simplify because I want to simplify my life all around. Go back and start with the basics.

*Teach my children the basics in life, simplify my time, spending it more teaching and being with my kids and husband. They are growing up SO fast and in a moment it will all be gone and they will be grown up. My goal is to do things together that we've never done, relax and let things go that aren't important, to remember what IS important.
*I am a Relief Society teacher and our new book this year is Gospel Principles and it is straight up the basics of the gospel. I hope to learn and relearn so much this year.
*I am going to find some basic haircutting/coloring classes to refresh and maybe learn something new.
*I would love to take some cooking classes, something that will teach me to use simple things to make yummy meals.

I 'm going to live my life in the now and soak everything up, remember everything and regret nothing.

Christmas 2009

We had a fabulous Christmas this year. Last minute we decided to head up to St. George and have Christmas with the family. Christmas Eve the kids decorated pizza's with Taylor and Boston while the adults had my mother-in-law's yummy potato soup. Jake really had a better time than he is showing on his face, he's not a huge fan when I pull out the camera and make him say "cheese!"

They also decorated cookies for Santa. It was funny to see each of them have their own little way of decorating. Boston won the prize for the most decorations on one cookie! He kept grabbing handfuls of sprinkles at a time.

Alex

Jake

Taylor

Boston (he was mad because dad shut him down on putting mounds of sprinkles on his cookies :(

Christmas morning the kids slept in until 8:00 and the ONE morning Charlie slept in until 8:45. We started without her thinking she would be up any minute and she just kept sleeping and missed most of the action. Mine and Cam's present this year was a video camera, hence the lack of pictures.

We headed up to Spanish Fork for Katie and Benny's little Millie's baby blessing and the kids were SO SO excited to see snow. It was all we could do to keep the from rolling all over in it.

Jake got a baseball bat and tee ball stand so we took it out to the park and broke them in.

The game only lasted so long when there was a playground 10 feet from them.

Even though we all got sick at one point and passed it along to some others we had a great time with family. We had a good year and hope to make 2010 even better!