Taking the lights down!

Last weekend Todd and Sydney finally took our Christmas lights off the house!  Sydney is such a dare devil!  She was only afraid when she was coming down the ladder.  The funny thing is... is that we never even turned the lights on because there were sections that wouldn't light up.  Where to buy new Christmas lights for the house for next year?

"My tooth fell out" -Bry

Bryant was taking a bath with a ton of toys and a bit of water...I was in the shower when all three of my children run into the bathroom and yelling that Bryant has lost his first tooth!  Quickly I yelled, "Get out!  I'm naked!"  After I was dried off and dressed, as was Bry, he came in to show me his tooth!  Not too long ago I posted a photo of his two adult teeth growing in behind his bottom front baby teeth and how freaky it was.  Well one was finally pushed out and the other is a little bit loose.  He says it feels funny.  He put his little tooth under his pillow in a zip lock baggie, this makes it a whole lot easier for the Tooth Fairy to actually find the tiny tooth, and she left him a one dollar bill in place of the tooth!  What a lucky boy!  He is very dry in these photos as he dressed quickly and forgot to lotion his body, a must!

Reflections 2010

Every year the National PTA sponsor's an Art contest.  Sydney made it past our school level, but the mother in charge turned her art piece in a day too late.  Darn!  But they did invite her to attend the School district awards and she received an honorable mention for trying...  she was a littel bumed, but what can you do, but try again next year.  The theme this year was "Together We Can".

New Year's Festivities!

I still haven't figured out how to change this photo!  We got Just Dance 2 for Christmas and the kids love it!  It is actually a great workout too!  Our friends the Hansens came to visit just before New Years and so we celebrated early with them and fondue!  We did a beef broth with onion soup mix and steak, cheese with potato wedges, broccoli, carrots and bread and then a chocolate one for dessert with cake and fruit!  So yummy!

My map photos are always crooked as Bryant likes to lay on top of the sofa even when he isn't supposed to, I can always tell!

We forgot to open our Christmas crackers on Christmas and so we broke them out for New Year's.  Tradition is that you wear your silly hat during the meal and you can play with your little toy.

Holiday activities included skiing, decorating sugar cookies with our friends, and spending Christmas eve with Uncle Ben and Lindsay.

Christmas moring I woke up at 6:45 am and this is what I found the kids doing... waiting until 7am to wake us up!  Isn't that a great rule!  Taylor later told me she had set her alarm for 6:30 and asked the others if they wanted her to wake them up then.  CrAzY children!  Below photo:  Taylor was opening up her new Zune docking station from Santa. We geared up the family for skiing this year and the kids agreed for that to be their Christmas gifts from us, saved me a lot of shopping and it was a pretty stress free holiday season!