Live to Dance...

I hope you all tuned in last night to Paula Abdul's "Live To Dance" show!!  

if not then start watching.  It's fabulous and so much fun to watch.  My kids even 

get so into it and bust out their break dancing moves!

but the best part is...

my beautiful niece Witney and all of her fabulous talented friends are in it! 

 The "Vibe" is our dance studio right here in Lindon, utah, and they made it into 

the "semi finals" last night!! WAHOOOO...

so start watching this wednesday night and PLEASE VOTE!! 

{Olivia's teacher mrs. alexis is in it too, so liv's is so thrilled!}

Go Vibe!

i did it!!

I must admit it wasn't  easy, and sometimes i fell off.... butamp;
eventually always got back on it!

but,

i did it & still doing it...

 I followed through and accomplished  my new years resolutions and goals from last year!

it's so awesome to make goals and actually follow through.

we as a family wrote down our goals on monday and talked about how important it is to
try to keep the goals within reach, but something that will push us also.  

so that's what i like. 

simple, yet attainable {within reach}

so starting monday,

 {because we are still on "Christmas break" from school.  Our school had a flooding
 problem and notified us that we have one more week off school!}

I am..

~drinking more water. 

~starting on this diet, which i LOVE and it was easy.

~ eating no sugar!

who's with me on NO Sugar??!  

~no eating after 7pm
~take my children on one on one dates!
~serve others more.
~get ivy in her own bed. ha
{we are on day 50 with her sleeping in her own toddler bed~wink...not going so well}

while i am going back through and organizing my blog by labeling posts,
{notice my side bar}
 i am loving it!! 

totally enjoying the past and loving watching my babies grow.  It is quite the task, but how
 nice to have it all labeled and organized.  it will take a while but i'm doing it.

mama knows best...

one of my girlfriends {lisa marie} whom i always keep in touch with since my beauty

 school days is a "Snowmama" for Park City Mountain resort!

i would LOVE nothing more than to be a "snowmama" next year for Park City!  

I am definitely hooked up with the right people for this awesome opportunity.

I mean C'mon who doesn't want to get paid to blog and ski and eat and play all 

in Beautiful Park City Utah!  

Lisa and I played on new years eve with Boston skiing all day. 

 The temperature was so cold 11 degrees actually but the snow was incredible! 

 Lisa is from Indianapolis and thought we were a bunch of wussy's for

 complaining about the temp. haha

 I also realized i am now a 'fair weathered' skier.

~heres to another new years resolution for this momma!

{just an extra plug}

me/lisa/boston

Happy New Year!!!

we rang in the New Year at my sister Jill's house with cousins, yummy food and fun games!  

We played "pit" all night {best game EVER} and Mafia.

ate a delicious Prime Rib dinner with Tyler's famous shrimp.

I think my kids have been in jammies since Christmas, and we LOVE it!

this whole Christmas break we have been watching movies, playing games and just 

hanging out with family, and I'm not gonna lie... 

i will miss it! 

we loved staying up to ring in the new year!  Ivy is a total "night owl"

 she was running around hugging everyone at midnight and saying "happy new year!" 

so so cute!

new years is full of resolutions for me, and there is nothing 

better than starting off the year with the stomach flu! ha...

 seriously lost a few pounds a few days before the new year!

nothing like a head start to one of my major resolutions... hitting the gym!

look who's "fourty"

can you believe two of my "besties" are turning "40?"

{shhh, Roxy will freak that i said this}

Roxy is here visiting from Hawaii so we snatched her for an afternoon.  

It was fun to hang out with her kids who are getting so big!  

The kids loved seeing eachother, and don't mind us if we let them 

play hide -n- seek in "malawis"  pizza.

these girls are amazing and i loved spending the afternoon 

with then chatting and eating and then some shopping.

xxoo

cynthia/me/roxy

look out the window at all the snow! we just got "dumped" on with plenty of snow...

seriously so in love...

with these kiddos.
I should probably warn you... "picture overload"
it was hard to pick just a few.

my darling friend Katie from "peekaboo" photography took these pictures.

perfect timing because my twins just turned 6 and are starting to lose their teeth.  

So i am so glad we captured these photos.

