KJ was SO excited for the party all day, he was super chatty about the balloons, friends, food…he just couldn’t WAIT!Dinner this year was a Mexican themed potluck, thank you to EVERYONE who brought delicious food! Caryn made these super yummy Brisa’s – they were blended together with vanilla ice cream, ice, frozen blackberries & straweberries, Sprite, topped with whipped creme & a blackberry – they were really yummy!We just love our New Year’s masks/etc…We had so much fun taking pictures, dressing up – you would have thought we were a bunch of little 14 year olds with our first digital cameras, not a bunch of 30-somethings.

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Christmas Morn

December 27, 2007

The ONE day of the year, we stay in our jammies almost all day!

a very good girl ~ she “worked” very hard for this gift…
a “pink” MAC laptop…another very good girl, her family is happy she got a “Wii!”a very good boy – TRANSFORMERSShe “thinks” she has her OWN cell phone now…a very unexpected hand bag!!!
Santa wants the Rhodes kids to improve their Geography skills!Exchanging gifts with the Howell’s ~I got a box of Mac & cheese, woo-hoo! With a bonus Lancome lip gloss inside!Blankets for the boys &

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As Kiana and I were busy the first half of Christmas Eve, Dusty took Myla skiing and then made it home in time to start our families traditions.

B O W L I N G !!!

Dusty loves to choose the LARGEST bowling shoes they have just to make the kids laugh. They have no idea this isn’t his REAL shoe size. He just flops around in them while he bowls…Sela playing “peek-a-boo” with Myla KJ

That’s right! Who’s got strikes???


Sela loving grandma Pat.

We had Christmas Eve dinner at Sundance and then headed home for our traditional Christmas Eve

P Y J A M A S !!!

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busy, busy bees

December 24, 2007

Yesterday Kiana had her 5th & 6th shows. She did great – during one of them the conductor of the Utah Chamber Orchestra messed around with the kids a bit. I guess this one particular conductor usually makes faces at them/etc. during the show. The dancers follow his cue on a few parts of the choreography and at one point he had them stand up, kneal, stand back up when they should have only stood up once. It was funny to see him messing around with them. kiana was laughing on stage.

During her matinee and evening show we have 3 hours to kill. Once again, we were SLC tourist – this time we visited the Church History Museum,

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our christmas sunday

December 17, 2007

Today was our Christmas Sunday because Next Sunday – Dusty, Kiana, and I will be at her Nutcracker Matinee. So, after our church meetings today, I rushed everyone outside into the cold with my zebra chair for family photos — they were very nice about it considering the chill…Kaymen had his grooming appt. and came home fluffy & festive –I have never made Gingerbread cookies, and it’s something I’ve been wanting to do. This evening, along with our annual sugar cookies I tried Gingerbread for the first time. Caryn Morton gave me her recipe and they are delicious! The kids had lots of fun making a mess,

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My nephew “Wil” was participating in the pre-dinner activities: coloring, tongue twisters, etc. etc.We can’t get enough of Lilly Marie!Sela & Lillythe blanket I made for Lilly…
Myla & KJ playing the the army men grandma gave KJbilliardsmore ROCK BAND!Evidently Sela has “mis-placed” one of the ROCK BAND drumsticks, so we have temporarily resorted to using SWORDS because our hands get tired/sore without something.Myla is our most addicted ROCK STAR…

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