Back to School!

I have to admit I hate back to school time after such a fun holiday break. Maybe I'm the only mother who does! :) I love having my kids around. This morning was tough for both kids too. Sierra cried when I dropped her off at school and then I had to take Alvin (the class fish we donated so Chloe doesn't eat him) to school too so Ashton and I parked and walked him in. Sierra wasn't in the classroom when I got there, she came in a few minutes later crying and asked if I would stay with her for a few minutes. I did, didn't help! Hope she can pull herself together and have a good day. These breaks are really hard for her...hard to leave home and get back into the swing of things. Then I took Ashton to school and he didn't want to get out of the car. Finally I convinced him to get out so after school we could go on the Safari that he was talking about. (his idea to go on a walk and take pictures of the grass and cars and bugs, you will be able to find pictures of our safari on his blog later). So here I am at home catching up on my blog and hoping that my kids are happy at school!

NEWS!

Sierra got a new haircut by Grammy while we were in Mammoth and she lost a tooth too! Her tooth started wiggling on Wednesday and on Friday it popped out while brushing her teeth. She thought that maybe the tooth fairy would bring $50 since her tooth came out in 3 days. Nope, she brought $1, the tooth fairy can't afford that! :)

Mammoth January 2010!

Mammoth is always a time full of family time and fun!

First things first, we have to play in the snow and slide on our bums!

and throw snow in the air!

and go sledding everyday! :)

(shane, ashton, sierra sledding down)
sledding down usually involves several hikes back up :)

a fun daddy!a fun mommy!
cute little Rossi, didn't want to sled just run down the hill :)
fun time with hubby :)
why is it that uncles are the funnest?!


snowball fights!


watched lots of movies, read and slept!can't leave out eating yummy food! My mom always goes all out and cooks for us the whole time. We eat so good! My fav was homemade buttermilk pancakes every morning, oh and homemade french toast, homemade lasagna, and homemade chili and satay chicken (with peanut sauce) and some other yummy chicken and hot lemonade. It was all my fav, so DELISH!!!!


Jake had to leave midweek to get back to work, I just enjoyed my kids! and being with my family!

Happy Birthday!!!

My Mom's Birthday!
My mom is so great...
great cook
great cleaner
great decorator
great student
great at fulfilling her calling
great runner
great exerciser, very motivating
great at nutrition
great sewer
great at cutting hair
great at work, very hard worker
great at serving others
great spiritually, always knows what to say in troubling times
great Grammy
great example to me!
a GREAT MOM!
I am blessed to be her daughter!
Happy Birthday Mom, I LOVE YOU!!!!

Happy New Year, 2010!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From our family to yours!

Picture drawn by Sierra Y.

2009 in Review!

Here's the beginning of 2009... and now we have already reached the end!

We had a very eventful 2009, so many memories, so much to remember, here are just a few highlights!

In January Sierra and I got to go see the taping of Wizards of Waverly Place...

In February our beautiful Sierra turned 8 years old and we went to Disneyland...

In March, a very special occasion! Our sweet girl was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by her daddy...
In April I took the kids with my mom and sisters and Aunt Ruthie and family to see the California Poppies...In May we went with our friend's, the Garcia's, to Joshua Tree...
In June we went camping to Carpinteria with my whole family...
In July we went to Utah...
In August we went to Mandalay Beach with just the 4 of us for mine and Jake's Birthday's... and Ashton started his first day of Preschool...
In September we celebrated our handsome Ashton's 5th birthday...We celebrated in New Port and at Aunt Briana and Uncle Brett's house! and Sierra got her braces on!
In October, I swam 1.2 miles in Castaic Lake on a Relay Team with my mom and David F. in the Magic Mountain Man Triathlon...
In November we had a stay-cation family reunion with Jake's family...
December is filled with wonder and amazement and so much JOY! One special occasion was Sierra's Holiday Performance at her school...

We have been very blessed in 2009! We hope that 2010 is filled with rich blessings for each of us! Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve...

For New Year's Eve our kids got to celebrate and stay the night with Grammy and Grampy! We went to a party at our friend's, the Everitt's, house and then I had to chaperone the Youth Dance and my husband was good enough to go with me. We had one incident with naughty dancing that we had to break up but overall it was a great evening, my husband was by my side to kiss me at midnight-that made it a great start to a new year! Then we went back to the party at the Everitt's and had a few laughs and then went home and to bed at about 1:00am. Slept wonderfully with no woken interupptions and for breakfast I made Cinnamon Belgian waffles and Jake and I ate them in bed, not a bad start to a new year!