Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday, Scott!

Seems like yesterday!

Seventeen candles

Congratulations, Scott! You bring enthusiasm, laughter, fun, and excitement to our home, as well as more than a few gray hairs. Life just wouldn't be the same without you! We love you!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve dinner -I tried something different than the usual ham -prime rib. Yum. As you can see Scott ate so much it put him in a coma.

Chime carols. Sometime you do something so many years in a row you just can't stop. :) And we're finally getting good enough that you can almost recognize the songs.

Like I said, sometimes you just can't stop. It's probably been at least 10 years that we've taken the "falling asleep on the stairs in Christmas pajamas" photo and I don't even know how it got started.

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!!

Christmas Season Catch-up

Gingerbread decorating

Let it snow!

Our flickering lights inside the house made it look like it was on fire.

Temple Square a few days before Christmas with lots of beautiful lights, but no snow!

Beautiful!

Lasagne Party

The annual Lasagne Party was held at our house again this year and it was, as usual, a lot of people and a lot of fun. Grandma helped Camille make the veggie tree this year. Funny how silly things become traditions.

Sucking M&Ms

The whole crowd gathering in the basement for silly games

We even had caroling!

Thanks for driving to Ogden, everyone!
Merry Christmas!!

University Town

Last night we did what we should do much more often and it took BYU basketball coming to town give us the push we needed. We took advantage of having an awesome university right in our neighborhood. There's so much going on all the time at WSU and we only take advantage of a small portion of it. Ballet West and the Utah Symphony perform here regularly -I've been a couple of times and the prices are a lot better than in Salt Lake, not to mention the parking. Awesome sporting events are going on all the time that we really need to support more often -even men's football and basketball games are cheap and easy to get in to. There are always conferences and classes offered to the public that I rarely take advantage of. We've been bowling at the union center once on a Monday night and had the place to ourselves. (It's kind of small) It was a blast. I need to be more aware of what's going on right here in our back yard and try to get my family involved in a little bit more of it. Oh and last night's game? Pretty fun. We felt a little bad rooting against the home team, but it was BYU! And we certainly weren't the only ones. We'll have to go back another day and cheer for the wildcats.

Flashback Friday

Merry Christmas!
December 2002

Matt's Glasses

My sister-in-law, Emily, took this picture of us a couple of months ago at Kim's wedding, and I'm posting it now because it is the only picture I have of Matt in his glasses. And the only one that will probably ever be taken, because, as the wise eye doctor predicted, he has now grown out of the bizarre bout of far-sightedness that afflicted him for about 5 months. He came home from school the other day and said that he came in from lunch recess and his eyes were cured. Yes! No more reading glasses scattered around the house. No more running them to school when he accidentally brings his school pair home and leaves them here. Lately he has been telling me that he can read small things a little bit better, but all of a sudden his eyes decided to focus all the way again. Our bodies are weird but amazing, right? He did look cute with glasses, though.
And a side note to my two older boys -seriously? This getting tall thing was kind of fun at first, but it's starting to get out of hand.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend began with reports of a huge blizzard on the way, so I was very relieved when Camille arrived home before the snow started to fly on Tuesday. It was a true blizzard for a couple of hours, but it stopped before it became the killer blizzard the media reports made it seem like it was going to be. Still it was good to have everyone home.

It was too COLD to be good snowman snow, so Camille and Matt made snow angels, instead.

Grandpa and Grandpa O. spent the night with us Wednesday. Everyone got their creative juices flowing making cookie turkeys and Kevin made this cool snowman out of Buckyballs.

There's more than one thing you can do with candy corn!

Camille and Grandma displaying their handiwork.

Good enough to eat!