YES, I am alive!!!

This is Kyler when I told him that it had been over a month since I last posted anything on the blog! Time just got away from me in December with Christmas and then the ever dreaded month of January came! Christmas was a blast at our house..the kids had fun together and we were able to go to all the family Christmas parties. I guess it is a little late to post any pictures of Christmas so we are going to just skip right over that!

Things have been great here. Zeth and Russ have been involved with some pre-season wrestling and a lot of tournaments on Saturdays. The kids went back to school in January and had to finish up their second quarter of school...I can't believe that the school year is half over. It has been nice to be back onto a tradition schedule with the elementary. Abby got to experience skiing for the first time. They have a program here (at least Davis County) that they take all the fourth graders up and for $25 they get their skies, lift pass and a 2 hour lesson. She said to me when she got home, "How come you never told me that skiing was so fun?" Lydia is enjoying her haircut and the simpleness of it. Ky is just Ky!! He is such fun to have around just because you never know what he is going to say next.

I got a new calling...I am the secretary in the Relief Society. I am excited just because I love doing all the paper work and organization of a binder...in fact, I went out and bought a new one binder right after I got the calling...I included a few new pens too....every secretary needs new pens, right??

Brother Black is moving to an assisted living center. For those of you that don't know, I have been cleaning Brother Black's house for almost 4 years and taking care of other things. It really has been a neat experience for our family to be able to help him out. But it is time for him to move there...it will really help him and Sister Black. We will miss him across the street.

Well I am predicting that in the near future there will be some fun things happening to our family that I will need to post so I will try my hardest to be better at things....one of the things that I will be posting is Zeth's EAGLE COURT of HONOR...yes, Zeth is offically an EAGLE SCOUT. I am so excited for him and all the hard work that he did to get here. We are planning his court sometime in February so I will get pictures then.

Thanks for being patience and I will be better...have a great and wonderful day!

Lydia is AWESOME!

The other day Lydia told me that she was ready to cut her hair and that she wanted to donate it to Locks of Love. I wasn't so sure if I was ready for this to happen..as most of you know I LOVE doing her hair. But lately she has been wanting me to blow dry her hair and straighten it...well I don't always have a hour in the morning to do that, so that was one of the reasons she wanted it cut short...so it can be "flipped out". Lydia has nice thick hair so it is fun to be able to share that with someone else. The one thing she said when it was all done was, "Wow, I don't have to hold my neck up!" I started to laugh. Thanks Becky for donating the haircut...our hair dresser doesn't charge when someone is donating their hair. I thought that was pretty neat too. Lydia I love you and think that it is neat that you are thinking of somebody else!

A Little Merry Christmas to You!

our FAMILY pictures

Here are some of the pictures from our "Family Photo Shoot". Enjoy.

Just Some Fun Pictures of the Girls

Last Friday Lydia's very favorite person...Robyn got married! Lydia was so excited about going down and seeing her in her "pretty dress". After the ceremony I took Lydia and Abby and took some fun pictures....just thought you would like to see them. The wedding was down in Memorial Grove in Salt Lake, it was so pretty down there...a fun place for pictures.





Yes...Lydia is sad, this was our last picture and she was running to get to the spot and she fell, but it is so cute..she tried so hard to smile for me.


Lydia and Robyn. I feel bad for Robyn sometimes because Lydia is GLUED at her hip whenever she sees her. If we are getting together with the Porter's the first question that Lydia always ask is if Robyn is going to be there. Robyn makes Lydia feel important...thanks Robyn!

Happy 90th Birthday GRANDMA TINGEY!!!

My Grandma Tingey turned 90 years old on October 28th....we had a fun celebration for her where all of her friends and family could come and say Hi. We love you Grandma and want you to know how important you are in our lives. Thanks for all that you do for us. Happy Birthday!

HALLOWEEN

What a fun Halloween..the weather was WONDERFUL the kids were able to go trick or treating without coats and having to get all bundled up! A lot of people just sat out on their porch and waited for kids to come. That doesn't happen very much in Utah!




Abby had fun dressing up like a "business woman". I wore that suit the day that I got married! WOW...

I told Lydia that she could star in "Wicked" with her cute green face and all!

Kyler was a pirate again...same costume as last year!...it sure made it easy for mom!


We went trunk or treating with the Morris' at 5:30....that usually is pretty fun, but this year after seeing some of the same kids about 3 times, Amy and I decided it was time to hit the road and go make the kids earn their candy by going door to door.

Zeth isn't in any of these pictures because he goes down to his friend's house where they put together a "spook Alley" in their backyard and Zeth helps run it. He has a lot of fun there and it keeps in busy and out of trouble!

FAMILY PICTURES!!!

My friend Allison took us to the neatest spot to take pictures...we had a blast with her and she took some amazing pictures...I can't wait to see them all. But here is one that she emailed "early" to me so that I could just see what was to come. I thought you would enjoy seeing it too. Thanks Allison...you are amazing.