Randomness

The month of January has been a very slow, but crazy month. We haven't done anything interesting in paticular, but here are a few videos (thanks to my husband for the video camera for Christmas) and pictures.

Here is Abigail and Wyatt. Just being cute.


Abigail lost her first tooth! She was so excited. She has been waiting for this moment for about a year now. Everyday she would wiggle her tooth and ask is it ready? It finally happened.




Here is the family singing songs with the Karoke Machine

Christmas 2010

Well, I figured it is time to post about Christmas. This year's Christmas we were all sick. So Neither John and i felt very good on Christmas morning so we didn't take a whole lot of pictures.

Christmas Eve was the best part about Christmas this year. All three of my sisters, my mom and my nephew Roland and his girlfriend Kayla came to our house for Christmas Eve dinner. It was a lot of fun. We had dinner and we did the Christmas program from the FHE book. It was very spiritual. The spirit was here so strongly. I am so very thankful for the birth of Christ and the chance we get to celebrate and share testimony about it.

Here is a picture of the table.


Here is a pic of all of us in front of the tree.


It was a really fun night. I am so glad that my family was able to come and share with us. (Sorry family for sharing our lovely flu with all of you.)

Christmas morning came and all the kids were excited to see what Santa brought. Abigail and John did not feel well at all this day and they mostly layed on the couch.






Now we are all starting to feel better but I think this will always be remembered as the Christmas we were all sick.

Abigail's singing performance - SANTA

Last night was Abigail's friends and family performance for her singing group. She has enjoyed singing this year and has done a great job. I took some video, but Wyatt kept bumping me so sorry it is bumpy. Then on the second video I had in the small stick and ran out of memory so you only got part of the song.







Then this morning was our ward Christmas breakfast. The primary did the nativity. Then Santa came and each of the kids got to sit on this lap. Wyatt has been so excited all month because he wants a train. So he went right up and sat on his lap and promptly asked for a train. Abigail wore a dress because she wanted to impress Santa (but she doesn't know what she wants). So Santa told her he would bring her a suprise.






Oh, we are soooo excited for Christmas!!!!

Gingerbread Houses

Last night for FHE we made gingerbread houses. I love the kits you can buy that has everything all ready for you. Makes it soooooo nice. My three older kids did the house and Wyatt, John and I did the train. Needless to say our house did not stand up for long. It fell over while trying to decorate. It was pretty funny. Even though this is a VERY messy project, I think it is up there on things that I love to do at Christmas time.

Piano Recital

This week my kids had their piano recital. It was fun. I started recording Abigail and the batteries ran out and then she decided she couldn't play unless I was seated next to her. Pretty funny what our nerves can do to us.

Abigail playing Frosty the Snowman
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Jacob playing Up on the Housetop


Joshua Playing Deck the Halls

Temple Square

This weekend we went downtown to see the lights on Temple Square. We first started our expidition out at the store and each of the kids got to choose a gift for the other sibling whose name they chose.

Then we headed downtown. We had a coupon for the Discovery Gateway so we started out there. Wyatt and Abigail loved it. Jacob and Joshua were a tad bored in some places but liked others.

Here is Wyatt running the shovel.



One of everyone's favorite thing was the real lifeflight helicopter outside. It even sounded like it was taking off.




Then we had dinner at Chuck-a-rama. We had free kids meal coupons there from Halloween. The kids love it.

Then we met my sister and her family and looked at the lights on Temple Square. This is always a fun time.






No trip is complete without view the Christus.

Congratulations John!!

Congratulations to John!!!! He passed his Master Electrician test yesterday. Now comes the tough decision of what to do with his life. Does he stay working where he is now or start his own business . . . stay tuned and I will enlighten you on what he decides.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. This year we went to my Mom's house. At first we were a little worried about the roads because of the "Blizzard" the weather had predicted. Luckily the "Blizzard" didn't do much and the roads were fine driving up to Moms. It was Very cold. We woke up on Thanksgiving morning to -23. BRRRR! Jacob asked if he could go outside to play. So when it warmed up to -7 we let the kids go out and play. They played for a good half hour before they were too cold.

Wedensday night when we were sleeping my Mom's wall heater burned out. It was quite scary. We were sleeping and then we heard this arcing noise and I looked up and there was flames jumping out of the heater. So we quickly turned it off and avoided any damage. John put in new heaters on Friday.

