Christmas afternoon

Christmas with the bonds...dinner/appetizers, white elephant and kids name exchange....organized chaos is how I would describe this! We ate yummy food and played white elephant exchange with a twist which turned out to be pretty fun....the hot gift was $20, $1 dollar bills and a lottery ticket.

Christmas Morning

gum ball machine...would turn out to be horrible for Sadie

new shoes

flat iron


RC truck




This was the aftermath of a great Christmas morning!

We were so excited for Christmas morning because Sadie is at such a fun age and was so excited for Santa to come and the big kids got super fun gifts too, but 3:30 a.m. might have ruined it for us...Yes one of our children (not going to name names) woke up at 3:30, and then woke up everyone else in the house. It was horrible, we were so tired and decided to just check out the stuff that Santa brought (bikes, kitchen & RC truck) and then go back to bed and when the sun actually came up we could open the rest of the presents and go outside and play with our new toys! I am pretty sure this was painful for the kids as about every 45 minutes to an hour they were waking us up asking if it was time yet! AHHHH this could really kill the spirit of Christmas for me.

Anyway once we were up for the day it was super fun...the girls got beach cruiser bikes, Riley got an RC off road truck and Sadie got a kitchen from santa and then a bunch of other fun stuff from mom and dad. Hayley saved up her money and went to target and bought her sisters and her brother something special that each of them wanted! This has been a great Christmas...especially with the news that baby boy number 5 (Nixon Nate) will be coming in May of 2011.

Christmas Eve 2010

I am pretty sure this baby was as big as she was...


Yes we have a basketball hoop on our patio...little ghetto but that is how we roll!



Christmas Eve is always a super busy day for us, but so fun. Papa Bob and Grandma Suzanne take the kids to the movies and lunch during the day while we finish up our last minute stuff. This year they saw Yogi Bear, which I think brought back memories for Papa Bob and the kids thought was pretty funny. We then open presents and hang out with Papa Bob and Grandma Suzanne and the kids for a few hours before Grandma Patsy and her family all come over for dinner and a white elephant gift exchange, which usually lends itself to some pretty comical gifts and not to forget the dollar game...which by the way, this fun party is always held at my house and I have yet to win and some patio basketball!

Christmas Cookies

Hayley and Andrew

Making shapes...


Maybe a little too much dough...crazy girl!

Hopefully this is a tradition I can keep up every year....Christmas Cookies. I made all the dough without any help from little fingers that way they were eatable! We had our cousins Aden, Andrew and Casie over to help. We rolled out the dough, made fun Christmas shapes, cooked them and then frosted them. Yummy, yummy! Most of them looked a little suspect, but they sure tasted good!

Christmas Nativity

For the last few years the Wright's have invited us over for their yearly nativity celebration...There is always yummy food, great conversations and of course the long awaited nativity. We are so lucky to have such amazing friends! With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays its great to have this night to remind us what we are really celebrating!

Riley was a wise man, Sadie and Hayley were angles! So stinking cute

Christmas Tree Adventures

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Well its no secret that going to get a fresh Christmas Tree is one of our families favorite traditions (started by Ryan and he will not compromise). We headed out on our journey and went to the place we usually buy our tree when its all said and done, but we have to visit at least 3-4 places to make sure its the right one, but they did not have anything up to Ryan's standards so we then hit 2 more spots and ended up at Higley and Guadalupe to a new spot where I found what I thought was "the one". First of all it was $60 cheaper than the one Ryan wanted so that alone made it perfect in my eyes, after some voting and contemplating we agreed to buy the tree. We got home and I was informed that I was never aloud to pick out the tree again, because although it was a "great price" it was not perfect....it had a rather large hole on one side and the branches were cut up to high (more room for presents right?). Anyway no before pics or on the hunt pics like we normally have due to no camera but his is the finished product. One of my favorite traditions of Christmas time is wrapping. I love to get fun matching paper with lots of ribbon and bows and spend hours making them look perfect. Merry Christmas to all.

Christmas Card 2010

I love having a Christmas card every year...As a child I can remember going to my grandma Roberts house on Christmas Eve every year and she had this huge bulletin board of Christmas cards she would send out to friends and family from when my mom was a baby until just a few years ago with everyone including great grandchildren. We spent hours looking at how everyone had grown up, funny styles, horrible matching outfits and I absolutely loved it! So even though my family hates doing it, and we do not always get professional pics taken, at least we have a card....and this year we announced our new baby coming April of 2011.

Random pics

Hayley and Sadie fell asleep in Riley's bed


Backyard fun on the gym mats

Naked out of the bath and me with my work headphones on...nice pic!

We got a new camera this week, so these are some random pics we took!

What in the HECK....

