Disneyland here we come!

So Devin has been in California all week looking for a place for us to live for the summer. After a lot of persistence, Devin officially has an internship with Callaway golf in Southern California. We will be leaving on Tuesday-ish. I have a lot of anxieties because I've never lived anywhere outside of Utah Valley. I've traveled all over, but living somewhere is much different than being on vacation. Good bye Utah, see you in September!!

10 months old!

I can't believe she's 10 months already... These were taken by my friend Mckenzie Deakins. She does an incredible job.

random cuteness

Our friends invited us to their cabin in a couple of weeks ago. This video just makes me smile...

Milestones :)

It's been a big month for us! In just the past few days Holly sprouted two teeth, is crawling and is already trying to pull herself up onto things. She's only 7 months old, and I am not prepared for mobility yet. She continues to smile at anything and everything. We can't wait to see what she's like as a toddler, but then again, I wish I could keep her at this age forever.


Warning: kind of graphic material ahead! Proceed with caution!
In the land of Tyson, I feel confident in saying that, yes, we are officially potty trained! Woot woot! Don't ask me how I did it, because I don't know. It was a lot of frustrating moments, but now he's almost overly anal (pun intended) about making sure he gets to the potty on time. I swear this kid pees like 25 times a day. And even though he wears pull-ups at night he comes in at 3 AM to announce to me that he is going potty. We started by giving our diapers to Santa (okay, it was in mid-January, but he doesn't know the difference). After a couple of days he was peeing on the potty all by himself, but it took him about a month and a serious emotional breakdown from his mother (I was so sick of cleaning his underwear!!) for him to catch on with going #2. Seriously, ever since I bawled infront of him he runs to the bathroom even at the whisper of "poopies" coming. Then he smiles and says, "You're gonna be so happeeeeeee!!" Who knew I had such a softie on my hands!? k... I'm sure you all wanted to read about these gory details, but in diaperland, this is very exciting!!

He calles this is "daytime potty"

"Happeeeeeeee!" (He's gonna kill me when he's older for posting these...)


All that potty training plus going around the whole neighborhood on his scooter has worn him out. He NEVER falls asleep on the couch, and he was out at 6:30 tonight!!

Happy New Year!!

We decided to visit my sister in Colorado to bring in 2010. We had so much fun! We visited Denver and stood on the "Mile High" step at the capitol building then went to Casa Bonita for dinner. If any of you are familiar with a certain South Park episode, this may sound familiar. Basically the food is atrocious, but it really is a once in a life time experience for the atmosphere. Whoever determined the menu there should be fired and put in time-out to reconsider their lives. The next day we went swimming, made bread bowls and yummy soup, played games, then pigged out on an orange chocolate bread braid. We visited Old Town Fort Collins, and I have officially decided that The Cupboard is my new favorite kitchen store. We also went to Avatar and Sherlock Holmes. Dev and I highly recommend both films.

New Years Eve we ate Chicken stir fry, Martinelli's, Key lime pie, egg rolls, and a yummy cheese ball. Devin performed a puppet show for the kids (He truly channels another spirit when he has a puppet on his hand...) then we popped balloons filled with confetti and fortunes. We had to say our favorite memory of 2009 and have a goal for 2010.

Devin: 2009 held a lot of great things for us. We got into BYU MBA school, sold our home, had a baby, and moved into my parents basement. Our goal for 2010 is to get an incredible internship for the summer which will basically determine our future altogether.

Heidi: One favorite memory was singing through an entire Christmas songbook late one night with my husband, in the kitchen. My goal for 2010 is to be as healthy as possible!

Tyson: When asked what his favorite thing was last year, he replied, "My life."

Holly: Hopes to crawl.

Afterward, we brought in the New Year stomping on bubble wrap and blowing cheap whistles for about 5 minutes. Thanks Hansens, for letting us come! We literally had a blast!!

This is how Tyson entertained himself during the Denver Capitol building tour. Dead man walking, anyone?

The puppet show. "Hoppie Moo Yee-ah!!"

Emily, Holly, Mara, and Hayley. The girl cousins.

Jeff, Mark, and Tyson

The candy bar game. By the end, Tyson figured out that he could just make the dice be doubles rather than rolling them. It was pretty funny.

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"Take me sledding mommy!"

Sisters

This was taken just before a very funny crash. Devin was a little over-confident on his sledding skills, when he tried to get a running start and jump onto his sled on his knees. He ended up sliding down the mountain like a belly-down star fish and his knee is still paying for it.

Devin tried to send her down the hill in her car seat. I said no. :)

Holly helped us drive out there for a while. :)

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!! This year was the first year for Tyson to truly believe in Santa, which made it very exciting for all of us. Santa came to our ward party and Tyson was so excited to ask for something he was about to jump through the roof while we were waiting in line. Well, Santa came through and not only got a scooter for Tyson, but he got one for Devin as well. You can catch them scootering around the neighborhood with their snow clothes on.

Devin's Aunt Cindy bought the little girl cousins matching Christmas dresses. Thank you Cindy! They are so adorable!

Jon, Jonah, and Tyson at the Spann house on CHristmas Eve.

Christmas morning! It's always tradition to take a picture on the stairs before we run to the Christmas tree and see what Santa brought us. That is the new cat that lives with us. His name is Gimli.

(These are a little out of order)
This is our annual attempt at the Nativity story at the Hemmert household. Someday I have a feeling we will get past the first two verses of Luke....

Yup, He's 30!!

Devin turned 30 on December 7th. We were going to go to Pirate Island, but it was a million dollars to have a big party there, so I just threw some "congrats, you're 30" streamers around the house and got him the coolest Sponge bob cake ever. Thanks to everyone who could come!! I love you Babe!!