Books I've read in 2010

Code of Honor (Duty Series, #3)
Lockdown
Handle With Care
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2)
The Runaway Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #4)
The Quilter's Legacy (Elm Creek Quilts, #5)
Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
The Journal of Curious Letters (The 13th Reality, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
Eggs Benedict Arnold (A Cackleberry Club Mystery, #2)
River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)
State of the Onion (White House Chef Mystery, Book 1)
Hail to the Chef (White House Chef Mystery, Book 2)
Superfudge
Mum's the Word (A Flower Shop Mystery, #1)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #11)
Shudder
Slay It With Flowers (Flower Shop Mystery, #2)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Five-Star Families: Moving Yours from Good to Great
Thyme of Death (China Bayles Mysteries, #1)
City of Glass (Mortal Instruments, #3)
Murder is Binding (Booktown Mysteries, #1)
The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mystery, #1)
Rogue
Chasing Paradise
The Master Quilter (Elm Creek Quilts, #6)
Look Again
Carrot Cake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #10)Mother's Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #15)
Cream Puff Murder ( A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #11)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)
Aisling of Eire
Plum Pudding Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #12)
Apple Turnover Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #13)
The Sugar Camp Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #7)
Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)
The Best of Times: A Dickens Inn Novel #1
Dearly Depotted (A Flower Shop Mystery, #3)
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
New Moon (Twilight, #2)
Eclipse (Twilight, #3)
Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)
The Undaunted
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #1)
Free Men and Dreamers, Dark Sky at Dawn, (Vol. 1)
Crossfire
The Shack
Bookmarked For Death (A Booktown Mystery #2)
Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)
Methods of Madness
Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #1)
Simple Genius (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #2)
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles #1)
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles #2)
Trick or Treat Murder (Lucy Stone #3)
The Help
Blink of An Eye
Between The Lines
The Maze of Bones (39 Clues #1)
Dangerous Connections
A Time To Die
Cold As Ice
A Catered Halloween (A Mystery with Recipes, #5)
Keys To the Demon Prison (Fablehaven #5)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
A Wicked Witch Murder (Lucy Stone #16)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)
Ghost of a Chance
Freefall
Murder by the Book (Kennedy Killingsworth, #1)
The Christmas Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #8)
The Christmas Box
Finding Noel
The Thanksgiving Day Murder (Christine Bennett Mystery #6)
Don't Cry Wolf
Final Act: A Novel
Disney After Dary (Kingdom Keepers #1)
The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club #1)
The Gift
The Christmas List
Disney at Dawn (Kingdom Keepers #2)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Free Men and Dreamers #2)
Gingerbread Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen #16)
Candy Cane Murder

Goodbye Grandpa Curtis

Randy's dad, Bob Curtis died yesterday morning. For the past year, Grandpa Curtis has been living nearby in a Bountiful nursing home. His quality of life has not been great for a number of years, and this past year we're not sure how much he recognized us as we visited. Grandpa Curtis was a fun dad and grandpa and the kids always had a good time with activities that he planned. We know that Grandpa Curtis is in a happier place and able to move around on his own and see his loved ones who have already passed to the other side; including his parents, sister and Bobby (Randy's brother). We love you and will miss you Grandpa Curtis.

Holiday Helpers Live Here

Christmas Eve with our family

Christmas Eve we met up in Ogden for dinner with Tiffi's family. We ate lots of yummy food and exchanged our family Christmas gifts. The kids opened their jammies for the night and then Grandma Ruby opened her gift from all us girls; a Kindle. After dinner we went to Yogi Bear in 3-D and the kids loved it. After the movie we went home to get cookies and milk out for Santa and put the kids to bed plus there was still lots of wrapping to do.

The Birthday Girl

Fall Into Reading 2010 Wrap Up

My original list/post is linked here. The following is my list of completed books for Fall Into Reading 2010:

Knock Out (FBI Thriller #13)
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles #1)
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles #2)
Trick or Treat Murder (Lucy Stone #3)
The Help
A Blink of An Eye
Between the Lines
Maze of Bones (39 Clues #1)
Dangerous Connections
A Time to Die
Cold As Ice
A Catered Halloween (A Mystery with Recipes, #5)
Keys to the Demon Prison (Fablehaven #5)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
Wicked Witch Murder (Lucy Stone #16)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)
Ghost of a Chance
Freefall
Murder by the Book (Kennedy Killingsworth, #1)
The Christmas Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #8)
The Christmas Box
Finding Noel
The Thanksgiving Day Murder (Christine Bennett #6)
Don't Cry Wolf
Final Act: A Novel
Disney After Dark (The Kingdom Keepers #1)
The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club #1)
The Gift
The Christmas List
Disney at Dawn (Kingdom Keepers #2)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Free Men and Dreamers #2)
Gingerbread Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen #16)
Candy Cane Murder

I finished everything on my list except Fairy Thorn and added a few books. I hadn't planned on reading the Harry Potter series but since the movie came out last month I decided to refresh my memory. I always re-read the series once a year because I love it so much. I really enjoyed my cozy mystery holiday themed books. They help me get in the holiday mood, although it is a challenge to read in December since there has been so much on my "to do" list.

