Christian-4 months

Christian is enjoying eating rice cereal, laughing at his very silly dad, being spoiled by his sisters and brother, and rolling all over the floor. We are loving every second of it!

Happy 34th Birthday Curtis

Throwdown Showdown at Energy Solutions Arena. My cutie pie before the fights started- we had pretty good seats- exciting for Curt, not so much for me!

The announcer was introducing the two fighters, Sara's brother is the one with his back turned to the camera

This is where the fight is just about to begin, as soon as the ref backed away they went straight at each other, I always close my eyes or turn my head when they brawl. I couldn't imagine being in the ring. Either these guys have serious guts or they are crazy-you decide!

This is where he won the fight, he is a state champ in wrestling and he got his opponent in a headlock and the guy tapped out.

Don't you just love the 3 candles on his cake? I think the girls looked so cute in this picture. Kemp is not in the picture because he was asleep. He was kind of urked at us for not waking him up for the b-day festivities, but we all went to Fat Catz for some bowling and games so that made up for it.

I really wanted to surprise Curt this year for his birthday. He always guesses what I am going to do, and I am proud to say this year he had no clue! I was going to take him to Rodizio's Grill in Salt Lake and then decided to be more creative (thank goodness because that was one of the places he guessed!) Lately Curt has been so hooked on this UFC (ultimate fighting championship) stuff on television and he makes me watch it with him, in some fights guys will have blood squirting from their heads,eeww! So my sister-in-law Sara tells me that her little brother fights in this insane sport-is it a sport?- It was being held at the Energy Solutions Arena and it is a Utah division called Throwdown. I actually had fun and Sara's brother is a dang good fighter he won after only 1-2 minutes. There were several different fights and it went until 1:30 in the morning. There were 3 big fights at the end, wish I would have got a pic of the last fight, one of the guys wore a blue striped speedo! Curtis also saw some guys from work who said they were shocked to see him at something like that! Who doesn't like to see two guys beating each other to a pulp? Yep, it still makes no sense to me. Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

No Roses Please!

I do not care for roses, they wilt to fast and I just don't think they are a "happy" flower. So Curt always gets me a variety of flowers for special occasions. He knows I love daisies and white are my favorite, so he found some for V-day this year and I had to take a picture because they make me so happy on my table each morning. I loved Valentine's this year, it was so low key. I have my petty hang-ups and Curt has his, but as we get older we see past them better and just appreciate one another more. Thanks honeybuns for an excellent Valentine's Day!

Christian- 3 months

We will miss having our Montana family living in Pocatello and coming down quite often to visit, when their house is finished and Reid starts his job they will be moving up to Helena, boo-hoo!

Cousin Caitlin is so great with babies!

A lot of snoozing happens with Daddy

When he isn't asleep he wishes he was!

I wish I could get his funny faces on camera, he just stares everytime I get out the camera.

He is constantly chewing on his hands!

Kerstyn gets naked and jumps in the bath every time I have him in, she is a very clean girl!

Just staring at the camera, what is that thing?

Finally a smile, yea!

Now he gets it, you smile when the camera is in your face, ha!

His first professional picture-1 month old

Christian is 3 months old now and we all now how fast the time goes by, so enjoy!

We love Pizza & Aunt Caroline!

Does my sister know her nieces and nephews, or what? She got all of them a card for a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut for their birthdays. Cami kept forgetting to use hers from back in April, so they all went at the same time and thought it was such a great present. What kid doesn't love pizza? Thanks Aunt Caroline!

No Dogs Allowed!

Kerstyn was yelling, "Wake up!" to this fish. surprisingly enough it didn't wake up!


Our luck with pets has not been the greatest this past year. We have had 3 fish and 1 frog die, and 2 hamsters escape (of which we have yet to find?). I am the one that feeds and cleans up after these pets, so I got too busy and it was all downhill from there. My sister Lana brought it to my attention that our beta fish named Cinnamon was dead-I had no clue. My daughter Kerstyn said that our other beta named Aqua was sleeping and she was yelling in the bowl for him to wake up. It took awhile for her to understand he was dead, once she accepted it she asked if she could help flush it down the toilet-ha! I was secretly happy when Jumpy the frog died because I HATED cleaning the bowl and catching the frog in the net. Our veteran beta named Bluey, died last spring. We had him for 2 1/2 years, that was pretty emotional. I wake up every night when there is any sort of noise that might belong to our hamsters and wonder where I will find them? So of course I just laugh at my children when they ask for a dog!

Christmas pictures

A "real" note from Santa! We forgot to leave him milk and cookies so he helped himself to some sugar cookies that I baked for some neighbors and Santa must really love cookies cuz he left a lot of crumbs on our counter top! His cup from the milk was also left out by the cookie crumbs. Kemp has been doubting the authenticity of Santa this year, but this clenched it for him-because Mom and Dad don't write like that!

Lana knitted Caroline and I some beanies, love the colors!

Christmas DVD that my children would watch all year long if they could!

The girls in their High School Musical pj's.

Christian got a red ice skate for his ornament, Kerstyn got a Hannah Montana guitar, Cami got a disco ball, and Kemp got a silver snowflake.

A tradition we have every year is giving the kids a Christmas book, new pajamas and an ornanment to open on Christmas Eve, this has been tons of fun. We read the book that night and we love the snuggling together. This year Curt got the whole collection of Christmas cartoons on DVD (Santa, Frosty, Rudolph, etc.). I loved Christmas Eve this year! Curt also made vanilla steamed milk for all of us, yum!

We love it when Aunt Caroline comes to town! This was a pedicure night, they did green and red toes!

These two were the only ones left in their Christmas outfits for church, Kemp and Cami almost have their church clothes off before we even get in the house!

Playing "popcorn" with the sledding tube on the trampoline.

Other highlights of the Christmas season:

-My niece Ava recovered awesome from her head surgery (our prayers were answered!) She came home from Primary Children's Hospital three days before Christmas.

-My hubby made it home from Seattle at 5pm Christmas Eve, he is lucky he didn't get hung by his toenails, Ha!

-3 new babies to enjoy!

-My Dad was able to attend our family Christmas party, which he missed last year and was told on New Year's Eve of 08 by an ER doctor that he would live 2 more days, and he wasstill here to ring in 2009- we love you!