Thursdays

I love 30 Rock! I'm going to miss this show :(

January fun stuff

Braden has been doing this everytime I bring out the camera...

 B's beloved bracelets

 Surprises from Papa and Gaga

 Aaron has been gone to China for business. It was so nice to have a visit from Mom and Dad. We had a great time and they loved the awesome weather. Mom's birthday was on the 19th so we got her a Nothing Bundt cake. It was so good!

 I got to be a chaperone for the 5th Grade field trip. We went to Local Motors and the kids got to learn about cars. It was really fun, the kids loved it.

 Each group got to design a car. I think this was their favorite part

 After Local Motors, we found a park to eat lunch. I'm glad I got the day off so I could go :)

3 years...

I miss my buddy...love you Grandma!
{Thanksgiving 1996}

2012 Year in Review

I had some time the other day so I just chose a few of my favorite pictures from each month and put them into the templates. I don't know what I would do without templates...

It's hard to believe 2012 is over, it went by so fast!

{Credits}

Ali Edwards 2012 bracket stamps

Ali Edwards Months + Days brushes

Crystal W. Templates

Clean Stitched Banners

 

TIME in 2013

My focus for 2013 is time. Being a mom is challenging. I catch myself saying, 'I wish I had just a few more hours in the day.' I need to get selective about how I spend my time, that's the plan.

Wish me luck :) 

Blogging and scrapbooking make me happy so they will stay :)

Sunday Sledding

We had so much fun seeing my family and hanging out. The kids had a blast sledding with their cousins. It was below zero temperatures at night and single digit temps during the day. 

We are just not used to it being that cold! 

Thank you Mom and Dad for being awesome hosts and keeping the house nice and warm for us!

And the delicious home cooked meals made with love by Mom :)

 

Christmas at our house

 Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It's been so great spending time together and having time off. We just got back from a visit to Vernal for a few days to see my family. Our December Daily album for 2012 is finished! It was tough keeping up this year with everything going on but we did it!

 

December Daily 2012

 10 more days until Christmas! That is so hard to believe it! Where has this month gone? I've been keeping up with my DD album but haven't had time to post. Well, kind of keeping up. I take the pictures each day and write down a few items about our day and then I just scrapbook them on Saturday :) It works!

Our Christmas vacation officially begins on Friday at noon! Can't wait! :)

love this!

Thanksgiving 2012

 Wednesday was a 1/2 day of school for us. The Turkey Trot is a tradition at the school. The kids run and play games. I'm the only one in the office who has kids that still attend school here so I got to participate. This is H's class...

 I wish I would have taken a video of him jumping rope. He does it backwards and he's fast! It was funny

 juggling scarves...

 and eating oranges

 Paige found this hat in the dollar section at Target :)

On Friday, we traveled down to Tucson for a day and night. We took the kids to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. What an awesome place! It's a museum and a zoo. All the landscape, animals and exhibits are all about the Sonoran desert.

 These are 2 pieces of art that I really liked

This is a Ring Tail Cat and a Diamondback rattlesnake. One of those cat's climbed on Aaron looking for food when he was sleeping at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In this presentation, we learned that they spray like skunks when they feel threatened...scary! 

 The museum had stamp pads of different animal tracks...P&H loved stamping in their books

 It was a beautiful 90 degrees that day

 These wildcats loved that pair of Levi's

 They released owls and some other birds and they were flying really close to everyone's head. It was cool!

 Our hotel room

This labyrinth was right behind our hotel room

 

 The kids wanted to find somewhere to toss the football and frisbee around. While we were walking we heard all 3 of them yell, "Grass!!" We weren't expecting to find grass with all the desert landscape. That hour we spent with our kids was one of my favorite of our Thanksgiving weekend :)

 H kicking the football in his pajamas :)

 Before heading home on Saturday, we visited the Children's museum of Tucson. It reminded us a lot of the one in Phoenix but I think our kids liked this one better

 The was a machine that showed how frequency works. This is what A does for a living so it was fun to see him explaining to the kids how it worked.

 He loves motorcycles and I had to take this for my Dad :)

 What up Ben?!

 P&H could have played here for hours :)

 They had an entire wall display of vintage Mickey and Minnie Mouse collectables. I thought back to a Minnie Mouse bank that our sweet next door neighbors brought me back from Disneyland when I was 2. I lost it years ago but I was curious to see if they had it on display. Sure enough, there it was :)

 Life with a teenager...never a dull moment

 Paige loved this little pet vet area. She loves kitties

 This outdoor area was something that all 3 of the kids enjoyed

 Hammond kids doing what they do best...Hamming it up :)