Our Christmas Letter

Merry Christmas 2010:

A Year in Review!

January:

Our house was for sale (again).

My Sweetheart didn’t have school anymore! Congrats, Bachelor Degree Holder!

February:

We had an awesome vacation to Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana where we visited family, enjoyed a bunch of cool sites, and had a blast!

March:

I joined a gym and got a personal trainer.

April:

We sold our house in West Jordan.

May:

Mindy turned one and began walking.

We moved to our house in Sandy.

The house remodeling began.

I had a hysterectomy.

Did we mention we now have a swimming pool?

June:

We met Aunt Cathy and Cousin Porsia.

Dot turned 14.

Our kitchen was remodeled.

Mindy began talking more.

July:

Yakko turned 11.

We decided to open our performing arts studio: the Learning Circle.

Our family enjoyed a whole lot of barbeques, swimming days, and more work on the house remodel.

August:

Wakko turned 9.

The Chatterton side of the family welcomed Wesley.

We opened The Learning Circle Performing Arts Studio in Sandy, UT.

The three big kids returned to public school: Dot started 9^th grade, Yakko started 6^th grade, and

Wakko started 4^th grade.

September:

Our student enrollment grew.

All four of our children began many dance/performing arts classes.

Bubba and Cleo become escape artists.

October:

Mindy talks up a storm.

Our family went to Lagoon Theme Park.

Grandpa Bear stayed at our house for about five weeks.

November:

My Sweetheart had a birthday.

We spent Thanksgiving in Hurricane with the M extended family.

December:

My Sweetheart has been at Royce Industries for three years!

Mindy has names for her siblings:

Ki-Ki, Malmoe, and Guppy.

Winter Showcase at The Learning Circle is a huge success.

Thank you for being such a special part of our lives and for your patience this year!

Love, Us

Mid-West Vacation Part 2

 

Standing outside the Louisville Slugger Museum... this giant bat is taller than a two story building!

  

This was an AWESOME museum, enjoyed by the entire family!

Yakko holding Mickey Mantel's bat

Wakko holding Mickey Mantel's bat

Dot holding David Ortiz's bat

Daddy holding Mickey Mantel's bat

Mommy holding Mickey Mantel's bat

Mindy with her souvenir bat.

...and yes, Daddy bought a personalized bat. It is really cool!

We all got stubs from bats made for the Yankees.

 

Daddy at an old soda fountain at the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola... another cool place to visit!

  

Our love of Coke Products was only enhanced after this neat experience.

  

The last museum we visited was the General Patton Museum at Fort Knox. This was super educational and very very cool!

 

  

  

  

 

We spent a lot of time driving and seeing the beautiful countryside as well. It was a memorable trip for everyone... except maybe this lady...

After 4 and 1/2 hours on planes to get back home, we were super grateful for a little time to recover from jet-lag...

...and Daddy and the kids were thankful to have their Wii back.

What a trip!

Our Adventures In The Mid-West, Days 1-2

As some of you know, we just returned from a fabulous week-long vacation in the Mid-West. It was quite an adventure flying with four children! We had a wonderful time visiting some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen.

In order to keep this post from being waaaaaaaayyyyy too long, here are a collection of our memories from our first two days in Kentucky and Ohio. Enjoy!

Cleveland ROCKS!

One of my favorite places ever is Cleveland, Ohio. The Westside Market, Brown Bag Burger, Mitchell's, Rainbow Babies, and Playhouse Square. My favorite part of Cleveland? That would have to be this:

and this...

and this...

and this...
and this...

and this...

and this...

to see this...

and Peanut's first taste of lemon, resulting in this...

and this...

Thank you, Nate, Melissa, Sydney, Macey, and Porter for one of the best weeks of my life!

 

 

(Great pics, Melissa!)

Not pictured, but also highly enjoyed were:

Round Round Dance (well, all the dances!)

homemade hot fudge

vocabulary

Littlest Pet Shops

car shows

Nate's cooking

Melissa's cooking

Pizza night

Amy and Jill (and families)

giggling

snuggles

movies

TIVO

impromptu pary

fries

a giant white tail spotting/adventure

Really, the entire trip was fantastic. Thanks for a wonderful time!

Adventures with the Chatty Family

It's no secret that we adore our family; this includes our extended family too! We had a BLAST spending time with the Chatty family and can hardly wait to see them again.
My brother, Nate, and his darling wife, Melissa, brought their cutie kids to Utah for a visit. We had a great time playing with each other, checking out the sites, and getting to know one another after so long apart. Highlights include: playing the Wii, cousins sleep over, smores, temple square, dress ups, make overs, Legos, chats, and lots of food...it was such fun! Thanks again for the visit!
(Please excuse the lack of captions under pictures: I don't know why but I can't see my pics prior to posting.)