Our new kitty

Meet Junie!

Micah wanted to get me a kitten for Valentine's Day and we found Junie a little early. She's a little white Persian kitten with pretty reddish marking on her ears, paws, tail and face. She's very playful (which is why it's hard to get a good picture of her). The kids have fun playing with her and we all love having her in our family.

Happy New Year!

Here's a list of the Top 20 / Bottom 10 things about
our holiday season:

Top Twenty:

Break from school
Driving around looking at lights together
Visiting friends and neighbors
Kids singing with the primary in sacrament meeting
Visiting Santa

"Tree" scented air freshener

Christmas bonuses
Cards from friends and family
Christmas Eve crepes for breakfast
Pedicure with Julie
Making gingerbread houses with Grandpa Buck and Grandma Julie

Christmas Eve dinner

Micah narrating The Nativity video
Matching jammies

Jack's new trampoline

Easy Bake Oven

Star Wars toys

Elmo Live!

Happy, healthy, well-behaved children
Being with family

Bottom Ten:
Missing the family not with us
Micah working nights
Car problems
Jack launching off his new trampoline
Kids pigging out on candy

Eating too much
Burned bacon
Doughy sticky buns
Driving to The Confluence and it being closed due to flooding
Not having enough money to buy the closeout TV at Circuit City

We hope you had a happy holiday season and wish you all the best in 2009!