How to Build a Snowman

"How to builda snowman first i would make a big big ball next make a middle ball then you make a little ball Last i get carrot then get bottines."

I Heart First Graders! :)

11 Yrs Old!

Easton turned 11 today!
His Loot:
"Something you want": Super Mario Wii and Wii Play
"Something you need": New scripture case
"Something to read": The Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica
His only disappointment for the day was that his birthday fell on Sunday. He REALLY didn't want to spend the day at church...sorry bud.

For dinner he chose Lasagna and we had an ice cream birthday cake with 11 candles for desert.

11 Fun Facts About East:
~He LOVES anything sports
~He is a HuGe BYU fan
~Our pickiest eater of the bunch
~My most tenderhearted
~He isn't a big fan of school but gets straight A's
~Easton is SO brave. He'll try anything!
~Always the first to share
~He is working on getting his Black Belt in Karate
~Easy going
~He is an artist
~He HaTeS to have a hair cut!

Happy Birthday Bud! We love you!

My Reads of 2009

~I Love Books~
My Grandma Otto worked at the Canoga Park Library in California when I was little. She used to send us boxes of books from the library that we would fill our bookshelves with. I think my love of books must come from Grandma. I can totally lose myself in a book....for days on end if I let myself. I try to limit my book reading time to bedtime and during karate. One of my most coveted treasures that my Grandma left behind is her tattered stack of papers which she hand wrote all of the books she had read. Not all of the books that I read I like...but I have an issue where if I start a book I HAVE to finish it. I also only read one book at a time. I decided to keep a log of the books I read so I don't end up reading them twice....especially if it's one I didn't really like. So here is my list for 2009.

2009 Bedtime Stories
~Charlotte's Web-E.B. White
~Heidi-Johanna Spyri
~Marley: A dog like no other-John Grogan
~Mary Poppins-P.L. Travers
~Snot Stew-Bill Wallace**Easton and Jace's Favorite
~The Girl Who Could Fly-Victoria Forester**Camry's Favorite
~The Whipping Boy-Sid Fleishman
~The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-L. Frank Baum

My 2009 Reads
Top 5 Favs (in no particular order)
~Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
~Life of Pi-Yann Martel
~The Secret Life of Bees-Sue Monk Kidd
~The Book Theif-Markus Zusak
~The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins

~3 cups of Tea-Greg Mortenson and David Oilver Relin
~A Boy at War-Harry Mazer
~Animal Farm-George Orwell
~A Walk to Remember-Nicholas Sparks
~Bridget Jones Diary-Helen Fielding
~Crazy for the Storm-Norman Ollestad
~East of Eden-Steinbeck
~Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
~Firefly Lane-Kristin Hannah
~Hatchet-Gary Poulsen
~Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
~Life of Pi-Yann Martel
~Marley and Me-John Grogan
~Mrs. Miracle-Debbie Macomber
~My Sisters Keeper-Jodi Picoult
~Olive Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout
~Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
~Princess of the Midnight Ball-Jessica Day George
~Shadow Divers-Robert Kurson
~Sisters-Danielle Steel
~Surprise Packages-Anderson, Littke, Morris
~The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian-Sherman Alexie
~The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
~The Boy in the Striped Pajamas-Harry Mazer
~The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
~The Guardian-Nicholas Sparks
~The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
~The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
~The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
~The Lucky One-Nicholas Sparks
~The Pillars of the Earth-Ken Follett
~The Rescue-Nicholas Sparks
~The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
~The Undaunted-Gerald Lund
~The Wednesday Letters-Jason F. Wright

Wii Are Just Dancin'

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Halliday for a way fun Christmas gift!

Christmas 2009

Here is what Santa brought Easton

Here is what Santa brought for Jace

and here is what Santa brought for Camry

Wahoo! Everybody got their DS!

Camry made Jace this beanie....he's been begging her ever since she got her loom for her birthday.

My Christmas babies

We always see a movie on Christmas day. This year we went to see "Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakuel"

Christmas dinner at Jeff and Bonnie's house

Kaleb and Easton...after a long day

Games are tons of fun with this family!..maybe one day I'll post Corey's interpretive cat dance. HILARIOUS!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve Jammies

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Northern for our Christmas Eve Jammies. This was a tradition that MY Grandma and Grandpa Northern used to do for us when my brother and I were growing up. I remember being so excited to get out of the bath and put on my new jammies! My kids get almost as excited for their jammies as for Santa to come!
SO excited for the Big Red Guy!

Christmas Eve Party

We hosted the Halliday Christmas Eve party at our house this year. We had some of our yummy traditional soup in bread bowls.

Then while our daddy's did this......

We did this.....

Soph didn't really get the whole decorating thing...eating the candy was much more fun!

Jace spent the most time out of anyone on his house.He loves doing things like this! I think he'll be an architect or an engineer when he grows up!

Garet Gingerbread making philosophy..stick as much candy as humanly possible on your house so you can eat it later.

Jace, Clayton, Kaleb, Garet, Maddie, Easton, Camry, Sophie (Der was missing from the photo but his house was awesome anyway!)