Happy Birthday in January

Avila was the place and having as much fun as possible was the game..... the occasion, however, was Papa and Uncle Taylor's Birthday!! The whole family travelled to Avila loaded with bikes, beach games, swim suits and Birthday wishes.

In the name of fun we rode our bicycles 11.2 miles to eat a cinnamon roll (yes, our girls made the journey quite well..... thankfully there was a cinnamon roll dangling at the end of the ride as well as a hitch hike home with Kam! However, the hitchhike home proved more for Mommy and Daddy's sore tail bones than it did for the 2 little girls begging to ride their bikes some more!), we played in the sand, ran from the waves, battled in boccie, threw frisbees, played woffle ball, swam in the pool, warmed in the jacuzzi and ate in fancy places!

We are so lucky to have Papas and Uncles who are always ready to have fun with us!!

Happy Birthday!!

We LOVE you!!

New Years

As always, we rang in the New Year with all the family, skiing and sledding at Shaver Lake. Too much fun!!
Some of my favorite moments..... the gaming, watching Elias ski to Josiah's open arms, Adalie practicing her backwards skiing, skiing with the whole family, banging pots and pans at "midnight", pushing Adalie on the sled and hoping someone would catch her before she went into the water....... !!

Can't wait to see what 2010 has in store for us all!!

Sledding

A fun day of sledding with friends..... both with and without a motor.

Both got alot of smiles!

(Josiah 6yrs, Adalie 4yrs, Kaiya 4yrs, and Bladen 2yrs, Baesore Meadows)

Lady Bugs

Some of my very favorite days are those that are unplanned and spontaneous. In spontaneity there are no expectations, no disappointments, no schedules to keep.... just enjoying the moment.

And so a hike up the flume with cousins, on a chilly winter day sounded like just what we needed. And to our delight, we found "millions of ladybugs", enjoyed the rushing waters, hiked out just as dark was settling in, and warmed up by the fire at home with a yummy dinner!

Aaaahhhhhh!

Babies

We Love Love Love babies!!

How lucky are we??

(Cousin Sage 11mos,and Cousin Freney 10mos)

Surprise!!

A day after Christmas SURPRISE!!
After breakfast, the girls knew we were headed up the hill to do some snowmobiling........ but, what they didn't know........ was...... they were going to ride their very own sleds!!
Oh, how excited we ALL were!!
It was a day of learning, of Daddy's running along side the little sleds to make sure little ones knew what they were doing, of wrenching on new motors, of hiking with friends when your sled is not running, of just having some fun in the mountains!

Thanx to Turner and Case for the fun place to ride AND for keeping our sleds for us ready to ride all season long!!

Christmas Day

Wow!! what an incredibly fun day. Stockings in the morning. Love at first site with Rebecca and Julie. Breakfast and presents with Amma and Grandpa. Dressing our dolls with Amma. Time to play. Fellas competing for distance with their new planes from Santa. Dinner at our house. All topped off with a phone call from Santa himself that delighted both children and adults alike!! How on earth did he remember what he had gifted to each child?

How perfectly delightful!!