TIME FOR NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (I CALL THEM PLANNING MY VACATIONS FOR THE YEAR)

Don't worry Haley isn't bleeding. ...that is the aftermath of eating her birthday cake.


I was excited to plan out my New Years Resolutions this year.....

They are go to Moab, Lake Powell, and Bear Lake to camp. And visit Arizona, and California. These are my goals.

Also, I am doing a couple tri-athlons this year to keep me in shape.....It's a way to force myself to excercise. Also, its a fun challenge. I will be working out 6 days a week.....Michelle likes this idea, she likes it when I excercise, it gets me out of the house. By the way I never learned how to spell excercise so deal with it.

Dude, check this out next Saturday I am going Ice fishing with Michelle. We will have to get you photos of that when that happens.

You, know, I have figured something out about life..... life is to short to work. So, I am going to play as hard as I can. It was fun having family night tonight and planning all the crazy stuff we are going to do. If you plan it and write it on a calendar it seems more likely to happen.

by the way, if any of you want to visit us feel free. We live right by the lake (2min 20 sec to be exact).
Here are some more pictures of us in Arizona

They wanted EVERYTHING xrayed at security so Neil tried to send the twins
Haley really liked her cousins new bunny

Haley loves her tutu and acts like a princess in it

News with Haley and Jackson:

Haley has learned to scrunch her nose when she smiles...... and she know's when she gets her picture taken. She strikes a funny pose when we try to take a picture. Also, she loves the tu-tu she got for Christmas. On her first b-day she decided that walking wasn't that bad after all...Now she's off to the races! Makes it more difficult when I am trying to get a diaper on her. She has quite the personality.

Jackson is walking more and more every day. He watched Planet Earth with me today. and gasped with excitement when the polar bear tried to eat the seal. Its funny watching him watch tv at such a young age. Educational of course, football and the discovery channel

Haley and Jackson turned 1 on Jan 3rd....crazy how time flies. We had a couple of birthday parties for them. They got spoiled rotten, (Thanks to everybody). Jackson loved the t-ball set and the train. Haley just loved all the attention and the fact she got to dive into the cake herself. We had to have the birthday at Michelle's mom's house because when we returned home from Arizona, we found 12 inches of snow and a furnace that went out. Luckily no pipes froze.

They each got their own winnie the pooh cake
Jacksons new tractor
One of Haley's many funny faces for the camera
The birthday kids....Grandpa has the same birthday.
Birthday prince and princess

Christmas in Arizona

Haley got her first tutu and she knew she was pretty everytime she put it on

swimming in the pool on christmas eve

Christmas is in the air

I am going to finally type something........(Neil)

Just wanted to say to my twins that it has been so fun having yall around. Your a pain sometimes but, a joy most the time.

Some things I have observed from you.

Haley- Haley loves to just go and go and go.....you are all over the place! Lot's of energy. You like to experiment and find things out hands on....even if that means pinching your hands or falling on cement on your head every once in awhile. You seem to like different textures. One of your favorite things is crawling on the couch. Although you fall on your head off the couch you still seem to like to get up on it..........I don't get that part. One bit of advice from Daddy......once you see something hurts, don't do it again. It's not that smart.

Jackson...my boy....well...Jackson loves to observe, to watch and listen to things. He really loves music. A couple of times now I have set you down in front of the tv to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Sunday and you just sit and stare and listen. You like watching live concerts in HD. Today you watched Holland and Oats? in concert. Anyway, the other thing that I love but you need to stop is that you tease your sister! It is really funny to watch you tackle her and put her in the cradle. Today in church you took down your cousin Luke in Priesthood meeting....good job...but someday Luke will probably out grow you...so watch out!


If I had known kids could be so fun I wouldve got married at 16! Well, I guess I would have to serve a mission.....so 21! On second thoughts, I would miss out on all the stuff I did.....so lets just say.....life is perfect. Thank you Michelle for putting up with my crap and without you life would be much more difficult. Thanks for keeping this home organized and in shape.

Until next time...... Peace

Halloween 2008

The kids were winnie the pooh and his honey pot. Jackson ticked off Haley because he kept attacking her and trying to swat the bumble bees off the top of her honey pot.

Double Trouble

The twins are now Nine months old. Wow how time flies. They are trying to walk but mostly just falling a whole lot. It is tough to show sympathy when they fall for like the 50th time each day. Usually they just get a "you're okay get up" Or "You're fine there is no blood". Jackson weighs in at 18 lbs 12 oz and hale is a whopping 16 lbs 3 oz. We found out Jackson is allergic to milk....crap thats like the worst allergy around. I hope he grows out of it. They have learned to wave Hi and bye and jackson will even shake his head no. (although i don't think he knows what it means. he is just copying me.) They eat everything in site although most of it isn't edible.

Anyways, pictures are more fun then words so I will just show you what they're up to. By the way there are like 5 postings so keep scrolling down.

We were throwing the leaves up in the air and the kids loved it although their faces say otherwiseWe took the kids to thanksgiving point and let them see all the stuff. Jackson went on his first hayride ever. Which he loved and laughed so hard that he threw up all over....Yuck!
The twins took a bath in great grandma fullmer's old wash basins. It makes the perfect size tub and I don't have to kill my back bending over
This is Haley's new favorite toy. She sits on it forever and when you say bouncy-bounce she starts to try and do it herself.
Jackson loves to "drive" and likes anything with wheels
We went up to sundance with Neil's mom and his sister's family to see the changing leaves. I am a horrible mom and for got jackets for the kids so we wrapped them in our sweatshirts. It is so pretty up there. I love this time of year. You get to see how beautiful the outdoors are.

grandma Bryce her grandkids.
Everybody needs a "naked baby in the tub" picture. and see my babies have rolls.
Jackson is a cubs fan but he didn't cheer hard enough because they lost 3-0 in the playoffs
Haley will suck on a corn cob for good half hour or more. It is my dad's favorite way to babysit.
Neil's idea of a stroller, course he gets lots of comments from all the girls
The shirts say it all.