Finally A New Update!

Okay so I have been getting a lot of slack for getting behind on postings so here I go trying to catch up a little. In January Abby was out of school for 4 weeks and we were starting to get a little bored. So we decided to be tourists in Utah for a week. We went to the Monte Bean Museum at BYU, toured Sweets Candy Factory, visited Krispy Kreme Donuts, visited the Utah museum of natural history, the aquarium, and the church history museum. Needless to say it didn't just cure our boredom it just wore us out. It is amazing that you can live in a state for you entire life and have never visited some places! We are hoping when Abby goes off track again in the spring that we can find some more places and continue of Utah Vacation!

Christmas and New Years!

What a great Holiday season! First off it was great because Jen's brother James and his wife Bethany and their little girl Sophia were able to come to Utah for Christmas. We hadn't seen them in a couple of months and Sophia has changed so much so it was really fun to spend time with them. We spent Christmas Eve at the annual Tippets Family party and got a chance to catch up with the family which is always fun! Then Christmas day we hung out at the house until the afternoon and then went to Uncle Cody and Aunt Lisa's for the Johnson family Christmas dinner and presents. The kids had a blast and uncle Luke deep fried a turkey that was fabulous. Then the day after Christmas we went to Jen's dads house for her family's Christmas get together! For the last couple of years we have spent the night over their so the cousins can hang out together and it is always a lot of fun - until Kelly, Jen and Aiden woke up in the middle of the night with the stomach flu! The next 3 days after that were spent trying to get better! I think pretty much everyone in both Kelly's family and Jen's family ended up sick at one time or another that week.

For New Years we had planned on spending it with friends but a last minute funeral for an extended relative created a scheduling problem so we just spent it at home as a family playing games and having fun snacks!

Aside from the whole getting sick situation it really was a great holiday season - but we are glad we don't have to do it again until next year!

Santa Visits Preschool

Every year Miss Karen has Santa come visit the kids at preschool. The twins were so excited about it they jumped out of bed that morning and shouted "Santa is coming today." They have got the greatest preschool teachers! They were even sweet enough to take a picture of the Aiden and Ella together with Santa! Aiden told Santa he wanted Melman Pajama's (from Madagascar) and Ella told Santa she wanted dress up and dolls to share with her sister! All three kids are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Santa on Christmas Eve. I wonder what he will bring this year!

New Winter Snow Pics!

Aunt Shanae is awesome. Her and I took the kids up to Butterfield Canyon and she was kind enough to take the time to take some new pics of the kids. It was so cold the kids could barely stand it, plus it was way icy and we kept sliding all over the place. But they were such good sports about it and the pictures turned out way cute.

Abby's Big Art Show!

Back in May Abby entered a picture into an art contest at the new Riverton Hospital near our house. Well four months later we got an invitation in the mail saying that her entry was select among 150 others to be framed and displayed at the new hospital and that there was going to be an open house honoring the artists. It was truly a great night to get to see hers and a couple of her friends artwork in a huge picture frame with the little plaque with her name and age on it, to be displayed at the hospital for years to come! What a great experience for my little artist! Abby your Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you. And thanks to Panka for coming with us and making it a truly unforgettable night!

Disneyland 2009

We got to got to Disneyland last week. We drove out there for a few days and had such a great time. It is Halloween time there so we got to see everything decorated for the holiday. They even had the entire Haunted Mansion ride redecorated for the season. It was so fun. The twins were just barely tall enough to go on all the rides so we were glad for that. The only major bummer was that Pirates of the Caribean was closed which was the ride the kids were the most excited about. While we were there we had breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen and dinner at Ariel's Grotto so the kids got the chance to meet all of the characters they wanted to see. All in all it was a great vacation now if only all of our vacations went that smoothly!

Crazy Life

Oh my heck I cannot seem to keep up with everything. Things have been really crazy so I have not been up on blogging lately. We have been out of town recently and are leaving again soon. We never travel and somehow we landed two trips in one month. So it's been busy but good. Abby is loving second grade and is doing really well. She reads like a pro and is having fun trying to trick Mom and Dad with all the really big words she can read. They had 70's day at school last week and so we made her up as a little hippie and she had a blast. Aiden and Ella are loving preschool and can't wait to tell me everyday what new things they have learned. They are really into the playing with friends stage right now but things have been so busy it has been hard to find time. Abby and Ella are doing tumbling one day a week and Aiden has started karate. Abby is also taking piano lessons. So between Piano, tumbling, karate, preschool, cub scouts, pta, work, Kelly's school, vacations, and life things have been crazy to say the least!