Eleven Years ago...

Tomorrow, the 30th is this boy's birthday! Can't believe he is already 11. Last week he graduated from Cub Scouts and received his Arrow of Light Award. He is really looking forward to Boy Scouts and all the fun to be had on camp outs and such! To celebrate our birthday Colby is going to ditch school and we're going to go to Provo and do whatever we feel like doing. Which for Colby will probably involve trying to spend all of his birthday money. Since it's my birthday too I think I will at least get to pick where we eat lunch but we'll see! Happy Birthday Colby dude, it's fun to share my birthday with you. We won't mention how old this mom turns tomorrow!

I guess it really is winter

So it's January 21st and we finally got some snow.   The kids had a good time playing in it but were bummed when we realized that the sleds are still in the storage shed!!  Oops!  We haven't needed them until today so didn't even think about it.  They were finally able to use the new snowball toys that they all got for Christmas.

When I was getting Clara ready to go outside I pulled these blue gloves out of the box and gave them to her.  She threw them down and said "Not blue. Cee Cee blue."  Then she went to digging in the box until she found a pink glove!  This little girl really is ALL GIRL!  It's amazing to me to watch, I love it.  (Cee Cee is what Clara calls Hayden)

This is what it looked like around here just a couple of days ago.  We played outside everyday and it was wonderful.  My boys thought that they didn't even need a jacket but Clara didn't have choice.  I can't really say that I missed the snow at all.  If it weren't for the fact that we need the moisture I would really have prayed for the snow to stay away forever. 

Christmas

Kids were happy. Said it was the best Christmas ever! (always nice to hear:) And now it's over, all put away and kids are back in school. Let the new year begin!