New Years 2009

Well for New Years Eve we packed the day with some great fun. For the afternoon we went for a snowshoe walk with the family and Jeff and Becca up in the foothills of Ogden. It was a beautiful day and the kids had a great time playing in the snow!






After our little snowshoe adventure we went to enjoy a little basketball at Weber State. Go Wildcats! A bunch of the Watkins family was there to enjoy the game as well.




After the game we headed with Ryan, Melissa and Ryker for some yummy pizza at our favorite pizza place, Arella! Yummy food! Once the bellies were full, we came back to our place to rock out to some band hero and play games. Ryker can rock with the best of them!

At around 10, we packed on all the snow gear again and headed to the golf course for some good old moonlight sledding. The kids, the dog and the adults had a great time!






Once we got back from sledding we had some chocolate fondue and treats with the kids.


At midnight we enjoyed a toast, fireworks and lots of noise and crazy kids running through the streets. It was a great time and we look forward to what 2010 will bring. If it is as good as 2009 it will be a great year!

Can you say INVERSION!

In the month of December, the Wasatch front had quite the inversion (smog) covering the valley. Some days it was hard to want to leave the house, to go down into the yuck. This picture was in the Standard Examiner showing this great little neighborhood in South Davis County that wasn't in all the yuck! Yep, that's our house!

December 2009

Wow! December is gone and now it is 2010! So I guess I better post all the events from the month of December. This could be a long one!

A new family member arrived! My sister had a little girl! Avery Jo Kotter was welcomed to the family on Dec. 10th. It's so fun to have a new baby around to remind me that yes, I'm done with this stage of my life.

We have done a lot of skiing this month. Camden joined the Snowbasin Ski Team this year, which will mean a lot more skiing for everyone and a few ski races for him. It should be a fun adventure for all of us.
Of course we made an annual visit to downtown. We visited temple square and even got in some ice skating at Gallavin Center.

Christmas Day is always fun. We spend the morning as a family opening gifts and then head to our awesome friends, the Clarks, for a yummy Christmas morning breakfast. It is always so fun for the kids to see their friends and share their stories and new gadgets. Around lunch time our parents make a visit to see the kids and all their loot! The kids love to just hang out at home and play with the new toys. Later that day we head to Ogden for the Watkins Christmas party, which is actually more breakfast. So fun to see all the kids and do the gift exchange there. I enjoy what our Christmas days have become.







More Christmas parties! We had the Godfrey party at our house this year. We had a great time playing wii, eating yummy food and of course opening gifts.


Over the Christmas Break we got in some skiing with some of the Watkins family. It so fun to see the kids get more independent and the slopes. The boys had a great time cruising around. It was a great day!