Monday, January 16, 2012. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! It came with a start. We were not even recovered from traveling home from Kirtland yet when it appeared one morning actually the 1st day of January. We miss Kirtland but boy is it nice to be home again. We had unpacked the car by then and moved on to other things. Our kids Joel and Marianne left us and went to Arizona taking our little grand kids with them right after our homecoming thing. How rude! All is good .

Saturday, December 10, 2011. My cute girls helped me decorate a sparkly pink Christmas tree in their bedroom. Katie loves the lights and makes the cutest little contented sigh every time we plug the tree in. You can see the pride all over her face. She is a sweetie! Elli had her first hair cut, and it turned out adorable! I was nervous about it, but I love it! More December to come soon.

Sunday, May 20, 2012. He only mentioned that he was having a hard time reading the board at school a few times so I was a little surprised when I took him in and the eye doctor told me his near sightedness is fairly severe AND he has a substantial astigmatism to boot! Walker suddenly sees with perfection. Monday, April 30, 2012. White cake with strawberry filling, frosted with vanilla buttercream and topped with white chocolate shavings. Sunday, April 29, 2012.

Phillip, Heather, Sophia, Mitchell, and Sugar, our kitty. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Phillip had a business trip to Jacksonville, Florida in early December, so the kids and I decided to follow him down there a few days later to visit family.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011. But I did have something that I wanted to share. The joke was on me. I had to learn how to remove old paint.

Saturday, May 7, 2011. These are just a few random cute pictures of the kids. Ellie wanted me to curl her hair one day, I thought she looked pretty cute. They read books together or play with toys. They have a lot of fun together. Keaton loves to pull all the toys out of the toy box then climb in and play in it.