Happy New Year

We celebrated New Years by taking the boys downtown to the Fire and Ice celebration. There were Polynesian fire dancers, a volcano that spouted out fireworks and ice sculptures galore. Of course, Xavier was most interested in the big pile of snow other kids were sliding down. We also danced around a bit to a reggae band, but it was a little surreal to be dancing to island music when it was soooo cold outside! At one point they were playing, "hot, hot, hot," but we were really freezing. I'm sure you all don't miss those days. Toby slept in his stroller most of the time, but did manage to see the fireworks. He was pretty surprised at first, then just stared until they were over. I really do wonder what they thinking during times like these. Anyway, we had a fun time, but I think we will stay closer to home next year. We love you all and hope you have a wonderful 2010!

Pretty Pretty Princess

One of the girls new favorite games is Pretty Pretty Princess. A most have for all housholds! Apparently whether you have girls or boys! I would say that I thought Nathan was a good sport for playing with the girls, but it was in fact his idea to play, and I think he REALLY was having tons of fun.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

We love and miss you all and hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. We had a fun Christmas Eve with two families that are very good friends over to our house and now we are all to bed waiting for Santa to come!

Happy Christmas Eve

We just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and tell you all how much we love you! Tonight we are going to take a drive to check out Christmas lights and hopefully catch a glipse of Santa on his sleigh. We're hoping for an early night tonight, because tomorrow, we are going to both Grandma and Grandpa LaVoie's house and Grandma and Grandpa Suttie's house (Yvonne's parents). It should make for a busy day. Hopefully the boys get a good night's sleep tonight. And we hope everyone settles in tonight for you all too!

So, I wanted to let you all know that we are still alive and well here in Idaho. Trever was busy with finals and then now his computer is off getting some warranty work done. Since we live in a small little place we have only his laptop now, so no good opportunity to get on here and post. I love seeing the new family pictures that Scott and Shannon have put up of their family on the sidebar, I need to get a new one of us up there too. Remember, if any of you guys have questions on how to do anything like that just let me know and I will be happy to help. Anyway, don't hav emuch time here on the campus computer, but I will post again with Christmas pictures once we get Trever's computer back!

So, a lot has happened recently and I promise to post pictures soon, although I'm at work right now so they will not be with this post. I am glad to see that everyone is doing so well and I love Robert and Courtney's new glasses, they look awesome you guys! We have had an exciting few weeks. We got some free tickets to a breakfast with Santa and the girls had a blast! They saw santa and Mrs. Clause as well as the grinch was there and read them all a story. They seemed to have a really good time. After that we had our ward dinner and they had all sorts of crafts in the primary room and Kyrie enjoyed doing that, but Arianna slept right through the whole thing. Saturday Ky had a holiday party and her sunbeam teachers house and they made presents for parents so that was neat. I started a new job last week. It is with a child care center in downtown seattle and it has definitely been an experience. I am having a good time at work and now that the public buses are quite so scary to me, I'm beginning to enjoy have some time each day to just sit and read a book or relax. I wish I could spend more time with the girls, but my working is what needs to happen right now. I promise to post some pictures soon and I love you all!

As Christmas sneaks up on us I am definitely missing all of you. I hope you each have a fantastic Christmas with your families. Please take lots of pictures and send a few our way. We are so blessed to have each of you as a part of our family and we thank Heavenly Father every single day for each of you.
We got lots of snow this past week - it snowed for 3 days straight and we probably ended up with 18-20 inches. We can't complain because Valdez got 68 inches during that time. It really was beautiful with all the trees loaded down with snow. Today the wind came up and blew it all off but the temperature is up to about 20 so it isn't too bad out there.
On Wednesday, when I left work the fan on my car stopped working. Since I could hardly see the road through the frosted up windshield I went straight to Roger's and he got it going in a few minutes. The bad part is it stopped again last night so I will have to bring it back there again tomorrow.
I can't believe that I am done wrapping presents and I definitely wish I could come and help all of you who did my shopping for me. I hope you aren't going toooooooooo crazy.
I Love You All and will talk to you soon.
Mom