Christmas

We have a tradition in our family where we get an ornament about what occurred during the year. So here is the list thus far and we hope to add many more:
Christmas ornaments
2001: Snow people in the blanket. When mom and dad got married.
2002: Bike: Dad got first post grad job at Trek in Waterloo Wisconsin
2003: Baby rattle: When Danik was born
2004: House: We bought our first house
2005: Spider-man: Danik loved Spider-man
2006: Soccer Ball: Danik first year playing soccer
2006: House : We bought our Shoshone Home
2007: Batman: Danik is obsessed with Batman and dress up like him 2-3 times a week
2007: Baby Snowman Star: Beya first Christmas
2008: Princess crown: Mom called Beya princess as her nickname and for a few weeks Beya would only turn her head to princess not her name.
2008: Scooby Doo: Danik loved Scooby Doo and would always love to wake up and watch the show and drink hot cocoa
2009: Christmas tree with school items: Danik first year in school
2009: Puppy dog with a Christmas light: Beya loves dogs
2009: : Bought Edgewood home first beautiful home.
2009: Flamingo: Mom and Dad took greatest trip yet for Dad's 30th birthday to Cabo San Lucas.

We had a great Christmas. My sister came home from her Australian mission on Christmas Eve Eve. I forgot how much I missed her, I am glad that she is home
Danik and Beya got a haul of presents:
Danik got: city legos, checkers game, erector set times 2, but one will go back because this toy is much too old, bow and arrow from Beya, Lego star wars anikans ship and and Lego star wars Separtist Shuttle, two super hero shirts
Beya got a lot more stuff but the same amount of money was spent
Beya got a princess cape, Melissa and Doug cake and cookie set these are her favorite they have velcro and can be cut apart and put back together with toppings that interchange, Belle and Aura dress ups, 4 puzzles: shapes, household animals and exotic animals.
We had a great Christmas and we are very blessed to have spent it with family.

Looong time

So I have so many things that have happened to our family. We sold our house in Shadow valley and moved down to Edgewood off of Glassman. We love our new home. It is newer, and I mean within the last 4 years. So hopefully not to much fix up. Beya is learning to potty train today and she is doing great, one accident and only because she was watching Word World! Danik told me today that Santa is his most favorite person of the year, so I asked what about me and he said that Santa is his most favorite person of the year, but I am his most favorite person of his life. This is very funny, because a couple of hours ago I was the meanest and dumbest mother of all time. Ha top that I get the meanest mom of all time title. They are very funny kids. Off to the cookie party with my friends.

Looong time

Beautiful Beya

Swimming and Tumbling

Danik takes tumbling at Elite tumbling on Thursday mornings and I am wondering if we should bump it to 2 days a week. He really likes it! Beya gets to go and play on the trampoline and she really likes it. The tumbling teacher is amazing and Danik looks forward to going everyweek. Today is the last day for this session of swimming. Danik has come a long way. He goes to Weber State and they are amazing. His teacher is Grandpa Bob and he is so sweet with the kids, with a no fuss attitude! What a great summer, Now if the weather would cooperate we would love to go to Lagoon!

Life is Good

I have to say that I love the summer and I love being able to stay home as much as I do! I'm glad to go to work when it is time, but love love being home. Beya got an ear infection last night. I was so frustrated with her yesterday afternoon when we were at lowes trying to buy fertilizer, Now I feel bad! Sweet baby girl had an owie! Today we are going to try toddler time and of course swimming lessons. Danik is doing so well! I love being a mom!

Busy Summer

Danik graduated for the last time from preschool! It was sad, I cant beleive he is getting so big. I remember when he was born! Danik is taking 6 weeks of swimming lessons and then after that we are going to go to Cowabunga Bay! Danik is also taking tumbling, and he really likes it, maybe because his two friends are taking Kanyon and Gavin. Beya love loves story time so we do that 2 times a week and then the splash pad behind Gym. I love summer, but what is up with all of the rain. We dont live in Seattle! I want warm, sunny weather.

Danik and Dad City of the Rocks

Danik and Zach went camping to city of the rocks and played RC cars. They had a lot of fun, but Danik threw up at 330 am all over EVERYTHING. They spent the rest of the night in the truck truning it on every hour to keep warm. Beya and mom had a grils night made popcorn and watched Tinkerbell. What a cute show!

