Santa Baby

Pictures with Santa at the Ward Christmas Party. Notice Tyler is absent from the photos. He refuses to go anywhere near anything or anyone that even resembles Santa. He waves his hands and says, "Scary!"

Snuggie

If you looked this good in a snuggie, wouldn't you want one too?! And who knew they came in leopard print?

Happy Birthday, Sweet Abby!

My sweet, sweet Abby. Where have the last seven years gone? I remember the day you were born, and how sweet and precious you were and still are. You have definitely become mommy's little helper, and I am so thankful for you and your radiant smile. You make my heart happy!



Every other year the kids have a birthday party and this year was Abby's off year. So she decided to go to McDonalds to play and invited her friend McKenna to come along. She really did have a wonderful day and felt so special to have a day to celebrate just her!

Thanksgiving

We had a very, nice and relaxing weekend in Idaho with Clint's side of the family. Things just seem slower paced there and because of that I enjoyed my time.

The day after Thanksgiving, 4 of us girls hit the stores to do our shopping. I love a good bargain and this has been a tradition we have done for several years now.

Saturday was spent in the mountains on Clint's dad's property, looking for the perfect Christmas tree. This too has been an ongoing tradition in the Udy Family and this year we snagged two trees. The one upstairs I decorate, and the one downstairs is the kids tree. They had a blast decorating it this year, and did it without any help!

So we strapped the trees on top of the van, Clark Griswald style!

From Drab to Fab

This poor sweater has been pretty lonely just sitting in my closet, so I decided to tailor it to fit Abby and create a sweater dress for her. With some of the extra fabric I made her a matching headband.


What do you think? From drab to fab!

About $12.00

Can I just say "I love coupons!" Clint calls my use of coupons my part-time job, which I would have to agree. It takes time, strategy, planning, and organization skills to do the coupon thing. I love being able to get a lot of stuff for not very much; to me it's like a game.

This is my latest coupon run at Smith's. About $55.00 in groceries for around $12.00. Not too bad I would say.

Halloween 2009

This year Halloween was wonderful! The kids were so excited to go trick-or-treating and made quite the haul with the candy. Clint went out with the kids while I stayed home and passed out candy.

This year Macy was a witch, Abby was a ballerina (thanks Nana for making the costume) Blake was a pirate and Tyler was a spider. We hope everyone enjoyed their evening as much as we did.

On a side note, Clint and I attended a couples Halloween party where he dressed up as Nacho Libre and I was the nun!