I just wanted to take time out to day and say How much I love my Savior. I am so thankful for the Birth of Jesus and I so grateful that he gave us the best gift of all.....Eternal Life. We had a great Christmas. We have wonderful family and I am so thankful for there great examples to me. I am especially gratefully for my sweet husband and wonderful Kids. Merry Christmas to you all!

This years Christmas Card!

Hope you all have a great Christmas!!!

By the way...It must be a Christmas miracle because I finally found time to update my Photography blog. Here is the link if you want to check it out.

The Arichensons Family Christmas Party

Fondue anyone? Well to bad, not when Mandy's cooking. Let's just say fondue is not the easiest thing to cook. Note to self, never plan on cooking something for your friends if you have never cooked it before. Thanks to all of you for still eating it and lying and telling me it was not that bad. I love friends who know when to tell the truth and when to lie!!!

I am very thankful for Bettie. She showed up early to help me out. The story was a lot funnier with some one to share it with. I probably would have cried if I didn't have her to laugh with. It all started out with the chocolate fondue, which went well, until Bettie and I neglected it because of the mess we were in with the cheese fondue. As it turns out, the chocolate burned. Our brilliant plan was to strain the good chocolate then scrape the burned stuff off the bottom. As you can image it didn't work so well. It didn't taste that bad, until the after taste came. As for the cheese fondue...well, $20 Worth of cheese went in the trash. I have no idea what went wrong. You couldn't even stick a pretzel in and come up with cheese.

With hungry bellies to feed, we pulled out the Velveeta Cheese and melted chocolate chips. Our "White Trash Fondue" party was ready to begin.

The Christmas party just happen to be Bettie's Birthday so we had a mini celebration for her. Happy Birthday Dear.

We had a white elephant gift exchange and played games.

Here we are modeling our Christmas presents from the Stevenson's. "I love Rupert" Shirts. Lance just won a close race in Rupert for District Attorney. Yeah Lance!!!

Despite the mishap with the food, we had a fabulous time. I just want to say I LOVE MY FRIENDS!!! You guys are the best.

Tis' the Season

I am a little behind on my blogging this Holiday season. I am going to try and play catch up before Christmas.

We started out the celebrations on Saturday after Thanksgiving. We went down to see the lights on Temple Square.

We haven't been to see the lights since Andre turned 2.

The kids were excited to ride the train. They looked so cute all bundled up waiting for the train.

After we took the kids over to the Gateway to Build-A-Bear.

If you have never been, you should defiantly go. Our kids had a blast. Plus, they have tons of bears for $10.

After they stuff the bear they get to put a heart in their bear. Before they put it in they had them rub the heart on their head to make their bear smart. They rubbed it on there ears so their bears will be good listeners, on their elbows so they can be humerus. It was so funny.

After that, they had them make a wish before they put it in their bear.

Once they are all stitched up, they got to bath their bears and fluff them with air.

They got to pick out clothes and name their bears. Andre picked out a Batman suit and named him Bat dog. Kendyl got a Tinker Bell dress and her bear is named Tinker Bear. They also can go online and play games with their bears and play with other kids. It is really pretty cool.

I Just added this picture because I think it's funny. Her Aunt Shannon taught her how to do the "rock on" symbol, but hers is more like the I love you sign. Kendyl is becoming quite the poser. She is dressed in her brothers hand me down sweat shirt and is wearing his beanie. Doesn't she look cute.

It was a great day and I am glad I got to spend it with my family. It was a great way to bring in the Christmas Season.

Nothing like free advertising......

They were here on the top of the front page.

And then they were on the front page of the Health section. Click on the Picture to be able to read the Article.

How exciting!!!

Andre's first Basketball experience.

Andre began basketball four weeks ago!!! He loves it. He tells me all the time that he wishes it was Saturday so he can go to basketball.

When I signed him up, they got a jersey and a tee-shirt. Andre picked the number 14. It is the same as his soccer number. For some reason he likes the number 14.

Am I ready for our son to be a Mountain Crest Mustang???

The tee-shirt says Mustang Basketball. I thought to my self Mustangs, yuck!!! You see Wes and I both graduated from Bear River and when we were in school the Mountain Crest Mustangs were a rival of ours. In fact, I will go as far to say, we hated the Mustangs. Now that we live in Mustang territory, I guess we will have to convert.

Ummm, I am pretty sure this is a foul!!!

I love the drills the coach has them do. Since it is most of the kid's first year playing, he spends more time explaining the drill then actually doing the drill. It is great entertainment.
This is Andre's best friend Gavin. They are finally on the same team. Because of new school boundaries they are not in the same school anymore, so I am glad that they are on the same basketball team.

I think that Andre is a darn cute basketball player.

My Muse!!!

Kendyl's Two Year Old Pictures.

To see all of Kendyl's Pictures Click Here .

I have not taken a formal photo shoot of Kendyl since she turned one. Even though I have a truck load of pictures of her, there all not really that planned. So I decided to take her around a few places by our house. All of the shots are taking a few blocks from my house. I love where we live. There is a lot of character in this little community.

I pass by this turquoise barn everyday when I take Andre to school, so finally I got permission from the owners to shoot there. It is my new favorite place. I love the unexpected color of it.

I know that I just posted about Kendyl on her birthday, but I realized I forgot a lot of funny things she says and does. I swear she is two going on 16. Here are just a few things that she does to make use laugh.

She loves to color. She is a little obsessed about it.

She calls castles in her princess books temples.

She calls her jacket her catch-it.

She loves to sing and would sing all day.

She is most recently obsessed with Tinker Bell and can repeat parts of the movie.

She LOVES to SHOP!!!! (That's a good one).

She is always telling me that things are "pretty"; clothes, her hair, my hair, her babies hair.

She is very polite. She is always saying thank you to everything.

She is very good at the word "Poreeese" (please).

She wants to know why you tell her no. When I say no she says, with her hands on her hips,

"why cause".

She loves to talk on the phone.

She loves her Daddy. All day she will say "daddy at work." And every night when I asked her what her favorite part of the day was she always says, "Daddy work home" (When daddy got home).

She loves the color pink and wants to eat and drink anything pink.

The Big Debut

Okay, it is finally here. Wesley's big acting debut. A while ago I did a post about Wes being in a commercial for Planet Fitness. One of Sports Academy's smaller fitness centers that they are expanding all over Utah and parts of Idaho. We finally have the copy of it, so, I thought you all might what to get a good laugh!!! I'm still in shock that Keith got Wes to do this. Wes has never loved the spot light. However, he has never had a problem taking one for the team. So I hope this commercial makes you laugh and entices you to go and join a planet fitness near you. Or, even better, the Sports Academy!!!

It is rather long, so if you just want to watch Wes, he is at the beginning and towards the middle and at the end. Look for the sweet head band. It is a little cheesy as you might expect.

Since I lost my pictures on all my old blog I thought I would put these pictures of Wes on here again. These were taking When he did the commercial.