New Year's Party "2010"

We put together a great New Years Party. We played several games "Bunko, Uno, WII, and Apples to Apples. We had a couple of families come and bring in the New Year. We

even had our own Fireworks display (totally illegal, but alot of fun). Bob and I were very happy to enjoy our family and friends as we celebrated the New Year of 2010. We hope that we all have a great and prosperous year of 2010!!

Olivia's 9th B-day

With Olivia's birthday being 2 days after Christmas we decided to wait to celebrate it until Grandpa and Grandma Van Horn came. She got a bike which she had so much fun going with Grandpa on a couple of rides with. We took her out to California Pizza for dinner and then came home for Spaghetti cake that Katelyn made.

Christmas Week

The week of Christmas was full of many fun actives and great opportunities to be together as a family. From building Gingerbread houses, making cookie plates, Christmas Eve with Bob's family to having a very relaxing Christmas day letting the kids hang out and play with all there loot. I am very thankful for the girls help this year. Kate helped me do most of our shopping the day after Thanksgiving and building our Christmas Cards, Sonoma helped with all of our cookie plates, and Olivia gave us great Christmas spirit all day everyday. She would say at least 10 times a day "I can't wait for Christmas"!!!!!

School Christmas Program

Olivia sang with her class in the school Christmas Program. It was very cute, even though I hate the fact that there's no parking, the gym being over crowded, and the rude people that save seats for family members that never show up. It over all was a cute program. We only get to attend maybe 2 more before we won't have anymore kids in it which makes me super sad and feeling very old. I'm sure we will find something else to replace it. Bob says that there is something to do every night in the month of December if you really want to.

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Ok, Every year we all have the opportunity of getting a Christmas Tree. Our families biggest issue is what kind are we going to get. Some of us like the big fluffy ones and some (I) like the the Charlie Brown style. So this year as we went to pick one out we had a great comprised we went for one that was in between. For the last couple of years we have gotten our tree at a place called the Flower Garden in Loomis. Its a great place to go because they have a coffee shop and we all get ahot chocolate and play checkers for a while before we all argue about what kind of tree were getting. Bob and I figured that since we had all girls it was best not to make them walk for hours in the forest and cut one down.

That way by the time we get home they are still willing to decorate it.

Sonoma's 16th B-day

Yes Sonoma is 16 years old. Wow does time fly, and how it's fun to remember the day she was born. It's amazing how a beautiful baby grew up to be such an amazing young women. This year she had 2 parties, the first was with her girl friends. They played WII from 4 pm to 1 am, ate pizza and laughed alot. Her 2nd party was a family party the next night were we had the Rutledge family's over for cake and ice cream. She had Katelyn make her 2 separate cakes for each event. The first was a red velvet twilight cake "I Run With Wolves" and the other was a chocolate and white pink, purple, and black zebra cake. We all had a great time.