Friday, December 21, 2012
Christmas Letter 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Our Thanksgiving
We started out the week by getting our trees up.
We put up our family tree. This year Craig wanted to make a popcorn garland.
Then we put the boys tree up. We made a Fruit Loop garland for their tree. They even helped. Well, Little H actually put some Fruit Loops on the string and the others just ate them.
We were getting all ready to spend Thanksgiving with my family, at my Aunt Salonna's house, when I came to the realization that Craig's work schedule would not work at all for the party. So we planned our own Thanksgiving. We invited Grandpa D. but he didn't want to come, so we swung by and visited him after.
Here's our little turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
Here we are sitting down to our own little Thanksgiving.
The boys were perfect. The food was good, and the day was just kind of sweet and nice. The whole thing was just wonderful. We all enjoyed ourselves, and enjoyed a lovely, perfect moment in our crazy lives.
Craig took a picture of his food because he was so impressed with his wife's cooking ;)
Afterwards I headed to my Aunt's with my parents, and Craig went back to work. It wasn't long until they let him off, and he got to come and join us though. Here's the fruit tray I made for the party. I was rather impressed with myself.
After dinner Craig and I enjoyed our traditional Black Friday shopping.
Thanksgiving this year was so nice. I enjoyed being with just my family, and I enjoyed being at my Aunt Salonna's. Everything was wonderful and I appreciate everything that everyone did to make this day happen.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
We put up our family tree. This year Craig wanted to make a popcorn garland.
Then we put the boys tree up. We made a Fruit Loop garland for their tree. They even helped. Well, Little H actually put some Fruit Loops on the string and the others just ate them.
We were getting all ready to spend Thanksgiving with my family, at my Aunt Salonna's house, when I came to the realization that Craig's work schedule would not work at all for the party. So we planned our own Thanksgiving. We invited Grandpa D. but he didn't want to come, so we swung by and visited him after.
Here's our little turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
Here we are sitting down to our own little Thanksgiving.
The boys were perfect. The food was good, and the day was just kind of sweet and nice. The whole thing was just wonderful. We all enjoyed ourselves, and enjoyed a lovely, perfect moment in our crazy lives.
Craig took a picture of his food because he was so impressed with his wife's cooking ;)
Afterwards I headed to my Aunt's with my parents, and Craig went back to work. It wasn't long until they let him off, and he got to come and join us though. Here's the fruit tray I made for the party. I was rather impressed with myself.
After dinner Craig and I enjoyed our traditional Black Friday shopping.
Thanksgiving this year was so nice. I enjoyed being with just my family, and I enjoyed being at my Aunt Salonna's. Everything was wonderful and I appreciate everything that everyone did to make this day happen.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
November Happenings
I'm a little behind on my blogging.
In November before we gave thanks we had a few other celebrations. Nephew Big P got baptized. We didn't make it to the Baptism, but we were there for the confirmation. And we joined them at the party afterward.
They had a fun little movie themed party. It was so much fun!
Then my birthday rolled around-- sadly. I really didn't want it to show it's ugly face this year. Honestly, I've had to ask for so much help from my parents, and others, that I just didn't want to have a day set aside where people would make a fuss and buy me presents. I just sort of felt like so much had been done for me that I hadn't really earned a day of fun and special treatment. But it came. My mom took me shopping and out to lunch the day before my birthday. And then when I told her we had no money, and probably wouldn't be doing anything special on the actual day, she went out and bought a cake, balloons and pizza.
Seriously, my parents do way too much. They've already given me a birthday ten fold this year, and yet they still go to the trouble of giving me a special day. They do too much.
I also got spoiled by my sister-in-law, who gave me a Maverick mug with a bunch of candy bars in it. And then Craig's parents came up and his mom brought me a lovely little bath set for our, soon to be, master bathroom. It was just so sweet of everyone to go out of their way to make me feel special. Thanks for all the Birthday fun and wishes!
Aunt Jessica teaching Little M naughty things ;)
So that's our big November events. Aside from Thanksgiving-- I'll post about that on it's own. Can you believe it's December now? If only time moved as slow as my blog updates. To end here's a pic of all my boys in their Sunday best. I love this pic!
They had a fun little movie themed party. It was so much fun!
Then my birthday rolled around-- sadly. I really didn't want it to show it's ugly face this year. Honestly, I've had to ask for so much help from my parents, and others, that I just didn't want to have a day set aside where people would make a fuss and buy me presents. I just sort of felt like so much had been done for me that I hadn't really earned a day of fun and special treatment. But it came. My mom took me shopping and out to lunch the day before my birthday. And then when I told her we had no money, and probably wouldn't be doing anything special on the actual day, she went out and bought a cake, balloons and pizza.
