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Friday, January 9, 2009

Another vacation post... but not the end, sorry this is taking so long...

On Friday, December 26, we did some shopping and just had a pleasant afternoon. On Saturday, the men took the 4 boys golfing. Sunday was a very emotional day for me... I was released from my calling as Primary President. Some say that being released is bitter-sweet, and for me sometimes it is, but not from this calling. I loved it and am extremely sad to be out of Primary. That night, we took the kids up to the Temple to see the lights and Christmas displays in the Visitor's Center. Here are some pictures of Grandma with all of the kids...

Saturday, January 3, 2009

more vacation... Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2009: We did some clean up at home, packed an overnight bag and packed Christmas presents into the car. Spencer and Carter played with a couple of friends, we had lunch, and then we loaded up in the car, off to Grandma and Grandpa's house again! We had a nice evening and then the boys had a sleep over in the rec room with Andrew and Brendan (Miana slept in the pack and play in the room with Dave and I).

Thursday, Dec. 25, Christmas Day: The kids woke up about 7am, we waited down in the basement until about 7:15 for Danielle to get there and then we let the kids come up to see what Santa had brought. It's funny to watch the different reactions of the different ages... Spencer was most excited to hurry up the stairs, Carter and Andrew understood what was going on, but were not quite as excited as Spencer, Brendan knew he was supposed to be excited, but didn't quite know why, and Miana and Hallie didn't much care. Miana didn't want to look at her stocking, she just wanted to play with other people's stuff. After Santa stuff, we opened gifts and then had breakfast. The rest of the day was spent playing with toys, playing games, cooking, eating, and eating and playing some more. It was a nice day.

Santa came

and brought bikes for the boys

and a new head band and doll set for Miana

Spencer's favorite gift was a Webkinz dog from Aunt Christina and Uncle Donald...

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Updates, Sorry, Mom, my computer was down the week before Christmas...

The week before Christmas: Carter and Spencer both had parties at school and I was able to go to both (Carter's was Thursday, Spencer's was Friday). They had a lot of fun. Carter's school even had a surprise visit from Santa. Carter shook his hand and Miana sat on his lap... without crying!!

Late Thursday night, Don (Dave's brother) and Christina came into town. They came to our house on Friday and spent the afternoon with us.

Friday: I found out my c-section date... March 25, 9am!

Saturday we went to a tree farm with all of the Tarbets and picked out a tree for Gary and Vivian's house. It was a fun day, despite the mud and me twisting my ankle (very bruised and swollen).

Sunday: church, dinner with cousins, decorating the tree

Monday: Dave and I dropped the kids off with everyone else at Chuck E. Cheese and we went and did some last minute shopping. Stores were crowded and we went to 6 different places trying to find the perfect gifts...

Tuesday: Bowling! I was told that being 6 months pregnant and having an ankle that was still not healed, I was not allowed to bowl. So I watched Miana and took a few pictures... The boys did very well: Spencer getting a 65 the first game and about an 84 or so the second. Carter got a 69 the first game and somewhere in the 70s the second game.

After bowling we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house for lunch and a pleasant afternoon. Danielle, Christina, and I went to the outlet mall just to walk around a bit and get Christina a new sweatshirt and a few other things. We bought the little girls matching outfits, but we will have to wait to give it to them, they only came in size 4T. :) Really cute, though!