Happy New Year, Happy Birthday

Been a while since I blogged. I keep thinking things are going to slow down now that the holidays are over (for a bit, Hello! President's Day =)) and the twins had their birthday, but no, time is still going just as quickly and may have even picked up momentum heading into 2009. Whew!

New Years Eve was wild and crazy as usual. Well, me, Jer and the kids ate Chinese food, played Princess Yahtzee and watched a movie. Wahoo! The kids fell asleep around 10 p.m. and we were both in bed before midnight. We are crazy. The girls favorite part of New Years Eve was wearing the party tiara's and blowing the horns!






For the twins birthday we took them bowling, to the arcade and to see the movie Bolt (which we all highly recommend). We had a really good time - except when Livvy fell out of her Bumbo when we had her on top of the table while we were bowling - luckily she landed on a chair right by one of the twins and just had a couple of red marks on her head the rest of the day - not one of our proudest moments, but she seems to have recovered except for when she occasionally goes cross-eyed (just kidding!!!)



Can you see the red marks on her forehead?

Doesn't Whitney look like she's having the time of her life?


The twins got BEAUTIFUL dresses from Grandma Dana and Grandpa Lynn for their birthdays and love to wear them to church - here they are after church last Sunday and some pictures of Livvy in her cute new dress she got from Grandma Dana and Grandpa Lynn for Christmas - and surprises of all surprises, she is NOT in her her exersaucer!




Jeremy, in his infinite wisdom, talked me into buying the twins an art set, let me rephrase that, a paint set for their birthdays. They love it and as you can see, so does Jer....




One last thing, as most of you know, I cannot say enough about the service I pay for through My Food Storage Deals. It has helped me immensely and gives me great comfort knowing we are making a conscious effort to follow the Prophets counsel in accumulating our years food storage - I just wanted to share with you what I bought this weekend at Albertsons with help from Shandra (My Food Storage Deals)....

6 boxes of Bisquick
10 boxes of Pasta Roni
4 boxes of Fiber One granola bars
9 boxes of Hamburger Helper
20 containers of Yoplait yogurt
5 lbs boneless pork chops
5 lbs boneless chicken breasts

All for a grand total of $57.09 - I saved $87.11. I know Albertson's is a bit pricier than the other stores, but still, it was such a great deal. And I am headed back today to buy cereal.....who'd of thunk I'd get so excited about this stuff?