Once there was a Snowman.....and cousins!

Lilly kept saying "what about his ears, toes, legs, hands etc. She was very pleased to tell me she gave our snowman a bellybutton. That is big piece of wood protruding out the side.
Thanks Jamie and Jared for the snowman apparel!

This is what is looks like outside the playroom!
The snow made a good tunnel that the kids kept passing through.

Lilly & Ellie


Hannah

Lauryn & Issac

Lilly's first slumber party! It didn't last the whole night but it was fun while it lasted. Lilly and Hannah out lasted Ellie and Lauryn so I finally put Lilly in our room. Thanks Brian and Brenda for coming!

Let it snow let it snow!!!

Yesterday on the news showed a doghouse buried in the town to the south of us......doghouse, it is our house that is buried!

Scott is throwing the snow over is head!


This was Scott and Lilly last night clearing our sidewalk


The same spot this morning


Looking South, notice our neighbor is on his roof shoveling off snow. Scott did that to our house yesterday.


This is our garage down


Looking to the North

My view from the front window.

My view from the Kitchen Window

And it is still snow!!!

It is a good thing it still fits!

So I realized that we don't have any pictures of the day Jane was blessed 10 months ago. Well the dress still fits so I dolled her up and took some pictures. It isn't very often that you can get a full length picture of the blessing dress with the child standing up!

Jane is growing so fast! She is still a little pint. She can say mom and dad, has one tooth, and likes to get her hand on everything she can find.

I can't put my arms down

Lilly wanted to go outside with Scott while he was shoveling. I got her all bundled up and when we went outside she said her face was cold. So I grabbed a scarf and wrapped in around her face. I start chuckling because she has a shocking resemblance of Randy from The Christmas Story.

Princess

Lilly has had this dress for almost a year and hasn't wanted anything to do with it. Know she likes to get up on her stole and sing songs in her dress

Eating

Self explanatory

Christmas Eve

We had Christmas eve with my family and my sister in Alaska and Uncle Gunther via skype. The kids roll played the nativity. Lilly was Mary. My Uncle has lived in the Holy for a total of about 2 years and so he told us some neat stories. My Aunt and Uncle recently returned from the Holy Land and brought us all some frankincense and myr.

Post Christmas

We headed to Scott's family for a post Christmas party and New years. Scott's mom made all of the grandkids these super cute hats. She spent so much time on them. Thanks Judy!

This is Great grandpa and Sam. It is a pretty enduring picture.

New Years

Our nephew Zaden had Twilight the movie on his Ipod so Brenda and I watched it while multi-tasking and playing games. Laughter and pictures where had at our expense! I am glad I could help entertain!

Everyone was wanting to know where Lilly got her obsession with chips and dip....it is from me. She was at this bowl most the night. Thanks Cheri and Tandy..it was a blast!

Snow

What a decade!

So this is my list of what has happened to me this last decade....
1. Graduated High School
2. Graduated Junior College
3. Got married
4. Had 2 kids
5. Graduated from a University
So this was the end of the post but the more I thought about it the more I rememebered all this stuff........
6. Lived in 6 different towns
7. Had 40 roommates (184 if you count the 144 in Nauvoo!)
8. Moved 12 times
9. Left the country for the first time (Tiawana and Niagra Falls in Canada, not too far but I crossed the boarder!)
10. Survived 2 car crashes
11. Learned to walk again
12. Was a bridesmaid for 5 people and stood in a wedding line for a total of 24 hours! 4 or those being my own wedding line.
13. Have had 1o different jobs.
14. Made friends more than I can count!
I am sure there is more I am not thinking of but again I say....What a decade!!!!


It might be hard to top this decade! Good-bye 2009 hello 2010!