These pictures were taken last week sometime. I don't remember specifically what day. Every morning when I get Hailey out of bed the only thing she says is, "beebee" (baby) about 3 or 4 times until she has all of them in her arms! She has 3 babies, a miniture baby, a dolly and a bear. She does say dolly for the dolly but only sometimes does she remember to say bear for the bear! Anyway thought it was cute with the messy hair and tired look. It reminded me of myself some mornings!
This was taken by Matthew's Aunt Deanna on January 20th! I've watched it about 10 times now and it still makes me laugh! For those of you who are nervous it was at least a butter knife not a sharp one!
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley was reunited with his eternal companion on January 27th! I hope I can still be as happy as they are when I'm that age!
I would have to say that this was the best and funnest New Year's Eve party I have ever been to! Maybe that's because it was at my house. :) We invited a bunch of people to come over our house, let the kids run wild (optional) and play games! We actually had people bring their kids and there were people who actually found babysitters! We had 19 adults and 10 kids! Anyway, we played a game called "The Name Game" that is hard to explain, so you have to be walked through it. Then, we played Taboo with Men vs. Women! It was fun to buzz the men even when they didn't need buzzing, but they ended up beating us anyway. I went to Party City earlier that day and bought noise makers including ones that looked like hands.
My brother-in-law thought these were hilarious and decided he wanted to have a little fun with them while we were taking pictures! I couldn't resist joining in!
After the new year we played Pictionary and then a couple of us played Risk. I didn't go to bed until 5am and I am still trying to get back on schedule! We have always been nightowls anyway but for those of you wondering; OF COURSE my kids made it to midnight! I was actually surprised at how many of the other kids (and some of the adults) made it until midnight! All in all, it's been the best new year's eve bash ever!
We spent some of Christmas in Payson where my mom, dad and sister live. We drove up on Saturday the 23rd and spent the night. The boys really loved playing "Engineer" with Grandpa's train!
After that, we headed to my in-laws on Monday the 24th to spend the night to be there for Christmas. Of course Grandma had to make "reindeer food" for the kids to throw in the front yard so Santa could find our house! So cute!
We also decided to take on a new tradition that was taken from my sister-in-law. We decided that on Christmas eve you will have new pajamas to open and sleep in!
Then on Christmas morning you can open the rest of your gifts! I thought it was a great idea and here is a picture of the kids in their new jammies this year! Christmas morning was pretty eventful including Grandma rockin'! I'm not talking about in a chair either!
It was a video game that my stepbrother-in-law brought over! It was a riot! (A little noisy also!) We had fun regardless. We then let the kids open their presents and snack on junk food all day!
At noon Santa came! I thought it was really funny because when we had our ward christmas party David knew that it was his grandpa. Today at school, he couldn't keep his eyes off of this "different" Santa and smiled the whole time! It was great! He didn't even wait to be called and just got right up there and sat on his lap!
Only a couple of kids were actually able to sit on his lap, but they sang "Rudolph, the Red nosed Reindeer" to him before he left. After Santa left, the kids took turns passing out the little goodies they brought from home to put in each others stockings! Off to PE at around 1pm and when they came back they made cute little reindeer hats! Somewhere between all of the fun, the office decided they wanted to do a fire drill! Some of the girls were scared and one of them was crying almost hysterically! After all of the commotion, we headed back into the classroom to gather everything together to go home! All in all, it was a pretty well behaved class considering all that was going on. I would have to say that the day was pretty good!
