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!

Dance performance

The girls have been taking dance from a studio up here near our home. It has been very convenient not having to travel down the mountain. They really loved their instructor, but decided they will be venturing out and doing different activities come January. Jenna will be taking Piano......YEAH! and Madee.....well, we aren't sure just yet. Here are a few pictures from a performance at the Jubilee of Trees.

Madee, my little dancing queen

Jenna enjoyed a Hip-Hop class. It was very interesting. Not my choice of Hip-Hop.....well I guess we do live out in the sticks now don't we!!

Our Family Pictures 07

OuR FaMilY PicTuRes

This was our LAST picture.....look at Madee's face. LOL!! She really wasn't feeling good that day. Tucker had just gotten over crying!

This is MY Favorite

This is Brandon's Favorite

My Beautiful Jenna

This is my happy Madee......we were making her laugh to see her teeth~

Tucker was SOOOOOOO CRAZY~ this is him sliding down a crevis in the rock

Forever sisters!

AHHH!



Brandon thinkin he is somethin' else!!

Who else would he want??? Only Daddy

His little angels




girls feet

Our hair queen

I went into my room today and found Madee sitting in Tuckers chair reading scriptures. Well, playing and pretending to read scriptures to a class. I asked her who did her hair and she replied....."uh..I did." I told her to turn around and this is what her creation was! I about died. WOW!! She is pretty good for a 5 yr old. I couldn't believe that she even got the little clips all cute! I guess she my grow up doing hair.

My first Ring Pop candy

Tuckers first experience with a ring pop. I think you can tell he totally enjoyed it.

Soccer Saturdays!

Jenna is on the U8 team this yr with all the same girls & coach that she has had for the last 3 yrs. She is such a good little player. Jenna isn't a goal maker, but she has had over 15 assists with the goals. She just likes to be the SMART player, that is what her coach calls her. She has come very far this yr.

Madee, on the other hand, is a complete ball hog!! This is a picture of a ball she booted down field then chased after it and scored. This game she did very well. 5 out of 6 goals. She is so funny. We call her Mad Madee. She runs with the meanest look on her face.

This is my soccer buddy!! Ain't he just the cutest!!

my blessings

Each morning I have the joy of waking up to 3 of the most wonderful blessing my Heavenly Father could give me. The giggles I hear, the cries & fears I listen to, the running around the house; all bring joy to me. I am not the best mom in the world, I have many faults as do many of us, but I am trying. That is all I can do.

This was one morning that Jenna decided to wake up early and get Tucker in the bath. He LOVES his bath time and Jenna is such a huge helper. Madee just loves to play!

Halloween Day! BOO!

Well we started Halloween day off at Madee's class party. I went to help them paint pumpkins, frost cookies, and do other games. Then off to Jenna's class I went, but this time, Brandon came to help too. With Tucker in tow, we helped with the games and Brandon & Mr. Scovil awarded some of the kids with awards and prizes for costumes. Jenna won COOLEST costume (& Brandon didn't give that one out LOL) Off we went to the school parade. The kids all walk around the round-about out in front of the school so all the parents can come and see the kids in costume. All in all, it was fun, but a very crazy day. We went on Tracy's trailer again this yr and there was over 25 kids and parents too!! Tucker loved the door-to-door thing! He would take the candy out of his hat and turn back around to go back to the same door for more! Madee was done about 20 min. into it! Jenna was up with the big kids this year. Apparently, we are too slow with Tucker now!! It was a fun night~

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!

Jenna had about 24 friends over for a Halloween Dance party. They were all so dang cute. We had pizza, tons of candy and did some fun games. We had a BLAST!! I hope that this will continue on and become one of our traditions! It really was THAT fun!!

Our trip to Hawaii

Messin around in our room, Brandon wanted to watch himself in the mirror through the viewfinder! LOL. Our room and Hotel was beautiful.

on our snorkel tour to Turtle Town. We swam
with about 7 turtles that day! They were all bigger
than me!! HUGE!

This is Big Beach. The sand was sooooo soft! on the boat. just a random picture.

The road to Hana, to us was the road from HELL!! We spent 12hrs in the car. Took 650 turns one way.......& you have to go back the same way so.......1300 turns in one day! Not fun. The views were beautiful....not sure if it was worth that long of a day.

A waterfall near Hana

Sunset in Lahiana, Maui. We had a good time here shopping.

We really had an amazing time. Although we missed the kids a ton, it is always worth the time we had together just us! I love him so much!!