Christmas 2009

This year it was the kids turn to spend the actual holiday with their other parents. So we had our Christmas celebration on 12/20/09 instead. We went up to the Hoggle Zoo on our pseudo Christmas Eve for Zoo Lights. It was perfect weather for walking thru the zoo and spying on the slumbering animals. We would highly recommend it for next year!

Shakierra got a new iPod, Myles got a "touch" phone, Brad and I just got plain spoiled :)

Brad and I spent Christmas Eve with the Alexanders. Heather made the most delicious ham!! So we ate until we could eat no more and then moved onto the gifts. Both Jane and Grace are into Princesses, so that was the theme of their gifts. I think you can tell by this picture that Janie approves of my gift selection :)
Mom was admitted into the hospital on Christmas Eve. Her platelet levels were so low that she was bleeding internally. The bleeding in her brain was causing pressure and terrible pain. They are giving her tons of platelets and whole blood. She will be having a bone marrow biopsy tomorrow to give the doctors a better idea what they are dealing with. Mom is doing much better then when she was admitted, but still no word on when she can come home. So keep her in your prayers and get out and Donate Blood!!

Indoor Training

Our goal for 2010 is to try and participate in a cycling event at least once a month (during cycling season). Our first ride is in St. George in February. So Brad got us this great indoor trainer. It is took stinking cold (and slick) outdoors for riding, but now we have no excuse.

The indoor trainer has been great for Myles to learn to use the clipless pedals. He is hooked now, guess we know what he will be getting for his b-day :)

"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of county you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." Ernest Hemingway

Poor Heather

After viewing these few pictures, I think you too will be thinking "poor Heather". Here is undeniable photographic evidence that she lives with a bunch of crazies!! Good thing we all love them so much :)

Here we have Joe sporting some of the magnets from Brad's groovy Christmas gift. I think this is a great look for Joe!!

And here the girls are lapping up all the ketchup that they can :) We took them to lunch at Chadder's and they started in on the ketchup, I couldn't resist taking a pictures. I think our fellow diner's thought I was off my rocker!

Time Fly's

Time fly's when your.......stressing to the max, working to many hours, running around like a chicken with it's head cut off!! Take your pick, and that will explain my drastic lack of blogging. Work has been insanely busy due to ill employees. Everyone seems to be on the mend, but I will be losing another employee to maternity leave any day now. I am blessed with work, that is what I keep telling myself!

Thanksgiving was great. I actually cooked and the only thing that didn't turn out was the gravy. So I was pretty proud of myself. We had Brad's family over for a total of 14 people. It was fun to finally host a Thanksgiving dinner at home :)

Thanksgiving was also Evie's birthday. She is 3 now. Our little devil is growing up! :) She got a new sweater and powdered donuts for her b-day. I think she would have preferred no sweater and more donuts, but she is only a dog after all!!!

Tomorrow night is my work Christmas party. I will breathe a huge sigh of relief once that is over with. We have lots of people in from out of town, making for an extra stressful time for me.

Brad is driving to Cedar City and back everyday this week. So he starts at 12 midnight and gets home around 2-3 pm. The poor boy is working his tush off!!

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes everyday. Rich people cant buy more hours. Scientists cant invent new minutes. And you cant save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you have wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." - Denis Waitely