Christmas Sunday

The kids were all dressed up and adorable on Christmas Sunday- but my camera ran out of batteries and I couldn't find the charger- so we only got this one picture. Luckily, Grandpa Virgil and Anna came to visit after church and they took a bunch of cute pictures of our kids (that I have only in prints and not on the computer so this is all I can post). Colt is wearing his first white button up shirt that made him look like a little man. The girls loved their new dresses because they are 'so long' as Hallee would say. All in all it was a great Christmas Sunday....but then Jason and I had to speak in church the next week (2 days after Christmas) and that wasn't so great!

Hallee's Christmas Concert

Hallee had her first concert this year in kindergarten. Hallee is one of the youngest and littlest in her class and so she ended up on the front row. All 3 kindergarten classes sang 3 songs together (all were very unfamiliar to me). She is wearing a snowflake necklace for actions they did with the songs. We got a good laugh out of the kids. Some were so wild and cute- others were so nervous and shy- like Hallee. Colt and Jadyn loved seeing her up on the stage and Colt couldn't keep quiet about it during the performance. We were so proud of Hallee- now just to get over a little stage fright....

Another Anniversary!

Last month, Jason and I celebrated our 7th wedding Anniversary. It has been a fun and fast 7 years! I still feel like we just got married- but I don't even think we could be considered newly weds anymore.

Jason had to work on our Anniversary so we couldn't do much. My parents watched the kids while we went to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner. Jason sent me a dozen roses (of our wedding colors) and I bought him an IPOD. It was a simple anniversary but I'm not worried because there will be many, many more. Love you Jason!

Halloween

This year my kids dressed up as bunnies and a turtle (they were the Tortoise and the Hare but no one really caught on to that until I told them). Everyone thought Colt was a frog until they saw his shell and the girls kept being called princess bunnies. Oh well. They were stinking cute! Jason also had to dress up this year for work. He was paired up with some buddies and they were a foosball table. (Don't ask me- I didn't see the end result)

We were busy this year for Halloween. We had a ward dinner and trunk or treat, then a trick or treat at Jason's office, and then the 'real' Halloween trick or treating. Plus, I was in charge of Hallee's kindergarten Halloween Party at school. We were so tired from all the festivities that on Halloween night, the kids only knocked about 12 doors and then we called it quits.

Here are some of my favorite pictures:

Update

I guess it has been long enough since I updated my blog. I have been waiting for an important reason though- I have pics on my broken labtop that I wanted to blog about (Hallee's birthday, pics from Cortney's wedding, last pics of my house in Nampa). But since I have no clue how to move anything from that computer to this one those few posts will have to wait. Here are a few things to look at until then.

STREAKER

(Colt without his bottoms in his sisters boots)

Colt has learned, much to my dismay, how to undress himself. It all started with his basketball tank tops. He could get his shirt off and walk around with a naked belly and his shorts. I thought it was cute. Well, he decided to take it one step further and learn how to lose his shorts. He is constantly taking off his pants and diaper! He only swizzled all over the house 1 or 2 times but 2 times it was something more (if you catch my drift- stinky!). He is 21 months old and interested in the potty. Colt will sit on it and pretend to push but I've never seen any results and when I really try to get him to go- he gets mad. I've been told to just turn the diaper around so he can't undo it but that isn't the problem- he takes them off like underwear. I'm usually potty training my girls at this point in life but this boy gives me a run for my money! Not sure what to do with Colt- but I am sure I have a streaker!

Blackfoot Fair

Over the Labor Day Weekend, we decided we had better do something fun with our kids so we took them to the Blackfoot Fair. I do NOT do rides and I hadn't been there for about 10 years but we decided to give it a whirl anyways.

We spent most of our time looking at animals. The kids loved the petting farm. We each held a little baby beagle we wanted to take home. There were goats, pigs, turtles, bunnies, and more. My kids were petting everything and Colt was a wild man! He tried to ride this goat. Let's just say I am glad they had hand sanitizer available at the end.

We checked out the livestock (pigs, horses, cows, sheep), let the kids ride the little train, and ate some fair food. (We had funnel cakes and snow cones.) We only stayed about 3-4 hours but I think that is all the kids AND the parents could handle.