Day 6 (1/6/11) Bargain of the Day

Bargain time! We found this duvet cover with matching pillow case at Ikea for $9.99! So maybe it wasn't the thread count I would want, but it looks very cute in Kendall's room. I was proud of myself because I went to Ikea without my guide, Maelen, and didn't get lost!

Day 5 (1/5/11) XBox

Typical scene at our home - Jared playing Xbox. He is on live with his cousin Scotty and best buddy, Colby.

Day 4 (1/4/11) Maelen's Home!

Maelen's home! When we left Utah, we left Maelen behind to help her "bestie" move into her new apartment in Provo. She came home a few days later, but we sure missed her while she was gone.

Day 3 (1/3/11) Hot Chocolate

Nothing is better on a cold Family Home Evening than a nice cup of hot chocolate. We love these new travel mugs we received for Christmas.

Day 2 (1/2/11) Dirty Car

This is what our poor car looked like after one week in the snow. Only problem is, when we returned home, it was raining so we couldn't wash it for another week.

Day 1 (1/1/11) St. George

So I decided to take the photo a day challenge to journal a year in the life of our family. Unfortunately, either my vision is worse than I thought, or my camera is worse than I thought because the pictures so far are blurry! Ugh! I can already tell my issues will be with posting the pictures.

Day 1 (1/1/11): Traveled from Matt's parents house in South Jordan to St. George, Utah. View from our hotel room at the Marriott and Matt & Jared relaxing after being cooped up in the car for hours.

Griffith Park Observatory

Since we were unable to go to our family reunion due to our kid's crazy schedules, we decided we would take a few day trips. Well those trips even had to be scrapped, but at least we got one trip in. We headed up to Griffith Park Observatory after a quick stop at the Citadel Outlets. It was an extremely smoggy day, but I guess that was to be expected.

Maelen, Jared & Kendall love to pose like any statue they are near. This is a monument of the following astronomer's: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel.

I'm not sure why, but we were wildly entertained by the kids making crazy faces between these two pillars.

I'm not sure what Jared is even doing here, but it sure captures his personaltiy.


The kids thought this should be their picture for our Christmas card this year. Too bad it is so smoggy you can barely see the Hollywood sign and Maelen has her sunglasses on. Oh well....we will wait until Maelen gets her braces off!!