Vacation with Kyla & Family

Us Californians get a little excited when we see snow!

We never see snow on our cars!!
Reggies took the kids to the church parking lot to do donuts in the snow in his big 4x4

I love these two little girls, is this what is going to be like to be a grandma someday, hopefully 10 years or so, omg they are so much fun and so cute, Maggie was pushing Miley around in her baby stroller that was made for pretend baby dolls!!


Sometimes when you're on vacation it's nice not to do much, we spent the week playing Rockband and the kids had a blast, we went sledding, shopping , out to eat and played games.  We rang in the New Year too! Thanks Kyla & Reggie for opening your home to the crazy Hubble's!!  Brrrr........ Utah is cold, but Matthew even said he'd move there!!  Someday maybe!!

Christmas Weekend Wedding

Sydney and her best friend Laney!

Sydney and I went to a Christmas wedding for Laney's mom Lillie, it was a beautiful wedding!  So Sydney and I took some pics together, we had lots of fun and Sydney boogied on the dance floor!

Christmas Day at Grandma & Grandpa Hubble's

Spending time with the cousins!  Every year each cousin buys a gift for another cousin, we draw names to see who gets who, it's always fun to exchange gifts on Christmas Day! The picture of Joseph was displaying some different effects my new point and shoot camera does, it didn't turn out that well but I don't know how to delete photos after they are uploaded to your post, so, oh well.  He is an absolute cutie though and don't call him Joe Joe anymore, he will tell you his name is Joseph and that's what you should call him.  We stuffed our faces and enjoyed spending time together, Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Day

 Matthew needed a new fleece blanket, he is obsessed with football so I  thought this would be appropriate!

 Matthew, a little excited about his stocking, almost  destroyed the mantel decor.

                                                  Whitney, she is really excited!!

Christmas morning was very uneventful, having older children it took a little while for them to wake up, but after we opened our presents we headed to Denny's for our family tradition we started about 10 years ago, going out to breakfast so i don't have to cook.  Those of you that know me know cooking is not my favorite thing to do, this year my parents and Kerri joined us. After that we started a fire and just hung out until it was time to go to Josh's parents house.

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas eve @ my moms and yes it was tons of fun, because last year it was just our family & it was a little too quiet, even though Branden and Kerri were there!  This year Kiahna & Eric and their cute boys joined in the party & it was alot more fun!!

PLEASE BE PATIENT

SO I DECIDED MAYBE I WOULD UPDATE MY BLOG, BUT BEFORE I DO I THOUGHT ID TELL ALL OF YOU THAT I DID NOT HAVE A CAMERA FOR A FEW WEEKS, WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE NO PICS TO GO ALONG WITH THIS POST, BUT I WILL GET MY NEW CANON DIGITAL POCKET SIZED CAMERA THAT I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS OUT AND ADD SOME POSTS WITH PICS TOMORROW, THEN AFTER I TELL MY STORY I AM GOING TO BED.  WAS THAT A RUN ON SENTENCE OR WHAT? ANYWAY, JOSH HAS THE WORST LUCK WITH HIS TRUCK OF ANYONE I KNOW, HIS TRUCK HAS BEEN BROKEN INTO LIKE  4 OR 5 TIMES NOW AND WE HAVE NOW HAD A CANON 20D & 30D CAMERAS STOLEN FROM IT, THIS LAST TIME THEY SHATTERED THE WINDOW WHILE WE WERE EATING LUNCH AT FAMOUS DAVES, TOOK THE $1500 STEREO, CAMERA (30D), JOSHS MP3 OAKLEY SUNGLASSES, HIS IPOD, SEVERAL TOOLS, AND TORE OFF THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, LOVELY! WE WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWING JOSH TO TAKE OUR EXPENSIVE CAMERA ANYMORE!  SO I WILL BE USING MY POCKET CAMERA UNTIL WE REPLACE THE OTHER ONE, OR SHALL I SAY THE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL BE REPLACING IT, ARGH, THIEVES SUCK BIG TIME!!!

The Secret Life Of Bees

If you haven't seen this movie I suggest you do!  The Hubble Gals got together for a great movie and a little bonding the other night.  Whitney and Sydney even loved it too!  It is so nice to enjoy a movie with my daughters, they cried too.  Thanks for the call aunt I, Cindy, Vickie, Grandma Emma and Jamie, all went as well.  I read the book about 5 years ago and the movie was pretty darn close, in my opinion,  and the characters were portrayed very well by the actresses in the movie, the character who played May was my favorite!  GO SEE IT!!

Finally got a Mac!

Not a big mac, we just bought our 1st  Apple Mac computer.  Josh's old PC bit the dust, and I have been bugging him to get a Mac.  So the last time we were down in LA at the Mac store I convinced him,  they are such amazing computers,  I can't believe we didn't get one sooner!  Anyways, the screen is absolutely retarded 24" it's huge, and no silly motherboard tower.(extra space in the office cupboard for more stuff)  We Love it! :)

Brace Faces

Sydney got her braces on her top teeth last week, now we have 2 darling daughters with braces!  Can you say expensive?  It will  be worth it later and I know they will appreciate it!

INTRODUCING...VICE PRESIDENT MATTHEW HUBBLE

Look out Sarah Palin! (we do love her though) Okay, do we have a politician in our midst, his speech was hilarious and he rocked the Centennial Elementary cafeteria. 5th graders aren't allowed to run for President so he decided to run for VP and he won! It takes guts to stand up and give a speech in front of a packed cafeteria and Matthew was quite humorous we have his speech on video if I can get it transferred to a cd I will post it. But in the meantime enjoy the pics...he insisted on the suit which was perfect. We had the whole family there to support him plus a few of the girls friends, it was great!!

Oops... Do I have a blog?

So I guess the blogging got put on the back burner for a while. The Hubbles are still going strong, the kids have been in school for 3 weeks already. Whitney is a sophomore, Sydney just began 7th grade and Matthew is a 5th grader. We are getting ready to start league play for both soccer and football, look for some posts about that later... in the meantime here are some pics of the kids and their first day of school. Sydney started junior high and of course she had to go to school w/ her best buds, Laney & Brea. :) Oh and Whitney wasn't done with her makeup thats why she looks pale haha!

Matthew's 10th Birthday

Summer with Cousins

Over the fourth of July all of the Russell siblings were in town, except the Hubbles but we got home Sunday just in time to spend a few days with everyone. It is always so nice to get together with family,it was great to see Nathan and Brooke and all their children, we don't see them enough! It is time to wind down and enjoy the last month of summer, we are hoping to make it over to the beach for a few days before high school volleyball starts, Whitney is in Utah with Kyla for this week and Whitney & Sydney go to girls camp next week. It should be exciting for Syd her first experience at Big Meadow ( sorry sweetie, serious camping no showers,no beds, no bathrooms,no mess hall, no hot running water, just tents and dirt- but you will have fun:) I hope!)Matthew is doing football camp right now and loving every minute, he is a stud and he knows it :) haha