Jackson David Dial "JD"

Jackson ("JD" as he prefers) turned 11 on December 11th this year - he said it was his golden birthday - whatever that means!

11 of my favorite things about JD:

1. He has a ton of friends and they are all good kids. We had to narrow his list from 25 to 14 kids to invite to his party!

2. He is so nice to his sisters

3. He is so nice and thoughtful and helpful to his mom

4. He is a great athlete and enjoys all sports (especially baseball - my fave)!

5. He is a great student and gets really good grades!

6. He has a very easy going personality and always has

7. He was born on his Great Grandpa Dial's birthday

8. His favorite food is Steak

9. He is so much fun to be around and has a very funny personality

10. He is a hard worker and helps me so much around the house and with his sisters

11. He is a GREAT kid and I am so proud to be his Mom! Love ya bud.

Christmas Dance Recital

Wintertime Fun

Dial Family Christmas Party

Payton being a puppy

Going to see Santa

Seeing the light at Temple Square

At the mall going to see Santa

Thanksgiving

WHEN I COUNT MY BLESSINGS I COUNT THEM TWICE!!!

I am so grateful this Thanksgiving for a wonderful husband and kids my Heavenly Father has blessed me with. It was such a wonderful day - we spent the whole day with my family, so fun to have such a big family. I am so blessed.

The end of Football Season

I love these moments!

I love when you catch a moment like this. I looked out the window and saw these two jumping together holding onto each other. They were having such a great time and getting along (which doesn't always happen). I hope my girls are as good of friends when they are grown up as I am with my sisters. They are truly my best friends.

Raking Leaves

While the kids were off track in Oct/Nov, we went to visit my parents for a couple of days. Its so much fun to visit with, them play games, relax, go shopping etc. Well one day we were in Logan doing some shopping and Brinley and Ashlyn started arguing and fighting I gave them a warning and they continued so I told them they owed me a extra job/chore when we got back to Grandma & Grandpa's house.

Well when we got back I got distracted and had forgotten. They went in the garage and got the rakes and started raking for their job. It made me so proud that I didn't have to enforce - they knew they had to do it and did it.

My parents have a very large yard with ALOT of trees and ALOT of leaves. They were out there for probably 45 minutes - so I went out and helped for a little bit and told them that was enough. They said we want to keep going we want to have a big pile to jump in. So then Jackson went out and Payton and they all started raking and making a big pile. So the punishment turned into a really fun time and a great time for me to get some fun pictures too.

It got dark so we went out the next day and finished bagging the leaves, it ended up being 20 bags of leaves. Ashlyn said to me - Mom, we did service today huh? I said, yes we helped Grandma and Grandpa alot, my dad gave all the kids a dollar and they were soooo excited about that. I was so proud of them for all their hard work and for having such a good attitude.