Christmas

Christmas was alot of fun. The excitment was too much for Maddie. She was up at 4am waiting for Santa!

Maddie asked Santa "for a dog named Bisquit" Santa brought him but something was wrong!! Maddie made the decision to send him back to the north pole to be fixed (bisquit wasn't as real as she though he'd be) & decided to get a doll house instead.

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Halloween 2008

Look at what a good job Maddie & Dad did carving pumpkins. I was 9month pregnant and too tired to do anything at this point. Thank goodness for Jason, he jumped in and handled things!

Halloween night we went Trick-or-Treating with our cousin Niko.

He was a Pirate & Maddie a Witch!

And Kenzie was the cute Kitty cat. Meooooooooowwww

Maddie's 7th Birthday at Kangaroo Zoo

Here we are at Maddie's Birthday Party. We went to the Kangaroo Zoo. Here she had her own party room with flowers & a bubble blowing machine. She thought that was cool. All her friends and cousins made it to the Party. From left to right: Niko, Allie, Sophie, Maddie, Amber, and Makenna. 3 more of her friends showed up later.

The Kangaroo Zoo was a huge warehouse full of GIANT bouncy toys. They had slides, and tunnells and bouncy rooms. It was great. All the kids were worn out by the end of it.

See this was after 2 hours of bouncing, she didn't even have enough energy to smile. hee heee

Summer last year

We love to go camping in the summer. It's one of the things we do most. Our favorite place to go is American Fork Canyon. There is a lake up there called Tibble Fork. This picture was takin on a road that goes up to another lake. It's so nice and peacefull there.

Here's our set up!

We like to take walks around the campground. It's realy beautiful up there. The chipmunks aren't afraid of you. They are so used to the people up there. I've had 2 of them climb up my pant leg. 1rst time it really suprised me because he just cruised right up my leg & back down! And the 2cnd time we were throwing them peanuts & one of them climbed up the back of my chair!

This is the "Big Rock" that's what the kids have called it. The campground is called Granite Flat. It's because of all the big Granite rocks & and this is the biggest!

Check this video out. Maddie will show you how it's done!

Vegas

Jason and I really like Las Vegas. It's a shame that its so expensive. We try to go see all the sites and we've been three times over the past 10 years but we still haven't see them all! It's so big there that its impossible to do in only a couple days. Plus everytime we have been there they have built even more to see! We walk all day untill our legs are sooo tired. We decided that next time we go on Vacation togethor we are going on vacation to REST. Cabo, Cancun or a Crusie. I'm so there! But before we get that vacation we are going to goto Disneyland first.

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Treasure Island in front of the Pirate Ships

My mom and Dad had time share. We stayed in the nicest Condo's. It was heaven. This is the pool there. We only were able to do this one time. But 90degree Temps and this pool, awwwww

PARIS

The LUXOR

Here we are again in front of Treasure Island. We have 1 other picture of us here at this same place back in March 1999, It was on our Honeymoon. So we've come back each time and made sure we took another picture in the same spot.

The Vegas STRIP, thats The WYNN behind Jason. And way back there is the Stratosphere. We made reservations for their restraunt at the top. Jason requested a window seat. It was our 9 year Anniversary & we wanted to get dressed up & go out. Well, I chickened out. I am terrified of heights! I couldn't do it. Funny thing is we ended up walking the strip all night long looking for a nice restraunt. We passed many that we liked. Alot of them had real esquisite menus. I'm just not into that! I'll just have my boring old chicken with an easy side! I like the atmosphere. Anyways we walked so far that when we finally decided and turned around to go back we couldn't find the ones we liked! Yeah.... we were too tired to keep trying. So by 9pm we ended up at some lame restraunt. We were exhausted and the best dressed people there. We did still have a good time togethor though.

Awwwww Tim Mcgraw & me. He's a hottie. Too bad this is just Madaam Tusad's Wax Museum. I always wanted to check this place out. It was neat. But, not as neat as I thought it would be. It was really short! In & out, in about 15min? And alot of the Celeb's didnt even look the same as they do now.

Jason & Sly...

He loved Rambo & Rocky growing up. Can't say that I understand why.