What a great day.

How was everyone else's day? Today is suppose to be in the 60 for Salt Lake City. Did anyone do anything out side to enjoy it. We are in the 50's today and loving it. Here are the pictures from our afternoon outside. I felt like I was back on the coast on the Alcatraz island in California. Windy enough to lay down and soak up the sun while holding on to a kit. All I was missing were the crowds of people.

DO YOU LIKE YOUR CAMCORDER?

Aaron and I are shopping for a camcorder. Our video camcorder is 8 years old and it broke 3 years ago. It's time for a new one. So I really really want to know what camera you own and what you like about it and what you don't like about it and WHY. THE WHY'S are important. The biggest question on my mind is do I get one with a little DVD in it or do I get one with a memory card I down load to my Mac.

CHECK IT OUT

Cameron and I have been working on getting our driveway cleared for over a week. Each day we are able to pound away a little more ice. In the low spots it's 4 inches thick. Some spots were 2 feet thick with 8 inches of that is ice. BUT it's warm outside and we have been inside all winter so we go out for a few hours each day and work on it. Yesterday we had the brillant idea of hot water. It worked like a champ. Cameron and I worked together on it. He would poor the hot water and I would chisel and scrape at it.

We were able to make a path the whole length of the drive way. Now when it melts the water can flow away from the house. I look out my front room window just to look at it all the tome. It gets me so exited for summer. WHO WANTS TO GO CAMPING?!!!

Betsy is in ASIA

Betsy is in ASIA. How cool is that! I've known Betsy for 9 year and she gets better every year. She is the apifanie of what a person should be. She makes everyone around her feel very important. That they are worth a lot in God's eyes. She loves to get down on the floor and play. She always seems exited about what tomorrow will bring. She has a lot of nice things in her possession, but it's the people in her life that is most important to her. When she gets involved with a task she puts her heart into it. She knows her heart might get hurt but knows "it's better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all."

One of the great loves she has, is to travel. She has gone all over the world and loves home too. She keeps that great balance in her life.

I highly recommend you checking out her newest hobby, her blog. www.bettygrace.blogspot.com From this blog she has made a link to her trip to Asia. What she has done is blogged everyday on her Asia trip so we can ask her questions while she is there. Here is the link www.betsyasia2008.blogspot.com


I am so lucky to know her. We love you Betsy.

Taxes

I FINISHED THE TAXES.

Well I didn't actually do the taxes I compiled the information and totaled the amounts for each category. Then mailed them off to a tax women. It still took me two weeks to do may part.

BUT here is a little tid-bit maybe you didn't know about me. I would like to go back to school to get my degree in accounting. I am exited to learn how to do my own taxes and know ALL the laws and rules. I would like to work for an accounting firm just during tax season OR have my own little group of clients that need accounting advise and work done. I would love love love that!!! I'm exited just thinking about it.

I wouldn't stop there. The whole school plan is to get a double major. One in accounting and one in fashion design. I want to design highly functioning and very flattering clothing for the different body types.

I would love to hear what your number one personal goal is in life and have you accomplished it. Try and make it a personal thing.

BELLA

BELLA MARIE MACK
born
Feb. 7th 2008
7 pounds 3.2 ounces
20 inches long
We are all so proud of Rachel and Aaron. I am more then exited to have Bella in my life now too. Rachel had a smooth great birthing experience at LDS Hospital. Better pictures are on their way. This one is here at my house today. They came up for a visit.


Thank you to everyone for coming to visit Rachel, Aaron, and Bella in the hospital. I am so glad I have you in my life! Thank you Jessica and Chad who beat even me their. Thank you Josh and Melissa that lets Rachel know they lover her all the time. Thanks you my mom Glenda, Aaron, Taylor, Cameron, and Mason. Thank you Betsy, the person I want to be like when I grow up.

I love you all, Crystalyn

Oh wait I got more pictures. LOOK LOOK LOOK

Winter Fun

Here we have Taylor, Cameron, and Mason out playing in the snow. Mason didn't last long. Taylor was next to come inside and hours later Cameron come home to eat dinner. I am so glad it February. January was so long and so cold. It's only been three days into February but each of these days has been above zero. Which does make a huge difference in our life.

It is so very cold here but if the tempature is above 0 degrees I'll let Cameron stay out a while. Here he is with his friends Riley and Samuel. Cameron is on the right end. His cheeks have been red since November, no lie.

Here is my Cameron helping in the kitchen. He loves to help way more then you would expect for a five year old. Here he is kneading the dough for pizzas.

Basketball Season

Taylor really loves playing basketball. He just stands down by the basket and yells "I'm open I'm open." They through it to him every time.

New joke from Andrea

FORGET REDNECKS; THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAD TO SAY ABOUT UTAHNS!
You know you live in Utah
1. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September to May, you live in Utah.
2. If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Utah.
3. If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Utah.
4. If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Utah.
5. If "vacation" means going anywhere south of Salt Lake City for the weekend, you live in Utah.
6. If you measure distance in hours, you live in Utah.
7. If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Utah.
8. If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" and back again in the same day, you live in Utah.
9. If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked, you live in Utah.
10. If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Utah.
11. If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Utah.
12. If the speed limit on the highway is 75 mph -- you're going 80, and everyone is still passing you, you live in Utah.
13. If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Utah.
14. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Utah.
15. If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly" you live in Utah.
16. If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends, you live in Utah.

Chicken Pocks

Last night Taylor and Cameron gave themselves "chicken pocks" with a red Sharpie permanent marker. They thought they were soooo funny. Later in the tub they found out what makes permanent markers so great! Mason is crying because he wants "chicken pocks" too and I wouldn't give him any.


I think it's funny too.