Blake's first meal! Yum, breast milk and rice cereal. Heather, you hungry?! Don't ask why one of the pictures is posted weird - Jeff took that one! He actually didn't seem to mind his cereal. Deon wanted to help feed him too. :)

Deon and Blake just shooting the breeze in their swings. Once Blake went down for a nap, Deon had fun with her finger paints. You dont' think there's lead in that paint... do you? ;)

Polar Bear Plunge

Ok so I like myself too much to do this. After all somebody has to take the pictures! Every New Years Day at 12:00 noon crazy people do the plunge. It just so happened to be snowing and the water was 35degrees! There were around 1,000 people there and 3 different news crews. And even clown's seem to think this is cool?!

Justin was able to talk 2 of his priests to come with him! This is him talking them into going BACK out into the water. Bryce and Ty went again too but Ty was out so fast I didn't get it. The Polar Bear clock is something that Justin's brother Chad made years ago. He is the "official unofficial time keeper". When he left for Iraq he gave Justin the clock and a tee shirt for the bear for us to design New Years Eve. We had a lot of fun with it.

Christmas Break kept going and going and going!

The boys had so much fun playing in the snow! Believe it or not but it is snowing again. This time there wasn't 3 feet of snow it has already melted and I can see the grass again. We'll see how long this keeps up. All I know is that I have 7 days to go untill I will be warm!!

The race is on! This is after talking to Sarah and finding out that her family was helping her. Justin did help me after working on it with random help from the kids for 2 days. I came home from volleyball at 10:30pm and there he was, putting together the puzzle. After we finished it he told me I could have my life back again. I thought that was very funny and at the same time very true. I think it will be a year before I do another one. Sarah won by 12 hours.

Merry Christmas! Harry got the long awaited Bendaroos, or as Mom heard Undaroos. I was explaining that you can wad them and take them apart piece by piece. Of course she thought I was talking about underwear. Pretty funny:) Thanks Mom for the earrings. I love them.

Oops! Someone needs to invent snowtires for bikes. Harry was okay. Believe it or not he is eating the snow in this picture.

Look Mom, I won't slip!

Bogus Basin here we come. Kate and Harry had their first lessons on Dec. 21. The temperature was a frigid 12 degrees. Brrrr! After loading up their mittens with warmers it was off to the slopes for them. They loved it!

So do I win the prize for the most decorated Christmas house? I didn't include the tree from upstairs or my village. Kristen I will post more house photos for you. For all of you wondering, yes, I did put my table in the living room. It made for a cozy setting when the ladies came over for Keno and a cookie exchange!

Christmas at our place! Deon's giving someone a bath in her new dollhouse, Jeff is ready for some road rage with his new game, I'm... sitting... and Ricky is under the tree drooling over the presents, wishing he wasn't a bad boy this year. HA HA!! Sucker!

Heather said, "I woke up this morning with a fart."

She found her dress!!!

So Heather wants the Ivory dress, but the white dress shown is the size she will be getting. The ivory is a size too large, so she's having the correct sized shipped up from Vegas. Deon says this dress is "Cute!" Isn't it beautiful! No one tell her my dress was prettier - we all know that already! ;)

Right after Sam proposed. I was still in shock...I didn't see it coming.














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One of the best moments in my life. This was right after he put the ring on my finger. People were yelling Happy New Year and fireworks were going off in the background.











Manger scene on the reflection pond in front of the temple.


















Salt Lake City temple














Sam maybe 10 mins before he proposed.

On our way up to Salt Lake City to look at the lights at Temple Square.













We went to P.F. Chang's for dinner. Sam lost a bet so I won dinner. If you want to know what that bet was you'll just have to call and ask me.:)














On the tracks. We're still on the way up to Salt lake.

I ordered ginger chicken and Sam ordered the orange chicken. It was pretty good!

Sam's wrapped in the blacket that mom and I made him. Thanks mom!!!!

I thought we were just taking pictures, but it was a lot more then just pictures!

Get your bling on!

Here it is!