Let it Snow!

We were visiting a McDonald's in Mesa on Dec 30th and it started snowing. We all had to run outside to experience the real magic!

The Eclipse

These are taken with my phone so they are not that great but I had to record that we were crazy enough to stay up until 2:30 to watch. We did fire up the jacuzzi and watch while floating in warm bubbles, that made it a little more bearable. It did look really neat but no different, in my naive opinion, than the other eclipses that I've seen....

Little Handprints

What would I do without little hand prints? This little girl is smart, she figured out how to climb onto my bathroom counter and unscrew the lotion bottle and paint the mirror. The next question I asked myself was "where was I during all of this?"...

Pearls Quite Book

This was the present that Lilly and Abigail made for Pearl this Christmas. We ended up making it two days before Christmas and could only use what we had in the house. It turned out pretty cute considering...

On the Mountain

The week before Christmas we were able to visit my grandparents who live out in the middle of no wear (about an hour drive on a dirt road outside of Marana). We helped them get ready for Christmas company. We also took a "real Indian Jones" ride and explored.

Christmas Ligths at the Temple

It's not the best picture but at least it documents that we do get out of the house occasionally.

Now that I look at it again we all look like zombies!

A Clean Garage!

This might be silly to everyone but me. It was the best Christmas present that I got this year. Ryan had the week before Christmas off and used his time to make me deliriously happy. I had to take a picture to prove that at one time we could park the car in the garage.

LIlly's Birthday Cake

Around December is birthday month and we get sick of cake. This year Lilly asked for ice cream cake. It turned out really yummy and was huge. Here is the last slice after eating if for a couple of weeks. Mint chocolate chip/Oreo/cookies and cream!

Turkey Trot 2010

Before

So every year I am able we try to do a Turkey Trot. This year it was in Mesa. I decided that I needed a little bit bigger challenge so we signed up for the 10k. I survived just barley and Ryan was my motivator although after mile 4 nothing much was said. (I got a little crabby) but there's always next year!

After

Where's Pearl

That's a good question to ask myself every now and then. Today I realized that it had been a little too long and I nervously went down stairs calling her name.


Luckily this is what I found. She had pulled up the stool to the counter and found Abigail's Halloween candy. She couldn't answer me because her mouth was full of lollipops.