Birthdays, Sundays and Lazy Days

Yesterday Lindsey spoke at the Successful Mothering Convention at the South Town Expo Center in front of quite a big crowd. She really enjoyed it and has a lot of fun meeting people through her book. Afterwards we all went to lunch and the movies with Grandma Bev. Gabe slept and Paisley made noise. After that Grandma watched the kids at her house while Lindsey and Manuel went on a group date to celebrate (Our brother in law) Jared's birthday. There were 6 couples and we ate at Mazza in Salt Lake. It's a modern restaurant serving Middle Eastern Cuisine. It was absolutely packed so we had to wait an hour until we were seated. Though it took forever and the waiter was horrible, the food was very good. Kind of like Greek food. After that we went to Cherise's and Jared's apartment and met up with more friends and family for cake and ice cream. That's what we love about birthdays, they are a great excuse to get together.

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Catching Up!

What a busy year 2009 has turned out to be so far. We celebrated a few birthdays, sold a business, and Manuel went to Las Vegas for a couple of days for work. Lindsey sure had a single mom reality check for those two days.

Lindsey sold one of her businesses (SLC Hair Bandz, the women's head bands) which was good to lessen her work load and was able to invest that money into her other projects. Simplification is the key!

We are also working on redecorating our living room and family room. We were going to repaint the family room but it turned out just having new furniture was all the room needed!

January is not even over and we are exhausted. :)

Happy New Year!

What a way to ring in the new year! We visited Grandpa Roger, Grandma Candice and Great Grandma Cavner to celebrate Grandpa's birthday and had lunch. That night we had a family camp out in the family room with games, treats and movies. Little Gabey was so determined to stay up until midnight that he actually stayed up until 11:30 pm even after we encouraged him to go to sleep. We woke him back up at midnight so he could see the fireworks he wanted to see. He tried so hard to wake up and be alert but his little body couldn't handle the midnight hour and he trembled and cried while he tried to smile and celebrate. Silly little boy. As soon as his little sparkler burned out he went inside and collapsed on his blanket. The kids each woke up every 2 hours crying (it must have been the shock from the celebration overload). We slept in until 10:00 and have to say it felt good. We're excited for 2009!!!

The Holidays

We can't believe Christmas is over. Boy did Gabe sure love it! Santa brought him a vacuum, a CD player, bath toys and bubble baths, a flute, paints, soda chap sticks, hot wheels, and lots of games, books and treats. Manuel's family gave him a nice Lego train set and he got a walking talking dinosaur from Grandpa and Grandma Willardson. Grandma Bev gave him lots of games and coloring books. Paisley got her first baby doll ( a big one and a little one). She also got new baby foods and baby toys. Manuel and Lindsey also liked what Santa brought them.

Gabe went to a fun birthday party on Saturday at My Gym in Layton. He loved it if you can't tell from the pictures. The instructors there also played with Paisley and she had fun too. Now we are ready for New Years!!

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Christmas Party

We had our annual Christmas party at Grandma Bev's house on Friday. Gabe and Paisley sure had fun.

Snowy Saturday

December Fun!

What a busy last couple of weeks. We've done our fair share of cookie decorating for the season. Kids can never get enough of it. We captured some fun moments in our backyard during the last few warm days of December. Now that it has snowed we'll have more fun moments and be sure to capture them on camera. Lindsey's brother just graduated from Weber this weekend in the radiology program. We went to dinner at Ruby River with the family afterwards. Fun times!

Our Anniversary

Our anniversary is actually December 1st but we just celebrated it this weekend in Park City. 8 years! We stayed in a condo at the Silver Baron Lodge in Deer Valley. Our condo was massive as you can see from the pictures. We originally rented a one bedroom and then when we got there we asked if we could be on the top floor and they practically upgraded us to a mansion. We had so much fun and were so impressed that we decided to make this a tradition every year for our anniversary. Someday we'd like to purchase our own condo or cabin in Park City.

We ate at Cissero's and it was some very fine Italian dining. We felt like were eating somewhere in Beverly Hills or New York City. What a fun time we had but it wasn't long enough.

Our room

The guest bedroom

Room upstairs