Home Remodeling

Zach decided to make 2 more bedrooms in the basement. We think this is why the house did not sell 3500 sqft and only 3 bedrooms. So now it has 5 bedrooms. Our neighbor up the street John Williamson was the contractor and they did a great job. It looks great. We also put in a new shower. If you saw the last shower you would know what a great improvment anything would be! I decided that we need a backyard. So they are in the process of taking all the trees out on the upper part and will put sprinklers and grass in. Danik and Beya will love it! Barbeque at my house when it is all done. Next is the counter tops, Ha in about 5-9 years!

School

Well I cant beleive that Danik is going to go to Kindergarten in the fall. I feel very old. We are trying to put Danik in the all day Kindergarten. He is ready to go to school and loves playing and interacting with other children that are his age. We were told that we would know if he got into the all day program last week, I gave it an extra week, because its a government thing. And we still have not heard! I want to know what my life will be like next year! Hopefully we will know soon.

Day at the Park

This is an afternoon at the park in Kaysville. We stopped and got subway for dinner and the kids left their sandwiches to go down a slide and the stinking birds came and ate them. Dumb Birds! The kids did not care, they love the park. 2 hours later still did not want to leave! I love summer!

Soccer

This was Daniks last soccer game. He has come a long way, still a little to nervous about hitting people. But isnt that what we teach our kids is to not hit others! Beya was a very good sport a sitting with the water bottle and watching, except for the couple of times she thought she would get up and play. She is fearless!

Its been a while

It has been awhile. A lot has happened since January. Zach turned the big 30. I planned a somewhat surprise trip to Los Cabo. I talked to Tyson and got him off of work, figured out the kid thing, worked extra to pay for the plane tickets, booked the hotel and had the passports in hand. I wanted to tell him so bad, so on wedsday night I told him so he could get things together at work a little bit. It was the most amazing vacation! A lot better than the cruise. I now want to live in Cabo/Mexico! I hate the snow and cold, why do I live here?! Before we left Beya had been sick for about two weeks, So I made Zach take her in since we were going to leave, she had RSV. I knew she had it, but there is nothing you can do, it just has to run its course. She started feeling better Thursday, thank goodness. We could not sell our house, so we refinanced. Yay for lower payments! Beya is talking a lot, she says "I want that", "I need that", "NO!", "Yes", "Dada", "Danik", "Boy", There is a lot more, but I can't remember right now.

Freezing in January

So yesterday it was 50 degrees, Today it was 13 degrees. At least that was what my car ,said, I think it was colder! Today I went to my friend Jessica Whiteheads baby shower, she is having a little boy and is going to name him Atlas- Very Cute! I love different names!! Then I took the kids swimming at the Clearfeild Aquatic Center. They had a good time, but it is a lot of work chasing Beya and trying to make sure Danik was not drowning when he came off of the slide. Then went to dinner with Zach's mom and dad and then to the Weber State Basketball game. We had to leave early because Beya was done and needed to go to sleep. Danik is now doing homework, I'm blogging and Zach is playing RC cars! Then I'm going to huddle in my nice warm bed!!!Brrr

Happy New Year

Happy New Year. Zach and I went out to dinner with our friends Greg and Janelle. It was good to see them. Then we came home and were in bed, before midnight. We are lame. My New Years resolutions are to strike it rich in the stock market, be supper mom- very patient, have dinner made everynight,an immaculantly clean house. But seriously I would like to not yell so much at my children. Here is a good song of what I feel like I tell my children every day and I can now see what I will be saying in the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMhuAtyFCrw The MOM SONG. These are all the things that I thought I would never say, but I do.

Christmas

We had a very Merry Christmas. Danik and Beya woke up at 8 am, the normal time, and Beya slept through the night!!!Yeah!!! Danik was very excited to get a remote control car. Beya got a doll house, It is so big that she can crawl up on the second floor and sit there. I always wanted a doll house, so I found it for Beya and bought it. I think we buy our kids things that we wish we had as a kid or things that we had and loved as a child. We are currently trying to sell our house. We would like to move further south. We are not counting on the house selling, due to the market, but would love for it to happen.