Christmas 2010

We had a great Christmas season. It began with our annual early Christmas celebration at Grandma and Grandpa Kevin's house. Santa clause came and visited us this year on his motorcycle and brough a present for each child! The kids were amazed and enjoyed sitting on his lap to not only recieve and early gift but to whisper in his ear what they wanted for Christmas morning. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for making such great Christmas memories!
Stephanie, our nanny, gave the kids their early Christmas gifts which included an ASU sweatshirt for Wyatt...he is very proud of his hand sign that Stephanie taught him as he says, "Go Sundevils." I decided this is Ok as I am technically a Bronco and a SunDevil! Jane got some pink boots and they are so cute and girly! If you knew Stephanie, she is such a girly girl and she has so much fun with Jane dressing her, doing her hair and painting her nails! Of course, Jane enjoys it all as well!
We were able to spend Christmas Eve with Aunt Munci and the Cohns! We love them so very much and we were so thankful to share the day with them. We ate, ate more, played games and just enjoyed one antoher. I must admit, Wyatt is awesome at Wii bowling! We love you all and thank you for the hospitality.
Christmas morning is always fun to see the excitement on the faces of our children! Santa brought Wyatt a basketball hoop for outside and a new nerf gun! Jane got the bike that she asked for but apparently wanted a different bike as he first words out of her mouth were, "I don't want that bike. I wanted a blue bike." She eventually decided that she like the Dora bike that she got and she can now ride it! We made prime rib for the first time and had Grandma and Grandpa Kevin over for dinner and boy was it good. Bryan and I decided that together, we are fabulous cooks! Jane was so sweet as she sang the most beautiful song on Christmas morning, Happy Birthday Jesus. Enjoy the video!
The kids spent the night with Kevin and Jeanne on New Years Eve and Bryan and I enjoyed the time playing monopoly revolution and of course, I won! It was a good time, like our young married years, where we felt care free and focused on one another without kids...thank you Kevin and Jeanne!
Our prayer for the new year is that although we have desires of how or where we want to live, what jobs we want, or how we think things should be, that we will continue to trust Jesus that he is truely in control and that things will be and work out for the will He has planned for our lives. We know that in this, we must surrender ourselves daily so that we can be transformed and made new in Him, being able to patiently trus and depend on Him alone.
We love you all and we miss our Boise family so much! We can't wait to be able to visit again....until then, anybody is always more than welcome to come and visit ANYTIME! Happy New Year 2011!

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November 2010

Happy 5th Birthday Wyatt! We love you so much! You are such a great, loving, caring and handsome little boy. You are so tender hearted and you want to please us so much. You care and look out for your little sister, which is awesome.
Wyatt was spoiled in that he got his birthday party, with Grandma and Grandpa Lewis and then he got to have some of his favorite people here for his actual birthday...Rodi, Sarah and Leah! He wanted and got a Ninja Turtle Party and was able to have a bounce house for his party that was the Ninja Turtles as well! Some of his friends from school came to his party this year.
Grandma and Grandpa Lew came to visit for Thanksgiving and we had a great time. We love when they come to visit as we get to have special time with them. We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house and made turkey and ham along with all of the other regular food made on this day! Mike, Barbara and Great Grandma Wininger came over and we all had a great time. Grandma and Grandpa took the kids to a movie and also took them to the children's science museum. It was special, fun time that the kids were able to spend with them playing and bonding. Grandma Lew stayed an extra week and we got to spend time shopping together. Please come back again soon cause we miss you lots!

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Last Part of October

Nanny and Pappa came to visit for my dad's pituitary follow-up and to hang out with the Spencer's. They took a few days to drive here and brought their camper so they could camp along the way. We had an awesome time with them as usual! We spent days of playing and hanging out. It was the first Halloween that we had visitors so it was fun to have them part of our annual Halloween party! We went to a pumpkin patch and although the prices were "out of this world," we had a great time eating, riding the rides and petting animals! For Halloween, Wyatt was a police officer and Jane was Snow White...not sure where she came up with that since she has never seen the movie! She looked cute and Wyatt looked like a dude! It was hard to say goodbye when it was time for my parent's to leave like it always is but we are sooo thankful for the visits and quality time tht we get to spend with them when they come. Please come again soon! We miss you so much!

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October 2010

We traveled to San Diego in October to attend our cousin Sarah's Bat Mitzvah! We had a great time as we stayed in a hotel on the beach where we walked to get coffee and pancakes each morning. We went and toured the USS Midway, which was a blast! The theme of the Bat Mitzvah was Alice in Wonderland and the party was fabulous and we had an awesome time!

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July

Our July was a very busy, fun and exciting month! I have been trying for the past 3 days to upload this update to blogger and for some reason it was not functioning properly....so I have been impatiently waiting....and today is the day that it FINALLY worked! Our July began with our trip to Boise where we enjoyed all of our friends and family. We went camping in Idaho, the upper Payette Lake, and had an awesome time with our parents, my nephew and Bryan's siblings as well as one of his Aunts and her family. Although the weather was unusually cold, especially up in the mountains, we had a great and relaxing time. We enjoyed riding the 4-wheelers, hiking and fishing with the kids. Wyatt and Jane were so cute! Neither one has ever fished before and it was both exciting and scary, especially when a fish was caught. Neither one of them wanted to touch the fish and in fact, Jane told me that the fish wanted to go back and swim!! My dad would be fishing and then all of a sudden get tired and need Wyatt to hold the fishing pole, when low and behold, every time, Wyatt would catch a fish! Thank goodness that my parents brought their camper because the kids and I would have froze each night as neither one of them have been camping before either! I grew up camping in a camper, no tents, so I have grown accustomed to that!! Poor Bryan had to sleep in the back of the Land Cruiser....he did claim that he stayed warm! Our family trip was overall fun and we can't wait to camp again! After we got back home, we spent a Sunday at a city water park here in Phoenix and had such a great time. Grandma Jeanne met us and had fun as well. We all enjoyed the slide, especially Wyatt, as the lifeguard would catch him at the bottom of the slide. We then drove to San Diego and stayed with Bryan's cousin Rodi and her family and had a quick but fun weekend. We went to legoland, where the entire park is made of legos and the kids had so much fun! We took Sarah, Rodi's daughter, who enjoyed riding all of the rides and swimming at the water park. The water was a bit cold for us since we are used to the 100 degree weather versus the 70 degree weather! Enjoy the lego photos! We didn't get very much time at the beach but the kids loved the water despite its temperature! Bryan and I were able to get away to Sedona and have a lovely dinner and stay the night up there. Neither one of us can believe that we have been married for 9 years! It is crazy how time goes by when you are having fun.....or just living life together. We both enjoy our lives together and have grown so much learning and living over the past 9 years. We are constantly reminded to keep God as the center of our marriage and put one another first and things usually work out the best that way!! Bryan claims at times that he finally has me figured out but little does he know that women change constantly and he still has the rest of our lives to continually "figure me out!" Bryan is an awesome man, husband and father/daddy and I praise God for allowing me to be married to such a great guy. I love you babe! I am getting used to working 5 days/week now instead of 3 and it has been a bit of a change. I am enjoying being a trauma NP and I am excited to grow and learn in my new role. Now that we have weekends off together, we continue to look forward to getting out of town, out of the heat, and spending family time together. We can't wait to get back to the San Diego beach soon!



































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