Love/Hate

I am LOVING living here in AZ....so far. I mean, how many times have you all had to read, or hear, about my extreme distaste for any type of cold weather? Seriously, I was not meant to be in cold weather country. So I was soooo happy to be able to go to the park and meet Erik for lunch at the park in the middle of December! Awesome!

Yes, short sleeves!

She didn't want short-sleeves. Oh well. I mean, it's not like it's super hot this time of year. (Sorry about the picture Erik!)


We even ate under this cute little tree where lovebirds inscribed their initials to show their undying love for one another. Erik wouldn't do it. Whatever.

But you know, not everything is copacetic around here. There has to be some downfall, right? It's to be expected. Maybe something, oh, like THIS!!!!

This little gem was hiding in some debris left behind by the previous owners. Do you know what it is? I had never seen one before this moment.

Okay, it's a freaking black widow! Ewwwww! I want to throw up just looking at the pictures! I HATE this!


Oh but don't worry. There was another one waiting in the debris so it wasn't lonely. The children are no longer allowed to play outside.

So I guess you can't have everything. Sunny with just a few days of rain, no snow EVER, and completely bug and poisonous spider free. We'll see if I start complaining about the heat in the summer!

Christmas '09

Well Christmas has come and gone. Presents were wrapped, new pajamas were distributed, cookies for Santa were made, presents unwrapped, pajamas worn all day, toys put together, toys taken apart, some pouted, and some did weird poses for the camera...and all while the sun shined outside! Here are the wad of pictures of our Christmas adventure this year.



I'm feeling very grateful for this past year. We have had plenty of trials and plenty of good times as well. Even though I kept forgetting it was Christmas time (due to the 70 degree weather!!!) I still felt the Spirit of this time of year. I am grateful for my family. The Lord has blessed me with a husband that I love more than anything and for some strange reason loves me back! He has also blessed me with 3 beautiful, strong-willed, loving children that I can't get enough of! I am grateful for Christ's birth and for the sacrifice he made for me and my family. I am grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am grateful for all my family and friends, wherever you may be, for all the support and love that we have been given over the years.

I hope you all have had a merry Christmas and hope you all have a great 2010!

Holy Crap!! It's Christmas Eve!!!!

I'm freaking out just a bit. Where did my time go? It doesn't even seem like Christmas this year and it all has to do with this little beauty....

We moved into our house not even a week ago and it's been nuts! We're so excited to be in but to move in right before Christmas is a wee bit overwhelming so we have this...


which is the current state of the garage. We just threw them all in there so we wouldn't have them out during Christmas. But no, not all of them are empty. And we also have this...


Just a couple of the paint projects we've been working on. The blue has to go. And the yellow hurt my eyes. Our house is a work in progress.


And this is all the kids have done while we've been working.


But the kids finally got to see Santa and Mrs. Claus. Although Makayla was too freaked out to sit on Santa's lap.

Preston asked for a Nintendo DS, a Wii, and video games. (yeah right)
Bryce asked for a toy story DS and a dinosaur mountain.


And we got the tree up.

We've been up to more but this will have to do for now. Merry Christmas!

About Thanksgiving

I don't really enjoy Thanksgiving day food. Seriously. So my idea was to go out to dinner for Thanksgiving. Maybe that's a little unorthodox but I thought why not celebrate pilgrims by not making dinner and having other people make it and bring it to our table? Wouldn't the pilgrims want us to enjoy the comforts that they weren't able to enjoy?

But I was vetoed. And we stayed in and had dinner. And everyone that was involved did an excellent job!

The decor.


Happy, mischievous, and ornery children.


We.


Kirsten.


Gone crazy from pie or something.

Naps taken.


Finally content with pie.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!