December

Olivia made this bird seed ball at preschool. We hung it up on our trees and nothing has happened yet. Maybe the problam is that our trees aren't big yet and the birds don't really have a good branch to land on.

Sledding fun. They actually were being towed behind the Rhino in the church parking lot.

Watching fireworks in Rupert right after Thanksgiving. Santa drives around a few times and then lights the square up with Christmas lights. Tyler had a good view on his uncle David's shoulders but he thought the fireworks were to loud

Since we don't have a fireplace the kids want to make one every year on Christmas Eve. This was the one they hung the stockings by this year. We still put a key by the front door for Santa.

Tyler and his new bean bag.

Decorating the gingerbread house that grandma gave us to open on Dec. 1st.

Like how Santa's helper (the man with the reindeer/hunting hat) put his head up at the last minute in the kids photo. Good times were had by all that night at the ward party. Our 2 youngest won't sit on Santa's lap but they will get close enough for candy.

Cute Kids

We had a giant piece of paper so the kids painted it. Since it was to big to save I talked them into letting me take a picture of them by their creation.

Tyler is wearing a jacket that use to me my brothers. I love being the mom of these kids.

Funny Things Our Kids Say

Sadie -"Mom we shouldn't shop at Smith's anymore." She says this as we are driving by it
mom - "Why?"
Sadie - "Because they sale drugs."
mom - "Who told you that?"
Sadie - "It says right on the sign, Food and Drugs." Imagine her tone of voice saying DUH mom.
mom - I couldn't stop laughing.
Then I explained what it meant. She thought medicine would be better then saying drugs. After awhile we decided RX would be the best since it's short and to the point. I love kids!

Mackay

We seem to have one main hobby. This was a fun ride we took in Mackay in Oct. It was along the old mining train tracks.

Oct. fun cont.

My sister Brenda lives in AZ so my mom and 2 other sisters took a trip one weekend to visit her. He had a blast. On the drive there I thought 15 hours was way to crazy. But then we had so much fun I can't wait to go back. One of my sisters brought her 15 month old son. He was so funny in the car. He only cried one time when he was falling asleep and it wasn't very long. Most of the time he was making funny faces and happy to be along for the ride. Our main objective was to shop. From the picture of the van you can tell that is obvious. We did pack it much better for the ride home. This was taken after we drove around yard sales collecting our loot.

More random stuff

October was a blast. I went to Utah to visit my cousin Bobbie. Here we are outside the dinosaur museum. Bobbie's youngest son wasn't in the picture and the little girl on the right is a friend. Of course I had to go to Rod Works since she lives so close to it. She taught me how to digital scrapbook. I'm realizing how bad of a photographer I really am. My friend and neighbor Mariann rode with my down to Utah and went to visit her family. On our way home we planned a quick Rhino trip. We got home from Utah put our bags in the house and climbed in the Pick-up. Shane and Troy had bought food so we had a campfire once it got dark and eat fried chicken. It was soooooo cold. Part of this area you have to ride in the creek. We have never been in the spring because we are afraid we might get wet. We aren't sure how high the water flows then.

Random stuff

So I haven't blogged in ages. Here's Rian and I after we ran the Teton Dam half-marathon in Rexburg this past June. I didn't know it but I was 6 weekd prego at the time. Once I found out that explained alot. I was thinking I was wimpy. Notice we had to get the food before we posed for a picture.
My husband likes to tease me about this picture because he said we were way to matchy. We were running up to the finishline, all I cared about was that I crossed it. I wasn't trying to have my arms and legs looking just like Rian's.