Happy 1st Birthday Sweet Roo

Today Roo is 1! I can't believe this past year has gone by so fast. She is growing too quickly. Maybe since Roo is our last, it seems like it is going by extra quickly.

Roo is not walking on her own yet. She walks around the furniture and crawls like a speed demon everywhere. She is so happy and we love her so much. The kids love to play with her and help. I especially love when she gives me her big smile and hugs me. I know her dad loves how she lights up when she sees him or even hears his voice. Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Family is the magic of Christmas

Today before church I took photos of the kids in the Christmas clothes. Cute, cute kids. They clean up nice with a lot of coaxing from me.

Christmas Village

Last week ZMan's class worked on making individual "light-up" houses. They combined them and it became a fun "light-up" Christmas Village. Family members were invited this morning to see the fun village. It was fun to see what they created.

Merry "Grinchmas"

I'll Love You Forever

We have been married twelve years today. Happy Anniversary to us!! I want to share twelve things I love about my husband.

1. I love that he took me to the temple four years ago to be sealed.
2. I love that he is such a wonderful dad and that the kids adore him.
3, I love that he makes our vacations and trips so much fun.
4. I love that he lets me be me when I am upset and crabby and he still loves me.
5. I love that he is so willing to help anyone who needs help.
6. I love that he is so calm when I am freaking out.
7. I love that he works so hard to provide for our family and never complains about work.
8. I love that he isn't a complainer.
9. I love his work boots.
10. I love how much he loves his family.
11. I love that he is my husband forever!
12. I love that we spent a weekend together kid free and had fun.

Christmas Party

Sweet Music

Princess Izzybee had her recitial today with her Sweet Music group. All the girls were so cute and the music was so fun. I loved watching Princess Izzybee perform and we could hear her singing. The girls sang "You're my Honey Bunch" to their dad's and it was so sweet to watch. Randy was red and embarrassed but you could tell he totally loved it and Princess Izzybee was darling as she sang to her dad. Mom and Sammi came down for the day and helped us celebrate with Princess Izzybee.

Sweet Music Presents:

Sing

You Better Watch Out

Mister Postman

You're my Honey Bunch

Jolly Old St. Nick

Mister Santa

Happy Working Song

Eternal Gift

Thanksgiving Week Update

We've had a busy and fun week. It started out with the Blizzard of 2010 on Tuesday so I made sure we were well prepared to stay bundled up in our house for a few days "just in case". It turned out that I may have "over-reacted" just a little. We did get some wind and snow but the power didn't go out and everything was fine. My sister Tiff and her family, along with Mom came down from Logan Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with us. We had tons of food and ate way to much. It was so nice to spend the day with family, I am so blessed. After cleaning up dinner and relaxing a little we all went and saw Tangled which was such a cute movie. The kids all loved it and I think we adults liked it as well. The remainder of the weekend has been spent with Randy working at the office and on our remodeling project downstairs. I can't wait for the hallway and ZMan's room to be completed so I am so happy that Randy and ZMan have worked so hard on the project the last few days. ZMan started putting the Christmas tree up for us while the girls and I were in Logan yesterday so I am hoping that we can all decorate it for Family Home Evening tonight. It's exciting that Christmas is just around the corner, Yay!

Birthday Presents

ZMan wanted a motorized scooter for his birthday and was excited to receive it. This past two weeks,every chance he gets, he has been riding it through the neighborhood.


The Doodle wanted a pillow pet for her birthday. She loves her unicorn and is enjoying playing her DS on her soft pillow pet. She also got Toy Story 3 and a game for her DS.

Happy 11th Birthday ZMan!

Today ZMan is 11. I can't believe my little guy is growing up so fast. He is such a sweet, fun boy. He loves his sisters (although he doesn't like to admit he loves Princess Izzybee) and he is such a help with them.

Last night he had his friend birthday party and they went to Boondocks and of course they loved it.