Small World

Yesterday I mentioned that we went to the carousel with the boys. While we walked around the carousel to see all the cool horses I heard someone shout my name. I looked up and saw my friend Elizabeth who was there with her husband and daughter. We were going to catch up with each other on this trip anyways...but this was totally unplanned so I thought that was real fun.

Firebird Lanes:)

We decided to get out of the house for a while and took the kids to the carousel downtown and also to the bowling alley. The boys had never been bowling before and it had been a while since Mike and I had gone so it was lots of fun. I think they all had fun...Dallas even got a strike while Mike had 3 and a 2 spares:) Good job guys! Mike had a score of 148, I had 99, Dallas had 93, Cody had 68, my dad got 96 and Elijah had fun throwing a couple of balls.

Christmas Memories

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. The boys were all up early and very excited to see that Santa had stopped and made a visit. We had to first go and check to make sure that Santa Claus ate our cookies that we left out and got the reindeer snacks-which he did:)

The boys all had lots of fun opening presents and playing with their new found treasures.

Our Snowman

The boys had a fun day with daddy today. They decided to go out and enjoy the snow since they were feeling better. All of the boys have had some sort of a cold this past week so it was nice to see them all feeling somewhat better and out getting to enjoy the rare snowfall here. We love snowdays!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Snow Day

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Cuddling

Mike and Brandon have sure been little cuddle buddies since his surgery on Monday. I took this picture today after they had both just awoken from their morning naps;) Isn't it precious? Time goes by way to fast....

Surgery

So Mike had his eye surgery today. The last one thank goodness-no more pterigyiums! Woohoo!!! Everything went well and he was only there for about 50 or so minutes. I dropped him off at 7:45 a.m. and we were back home by 9 a.m. We actually would've been home even sooner than that but we had to wait for a nurse to walk us out. He's resting right now on the couch (starting to feel a little pain) but all in all he's doing good. Mike said it was a lot less traumatic this time because they actually let the anesthesia work a little before putting the needle in his poor eye.

Our Tree

I was so exhausted after fluffing a 10 foot tree (I may be off a little bit with the measurements) that I decided to put up our little 3 foot tree and call it good:) The boys don't mind it and it was sooo easy. I finally got our 6th stocking finished and hung up on our stocking holder also. I can't believe how 9 years ago today Mike and I went on our first date. We went on a scavenger hunt around EOU. It was fun. Mike sang to me on our first date, "In the still of the night". And I guess you know the rest. Well anyways...it was fun when I finished Brandon's stocking because I was looking at it and I was pondering how there were just the two of our stockings our first Christmas and then after that we always had more to add- now there are 6 plus Willie and Dakota's. What a wonderful life:)

HB Tam!

Happy Happy Birthday Tammy dear...happy days will come to you all year. If I had one wish then it would be-a happy happy birthday to you from me:)

Santa

The boys were really excited to meet Mr. Santa Clause. They all sat on his lap and told him what they wanted for Christmas. Brandon was to busy eating to see Santa this time around. He saw Santa the day before at the Victorian Country Christmas that I went to with Mercedes, Lisa, mom and Brandon.

Ward Party 2008

My sister Desi came with me and the boys to our ward Christmas party last night (Mike was playing a gig in Bellevue for a Microsoft Holiday Party). We ate an interesting dinner-not quite sure what it was....a scoop of rice with some sort of chicken gravy on it, then chinese noodles on that plus they had various toppings to put on it besides that. Some of those items included tomatoes, olives, peppers, and cherries. At least the rolls were good:) After that we watched a movie about an orphan who got an orange at Christmas. I'm only mentioning that b/c the tree was decorated with slices of orange that was on the stage next to us and it was really pretty. We also had a few musical numbers and a reading of the nativity followed by a special visitor. Cody was the most excited to see Santa I think. He wasted no time getting in line to meet the big guy. I had to go with Elijah who got a little nervous but finally said bye to him as he was leaving. All in all I think the boys had a good time; as did I. Wish Mike could've been there with us but maybe next year.

Baby Kingston

Just wanted to show off my cute nephew Kingston James:) Isn't he a doll. He was blessed by Aaron when they were up for Thanksgiving. Real special....glad we made it in time:)

Lost Teeth

Well Dallas has finally lost his two front teeth. Mike and I asked Dallas if all he wanted for Christmas was his two front teeth:) but I don't think he found it to amusing. He looks really cute and was so super excited to lose them both within a 24 hour period.