Happy New Year!! 2008!

I can't believe 2008 is just hours away. How blessed I am! I am so thankful to wonderful parents who are serving a mission in Ecuador. They have taught me so many things about life and taught me that I am a daughter of God. I am so thankful to a Savior, who suffered so much misery in his short mortal life. He suffered for me, my husband, my children & you! I am so grateful to my husband who loves his family unconditionally.(It may have taken me 10 yrs to realize this, but I know this to be true) I love him! Our children are my world. How blessed I am to have the opportunity to raise Gods children and have him trust me to do a good job. I can only hope I will. Jenna is such a little mother in the making. I love her simple prayers and thoughtful suggestions. Madee, I am so glad she is in our family. She is a witty little thing and so close to her Heavenly Father. I appreciate her little testimony. Tucker is a blessing in himself. He has taught me patients and long suffering. I feel like I am such a different mom between the girls and Tuck. I am slower to snap. I take a minute to evaluate my surroundings before I lose it!! LOL. I am so thankful for my testimony of the atonement and of Jesus Christ. His life and ministry on this earth. I am thankful for wonderful friends that mean the world to me. You are a part of me ETERNALLY! I hope that 2008 will top my years of memories. Thank you~Jamie

Christmas Morn.

Well.......we were tired! We had so much fun at Disneyland and had to drive home Christmas Eve in California traffic. We finally pulled in about 11:30pm and still had to finish some final wrapping. Jenna wanted to open presents at 5AM!! I felt bad, but Brandon had to work that morning and really needed all the sleep he could get. We waited til 7! Santa brought the girls some really fun Beach Cruisers! They are so dang cute. He also brought Tucker a workbench to help Daddy. Maybe I won't have to pick up tools all over my house, or at least they will be pretend! We opted out of presents this year in exchange for Disneyland***WAY TO GO*** but we did get them just a few things they needed. It was a quiet Christmas as Brandon had to get on road just as soon as we finished unwrapping the presents. But it was just the opposite for him. 4 fully involved house fires on Christmas Day. He was very busy this week with a total of 5 fires! That is out of the ordinary in one week! His Dad and Step-mom, Step-sister and brother-in-law made a trip up the day after. We had a good time and the kids are still asking about Uncle Sam and superman! He loved playing with the kids and kept flying them around! Thanks Sam!

The Happiest Place on EARTH! Day 2 & 3

After a slow start to our morning, we were goofing off at the entrance waiting for the guys. This is such a special family to us. We were SO lucky to be able to spend quality time with them. I got to go on 6 dates with Paul. Boy was I excited.......it had been 14yrs! LOL. Madee and Anna are the dearest friends. I know that we were sent to this valley to met this wonderful family! Thank you so much Julz for going with us. We would do it again in a heartbeat......not sure if you would though! I think you go to see the REAL us! Hope you still love us! We had to leave the park around 3pm on the 3rd day because Brandon had to work on Christmas Day. We wished we could have stayed longer. WE LOVE DISNEYLAND!

The Happiest Place on EARTH! Day 1

Disneyland!!!

How could you NOT love these faces?!?!?! They are such special girls. LOVE THEM!

We were waiting for some dear friends *the Aldridge Family* at the Christmas tree, so we took full advantage of the opportunity of pictures! Tucker would NOT look at the camera for anything. Madee got a zurbert on her arm just as I was snapping a picture. The girls wanted to play photographer for a moment and catch Mom & Dad given some love.

After a fun filled day, we had reservations at Goofy's Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel. RECOMMEND!! We had a blast posing for pictures in a miniature convertible car while we waited to be seated. Can you see who had the most fun!! JULIA! Gosh......I love her.

The kids got to meet and take pictures with a lot of the characters. We enjoyed LOTS of yummy food and treats too. They even got to meet Goofy himself! What a night. And to top it off....Brandon smiling in a picture with his girlfriend! LOL. We really had a fun day with the Aldridge family.

Daddy time!

We were all hanging around the Christmas tree one night with Brandon, as we didn't get to see much of him this month. We laughed and the kids road a bucking bronco for a while!




Poor old Daddy. This is one of many pictures with the kids. Brandon was exhausted after just a few rides. *sorry for the poor quality* We had a really good time tonight. Looking at old photo albums of past Christmas'. The kids always love doing this. We even got Brandon to sing Jingle Bells! LOL



Madee wanted to try to buck Jenna!




This is our BEAUTIFUL 15ft Christmas tree. We had a good time going and cutting it down in our regular Brian Head location. It was SO tall! But that is how I love them! Skinny, tall and Charlie Brownish!