Celebrations

Since Christmas we have had quite a few celebrations.  I must get these down, right?

 Morgan's 9th Birthday!

 Jen worked as wedding planner and food coordinator for Mikayla Griffin.

 Don's Birthday!

Caden's 11th Birthday!

 Caden received his Arrow of Light award.

This is the highest award in Cub Scouting.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get a decent picture with my camera.

Don got some with his iphone, but they are not on the computer yet.

Valentine's Day

For this day I made these "Things I Love About You" jars for each person.

Inside are pieces of scrapbook paper cut small and folded over.

Each piece of paper has one thing that I love about that person.

I filled them with as many as I could think of.

I also added candy.

I think everyone appreciated their jars.

They sit on dressers and haven't been destroyed yet.

Christmas 2011

I must record our Christmas funny so we don't ever forget it.  One of the things we really enjoy doing during the month of December is driving around at night looking at all the Christmas lights.  Connor acted like it was the first time he'd ever done this--and maybe in his little mind it was.  One of the first houses we saw was pretty lit up and he exclaimed, "Whoa!"  Then he used this expression for every house until we saw a house that had multiple lights and lawn decorations and he exclaimed, "SO Whoa!"  One night we drove past a house that only had one string of lights on the eaves.  The houses on either side had no lights on it.  Connor exclaimed, "Oh, a little bit of Whoa!"  So cute.  Thus we drove around hearing expressions of "Whoa!", "SO Whoa!",  "SO, SO Whoa!", and "A little Whoa!" from the back seats for the rest of the month.

We had a wonderful Christmas.  Grandma and Grandpa Culbertson joined us in the morning to open gifts and then came back in the evening, after church, for dinner.  Here is the crew gathered for dinner.  The empty plates are there because we had invited a guy from Don's work and the missionaries to come for dinner.  Ron got sick and didn't show and the missionaries spent too much time talking to their families and were 3 hours late for dinner.  Obviously we didn't wait for anyone.  We enjoyed a nice quiet family dinner.

Catching Up...Again!

AGAIN!!! It has been a long time since my last post. I always have stuff that I want to post, but just don't seem to get around to doing it. I always think that I'll do it "tomorrow" and before I know it there have been months of tomorrows. Now, I know I won't get this all caught up today, but I'm hoping that if I am diligent I can catch you all up in a week. So....here goes.

Just before Christmas, my friend Jennie took some family pictures for me. She loves to play with her camera and we were lucky enough to be a practice family for her. Here are some of my favorites:

Morgan & Sierra

Carson, Connor, & Caden

Sierra & Caden
All of us

Here are two more favorites, for some reason I couldn't upload any more pictures on that last post.