Seriously, my parents do way too much. They've already given me a birthday ten fold this year, and yet they still go to the trouble of giving me a special day. They do too much.
I also got spoiled by my sister-in-law, who gave me a Maverick mug with a bunch of candy bars in it. And then Craig's parents came up and his mom brought me a lovely little bath set for our, soon to be, master bathroom. It was just so sweet of everyone to go out of their way to make me feel special. Thanks for all the Birthday fun and wishes!
Aunt Jessica teaching Little M naughty things ;)
So that's our big November events. Aside from Thanksgiving-- I'll post about that on it's own. Can you believe it's December now? If only time moved as slow as my blog updates. To end here's a pic of all my boys in their Sunday best. I love this pic!
Friday, November 2, 2012
Trick-or-Treat
We had so much fun Trick-or-Treating with our cute little monsters this year. They were seriously adorable! They ran up to the doors so excited. Little M was the most ambitious. Big H was probably the most shy. Little H tried to open everyone's doors. They would go up pretty much by themselves, and I even got the to say, "Trick-or-treat," "Thank you," and "Happy Halloween!" Most of the time at least :).
So on Halloween Day Big H reclaimed his Robin obsession. So in these pictures Big H is Robin. Little H started out wanting to be Spiderman so I drew a web on his face and everything. About thirty minutes into getting ready he changed his mind and wanted to be Batman. I had to to the Spiderweb off-- baby oil or mineral oil works great for this just fyi-- and redraw it on Little M-- who was amazingly fantastic while I drew it on. So Little H is Batman and Little M is Spiderman. It threw us off all night.
For lunch I brought home an Avengers Pizza from Wal-Mart. Big H saw it and said, "But where's my Batman Pizza? What about my Batman pizza?"
After lunch we got ready and went to Springville's Main Street trick-or-treating. As always it was crowded. I don't know if I mentioned that Craig works at home now. He works in the morning for 4 hours and then in the evening for 4 hours. In the evening he has to start at 4. The main street thing started at 3. He didn't even make it to the first vendor. Luckily he drove and caught some vendors while walking to meet up with us :).
The boys got some fun vampire teeth. I guess it makes sense to hand out teeth on Halloween. After all that candy you may need a new pair :).
They had to push the button. Little M got out of the stroller specifically to push the button.
Seriously it was so cute how into trick-or-treating they all were this year.
We made it down one side of Main Street before I gave in and left. It's super crowded and that is super not fun with a huge stroller. Plus my feet were killing me. We came home for a rest. I put "Hocus Pocus" on for the boys, sorted through their candy and got ready for trick-or-treaters. I moved the pumpkins to the front porch and told the boys I wanted a pic out there. So we got all ready to go trick-or-treating again and, low and behold, the twins ran right to the front porch and sat down for a photo. Little M decided the stroller was good enough.
As you can see it was already getting too dark for my poor flash-less camera. We looped around and hit some neighbors houses. The boys seemed to be getting tired, and my feet started to hurt again, but we had an hour before Craig got off from work so we toughed it out. We looped back by our house and got the stroller, and then headed to the Bishops house. I ran into a friend and her and I looped around the block together. I was way nice because chatting with her took my mind of my feet. We then met up with Craig and headed to my parents house.
I told Craig he had to take the boys to a couple houses because he had to witness the cuteness of their trick-or-treating skills. Big H was grumpy, so I tagged along to help even though my feet were screaming in pain. My mom ended up coming too because every time she tried to sneak away Little M would scream, "NO!"
The boys had fun trick-or-treating with dad. We even made it to the magic guys house-- my parents have a neighbor that does a little magic show for the trick-or-treaters. It's way cute.
Finally we came back to my parents house to rest. It felt so good to finally take my shoes off-- OK I lost the shoes at the second to last house and walked the rest of the way in my tights. We enjoyed some yummy chili and a delicious salad-- and some candy of course. We watched "Monster House", gave the boys a bath and then headed home to call it a night. It was such a fun Halloween!
I finally got a picture with my Captain.
On the way home I wanted to drive by this house in town that goes all out. It looks amazing! It was dark so the picture isn't great, but they seriously do an awesome job.
So on Halloween Day Big H reclaimed his Robin obsession. So in these pictures Big H is Robin. Little H started out wanting to be Spiderman so I drew a web on his face and everything. About thirty minutes into getting ready he changed his mind and wanted to be Batman. I had to to the Spiderweb off-- baby oil or mineral oil works great for this just fyi-- and redraw it on Little M-- who was amazingly fantastic while I drew it on. So Little H is Batman and Little M is Spiderman. It threw us off all night.
