2010 - Happy New Year!!!!

Wow!  Another year down.  We spent the last night of 2009 with our dear friends the Saddlers.  We love them!  We also had over some other dear friends Kristi and Troy Nye, and Heather and Brian Saddler.  We played games all night long and ate a ton of yummy stuff.

Rick, Tiff, Brian, Heather, Steve, Brenda, Troy, and Kristi

Riley, Madison, Kinley, Chantel, and Katelyn

We played a lot of card games.

Played a wicked game of All Play Pictionary.  Girls against Guys (Girls won!) But, my favorite thing happened just after the new year.

We took the balloons behind Brenda, and...

We popped them to get our New Year's Fortune.

 

It was a blast!  Hope you all have a wonderful 2010!

Corbin's 17th

I can't believe Corbin is already 17.  He has grown so much this year.  He's quickly approaching 200lbs and is 6'1".  I always knew he'd be a big boy....Maybe because he was 9lbs 3oz when he was born, hee, hee.  We love him to death.  He's a kid with so much potential, and I hope he lives up to it.  His new favorite quote I see written all over, from his Uncle Jay, "To whom much is given, much is expected."  So, I know he thinks about where he is going.

On his birthday we got together with my "new" sister Jennie and her family, my sister Star and her family, My mom and Steve, and a couple of Corbin's favorite friends, Jessica, and Jayden.  We went to dinner with Jennie's family and the girls then met up with the others at Boondocks for some lazer tag and games. It was really snowy out, so we appreciate that everyone came.  We had fun.

Guess what Corbin's favorite B-day gift was? GO COLTS!

His second favorite....Ok, maybe it was the cash from everyone.  :)

L to R, Jayden, Corbin, Jessica, Chantel, Challis, Austin, and Kyilee.

Kylee, Riley, Star, and Jeff

Jayden, Corbin, and Jessica

Grandma Dorman, Challis, Channy

Thanks for coming everyone, and thanks for all the great gifts.  Corbin loved them all.

A Wonderful Holiday Season with a Facebook Christmas Miracle

Where last I left off I was baking cookies with the family, but what you didn't know was....I'd found my long lost sisters....ON FACEBOOK!  That's right.  I facebooked my sister, Kim Edgar, that I'd wondered about and googled unsuccessfully in past years, and found her in Denver Co.  And in finding her I found my sister Tony  Plexico and my sister Jennie Furse.  It was a little scary at first but eventually after much email I met Jennie and her darling family for the first time up at her home in Lehi.  I think she's darling and I've enjoyed getting to know her.  Here is a picture of the two of us,Jennie and I.

This was our first Christmas with Challis living away, but he came home to spend the night.  Rick and I both said how good it was to have him home for the night and have us all together.  We opened Christmas PJ's Christmas Eve and played a couple of games...Just like the old days.  It was a really fun night.

Chantel

Corbin

Challis

Then the next morning woke up to the kids laughter, and open our Christmas gifts.  We all got wonderful things, but our favorite is a cruise to Mexico in January.  We can hardly wait.

Channy got her first cell phone and clothes.

Corbin got a new cell phone and clothes.

Challis got cash and clothes.

Later Christmas morning we had a yummy brunch at our house with  my mom and Steve, my sister Star and her family, and Star's mother and father-in-law.

Rick worked clean-up all day long.  He's the best husband EVER!  Thanks honey. :)

Then we played games and enjoyed each others company.

Kylee (my niece and me)

Wii Bowling

Grandpa Dorman, Channie, and Chal

Chal and me.

It was a wonderful Christmas.  We were so happy to have everyone there.

Cookie Party

Every year my mother's grandchildren gather at my house to roll out, bake, frost, decorate, lick their fingers, and eat pizza.  It's an event that I look forward to every year when we all gather and enjoy CHAOS!  But, it really is an enjoyable chaos.  There's always one kid that seems to enjoy the cookie party more than any other, and that's our Kylee.  She is a little Martha Stewart.  I hope she never looses her love of baking because it's so darn cute.  She'd roll, and cut, and roll, and cut, and Rick would stand by the oven alternating batches in, and batches out. At one point Kylee looked over at me and said, "I could make a million cookies."  And according to Rick, she did.

Kylee (my sister Star's daughter)

And after she baked, she frosted and decorated.  She is an awesome decorator.  She worked so hard, and finally she looked and me and said, "Man those look so delicious.  Could I eat this one?  I made it."  And I said, "Kylee, you can eat any cookie you'd like.  After all, you made almost all of them."  It was so darn cute.  I wish I could freeze her at this age forever.

Little Rylie kept everyone busy, especially my mom. She really enjoyed eating the cookie dough. Grandpa had to take it away so she wouldn't get sick.

Grandma had to hold her most of the time after that because she was so fussy.

But, she did frost a cookie too.

Bowen has quite a cookie decorating talent.  He's very artistic. He promised to bring his violin next year and play some Christmas music for us, and I'm holding him to it.

 Bowen (my sister Kristi's son)

Channy baked all day long with me.  She even made some of the cookie dough.  She loved having her grandpa here.She made a Dallas Cowboy cookie.

Chantel

Grandpa Dorman

Corbin and Challis made very few cookies, but we were glad they came to hang out.

 Corbin

Challis

Kristi and Anson were at the party also.  We are always happy for them to come and bake with us.

Anson and Kristi

In the end we have yummy Christmas cookies that I will eat for the next 5 days straight, and then run off for the next 3 months.  Seems worth it at the moment, but not so much in January. :)

Rick and I enjoy it most after all the flour is off the floor and the frosting is off the chairs and we can reflect back on our memories.

We wish you ALL a Very Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Dinner

The kids begged to stay home for Thanksgiving this year. So, I had to cook....Cooking sucks. It's only the second time I've had to do the whole thing by myself, but they were all happy not to be drug around to relatives houses. So, I guess it was all worth it in the end. All the food turned out too...that's a plus. We had Chantel's friend Montana over for dinner. She's a darling girl and we are always happy to have her here.

Next year, we're goin' somewhere else.  Who wants to cook?

I do have a great husband though.  He always does dishes.  Gotta love him for that.  :)

Turkey Leg Run - Farmington

Wooohoo!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Hope you all have a wonderful day and all the food is good. We are just hanging out watching football and playing XBox with the kids.  I did run a race this morning.  Had to work off some of the food before I ate it.  It was a really fun race.  I ran it with some really great people that I just love to death.  It was a hard race with a lot of up hill, so I'm happy with my time. 23:29.

Love to all the family we'll give you a call later.

Me, Loisanne, Heidi, Heather, Angela, Russ

Syracuse Football

Well, the Syracuse Football season has come to an end.  Their record for the year was 9-3.  Not bad.  They lost in the playoffs, but we sure had a great time cheering them on, and before you know it....Corbin's senior season will be here.

Corbin