New Year's

Happy 2009! We went with the Steven's to their cabin for New Year's and took the kids snowboarding. Riley is amazing...I was so impressed at his skills, he hit a couple rails in the snowboard park like a professional 9-year-old. You are awesome Riley Bug! Paige took a half day lesson and had a good time. After lesson we all ate lunch together and then decided to go to midway on the 4-man lift (Ryan's idea, bad one). Paige freaked out the moment we got off the chair lift. Apparently she only learned how to flip over with her board on and stand up...not snowboard. It took us about an hour to get down...she was crying, Ryan was completely annoyed with all of us and Riley kept saying can I just meet you at the bottom! After that Paige and I stayed on the bunny hill the rest of the day and she did great. She did unfortunately take out some guy on skis at the bottom of the bunny hill but we apologized and I don't thing there was any long term damage. I of course forgot my camera so when I get more pictures I will post them. These pictures are from my camera phone so they are not the greatest!

How cute are you all bundled up!

Riley coming off the rail...why is the sun in this darn picture?

Happy New Year! - Thanks Becky for the party favors.

Thanks to my husband for this lame picture...I am not very good at snowboarding.

Who left the pantry door open?

Fruit loops anyone? Sadie is at such a fun age...her favorite things to do these days are eat Shelby's food and get stuff out of the pantry she is not supposed to. She will randomly just stand up where ever she is playing and has been taking a step or two. It won't be long and dumping cereal will be the least of my worries!

NO MORE NAIL POLISH!

This child of mine .....oh my gosh! Paige came into my office while I was working and asked if she could paint her nails...obviously I said no because I was working but maybe later I told her. I have a box of nail polish on the second shelf in the cabinets above my washer in the laundry room. In order to get these down you would have to get a chair, get on top of the washer and reach up to the second shelf, which apparently she did. I heard some noise in the laundry room so I got up from my desk and as I rounded the corner to the laundry room she was coming out with the hot pink nail polish. I apparently scared her and she dropped it. The bottle scattered and went everywhere...walls, baseboards, grout, tile, etc. As I went to get the nail polish remover she got a paper towel and tried to clean it up and it just smeared and stuck to every crack and crevice. It took a entire bottle of nail polish remover to get it off the floor and I could not get it off the wall.

Christmas 2008

Another Merry Christmas at the Bond's! We had papa Bob and Grandma Suzanne over at 3 on Christmas Eve and then Grandma Patsy and her side of the family over for dinner on Christmas Eve. Santa came and we opened presents together in the morning and then we went over to Uncle Brandon and aunt Stephanie's house for lunch and more presents. It was a great year...here are a few pictures of some of our favorite gifts. Grandma Patsy was very funny this year...she ended up with two live gold fish in the white elephant gift exchange and thought it would be funny to leave them on my bathroom counter...real funny mom and she also bought the kids a karaoke machine with ...... count them 5 teeny bopped CD's including Camp Rock and 2-High School Musical CD's. It really is a lot of fun but it sure is loud.



You go girl!

He must have put the snowboard on and off at least 100 times he was so excited and with his season pass to Sunrise he has been tearing it up!

Hayley got a new bike...and yes it is still dark out that is how early they got up.

Santa brought us a new tumbling mat...good job Sader B.

Sadie got a new phone and new shoes...so she can learn to walk.

Ryan and Shelby...trying to wake up.

Good Morning...smiley

Who knew she loved the Jonas Brothers.

Merry Christmas Hayhay.

I think this might be her favorite gift.

The Karaoke machine....American Idol here we come!

Sponge Bob operation...buZZZZ.

Cousins...playing with our new toys.

Sadie opening her very first Christmas present.

Snowboarders!

Riley and Ryan decided to go snowboarding on Saturday so they got all their gear out to make sure they had everything and it still fit (questionable for Riley...he is growing so fast)....they put it all on, ipod included and were walking around like it was 20 degrees in the living room. They thought they were pretty cool...so got a got picture of them. Since it was a no girls aloud trip this is probably the only picture I will get of their day trip to Sunrise. Paige was not very happy she didn't get to go but foresure next time...she has never snowboarded so I am sure it will be a learning experience for her.

Not the greatest picture but they sure are cute all geared up!

Crazy baby!

The dishwasher is so fun!

Sadie is almost 10-1/2 months old an into everything....over the last few days I have snapped a few pictures of her. You turn your back for one second and she is into whatever she can find. She loves to eat Shelby's dog food and dump out the water...dog food + water = BIG MESS! She does speed crawl every time you open the dishwasher and climbs up in it and then stands up. She likes to get in the cabinets and hide. She is hysterical! This is such a fun age I hate that it is going by so fast. The kids love her so much they won't leave her alone and she gets totally aggravated and screams out...that is pretty hysterical too!

The Hunt is On....

Every year our family has a tradition of looking for the perfect real Christmas tree...I know we are probably one of the last families to still get a real tree. I usually do a lot of complaining but once we get on the hunt it is so much fun. Ryan likes to take his time and has an art to picking a tree with no holes. It has to be a perfect noble fur...nothing less will do. He has a system to finding a tree. He thinks it is better to go when it is later in the evening we went around 8:30, it needs to be really cold outside...not sure how cold it was this year but thankful it was not raining sleet like last year (it was a muddy mess) and we must visit multple lots to order to find the perfect tree.

At the first lot we all piled out of the car...stroller, baby, kids, diaper bag, camera, etc. I think you get the idea...chaos. We got hot coco walked around for about 15 minutes found a good tree but in order to confirm it was the one we had to go to another place just to make sure. We traveled about 4 miles to lot number two. I accidently deleted the fun family photo of us drinking hot chocholate at the first place and the tree.

Tree #2...still looking!

At the second lot everyone got out but no stroller. This lot had some good trees but not what the professional tree picker outer was looking for...so off to place number three 11 miles away.

Tree #3...still looking.

At the thrid lot Sadie was aleep in the car and Hayley didnt want to get out because it was to cold. So now we are down to 3 out of 5 judges on what tree were are going to pick. I was convienced we had found the perfect tree but Ryan wanted to check one more place to be positive...so off to lot number four 4 miles away. We all agree that if we didn't find one here that we could go back to the first place and get the original tree.
So sweet!

At least she made it to 2 out of 4 stops.

Tree #4
The winner! Wonder what tree Paige voted for?

At the fourth lot we walked around for about 10 minutes we found the perfect tree! They cut a little off the bottom and we loaded it up.

All in all we ended up with an amazing tree, although this tradition can be a bit wearing I am greatful for my husband's persistence in getting the "PERFECT" real tree every year!

Riley and this year's perfect Christmas tree!