our crazy fun-filled weekend

this time of year kills me because we have chris's birthday and my mom's on the 21st and my daighter's birthday the day after. It's always a challenge to get all the celebrating and christmas shopping done before it's too late. We atleast got the christmas shopping done in time. we have been snowed-in for a few days since our driveway is like driving straight up a steep hill. we can usually get down but not up! I took a picture of how much snow we have. over 2 feet! today it was beautiful weather so we all went sledding. I am glad we got to appreciate the fun of having snow because shoveling our driveway was no easy task it's good to know that there is good with the bad.
weekend wrap-up: Chris turned 32! it sounds so old to me (he,he...) we had a night out on saturday night and were able to go out and catch a movie and dinner. We had such a good time and I haven't laughed that hard in a while. chris got his hunting license renewed for his birthday so if anyone reading this wants to go he is always ready.
Ciera's birthday was monday. when she woke up I said, "happy birthday ciera, you're 2!" and all she said was, "okay." so not my most enthusiastic child but she sure liked opening presents. she takes her time and makes sure she gets every last bit of tape and wrapping paper on her gifts. she is more patient than I am. I had no idea what to get her for her birthday but at toys r us she picked out a baby doll that cries when she's hungry. I am trying to get her excited to have a baby in the house again because she doesnt even like anzlie or landon to lay with me.
here are a few things I absolutely love about chris and ciera.
CHRIS: he is a very good dad and plays with the kids until THEY get tired.
CIERA: she is so sweet. she is always happy and gives kisses and hugs constantly. she always strokes my hair and kisses my head.
CHRIS: He is such a hard worker and is always willing to help. he is a great example to me. I love how unselfish he is. He is obsessed with superman because he literally wants to be able to save the world.
CIERA: She has a beautiful singing voice and loves to learn whatever the kids are singing. her laugh is very infectious and I feel very lucky that she is mine!
CHRIS: I love you and I am so glad that we have had seven years together already. You have always treated your family so nice. we couldn't ask for anything more (except maybe for you to lighten up on your obsession with naming our son regardless of what your wife would like.)Other than that we have no complaints. happy birthday!

holiday ideas

if anyone has any fun traditions or holiday ideas that are super fun let me know. We have decorated cookies until we all vowed to never look at frosting again. We baked cookies, fudge, buckeyes, caramels, and chocolate pretzels last family night and delivered them to neighbors. We have spent ample time in front of the television watching holiday movies and getting excited for santa. We have thrown toys in the trash and earned them back(repeat...and so on) and I am so excited that my kids are old enough to learn the christmas songs so our house is definately full of hoilday cheer. I love to look at our tree in the fireplace room and look out the window at the snow-capped mountains. I have bragging rights to this because as jealous as you may get over a white christmas, just remember all the freezing temps, blizzards and snow shoveling you're missing out on. Rudolph is not the only one that had a very shiny red nose. we had so much snow lately that when we let the puppy out and she runs outside she completely disappears in the snow and a few seconds later you'll see her head pop up and she tries to run beack in! not the best time for potty -training an animal. Chris has been keeping active playing basketball and soccer lately. last family night we all went to cheer him on and our kids definately like to yell GO DAD! over and over. the are the best support system you could have which ended up being good because they lost so bad. other than that we have tried to find a way to keep from freezing and getting the inevitable seasonal colds. Happy holidays everyone!

family fun

so I'm a little behind on my posting. We have had some fun times lately but I dont have many photos to show for it. The other night we went bowling for family night. Chris and I have never been bowling together in our whole seven years! the kids had so much fun and Landon totally loved the fact that the boys won and the girls lost! I think even 5 months pregnant throws your gravitiy off because I couldn't keep my balance or my ball out of the gutter. I couldn't figure out why the kiddie ball seemed so heavy. I broke my thumb nail entirely off and its taken weeks to heal.Not cool! we had a good time and the kids keep talking about it. A last little tip from me...just because you're an amazing bowler on the wii, doesn't mean you know what your doing in the actual alley. (I was disappointed myself.)

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have you seen santa yet?

last night my friend Amy told me that they had santas reinderr at thanksgiving point. you could actually touch and feed them if you wanted. they also had free photos with santa in the giftshop. what a fun night for the kids and everything was free so mom and dad were happy too! ciera wouldn't have anything to do with santa so no picture there!

meet Ruby

we were in south jordan the other day and they were selling puppies for almost nothing on the side of the road in fron tof petsmart and we had a really hard time resisiting so, we didnt! I think I am totally nuts right now for allowing this. the kids are in heaven though and those smiles make it a lot easier to bear with it. she is very cuddly. she is a black lab/blue healer mix. she is 7 weeks old but she will be very small so so I was happy about that. I hate when dogs are too big. here are some pictures of her and her first bath.

terrible two's (almost)

My sweet little angel still takes a nap everyday and I have to put her in my room because we haven't bought her a new bed yet. anyway, I laid down with her and as soon as she thinks I m asleep I watch her sneak out. this day, she did reverse psychology. she pretended to sleep and then when I left the room this is what she did. my purse was empty 40 unwrapped pieces of gum. good thing it was a kind she didnt care for. and of course everything else she could get into. Now I am not so easily fooled!