January Review

*We got the heater in our van fixed. We had to trade in our firstborn to pay for it. We will miss you, Jill.
*Jill & Hanna finished their Jr. Mustang Basketball games. Austin was a great coach. All the players improved, and they were fun to watch. Now Jill and Hanna are playing Jr. Jazz basketball in Logan. It's not the same with a different coach and girls they don't know, but it is giving them a new experience and more time to play basketball.
*Carly is now 9 months old. She has learned that there is water in toilets, that she can stand up in her high chair, and she can crawl up and down the stairs by herself.

*Austin jumped into Hyrum Reservoir for his 3rd year in a row as part of the Polar Plunge which is a fundraiser for Special Olympics. At least the sun was shining this year. Then I was driving him home so he could shower and change, and I got pulled over for speeding. Luckily Austin knew the police man because he had been a school resource officer, and he let us go.

*We went with Jeanette and her family to the Draper Temple Open House. It is a beautiful temple and such a great chance for our kids to go inside a temple.

*Lucy celebrated her 4th Birthday on January 31. She has been looking forward to it for a long time. We had a royal birthday tea party. We invited the girls to dress up like princesses and the boys like princes. The girls came in princess dress-ups with their hair curled, their nails painted, jewelry and crowns. Neither of the boys came dressed up. One of them brought a sword, shield and helmet in a bag. Jill and Hanna dressed up to be the servants. We had doughnuts and pop for our tea party. Then we played pass the hot slipper, made a magic carpet, made royal jewelry out of skittles wrapped in saran wrap, and opened presents. The attention span of 3 and 4-year-olds is about 60 seconds. It was a fun party.

We also went to Old Grist Mill for Lucy's birthday dinner. We are glad to have her in our family.

Happy New Year

After Christmas, we made a crazy journey to Canada. It was crazy because our van heater isn't working, and we came across every type of winter road condition. We took lots of blankets and stopped a few times to get hot chocolate. We also stayed in a hotel in the middle of Montana on the way up and on the way down so we could just drive during the daylight.

First we went to the ranch to see Joe & Joan. We exchanged Christmas gifts. Austin helped one of the girls there who is training young horses to get on the horses for the first time.

Hanna, Jill, Carly, Lucy in front of the barn at the ranch

Then we went to see Grandma & Grandpa. It took many guardian angels to get us through about 30 miles of horrible fog. It was scarey. We had a fun visit. We exchanged Christmas gifts, played games, rode on the sled behind Pilgrim (Grandpa's horse), Austin & Buck went to the indoor arena to team rope, Austin took the grandkids to the movie, and the cousins played on the haystacks (Jill got stuck and Taylor came to the house toget help. The whole way to the haystack I was worried that she broke something or was crying, but she was fine. I dug her leg out and pulled her up.)

Jill & Hanna got to see their horses that we bought at the horse sale in August. We will bring the horses down to our house in the summer.

Jill and Lena

Hanna and Spurs

Austin on Pilgrim with Lucy and Julia finishing their ride

Hanna, Kaela, Jill, Taylor playing on the snow hill next to Grandma's driveway

Grandpa Buck as the jungle gym for all the grandkids that didn't go to the movie

For New Year's Eve, we went to Sarah's house to party. It took a few more guardian angels to get us safely there. We went through a horrible ground blizzard near Magrath where you could barely see in front of you. There were tons of cars off the road, and at one point there were emergency vehicles leading the cars through. Plus we also drove through a few snow drifts. We made it 1,025 miles without getting stuck or breaking down, and then Austin got stuck in front of Sarah's house. It took Grandpa's mighty car to pull the van back onto the road.

When we all got inside Sarah's house, we had a delicious dinner, the KidZone Band performed, we had a dance, played games, and toasted with sparkling cider at 11:30 p.m. (We pretended it was midnight).

After driving through more icy roads, wind and snow on our way home, we were very glad to get back safely to our own house. We made lots of memories at a cost.

KidZone Band

Austin and Lucy dancing

Grandma & Grandpa dancing

Merry Christmas

After many attempts to go to Temple Square to see the lights, there was finally a break in the snow storms so we met some of my family for a fun time. We went to Clark Planetarium, ate at the Gateway and then went to see the lights on Temple Square. It was on December 23 and there were MANY people who had the same idea, but it was still fun.

DRESSED UP WARM TO SEE THE LIGHTS

WAITE FAMILY ON TEMPLE SQUARE

For Christmas Eve, we had our own nativity program. We started a new tradition that each person gets to open one present, and this year it was slippers or socks, so Austin said that is going to be our tradition, we will all get some type of footwear to open on Christmas Eve. We also opened a game (Horseopoly) and so we declared that opening a game would also be part of our tradition.





All of the girls slept in Jill's bedroom on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning Hanna came into our room at 4:38 a.m. and told us they were ready. We told her not yet. Jill came in about an hour later. We said not until 6:30 a.m. Christmas morning was very fun. Santa Claus brought Jill a bedspread, Hanna a cupcake maker and a fur real puppy, Lucy a Cinderella Barbie and a princess horse that pulls a princess carriage, and Carly a Little People bus. Christmas day we just hung out, played with all of our new stuff, and ate good food.

