MOM's birthday

So my mom's birthday is 12/27. it's the big one! there are multiple big ones but this is one of the biggest or i mean bestest. We thought it was appropriate to list one reason why we love mom for every year she was born!


50 reasons why we love MOM
1. Generous in talents, gifts, and money
2. Faithful to family, friends, and to church
3. Excellent cook
4. Loving
5. A great example
6. The best IN-LAW
7. Happy and Fun
8. Forgiving of mistakes
9. Genuine
10. Amazing listener
11. Super funny
12. Killer Zumba instructor
13. Good friend—The best-est
14. A Leader
15. Great genetics (Danny thinks☺)
16. Smart
17. Amazing chocolateer
18. Patient
19. Supportive of her kids positive choices
20. Service oriented
21. Devout member of LDS church (and comes by it so naturally)
22. Good boulder-er- Go MOM!
23. Super fit—more fit than Erin and Danny
24. Erin’s own personal therapist
25. Loves her family
26. In style and hip
27. Great waker-uper- squirt gun was the least favorite
28. Fun movie buddy- game to see any and all kinds of movie
29. Great linguist- Stacey-ism!
30. Expert reader
31. The only morning person in the family
32. Super Inspiring- I wanna be like you
33. Great teacher
34. Very accepting
35. Hard worker
36. Independent- now as well as when she was a kid
37. Makes beautiful kids
38. Good looking
39. Out-doorsy
40. Good sand hill climber in Moab
41. Aggressive driver in time square- that was scary
42. Allows Erin to call every other day and answers her phone almost every time she calls
43. Excellent wedding cake maker/caterer/hostess
44. Great missionary
45. Sweet dinner bell ringer
46. Amazing soccer mom- literally
47. Active volunteer for her kids school classrooms- teaching chocolates, etc.
48. Feminists- specially for church oriented camping trips
49. Great father-son team for camping
50. Will be great grandma! (P.S. I’m not pregnant)







Hope you have an amazing birthday mom! Happy 5-0!

A New House For Christmas

e made it! The move was awful but now that we're in our house we couldn't be happier. We love the house, its a great Christmas present. Right after we moved in I started pulling up carpet and taking off wall paper. The house has so much character that is covered by lots of tacky 1960's remodeling. it's cool to see the different time periods that are in layers on the floors and walls. We have paint over paint over wall paper on the walls and 80's carpet covering traces of brown shag and beautiful wood floors that will need to be redone. in some places we have carpet over linoleum over wood floors. It's kind of exciting to see what we might find. Needless to say, we're in a bit of a mess. We have set up our living area in the basement until we can get the floors upstairs finished. Everyone is welcome to come and visit, just be warned we are in a mess but we would love to have some company to show off our house to. We will post some pictures of our mess when I can find the fire wire. We hope to see some of you soon. Merry Christmas