Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009 Recap

The year has come to an end. We spent New Year's Eve with family playing games ... "Apples to Apples" and "Ticket to Ride". The highlight of 2009 was our trip to California and Disneyland. Other memorable family activities were Lagoon Day, a rainy campout at Pineview, rafting the Provo River, a hike to Cecret Lake and running as a family in a 5K.

Grayson kept active this year rock climbing, mountain biking, running and playing racquetball ... and working out :) He ran the Moab 1/2 Marathon and rode the Heber Century (100 miles on a bike). Jen started up soccer again (after a 25 year hiatus), played some racquetball and volleyball and gives the treadmill and elliptical machines in the basement a daily workout.

I asked the kids what their main memories were of the year ...

Landon broke his arm at Jumping Jacks and got his first JOB as a ref for Jr. Jazz basketball. Callahan played basketball all year round; his team took 1st place the summer season, and he was recruited for a superleague team... he also got to play one on one with D Will of the Utah Jazz for a few moments during a "meet the player" activity. Keaton won $50 in a school coloring contest and got a fly IN HIS EAR during the above mentioned camping trip. Cooper graduated from preschool, started Kindergarten ... and discovered Pokemon. Both he and Colton finally mastered the ol' potty training this year, and Colton started preschool and primary and entertained everyone by singing "I make the good girls go bad" ... so that's the recap ... the good, the bad and the down right disgusting ...

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Past



Christmas 2006 was the year we got the Wii ... in 2007 the main memory was of the instacare visits (strep throat and Callahan's athlete's foot) ... Christmas 2008 we got the Xbox ...

Christmas 2009 ...
It was a good Christmas. Keaton was the one who wanted to get the decorations up and deliver neighbor gifts. If he hadn't been around asking continually I don't know if any of it would have gotten done :)

As usual, we celebrated Christmas Eve at my parents house ... we did the annual slideshow, the nativity, the candy bar game and exchanged gifts. The boys got the game "Sorry" from their cousins and Nerf guns from grandma and grandpa. Christmas morning at home. Landon got a new Ipod Nano ... Callahan got Landon's old Nano and Keaton got Callahan's old Nano ... something "new" for all ... Callahan got a cell phone, Keaton got a leather jacket. The big gifts to the Blackham Boys as a group was a Nintendo DSI and a combo game table (fuseball, airhockey, pool, etc.) ... lucky Grayson got to spend Christmas Day putting it together. The little boys got Pokemon and Toy Story stuff. We headed out to Maga's for a few more presents and to play games. And there it is, another Christmas in the books ...
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