Hiatt Family: January 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009

Budget With Ease!

My super smart and talented brother Alan just wrote his first book! "Budget With Ease" Here is what it is all about:

Budget with Ease is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to setting up your budget. It includes a copy of a Freeware budgeting software solution, so you get an entire budgeting solution in one package. You will have your budget up and running in under an hour! If you already own Quicken®, Money® or another budgeting program you can apply the principles from Budget with Ease to more effectively manage your budget using your existing software.

You should really check out his website http://www.budgetwithease.com/

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

This Day in History!

Wow, what a historical day today was. I know I don't agree with all the things President Obama says, but this is truly a historical day. I am excited for some change and hope that our new President can accomlish what we need. I tried to get Melanie to come and watch it with me, but wasn't too successful. A few days ago her and Kaitlyn were asking me if we had a King and I told them that we didn't and that we lived in a free country and didn't need one. They responded saying oh man I wish we did then there would be princesses. I then explained to them that we don't have a king, but we have a president who governs for our country. So today I tried to remind Mel of this conversation and said this is our new president. She was very uninterested and went into the kitchen to play her webkinz. oh well I tried. On the other hand Kaitlyn came home really excited telling me that she watched the guy put his hand on a book and raise his had. I was thrilled to find out that she watched it at school today.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Snow Fun!

The kids have loved the snow so much this year, Matt especially! They talked me into going out and playing in it. They then talked me into trying to attempt a snowman. The snow was not the best snowman making snow. I was proud for them being persistent and trying so hard. Maybe we can get a better one the next storm!

Katilyn started it all!

Matt and Melanie joined in!

Here is the final product

Kaitlyn, Melanie and Matt

Go UTES!!

I just have to say that Brad was pretty proud of his UTES! What an exciting game. Big thanks to Johnson's for having us over so we could watch it in style.

Kristi and Brad enjoying the game!

Julie our wonderful host

Hayley enjoying the game

Matt watching Buzz and Woody int he office, maybe one day he will share the love of football with his dad!

2009

We brought the new year in with my family, the Blake's. We had all of them up here. We all partied our hearts out at the Johnson household. It was a lot of fun. Again Apples to Apples was played, and alot of fun! It is a tradition with us (the hiatts) to have blowers, I usually get the kind that don't make any noise, but this year Kaitlyn and I thought it would be fun have some that made noise this year. Kaitlyn always gets to pick them out because it is her birthday on New Years Eve. It was a big hit with the kids, not so much with the adults. But it made for alot of fun and noise to bring the new year in with.

Playing games!

Dad, Julie, Kristi, Brad, Bryan

Dad and Matt

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Blake, Kaitlyn, Makayla, Karissa, Luke, Kelsi, Hayley

Matt

As soon as the kids all started blowing their blowers it frightened Kaitlyn and she began to get teary eyed and eventually began to cry. She is so tender hearted! I think we will got back to the no noise ones next year and that will make everyone happy.

Melanie

Monday, January 12, 2009

Happy 6th Birthday Kaitlyn

New Years Eve is always a fun time for our family. Kaitlyn was born on this day. She is the best oldest child we could ask for! She is very tendered hearted and cares about everyone! What a great example she is to us and her little brother and sister.

She wanted to have a cousin scooby doo party. And thanks to such a great family both Brad and I are from, they all made the trek up to celebrate with her. We celebrated her birthday a day late on New Years day, so her cousins could all make it up. Let me just say that there was not a scooby doo party favor in sight. I think it is a party of the past few years, but as soon as I have a child that wants it, you can't find anything. I tried my hardest to change her mind, but she was dead set on it. We made do with what we could. decorated everything in blue and green played scooby doo games, had scooby snack pb&j. And the one scooby doo thing we actually found was the coolest retro scooby doo cake.

We have a tradition of doing a pinata on our birthdays. It all started because we always did a pinata on New Years Eve. Well Melanie just assumed that it was a birthday thing and boom we now do pinatas on all our birthdays too. Kaitlyn had to make a choice this year, because she was having her party on a different day. after much switching around she finally decided to do it for her party. She got absolutely spoiled with so many fun birthday presents. I try my hardest to make her birthday fair and equal. It is hard to have Christmas and a birthday all within one week. And our house looks like a toy heaven!!!

Playing Scooby, Scooby, Shaggy

Melanie, Kelsi, Jeff, Makayla, and Alyssa

Wrap the mummy game!

Treasure Hunt!

Kailtyn at the pinata

Matthew's turn

Melanie's turn

The whole crew after the pinata

opening presents!

Sleepover with Alyssa!

The girls were so excited to have a sleepover with Alyssa. They were excited, giggly and so happy to be together!

Melanie, Alyssa, and Kaitlyn

Girlfriends are the Greatest!

While we were down visiting our families for Christmas I was able to get together with some of my girlfriends for a baby shower. Oh how I love these girls, it was fun seeing all of these fun gals. I wish we could get together more often.

Tara, Kristi, Kristin, Jami, Jana, Adrienne, Lucy, Ricks, and Kasey

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Christmas Day with the Blake's

After spending time with Brad's family we headed down in yet some more snow down to AF to party with the Blake's We again ate alot of very delicious food and had a lot of fun being together and playing games. The Johnson's new game Apples to Apples was a big hit! We were lucky enough to stay down for a few extra days. Brad was trying to get back to work on Friday morning and got stuck in SLC because the Blizzard just kept getting worse. I don't think he complained too much being stuck in SLC with his brothers!

Cousins excited to open each others presents!

Melanie, Alyssa, Kaitlyn, Sam and Makayla

The Moms + Matt

Kristi, Mom, Mindy, Julie and Lisa

The Dads

Alan, Dad, Bryan, Dave and Brad

My crazy bro Al and cute little Josh!!!

Matt loved his Diego flashlight!

Melanie

She absolutely LOVED the sunglasses and socks!

Kaitlyn

She can't get enough purses and takes them everywhere we go, this hit the spot to get a real one that is pink. And she couldn't wait to put her new tinkerbell teaset to good use!

All the Grandkids minus the Garlicks who were very missed!

Christmas Day with the Hiatt's!

We braved the huge snow storm and survived the blizzard down to Salt Lake City. We loved seeing all of Brads Family. Of course Sharilyn made so much delicious food that we all ate way too much!

Gordon

Greg, Erin, and Jenelle

Kaitlyn, Julia, and Melanie

They had so much fun making necklaces and bracelets!

Matthew and Will (Matt would not take his Diego PJ's off all day long!)

Christmas Morning!

We had such a fun Christmas this year! The kids were so excited and had a such a blast! Matt wasn't sure about what was going on, but didn't complain one bit when he saw all the toys!

The kids waiting to go see what Santa brought. Matt is super confused and not sure why his sisters just woke him up and now mom is trying to take a picture.