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Saturday, January 16, 2010

double digits.

I'm having a bit of a time accepting that I have a 10 year old. It has gone too fast. I'm feeling old. Jacob had a great birthday this year. He was able to celebrate it over two days. His grandma and grandpa Wessel were in the valley on Saturday and brought presents. It was good to see them and he loved the remote control cars and lego toys he received. I took him, his sisters, and cousin to the movies that night. We watched the chipmunk movie (ugh!), and then went to burger king. They had a super time. On Sunday, his actual birthday, we had family over and opened more presents and had yummy triple chocolate cupcakes. Jacob is such a good kid, I'm happy he's mine!

Turned 10 on the 10th...pretty cool!

cousins

Tierney, Jacob, Sofia holding Coco, Avery and Isabel

Same kids, minus Jacob, who had a meltdown regarding picture taking and was excused, plus me and my sister Gaby.

The meltdown is beginning...can you see it? (stinker with a capital S! but I love him!)

Christmas 2009

annual sledding on Pinecrest

We were lucky again this year to have snow for a white christmas. That also means bundling up in as many layers as we can, walking to the end of the street, and sledding down the ditch. It was cold! Pretty much 20 degrees every day. We didn't last too long, but the kids love it.

On my parents street heading to the hill.

At the top of the hill.

The worst part about sledding is walking back up the hill each time!

Sofia

Jacob

Isabel

Annual picture with Mr and Mrs Claus (man, my kids are getting big!)

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

cold nights

We spent Christmas again in Pinetop this year. It was COLD, especially for us desert kids. I'm sorry to say that I've now lived in Mesa longer than Pinetop...but anyhow, this was the temperature when we arrived at 6:30 pm. It was beautiful! Cold, crisp, quiet, and dark. I love that my parents street has no street lights. The stars were out and so bright! The trees were covered in snow still and it was just good to be home! My favorite part about our arrival was finding the icicle lights inside the icicles, crazy!

beauty school potential...

I love what I find on my camera...I probably should be worried that they feel free to find it and take pictures, but I do find some interesting ones! Sofia did Isabel's hair and this is the result. She took a pretty good picture of her work!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

eight is great!

Sofia was baptised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 10, 2009. She had been waiting for this day for a long time and was so excited that it was finally here. Most of her family were able to make it to her baptism. We had a super fun afternoon spending time with family and celebrating Sofia's choice to be baptised!