Flashback of 09

Here are some of my favorite pictures of just our family looking back at 2009. What a great and successful year for us! We love Arizona!

Tis the season for Suzi's Turtles

Well for the past 4 years I have been making turtles at Christmas time. Every year gets a little better and I have discovered it is an art that takes many mistakes to finally get it right. My turtles have ALWAYS been too runny. But this year my friend Jocey suggested that I use a candy thermometer and that has made all the difference! Why didn't I do that before??? I got this little crock pot for dipping and that has made life a thousand times easier as well. The girls helped this year so they turned out small, medium, large and bumpy. But they taste delicious!

Lucky for you if you are on my VT list!

Snow in Casa Grande

For the past 2 days it has been so cold. It even snowed! (okay, it was brought in on a truck). We went to the winter wonderland christmas party downtown and the kids got to play in the snow! They had to wait in line for their turn. It was quite a chilly day, perfect to bring in the snow.

Then we stood in line for at least 45 minutes to sit on Santas lap. They jumped on, snapped the picture and immedietly were told to hop off, grab a goodie bag and move on. Maysa didn't cry this time but she was not happy about sitting on Santa's lap as you can tell. Remind me not to stand in a long line up to see Santa again.

Family and fun

My sister and her family came to visit us for a week from B.C. We had so much fun. Hiking, zoo, collosal cave, bike riding, sun tanning- or trying.

Poor Cheyenne, she really didn't like Maysa too much. Maysa only pushed her down mmm, 5 or 6 times. thats all

We love taking people to see the ruins, its such a cool place. Merriellen and Rob loved being here. They even wanted to watch the video and everything.

We have two shamans in the family, who'd have known?!~

These two had a fun but rough week, little Cheyenne only wanted whatever Maysa was holding, looking at, seeing or eating. Oh well, when Maysa got tired of it, she just gave Cheyenne a big push. Rob called it, "battle of the muffins". Maysa is a little scrapper, what shall I do about that?

Sorry for the florescence, if you're eyes are hurting just scroll down really quickly.

Sierra is really good with little kids, they all love her. SHe knows how to play with them just right. It was nice when Sierra finally came home from school to entertain little Cheyenne.

The last day we went to the zoo. There is supposed to be a big giraffe in the background of this picture, but it somehow disappeared..... ROb



When we went hiking at Saguaro National Park we saw this crazy cactus. Its got to be hundreds of years old.

I was sad after Merriellen and Rob left. We had a really great time with them. Especially when Cheyenne turned psychotic during the airplane landing, Rob almost got us kicked out of the church for the SUnday night musical fireside ( I was just happy he didn't wear his brokeback mountain t-shirt with Dan and Al's faces photoshopped in) and when Merg and I went to see New Moon, on our way home we see Rob and Cheyenne out for a midnight stroll on the bike trailer. SHe was screaming her poor little head off. I laughed , Merg cried. Or when Rob and I pigged out on cheesecake factory while Merriellen drank her mushroom juice. Oh we had lots of fun. I purposely cancelled my primary presidency meeting because I was certain Rob would come down in his boxers and plant a smacker on my cheek, yes he WOULD do something like that.
I hope they come back next year, I was so sad when I dropped them off, I wished they could have stayed 2 more weeks, or even longer.