Christmas 2013

This year for Christmas we decided to join with the Harwood's and give the kids a trip to San Diego.  We decorated for Christmas at our house but actually spent Christmas at my parents house so that it would be easier to get to the airport on Christmas Day.  I made a Shutterfly Book about the trip itself so I will just include the pictures of  Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's house and pictures of the little Christmas celebration we had at our house before we went to spend Christams in Perry.

Decorating the downstairs tree

Opening the gifts we weren't going to haul to Grandma's house and the airport

Christmas Eve in the new pajamas

A bunch of random Christmas Eve shots

Sprinkling the reindeer dust

Haylie's Baptism

 Haylie turned 8 on December 1, 2013 and was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on December 7, 2013.  We celebrated her birthday with the Oberholtzer side of the family while we were in Perry for Thanksgiving.  Then, the following weekend, Grandma and Grandpa Oberholtzer and Uncle Darin came to Price to be a part of Haylie's baptism.  Darin and I gave talks at the baptism and Grandma and Grandpa gave the prayers, and Dave did the baptizing and confirming. Since most of our family is far away, most of them couldn't make the trip to the baptism but we did have a lot of support from our ward.  I am so proud of the decisions Haylie is making in her life.  She has a strong desire to do what is right and keeps our family on the right path.  I can't believe she is already 8!  Time has really flown by!

Sister Wells, the Primary Chorister

Baptism Talk

Primary friends singing "I Am a Child of God"

Uncle Darin teaching about the Holy Ghost

Getting ready to get dunked!

Haylie in her whtie dress that Grandma O made for her.

Halloween 2013

This Halloween I had a chance to hone my sewing skills.  I sewed both of the kids costumes with turned out pretty cool.  Haylie wanted to be a parrot and Zander wanted to be a Ninja Turtle.  Dave was in Vegas for training for most of the week before Halloween.  I was actually supposed to go with him but figuring out what to do with the kids was a problem as well and getting those darn costumes done in time.  We talked to Dave via Google Hangout each night and showed him the progress on the costumes.  We missed his intricate pumpkin designs while carving pumpkins but were very glad he was back in time for the big night.

Boise

The kids and I have a few days off in October so we decided to take a trip to Boise.  My sister Alyson and her family live there as well as some awesome friends from the 9 years we spent living there.  The kids did awesome on the long car trip.  They listened to a few audio books and hardly said a word the entire time because they were so engrossed in the stories. Haylie and Zander both love to play with their Harwood cousins so they were off on a thousand adventures with them the minute we walked in the door.  We took them to the zoo and I got to go out to dinner with Laura, Kristi, Jenn, and Kim, some of the greatest friends a girl could ask for.  It is always fun to go back and see places that used to be so familiar, and see people that are so important to me.

The first time seeing our old house since we sold it.  

Some monkeys looking at the monkeys and their babies.

Haylie and her cousin and,as she has proclaimed, best friend, Rylan.

Somewhere I have pictures of these guys on this tiger as babies.

On the Komoto dragon

What's the Boise Zoo without a trip down the giraffe slide?

GRASS!! Well...almost.

We had hydroseed sprayed on our lawn in early September and it got a little bit of a chance to grow before the weather turned.  We were also busy over the summer with building a deck,  putting in a sprinkler system, getting curbing and shoveling a BUNCH of gravel!  This was all in between 2 trips to Wyoming and a Trip to Arizona!  No wonder the summer flew by!

Sleeping Out on the Tampoline

Before school started we picked a warm night and camped out on the trampoline.  It was difficult to get high enough above the sleepers to get a good picture.  We formed kind of a wagon wheel with our feet in the middle so that we could (kind of) avoid ending up in a huge pile in the middle of the trampoline. The kids had been looking forward to it for a long time and were very excited to do it.

It's funny that in by way behind blogging I came to this story because this afternoon this same trampoline got picked up in a huge windstorm and first landed on Dave's truck and then made its way out to the street!  So sad!  I think the trampoline will be okay but the net around it got destroyed.  Dave's truck took a few hits too.  We will have to come up with a way to anchor it down before we set it up again I guess.

Happy Birthday to me!

I had a landmark birthday this past August.  Let's just say I am at the top looking down on 40!  I had a fun day spending it with some of my favorite people.