Daniel's 1st Birthday in Idaho

Here are a few pictures from Daniel's party here. It was a pizza party. daniel is crying in one picture because he is afraid of the party hats because he snapped the band on his face in iowa. But other than that he had a good time. He even got his first gun. It was a pop gun. nothing serious.

Trip to Iowa

We were in Iowa visiting my family for christmas and one of Daniel's birthday parties. Here are a few pictures. Hannah also had fun in the snow cause they have more than we ususally ever have in Idaho.

Tagged

I have been "Tagged" by my cousin Pam. I have to state the rules and then list facts about myself. And at the end I am suppose to tag someone else but the only person I know that has a blog is Pam. So I might tag people to just write emails.

Rules:
1. Post rules before give the facts.
2. Each person starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog and write these rules and facts about
themselves.
4. at the end of the blog you need to tag more people.

Facts:
1. I love being a stay at home mom/wife but some days it can be overwhelming.
2. I hate it when my house work piles up.
3. I love to bake - but the bad thing is then you have to eat it. I learned most of my baking from
working at Casey's bakery in highschool and college.
4. I have an associate's in teacher aiding but I would really like to have my own bakery
someday.
5. The worst house chore is cleaning the bathrooms.
6. I can't wait to do more actvities with my kids but they are a little young yet.
7. I pray I can manage 3 kids and give them each special attention yet.
8. I love to scrapebook our family memories but don't have much time to stay caught up. I'd
rather take candid pictures then professional.

so I guess I tag Marsha, Leah, and Bonnie

Busy Holidays

It has been awhile since I updated but since Thanksgiving we have been busy and gone alot. We drove to Ripon, California for Donny's Dad's side of the family Dec. 5-8, were home for three days and flew to Iowa from Dec. 12-18. We are done traveling but not done partying. Tonight is Daniel's 1st birthday party, the 3rd party actually cause we did one in california and one in Iowa. so that is tonight adn tomorrow night we are doing Donny's immediate family Christmas. We can't wait til next week because we have nothing and are going to start our own family tradition with our kids on Christmas morning. It is always good and fun to travel to see family but lots of work when you get home. I have a few pictures of california but not of Iowa yet. My mom always takes all those pictures so I will add them when I get some.

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving. I have been super busy here with the kids and everything. We celebrated thanksgiving with donny's family and the Friday after went to the mountains with them to get christmas trees. Our house is officially ready for christmas with the tree up and decorated and lights on the house and everything. The hard part is keeping the kids from messing with the decorations. I only decorated the top of my tree with ornaments and Daniel still stands there holding onto the tree and reaching for ornaments.
I quit driving school bus cause it was too much with the kids and being pregnant with the third. So that helped slow things down alittle. But we are traveling to both California and Iowa this year for christmas all with in two weeks of each other. So we'll be glad when the holiday season is over and things slow down. Wait . . . what am I saying. Things won't slow down for quite awhile for us. Anyway. Wishinng all of you a belated Happy Thanksgiving and hope you are having fun getting ready for the Holidays!!

Daniel was 11 months on Nov. 19 and is officially walking. He took his first steps around 10 months and has slowly improved since then. Everyday he walks more and more and gets better. Here is a picture of him with his new shoes and he is not sure about walking in them but gets better everytime he has them on too. He looks like a big boy with shoes on.

Princess Pumpkin

Donny's sister's like to carve pumpkins for Halloween but since Hannah is too young his mom bought her this "Mr. Potato Head" kit for her pumpkin. It is a princess - Hannah's favorite. She was so proud of it.