Sledding Fun

Since Justin didn't have school on Monday we decided to take a little break from the Wii and go sledding at the park. It was such a nice day and it was great because Garrett does not love sledding so he was able to play on the slides while Justin and the other kids took turns going down the snow hill. We did talk Garrett into going down in the sled a couple of times, once with Jen and then he wanted to go with Justin. Justin is such a good big brother to let Garrett go with him. We had a ton of fun!

2008 Review

I will just warn you right now that this post is very long! Since I didn't start my blog until mid-year I wanted to recap a few of the thing we did this year.

2008 was a pretty good year for us! We had a lot of great times and did some really fun things.

January

Mike and Justin went Ice fishing for the first time with Brian and Jonathon they had a great time and they even caught a fish!

February
We had a huge pile of snow in the back yard from all the snow we got. Mike and Justin decided to make a snow cave I have to say it was pretty impressive! Since we had all that snow we spent a lot of time outside playing in it!

March

We had a great Easter that we celebrated at my brother Dee's house, I must say my mom puts on a pretty impressive egg hunt the kids have a blast. Although Garrett was so busy playing with all the toys I don't think he picked up one egg. I guess he still had fun. We also celebrated Justin's 6th birthday and Garrett's 2nd birthday with family. I can't believe Justin is already 6 and Garrett is 2(although he definitely acts 2). They had a great day. We also bought my new 4-wheeler but, because there was so much snow still we were not able to ride it.

April
Over spring break the kids and I went on a little road trip with my mom we went to Idaho and went sight seeing we did see a lot of cool stuff and had a great time. Right after we got back from Idaho we loaded up the car again with my mom and my brothers family and went to Vernal to see the Dinosaur Museum the kids loved it!

May

We were finally able to ride the 4-wheelers, as an added bonus the kids got to slid down the hill in the snow they had a great time. It is so nice to be able to go into the mountains and get away from everything and just spend time as a family.

June

June was definitely a month of firsts. Justin lost his first tooth and also had his first broken bone.(he broke his foot on the slip n slide) We also went on a really fun camping trip with some of our great neighbors.

July

July was filled with a lot of 4-wheeler rides, parades, picnics, fishing, and a lot of work on the driveway.

August

Justin started 1st grade. I did pretty good at holding back the tears until I dropped him off in his class room and then there was no holding back I think I cried the whole walk home. The Summit County Fair is also a big part of our August every year. My kids have a great time in the Little Buckaroo Rodeo.

September

No more diapers! Garrett started potty training and he did amazingly well right from the start. I only had to bribe him with Chocolate a few times. We had a great time in Disneyland!! Mike has never been before and last time we took Justin I was pregnant with Garrett. They both loved it! Garrett loves Mickey Mouse and all the other Disney characters he was in heaven! It really is the happiest place on earth!

October

This year we tried something a little different with our pumpkins rather than the traditional jack o' lanterns, Mike decided to carve a Mickey and a Minnie Mouse they turned out great!

I am not going to repeat the things we did in November and December because I blogged about them so recently.

We had a great year this year we spent a lot of time together as a family and I loved every minute of it. I hope 2009 will be as great as 2008!

Christmas

This year we had a great Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve with my family and had a great time. The kids got some great gifts from all Grandma and Grandpa and all of there cousins.

At the end of the party I let my kids open their Christmas PJ's. This year instead of buying pajamas, my mom talked me into making them. So I picked out the fabric and had great intentions of making them myself but, with my mom not working because of her surgery she had a ton of time on her hands and she had them made practically before I knew what was happening. She did a great job and my kids love them!

Justin was so excited this year about Santa coming he could hardly contain his excitement. He was awake at 5 a.m. but he never came to wake us up I guess he just figured it was still to early. He came in at about 7 a.m. but then we made him wait until Garret woke up. The only morning Garrett sleeps in! They had a great time opening up presents! Justin opened up a few Wii accessories and we were teasing him about Santa forgetting to leave the Wii. But he finally went to look by the TV and there it was all ready to play. He loves it and has done nothing but play it since. Garrett does not really care about the Wii. We tried to get him to play bowling with us on Christmas morning but he was not really into it. He does however love his remote control car that Santa brought him. He makes it go and chases it and laughs! It is pretty cute to watch him play with it!

We decide since the weather was so bad on Christmas day that we would just stay home. My mom and dad did brave the weather and they came here and had breakfast with us and we invited ourselves to the Dagley's for dinner. We had a great day.

Christmas Program

Justin had his first grade Christmas Program on Friday, it was so cute. He was a little toy soldier. He did a great job singing and dancing. He was not so good at keeping a beat with the music while playing the drums. We love him anyway he really is a great kid!

THE SNOW CAME!

Mike went out to shovel the snow that we got over night. Justin wanted to help since it is one of his favorite things to do. And of coarse Garrett was not about to stay in the house by himself since his dad and brother were both outside having fun in the snow. So after getting every ones snow clothes on they were all out shoveling the snow before 8 a.m.!!



I think they were both more of a hindrance than a help but they had a blast!!!

The Christmas Tree

Sorry it's not such a great picture but you get the idea.

O' Christmas Tree

This year we deceided to cut down our pine tree that we planted in our front yard. I love the tree. It has almost lived here as long as we have but...I just did not want it to get any bigger. We thought it would be the perfect size this year for our Christmas tree.



We thought it might be a little big to fit in our bay window. We didn't realize that not only would it not fit in our bay window but it would barley fit in our house. It is only about six inches from nearly the highest point in our vaulted ceiling. I love it!!! I think it is so pretty. Justin loves it because we had to use the ladder to decorate it. Garrett loves it because "BIG Tree" it is so funny to hear him comment in his gruff deep voice on how big the tree is.


I talked Mike into helping me string popcorn to go on the tree. It took us about 3 1/2 hours to string enough popcorn to go on the tree but it looks really good.



I just realized I don't have a picture of the finished tree. I will post a picture of the finished product soon.