Daycee's 10th Birthday

Daycee turned 10 years old on January 18th. She had her birthday party the Saturday before. She invited 10 of her friends and had a Karaoke party!

Her birthday cupcakes with candy bracelets, rings and lipstick!

singing "Happy Birthday"

singing karaoke

Daycee, Kenzie, Bella

Kate, Jersy, MacKenzie

all the girls

Dayson and I took Daycee out to dinner for her big day. She chose to go to Booga Red's! We had a fun date night. Daycee is a sweet girl and always wants to please her mom and dad. We love her and are proud to be her parents.

Random stuff in 2012

December was full of random moments

Adam had show & tell at school and took his Spider-man costume

And this was his best friend Bubba. He moved to Show Low before Christmas vacation

Grandma & Grandpa Merrill came to visit our house and brought Aarron his birthday present.

He loves his new camping chair!

Carson was excited to show Grandpa his white tail buck that he shot!

 Grandpa showed the kids how to throw a fit on the ground...they got a kick out of it!

 It was fun to see them for a day!

Aarron wanted to have an arm wrestling contest with his sisters.

 Aarron and Daycee

Aarron and MacKenzie

MacKenzie and Daycee showing their Christmas spirit on the last day of school before Christmas vacation

Dayson had his annual work party at the Sheriff's Office

Christmas Vacation

I just realized that I did not take any pictures on Christmas day. I also didn't take any pictures the days following. I am such a slacker.

We spent Christmas Eve at our house waiting for Dayson to get home from work. He was on assignment to Flagstaff and didn't return until 9:30 PM. We waited patiently for him to arrive so the kids could open their traditional Christmas Eve gift....pajamas from mom and dad. The kids finally went to sleep around 11:00 and I went to bed around Midnight. The kids woke us up around 5 am and we opened presents. We left town about 10 am to go to Mesa to see Dayson's family. After spending a few hours there we went to Avondale to see my family. We spent the next few days in the valley and went to the Lawlor Christmas party. We drove home Friday afternoon so that Dayson could check back on for work. 

New Year's Eve was also a slow boring day for us. I didn't plan much of a party. Clayton and Carson went to the New Year's Eve dance and we picked them up at 12:30 am. Then went to bed!

New Year's day we took our kids sledding for about 30 minutes. It was cold! As soon as our hands were frozen we headed back to the car and went home.

The rest of our Christmas vacation I worked and the kids just stayed home. 

I can't wait for it to be normal again!

I took this picture from my sister in law....this is Dayson's family minus his sister DeLona.

Aarron's 7th Birthday

Sunday after church the kids and I hung our stockings up. They were so excited to get the Christmas decorations out. We didn't have a tree yet but everything else was decorated!

 Aarron shares a birthday with his Great-Grandpa Wellman.
(December 3rd)

Our home teacher invited us over to ride horses and it happened to be on Aarron's birthday. The kids were so excited to ride. The weather has been so nice in Round Valley that we had to take advantage of this opportunity. Clayton and Dayson were at basketball practice and not able to go with us.

Aarron

MacKenzie

Carson

Daycee

Harly

Mom

Adam

  

Aarron learning how to rope just like Brother Martin!

Later that night we celebrated Aarron's 7th birthday. We invited Rita and Becky and their families. Aarron picked a strawberry cake with white frosting and Sherbet ice cream!

Opening his presents. He got his very own basketball just like his big brothers. Now he doesn't have to compete with them for a ball.

spiderman

He had a fun birthday!

Sister's Trip & Santa's Lap

Grandpa's Birthday

My Grandpa Wellman celebrated his 90th Birthday on December 3rd. So my sister's and I drove down to Phoenix for a girls weekend. We had a slumber party at my mom's house and went Christmas shopping all day. We had the birthday dinner at Bill Johnson's with the grandkids and their spouses.  My grandpa doesn't remember us much anymore, but he still has his sense of humor.

My dad is the only surviving child in his family. His twin sister Rita passed away at birth.  His brother Bruce died about 8 months after my sister Deanna died. My grandmother passed away when I was only six or seven years old.  

They have the same ears!

This is my dad's side of the family

This is Bruce's side of the family

 Between the two boys my Grandpa has 17 grandkids and 70 something great grandkids! That's pretty good for only having two kids yourself!

Santa

While I was in Phoenix for the party, our ward had a Pajama Breakfast Christmas Party. The kids sat on Santa's lap and told him what they wanted.

Adam wants a dinosaur

Daycee wants a microphone

Aarron wants an X Box

MacKenzie wants an MP3 Player

Harly wants a camera

November...continued

Adam's Surgery

Adam has had a hernia for the last two months.  Trying to find a good day to have the surgery done was complicated. But we finally had his surgery scheduled the Monday before Thanksgiving. We drove down to Phoenix at 5 O' clock in the morning and his surgery was at 10:30.

Here is Adam in preparation for his surgery. He wasn't too sure about the gown, blood pressure and finger pulse device.

But he was a trooper and was very brave. It was hard for me to let him go when it was time for his surgery. I had to say goodbye and go back to the waiting room with Dayson and Aarron.

The surgery went quick and the doctor came out to talk to us. He said Adam did very good and was in the process of waking up. The nurses brought me back to be with him while we has waking up. He complained of a tummy ache, but mostly because he hadn't eaten since the night before. 

As soon as he was ready we took him back up the mountain. Just in time for Harly and Carson's band concert.

Both are in Steel drums at school and they do such a good job! 

Band Concert

Harly on the barrel drums

Carson on the steel drums

Thanksgiving

We stayed home this year for Thanksgiving. We made our own turkey and all the trimmings. Harly, Daycee and MacKenzie made their own apple pies this year. This is MacKenzie with hers. I did not get any pictures of the other girls...dang it!

Thanksgiving was not as fun without our extended family. I wish we could have spent it with mine and Dayson's family. We did go to Rita's house for pie that night and hung out with her family.