Okay for those of you who have seen me recently....no my husband has not started beating me, I think I just have to many darn kids. Last Sunday while minding my own business taking an afternoon nap after church I got hit with a shoe in the eye. This was not just any old flip flop, it was a wedge church shoe. So the girls (the big girls) were apparently fighting, they chased each other down into my room where one grabbed a shoe to chuck at the other who then ducked and I got a hit full force to my eye with a wedge church heel while dead asleep. Yes all of my children are still alive I did not kill anyone after this event, I was in to much pain....the girls ran to get Ryan and I laid in the fetal position on my bed. When he came to check on me my face was swollen up and the girls felt horrible. Over the course of the next few days as the swelling subsided (barely) my eye started to turn a hideous color of black and blue and then I had a yellow/greenish jaundice look down the side of my face as the bruising healed up. This pictures I took myself of my eye on about day 3 but as of day 16 I still have a minor black eye. I cannot stress how freakin painful a hit to the cheek bone is....WOW who knew! Anyway hopefully now there will be no more shoe throwing at the Bond house.

Highland Hawks Cheer Camp

The Highland Hawks Varsity Cheer Squad did a cheer camp for the local girls. The girls learned a cheer, tons of cheer moves, jumps and a little dance. They got to show off all their skills at the varsity football game Thursday night. It was so cute, they did a great job. They did 2-3 different cheers and then even got to do a paramid. The funniest part was that all week they were practicing at home and Sadie totally learned one of the cheers, which was super cute.

Girls Trip

So its been a minute since I left my family for any amount of time 4 years to be exact and Shari and Kelly (Shari's sis-in-law) invited me to California for a few days. It was so fun to not have to worry about anything....literally, I packed some clothes and we headed to the beach for 4 days. We drove up to Santa Barbara for a day and rented bikes and walked around in all the shops, we relaxed on the beach and most importantly we slept! It was super fun but the best part I have to say was calling home each night and hearing Ryan's stores....every night I was so happy I came and that he got just a little taste of what it was like to be me. The first night his tone was super annoyed and when I asked him what was wrong his reply was this "I just sat down for the first time and its 9!" Hee hee, oh poor baby! It was pretty funny hearing his stores about getting to games on time and carpool practices, etc. I so apprecaited everything he did but was kind of happy he struggled a bit, made me feel like its not as easy as he thought was going to be...I came home to 5 days with of laundry and a messy house but it was so worth it!

Broken Arm

Well this afternoon as Paige rode her bike to Mrs. Anderson's house for math tutoring she wrecked on her bike hurting her arm. I got a call from Mrs. Anderson telling me what happened. Ryan went and picked her up but she didn't really want to go to the doctor and said it was fun, she was just embarrassed. Totally understandable right.....a couple days later I notice her not using her arm and decide to take her to the doctor. Fractured both bones in her forearm....mother of the year award right here. What the heck my kids has had a broken arm for 2+ days and I am just now taking her to the doctor. What kind of parent am I, oh well hopefully she will forgive me some day. She got a removable cast so she could shower....it looks just like a brace and was gracious enough to pose for a picture for me to blog about. She was super scared at the doctors office of the unknown asking all kinds of questions like is she going to touch my arm, how can they tell if it's broken, what does a cast look like...and here we are all done with a removal cast and all her sweet little questions answered.

Preschool

So my super good friend Shari Goodman...who happens to be an amazing mom is doing a 1 day a week preschool/early school class for 2.5 year old. She will be working on songs, circle time, centers, manners, cleaning up and sharing. Its $35 a month for one day a week for 2 hours. I was so excited for her to go today and she left my arms like no body's business, "see ya mom" she said as she ran away to Mrs. Sharri's door. When I picked her up I asked her what she did at Mrs. Sharri's today and she repeated every phrase Sherri said....it was freckin hysterical. "Be nice. Sit on your carpet. Clean up. Come out of the bathroom. Sit in your chair." It was laughing out loud in the car, she basically repeated everything Shari was telling all the kids to do and she loved every minute of, the next morning she woke up asking if she could go to Mrs. Shari's today.

Play Group

Kelly playing the drums

Snack time

A few girls riding bikes

Happy Molly on the swings

Play Group:

So a couple ladies in my ward/neighborhood put together this amazing play group with 6 little girls all ages 2.5-3 years old. You drop your daughter off at the designated house from 9-11:30 (2.5 hours awesome right) and then you hold playgroup once every 6 weeks....and even better its FREE! I can't think of anything better Sadie gets to play with some super great friends, gets away from me for 2.5 hours and I can run errands guilt free and it doesn't cost me a dime. What a great idea. So we held the first play group....and this was our schedule

9-9:30 backyard time

9:30-10 play-doh

10-10:15 clean up

10:15-10:45 snack time

10:45-11 Handy Manny on Disney Channel

11-11:30 backyard/trampoline time

It was so fun and super easy as with that many girls they totally entertained themselves. I think she may have even found a new BFF. It is hysterical to listen to the conversations that 2.5 year olds have, I love it. I am so glad that we are doing this play group!