The Nephites: January 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Cool things happening

Lily Kaye has started Ballet and tap classes! I am so excited and thankfully, so is she! She did so well at her first lesson, she was prepared, and followed most of the teachers instructions, and had so much fun! Nephi came with me, and we seriously had a blast just watching her! Even a little cooler, is that I chose to go through the city, since this is a first and who knows how seriously she will take it, so anyways, it ended up being at the same studio I dance at in high school! The company I danced for has moved on, but a new company took the same place, and she is even in the same room I danced in before! So, I thought that was pretty cool. Shes looks beautiful, and we cant wait to put the video of her last recital in 8 weeks! She is awesome!

So, finally, I have started a blog, entirely devoted to my latest cake creations! it is listed on my page here as Sweet cakes, but I am not entirely sure about that title yet, so dont list it yet on any of yours! but, you can check it out from time to time, because hopefully, I will come up with some amazing creations! I listed an ad with Craigs list just to see if I get anything, a friend of mine said she got quite a few responses, so we will see. Wish me luck everyone!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

The holidays!

So the holidays are over! I cannot believe it! It is over! I dont know if I should shout with joy or sadness. We had such a good christmas and new years, and my kids had so much fun, they received everything they wanted and MORE! My mom is about to die with the overflowing toys they have now! One of my favorite parts of the holidays are reflecting on the fact that my kids have grown so much, Jake has asked for the pretty much the same thing every year from santa, and it is amazing to me to see his growth every year, with the SAME present! Does that make any sense? I can remember every reaction at Christmas, and this year was the best one yet!
(It probably helped that I insisted that there was no way I was getting him legos this year, and he had better be extra good or Santa wouldnt either!! ) Lily and her sweet cousin Hailey got the same baby dolls so they are posing together with their carriers in one of the pics. My cousin McCall received the best gift ever in our gift exchange game this year when she chose some elfish green boxers with bells at the bottom and she tried on her moms lovely new Christmas sweater that would definitely fit right at home with a cowboy, so her picture is below too, even though you cant see it well. That same sweater made it to the top 5 finals in the annual ugliest christmas sweater at the hulls christmas party! Congrats Shawn Packer family you will have the coolest sweater to wear every year!
New years was low key, Nephis sister Emily came to visit us, and we took our families to the park to play and talk. It was really nice, we dont see Emily often because she lives in Reno. Then at the house we invited Colin and Jamie, and Anna and Nate to come over and play rockband2 with us ALL NIGHT!! We had a lot of fun, or at least the boys had a lot of fun... Anyways, Cody went to bed early but Jake and Lily actually stayed up until 12.. Well, Jake fell asleep at 10 til! But Lily made it, and was super cranky until 10 after when she fell asleep! I am sincerely impressed I thought for sure they would be out long before then, I guess rockband was louder than I thought! So thats it, I'm sorry for taking so long to post. Merry Christmas to all of my dear and wonderful friends and families out there! We love you all and hope you had wonderful holidays!