Merry Christmas!

On Christmas Eve my family usually does a big appetizer feast and Santa comes to bring us presents. Just like every year, we all got nerf guns and had a big nerf gun fight. The pictures were from my phone and it doesn't do very well with movement. Sorry for the blurriness.

Brian getting his present from Santa

Dad

Marisa
Megan
BrianDavid & Bailey
Dad

Reading the nativity storyBuilding a fort

Surprise!

We are happy to say that our little baby will be arriving in June.

CALIFORNIA!

Brian and I were able to go down to California for 5 days to visit my family. My sister came home from her mission and we were able to go to the beach! I haven't been in 3 years, and I don't think Brian has been in about 10 years. We went to the beach twice. Had Tito's Tacos twice. Went shopping. Saw Brian's sister. Ate at Cherry on top, yogurtland, and Pink Berry. Ate at all our favorite places. We love California and we can't wait to go back!

My Dad took Brian and me surfing. Of course he was the best.

Brian complained about the sun, so he used the sand to cover his precious legs from the horrible sun.

Bailey

While we were waiting for the beach shuttle, the kids taught us how to play Ninja. Quite an interesting game

Tyler and Scott

Marisa coming home!

Courage Classic 2009!

Almost every year for the past 11 years Brian's family have participated in riding in the Courage Classic. It's a charity bike ride for the Children's Hospital in Denver. Brian's younger brother was a patient there for 6 years. It is a 3 day bike ride that totals 150 miles with 10,000 feet of vertical climbing. We went up and stayed in a really nice condo up in Frisco, Colorado. The mountains are absolutely beautiful up there! I'm so proud of Brian for crossing the finish line and raising money for the hospital! Here are some pictures of the trip!

We taught Mary how to text. She really liked it

Mary is going to be a drummer!

Mary making a funny face. This is my favorite picture of all time!

Bill, Dad, Tony, Mark, Kate, Ben, Gina, Tim, Brian

Brian Getting ready to ride the first day

We have a ton more pictures. I'll get around to posting more! Thank you to all of those who donated!

Ultimate Frisbee and BBQ!

Jena building an amazing Card pyramid

Kathryn and I wanted to do an awesome activity outside since the weather has been amazing. So we thought that we'd get a big group of friends together and play ultimate Frisbee and have a BBQ. The weather was perfect, the food was delicious and there was lots of fun!

We were all very impressed

Adam, Beck and Mally

Kathryn serving drinks

Adam, Beck, Lindsey, Colt

Beck loved the Bumbo. And his hat

Cory, Kathryn

Kathryn is either catching or throwing...I can't tell

Jameson, some guy, Hannah, Malley, Chris

Kathryn and Beck

Beck's first time standing in grass!! Kathryn was really excited

Garden!

I decided that this summer I needed to attempt to have a little garden. So a couple weeks ago Brian and I picked out a few things that we wanted to have. We're doing tomatoes, strawberries, cilantro, basil, green peppers, zuchinni and jalapenos. I'm scared that I'm just going to kill them, but so far it's going pretty well.

Here is the beginning of the Zuchinni

Wonderful strawberries are starting to come!

We've Moved!

We have finally moved! There's still a couple more boxes that need to be unpacked and our room is still a complete disaster. We really like our new place! The main reason why we moved was because our previous place had a "one butt kitchen" and our new place is like a "four butt kitchen" We also like the layout a lot better. We loved our old place and the ward, but the change was good. the place also has a clubhouse with a conference room, theatre room, ping pong table, pool table, exercise room, and a computer room. On Friday Brian made pizza and invited some of our friends over to play games and hang out. We brought our TV and guitar Hero game over and set it up and played various games for like 8 hours in the clubhouse.

Our friend Jenna works at a Gymnastics place and the other night after the place was closed she took a group of us down there to play on all the equipment. They had a huge foam pit that we could jump into and do crazy things. There were trampolines, high bar, balance beams, vault, and lots of other crazy things. We had a blast! One of Brian's friends was jumping from the trampoline into the foam pit, and he jumped a bit short and his left foot landed on the edge of the trampoline. He ended up getting a stress fracture and has a really bad limp. The sad part, is that he's getting married on Saturday. Hopefully, he'll be able to walk better by Saturday. Well here's a couple pictures of our new place.

Our kitchen isn't quite set up yet in this picture.