Saturday, January 5, 2013

Alaska!

Our kids have been a little under the weather this week.
And with the FREEZING weather we've had this week, 
we were getting MAJOR cabin fever.
I thought the perfect remedy would be a little “vacation.”  
So, Friday we headed to ALASKA!!

We did a little whale watching.

Followed by a little “ice-fishing.”

Matt caught us some DELICIOUS salmon for dinner!


And of course we had to have “Baked Alaska” for dessert!


Then we set up our camp.
(Darin’s parents gave Matt this little tent for Christmas.  
He has slept inside it EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!!  
It came with this awesome little tunnel thing, which connected perfectly to the “doggie door” on our big tent.)

Matt LOVED going back and forth in the tunnel from the big tent to the little tent.

 Matt was also the only one who actually slept in the tent the whole night.

In the morning we went exploring to see if we could find a moose…and we found two of our favorites…”Moostache,” and “If You Give A Moose A Muffin.”

And of course, we had to make some muffins for our breakfast!

For lunch, we ate hot dogs inside our tent.


Then we went outside for a little “Alaskan site seeing”—all in our back yard.



I LOVE this picture Darin took of the drip coming off the icicle.

It was a wonderful trip to Alaska! 
We just wish we could have seen our family that actually LIVES in Alaska!

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

A 2013 Breakfast


On New Year's morning I made THESE pancakes, cut out some numbers with paper, put the number cut outs on the pancakes, dusted the pancakes with powdered sugar, then removed the number cut outs.  I thought they turned out pretty cute, and the family liked them too!





Welcoming in 2013












Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Highlights of 2012


Lindsay turned 1

 Matt turned 3

 Darin turned 31 and Haylee turned 27.

We remodeled our kitchen!

Darin was released as scout master and called as 2nd counselor in the bishopric.

We participated in the Festival of Colors!

We took several trips to the cabin, the zoo, the swimming pool, and Red Butte.

We visited the new City Creek Mall!

Lindsay graduated from Early Interventions!!


Haylee got a new personal record for a 5K.


Darin went to Scout Camp, Youth Conference, Girls Camp, and more!

Haylee finally saw WICKED!!


Darin and Haylee had a fun getaway to celebrate their 5th Anniversary!


Haylee finished her FIRST half marathon in Wyoming!

We loved watching and “participating in” the 2012 Olympics!

Matt and Lindsay went boating for their first time!

Matt had his first successful lemonade stand!

Darin grew an AMAZING garden and won TWO blue ribbons at the County Fair!

We found out that we're expecting a baby boy in April 2013.

Haylee ran the dirty dash!
 

Matthew started “Preschool.”

We made more than 300 donuts for our neighborhoods.

Matt and Lindsay won a costume contest in Bountiful!

We went to St. George for Thanksgiving

We rode the Polar Express



 We had a wonderful Christmas!