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!

Crafty Kids!

We have been having so much fun with all of our gifts from Christmas...Today we were crafty, Ashton and I built his biplane he got from Santa after he painted it and Sierra painted her bobble head animals she got from her Uncle Norris and Aunt Brenna.

Christmas is GONE, Sickness is GONE, house is clean, and we are playing Wii!

BARF!

At 5 am, morning after Christmas, I woke up to Sierra throwing up in our bathroom. Then at about 7:30am Ashton came and woke me up and said his throw up in his bowl spilt on the couch. "What?" My children were sick and throwing up all day on Saturday. Saturday night they were feeling better but Jake and I were starting to feel not to good! I felt nauseous, light headed and a bad tummy ache Saturday night and all day Sunday. Jake threw up twice and had the runs. Who else got sick? Let me tell you...my mom, Shane, Nixon, Rossi, Briana, Brenna, Norris, Sophi, Rich, Brenna's mom and dad and brother, Jake's Aunt Leanne and Bro Travis and mom. I think that's everybody, pretty much every person that was at my mom's on Christmas Eve! Lucky for a couple of people the bug missed them. It didn't last long but it was nasty! Thank heavens we were healthy on Christmas Day!