Even though our Buckeyes lost at the Fiesta Bowl on Monday night, we had a fun night of team spirit, even Peaches joined in.

Christmas 2008

This Christmas we had the best present ever!! My sister and her husband and brand new baby came to spend Christmas with us. My Mom and Dad who were staying with them to help for a few weeks also came and we all got to spend Christmas together. It was heaven!! Not only did we get our family to be with us on Christmas, but we got to share in Miss Bentley Ann's first Christmas. What a blessing family is.


Madsyn got an easy-bake oven from Santa and it has been cakes and cookies ever since!!

Izabella Rose got shoes, baby dolls and ballerina outfits from Santa. Is there anything else more important for a 2 yr old?


I The 7 a.m. wake-up call/screaming was a little early for some, especially the new mom up with a baby throughout the night. But of course Alyssa was a great sport about it all and didn't want to miss out on all the action, or perhaps it was that she couldn't sleep through all the chaos. Which do you think it was?
One thing about having children, especially boys, is you find yourself doing things you never thought you would. Like allowing them, even buying them guns to play with. These airsoft guns are suppose to be safe and we have had the gun-safety lessons, but who would have thought mom would have come up with that idea?

Everything is Pink

Izabella loves everything pink. When she goes to sleep at night she tells me, "I am going to dream of pink princesses in pink castles and pink ponies and pink ice cream and pink school buses that take me to pink school etc.. etc.. etc.." Of course mom loves it because I love pink too. And what is cuter than a little girl in pink? Here she is in a dress up pink ballerina outfit with a pink feather in her hair.

Duncan is 7 in '08

We had a birthday this past weekend!! Our Duncan, aka Deddlebug, turned 7 years old with a bang. We did a big birthday party at the local bowling alley with balloons, pizza, presents and cake and ice cream!! What a blast!!


We had a blast bowling. We had some strikes, spares, and even (for all you bowlers out there) a 7-10 split!


On Duncan's actual birthday, we had his best friend's family over for dinner and cake and ice cream to celebrate our deddlebug's birthday.

Promises

I am keeping my promise to update my blog more often than once a year. Here are just a few glimpses at our past few weeks.

Not what most people do on Thanksgiving

For the past year we have been struggling to get our VCR to work. When we think about it, we try to fiddle around and get it to work, with no luck. Finally, we have realized that it is just too old. This was the original VCR we got when we got married 15 years ago, and it is just too outdated to work with the more updated technology. So we had to go get a new one. The old one is just trash, unable to be even used for parts. So on Thanksgiving day Theran and Jake spent the day taking apart the old VCR and figuring out how it all works. Jake thought it was the coolest thing ever. 

Dec 2008 update

We had our annual ward Christmas party this past weekend. This year was especially meaningful because mom is now on the activities committee. I did get to sneak away from my duties to snap a few pictures of the kids with Santa. If you can see Ashton's mad face you'll laugh to know that he was mad and wouldn't sit on Santa's lap because Santa wasn't daddy. He knew that the suit Santa has on is ours, so he thought it was Theran being "Santa's Helper". He was MAD it wasn't dad.
My girls. The most beautiful things in the world to me.
I thought Bella was going to freak out sitting on Santas lap. But she told him she wanted "Dora". Anything Dora will do for her.
Duncan, our almost 7 yr. old telling Santa what he wants for Christmas.