We ate at my Mom's house and it was very good.

Friday we left and went to John's parents house and his brothers and families all came over and we had left over Thanksgiving dinner again. It was fun.

I am glad we are all home safely and had a great holiday. Today we are just cleaning and having a movie day.

Snow!!!

So I haven't posted all of November because we have been running doing nothing fun. So it has to snow 11 inches for me to get out my camera. Here is a pic of the kids playing in the snow. They loved it. The chickens do not.

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Well, today isn't officially Halloween, but our neighborhood trick or treated today because tomorrow is Sunday. So the day was a pretty good day. I didn't know if i was going to like having the kids home all day on Halloween without school to keep them busy. I thought they might be really excited to go trick or treating, but we carved pumpkins and watched a show and that seemed to help. We had scones and chili for dinner to fill everyone up really good so they wouldn't eat as much candy. Then we were off . . . Everyone has their different times the can stay out. Wyatt did one street, Joshua made it through two steets and Abigail and Jacob are the die hards and went four streets. It was a lot of fun and the rain held off and only sprinkled a little bit. Yah. So here are pictures of the kids Halloween costumes. I told the kids we were not buying anymore costumes because we have so many. So Jacob and Joshua created theirs from the stuff we already had.

Jacob was a dementor from Harry Potter.

Joshua was a cowboy.

Abigail was a witch

and Wyatt was Elmo, (his favorite person in the world)




Here is a picture of the kids sorting through the loot . . .

Joshua's recieved his Bobcat

Last night was our pack meeting. Joshua recieved his bobcat for cub scouts. He is so excited to finally be in cub scouts. He is having a lot of fun.

First Snow of the Season

Today we got the first snow of the season. My kids were SOOOOO excited. They had to wake up and go out and make a snowman before school. It was still dark outside!!!

Joshua's Baptism

Well, this weekend Joshua got baptized!!! I can't believe I have two children old enough to be baptized. This is amazing. My children are growing faster than I can keep up with them.

This weekend was kind of a crazy weekend. My Mom and sister Sharolee came on Thursday afternoon. Wyatt woke up from his nap with a fever. Thursday night Wyatt didn't sleep very good and his fever rose to 105. So Friday morning I took him over to the doctor and our regular doctor wasn't in so I saw a different one. She freaked out when she saw his tonsils. She had another doctor come and look at them. They were not sure what he has. They tested for strep and flu and he didn't have either of those, so she said it was either mono or acute tonsilites. I was hoping for the tonsilitise. So we came home from the doctor and my mom and I had planned on going shopping but now we wouldn't be able to with Wyatt so sick. So John came home from work to watch Wyatt so we could shop. Thank you John, you are so awesome!!! My mom, Sharolee and I had a great time shopping and eating.

Then that night Wyatt's fever was high again. So on Saturday for Joshua's baptism a few of the Aunts and Uncles were too scared to come so they stayed home. We are thankful for the ones that did come and support Joshua. He had a great baptism day. The spirit was there so strongly and he was happy. It was a great day. We had Hawaiin Haystacks for the luncheon afterward as that is Joshua's most favorite dinner ever. It was a good day.

Wyatt's fever broke that afternoon and so far he has been fever free. I am pretty sure he was just having tonsilites. Hopefully his tonsils will go back down soon.

New Carpet!!!! Yah!

SO we got new carpet for our front room on Friday. I am loving it. I think it has totally changed the feel of our room. Our good friend Matt has been on the lookout for carpet for us for about five years. Finally his wife, Janalee's Aunt bought some really expensive carpet and decided after a few weeks of having it in her home that she didn't like it. So they ripped it out and wahla, we have carpet for an amazing deal. Thanks Matt!!!!

Pinewood Derby and Joshua's eight Birthday

Well, the Pinewood derby was Wedensday night and because Joshua turned eight the next day they let him participate. Wooohoo. He loved it. He and Jacob made their cars and had a great time racing them.



Then Roland flew in that night so Andrea, Serena and our families and Roland went to Applebee's for dessert to chat. It was good to catch up with Roland.

The next day my Joshua turned eight years old. I can't believe that he is old enough to be baptized. He was so excited. We woke up that morning and he opened his presents. He got to hand out treats at school and after school he had a friend come to play and he even stayed for dinner. And of course, he had to have Pokemon cupcakes for his cake. Joshua had an awesome day. I love you Joshua.