HAPPY BIRTHDAY SADIE!!!

My little Sadie woo woo turnes 3 today....Look how she has grown.

I'm Done....with research papers!

Well, it is official, no longer will I have to sit at the kitchen counter for hours on end with my books spread all over the table behind me. I just finished my last research paper (18 freaking pages) and my final for my Vietnam class. My professor was very nice to give us a final in which we had to write 2-3 pages on what lessons we learned in the Vietnam War. I was so happy, no wrong answer, it is fabulous! Of course there was the one idiot kid in the class who said he would rather take a test and actually made us vote on it. Anyway, I have two more finals to go, one on Thursday which luckily will be a breeze and my Spanish final on Saturday. It is a good thing my Spanish teacher likes me because he has sure cut me a lot of breaks here and there. Gracias Senor Jensen. Anyway, yeah I am done with papers and in the future, I will plan my classes more carefully. This semester has nearly done me in.

Newton Family Christmas Party

For the third year in a row, my family has done a Christmas Party in which my parents take everyone out for lunch at Texas Roadhouse, we go ice skating at Gallivan Plaza and then we go and see the lights at Temple Square. It is my parents Christmas present to all of us and we always have a great time.

This year, Addie learned to skate by herself and boy was she proud! She would skate around with a huge grin on her face and one of my sisters would follow behind her to "try" and catch her if she fell. At times they were successful and other times they weren't. When she would fall, she would lay on her back and move her arms and legs like she was making a snow angel and then she would pop back up saying she was okay and off she would go again.

Sadie had a great time skating and each turn around the rink she would go with someone else. It was pretty tiring to hold her up for more than one lap.

My dad this year again tried to perfect his turns....I don't know who has a better time skating, Addie or my dad. It is definately a toss up.

Jen (Willy's wife) and I sat out this year due to the fact that we are both going to have babies within a month of each other.

Addie skating by herself

starting to fall.....

...she has fallen

My dad and Ryan ....awwww


I am so lucky to have such cute parents....there is hope for me when I am their age


Addie and Sadie


Sadie and Willy

Rafal and Alek....so cute!

Sadie skating

Two Down, One to Go....

Tonight I finished up with my second research paper and it isn't even due until Monday! I am so excited for this semester to be over that I am trying to finish up my last research paper that is due next Tuesday by tomorrow. So far I have finished a paper on the "Cuban Missile Crisis" totaling 12 pages and requiring a minimum of 6 primary sources. I also finished a 15 page paper on "The Black Sox Scandal of 1919" with 21 primary sources. Tomorrow I hope to finish my Vietnam paper on the "Battle of Ong Thanh" that as of right now encompass' 7 pages with probably 7 more to go. This semester each of my papers was a "primary source" paper and let me tell you those suck to write especially where I am an under grad and I am not going to fly to some of these cities to dig through their archives. I mean come on, most don't do that until grad school. So anyway, you have to work with what you can acquire on campus or through the net and I think Ryan will be excited to not see me sitting at the kitchen counter for hours on end. Halfway through the semester I realized that I work much better when I don't sit in front of the T.V. (crazy I know) so when I get home from school at about 1:30 I plop myself down in the kitchen and work through dinner (thanks again hon for making dinner every night) until I either get sick of it (around 10:30 - 11:00) or like last night, determined to finish I stayed up until 1:30. Hopefully tomorrow I will have finished my Vietnam paper and then I have 4 finals to take next week. Two weeks from today I don't think I will be able to wipe the smile from my face because I will be done with the semester and have three lovely homework free weeks until the next one.

Addie and Sadie Make the News

Thursday when Kimberlee and Amber took Addie and Sadie to the Festival of Trees, Channel 4 was there and was filming them. They asked Kimberlee if they would talk on camera and she told them that Addie would for sure. I guess they cut the part where they ask Addie her name and she responded with "Addie Poo stain a Crocodile." Amber said that when she told him that was her name he looked really confused. Anyway, they are just on the story for a minute and they have Sadie saying, "Santa Clause is coming to town." Awww...Ryan and I thought it was so cute. This is the second time in six months that they have been on the news. In May, channel 5 cornered us as we were coming out of the zoo and wanted to check the car seats. We of course failed because Sadie was in a booster and was only 2 so she was not old enough to be in it according to age. If they would have weighed her and measured her they would have seen that she met both of those requirements. Anyway....it has nothing to do with this story. They are on at the very beginning so you don't have to watch the whole story if you don't want to:) The title of the story is "The Man who would be Santa."
http://www.abc4.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=89564@video.ktvx.com

Thank you!

I just wanted to say thanks to all of my sisters for their help with my children while I go to school. Amber watches the girls three days a week and when they go to her house she always has a project for them to do (it must be the 1st grade teacher in her) she also works with Addie on her letters and their corresponding sounds. Addie really gets preschool five days a week thanks to Amber. Brianna watches them from time to time if I only have one class sometimes. She lives so close to school that it is so convenient for me and easy to drop them off. Also thanks to her husband who is home sometimes when she is watching the girls, they love their uncle Mike. And last but not least to my sister Kimberlee who now has Thursday's off and has volunteered to watch them from time to time. Last night she called to say she would take them today to the festival of trees so that I could write a paper that is due tomorrow. It was such a big help and I really appreciate all that my sisters have done for me this semester. You will never know how much I really appreciate it and I don't think I could ever pay you back in full. Thanks again and I love you guys! My kids are so lucky to have aunts who love them and love spending time with them.

Addie and Sadie with Amber at the Festival of Trees. Notice how Addie is the one in the stroller.
Eating lunch at Aunt La La's (Kimberlee)

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