Weekend with cousins

We had a great weekend and spent some time with out cousins from out of town. Jacob loved helping out with his little cousins. We worked puzzles, colored, played geo trax, went on a picnic up the canyon and even threw snowballs on Monday.








Aunt Sam entertained us all with her fire starting skills then we cooked hot dogs with only a few burned ones and even fewer lost to the fire.








It was very cold but we stayed warm and toasty for the most part.


Jacob entertained with a morph suit.


And wasn't scared away by growling.





We had so much fun and can't wait till the next visit.




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Christmas

Well christmas finally arrived and then before we knew it not only was it over but it has been over for almost a week.  Hope that all of you out in cyberland had a great christmas as we did.  Here they are coming in with their new christmas eve pj's on.  Yes they match this year haha.

 

 

From Santa.

 

And the other I heard a commercial on tv this year that said save a big gift for the end like they do with the red ryder bb gun on Christmas story.  So we did that with the boys.  That was the first thing they said you got this off of tv.  Yes and in some ways it worked, some it didn't. 

 

We hope that everyone had a great christmas and got the chance to spend their holidays with the important people in their lives.  We are thankful for family, friends and all those who touch our lives everyday.  We are also grateful for the reason for the season Jesus, and all that he did for us.  Merry Christmas.   

 

 



Almost Christmas!

December started off with a bang for us.  Jacob spent the first half of it struggling with his asthma but after Dr's visits, steroids and breathing treatments he is on the mend.  He has even been back to school for over a week now.  We are so grateful for modern medicine. 

 

Zach's Christmas concert was last night while we enjoy all of his concerts this is our favorite.  He didn't play any drums last night but got plenty of opportunity to move around on the other instruments.  Jacob is still a little tired so as soon as they turned the lights out he was out and slept through the entire thing even the jazz band.

 

 

Hope that everyone is having a great Christmas season.

 

Merry Christmas from us.

  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes, I know that it is a little late but I hope that everyone had a great thanksgiving.  We did and thanks again to Aunt Kathie, Grandma and Grandpa for the great thanksgiving dinner.  This year we had the opportunity to eat  dinner at the Cracker Barrel one of our favorite restaurants.  The first time for thanksgiving dinner though and it was soooo good.  Especially the stuffing I think it is now my favorite recipe although my dads is still a close second.  I have to confess I spent some time yesterday morning scouring the internet hoping to find a copy cat recipe to try but sadly I could never find one.  Oh well.  I did get the chance to make my dad's for the first time yesterday and was told by all that partook that it was very good.  Well all but one, Jacob leaned over and whispered in my ear (loud enough for everyone at the table to hear) "mom I didn't like your stuffing".  Everyone else liked it though and I was very happy with the way it turned out. 

 

 

After dinner the kids decorated christmas tree cookies.

 

 

I have to give a special thanks here to Zach for not only not covering his face in the picture but for smiling for the camera as well.  We all had fun and the kids trees turned out very cute although they were probably all 2 - 3 pounds heavier with all the sprinkles that were dumped (not sprinkled) onto the trees.  Guess it is time to head back out to the sprinkle store.

 

Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone.

 

 

 



Halloween parade

I almost forgot to post the pictures from the halloween parade this year. 

 

Here they are.

 

Isn't this frankenstein great he is the brother of Jacob's teacher Mr. Evans.  Some of you might recognize him (without the costume a little better) he is a famous local author.  He came out and wandered around before the parade started.  Isn't his costume great?

 

 

Of course this was my favorite little person walking through the parade.  He went as the doctor again this year.  Doctor Who you ask? 

 

 

 

 



 

Halloween time.  We love it and this year we had a few things that we didn't get out but the majority of it we did.  And our family spokesperson posed for all of the pictures.

 

This picture was taken on halloween with Jacob in costume he wanted to go as the doctor this year.

 

Our ghost kept blowing partially up on the roof so we ended up taking it down.

 

But we put the eyes back up they are kind of hard to see in this picture though.

 

Here is Craig wearing his silence shirt with Jacob and his sonic screwdriver.

 

Happy halloween everyone!

Percussion concert

Zach had his first percussion concert of the year earlier this week.  They did a great job and we really enjoyed it.  It was a little shorter then the concerts last year, now they just play with the Jazz band instead of the the band and the orchestra.  This allowed each group to have more play time and we still made it home earlier. 

 

 

He also got the opportunity to move around and play three different instruments although I didn't get a picture of him on the drums since his teacher was blocking him from my view.  Maybe next time his teacher would consider sitting to conduct, I wonder? 

 

We are looking forward to the next concert.