Its about time.... Florida 2010

Well we made to Florida and back with all five kids.... I was not sure we would, or if it would be at all fun with five kids on a plane for the first time, and then keeping track of them in the parks... I was wrong, we had a great time!

We spent the first four days in the parks.. the weather was not as warm as we would have liked but anything is better than the snow we left back home!

I asked Curtis if he thought we could get away with building a "TIME OUT" like this in our yard this summer.... I think it might work rather well:)

By the time I found this guy I needed a little extra luck.  I think he could have used a bra.

For weeks before we went people would ask Chandler if he was excited to go to Disney World... He would say " No I just want to go to China and buy some China stuff"... Well we made it to China and he was soooooo happy!

We also had to visit the First aid place while  at Animal Kingdom... Chandler forgot that he had was on a ledge looking at the baby otters and turned aroud and walked right off.... OUCH!

It made for a great story for the rest of the trip.

The last three days of our trip we spent with Curtis's family in Jacksonville.. It was the first time the kids  had met any of  them. They had a wonderful time getting to know Grandpa Henderson's side of the family...   

            

           Aunt Bunice and Uncle Vernin.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Uncle George

Uncle David and his family. 

We even made it to the beach... It was a very cold day but the kids had a blast...

We were not able to see a few of the other aunts so we hope to go back soon so the kids can meet them all...

We had a great Christmas!

The celebrations started the week before at Curtis's family Christmas party.  As always Santa came and the kids all got to sit on his lap and chat with him

Mckenzie and Amelia looked so cute in their Christmas dresses

Grandma and Alice came over bright and early Christmas morning to see what Santa left for them.

Amelia was a lot of fun this year.... She loved all the gifts and most of all the playing in the paper.

What a great day!

What a GREAT Thanksgiving!

We had such a great Thanksgiving this year. Some of our good friends came down from Salt Lake to share it with us and it was a wonderful day! Brittany and I got up at 4am and went over to Cortez to hit the BIG Wal-mart sales.... I had not been black Friday shopping in about 8 years and it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I was able to get everything that I wanted and we made it back home by 8am. I was so glad Britt. came with me, she stood stayed by the carts while I hunted things down and she even stood in line for a couple of the gifts I needed. If that is not a true friend I'm not sure what is. Curtis and Tom took McKenzie and Bryson out to shoot the guns and everyone came back alive, yes Curtis is turning into a small town guy!

I would have posted pictures but for some reason I'm not able to upload them I'm not sure what is going on with my computer. Well time to go put the tree up.... yahooo!

I can't believe it!!!

Wow, Amelia's 1st year has gone by so fast.

3 days old

1st Halloween.(8 weeks).

Blessing Picture

This was such a special day, Bryson was baptized and Amelia was blessed.

Already playing dress-up (9months).

And now she is ONE!

She is such a sweet little thing, but her personality makes up for her size.

She only weighs 17 lbs and is not yet walking

but that is fine with me, I just don't want her to grow up!

Happy Birthday Milly!

One year later

We went on a ride on the mountain loop today, and I realized
that just happened to be what my 1st blog post was this same time last year.
I did not think of it until we were on the mountain and I was taking pictures of the kids.
I was hoping that I could find the same log that they sat on for their picture last year, but no
such luck. We knew right where the spot was but the logs was gone.
Oh well, one of the good things about the mountain is that there are plenty of logs!

This is the picture from last year.

today's pictureNot the same log, but the same cute kids plus one. I had Amelia about a week after last years picture was taken .We will see if we make it up to the loop the same time next year

Addison

This past week we went up to Salt Lake to see my new little niece Addison

She is so sweet and very Strong! Born 7 weeks early and weighing only 4lbs and 14 oz she had to stay in the NICU for 4 weeks. She got to come home while we were up there.

I had a blast making bows and a tutu, and as you can see taking pictures.

What a sweet little girl

More pictures of Addison.