January Fun

School pictures.  I gave in and let them choose the backgrounds they liked:)

Happy Birthday to me!  This chocolate mint layered cake smothered in ganache hit my 39 year old spot!

Rocky's on ice!  Several of our neighbors have ice rinks in their backyards.  Lucky us!

Cooper has saved every lego box he has EVER had.  They were beginning to take over the world.  We spread them all out over the floor and created what C Man called a "Sea of Legos".  He still wouldn't part with the boxes, but at least I was able to break them down.  Now they only take up 2 huge boxes in my basement instead of an entire room.  You gotta love having a dad that works at Lego!

Who does your do?

My nephew Ben, and his wife Celeste came to see us with their beautiful boys.  So fun to have family stop by!!  Lucky me!

How much longer until this little chunky foot is bigger than mine?

I adore this sweet young man!

Snowday!  We woke up to 2 inches of snow this week and they canceled school.  This really cracks me up coming from Utah (The Greatest Snow on Earth).  They got 20 inches last week and went to school.  Lucky us!  Ruby made an awesome snow fort. Don't be jealous of my green one piece ski suit from 1992.  It is warm and I know you want it.

Graphing insects with my little bug.  I feel so blessed to be with this 3 amazing people.  I am the luckiest mom in the world!

2012 Memories

We started a new tradition for new years called the best of 2012 jar.  We wrote down our memories on slips of paper through the year and read all of them on new years eve.  Here are some of our favorites:

2012 Memory Jar

Lego Fun Run

Hurricane Sandy Prep

Watched a Raccoon in our garbage can

Purgatory Chasm with Campbells on Thanksgiving

Marry Poppins in Hartford

Ruby Basketball

Moms mint chocolate ganache birthday cake

“Happy Birthday Penis”  in Sacrament meeting Rocky

Ruby and Coop reading books like crazy

6 mice caught

Piano

Time out for Women

“This is a message, not a lemon”  Ruby

Pinewood Derby

Haven Brothers: Thanksgiving dinner in the back of a semi trailer.  Murder Burger

50 miles between birthdays.

Schloclet balls

Dropping off and picking up Dad from work in the Saturn

Hartford half

Playing with letters at Brimfield

Papa and Sharon visit

Ruby won a Kindle from the Summer Reading program at the library

Ice Skating in Providence on Thanksgiving

Dad won an iPad

Coopers baptism

Photo booth Mustaches

Electric guitar

RAGNAR

Pokemon, Hunger Games, Strawberry/raspberry, racetrack, mint ganache cakes

Dads work car

Rocky clogged the toilet with flossers and we had to remove the toilet to unclog it!

Mom ruined iPhone by sunning with it in her sports bra

Corn Maze with Papa and Sharon

Dad dug a mote around our house to keep it from flooding and to stop the indoor waterfall.

“Hair coming”  rocky would yell this when he saw a hair in the tub.

Rocky poooped on the couch and sent it to the garage for several months until mom could face steam cleaning it.

Indoor snow storm.  Rocky cut open his down comfortor and trew feathers everywhere.

Halloween Hustle

Run like a wolf

Dads garden with peas taller than us

Hill cumorah pagenet,  Sacred Grove, giant ice cream cones, ruby dropping her tooth in Niagra falls.

Rocky got potty trained

“you cant just push me around”  Ruby talking in her sleep as I am trying to cary her to bed.

Utah trip. 

20^th high school reunion for mom

Visit from Ben, Celeste and Seth

Family trip to Maine.  Ogunquit, jumping on the bed in the Motel 6, dodging crabs, smores

Dandilion Run

6 flags

Tax return

Cooper Concussion

Parmasan Cheese

Rocky’s fear of foxes

Dad asked mom if she was on meth because she was cleaning like a crazy lady.

Rockys love of cherry tomatoes.

Guess the body part.

Brimfield

Teacher Tea

Ruby Summer reading program, 3 prizes + grand prize

Leap year

12/12/12

Movies on the garage

Back to school party

Last day of school party

Bricnic 80 years of legos

Organized Legos

Daddy working from home

My fitness pal

Ruby discovered she loved jeans

Sparti’s moved to town.  Nkuhumanes moved.

“Last Christmas…I was walking like a chicken”  Ruby

Holding baby Noah and Caroline

Bullwinkle Peanut: our pet squirrel

Concert under the stars

December 2012

 Matt morphed into a massive mini figure...mmmm that was a lot of M's!

 Picking the perfect tree.

 One of our favorite traditions is the new ornament.  Ruby got a cello, Coop a Lego Stormtroper, and Rocky a Parmesan cheese ornament.

 Ruby got Coop a replacement Rubix cube for the one that Rocky chucked across the room and shattered.

 My brother sent me the story The Elephants Child, one of my childhood favorites.  The best part, it came with a CD of my mom reading it!  I have other books she read, but I had no idea she had done a recording of this one.  Priceless!!!

My little Katnis at an archery lesson.

 I want to eat his face off!  My little winter lion...

 Ruby's creative gingerbread people from top left to right: strong man, I gotta pee man, Gangnam style man, patriotic lady, dancing man, impatient woman, reverent man, and dancing man.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year!!!