New Years 2008!

We had some friends over for the Best Game ever! Its called Rock Band and it is so much fun. I am officially obsessed.

So its alot like Guitar Hero. But in Rock Band you have a singer, drummer, and you can have a bass guitar too. I enjoy the singing and the guitar. On the drums is a diffrent story, I am not made for that. We will leave it at that.

Christmas 2007

This year we stayed home for the first time. The kids had so much fun just being able to hang out and enjoy their presents. This year we had Christmas Eve with my brothers family and we loved the fun filled evening with them. We had a great dinner, opened presents, made cookies for Santa and enjoyed a little Atari.
This is how the cookie making went : Tona and I thought we should double the batch then we had plenty. And we sure did. We almost broke my mixer but Tona busted into kneeding them the old fashion way. Between our skills we finally got the job done. And Santa was happy too.
This is what Santa stayed up until past 2 putting together. It was worth it. The kids loved waking up and seeing what Santa brought and trying to figure out how he got it in our house!

Cleaning the toilet

So it becomes very quiet and we decide to go check on the kids because when things are all quiet, you know that is never good. When we went into the bathroom we saw Logan playing with a toilet plunger in the toilet and Ella encouraging him. When we asked what they were doing, the looked at us and told said they were cleaning the toilet. So we just shook our head, laughed, and took a picture. What else could we do?

Utah Trip 2007

Close up of Logan
Logan is telling you to stop or he will hit you with a snowball
Our sweet snow angels
Dad is taking the picture so he isn't in this one
It is a little cold!

So we try to go down to Utah every December to do some shopping and go see Christmas lights at Temple Square. Well we left Friday night and when we got down there there was soooooo much snow. Well the next morning the kids went wild in the snow. They had such a good time and wanted to stay in the snow all day. Rick wasn't happy with driving in the snow but we managed. We went to Temple Square and had a great time with Rick's siblings' families. We thought we would share a few pictures of the fun weekend!

Yellowstone Trip

So this summer we decided to go on a trip with Rick's parents up to Yellowstone. While we were eating we heard some noises behind us and to our surprise a big old buffalo just happened to be passing by. As you can see by the picture, he was close. A few minutes later a ranger came by and pointed out another buffalo that was even closer and was a little upset. So the closer he got the faster we picked up our picnic and hopped into the car. Seconds later the buffalo walked by us and lets just say all he had to do was stick our hand out of the window and we would have touched him. I never saw these while I was living in New York. We saw so many animals and saw lots of beautiful sights!

Halloween 2007

This year the city of Meridian was safe due to the dynamic duo! They were able to walk the streets and take lots of candy (that dad ate most of). We all can sleep good at nights knowing these two are fighting crime!

Our Boise State Broncos!

In the fall there is one thing we all look forward to.... BOISE STATE FOOTBALL! Our broncos had another great year, even though they didn't go as far as they did last year! Rick used all his season tickets and he was nice enough to take me to a few games. He was "super dad" once and took both kids to a game all by himself while I was in New York. Rick and I went to Logan to watch BSU and Utah State. We were able to meet all of our good friend down there to see the broncos crush Utah State. It was fun because I sat and visited with all the girls while Rick caught up with all his boyz! We are hoping Logan can use his arm to play for the Broncos in 16 years. Rick is working on it with him and bought him a jersey that he wears every game day. Rick is already looking forward to next season and will be lost for the next 8 months after BSU plays in the Hawaii Bowl on December 23rd. Go Broncos!!!!