Boston ~11 years

Hayes & Olivia~6 years

Ivy~2 years

I am so in love!!

Christmas morning...

  is always so magical!

We woke up at 7 and were in heaven the whole day!

"LOVE" these excited faces, waiting to come down the stairs together.

the cutest thing was ivy asking "where was buddy?" our elf.
he is now back with Santa at the north pole.
we loved looking for buddy everyday!

santa ate our cookies and even left a note answering the questions from the kids note to him.

boston and his awesome new ski's!
this kid has turned into quite the skier, we love that he was excited to get these babies!

i love looking at these pictures and dying over all the bedhead. love it! 

especially miss "curly twirls"

 she has some serious bedhead with her curls...

livi has said, that all she wanted was a dsi and a harmonica, and santa surprised her at the bottom of

her stocking with a harmonica, and we are all loving this present! ~not! haha

i love watching hayes open his presents, he opens one and plays with it for a while and then opens another and another until finally we are reminding him to open more presents. 

he's hilarious!

santa always send the kids on a 'treasure hunt' for another present.  

This year they kinda forgot about it, but it was in Livi's stocking and they were all so excited!!  

look at Hayes' face.  LOVE how excited he is to be getting a dsi game, while livi and boston are reading the first clue to the hunt...

the 'treasure hunt' sent them all over the house with 4 clues... then landed them in the front room where they found all their electronic toys!! 

Santa even brought ivy her own iphone ~wink {it's a 'hand me down' itouch customed to her!} 

Boston got the very amazing & oh so fun xbox Kinect and livi and hayes got their own dsi's!  

were are all now in 'video game' coma's...seriously!

we made yummy scones with powdered sugar for breakfast!

YUM!

Played many games of "old maid" and "toy story yahtzee" and  enjoyed a nice nap

 while kids were in toy heaven!

 we went to the movies with the Carson's to see this. 

then to Nana's and Papa's for some fun games of "mafia" and delcious ham and rolls!

love this time of year!

love being with so much family!

love that my kids thought of something to give to Jesus for his Birthday! 

love my darling family...

feeling extremely blessed and very very loved!

Christmas Eve

we went with some of our taylor cousins bowling, and had so much fun.  

The kids had their own lane and they did awesome! 

good times...

excuse ivy's hair. hahahaha

she is really into wearing her hoodies~ nuff said!

we ate a delicious shrimp dinner at Jill & Tylers with the Curry's and Edwards. 

 Tyler makes the most unbelievable tempura shrimp. 

TO DIE FOR.

{no pics,  i left the camera at home}

then we came home and let the kids open their Johnson cousins gifts and make cookies for the big guy. 

every year my kids leave the reindeer some carrots, but this year they got some string cheese. 

{ i heard reindeer like string cheese}

i love how my livi has become a little artist, she loves writing every word and drawing 

cute pictures everywhere.

 this one's for santa...

Grandma Hansen's Birthday/Christmas party...

We celebrated our fabulous and beautiful grandma last night for her "86th" birthday!

Grandma Hansen is so amazing, I learned some very interesting things about her 

that i never knew before, like she was an only child! 

{who would have thought}

  She always wanted a big family and well she got it, she had 13 children!  She now has a gazillion grand & great grandchildren which makes for some fabulous parties!

{my children are her great grandchildren}

Camille played a game about how well we knew grandma, and we learned some great things...

~she was named "muggsie" from  her uncle who put a straw 

hat on her and said "oh you've got a cute little mug" ;)

~her favorite movie is Pollyanna

~favorite actress is Doris Day

she is actually Cory's grandma, but she makes me feel like i am hers as well.  

Everything about her is beautiful.  She raised 13 kids {my mother in law is the oldest} and 

makes it look easy, they always looked so "picture perfect" in all their photos!  

The worlds BEST cook, some of our favorite recipes are from grandma!

Heather Presented her a book of wonderful memories we all wrote about 

Grandma, and i can't wait to read them all.  

Cory wrote some darling memories and i just giggle thinking of them.

Happy Birthday Lavon. 

 We all just adore you... 

Santa came and brought presents to all the kids, this is always a highlight of the night...

{a tradition long before i married into this family! So cute}

Hayes giving santa "five"