Going Broke

I would like to know what planet the "people" are from who are responsible for my health insurance. I paid just over $100 for three prescriptions! It's a good thing I'm made out of money. Oh wait, I'm not.

Christmas '08

I'm finally getting around to a quick re-cap of Christmas. We had a great time this year and I loved how excited Macie was for the whole thing. For our ward Christmas party Josh and I were asked to be Mary and Joseph, and Ty was baby Jesus of course. Macie was an adorable little lamb with a sad face because she wanted to be an angel. She is so sweet.

On Christmas Eve day we took family pictures with the Waldrons and had a nice evening with extended family.

Christmas morning Macie woke up to find lots of presents under the tree. She looked through all of them for the ones with "M for Macie!" It is so enjoyable celebrating with little ones. I loved every minute of Macie's expressions, excitement, and happiness over all her little gifts.


This girl gets some serious bed-head. I love it.

Macie got a doctor's kit and Josh was demonstrating how to use the stethoscope correctly. Since Josh thinks blogging is silly, I guess a silly picture of him is completely appropriate.

We spent some time with my in-laws opening presents and making gingerbread houses. Ty was thrilled with his gifts.

Ta-da! We glued the house together.

Macie enjoyed eating the candy more than putting it on the house.

The day after Christmas we went four-wheeling. It was fun to go out and ride around.
Macie wanted desperately to go on the purple one, of course. But after a minor mishap on the rhino with Grandpa, Macie came back with a bloody lip and was done for the day.

My cute Ty guy. I just can't get enough of his smiles and giggles. Christmas came and went and he didn't even know the difference.

More Sleep Please

I just woke up inside Macie's play tent. How did I get there? I remember Macie telling me we were having a sleep over so Josh and I crawled in with her. I don't remember anything else. First of all, the tent is very small so only the upper 1/3 of my body fits inside. Josh said my cell phone was ringing so he got out, and Macie was in and out climbing all over me. Hm, I don't remember that at all. You see, I am SO TIRED that I was out instantly. I woke up totally refreshed and felt like I had just taken a 2 hour nap. Josh said only 10 minutes had gone by. Interesting.

Duck Duck Goose

We taught Macie a new game and she was being so funny that I had to get out the camera.

Snow Day

One of the things I really like about living in a warm place is the fact that it doesn't snow in the winter. This is no longer true! I woke up one morning and was surprised to see huge snowflakes falling to the ground. By the afternoon we ventured out to play. Macie enjoyed eating the snow and throwing snowballs. She and Josh played until dark with the neighbor kids. The snowfall lasted well into the evening but melted almost all away the next day. I don't remember ever seeing this much snow in Vegas.

My sister Lisa came over to play.

A little strange to see Josh checking the pool chemicals while it was snowing.

View from our back door.

Josh and Macie went down to the green belt where there was more snow to play in.

It was fun for a day but I'm glad it's gone. I got so sick of the snow when we lived in Utah. No thanks!

Mmmm, Cookies!

We invited Macie's cousins over one morning to make some Christmas sugar cookies. My mom gave all of us cute cookie cutters, and we decided to put them to good use.

Macie and Bella enjoyed rolling out the dough and cutting the shapes.


"Fredding" the frosting.

Sadie was sent out of the kitchen because all she wanted to do was eat the dough.

I love this picture of Gus with frosting all over his face and hands. I don't blame him, they were delicious!

Baby Blessing

In December Josh gave Ty a beautiful blessing at church. We were lucky to have so many family members and friends attend. Baby blessings are so special. I'm so grateful for a wonderful husband who honors the priesthood and shares it with his family.

Since we had so many people there, the blessing circle was quite large. I think there are only 3 men missing from this picture. We had a luncheon at our house afterwards and I belive we were just shy of 60 people. Am I crazy or what? I felt like a crazy lady, but everyone was fed and we had a great time visiting.

Ty with his grandparents.

My cute little bug. He is such a smiley guy these days.

Thank you to everyone who came to support Ty on his blessing day. We love you all!

Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving with my parents in Genoa. We missed Lisa because Paris had to work, but everyone else made it and the house was packed (16 people!). It was pretty much non-stop craziness and fun the whole weekend. My mom worked so hard to make a fabulous dinner complete with all of our traditional favorites. Josh looks forward to the 12-layer jello all year long! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the tables or food, but I did get tons of pictures of the other things we did while we were there.

Josh and Ty playing Rock Band II.

Macie with her Uncle Alex.

Me and my Ty guy in downtown Genoa.

There's a yummy little bakery there and we stopped in for a treat. We let Macie pick out her own and, of course, it was a cupcake piled high with icing. She's like me though, a couple of bites and that was about it...not too big of a sweet tooth.

Macie, Sadie and Papi outside the little shops downtown.

My mom has a bin full of all our old dance costumes. My sister brought Bella and Macie out dressed up with pom-poms yelling "CHEERLEADERS!" It was sooo cute.

Not only did they dance for us, but we turned on the music and broke out into a dance party.

Oh yes, everyone danced until bedtime.

We went to Lake Tahoe one morning and rented bikes. They have great trails you can take that go around the lake. If you look closely in the picture behind my mom and Ty you can see our train of bikes and trailers lined up. We had 10 bikes and 3 trailers all together.

We stopped at 2 beaches, and the second one had a little picnic area where we unloaded for lunch. It was pretty cold but the kids did well.

Here's a shot of Josh pulling Ty around. He got the most exercise because when Ty was asleep he had to keep moving! You can see the gorgeous lake in the background. It is so beautiful up there.

Macie and Sadie girl were trailer buddies. They look so excited!

If you know my dad, you are aware that he is still acts like a little boy. He really wanted to get the potato gun out and shoot it over the golf course. He dumped the liquid from the emergency glow sticks onto the potatoes so we could see them fly through the air. It actually was pretty cool. In the picture my brother Ben is igniting the gun so Alex can shoot it off.

We love going to Genoa to visit because it's so breathtaking up there and we always have a blast. Even though it was freezing cold weather, we had a great holiday and are so thankful and blessed to have spent it with family.

Happy Anniversary!

We celebrated our 5 year anniversary on November 22nd. What better way to celebrate than going to see Twilight? Well, there are tons of better ways to celebrate, but Josh was willing to go see the movie and we had a great time. We also went to dinner at Vintner Grill, a great restaurant that we've been wanting to try. I loved the atmosphere and the food was absolutely superb. It was well worth the price. Josh is obsessed with the pretzel bread. He still talks about it and wants to go buy some to take home.

Since Ty is so young, dinner and a movie is all we could manage away from the kids. Thanks to Chad and Alli for watching them and letting us go out CHILD FREE. And thanks to Josh for being a wonderful husband and father. In reflecting back over the last 5 years it seems like so much has happened as we've changed and grown as a couple. Now we have 2 gorgeous kids and couldn't be happier. I can't wait to find out where life will take us in the future.

If Looks Could Kill

The stare...

The yawn...

The pouty lip...