2010

This year is coming to a close. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful year. A lot has happened this year for us. Next year will be even crazier. In January alone we need to get ready to move. I have to go to the dentist one more time. We have to get the dog ready so that we can take her with us. I still am waiting for papers to come in the mail so that I can get Tristan a passport. I am not even sure they are in the mail. We have to get taxes submitted. I think that we are starting the packing on the 25th of this month. So all of that to be done in the month of January. And then the first week or so of February we will be headed off. So much to do!

Christmas

Being so busy with getting stuff ready for our move,trying to get passports, getting and sending Christmas presents, and with kids. Christmas was here before we knew it.
Ben had to work on Christmas Eve. He surprised me by coming home around noon. I was so happy and he knew that he was getting off of work early but didn't tell me. That was great. We had a good dinner of egg rolls that night and read Christmas stories and all watched a movie together. Then we got the kids off to bed and set up some stuff for Christmas. Ben put together a little trike for Kenzie and we filled up stockings. And then it was Christmas. Tristan was more worried about Kenzie's trike than anything. And it was a beautiful day. No snow not even close. That is still a little hard to get used to. We went out side and played fetch with the dog for a bit..with no shoes on. It was great fun.

family

So I got these pictures today and thought i would post them..
It is all of the Family except for my two brothers. And then of course there is just the girls.

dress pics

I am so excited about my dress. I hope that things work out and I actually get to used this dress. I didn't get to use my last one. We are hoping to get to the Temple in May. But i am not sure how much it is going to be to get to a temple from Guam. So we might have to save up for a bit. Fingers Crossed!!

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We also got to go up to my Grandpa Don's cabin and went down the zip line. There are some pics sorry they are a little fuzzy. We had to ride the 4 wheeler up to the line.

This picture is of Tristan and Ben going down the zip line. Tristan was so excited to do it. And he would have done it more if we would have had more time.
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We also got to go to Craters of the Moon in Idaho. It was fun but really chilly and windy.

The fun part was that we got to go into some different caves and crawl around. At first Tristan was a little cautious. But then he got really excited about it. These pics are of us in the caves. We turned of our flashlights and got the pictures with just the flash. Kinda neat!


And it might have been very cold and snowy but we got to warm up in the hot tub. The kids had a blast in the water.

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While we were at my parents house my brother Mat took lots of good pics for me. Here are some of them...
These are of Kenzie of course.

Here is a cute one of me and Kenzie.


And then there is Kenzie in a hole.

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So November was a crazy month. We got to go on leave in Utah and Idaho. First we went to Utah and I got to see my sisters and all of my family. I hadn't seen my sister Amy in three years. It was the first time that she got to see Ben.

It was so wonderful to see my Parents. It was so hard to leave knowing that it would be at least three years till I get to see them again. So that is Mom and Dad. and then there is one of my Mom and Grandma