Just keep swimming just keep swimming...

We are so proud of Cloe... Great swimming, third place in her heat for the 50 yard backstroke!!! She was one of the youngest swimmers. Also so proud of Kota and Paige for being so good the whole day! Had fun with the family at Pizza Hut after the meet!

Anniversary!!!

8 years of marriage...ups and downs...great kids...a good day celebrating on the slopes with my best friend!!! I'm grateful to Brent for listening to me, helping me, doing housework :), working hard, being a good dad, loving God, an loving us!

New Years

We had a great New Years! Curt and Cathy stayed with us; we danced, ate junk, played spoons, and enjoyed Trevor and Trish and their kiddos. We heard everyone's resolutions, and after the go around and hearing Trevor and Trish's kids goals I realized that I may need to have a talk with my kiddos about setting goals this year. :) no, everyone had great goals but apparently not as good as I thought seeing how I can't remember them all right now. Okay note to self, follow my own advice and write them down, fhe idea is here. Alright Headstart. Oh wait I do remember Curt's "to watch more football." That one got a laugh. :) good one grandpa! I wanted to go bowling New Year's Day because that's what my family did every year but it didn't happen so wii bowling was good enough! I also went into hibernation for a couple days after New Years! Man I am keeping myself to busy I can't remember a thing lately!

Pop and Grandma Pot Visit

We got to have lots of visitors this holiday season! What a fun way to celebrate our Saviors birth to have family and friends to be with. It was nice to have my dad and Dorothy come and see us for as long as we could get them! Thanks for all the goodies! The girls love their Lala loopsie dolls!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning was splendiferious, as Fancy Nancy would say.  Cloe, and Kota woke up early at about 7:00 which I thought was pretty good and then we had to wait for Paige to wake up so we read Christmas books while we waited and Dad made monkey bread bread while we waited.  That sure was nice not to have to make breakfast.  Then Paige woke up at about 8/8:30 and we opened gifts.

 

 Cloe's favorite gift was her cinderella doll and her tiara.

 Kota's favorite gift was horse rider Moxie doll.

 Paige's favorite gifts were her LaLa Loopsie and her Belle Princess Doll.

 

 What Fun and What excitement.  Dad got an Air popcorn popper with all the goodies to make popcorn, and a new belt, and a bipod for his new gun.  Mom got a back massager two different kinds (You can't tell what I've been complaining about) and a chair for the bleachers, and Jewelery and cups.  Grandma Casey made us all cups with our pictures on them.

 

 The Girls got new Snow stuff so we went out and played and tried them out. Once again Paige didn't last long.  I pulled the girls around in the sled.

We made a 2D Frosty the snowman (The snow wasn't in 3D ready form :)  Kota and I made this one after their other one got stepped on and ruined.  We had a great day!

Then we went over to our friends the Terry's for Dinner and Dancing, and Pie, Brownies, and Turkey. What a great christmas.  I must have been super busy before Christmas because I completely lost all motivation to do anything two days after christmas, it was so wonderful and the girls had plenty of new toys to play with.  Relaxation and family fun, and good food....you couldn't ask for anything more.

Christmas Eve

We had a great day mom cooked in the morning and then we went to the chruch and had a nice christmas eve lunch with the Anderson's and the Rasmusson's kids ran around and watched and movie and seranaded us with christmas songs that was fun. 

Then we went to the Sanderson's for dinner and games and Steve and Ruth  and baby Broden were there.  We had a good time there.

Then we looked at christmas lights and we saw the girls artwork in the windows of the shops downtown.  I love this one that Dakota made.  Her face as a snowman...so cute!!!

 

 Then we opened ou Christmas Eve gift of our tradtional...

 Jammies...Cloe knew it. :)

 We read the Story of Jesus's birth in Luke Chapter 2 and put together our wooden nativity.

 

The girls didn't get to see santa this year so the sat on Dad's lap and whispered to him what they wanted for Christmas.  Then of to bed.  Mom and Dad left out Goodies for Santa! :)