January 2011

I am SO SO excited because I am finally printing my blog from the past 5 years into books!  My dear dear sweet friend Emily in Virginia is helping me with this effort, and in return I will take her family pics in a few weeks.  Well, I was going to do this anyway, but thought I could get a little something out of it when I asked for her help.  She was more than willing b/c she has done it a few times.  YAY!  It will be so fun to have at our fingertips to look through.  That has been my plan all along and when I blog a million pictures, it really isn't to show all of you, but to preserve as I know it will be a hard copy someday.

With that, I got all up to date, and the last section printed will be our cabin trip at the end of 2010.  So I vow to stay up to date, and have found using Picasa to upload my full size images and then dropping them all into a post at once has been MUCH easier.

So here begins January....
I love that Cali is wearing this hat b/c she doesn't even let me put bows in her hair!  It was her choice, and I thought it looked so cute as she sat properly by the piano.

I love these next shots of Cali and Alyssa.  I took a million and narrowed it down to 25 favorites, then had Michael help me narrow it down to the top 5, then I added just 1.  My cute girls, I love them so.  Funny enough, Cali prefers her brothers, but the girls still get bonding time.

A little hair pulling...

Cali loves to climb on chairs, or push them to where she wants them.  Often so she can climb on the counter. I often am in the other room and hear the kitchen sink water going full blast and my first thought is that someone is doing the dishes, then I run realizing it is Cali. I found her like this and had to snap a shot.

The first Friday back in January, Michael was a watch dog.  The kids were THRILLED!  I made a master schedule for him of all the kids lunch, specials, recess so he could have optimal time with them.

Then mid January, I had the blessed opportunity to watch my nephew Bennett for several days while his parents (russ and kim) went on an anniversary trip.It was so much fun and I felt honored that they would ask and trust me (their first time leaving him overnight). He and Cali are 5 months apart and it was fun to pretend they were twins.  It was trickier than I thought when we ran errands--he is a runner and so is Cali. 

though cali was a bit of a brut to him, he took it well. we all had a lot of fun. 

Thanks Russ and Kim for the trust!

This is my Sunday school class in 2010. I loved them and have a new class this year.  We had a pizza party in December and they were supposed to all come, but we only ended up with half. I was happy though.

Natalie Fischer, David Brandon on the left (his mom said he had a crush on me) Joseph Dial in the middle Joseph's friend came on right.

Joseph with a little Mormon mad gab.

Matthew and David B.