Christmas 2008.

I love Christmas. Everything about it. From the lights on the houses, to the crowds at the store, the excitement on the kids faces and of course the traditions, family and a chance to think just a little bit more about our Savior. Our kids were really fun this Christmas and we enjoyed every minute. Merry Christmas everyone.






First Taste of Candy! Someone started crawling the week before Christmas and he got ahold of the kids ring pop they got. He was lovin' it.




This is Datan with his Human Anatomy book. He loves it. It might have been his favorite gift.

He love's me.

I don't know how you say love but for me, it was this new Washer and Dryer. Just kidding (don't leave me any comments about what love really is, I'm not really shallow, just excited.) I hate when my laundry room isn't clean. I do laundry once a week and I try to get it done and out of my room because I just love when it is clean. Even if the rest of my house is bombed and the laundry room's clean I feel okay. But if the laundry's backed up and filling up my laundry room I start to stress. In my old washer and dryer I was doing 12 loads. I couldn't get it done in one day. :( So when it broke and cost more to fix then to replace we went shopping. (That was three weeks before Thanksgiving.) Well a regular top loader was $440 but the cheapest front loader was $1000. I really wanted them but $2000 for the pair? Then one of the stores told us about Black Friday. We had to wait (which meant six weeks at the laundry mat @ $40 bucks a shot and three kids crawling all over the dirty floors of the laundry mat.) but we got the pair for $1000. So Merry Christmas to me. They are Bea-a-u-ti-ful. I can get the same amount of laundry done in about 7 loads. They purr rather than bang so loud we can't even hear the tv if they're running. And they have awesome settings like "towels" with extra rinses. I love them. I actually find myself watching them run. So thanks to Chris for getting me these awesome machine's for Christmas. I love them and if you're thinking about getting a set, wait for the Black Friday sell and save a bundle.

Snow day in St. George. 12/18/08

We got the most snow in St. George that I have ever personally seen. It was so fun. We made snow cones with kool-aid and built snow men. Or in Moriella's case a snow princess. This is her snowprincess.


Datan was too impatient to wait for me to finish convincing Moriella that wearing snowpants rather than a skirt in the snow would not turn her into a Prince. She was still a princess. So Datan went outside by himself and made this super cute tiny snowman, all by himself. It was a fun day.

This is Datan's reaction to opening the door and seeing all the snow.

Just can't wait for Christmas. 5/14/08

Here is our big boy as he grows. So Cute.


Datan was so excited for Christmas. Today he called to me from under the tree saying, "I just can't wait for Christmas. How many days until Christmas?" I love that desperate longing for the best day of a kids life. I still feel it sometimes.

Our Charlie Brown Tree. 12/6/08

Here's our Charlie Brown Tree. Every year we go up in the woods and cut down our Christmas tree. (Except last year...way to busy then.) It was always Chris' families tradition. But they went to a tree farm in Northern Cali. where all the trees are full and beautiful. Here in the landscape of southern Utah the trees are nature grown (no worker on hand grafting branches in the sparse places) and few and far between. So every year we have a sweet little charlie brown tree that we love.

Here's my babe, always has straps on hand just in case there might be something he can strap on the roof. Grunt, snort. Man-ly.


The kids up tree cutting.

My sister made this cute Rudolph hat for Datan. It's so cute and I think Asher sports it well.

The Simple Things.

Here are some things I think about life.

Very little feels better than a hot (like burn your flesh off, hot) shower on a cold day.

Nothing smells better than a babies head just out of the bath. (You just took a deep breath in as if you can actually smell it didn't you.)

Nothing sounds better than a child laughing (I mean really laughing, from down in their soul.)

That Utah with it's open spaces and double mountain ranges has some of the prettiest sunsets you ever will see. ( I guess there are some advantages to not having any green trees around.)

As far as taste goes I think it's one of those things that's really personal. But some of the things I love are Chocolate, Chocolate ice cream, mashed potatoes and gravy, brownies, taco salads, grape juice, and a really fresh salad with lots of extras.

I was just enjoying some of these things in my life and thought I'd share them with you. I know everyone's love's are different. So take a second to share with me what your 5 senses teasers are.

She thinks I'm a Princess.

Moriella wears a skirt everyday of her life. She is so girly, and she is the prettiest princess. But despite what these pictures show she doesn't wear dresses, or pants, just skirts. She is always doing twirls in her skirts and loves to be feminine. What a fun age. We love our little princess.

Notice how she holds her hands like a princess, naturally.



She also thinks I'm a princess. I think she's the first person in my whole life to really believe this. She goes in my closet everyday, and finds me a skirt to wear. So now I shop, eat, play with my kids and clean toilets in a skirt. Some of you might ask why I play along. To that I say Why Not? I get to act like a princess and do twirls with my cute little girl and it's not very long in life that your kids actually think you're cool. So I might as well hang with her while I've got the chance. This is us doing our twirls for the day.

Christmas Pictures Bring Peace and Joy.

My Brother-in-law, Brian, took these pictures and we had a nephew that wanted to be in the pics, when he couldn't he wacked Brian in his manhood. That's why we're laughing. All in the name of pictures.

Christmas card pictures are always fun. I was crazy this year and when the first ones didn't turn out I tortured my family further by doing it again. Here are some of the ones that didn't make the actual card.

Asher 6 mons. 11/14/08

I love to hold a sleeping babe. And kiss those sweet lips.

He's getting big.


First time eating cereal. He did great and has been eating it much better then my other two ever did. Big boy.