New Year's Eve week...

 

Life just doesn't seem to slow down at all! Monday Gwen (hopefully) had the last of her mollescum removed. We had Family Night at home and we watched old home movies of Timo and Zane since we didn't do it in November. It was a lot of fun--part of our way to celebrate their birthdays. Tuesday I took my scouts snowshoeing--see an earlier post about that. It snowed all day--check out some that in the collage! That night escapes me what we did but it seemed like we had something oh, yes Izak received his bear rank in cub scouts at Pack Meeting that night. Wednesday morning we had check ups with the dentist. Much better than last summer! The kids went sleddingon the nice new snow. I even dragged my nephew Anders over to sled with Micah and Zane. He had a lot of fun. It still snowed a lot that day. That night Taran, Timo and I had an Eagle Scout/Duty to God Court of Honor for a friend of Taran's. It was really nice. That night Emily, Izak, Micah and Zane went to Tim's sister's to spend the night. Taran and Timo went with friends to a dance--here the youth dance for New Year's Eve is actually the night before since a lot of families get togther for the celebration. They said that there were a ton of people and they had fun. I remember those days well! Tim and I watched the DVD he got for Christmas of Harry Potter 6. Thursday morning picked up the kids and took them Gwen and our niece Maddie to see the Princess and the Frog. My parents met us there as well. It was very cute. The kids and Tim watched football and played around until we had out chinese take out (a tradition) for dinner then we dropped Timo off at a friend's to celebrate--he had fun. Taran came with since his other options didn't appeal to him as much. We were glad he came, he was fun to be with! Tim's brother Erick and family met us at Amy's along with Tim's parents. We ate snacks and played games until the New Year. It was tons of fun and then we picked up Timo on our way home. We slept in and watched more football and started putting away Christmas stuff. We went to my brother Charl's for more fun, food and football. Taran didn't join us this time, busy recording with his band buddies. Timo did join us. Teresa, my parents, Amber and Keith met up with us there. We played games, guitar hero, lego star wars on Keith's playstation and watched football. The cousins all played and also watched Over the Hedge. That night we dropped Emily off at a friend's for a lateover. Then Taran and Timo ended up at friends' as well but we told to be home by 10:30PM--we'd had a lot of late nights! Taran and someof his friends ended up back here studying. Tim and I finished some of the Christmas decor packing. We finally totally finished the next day. I went shopping for necessities. Tim took Emily, Izak, Micah and Zane to a BYU basketball game in Provo, where he met up with Amy and Erick's families. They had a lot of fun. Taran and Timo didn't feel like it. I stayed home with Gwen. Timo's friends all seemed to be gone so he should of gone--he's always afraid he will miss something! So he and I watched the Travel Channel while I folded laundry. Fun times...I know I am really more fun than his friends and he just won't admit it! So there you go...I am so bummed that school starts back tomorrow. Hopefully we can breeze through the rest of the school year without too many bumps! Happy New Year! May it be your best!