2010 ... a lil late

I sent my laptop in to get my keyboard repaired while it's still under warranty. One of my children [*cough*, *cough*, Kailee] may have knocked some of her juice onto my keyboard therefore the important letters were all sticking. BTW, HP has awesome customer service. This is the 2nd time I've needed repair because one of my other children [*cough* Justin] dropped a book on my keyboard the last time. Anyways, they've been great each time! So needless to say while it was out for repair my pixs were gone too.

Here's a few from us bringing in the new year! Usually Ray and I have a party, but I wasn't in big party mode this year. We let the girls have their friends over instead, so they had a slumber party!

Allie & Lynae

They are crazy

Party time

Tay-Tay & Kai-Kai

Man, he LOVED the blowers

The girlies minus Meya

What's a NYE party w/out LOTS of junk food?!

Pretty girl!

Where a kid can be a kid ...

We finally have a bed time routine! Woot! I've never been a crazy-scheduled-my-kids-have-to-this-and-that-at-a-specific-time-kinda-Mom. It's always just worked for us. Of course Allie has had to go to bed by 8:30 this past year because she has to get up for school in the a.m. Justin has always told us when he's ready for bed [which is usually between 8:30 & 9:30]. Damon has always gone to bed when we go to bed, very bad habit. It was time for Damon to sleep in his own bed [like two years ago] lOl! So, at 8:15 we head upstairs, brush their teeth, read a story, and lights out. If they are cooperative they get a sticker [which has been every night so far] on their chart. Once they have five stickers they get a treat. Could be a slumber party in Mommy & Daddy's room, special snack, or toy, etc. They all had five stickers, so this treat was a trip to Chuck E. Cheese [probably should've started with something smaller]!

Caught ya

He must have done the slide 500 bazillion times

Flying

Not tall enough to reach the pedals, so it became Mommy's job!

Cuties

.Dork #1.

.Dork #2.

& .Dork #3.

Finally sliding down on his bum ... look @ his crazy static hair

Whack-a-mole

Ahhhh

"I did it, Mommy ... I won"

I must say, I'm loving this crazy-scheduled-my-kids-are-all-asleep-at-the-same-time-kinda-schedule!! Hubs and I actually have time to ourselves at night! Plus, there are no interruptions during Modern Family! ;)

Snow Fun Part II

We took the kids to the snow last year [for the first time] and we/they had SO much fun. Unfortunately Kailee wasn’t able to go last year, so we really wanted to try and find time to squeeze in a snow trip while she was here. Luckily it all worked out and we were able to go. We took a trip up to Leland Snow Park which is in Strawberry. We spent a lot of time tubing [thank goodness we paid a little extra for our tickets and got the ‘tow up’ service because it sure beats hiking up a great big tall snowy hill just to slide right back down it]! LOl! After we went tubing and grabbed some lunch we went to a different play area where the snow was a lot softer. Next time we may just skip the tubing all together, or just go for a couple of hours. The kids loved sliding down the hills, but I think they had even more fun just playing in the snow! It was awesome family time. There was a lot of tackling and snow ball fights going on. Good times and great memories! We may try and find some time to squeeze in another trip this year ... we shall see! Next time we go I won't be feeding the kids before we hit the road! All of the kids [besides Kailee] got car sick! Very strange, they have never done that before! First it was Justin, then Dae, and right as we were pulling up to the park it was Allie's turn. Good thing they were all wearing layers, yuck!

Kailee 'rockin' her snow overalls ... her words not mine! lOl

All of our babes playing in the snow

Aw, where's Just?!

~Sisters~

Big mouth

Daddy and the kiddos playing

This tube became our make shift snow stroller for a while! He was tired and need a nap! Isn't he so cute! All the Mom's that walked by thought it was great idea, I'm not sure the park would agree! hehe

Daddy and his girlies

She wasn't throwing this at me, but it sure looks like! [she knows better when I'm holding a camera] lOl!

Look closely ... do you see Kailee's body??

Face plant

We do it in the sand so why not the snow?!

Kailee throwing a snow ball @ Daddy [see it mid air]?!

Dae-Dae bug

Making snow angels

My girlies

Damon fell asleep too! Aw!

Daddy & Mommy

Damon is in there too ... some where! We held on to each other and went down the hill together. I think someone ran into us [see them right behind us]! We had SO much fun going down the kiddie hill! It was fast! We wiped a few people out!

She would drag her sled up the hill all by herself! She LOVED it!

Being a great big sissy!

Dae & Frosty

Almost all looking!!