New Year's Eve 2008

What a fun party - oh wait, can the hostess say that...


The Sassy Gals - minus one Trena

Um, Miss Laura Lu & Chane - this way please...

We played a really fun ice breaker game - the reindeer game...







On Dasher and Dancer, On Prancer and Kevin - hum, not quite what I remember...

All of the other reindeer...

Charades don't look as cool in photos, but I thought I'd include the shots I took.

Rock Band is always fun!

We had a great time and it's really too bad that I am terrible at remembering to take photos - like pictures of our white elepants (so funny) or how about photos of all of the couples - what an idea! Or how about a photo of the MESS that the confetti made in our family room. Geez - help me! I have got to think of these things.

Sledding...

We went sledding with Olivers and Talbots the day after Christmas. What a blast, the kids had a great time sledding and tubing down this hill off of I-84 at a rest stop.

Downhill Chandler

That's some cold snow!

Downhill Shane

Wipe out Shane!!

Downhill Kevin

Brian and Hannah

Downhill Curtis

Sarah and Andrew

Downhill Chan

Catrina and Sarah

Catrina and Sydnee

Downhill Brian

Brian, Chantell, Hannah & Curtis

Taking a break with cocoa - Sarah, Sydnee & Emily

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

Gingerbread House

Chandler and Shane had a fun time creating our gingerbread house this year. Sarah and I only added a few touches, but mostly it was Chandler's creation.

Jon Schmidt Christmas Concert

Shane called and got us tickets for the Jon Schmidt concert the first day they were available. We got the first row, first 4 tickets. Too bad you can't take pictures during the concert, it was so good and we had a fun time in the snowy weather.

Santa

Santa came to our ward party this year. Sarah told him she'd like Littlest Pet Shops (of course). Chandler only posed for the photo.

Temple Square

We requested tickets to one of the concerts at Temple Square and we got tickets to a Symphonic Concert in the Tabernacle - what a great way to get into the Christmas Spirit. We went early enough to see the lights and take a couple photos.

My Friends!

I'm so lucky have a such a great group of friends. They are more than merely seasonal friends, but lifetime friends that lift me up, make me feel good about myself and help me through those hard times. I just hope that I can prove to be as much a friend to them as they are to me.

Love you all!

Trick or Treat

Don't know the Ninja Turtle, he just stopped in our picture and since the kids were smiling, I took it. From left to right: Sarah, Andrew, Hannah, Rebekka, Ethan

Fall Concert 2008

Chandler played in his first concert today. It was pretty good. Although the "auditorium" was the common area and it does not have good acoustics. The beginning band (Chandler's class) played first, they played A Little Bit of Latin and the Theme from Transformers. Then the intermediate, jazz and advanced bands played.


Chandler and his friend Dalton.

I love my new camera!

It's a Canon PowerShot SD890 IS. It's 10 MegaPixels and 5x Optical, but it's compact and so cute. It has an image stablizer, great features for indoors, outside, snow, kids playing, red eye corrector, etc. I love it!

Bleubelle

Our beautiful kitty will be 3 years old on Sunday, wow!

Gardner Village

I love Gardner Village this time of year. They have the funniest witches posed all over and beautiful places to take pictures of the kids. Here are some of my favorite shots.