December

December is always a busy month! Puppies are hard. She really is a good puppy, she loves her crate, which is nice. She hasn't ruined anything, and the potty training is coming along. She is pretty cute.

Vivian isn't always very nice to Wesley, Wesley is almost always nice to Vivian. Occasionally she lets him be nice to her. I had to document it.

We got some tickets to go to a Jazz game, the kids got to see Santa and Mrs. Claus. We always have fun at the Jazz games, the kids like to make signs, and yell and scream.

We have been keeping busy with basketball for all the kids but Vivian. She's been staying busy with tumbling, and had her show off this month. She also did the mini cheer camp at Northridge and got to do her cheer at the boys basketball game.

We made it to the Ogden lights this year. We had a good time trying to find the hidden pinecone in all the houses.

We did a couple of hikes too. We got some crampons for Christmas that came in handy.

Sickness hit us, is it really Christmas if someone isn't sick? It slowly made it's way through most of us. Jaycee and Mike were able to avoid it.

We had such a great year and we are looking forward to this next year.

 

November, Puppy!

We decided we did need a puppy.  It took us a while to choose which one we were going to pick. The only one Mike wanted was the brown one. Which we all loved also, but there was one black one that I also really liked. Jaime decided to take her! Trevor ended up getting one also. We named ours Penny. The kids love her. She is so cute. We were able to pick her up on Thanksgiving. So the kids had a little bit of a break from school to get used to her.

Wesley received an award at school from his science teacher. He really is a great student!

Heather was in charge of the Christmas Tree Jubilee. So all of us sisters got together to make a tree. It was so fun, I would like to do it again sometime.

I was able to go on a fieldtrip with Bensen to the Aquarium in the Layton Mall. We had fun, it's been a minute since I have ridden in a school bus...that was fun.

 

October

Happy birthday to Mike! We went to Red Robin to Celebrate. We are so lucky to have Mike! He is the best!

We love going to Joys for some puppy time, they are so cute!

Football season came to an end. We were a little worried about this season, Wesley was put on the B team, most of his friends were on the A team. I don't think it had anything to do with his abilities, and honestly I was pretty mad. But it ended up being a good experience. He was able to get a lot of playing time on offense and defense. They threw it to him several times a game and he was able to score some touchdowns, which was exciting. The even won the championship!

Me and Mike did some mountain biking. We really liked the Spork Trail in North Fork. It was especially awesome in the fall with all the fall leaves.

Our garden did great this year, we canned a lot of salsa. Yum!

This years Halloween costumes were some of my favorite! We had so much fun with them. I have wanted to do ghosts for a long time. I started letting the kids watch The Ghostbusters Cartoon in August. So Bensen was excited to be a Ghostbuster. Getting him on board is the hardest part.  I even downloaded the theme song and we played it when we enter parties, and while we were Trick of Treating. It really was a fun year. We will probably use these costumes again!