Comfort food

I hardly ever make bread. I'm not sure why. I always love it when I do. But I made some today (mostly because we are pretty much out of food...... I must go shopping), and the kids devoured it. Madison said, "can you please make this all the time?"  I guess I need to be more domestic....

As we sat at dinner enjoying our bread I was surprised how something so simple can make you feel so content.

I guess that's why they call it comfort food.

Note to self:

I feel good when I:
get up early to pray and read my scriptures
go to bed early so I can get up early
feed my body healthy food
enjoy a little chocolate
exercise
read to the kids
read for my self
do something active: decorate, build, fix or clean something
can remind instead of pester the kids to do chores (it's all about attitude)
play with them for at least a little while
smile

Today, I did all of these things. I feel good today. :)

2013 Recap

Since I've done a terrible job blogging, scrap booking and journal-ing this year, I want to have some kind of record of some of the things we've done this year. (at least the ones I took pictures of)

January

Bridger is just cute.

 Sledding over New Years

Hailey baked her first batch of bread all by herself

Rise Up Academy Shakespeare Conquest Medieval Feast and Crowning ceremony

 Hailey was crowned a queen for reading 17 Shakespeare plays!

Escaped from the haze for a few days in Brighton

The condo

Best sledding of the year

Snow cave

Field trip to the Capitol building

 

Utah's Supreme Court room

February

Valentines day. During the day we went to classic skating  to which I forgot to take my camera. We always have a special family dinner.

Stayed a couple of nights in Logan and went to Hardware Ranch to see the Elk.

Another cute one of Bridger.

Free Zoo day

March

Bridger set the table for dinner

St Patrick's day

 Coloring Easter Eggs

Easter Basket hunt

Spring came early and warm. (I love how he has to have his blanket on the back of his bike while he's riding) 

Neighborhood Easter egg dash

Easter morning in our best clothes

April

Madison's Birthday

She wanted a Brave themed party. She wanted to look like Merida.

of course Bridger needed to wear a wig too....

and then every one wanted to try the Merida wig:

Madi wanted to go bowling for her birthday....

.....dressed as Merida

I admittedly take an unfair amount of pictures of Bridger, but can you really blame me?

May

 Field trip the the Leonardo museum

playing with the green screen

Making airplanes.... TRYING to be patient.

We always go to temple square in the spring to see the flowers. They were GORGEOUS this year!

We like to touch the temple.

Hailey's Shakespeare class put on "As You Like It" set in the '20's

This is what happens when you leave a tube a red lipstick from the aforementioned play in the car and let the 2 year old play in the car while you are packing for a trip:

Jackson Hole:

arriving at the condo

"swimming" in the hot tub

Dream house

 The park

animal reserve

 good eatin'

We see a moose or two ever year

Grand Tetons

The lodge in Yellowstone

Old Faithful

Big storm coming

Tennis anyone?

golfing

 Logan's usual location

playing games

 Jenny Lake

Bar J 

Hailey had a dress in "P" letters night in YW. Were are pink pirates.

June

Hailey and Maggie got Chinchillas for their birthdays

Hailey turned 13

Back porch fire pits

Random picture of Hailey

July

Hailey got a cat she named Olive

Maggie and Logan finished up baseball games. (all of Logans pictures are on Adams phone) Maggie played second base.

Adam cooked dutch oven cobbler for Father Day

Logan got a kitten he named Tiger. We thought Tiger was a girl. Tiger is in fact a boy.

 Hailey and two of her friends baked and sold cookies to earn money to pay for girls camp.

Hanson family camp out to Timpookeke in AF Canyon over 4th of July.

Baseball game

clue for Adam's treasure hunt

Bridger's 2nd Birthday

He got cars,

 trains

and a wiggle bike

Hailey repainted her room. Not sure why there's no "after" ?

 Bair Family Reunion at the Carlisle Ranch in Star Valley WY.

 Such a beautiful place!

Stopped at Bear Lake for a couple of hours on the way home from the reunion. We love Bear Lake!

Maggie's chinchillas got squished and almost died.  Her sister sat like this for a few days and saved her life.

We had all the neighbors who were home for the 24th of July come over to our house for a neighborhood barbecue and fireworks. So Fun!

August

Maggie turned 11

The candy tower

Playing Ghosts in the Graveyard

We also had a camping trip with the Heaton side of the family in Spanish fork canyon. I don't know why I can't find any pictures.

September

Logan started flag football

Madison lost her first tooth

Hailey got braces. Once again we have a before picture but no after.

Hailey caught a rabbit behind our house and named her Grace.

Logan turned 9

For Logan's party, they went to the park to play football and got caught in a downpour.

Logan earned his Wolf

Some family time on the trampoline.

October

Trip to Salem MA

We stayed in the Hawthorne Hotel

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There was a street Bizzare. The whole town celebrates Haunted Happenings

 Me and my sis-in-law Annessa

Salem cemetery and memorial to the 19 people killed in the Salem witch trials

Me and my mother-in-law Martie

Customs house in which Nathaniel Hawthorne worked in his book, "House of Seven Gables"

 

Dock across from the Custom House

One of several candy shops

Bewitched statue. 

another candy shop

Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, House of Seven Gables

Dinner at Rockefellas

The witch house

 

Witch Dungeon. some of the accused were kept here before trial and awaiting execution.

 This church is almost 400 years old

Alison's house in Hocus Pocus

My favorite place in all of Salem. This beautiful wide street was lined with huge trees and million dollar homes

 The books in this bookstore were stacked from the floor to higher than my head.

Maggie played soccer and Adam was assistant coach

We got a puppy and named her Sadie.            

(Are you counting how many new pets we acquired over the year? 6!!)

Visit to the Red Barn in Santaquin

Bridger got into the box with Sadie

Our annual October visit to Park City

Napping with puppy

Gardner Village

Pumkins

Maggie made pumpkin bread all by herself

Halloween 2013

Bridger wanted to take his "mimi" trick-or-treating

November

In honor of the anniverasry or the Gettysburg Address we made Lincoln top hats and played with our Lincoln Logs.

Turkey Trot

December

Temple square with Heaton side of the family

Macy's candy window dislays

Festival of trees

Hailey did her science fair project on glow sticks

Bridger got his "big boy bed"

Our lovely tree

Sadie's getting big

Madison had her first recital for her tumbling class. she was nervous but did a great job. 

Hailey's Christmas Eve Hair

Christmas Eve at Grandma Heaton's house

Christmas morning

After Santa presents but before family presents

After Family presents. 2 days later it looks much the same in this room. 

This coming year I am resolved to take and print more pictures and do a better 

job of journal-ing all together. We had a great year!

Here's to a great 2014!!!