Christmas Spirit

Saturday was my birthday! Saturday birthdays rock. We weren't in a rush and we got to spend the day together. Austin made breakfast, then I did have to go to choir practice, then we went sledding in our backyard, and then we went out to lunch/dinner at Hamilton's Steakhouse. Austin had gift certificate for it, but we went at 3 p.m. so it wouldn't be too crowded. It was great. Austin gave me a spa package where I get to go to a spa for 4 different visits (haircut, manicure, skin care, and massage). A lady came to his school to sell them to the teachers. I was so surprised/excited. My family also gave me a sweater and an exercise mat.

Hanna is a daredevil sledder. She likes to stand up and she always says that reindeer pull her sled, she says "Let's go Rudolph." Carly's first sledding experience.

Plus I had an early birthday lunch with Hilary (thanks so much - it was fun and tastey and I also enjoyed my leftovers). And tomorrow I am going to lunch with a friend whose birthday is December 19 so we call it our pity lunch. She doesn't like having her birthday so close to Christmas either.

My new birthday shirt/sweater.

My family has a tradition to sleep under the Christmas tree for one night before Christmas. Austin only made it until 1:30 a.m. when he decided the couch wasn't too comfortable.

Austin and I got asked to be Mary and Joseph for the nativity at our ward Christmas party. Carly wasn't a very cuddly baby Jesus.

Thanksgiving, Austin's Birthday, Carly is Cute

This month we had a great Thanksgiving, celebrated Austin's birthday, and have some pictures of Carly to share.

We went to Wyoming to visit Les & Hollis for Thanksgiving. It was fun to go on new roads that we haven't been on before. We even stopped at Martin's Cove on our way home. It was the cheapest trip we have been on for years since the gas prices were so low. We only paid $1.43 a gallon in Evanston.

We went hiking on Thanksgiving morning. It was a bit chilly.

Hollis cooked up a delicious Thanksgiving feast.

Cousins: young Nunns and old Nunns


Carly and Hattie
Taycee & Lucy sharing suckers
Austin's 35th Birthday. Lucy kept wrapping up balloons in handkerchiefs to give him as gifts.

Lucy dressed up Carly in Jill's crocheting looms. It is fun to watch Carly and Lucy play together. Lucy can really make Carly laugh. Carly is 7 months and she is just about an official crawler.

Nunn Family Update

I guess I should be happy if I write once a month. It seems hard to find a minute to sit and blog.
So here is our last month of life in review.

First, we had germs and viruses galore. Hanna then Lucy then Austin then Carly had pink eye. I got it two days ago. I have to wear my glasses for a couple days. Jill told me it is so embarrassing to have a Mom wear glasses like this that are so ugly from the 90's. Also, we had the stomach flu roam our house. First Austin then Lucy then Hanna and then Jill. It was the kind that stuck around for a few days. I think I used a whole can of Lysol and did 100 loads of laundry.

Lucy waking up with pink eye.

Jill finished her fall soccer season. Her team was undefeated.


For our days off of school for UEA, our plans were changed because of sickness. But we still did some shopping, made some Christmas presents, and went up the canyon to take pictures of Carly. Austin went to a calf roping school. He loved it.

Carly

We loved celebrating Halloween. We carved our pumpkins, went to the pumpkin walk, went to a ward Halloween party, and then we had a Waite cousins trick or treating party because we were all at Jeanette's house for Rachelle's wedding. We borrow our costumes from Austin's principal. It is my favorite thing to do because they look so cute, it is free, and it requires very little creativity from me. I did feel a bit of pity for myself not being able to eat any chocolate.

Hanna, Lucy & Austin carving pumpkins from our garden.
Hanna & Jill at the Pumpkin Walk. (My friend helped make this display of Brent, the man who rides around Cache Valley on his bicycle waving and honking his horn. Everyone knows Brent.)

Hanna and Carly at the ward party.
Hanna-Minnie Mouse, Lucy & Jill - Tinkerbell
Waite cousins ready to go trick-or-treating

Rachelle married Nathan Whipple on Saturday, November 1. All 7 of the Waite kids, parents and spouses were in the Mt. Timpanogas Temple together. It was awesome. The weather was really great for November. One of my cousins who is going to BYU came to Jeanette's house to watch the grandkids. Plus one of Nathan's friends came and dumped off his 5 very wild & crazy kids. We were happy to see that Jeanette's house was still standing.

Rachelle & Nathan with the 12 grandkids
Nunn family in our pink & brown

Diana, Sharon, Jeanette, Rachelle, Julie, Kaylynn, Doug

The grandkids sang a"That's How You Know" from the movie Enchanted at the luncheon. They had practiced dancing, but the curtain didn't get opened for them so they just stood and sang. They sang and danced 10 times while we were cleaning up. The sisters sang "You Had Me From Hello."

Grandkids singing at the wedding luncheon

We all wore pink and brown to match Rachelle's wedding colors. All of the boys wore matching pink ties. All of the grandkids and brother-in-laws decorated their car. I hope they appreciated it.

Men in pink ties

Carly is 5 months old

We love having Carly in our family. She isn't a newborn anymore.

One month

Two months

Three months

Four months

Five months