Christmas Holidays 2011

Getting ready for Christmas this last year was crazy. I think this year I will have to start in July if I want to get everything done. on top of working to finish decorating the boys rooms we did the following.

I was Santa's elf this year and made a fold up airport.

sorry the picture quality is bad I used my phone.

made my mom a bulletin board with old patterns, sewing stuff, and button push pins.

made my Nephew a science kit. with lab coat and science experiments in the book.

 I never took a picture of the gift i made my dad this year. it was wooden blocks painted black, with B&W pictures of each of the grand-kids and a letter on each block that spelled out "We love Grandpa"

went through ALL of the boys toys before Christmas this year. Was starting to wonder if I should give them any more for Christmas!?

Hosted Christmas Eve dinner with Rob's family.

 We also went to a rest home and sang carols one night with Rob's family.

made a ginger bread manger scene at our annual Ginger bread making with my family.

this was Dean's creation.

went out to eat and Temple square with my family, just like old times. This is all of my family except my Brother Matt who is serving a mission right now.

All the Grand-kids on my side of the family. first time they were all together!

Hosted New years party. second annual Steiner cousin party. what a bunch of crazies!

Thanksgiving 2011

 We started a tradition a few years ago of doing a 5K every thanksgiving. We moved farther away and so this year we went to a new one in Orem. It was only two miles, but we still had fun and kept the tradition going.

we really need to stop taking pictures from this angle! arg!

 This year I started a new tradition i want to keep going. I started a thankful book. each page will be a different year and have a photo of everyone we have Thanksgiving with that year. around the photo everyone will sign with one thing they were thankful for that year. I think it will be fun in a few years to look back at what we have written.

love my family!

kids thought it was a nice day to go canoeing.

This is my Gramps!

In my next life, I want to be a bear!

So I've been going through a lot of my stuff lately getting my home ready to sale and I came across this little thought/story/whatever you want to call it.

In this life I'm a woman. In my next life, I'd like to come back as a bear. When you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that!
Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid-I could deal with that too!
When you're a girl bear, you birth your children,(who are the size of walnuts) while you're sleeping and wake up to partially grown, cute cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that!
If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. you swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat at them too. I could deal with that!
If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs, and excess body fat.
YUP... GONNA BE A BEAR!

wouldn't life be great?