February

Heather, George, Jordan, and Bethany with Great Grandma Hatch

Macy eating cheese balls with Maddie looking on :)

Bethany fit 19 cheese balls into Jordan's mouth. She only got 12 in hers. Such talent!!!

Macy and her Daddy!!!! Gotta love it.

Macy sitting in the doggy door. Silly girl!

Macy laughing at her blue tongue from M&M's.

Macy asleep. Gotta laugh at this.

Heather and Macy decorating Valentine's Day cookies.

Biggest highlight of February--my birthday. Heather made dinner for us all at her place the day after. What great fun we had. Among the gifts I got was Matthew telling us he and Lavern are expecting a baby in July, so #3 is on the way. I love being a grandma. The night of my birthday, Steve and I went over to my parent's house after we went to dinner. While there, I got a phone call from Nathan. After a bit of coaxing, Macy sang Happy Birthday to me. That was the best gift ever.

Actually, the best part of the month was getting to have Macy and Colt over for 3 nights while Nathan and Jessica went to Las Vegas for Nathan to play in a Rugby tournament. We had so much fun. Nights were a little rough as the kids were sick and missed their beds, but overall we had a great time. I look forward to the next time, but I think we'll do it at their house until they get a little older.

While they were here, Heather came over and we decorated cookies. Macy loves doing that. It's a great tradition we started last Easter. This time was heart cookies for Valentine's Day. She made some special ones for her mommy and daddy and we all ate our share.

More of Colt's Birthday

Colt loves to move to the music. This is a video of him gettin' to the music with Uncle Matt.

Colt's 1st Birthday

Colt and Macy

Colt's new car

Colt's cake

Yum

Macy's blue tongue from the cake

Macy singing ABCs to Colt

Making cupcakes with Aunt Heather

The world's greatest aunts!!!!

I finally got the pictures of making cupcakes to load, had to do them 2 at a time.

Carefully measuring the ingredients (Grandpa is making the frosting)

Stirring it up good

Ahh, the funnest part!

Messy Macy

Eating the goods.

She ended up licking all the frosting off and leaving the cupcake. What a funny girl.

Trinity, Heather, Bethany, and snow

We watched my niece for a night and it just so happened we got our first snowstorm of 2010 while she was there. The 3 girls had a great time.

December 2010

We had a great December. After going to the Bell Ringers on Temple Square in November, which was absolutely amazing, we were able to attend The First Presidency Devotional, Michael McLean's Forgotten Carols, and The Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert with various members of our family. It was a great way to get in the Spirit of the Season.

Our kids with spouses/boyfriend got together on Tuesday before Christmas. They had a great time together watching family videos and just spending time with each other. I'm really glad they were able to do this. It doesn't happen very often, hopefully many more times to come.

The Thursday before Christmas when we had the grandkids while Jessica was working, Heather came over to make some cupcakes for her work. Macy helped her. It was so much fun. I have pictures but they won't download. I'll try again later.

The kids came over on Christmas Eve and we spent a great evening together. We watched a video of the birth of our Savior put out by the church and then opened gifts. It was great being together as a family. Heather and George stayed the night (also the next night so we could play games). On Christmas morning, after Steve made Heather and George and Bethany and Jordan (Bethany's boyfriend) their omelets, we headed over to my parent's house and had a great visit. Heather and Bethany learned things from Grandma and Gramps that they had never heard before. We then went back home and relaxed and played games. Bethany and Jordan went to dinner at his aunt's house (George and Jordan are both from out of state and don't have their families here, except for Jordan's aunt, so we got to have the 4 of them pretty much to ourselves, whereas Matthew and Nathan need to split their time between us and their wive's families). When they came back we did some Just Dance on the WII. What a fun day.

On Sunday, we headed down south to hear Heather speak in Sacrament meeting. We then had lunch at Heather and George's house and watched some videos of the kids when they were little. Funny stuff. We all then headed over to Nathan and Jessica's house to spend time with the grandkids while Nathan and Jessica went somewhere they needed to be. So much fun playing with them. They are the cutest things on this earth!

The guys in their silly mode.

The guys at Grandma and Gramps' house.

Christmas morning omelet breakfast.

Bethany, Jordan, and Maddie
(Heather and George's dog, Belle, is in the background, big dog, had to stay in her cage).

Heather and George

Macy and Colt

Macy and Colt--She sang the ABCs to get him to quit crying.

Terri, Nathan, Colt, and Jessica.

Matthew and Steve

Bethany, Heather, Macy, George, and Terri

The week after Christmas just pretty got back to normal, work and life, while Steve and I anxiously awaited our vacation to Arizona. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.