Good Friends

 Jason decided for his birthday this year he wanted to invite 2 of his best friends to go the Air Bourne and then out to dinner.   He invited Michael and Fisher who we all love and are super good friends to Jason.  We first headed to Air Bourne and these boys dominated the dodge ball area.  They played and jumped around for a couple of hours.  We then went to Rock Creek Pizza and ate all the Pizza we wanted.  I think the boys had mostly dessert pizza but, Fisher made up for it by eating a salad on the way home… hilarious kid!  We then came back to our house and since this winter has been so mild the boys played basketball and then we had ice-cream sundaes.  It was a fun evening!

The Little Things in January

 After several weeks of working on this he finally finished his Lego plane.  It's a pretty cool plane that even moves.  We were really proud of Jason because he put this whole thing together by himself.

 Lucy loves going to story time at the library.  She loved the craft this day!

 The sad part about January is that Jason totally played basketball and I never took one picture of him!  He played awesome!  All I have are these funny pictures Lucy and I took while watching Jason play a game.  I guess I was enjoying his game playing so much I forgot to take a picture!

 I am so grateful for my cheerleading buddy!

 This year we have enjoyed having Emily over to do a little pre-school and play time.  This month we made home made play dough and the girls loved it.  I was also messing around with my camera lens I got for my birthday.

I really like my new lens.  It's perfect for photographing you kids!

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 For my birthday this year Mom took me to Holdman Studios to make my own glass flower.  It was really fun to pick what colors I wanted on my glass flower and then I got to mold the hot glass.  Man, was it ever hot but so interesting to make.

 Here is how my flower looked coming right out of the oven.  It then had to cool for a day before I could pick it up.

 Holdman studios is an amazing place.  They are doing all the stain glass windows for the Rome and Paris Temples.  It was fun to see a little piece of those temples.  The picture above is for the Rome Temple and the one below is for the Paris Temple.

Here was my flower as the finished product.  I chose blue and yellow and I loved the way it turned out.  It was a fun afternoon spent with Mom and Jill.

 The morning of my birthday I wanted to get a pedicure and it's no fun going by yourself so, these cute girls came along with me!  That evening Mike took me out to dinner and to a movie.  We had my favorite dessert cheesecake with the kids.  It was a great birthday!

2014

2014 has come to an end and it was a great year for our family.  I felt like this year was full of just doing the day to day things that make our family happy.  There were lots of dance recitals, basketball games, and track meets to attend.  We enjoyed playing outside in our back yard all through the summer together,and working some more on our yard.  How we love our home and where we live!

We went on small trips together.  We went down to St. George in the winter to escape the cold weather.  Then in the Summer we took 2 trips up to Bear Lake.  Our favorite trip was going camping up in the Uintas!  How we loved fishing, hiking, and relaxing in such a beautiful place.  While camping there was no T.V phones, or video games.  We all really enjoyed this time away from all of that.

For the boys it was the year of fishing!  My boys caught me so much fish and it was awesome.  Jason and Mike have learned to love being in the outdoors together.

It was the year of finding treasures!  We got our Phinney Bible and the amazing temple work that has come from that.  We also found an Edison record player to add something different to our home.

Mike and I went on an amazing vacation to Paris, France and we enjoyed every second of that trip.  It was so fun to just be with Mike and to be in a different country.

This year Grandma and Grandma Schwitzer spoke at the MTC and the kids got the awesome experience of going there and eating with the missionaries.   We then listened to them speak and had the kids feel the awesome spirit that is there.

We welcomed 2 new nephews to the Young family… Briggs and Davis were born this year!

Our biggest change was Mike getting a new job.  After 11 years Mike left Medline to start work with Berlin Packaging.  We feel this was a good move for our family and are so grateful to Mike.

2014 was a year of living life…. and we lived it!!

I love my family so much and dedicate this to you.  I hope you can always remember these memories! When times are hard we can look back on these times to be stronger and find strength.

Let It Snow!

 We finally got snow on Christmas day!  The kids enjoyed playing in the snow over Christmas break.

I am so grateful to have a strong son to help around the home.  My back has been bugging me and each morning Jason would go out and shovel the walks and drive way.  He would do it without being asked and it made me so happy to be served by him!

Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!  We woke up to a white Christmas and it was magical to wake up to snow!  Santa came and brought the kids all the gifts they had asked for.  Lucy wanted a Doc Mcstuffins wagon and a dog house.

 Anne wanted the Virtual fashion show.

 Eliza wanted this flying fairy.

 Jason wanted this Lego set.

 We then opened presents from Mom and Dad!

 We finally got a Mike a good normal toaster!

 I got a fit bit to track being healthy!

 Grandma and Grandpa Young came in the morning to see what we all got and hang out for a while.

In the afternoon we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Schwitzers for more presents and Christmas dinner.  Mike also got this old Edison record player.  He has been looking on ebay for months and we finally found one for sale right here in Utah.  It is actually a really neat piece and it plays records from 1910.  We love sitting around and listening to it.

It was a great Christmas and we have so much to be Thankful for!

Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve morning the kids wanted to open their presents to each other.   Lucy gave Jason a new baseball mit and balls.

 Eliza gave Lucy princess coloring pages.

 Anne gave Eliza a Crazy Loom.

 Jason gave Anne some crocheting yarn and needles.  They were all so excited to give these presents to each other.

 Eliza then had a special gift for Dad.  She wrapped it herself!

 In the box was her own money she had saved and given to Dad to help pay for Disneyland.  It was so thoughtful of her to think about Dad and the expense of going on vacation.  We love you Eliza!

 We spent Christmas Eve with the Young side this year.  We met at Grandma and Grandpa Young's for the Christmas talent show.  Jason and Anne both played and did great!

 We then opened presents and the kids all got new pajamas.  We then had a yummy Christmas Eve dinner.  After dinner, we did the Nativity as a family.  Lucy got to be Mary this year and she was so happy!

 Baby Jesus was baby Davis.

 This picture makes me laugh!! :)  It was a crazy Nativity!

 We finished up at Grandma and Grandpa's and came home to open more Christmas pajamas!  We love new jammies!  These kids were so excited and we put them to bed to dream about Christmas morning!

 Santa came that night!!