Daicee's B-day Party

Daicee's B-day Haul

Blowing out the candles

We celebrated Daicee's 4th Birthday Saturday so Gar could be there before he went to work. She wanted a purple cake, so that was easy. We played Disney DVD Pictionary and had Pizza. She had fun is glad to FINALLY be 4! She told me today "Mom, I'm not so little anymore!". What a kid. She keeps us in laughs!

Chunkers

Mommy and and Danika

Cute Girl!

Danika playing in her Bumbo Chair

Danika is getting so chunky...and of course-cute! She is starting to giggle and is such a ray of sunshine in our lives! I can't believe she is almost 5 months old already! It makes me sad! She has definitely learned to command everyone's attention and makes her wants/needs known. lol She even stomps her foot when laying on the floor if something doesn't meet her expectations...especially if the kids leave the room to go play somewhere else. She loves watching them play and adores attention from them. She is quite the character!

Vernal Dinosaur Museum

Since the kids had the week after Christmas off from school, we went to Vernal to visit Garrett for 5 days. Gar had Saturday off, so we took the kids to the Dinosaur museum (for the 3rd time in a year-lol). They had a lot of fun looking for dinosaur bones, learning about dinosaurs, and exploring the many exhibits. It is a pretty neat museum and the kids insist we go there everytime we are in Vernal.

Christmas 2008

I think Santa's sleigh tipped over at our house! Everyone made a haul. We opened presents Christmas morning and then went to my mom's in Parowan where we opened more presents...and more presents! We almost needed a u-haul trailer to get it all home. lol We had a really good Christmas spending time with family and relaxing.

Christmas Eve 2008

Papa holding his lit'l buddy and Paula holding Danika Danika's 1st Christmas Jammies

All the kiddos in their new jammies and slippers

Christmas Eve we had my dad and his girlfriend over for prime rib dinner. After we stuffed ourselves, everyone sang Christmas songs while I played my flute. We also did a nativity scene story. The kids had fun putting the nativity pieces in place. The twins wanted more animals to put in the stable and they were screaming and crying through the end of the story. lol It was really fun. After all the festivities, the kids opened their Eve presents. What a surprise-jammies and slippers!

5 generations

Great Grandma GG and her newest addition

The 5 Generations with all 6 of the great great grandkids (missing my mom, though!)

I am fortunate to still have a great grandma alive and well. That makes her my kids' great great grandma and creates the rare 5 generations. So far, I have the only great greats (that is until my sis has her baby boy-any day now). My great grams Effie Gundersen looks great and she doesn't color her hair. I think I'm getting more gray than she is! Guess I didn't get that gene! The only one missing from this pic is my mom-the 3rd generation. It is really fun to have this opportunity for my kids to know so many generations of grandmas.

I'm really going to do it this time...

Okay, so it has been over a year since I first started this blog, so I guess it is time to actually blog on it. lol Well, here goes...