Christmas!

Christmas was great! My family came to my house this year. It was a lot of fun being the hostess to my Mom, Kelly, Matt, JaNae, Gavin, Candice, Tad and Roxanne. Christmas Eve we were also joined by Kelly's son Michael and his wife Carly and their little girl Gwen.


One of my favorite parts of Christmas is hanging up the stockings. In my moms family we also hang our stockings on broom handles. I can't quite remember why, lol. But I love it, the stockings actually hang, and there's usually a present or two under it. And each family gets their own broomstick. I felt so grown up having it at our house, with our little family on it's own broomstick. I love it. I have my own little family. :) We had a lot of fun with our full house. Matt got Rock Band for Christmas and I think I was getting pretty good at the guitar before they had to leave, lol. It was so fun! I don't really like video games, but that was a blast! Almost makes me think about getting an xbox... almost. We'll just have to go and visit Matt and Janae more often, hehe.

Family Pictures!

Saturday, for the first time i can remember in at least 15 years, my side of the family took a nice, professional picture! My fab sister in law was just too far away when I could get all my family together. So this time my amazing friend Melissa took them. She takes great pictures, and is starting to get pretty busy with her new photo business. You can check her out some more at http://genuineexpressions.blogspot.com/

the whole fam

the kids

Grandparents and the Grandkids

My brother and his adorable 9 month old Gavin

Matthew and JaNae

Candice, Tad and their child, Penny

and the our single and sassy Roxanne

Ainsley and her Grandma

Ainsley and her Mama

...and we're back

so, lappy's hard drive died.. but the rest of her lives on. We backed up mid september, so we didn't lose everything, and thank heaven for my blog, I posted my favorite pictures here, or i'd have lost 3 months of ains life.. i can't even imagine how awful that would be. As it is, all mu documents, notes, calendar appointments, any pictures i didn't post and anything else i did on lappy since mid sept is gone. But we are optimists over here, and the glass is half full. :) It could have been a lot worse. Its amazing that all that broke was the hard drive.
Thanks for hangin in there with me :) and here are some pictures to tide you over until i can take some more.

Hello?

it's for me!

yummmm

TRAGEDY!!.... again... sigh...

in case any of you are wondering why you aren't seeing me online or why this blog isn't being updated.. or want to call and offer your condolences..

my lappy, the sassiest of all lappy's, after miraculously surviving the water incident earlier this year, finally succumbed to the faults of her owner when she had a fatal accident this afternoon. She fell from my clumsy hands and landed on the concrete floor of our laundry room.. moments later she died in my arms..... *stifled sob* We rushed her to the lappy emergency room, and they are even now preforming a biopsy in hopes of finding a way to revive her frail existence.. but they say there isn't much hope.. now we are just hoping that her organs will be viable to transfer to a new lappy, so that her spirit may live on... though when that will happen we cannot say at this time.

Please join us in the honoring the memory of one who gave so much of herself, helped find the answers to many problems, and was always there for those who loved her . Goodbye Sassy, you will be missed... oh how you will be missed. *sniff*

Half a Year Old!

Aunt Jemima Baby

Swinger

Reading Articles with Daddy

Quiet Time with Mommy

Hawaiian Cuties

My Ainsley Hazel is six months old... half a year! This has got to be the fastest time has ever flown in my life. She's turned from this tiny little helpless being who can barely hold her head up into a laughing, rolling, grabbing, curious person right before my eyes. She makes every day a blast and life seem so precious. Thanks Ainsley, for an amazing six month. I love you.

We also had a surprise vistor today! Sweet Caroline, (my roommate for many years from USU for those of you who don't know) was in Utah (from San Antonio.. where they know what salsa is supposed to taste like) for a few hours today in route to a mission reunion in another state. Well, we got to see her for a quick visit, it was super nice, i miss my lil buddy. :)