Goodbye 2009...Hello 2010

Well we did it! We made it through another crazy year! I can't believe that this year is over already, I just have no idea where all the time goes. We are once again thankful for our very many blessings this year...and we have quite a few!

January we were blessed with the ability to work. We both had jobs and were able to re-paint and re-decorate our kitchen.

February we were blessed with somewhat patient children who had the worst case of the "I wanna go to the park" ever and the momma was very large with child and wouldn't take them, so they waited...and waited...

March we were blessed to be able to celebrate another year older of our two beautiful girls, Emma and Maycee! They celebrated their birthdays with family and friends. They are amazing girls, we love them lots! And we were also blessed that while I was not able to continue clinical work at the hospital due to the pregnancy(and other issues, but this is a positive post, so we'll leave those other issues out)I was able to continue working as a secretary in the hospital.

April we were blessed to celebrate Easter and our Savior's Resurrection and our ability to be able to return to live with our Father in Heaven! And that while my pregnancy wasn't going as planned(high blood pressure) I was still able to carry the baby without too much problem and he would be able to be born safe and healthy.

May we were blessed with lovely spring weather and the girls kind of cooperated with some very overdue pictures. And school was beginning to wind down...you could feel the excitement building in the air!

June we were blessed with the birth of our son, Wyatt! He has added so much joy and happiness to our lives. He was able to be born healthy and our lives would not be the same without him! The girls were also able to finish their school years and participated wonderfully in their respective end of year programs!

July we were blessed to be able to celebrate once again our nations birthday and the freedoms that we are so blessed to enjoy everyday being a citizen of this great country! The girls participated in swimming lessons and we finally enjoyed some warm summer weather!

August we were blessed to only have to to spend 2 days in the hospital with Maycee, instead of the months and months that some spend at Primary Childrens. She was diagnosed with Asthma. Wyatt was given a name and blessing in sacrament meeting and the girls started school again, always an exciting time!!

September we were blessed with health. Our kids were growing and things were slowly getting into a routine, be it a crazy one, but a routine, none the less.

October we were blessed with the ability to create great memories. Family pictures and halloween. And I found out I would be able to start the RN program in Jan 2010!

November we were blessed with the chance to think of all things we are thankful for...a house to live in, clothes to wear, food to eat, employment, family and friends, healthy bodies, wonderful children that make me smile, and an awesome husband!

December we were blessed with the chance to celebrate our Savior's birth, and the wonderful feelings it brings with the season! We got to be with family and enjoy the lit up faces of kids as they opened their gifts! Nothin beats that!

So as you can see we have been blessed this year! And now were are gearing up for next...See you in 2010!

The girls were promised sledding

If they helped clean the house...

So first mom's lab results were positive for Strep
Had to go get antibiotics

Then had to get the hot chocolate mix and marshmallows

Then had to blow up tubes, couldn't figure out how air compressor worked, go to Dad's to use his

In the meantime back at the ranch, baby got fed and cried himself to sleep in the swing...too much excitement for him!

Finally tubes are blown up, but one has a hole...then two...

Find duct tape (I was once told that it fixed anything!)

Can't find the duct tape, used boxing tape instead, should hold long enough for a few trips down the hill.

Now how do we get all five of us to the hill and the two blown up tubes? Like this...

All for this...

Hyde Winery est 2004

So this is how the conversation went at dinner last night:

Mom: Emma eat your pears

Emma: I don't like them, they taste funny

Maycee: I ate all mine they were Gooo-ood!



a few minutes later I take bite of them.



Mom to Dad: They have a little kick to them

Dad smells the bottle: Holy cow it smells like alcohol! They are fermenting!

They were bottled in 2004, I guess I better pay attention next time

Here comes Santa Claus

Right to the Hyde house!

Santa showed up alright! We had a great Christmas morning. My mom, dad, sister and grandparents came down to watch the kids open their presents.

But rewind to the night before.

We had the traditional Spencer Christmas Eve. Complete with the nativity story played by non other than Emma amd Maycee!

And they opened all the gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Spencer...

We are blessed!

And they got the traditional new PJ's for Christmas Eve!

Christmas party

We don't go to many Christmas parties. The one that we do go to is the family party for Brad's dad's family. It usually is a good time and there are a lot of people there so it usually provides good conversation. And Santa usually shows up for the kids!

Wyatt was enthralled with the beard, we were afraid that he was going to reach up and pull it off...

And this year Brad's parents were in charge and they had an extra something for the kids, a pinata, the girls had fun! And that's what counts right!?

Where has the time gone?

Wyatt is six months old now! I really have no idea where the last six months has gone but none the less...

My baby now weighs 16 lbs and 6 oz and is 26 1/4 inches long! He has one tooth and his tracheamalacia is doing much better. He is still pretty noisy though, he likes to scream and babbles all the time. He only breaths noisy when he is breathing really heavily or fast, and sometimes at night. But I am glad that we haven't had to have it scoped yet. We love him tons!

Childhood Innocence

Today I saw about 100 6 year olds perform for their parents. They were amazing! Such fun kids. I decided that first grade is the place to be for sure!

Then it was on to the preschool program and they are so darling and innocent, you can't help but smile. The innocence of youth needs to be captured so that we all can remember how great life can really be!

And wouldn't it be nice if we could be entertained for hours with the glass balls decorating the Christmas tree?

Merry Christmas!! And a Happy New Year!

It's Christmas time once again at our house. We had a very nice and somewhat relaxed Thanksgiving in Heber City. We just went up for the afternoon and then came back home after stuffing our faces because I had to work at the hospital for a few hours that night, which isn't all bad, holiday pay and all. The girls begged and begged to set the Christmas tree and so Brad and I obliged and our house is decorated and looks quite festive!


Life has been somewhat the same over the last little while. I got notice from SLCC the end of October that I can start in the nursing program in January so I have been trying to figure out babysitters, and how to pay for it all, and schedules and doing all the requirements to get ready. I am super excited to start but it is going to be a tough 4 semesters!

Brad finished up work at the Park City Hospital and was on the Huntsman center addition until the mountain caved in where they were building so he was moved to the new building the are finishing up at the Research Park at the U until they decide how to proceed at the Huntsman Center. So it is nice to be able to save a few miles on the car now and the job he is on was taken over by Okland from another contractor that went belly up and so it is very far behind and was suppose to be done next week so needless to say they are working their butts off to finish and putting in 50-60 hours or more a week!

Emma finished her first quarter of first grade and did exceptionally well! She is one smart kid! She is reading on about a 4th grade level and just wizzes through all her things they do in class, and Mrs. Chandler had all praises for her, she loves her! She is quite the social butterfly as always and loves to make friends with everyone. She tells me everyday about her "new friend" she made that day. She is one in a million that one!

Maycee loves, loves preschool! She loves Miss Cynthia and she is making new friends too. She hasn't had anymore asthma attacks that have required hospital time, but you can tell the difference in her breathing on bad air days, it's what we get for living where we do! It's no fun for her either, she doesn't like to play outside on those days because it's harder for her to breath. It now makes me think twice about all this environmental conservation stuff. But she seems to be responding well to her treatments and that is great, ER trips are expensive!

Wyatt is growing up so fast! He is almost six months old! He is quite the stud and smiles and laughs for perfect strangers, and they melt right there in the store I tell ya. It takes me twice the time to go grocery shopping now because everyone has to make him smile more than once if they get him started, it's very addicting! He is a great baby and I will never know what I did to get such a great boy!


That's about it for now. We hope you all have a very wonderful and safe holiday season! Merry Christmas!