I love being a mom

I remember when I was little and I would occasionally go around doing secret things for my mom like cleaning my room with out her asking, doing the dishes, or things like that. I had completely forgotten about that until today...
This morning Hannah was being a big help to me. Brooklyn was fussy because she is not feeling well and I was trying to take care of her. I heard Hannah in the back ground say to William,"Hey William, lets go clean up the toy room and surprise mom." (The toy room was a BIG mess) William was not as excited about it as Hannah and said, "I don't want to," and continued to play. Well, Hannah went into the toy room and said, "mom, don't look", she shut the door, and was busy for a few minutes. When she was done she opened the door, told me to shut my eyes, and then told me when to look. When I opened my eyes she said, "surprise mom. The toy room is all clean. Come and look." Yes, is was all clean and she had done a great job. This got me so excited because most of the time she is not that excited to clean her toys up... and now... I am on the other end of the kids cleaning up to surprise mom game. I love it!!!


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Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. Jake was able to take off a week for the holidays, and we really enjoyed having him around. We started off with a family party with all of Jake's family. We had dinner, opened presents, and then Grandpa and Jared had made some neat electrical conduit pipe chimes that we sat around and played. I forgot my camera, so I didn't get any pictures.

On Christmas Eve we went to Nevada to see my family.

This next picture is for Jake. He has been designing cell phone towers at work. There were a few along the freeway, so he wanted to stop so he could get a closer look, and take some pictures.


We got there just as it was beginning to snow, and then it snowed for the rest of the night and Christmas day. It was great. This was the first Christmas in a while that all of my family was able to be there. We had a great time together.
On Christmas Eve we acted out the Nativity. It was great because everyone got to dress up and be involved. We took a video, but it was kind of long so I won't post it. I wish that I would have got a picture of Jake. He was dressed up like one of the shepherds, and he looked pretty good. My brothers dressed up like the wise men. They were great.



Afterward we went to a ward/community Christmas party. The primary put on a program, and then Santa Clause came.



We had a great Christmas day visiting with family and lounging around by the fire while it snowed outside.



The next day we played outside in the snow. The kids loved burying Jake in the snow. Jake was determined to stay outside until William was ready to go in, but after a few hours he figured that William might not ever go inside. It was freezing outside, and William's cheeks were bright red, and his fingers were frozen, but he was having the time of his life playing outside with his dad. Jake finally convinced William to come inside.


The next few days were great for playing outside because it was so warm, so we were outside a lot.




Uncle Blaze helped us build a really big snowman.



We went sledding down our driveway which isn't very steep but it is really long, so if you can get a good start, you can go quite a ways.


We also went around the back roads with a sled tied to the back of my dad's truck. He went nice and slow for the kids, but when Jake and I were on the sled, he thought it was pretty fun to go over bumps real fast and try to get us to tip over... it was pretty fun, even with my brothers pelting me with snowballs the whole time.




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