For lunch I brought home an Avengers Pizza from Wal-Mart. Big H saw it and said, "But where's my Batman Pizza? What about my Batman pizza?"
The boys dragged this box all over the house. I think it was a hit.
After lunch we got ready and went to Springville's Main Street trick-or-treating. As always it was crowded. I don't know if I mentioned that Craig works at home now. He works in the morning for 4 hours and then in the evening for 4 hours. In the evening he has to start at 4. The main street thing started at 3. He didn't even make it to the first vendor. Luckily he drove and caught some vendors while walking to meet up with us :).
The boys got some fun vampire teeth. I guess it makes sense to hand out teeth on Halloween. After all that candy you may need a new pair :).
They had to push the button. Little M got out of the stroller specifically to push the button.
Seriously it was so cute how into trick-or-treating they all were this year.
We made it down one side of Main Street before I gave in and left. It's super crowded and that is super not fun with a huge stroller. Plus my feet were killing me. We came home for a rest. I put "Hocus Pocus" on for the boys, sorted through their candy and got ready for trick-or-treaters. I moved the pumpkins to the front porch and told the boys I wanted a pic out there. So we got all ready to go trick-or-treating again and, low and behold, the twins ran right to the front porch and sat down for a photo. Little M decided the stroller was good enough.
As you can see it was already getting too dark for my poor flash-less camera. We looped around and hit some neighbors houses. The boys seemed to be getting tired, and my feet started to hurt again, but we had an hour before Craig got off from work so we toughed it out. We looped back by our house and got the stroller, and then headed to the Bishops house. I ran into a friend and her and I looped around the block together. I was way nice because chatting with her took my mind of my feet. We then met up with Craig and headed to my parents house.
I told Craig he had to take the boys to a couple houses because he had to witness the cuteness of their trick-or-treating skills. Big H was grumpy, so I tagged along to help even though my feet were screaming in pain. My mom ended up coming too because every time she tried to sneak away Little M would scream, "NO!"
The boys had fun trick-or-treating with dad. We even made it to the magic guys house-- my parents have a neighbor that does a little magic show for the trick-or-treaters. It's way cute.
Finally we came back to my parents house to rest. It felt so good to finally take my shoes off-- OK I lost the shoes at the second to last house and walked the rest of the way in my tights. We enjoyed some yummy chili and a delicious salad-- and some candy of course. We watched "Monster House", gave the boys a bath and then headed home to call it a night. It was such a fun Halloween!
I finally got a picture with my Captain.
On the way home I wanted to drive by this house in town that goes all out. It looks amazing! It was dark so the picture isn't great, but they seriously do an awesome job.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Halloween Fun!
Before I post about Halloween Night I wanted to post about the other activities we did this October.
One Tuesday Craig and I headed up to Cornbellys at Thanksgiving Point. If you're looking to join in all sorts of fall/harvest fun. The only problem is that it is kind of expensive. The only way we were able to go was because my mom bought bounce back tickets, when she took my brothers kids, and gave them to us. She even offered to watch the baby for us.
We seriously had so much fun. I think it's been a while since we've been able to go out as a family and enjoy an activity like this because we had such a great time. If it hadn't been so cold we probably would have stayed all night.
The boys enjoyed playing on the little wooden play sets. These things were actually for sale. Wouldn't that be so fun to have in the backyard?
They also really enjoyed this spiderweb thing.
Big H wanted to go inside The Creature. This thing had me on edge last time Craig and I came to Cornbelly's. I'm a huge baby. The other kids didn't want to go so Craig took Big H. I think they bailed out early though.
We also enjoyed riding the tractor train and the hay ride through the corn fields.
We enjoyed other things, like warming up by the fire, going down the big slide, playing the bales of hay, etc. But our camera doesn't have a working flash, so the pictures end here.
But Seriously, we had SO much fun!
The Saturday before Halloween we went to The local Pumpkin Walk. This is hosted by Central Utah Gardens and it's a Pumpkin Carving competition. When the competition is over they display all the pumpkins for everyone to come and see. In these pictures Little M is Spider man, Little H is Robin and Big H is Batman.
We did this last year too, and I believe Little M kind of made it miserable. I was threatening to just take him home. Well we got there this year and I asked the boys to pose for a picture, and guess who threw a fit? Little M. Picture taking isn't going well in this family lately. Well I was at my wits end with stuff like this, and so I gave him a serious talking to. He still wouldn't pose in a photo but he behaved pretty well the rest of the time.
Notice Little M sprinkling hay all over Baby S. Thank you Little M, thank you.
