Sledding

About an hour from my parents home is a good hill to go sledding on. We took the kids up with my parents. The kids had a great time but are wimps about the cold. I think we only lasted an hour and a half!


Ashton tried out snowboarding down a little hill. He seemed to be a natural., which made his Dad proud. Next year we will take him up to the "real mountain!"

Christmas Breckfast

We went to Matt and I's parents ward for a Christmas Breckfast. The kids got to sit on Santas lap, and this time I didn't forget my camera!

And the kids had fun beign silly with their Aunt Lori and their cousin Alaina.

Mazzi's one!

My friend Heather insisted that we not start out Mazzi's life by ignoring her birthday since it is so close to Christmas. So, I took her advice and threw her a little party. We did a Mom and Baby b.day party and it was a lot of fun. A lot of my friends have several children so this way we were able to just hang out and focus on the babies (though of course my hubby and other two kids were there) Matt didn't realize that it was a mom and baby party and was bummed when a bunch of women showed up without their husbands. I guess Matt and I need to work on communication, but we will save that for a New Years resolution post and focus on our sweet little baby for now!

Mazzi is ONE and as sweet and cute as they come.

She had her friends- Reese, Kyle, McKynlee, Mitch, Brooke and Carson over to celebrate with her. As you can tell by the huge grin on her face she likes being with other babies, and especially liked that Mitch was touching her hair. Watch out!

The mommies with their babies.
Mazzi with her cupcake

Opening presents.

Ashton made Mazzi this little birthday crown. He is such a sweet brother. He put it together with paper and staples right before the party started.

Love you baby girl! Can't imagine life without you. It has been a wonderful year having you in our lives! Stop growing up so quickly... pretty please!

Holding her own

As you can tell by the intense face on this little girl- she doesn't let her siblings get away with much. In fact, I think Tera and Asthon fear her. She loves to pinch, bite (though she is getting better) pull hair and shriek until she gets her way. Good thing she also has a very sweet side to her that loves to kiss, cuddle, jabber and play nicely. But, when it comes down to it, she holds her own the older two!

Gingerbread house

My kids saw that their friends, Eli and Donald had made gingerbread houses and were a bit jealous. So, I decided to get a kit for them to make one. I don' tknow how people get those darn walls things to stay up, but finally we did, and the kids did good job making it look decent. It was cute to see how excited they were about it.

Love these girls...

I am blessed with some amazing friends. Oh how I hope no one else moves (boo Shelley!) so that nothing else has to change and I can hang out with these girls and have girl nights up until the time I am 80! Love you girls. Thanks for some amazing memories and hard laughs!!





Some favorite quotes:
*Onward you're a hoe! (Vanessa)
* No one reads your blog anyway. (Melissa)
* He's really playful with me (Niki-about Clint

I know there were more but when you post something a month later it is bound to not be so fresh in your mind!

Busy girl...

This little one is all of a sudden everywhere and into everything! As I type this she is playing in the office garbage can (no worries- it's all paper) and taking every single envelope out of the envelope box. What happend to me calm child? I can't believe she will be a one-year-old in two days!

How much can you bench?

The other day Ashton asked if he could watch a movie and I said no. He said, "oh, because I need some exercise?" Sure. Next thing I knew Ashton had my step out and was looking for weights. When he couldn't find weights he got the heaviest thing he could find- a bag of frozen stir fry and vegetables. It was very cute watching him bench our frozen food.

Pathetic Fall...

I have looked at several blogs of friends in Utah, Ohio, Idaho, Wisconson and Washington and have seen the beautiful fall foliage. Such bright, pretty colors... and must say I feel a little jipped on the falls here in Southern California. Luckily, my kids don't know better and Ashton was thrilled to gather this ridiculously small pile of leaves to jump in.

If these two get married...

This will have to be on their engagement announcement. How stinkin cute is this picture? They would have the cutest kids with the roundest little cheeks ever! And Tera would have the coolest in-laws! So I am totally kidding... but I do love this picture. Side note- I was only a year older than Tera when I met Matt! So this is possible.

Cute baby girls and an Indian

This is the only picture I have from Thanksgiving day. We had a yummy breakfast over at Nikis to start the day and got a picture of these three cute girls together. It is so fun having friends with kids the same ages as my kids and to watch them play together. Mazzi is already a super social baby. She gets excited to see her little friends and loves to pull their hair and pinch them. I get excited to see my friends as well- but I refrain from the pinching and pulling. Glad to have such good friends to celebrate with!

Ashton made this Indian vest in Kindergarten to get ready for Thanksgiving. He's a pretty cute little Indian. This Indian loves Pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes (with gravy)

Need to remember this...

A few days ago all of my kids fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep for little naps. It was wonderfully quiet in my house. Tera fell asleep for the transfer to the couch, Mazzi stayed in her car seat. Ashton slept for a while in the car and then wandered into the office and fell back to sleep on the floor. This is the first time this has happened since Mazzis birth and it probably won't be happening again anytime soon.

But boy did I enjoy it!