What?!? It's 2009?!?!?

Of course, like the rest of you, I have been too busy to post anything until now.....so let's play catch-up!!

Ahhh....the peaceful before....

So much for clean and peaceful!!!

It really doesn't look that bad I guess. This was the first year in over ten years that I didn't have my mom, brother and sister here with us for Christmas. I was really sad to not have them here, but we had a great time anyway. The kids didn't wake up until eight o'clock - thank you kids!!!! Hadley (missing from the picture above) didn't get up until 9:30!!!

She was excited to see the "mess" in the livingroom when she woke up! Because of lack of patience, the boys helped her unwrap her presents - they didn't want to wait all day for her to unwrap each present!

Hadley's first baby doll!!! I'm sure someday she'll know the proper way to care for her baby....

Grandpa and Grandma coming to check out what Santa left.


I love the look on Hadley's face...."Not too bad I guess."

Kyle's "haul."

Mason's "haul."

We received another special Christmas present....tickets to a Jazz game!!
We went to Salt Lake for a couple days, visited my mom and went to the Jazz v. 76ers game on Monday night. The kids all wore their Jazz jerseys. Hadley looks so cute in hers!!

Kyle doesn't look real thrilled....he just woke up from a nap.

Several cousins came to the game too. From left to right: Mason, Mickell, Baylee, Myndi, Hadley & me, Clellan (Mickell & Myndi's cousin), Mikaylee and Kyle.

We were in the lower bowl on row 23. I was worried that would be way too high, but they were not too bad! It was so much fun to be there with the kids and enjoy their excitement too. We were even on the big screen ("jumbo-tron") a couple of times!

I think Lynn's pretty pleased with his little Jazz fan!

Here's the team! ...In the background ;)

Since our hotel was only a couple of blocks away and the weather wasn't too bad, we walked to the arena. We then decided to stay afterwards and the kids got to go down on the floor. They were really excited about that! Overall, it was an awesome night!


Hadley was wiped out! She was SO good during the game. I think she enjoyed it as much as we did. She clapped and yelled right along with the rest of us!

What a great ending to a great year! Hope you had a Happy New Year and may the upcoming year be filled with love and happiness!