Christmas

Okay, I know its been a while but we had a great Christmas. So I thought I'd share some pictures. We stayed home and had Christmas Eve and morning at OUR house. We started some new traditions and kept some old. The new were going to a movie on Christamas Eve and having a fondu dinner. And the old were opening one present on Christmas Eve (which the boys have figured out is always pajamas), reading and acting out the story of Jesus' birth, and blueberry pancakes for breakfast Christmas morning. We were blessed to be healthy and together as a family! Oh, yeah and Santa left presents for everyone and I think someone elses too...

*Santa*

Logan had a Christmas program last night for preschool, and guess who came. That's right, Santa! (Thanks Miss Janalynn!!) After much convincing we got Logan to sit on his lap. Syd and Ty were the only other takers. Are my boys really getting to old for that?

Pedicures anyone?

These pics are of Sydni, she is going to have these boys whipped into shape before they know what hit them. They were all standing around the computer watching Kobe play some game when she found a nail file and decided that they needed to have their toes done... Soon they all had their shoes off and were letting her file them. Then it was my turn, I wish Ron had been home!

No cavities!

I am always thrilled when we have a trip to the dentist with no cavities! This was the case last week and here are the beautiful clean teeth after our appointment. They are not all straight, but they are cavity free. Tyson will be getting a retainer next week. Biffy I have already threatened him, I had a good friend (no names here), who would wrap hers up in a napkin at lunch so that no one would have to see it. She must have thrown it away 6 or 7 times during the 5th grade. Here's hoping that we don't have to go dumpster diving for Tyson's.

All aboard!

I really didn't realize it had been so long since I posted last... Where does the time go? We were fortunate enought to get to go on "The Polar Express" right after Thanksgiving. I surprised the kids and checked them out of school early (the coolest thing ever) and we headed to Heber. We boarded out train and rode to the North Pole. On the way we got hot chocolate (no song though
:( thats my favorite part) , cookies and listened to the book. Then we picked up Santa and on the way back he made his way through all of the cars to visit the kids. They all got bells, which are still ringing every day. And to finish off a fabulous night we went to the Dairy Keen, which is the train themed burger joint in Heber) for dinner. It was a perfect was to start December!

On you marks!

Our family just experienced our first Pine Wood Derby! We have had the "cars" for about 6 weeks or so, and I'm happy to say that we did not wait until the night before to start. We had 3 boys and 3 cars, and I told Ron that they had to be done before he started basketball! The boys chose to shape their cars in a "non-traditional" fashion, meaning that they weren't cars. As you can see in the pictures:

Kobe's is an icecream sandwich...

Carsen's is a salamander...

and Tyson's is a piece of cheese.

I cannnot brag that they were the fastest cars at the race, but they were the cutest!! The boys ate popcorn, cheered on their friends and had a great time. Logan and Sydni ate popcorn, cheered on their brothers, and had a great time. Logan was the best, every time one of their cars raced he had to find someone to tell "that's my brothers car!" It was a great night.

Cock-a-doodle-do

I have to share the story about our dinner tonight. So, this summer our neighbors's had baby chicks, we went over and Logan and Sydni loved seeing them. But as we all know baby chicks grow up to be big chickens, and some of them become roosters, and roosters eventually learn how to crow in the morning. I really have enjoyed waking up to roosters crowing in my back yard, but apparently not all of our neighbors agree. So, I got this call from our neighbor on Saturday asking me if we would eat a fresh chicken if he brought it over. I said sure, and later that night his wife called and said that he would meet me at the fence. So long story short, our neighbor killed the roosters, plucked and cleaned them (really well by the way!) and handed me one over the fence so we had roast chicken for dinner tonight. It was yummy!