Happy New Year!  Wow, what a loud night it was. 

 It was crazy how many fireworks were going off in the neighborhood, the air was so smokey.  The boys loved it!

Christmas Morning..Better Late Than Never

I felt pretty lucky that the boys did not get up until seven!  We got up read the Christmas Story and headed down the stairs...

 Of course, Landon made it to his goods first!

 Don't worry Van you were very close behind, actually, you would have made it first but you stopped at the tree and tried to start there!

 I love when the house looks like this I think it show's how fun Christmas morning is :)

 Yes, Gunner did have a great morning too! Things got a little crazy and we lost him in the huge mess,

 but then he showed off a brand new trick and stood up with the help of an empty box 

 (I didn't have the camera). He sure loved playing in the mess!



It went like this....

We have been MIA but it kinda went like this.....

Thanksgiving was great, we did not get a single picture, but, the food was great and I am still working off the extra pounds.  The shopping was tiring, I am still trying to recover,and still wrapping.  Then, November was over and December here. 

We started it off by going to breakfast with Santa.  The boys loved him, no tears this year!  Every time I would turn around Van would be back over cutting the kids and talking to Santa. The list was long! 

Even Gunner took his turn and played with his awesome white beard.

 On to our ginger bread house, it was awesome.  It had tons of frosting and candy, but we couldn't stop there...

 Grandma sent the boys some fish and told us how to build a pond but it was so fun we ended up with two big lakes to go with our house. 

 Since they are there Daddy's boys they knew it would not be complete with out some trees, animal crackers and a hunter. Yes, they had to add that to.  It was a fun project!!

 Christmas Sunday, This picture just makes me laugh :)

Finally,Christmas Eve.  The story has been read, the cookies and milk are out, the new jammies are on, the good bye's have been said (for Stanley, our elf) 

and the boys are all asleep. 

Merry Christmas everyone!



What a way to start the day!

Van--Can I have some chocolate milk?
Me---No, we don't have any.
Van--We have he mix, make it!
Me---No, your fine, drink the white milk.
Van--Fine! He goes and picks out his cereal (coco pebbles) and pours it into his bowl.
Me---I pour the milk in
Van--Gets his spoon, stirs it up, drinks out of the bowl (he NEVER drinks out of the bowl),
 leaves every single peace of cereal and says
 MMMM... now that was good chocolate milk!!
***Yes, I got out smarted by a three year old!***

HiKiN'

With the Awesome weather comes some

Awesome Family Time.

The other day we told the boys that we were going to go for a hike in the morning. Much to our surprise they were dressed, ready to go, and waking us up at 5:30 in the morning.  Jason and I dragged ourselves out of bed and off we went.  We were definitely one of the firsts up the mountain.

 My Happy Boys!

Hallo-weekend

Happy Halloween!! 

It was a little crazy this year
with four nights of fun.

We started Thursday night at Landon's school, Friday night at the ward trunk or treat, Saturday night at the neighborhood party and finally, Sunday night we hit the streets of our neighborhood.  It was a little much but the boys had fun!

Landon was Optimus Prime 

 Van was his sidekick, Bumble Bee

Gunner was a BEAR!

 Transformers....Roll Out!

 One night we switched things up

 and made Gunner a skunk and boy

did he STINK!

 Roman came to hang out with us one night

 he was cute little bear. 

 At the neighborhood party they had horses

 pulling a big trailer and of course the boys needed to ride. 

They lucked out and got to sit in the very front closest to the horses. 

  They LOVED trick or treating and had so much fun

going with some neighbor friends.

This was the last picture of Halloween. 

They were all officially exhausted and ready for 

Halloween to come to an end!

HaHa, they were fine I was the one ready for it to be over!   

Pumpkin Patch

    This is/was our
Mr. Potato Pumpkin Patch!

Bet you can guess what one was

 my favorite :)