Good Bye 2009.....

January...We had a lot of snow...more than 4 feet in some places in our yard...the kids loved it...

February...Ashlynn turned 7...She had a really fun Birthday party at Build-A-Bear...I started working at the YMCA...

March...I turned 30!!!...and I got my new camera!!!...oh yeah it snowed on my birthday...

April...We went camping...the weather was really nice...we got to see a bear up really close...

May...The Central YMCA opened and I transferred down town to work...Jeff also turned 30!!!

June...My sisters and their families came down from Alaska to visit...Skyler got baptised...

July...We went on a great family vacation...We spent 2 weeks in Port Angeles...

August...we went camping again...

September...the kids started school at Adams...after 3 days they transferred to Trent...2nd and 3rd grade...

October...Skyler turned 9...We went to the pumpkin patch...Hayden went on his first field trip...I went to just sub statics so i could be home with the kids again...

November...Thanks Giving was great...Black Friday was a lot of fun...We saw some great Christmas lights...

December...Christmas morning at Grandma Linda's...Hayden turned 4...Xander turned 3...Jeff and I had our 11 year anniversary...

I think it was a good year...Lets see what 2010 has to bring...

Happy Birthday Boys...

Hayden and Xander both had Birthdays this past week...Hayden turned 4 on Monday the 21st and Xander turned 3 yesterday...

Hayden you are so sweet and loving most of the time...You love to laugh and giggle and snuggle...You also have a temper...When you don't get exactly what you want you scream and through the biggest fit...You want to do everything Skyler does...Your teachers at school love you...They have never seen the temper side of you and would love to have a class full of just you...We love having you as a part of our family...Happy Birthday Hayden...

Xander you are growing up to fast...Some days you are in your little world and you make us laugh...You always say the funniest things...You love trains and Woody...you are very enthusiastic about everything...you love nana and papop..I love all your kisses and huggins...slow down a little because your my baby...Happy Birthday Xander

Merry Christmas

6 lbs. of unpopped popcorn

1- 30 gallon force flex garbage bag

Hours and Hours of popping

A queen sized flat sheet

A floor drop

4 really excited kiddos

2 popcorn buckets

all for a few good photos of the kids for our Christmas card....good times...big mess...lasting memories!!!

Prayers

We are praying for My sister-in-law Andi who was just diagnosed with Brest Cancer...

We are praying for each of her children...

We are praying for my brother Todd to have the strength to support his family through this hard time...

Please pray with us...

Hayden and Xander's pictures...

Happy Halloween...

Halloween kinda creeeeeped up on us this year...costumes were last min so they weren't the Aliens I had planned to make...oh well the kids had fun, well most of them...Hayden and Xan love wearing "Buzz" and "Woody" all the time...we even went shopping last week in them...I paid 3 bucks each for them so i can't complain much...Ashlynn wanted to be a Witch so I bought all the fabric to make her an amazing costume and the next day found this one on sale at Children's Place...She loved it and now I can pay it off in monthly installments...Sky didn't really care what he was and thew a big baby fit (as we call them at out house) every time we left the house for a Halloween party...I found this "Bony Pirate" at Value Village in the new costumes...I was about 4 sizes to big but with a few adjustments It fit him great and nothing we did to it is permanent...It can all be taken out and used as a bigger size...Friday Sky and Ash had parties at school and Hayden and Xan went to the Y and hung out with their old pre school classes...Friday night we went to my parents ward party for a chili feed and indoor trunk-or-treat...Saturday night we took the kids to Jeff's grandma's house so she could see their costumes and give them treats... then we headed out to the valley stake center for a 3 ward trunk-or-treat...after that was over we went to Jeff's Mom's house for pizza and more treats...I'm a little sugared out...we have enough candy to last us till next year when we will do it all over again...

Jake's seinor pictures...

I took my nephew Jake's Seinor pictures today...

I love how they turned out...

Back To School...and not a moment too soon

School Pictures....

new Family Picture

I love this new family picture...my brother Jeff took it of us last night out at the beach...all the kids were looking at the camera and almost smiling...more from our vacation to come later...we still are not home yet...

Vacation

Just a quick greeting from Our family vacation...

I'll write more about it when we are home....

Low Ballers!!!

We had a YMCA Employee bowling tournament last weekend...it was a lot of fun...I got a trophy for having the lowest bowled game...SWEET...Our team was the "Low Ballers"...we won the best dresses...I was Karen"The Rack" Pixler...My boss was Jodie "Mind in the gutter" Pierson...her hubby was Dan " The Counter Striker" (he is an accountant)...and Jeff was "JEFF"...Good times...

21 Grandkids

This past weekend we had a family get together for Brittany's Graduation...All 21 of my parents grandchildren were there.. (Sierra only in spirit of course)...here they are from oldest to youngest...