What- it's already February?!

So it's been a while and this is what I have been up to...

It is complete craziness. And it consumes my life! But hopefully I will make big bucks when I am done and it will have been totally worth it...

This is what the rest of the fam has been doing while I am stuck at my desk for hours on end

School is hard! I mean really really hard! I guess they kind of make it that way since people's lives will be in your hands when your done, but still...anyway, I really like it, I always have but did I tell you it was hard yet?

The kids are great, I went to parent/teacher conferences and Emma is a wiz! (we didn't really have any doubts, but it's always nice to hear your kid is smart!) She gets to do some advanced stuff to try to keep her mind busy during the day at school, she has a great teacher who is willing to spend so much extra time on her kids in her class. She deserves a million bucks for sure, I am very impressed.

Maycee is still doing well. She has bouts of Asthma issues about every other week but so far we have been able to control it at home and it hasn't gotten too serious. I just feel bad for the poor girl, she coughs like crazy sometimes and it's dry and then her chest hurts, nasty stuff for a little girl to have to deal with!

Wyatt is great! I have no idea how I ended up with such an amazingly good baby! He is so great and happy and will just play for hours while I study. What a great little guy!

So anyway-that's about it for now...I'm off to study...

Kitchen Decorating

Slowly, I am decorating my kitchen

First came new paint(a year ago)

then new valances(for my birthday, thanks Diana!)

and now a little jaunt to Tai Pan

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!?