We enjoyed watching the puking pumpkins demonstration while we there too.
Time for us to go, but first I need a pic with my captain.
We got a free doughnut each, at the pumpkin walk, for wearing costumes, and the whole time we were there Big H was begging for another doughnut. I think he even convinced the girl handing them out to give him one. We decided we'd head across the street to Krispy Kreme to get some yummy doughnuts, including their seasonal pumpkin ones, but the line was too long and Craig had to get to work. Big H was driving us crazy begging for another doughnut. I dropped Craig off at work and headed to Macey's Grocer to participate in there Halloween festivities-- my sister in law is in charge of the events at the Orem store. Thankfully they had free doughnuts too, and my sister in law grabbed the boys some before they ran out. Guess who only took 1 bite? My sweet Big H.
Over at Macey's it was kind of chaos. I was pretty much at my wits end too, and just yelled at the boys for the rest of the night. I was just so tired of all those things I have to tell them over and over again all the time. And that I had already said over and over again on our outings today. But we still tried to have fun.
I helped the boys make pasta skeletons. Big H and I made a pasta Batman symbol.
It was a pretty long and trying day. And we still had two hours to kill-- which turned into 3 hours-- waiting for Craig to get off work. *Sigh*
After we got some rest we decided to try going to see the witches at Gardeners Village. We didn't stay long, but we had some fun.
These are supposed to be those 3D chalk drawings.
Not a lot of pictures again. All thanks to my cameras flash. But those were some of the fun things we did to try and fully enjoy this years Halloween!
One Tuesday Craig and I headed up to Cornbellys at Thanksgiving Point. If you're looking to join in all sorts of fall/harvest fun. The only problem is that it is kind of expensive. The only way we were able to go was because my mom bought bounce back tickets, when she took my brothers kids, and gave them to us. She even offered to watch the baby for us.
We seriously had so much fun. I think it's been a while since we've been able to go out as a family and enjoy an activity like this because we had such a great time. If it hadn't been so cold we probably would have stayed all night.
The boys enjoyed playing on the little wooden play sets. These things were actually for sale. Wouldn't that be so fun to have in the backyard?
They also really enjoyed this spiderweb thing.
We also enjoyed riding the tractor train and the hay ride through the corn fields.
We enjoyed other things, like warming up by the fire, going down the big slide, playing the bales of hay, etc. But our camera doesn't have a working flash, so the pictures end here.
But Seriously, we had SO much fun!
The Saturday before Halloween we went to The local Pumpkin Walk. This is hosted by Central Utah Gardens and it's a Pumpkin Carving competition. When the competition is over they display all the pumpkins for everyone to come and see. In these pictures Little M is Spider man, Little H is Robin and Big H is Batman.
We did this last year too, and I believe Little M kind of made it miserable. I was threatening to just take him home. Well we got there this year and I asked the boys to pose for a picture, and guess who threw a fit? Little M. Picture taking isn't going well in this family lately. Well I was at my wits end with stuff like this, and so I gave him a serious talking to. He still wouldn't pose in a photo but he behaved pretty well the rest of the time.
Notice Little M sprinkling hay all over Baby S. Thank you Little M, thank you.
We enjoyed watching the puking pumpkins demonstration while we there too.
Time for us to go, but first I need a pic with my captain.
We got a free doughnut each, at the pumpkin walk, for wearing costumes, and the whole time we were there Big H was begging for another doughnut. I think he even convinced the girl handing them out to give him one. We decided we'd head across the street to Krispy Kreme to get some yummy doughnuts, including their seasonal pumpkin ones, but the line was too long and Craig had to get to work. Big H was driving us crazy begging for another doughnut. I dropped Craig off at work and headed to Macey's Grocer to participate in there Halloween festivities-- my sister in law is in charge of the events at the Orem store. Thankfully they had free doughnuts too, and my sister in law grabbed the boys some before they ran out. Guess who only took 1 bite? My sweet Big H.
Over at Macey's it was kind of chaos. I was pretty much at my wits end too, and just yelled at the boys for the rest of the night. I was just so tired of all those things I have to tell them over and over again all the time. And that I had already said over and over again on our outings today. But we still tried to have fun.
I helped the boys make pasta skeletons. Big H and I made a pasta Batman symbol.
It was a pretty long and trying day. And we still had two hours to kill-- which turned into 3 hours-- waiting for Craig to get off work. *Sigh*
After we got some rest we decided to try going to see the witches at Gardeners Village. We didn't stay long, but we had some fun.
These are supposed to be those 3D chalk drawings.
Not a lot of pictures again. All thanks to my cameras flash. But those were some of the fun things we did to try and fully enjoy this years Halloween!
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