Happy Birthday Richard

Richard's birthday turned into a wonderful and busy day. It started ealy by meeting our friends Loyd and Terr and their family for breakfast. Loyd and Richard share the same birthdays. We had a lot of fun and then took the kids home and headed up to Far West to order Richard's custom Saddle bags. He was nice enough to stop by Tai Pan for me so that I could hit their after christmas sale and pick up a few more decorations for the tree. When we got home, Drue, Shantel, Kolby, and Kenzie came out to dinner with us and then came over to open presents and visit. Shantel and I took pictures of the kids, and are both excited to take a class together and learn to use our cameras better.

Christmas Day

We had a nice and quiet Christmas day. It was nice to just stay home. The kids woke up around 7 and we begin opening what Santa had brought. Later in the afternoon, Richard went to get his mom and Guy, Erin, and Parker came over. Richard made a wonderful dinner and we just enjoyed spending time together. Erin and I watched most of Mamma Mia, and Guy helped Becca learn to use her new tablet. (I'll post more on that later) .That night we got a wonderful snow storm. Well, wonderful once we knew Guy and Erin where home safely.

New Christmas tree

I know I am a little late, but better late than never. Ever since I was a little girl, and we came out to Utah to visit Grandma and Grandpa Nelson at Christmas, I have dreamed of having two Christmas trees in my house. This year that became a reality. Richard was a wonderful husband and went to tai pan traiding with me for date night early in November and helped me pick out all of the decorations. We choose red and silver so that it would go with the sliegh bells my parents give us every year for Christmas. It was fun this year to have the pretty tree upstairs and the memory tree (what my kids have named it) downstairs.

One of the sleigh bells

Pretty Ball

DO YOU BELIEVE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm0BfXYvFg

Sorry that you have to click to view the video but I could not get it to post from Youtube.

Today, we began a faculty meeting with this video. It was amazing to me and expressed why I do what I do every day. I Beleive in the kids I teach!