The life and times of the Fielding Family: 2008

So Christmas is rapidly approaching!! I feel so un-prepared this year. I wish that I had kept my promise from last year and bought presents all year long...Oh well...I will have to do that again this year.
It is amazing how fast the year goes by. It seems like it was just the other day when we had Cameron's first Christmas...
The kids are so excited this year. We put up the tree and it only took three days!
They have grown so much. I hardly recognize Cameron...He is as tall as my Grandma Diane and most of my aunts. Cameron has had a great time playing team sports this year. He played flag football and had a great time. He is currently playing basketball and loving it! He is doing well in school and loves his teachers. His favorite subjects are history and science.
Nathan is also loving school and has done very well this year. He had a good time playing soccer this spring. His favorite was being the goal keeper. He skipped flag football, but said the entire time..I wished I had played! So next year he is planing on it. He is playing basketball on a new team this year and loves all of his new friends.
Madison is still our little princess. She started preschool at Mrs. Shelly's two doors down. She goes twice a week and has met lots of fun friends. She also is dancing and just had her Christmas performance. She danced and sang to "All I want for Christmas". Starting in January she is going to go back to Terri's Dance. She has missed it so much and asked to go back! Madison just had her 4th birthday party...It was so much fun. She had a P.J. Party. We played musical pillows and decorated Z shaped cookies. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun!! I had the most fun decorating the bed shaped cakes for each kid.
We went on some exciting vacations this year. I went with Gosia and her sister Marta to Disneyland in May for a week. Gosia, our exchange student, went home at the beginning of June. The kids missed her. She came back in October to get her GED so she could continue her education. She now lives in Florida.
I think the best vacation we went on this year together was to Colorado for my family reunion. We all climbed into the Durango..including my parents...and drove to Pagosa Springs, CO for a week. It was nice to see all of my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and especially my Grandparents.
The boys just went to Montana in November for two weeks. They loved spending time with their Papa. They played in the snow, built stuff out of wood in the workshop, including really cool swords. I think it was one of the highlights of their year!! While they went to Montana, Madison and I went to Maryland. We went to visit Julie, Ian and their little boy Kylan. We had fun spending time with them. We went to Fort McHenry and the National Zoo. We saw some animals I had never seen before in my life...We saw a panda bear, a fishing cat and a maned wolf that smelled like a skunk.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving...I am so thankful for a wonderfull family who loves us no matter what.
My promise to myself from this day forward is to update this blog to the best of my ablility. I think it is lots of fun to read what everyone is doing...We get so busy and it is hard to find time for the little things, but we can try.