Christmas parties

Every year our neighborhood has an outdoor Christmas party. We donate items or money to the food bank in lieu of neighbor gifts. They always have a bunch of fire pits and we have hot chocolate and roast marshmallows for s'mores. Each year Santa arrives in a new way. He has been on a tractor, horse and fire engine. This year he marched in with the Alta High School Drum line. It was awesome!

This year, Andy's work party was at a restaurant called La Caille. It is always fun to get dressed up, have a nice dinner, and see our friends who come in from California.

Drew's Surgery

Drew had to have his tonsils and adenoids removed yesterday .

As you can see he was a pretty good sport about it.

He liked riding in the wagon to surgery.

After, he wasn't quite so smiley. But he was so brave and did great. The doctor said everything went well and that his adenoids were "huge". We had them removed because he has trouble breathing and seems to have a little sleep apnea at night. Hopefully this will help.

In the recovery room.

It took him forever to wake up. Then we took him home and he was pretty much unconscious the whole day. Poor little guy.

He is pretty sore today but has been getting fluids down and is being such a sweetheart. It is so strange to not have him running around the house and talking up a storm. He actually wants to sit still and lets me cuddle him. If he wasn't in pain, I would really be enjoying this!

Catching UP

We're Back! Time to catch up on the last couple months. First: Halloween

Drew was a werewolf, Amber was a kitty, and Summer was a dragon (but you will have to take my word for the last one because I didn't get a picture of her- what a LOSER mom!)

Thanksgiving was so great. It is always nice to see family again. Tami was even able to get her entire family together. My kids loved seeing their cousins (even some new babies they had never seen before)

Baby Ben

& Baby Chloe

Pigging out on Pie!

Love those big brown eyes! Drew & Dylan

The Newly engaged couple! Karleigh and Jake

We are lucky to live close to both our families, so on the way home we stopped by the Osborns and visited them too!

Drew with Alec and "baby Gunnar"

Off Track Fun

Drew is in year round school which means he goes 9 weeks on and 3 weeks off all year long. He is currently off-track. Since the weather has been beautiful, we have been trying to fill up the days with some outdoor activities. We have been exploring some of the hiking trails around our house. Drew and our dog, Stanley, have really loved this. The first hike we went on was to the mountain just east of our house that had a fire. You can see the burnt trees in the background. It was pretty desolate looking.

We also spent a day at the outdoor dinosaur park in Ogden. We brought his friend, Jaxon, with us. We brought a picnic lunch and the boys had a great time climbing on everything they could.

Drew has also started playing flag football. It is hilarous to watch. This (blurry) picture is of his touchdown run. That's him leading the pack in a yellow shirt.

Fire to Rain

We went from hot and fire to cold and rain. It rained so hard that they were worried we would have flooding from the charred mountain. The residents along the foothills were ready with their sandbags but luckily didn't need them. The kids had a great time in the rain though.

The neighbors were out on their porch while all the kids played in the rain so Drew,of course, had to put on a show for them.

A HOT first day!

Yesterday was the girls first day of school and it was hot in more ways than one. The temperature got up near 100 (with Summer's middle school having no air conditioning I hear that was not pleasant!) and we had a huge fire on the mountains just east of our house. It has consumed more than 600 acres and threatened the houses along the foothills. A few of the girls friends were evacuated from their homes but luckily they were able to contain the fire. This morning it is still burning but mostly at the very top of the mountain. We had quite a view from our front porch, especially last night when you could see the flames in the dark.

Our first blog!

OK I'll do it Summer! Here it is, our first official Osborn Family blog. Here is an update on our family which consists of Andy (?), Shaunda (?), Amber (17), Summer (14), Drew (7) and our dog, Stanley. Summertime is winding down (2 days to school but who is counting!) and we have had a great one. We recently returned from a trip to San Diego. We went for our nephew's (Austin & Sara) wedding (which was so beautiful and fun!) and stayed for a few days in the sun.

We went to Petco Park and watched the Padres play. Not much of a game but we had a blast just being there and watching all the people and trying to catch a fly ball.

We spent 2 days at the beach (Coronado, and La Jolla). The kids had so much fun playing in the waves. Drew was having trouble learning the sand etiquette (plopping his sandy butt all over our towels, eating with sandy hands and wondering why his food was gritty, and shaking the sand off his towel right in our "neighbor's" face) but eventually figured it out. The weather was perfect and we had a nice relaxing time.

Our most exciting day was spent at Disneyland. We got there right when it opened and stayed until about 9 at night. It was Drew's first real experience at Disneyland (last time he was only 2 or 3) and he loved it. The lines weren't to bad and we were able to go on every ride we wanted. We felt like we had walked 50 miles after that day. In fact Drew stopped right in the middle of the parking garage where we were trying to find our car and said his legs couldn't take one more step. The kids were out before we left the parking lot.

So there you go Summer!! Hope you are happy now! JK it was fun. More to come...

Blogging!

So i made my mom start blogging but she wont do it... then i made her a blog and she still wont... but dont worry i'll get her to do it one day!