Christmas 2008/New Year 2009

Well we made it through Christmas, stayed home this year. Made it through Jason's inventory, now we've got to make it through my inventory. We've had a snow day today, and tomorrow a 2 hour delay. Thought I would send some pictures of the kids at Christmas. I'm still trying to figure out how to work with this blogging thing. Not as user friendly as I thought it would be. Elizabeth's looks so much better than mine.

Jacob is begging us to start his guitar lessons back up, maybe this summer.

We've been looking at beds for Ashlee's room, she really liked this one, didn't want to get out of it. She laid there for about 5 minutes, which is a long time for her to stay in one spot. We decided that the price tag was a little more than we wanted to spend, so we nixed the idea. Looks like I'll be getting creative with some old ones that we have.

Jadin had us going to the Emergency room last month with a nice gash to the head. He slipped on the bus, fell and hit is head on something, not quite sure what it was. He ended up having it glued shut, instead of stitches. It has healed quite nicely and the scar is only a third of the original size of the cut.

Jacob is a great help with the babysitting, and yes he even changes yucky diapers, doesn't like it though.

Jadin also likes to be a big help when it comes to entertaining his lil' sis. He built a little fort out of pillows and boxes (that need to be put away), then he read her stories.

Well it is time for me to find my bed and snuggle down in for the long winters night. It's cold and snowy out there.

Christmas Letter

The year has flown by so fast, and the kids have grown fast too. Just thought I would fill everyone in on what we've done this year. Well actually the biggest hi-light of the year was when we drove out to California in October. We decided to take the southern route there, old route 66 (now known as route 40, I think.) Somewhere along the road, Jason's brother Shawn, called and said, "Hey, I'll be in Las Vegas Sunday night, why don't you come and stay the night in my room with me for free." So we took a detour up towards Las Vegas, and what to our surprise that we run into but the Hoover Damm. So we spent the day there. Totally cool and very educational.

We did stop in Las Vegas, but didn't spend very much time there, we went to a couple of places the next day and then left. The kids really didn't like it there, which was okay with us.

Our next stop was Disneyland, California, where we met up with Grandma Nola, Uncle Shawn, Aunt Suzanne, Emma, Ellie, and Eva Jensen. We spent four fun filled days at Disneyland and California Adventures.

On the first day we all wore matching shirts. that Aunt Suzanne made, which made it so much easier to keep track of.

The kids and adults had a blast, although it was quite tiring.

On the way back we took a different route and traveled up through Utah, then went Route 70 home. But just as we passed over the border into Utah, Jason saw a Church history sign and decided to stop. It was actually pretty cool. It was a fort where Gordon B. Hinkley's family lived for a while.