New Year's Resolution...

This year my goal is to create less garbage.  Yep you heard me!  I read an aritcle in People Magazine about a family that could fit an entire year's worth of garbage in a quart size mason jar.  Now I am not going to be this extreme because let's face it I'm just not the extreme type but I am going to do better.  For instance, I use a lot of styrofoam plates!  I hate doing dishes so I use fake plates for most meals.  This has changed in the past few weeks.  I have started using our real dishes and I can count on 1 hand how many plates I have thrown in the garbage.  Now again I want to say that I'm not going to be extreme here and start bringing my own silverware to fast food restaurants but I am going to be a little better than I was last year!

Reeslyn's Baptism

Reeslyn's big day was so exciting!  She got to be baptized by her Dad and it was right after her cousin Hunter got baptized by his Dad.  What a fun thing to share with a cousin!  I am so proud of her decision to be baptized!



Playing in the Snow

 It still amazes me that not even a 2 hour drive away from our perfect 75 degree winter weather we can have snow to play in!

 Our kids are kind of chickens when it comes to going fast down the big hills and if I'm being honest I am too so the pictures above were where we had the most fun... on the frozen pond!  There is nothing better than slippery slidey ice especially when you have an awesome Dad who will spin you around in circles over and over and over and over and over again!

Christmas Day 2011

It's amazing how much we accomplished on Christmas day!

We got up around 6:30, went to see what Santa brought us, opened a few more presents, got ready and went to church, came home and made our family's traditional breakfast of butterscotch pull apart, opened more presents with Grandma and Grandpa, kids played with their new toys while Mom and Dad took a 2 hour nap and then packed up and headed to the cabin!



Christmas Eve 2011

 Christmas Eve was spent with the Forsbergs, eating lots of yummy food and exchanging gifts. 

The month of December brings...

 Lots of Crafts

 Lots of baking

 lots of singing!

and lots of Christmas reading

 our favorite is the one of the Christ child being born in Bethlehem!

Power Rangers

Mason loves his power rangers and bought a new one yesterday with his birthday money. It's so fun to see him get into his imaginary world!

Disneyland

We went to Disneyland to celebrate Mason and Reeslyn's birthdays.  Keith and Steph's family and Aunt Amy decided to join us and we had SO much fun!

Mallory was super excited to have Aunt Amy there with us!  She loves her Aunt Amy and wishes she could live with her so the fact that she got to be with her for 5 days straight was pure heaven in her mind!

We decided to ride splash mountain first thing in the morning and we all got SOAKED!!!

Aunt Amy bought these BUZZ hands for Mason for his birthday and he wore them everywhere!  He loved them!!!

We always take the girls to Ariel's Grotto for lunch while we are there and the princesses were sure smitten with Mason Man.  Belle gave him a big kiss on his head and he hammed it right up with all of them!

Somebody got the memo that we were celebrating!  Happy Birthday #4 Mason and Happy #8 Reeslyn!!!

Mason had gone on the Goofy ride the day before and he loved it so he was so excited to go on it again.  When he walked up there they decided to check his height and for some reason he wasn't as tall as he was the day before because they wouldn't let him on.  He was SO sad!  I tried to make him happy by taking him on some other rides but it just wasn't working and who just happens to walk up... GOOFY to save the day!  And wouldn't you know the next day he was tall enough for the ride again, go figure.

I convinced Mason to go on my favorite ride with me, TOWER OF TERROR!!!  It wasn't his favorite ride ever but he faired better than Tyler... he's sitting behind Mason in the picture below.  Mason has always been sensitive to sounds so he plugs his ears a lot.  Apparently all the screaming was too much for him.

When the time comes for all the big kids to ride on Indiana Jones Mason never cares that he's not tall enough because he knows that he gets to eat a watermelon and a pickle while we wait.  As you can tell on his face, these 2 things are pure joy for him!

Reeslyn's favorite ride this trip was California Screamin.  Her and Russ must have gone on it a dozen times!

On the last day of our trip right before we left the park we decided to play some games which we have never done.  Russ played the first one and won us a big baseball pillow that Mason has been sleeping with on his bed ever since.