New Year's Resolutions for '09

1. Watch more television. Read less.

2. Eat more cheeseburgers and other fast food.

3. Don't exercise one wit.

4. Don't answer the phone when someone from the Relief Society or bishopric calls.

5. Call the bishop on Monday nights and unload all my problems.

6. Forgive less. Stew more.

7. Call parents daily to remind them who their favorite daughter is.

8. Stop signaling when turning left or right.

9. Block the aisles with my shopping cart at the grocery store while looking for what I need.

10. End every sentence with: "You do the math."

11. Spend more time on the internet blogging and facebooking.

**(PS this was all for laughs! It's not true! Well maybe all but #7! ha ha!)**

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

We had such a great holiday season this year. After Crew's first birthday we had non-stop holiday traditions to keep up on. First we had our annual Odom Kids Party. The kids love it so much! This year we made hygiene kits. I think we made almost 80 kits! It was so fun to see all the kids in the assembly line, putting everything in bags and knowing they were helping someone in need. Here are all 19 of them with grandma and grandpa Odom. (#20, Baby boy, is on it's way due in March! Thanks Britt!)


Nick and I went to "The Christmas Carol" at Hale Center Theater. We love it and it puts you in the best Christmas mood!Next fun holiday outing was the Nutcracker! My beautiful niece, Courtney, was the main dancer, Clara. She did such a great job. I am so proud of all my nieces and nephews! Way to go Court!

Next was Christmas Eve! Since the Odom side is so massive we all get together for Christmas Eve, and leave Christmas day to the family! Every year we have dinner, a reading of, "Jake's Orange" from grandma, and a talent show. It is the best tradition. The kids get really excited to show off their "skills"! This year we got a treat from Dave Odom. He wrote a song, sang it, while playing the guitar! It was awesome! Super funny! We also got the karaoke machine out and sang Christmas songs! Every year the kids get pajamas from grandma and Grandpa Odom. They all match and it makes a perfect Christmas picture! Well this year to our surprise the adults got matching pj's as well! SO FUN! We all changed right away into our pj's and ended the night with gift giving between all the cousins! We went home and had an early Christmas for our little family. We opened up all our gifts early because the next day, Christmas Day, we are flying to Las Vegas! Crew LOVED every second of opening the gifts. He didn't really care about the wrapping like we thought he would. He wanted to be ON TOP of all his toys! He was so funny! We had a great Christmas Eve. together as a family! The only bad news was that my family cat of 15 years, Copper, had to be put to sleep that afternoon. He was almost 80 in cat years so he lived a great life. He was sick and needed to be put out of all his pain. We love you Copper and will miss you dearly!

Christmas morning we woke up early and headed off to the airport. Crew got sick in the car and threw up all over his new clothes, blanket and car seat. Needless to say we cleaned up what we could changed his shirt and headed off to catch our plane. We got in about 30 minutes late due to bad weather, but we made it there! We had a fun afternoon as a family with my side opening gifts, watching movies, and playing Guitar Hero! We feel so blessed to have such amazing family and friends to spend these precious moments together! Thank you to all for the love and support you have given us this past year! It has been hard for everyone but with faith and support from all around we can all make it through!

New Years Eve. was spent with some of our dearest friends! We went to Benihana's restaurant. It was a lot of fun. Except crew was not feeling well and was cranky the ENTIRE TIME! He was not having it at all! So after that we went to The Evan's and watched the countdown to the New Year... 2009 BABY! I can't wait to have another year of great memories together with my husband, Crew, Booduh, family, and friends! Here is to a ROCKIN' 2009!!!!

Crew Birthday Picts!

Here are the pictures I know you all have been waiting for!!! we had such a fun day! we went to Build-A-Bear and had a party at Grandma Odom's. A BOOK PARTY, that is! Crew got hooked up with so many great books! Thanks again for all the Birthday wishes! PS I MADE THAT CAKE! MY JUMBO CUPCAKE!! I am so proud of myself! That is why I took so many pictures of it! It's in alot of the pictures! ha ha! Happy Birthday Crew!!! I LOVE YOU~

Crew's 1 year Photo Shoot!

Here are some of the fabulous pictures a good friend of mine did for Crew's first birthday! She did such a great job! We shot for about 45 minutes and got some of the BEST pictures I could ask for! If you want to see more of her work click here! THANKS AGAIN JULES! You did awesome~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CREW!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CREW!!!! I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT A YEAR AGO TODAY I WAS IN LABOR AND ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO MY FIRST BABY! I HAVE SO MANY EMOTIONS TODAY. I AM HAPPY AND SAD ALL AT ONCE!! ARE YOU REALLY ONE? DID THE YEAR GO BY THAT FAST? BUT THEN AGAIN YOU ARE SO HAPPY AND SUCH A BIG BOY, NOT MY "BABY" ANYMORE! YOU BRING SO MUCH EXCITEMENT AND JOY INTO OUR HOME! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH CREW! YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING IN MY LIFE! I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!! MOM WILL SPOIL YOU ROTTEN TODAY!! (SHH... DON'T TELL DAD!) :) I LOVE YOU!!!

** I WILL POST MORE ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY TOMORROW! WE HAVE A FULL DAY PLANNED! THE PICTURE ABOVE IS FROM HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY IN VEGAS, OVER THANKSGIVING WEEKEND!DON'T WORRY I HAVE A LOT MORE PICTURES TO SHARE! HE GOT MORE CAKE ON HIM THAN IN HIS MOUTH!! SO MUCH FUN!**