Valencia snow

Yep, that's right!!! Today it snowed at our house!!!

The kids were just a little bit EXCITED!




Sierra said that Heavenly Father answered her prayers and this is the best year ever!!! :)
What a great start!
We'll see if it sticks! Here's to hoping!

1/1/11

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Today I painted touch up from our re pipe.
Jake took down Christmas lights.
I rearranged a little and it was so fun.
Briana was in town so we went to mom's and watched "Grownups" and laughed so hard, ate sauerkraut which is supposed to give you good luck for the coming year if you eat it on New Year's day! Here's to GOOD LUCK! :)

Happy New Year!

We celebrated! (at 9:00pm :D) 2010 was good to us...




Our hometeacher came while we were living it up and eating our Grand Panda and brought us a Martinelli and poppers! :) He made our kids night with those poppers! SO FUN!!! Jake thought it was a firework so he lit the string and then it went out so he lit another one and it went out...what?! Then he read the directions, just pull the string...ha ha!!!!


Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2011!

What a clever boy...

has learned to master legos mostly on his own and mommy is so happy! :)

plans changed

last night at 3am I was awoken to my little boy throwing up...I got him cleaned up and then seconds later Sierra yells "mommy!" I run to her and she is in the hallway and said "I feel like I'm going to throw up!" I rushed her to the toilet and held her hair as she threw up in the toilet. She got all cleaned up, teeth brushed and back to bed. The rest of the night I was up twice an hour with Ashton cleaning him up because he can not make it to the toilet and he kept missing the bowl. I was up with Sierra just twice, she was not as bad as Ashton, she actually got a little bit of sleep.
This morning Jake and I had plans to attend the temple with his family. Plans changed. I stayed home and washed lots of blankets and jammies. Jake got to go with his family. It's okay, the kids and I just get to lay around and watch a lot of movies and take naps.
I feel like we did this last year after Christmas...

Checklist

wrap presents...check
make rolls for dinner...check
make bread for Jacque...check
Sierra helps make cookies for Santa...check
bath...check
open Christmas Eve present...check
put on new jammies...check

sprinkle reindeer food...check

daddy makes warm fire...check
put out Santa's cookies and milk...check

get snug in our sleeping bags...CHECK
Mom reads "The Night Before Christmas"...check

we're ready Santa!

Christmas Eve

Tonight we went to mom's for Christmas Eve.
Warms my heart...to see my children love each other!

me, mom, sis-in-law Brenna

My mom asked Sierra if she and I could be in charge of the program. Sierra told me that and I told her to go for it...she put the whole program together and even typed up a program. Aunt Brenna lead the opening song, Jingle Bells, while Sierra played the piano. We had an opening prayer and then...
Traditional Nativity scene
what a cute shepard

Brenna's brother, Duran and girlfriend Brittany were good sports and agreed to be Mary and Joseph. Sierra, the star! (she made those star decorations too with the boys, she taught them how to draw stars) Chris was reading the story from the bible and at the part when the angel speaks to the shepards Sierra took over and quoted it from memory...so cute!


Ashton read "I Believe in Santa Claus", Sierra read her poem, sang a few songs and closed with a prayer by Grannie
Great job Sierra!

Merry Christmas!
btw...Sierra got a phone call tonight from Santa on Grammy's cell phone and he said that he was in North Dakota and we were going to be his first stop in California! :)