Random, Christmas, cleaning, Davis growing again

ok, so I just wanted to add a few more pictures of Christmas up, since I wasn't very good at posting while I was in Utah. up above is Tyson, Bailee and their cousin Ashlyn on Christmas eve in their new Christmas jammies.

and Tyson looking so excited on Christmas. (he really was excited but I think he was concentrating pretty hard on his leapster, I worry about that boy, he could play that game all day if I let him.)

Tyson Payton and Olivia, 3 little buddies

Bailee Dillion and Tyson just hanging out

Our cute little Davis Smiling. he gave us his first smile right before we left for Utah when he was 5 weeks old. (for Ryan) it was so funny because he would only smile for Ryan, I would sit and work with him for 20 minutes and Ryan would come and stand behind me and he'd just start to smile. now he's starting to laugh, it's so precious and adorable.

A friend of mine gave me a good idea for a Christmas tradition, They open a game on Christmas eve and then play it as a family. so Mauressa, I'm copying you. we opened and played Twister. it was pretty fun.

ok, so now to the cleaning portion of my blog. I am so proud of myself. I wish I had a before picture of this room. it was chuck full of crap!!! boxes everywhere. so I went through and dejunked a lot of it and then moved all the boxes into another room and turned this room into a toy room. so now the kids can play with all of there toys in the basement. I am so surprised at how clean their rooms look. my fear is that now all the toys will slowly end up back up stairs. we'll see I guess.
Bailee and Tyson were so excited to help me with this project. They would slowly bring down toys and set them up. and Bailee was so excited that she would just talk in the funniest tone. her voice was all high pitched for like an hour, I wish you could have heard her.
we're slowly trying to get the house organized so we can put it up for sale. I can't believe that it is already time to start thinking about all of this.
I have to say, there really are a lot of things I will miss about Spokane, but one thing I will not miss is the fact that I don't think they know what a plow is. it snowed like a foot of snow last night and seriously NONE of the roads are plowed, I just don't understand. not even the main ones. When we first moved here we thought it was so funny how everyone had snow tires, and now we realize we are the idiots without them. and we all know my driving abilities, it's not a pretty picture. I was honked at and I think a few unkind words were yelled at me, but I just smile, wave and slide on by.




Here is Bailee and her most favorite toy. (poor little guy) I know I always write about this but she really is such a good help. it was so cute yesterday I was making dinner and Davis was kind-of fussing, then I heard him stop, so I finished, when I went to see how he was I saw Bailee with a bunch of books around her and she was reading them to him. I snuck the camera over and recorded a little of it, so I'll have to get Ryan to post it later.


Here is Bailee and her papa (in Utah) they have such a cute relationship. she just loves her papa. and here is my regular post of Davis's growing. I need someone to leave me a comment on how to group all of my pictures together into one big square.(does that make sense) I see it on everyone els's but I don't know how to do it. the last picture Davis is 9 weeks old and yesterday he weighed 11lbs, 11 oz. he's just growing so fast. it makes me sad how fast they grow.




So it's the new Year and I think I need to make some resolutions. to start, I of course have to start with the most common of all resolutions, lousing weight. I forget how much I love and am obsessed with food until I can't have it, but this baby fat doesn't want to come of on it's own so hopefully I will make it come off somehow. I'll have to keep you posted. My sister and me are supposed to be encouraging each other.
My second goal is I really want to be consistent With family home evening. We do pretty good at like every other Monday, so this year I want to make it every single Monday.
and My last goal I need to give some background info. I always go blog surfing when I get bored (don't pretend you don't snoop into random peoples blogs either) anyways, from reading them I realized how many people have health problems and other hard trials in their lives. I can't believe how blessed our family is. we really have been so blessed this year. We are all healthy and are all taken care of in so many ways. for some reason it's so easy for me to forget how blessed I am, and it's so easy to give myself a pity party. So I guess my goal is to remember how lucky we are and also to be more charitable and willing to serve others, and I guess to look for opportunities to serve others.
so there you go, in six months you can ask me if I am a size 2 (ya right) if I have been holding FHE and if I'm not as selfish.
sorry for the incredibly long post, I just feel like I had to catch up.