Happy Birthday Xander

So today is Xanders' birthday and boy has time flown by. I can not believe tha he is 10 years old today. So to reflect on the past 10 years it has been full of laughter and headache. Xanders favorite color is blue of course. His favorite food is our homemade pasta salad, so of course we are making it for dinner today. He is really into LEGOS. In fact he loves to build them over and over agian. He is in the 4th grade and this year he is working on a science project and is really in to it. I remember when he was just starting preschool and how excited he was to get on the school bus, now soometimes it is a headache to get him to turn off his light at night to get him to go to bed and stop reading. Of couse i love to see him excited about reading. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY XANDER.

Washington Weather

So as normal here in Western Washington we get a lot of rain. Well this past week we got a ton of rain within 24 hours, which for here is not normal. My sister Anna Lee got married yesterday in Utah, but because of the rain Keziah and I were not able to make it. It rained so much here that on I-90 they had a mudslide that damaged the road and that is one of the major ways out of Western Washington. The other way is I-5 and that flooded that we were unable to make it out that way also. They had those routes shut down for two days and it was estimated that it cost consumers 12 million dollars. OUCH!!! We were going with my parents and Ambria my niece. We even tried to leave a day earlier then we planned due to the weather. But at last the elements won and my parent took a early flight out of Seatac to Salt Lake to make it to the wedding. From what I understand it went great and all is well. Congrats Anna Lee and Jay. I will still be able to see them in February for the reception here. But all worked out in the long run for everybody involved.

2009

So as many of you do I have decided to have a new years resolution. Mine for this year is to be more Christ like and giving more attention to my spirituality. To some of you this may be easy but for me this is as hard as a diet. This can be easy or hard and right now it is a hard thing to do for me. I am trying to have more patience with my children and enjoy my time with them. I think the hardest thing is to find things to do with them so if any of you have any ideas to do with them please feel free to share. may the new year bring love and joy to all of you.