Happy New Year

My friend made a comment on Face Book that she has heard a lot of people say that 2010 was not a good year for a lot of people. I don't know what it is about this year but I sort of agree. I'm not sure if it was all the stress of moving, but this year has had its good and its bad. We spent 6 months finding a house and then moving very quickly, two weeks spent living with my parents. Then we moved into our house, which I love. We celebrated Duncan's first birthday, and his freedom from the house. He hasn't stopped since. There have been a few things that made this year not so great. I guess my desire to stop working is part of it. I really am going to start looking at other areas for work. I do enjoy teaching, but I just would love to be at home with Duncan. We'll see what happens.

Well, I hope that everyone has a great new year. My goal for this year is to post on here each day for the year, exercise, decorate my house for cheap, take more pictures, enjoy my time with Duncan(I already do, I just want to keep doing it :)

Happy New Year Everyone!!

Beutler cousin's party

We had the Beutler cousin's party the day after Christmas. We had pizza. The bottom one was my favorite, fresh mozzarella, tomato slices, and basil from my mom's garden-YUMMY!! The sad thing was that it stuck to the pizza stone, but we scrapped it off and it was still good. Sadly these are the only pictures I took. I swear every time I took my camera out Duncan was right there and wanted that thing. We had a good time, we played charades, and cousins exchanged gifts and played the WII. Kyler had Duncan and he got a wooden train.

** If you have a Fresh and Easy they make really good pizza dough if you don't want to make your own- I recommend the wheat dough. Also, always bake your pizza dough for 8-10 min and then take it out and put your toppings on, it will keep your dough from being soggy.

Great Aunt and Uncle

Duncan with my Aunt Mary

Duncan and Uncle Keith. This was his first time meeting Duncan.

Chrismas morning

This is how we found Duncan Christmas morning. I should explain that he figured out how to climb out of his crib. We tried different things, a port a crib-climbed out of it, took the mattress out and put port-a-crib pad down-climbed out. So we took everything out of his room and put the mattress on the floor and I put only soft toys in there and this body pillow.

Santa brought him a Fisher-Price farm and other books and toys.

This was the last picture of the day I think because then he was throwing a fit wanting my camera. This boy is OBSESSED with anything with buttons or levers, or lights. He got my mom's camera later this day and figured out how to use the touch screen on the back. Too smart of his own good. I'm convinced he is part monkey.

A few Days before Christmas

Duncan is getting so big!! He has 8 teeth and two more trying to make there way in. I made him Chocolate gravey and biscuits for the first time. He liked them!

Later that night I made Scoteroos. They were really easy to make and good. I had never made them before, but I saw my sil's blog and wanted to make them. They are veeery rich so if you make them(recipe on the box) cut them into small pieces.

Isaac Cousin's Christmas Party

We had a cousin's party at our house this year. I really wanted to get the kids together to do something so I asked everyone over to have dinner and decorate cookies. My father-in-law made chilli and it was soooo good. Then we let the kids decorate sugar and gingerbread cookies.

Coen kept licking the knives which then went into the garbage

Ava just wanted the frosting.

Hope out did everyone. She decorated so many cookies!! She did great. She is the oldest and really good with the younger ones. We had a great time and I think we are going to keep this a tradition. We might do something different but I do think cousin's parties are a lot of fun.

Mesa Temple Lights

This was an exciting Christmas year for us. We actually got to spend the day with family. Last year we had to stay home and only got to go to my parents house in the evening for dinner with no one there. This year we got to go do a lot of fun things. Well, they would be fun if Duncan wasn't 19 months old and at the start of his "terrible twos" faze. He was not very pleasant to take to the Temple lights, but it was very pretty. Luckily we went before it was very cold. I enjoy going to see the lights and performances, but let me tell you I will never go on a Monday again;I think everyone was there for FHE. Which is sad because you are there to enjoy the lights and the environment and you can't because it is so crowded you can barely walk on the sidewalk and in hopes of not sounding mean, the missionaries were annoying too. Yes, I said annoying. I know I shouldn't say that, but when you have a toddler that is screaming to get out of the stroller and you are trying to find the rest of your party and the missionary is following you down the sidewalk asking how you are enjoying the lights and if you have any friends who want to hear the message, and telling you that using your cell to get out numbers is good too and all you want to do is scream at him to go away- you can't feel anything. It was nice to go and let Duncan see it and to be with Justin's family, it was just not a good night to go. Either earlier or after Christmas next year.

It was fun to go with my In-laws and our niece Ava and Addie were there too with Kassi and Scott.

I didn't get to take a lot of pictures. Too many people, grouchy kids, husband and I didn't want to stop and hold up a lot of people.