Happy New Year!!! 2009!

Yeah!! Finally Pictures!!! Happy New Year to all my Family and friends and fellow blog lurkers...:) We had our annual New Years Eve dinner at our house and of course...the New Years Eve tree! It has become a favorite....Grandma and grandpa Jackson and uncle Kirk came early and delivered Christmas gifts...the kids were all very happy with their gifts....this is funny because Dallin received the exact same thing from BOTH grandparents only different colors and the dvd's were not the same but church shirts and movies...funny! Jentrie and Valerie got matching out fits in different colors (betcha can't guess who got what color :) Peyton received his set of sheets with his name hand stitched on the top sheet and the pillow case by grandma Afton...each of my kids have this great keepsake from Rhett's parents. Rhett also received some new shirts for church and $ which is always nice..and also a set of solar emergency lights. I received sheets for our bed only the wrong size ... oops! and a movie...I already had...oops! Afton felt bad and Rhett said I was too hard to buy for..lol! They also gave $ which I didn't already have...lol! Thank you!!! For the lovely gifts. Thanks also to Uncle Bren and Aunt Lisa for the DVD..."Kung pow Chicken...I mean Kung Fu Panda" I keep calling it chicken...that sounds yummy! lol!

Rhett and Grandpa Val started up the BBQ for steaks, and MOOSE! yes moose meat!!! I didn't get any by the time I sat down to eat it was really already gone! Darn! Dallin said it tastes just like chicken...I mean roast beast! (Grinch) We had lots of FOOD! Ton's of side dishes from shrimp to chips and dip! The night was a
super fun! Rhett and Brenan had way!!! To much fun with the Martinelli's! I told Bren I was going to post with the title of "Assistant Super condones under age drinking on New Years Eve" He thought I was being funny! (which I was!) All in good fun. Gunnison City is celebrating 150 years so the city had a big party (which we didn't go to) but at midnight there where a few fireworks...we missed most of them. Of course all the kids fell asleep and were ticked they missed them. Rhett, Bren, Lisa and I were able to make enough noise on our front lawn to roust about a few of our neighbors...due to the horns and whistles on the NYE tree. Then we had "Waffles at Midnight" or a few minutes after, served with ice cream and
yummy white syrup! This is a Jackson Family Tradition...started when Rhett's brothers week little.... nobody could remember when it was really started..but it has been on going for a LONG time! Still being carried on by some of us! I love it. By the time we made it to bed it was 2 am!! I am super tired!!! But happy! I will be ready for school to start to get a bit of rest...lol!

(This New Years was also Ty's last New Years home...he will be putting his mission papers in this month! I thought that it was pretty cool he was here with his family...he could of gone anywhere and he chose home! Pretty awesome TY!)





Because the kids missed the "New Year" at midnight we had a pretend "Happy New Year" on New Years Day with just the kids...they girls were playing dress up and had tons of fun with the hats, noise makers and eye masks....the boys decided to get in on the action and so we had a little happy new year moment! It was fun! And I was able to get a few fun photos!!! Now I am ready for the 5th so I can have a bit of a vacation from our vacation!! So much for all that sleep I was going to get!LOL! What was I thinking with all the kids home! It was a great holiday and we had a good time!

We want to wish all our family and friend out in the world a Happy New Year! We love and miss you lots!!!! and cannot wait to see you soon!!! We missed you and hope to have you with us next year!!!







December 28th....
So super BORED!!! We are all driving each other nuts! So we decided to go to Ephraim and take the kids to McDonald's and then Bowling. It was fun (super slow!! but fun) Peyton beat everyone with a high score of 46! lol! He loved it. Valerie finished 2nd with 30, Jentrie 3rd with 26 and Dallin 4th with 24....(he was mad because he really hated the bowling shoes!!!) It was laugh or cry! We really should go more often!!! Then a quick run into walmart...I can hear my dad...yeah right...quick and walmart in the same sentence...but it really was because Rhett and the kids stayed in the car and I was being timed! lol!