Christmas Pictures

Christmas

We had a very good Christmas this year. Santa found us and the kids got way too much crap that I will now have to pack up when we move. As Brayden says he loves Christmas because that is when we get to spend time with our families. I couldn't agree more!
Brayden got the flu Saturday(the 23rd), but luckily we was all better by Christmas Eve. Later that night we went to Temple Square to see the lights. That has kind of become a tradition for us to do on Christmas Eve. After the lights we came back to our house and had dinner and played a game and just hung out till it was time to go to bed. I had kept all of the kids presents at my moms house since we have no storage in our house, so Christmas eve mom brought all the stuff to our house. Well as they were getting ready to leave she realized she had left Brayden's "santa" present at her house. So once they got back home Kev got it and drove half way back to meet BJ so Brayden would have his present. Next year I will keep all the presents at our house since we will have storage space!!

Christmas morning was fun with the kids. We didn't get up too early so that was nice. Brayden woke up around 7:00 and came in and watched tv till 7:30 when BJ went and woke up Adi. That is the only day of the year that BJ actually gets up and is hurrying us along! It was so fun to watch the kids! We didn't have to be anywhere till 1:00 so we got to relax and the kids got to play with their toys. The rest of the day was pretty busy visiting family. We had Christmas with BJ's family on Thursday(28th)and once again the kids got way too much! We had a good time and it was nice to see everyone again!
The week between christmas and New Year's both BJ and I got the flu, but are all better now and hope that we can all stay healthy for awhile.

T-rex arms??

I was looking through old photos and came across last Christmas' Santa photo and I realized that Brayden looks exactly the same with the facial expression and arms as he did this year with Santa. And if old dad would have put Adi on Santa's lap I am pretty sure she would have looked about the same too!! What is up with those arms?? BJ made the comment that if someone saw him who didn't know of his love for animals they would probably think he was special!(He is special!) Since he always walks around with is arms up, making weird facial expressions, and animal noises! He is so stinkin funny, cracks me up!

Breakfast with Santa

Saturday was our ward Christmas party and we did Breakfast with Santa. The party didn't start till 9:30, but I had to get up at 7:00 to make a breakfast casserole for the party, and don't think Brayden stayed in bed and slept, cause he was right by my side talking about what he was going to say to Santa!(Those of you who know Brayden can only imagine those 2 1/2 hours till it was time to go, chat, chat, chat,chat...)He was so excited! After we got to the party and ate breakfast finally santa arrived luckily we were sitting right by santa's chair so we didn't have to wait in line to long. I think Brayden was a little nervous because the look of terror on his face when it was his turn was so funny!! But I think it was because he was afraid he was going to forget what he wanted to tell him, but he told him and was very pleased with himself afterwards. Adisyn stood in line, but would not sit on his lap and I was going to make her because I think you always need pictures of them crying while seeing santa, but her daddy to the rescue, didn't make her. He thought it was mean! And little Jacey was just fine. He had just woke up and all he really wanted to do was pull that beard!! Brayden was a little worried that Adi wouldn't get anything for Christmas because she didn't sit on his lap, so he asked if we could call or write Santa a letter. I love it when he is so thoughtful of his sister, makes me feel like I did something right with him!

Then later that night we took the kids to the dinosaur park in Ogden to see the dinosaurs with their santa hats on and the park all lit up with Christmas lights. It was fun, but kind of chilly so we didn't stay too long. We all had a good time and it was so nice to spend time together as a family!!

More pics!

Here are just a few more of the pictures.

Family Pictures

A few weeks ago we had our family pictures taken. This is the first family picture we have had since Jace was born. I thought they turned out really good. My friend Staci took them, and she did a great job! She also took Brayden's school class pictures and I thought they turned out really good, so I asked her to take our family pictures. We went to Gardner Village it was kind of a gloomy day and was getting ready to rain, but we lucked out because it just sprinkled a little. We had to bribe the kids that if they smiled we would feed the ducks after. They did good, and the photos turned out cute. It is so hard for me to decide which ones I want. I have it all planned out how I am going to frame and arrange them when we get into the new house! Can't wait!!!

Halloween Season

Halloween season this year was fun! We had a few Halloween parties we got to go to and so the kids got to wear their costumes a few different times this year. We had Grandma Bus' annual halloween party and it was fun as always. It was at the church this year which gave the kids a ton more room to run and play around and all the cousins were their so they had a blast with all of them. Then the next night we had our ward Halloween party so they dressed up again. Then the next day was Brayden's halloween party at school so he got to dress up again for that and I got to go help with the party. I had to do a game so we played pin the grin on the pumpkin. It turned out cute and the kids had a fun time. Then finally it was Halloween, so of course they dressed up once more! Brayden, of course, was an elephant(again), Adi was, of course, Cinderella(again), and Jace was a lion, and a devil. For the first 2 parties Jace was a lion, but the costume was too small, so on Halloween day I pulled out the old costume tub to see if any of Brayden's old costumes would fit and I found the devil ears, tail and pitch fork, and I rememberd his cute little shirt that said "mommy's little devil", so we dressed him up as a devil! I had to take the kids around to see aunt Bean at her work, and then BJ at his work. Everyone said they were so cute and they got a ton of candy from dads work, everyone they saw gave them candy! It must have been pretty exhausting because "Cinderella" passed right out as soon as we got in the car!! When BJ got home we bundled up the kids and went trick or treating around our block. It was plenty, the kids buckets were full!! Brayden was excited to get home and pass out our candy to the trick or treaters, unfortunatley we didn't have that many, but they had a good time anyways. It was a fun night and a fun Halloween season!

Pumpkin Patch

Monday night for Family Home Evening we went to Packs Pumpkin Patch to get our pumpkins for Halloween. We took Brayden to a pumpkin patch when he was 14 months, and it has just kind of turned into a tradition since then. Every Halloween he expects us to go and Adisyn is old enough to get into it too!
As soon as we got there and started out into the fields to find our pumpkins Adisyn found hers immediately and carried it around waiting for "bubby" to find his. It took him a little bit longer as he wanted to find the biggest one there. BJ and I weren't too stoked on that since they are $.22 a pound, and we are the ones to have to clean out the pumpkin!! But after walking down a few rows and BJ shooting down the really big ones he found one he liked! There is also a cute little corn maze for the kids built out of bales of hay, they had so much fun running through there. It was so cute Brayden would wait for Adi to make sure she didn't get lost and every few minutes he would pop his head up over the hay to see where he was in the maze.
After the pumpkin patch we headed home for our "pumpkin" dinner. I cooked dinner in a pumpkin and then pizza dipping sauce for breadsticks served in a pumpkin. It turned out pretty good and the kids thought it was cool that the pumpkins had the food in them. It was a fun night!!

Dinosaur Land

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Trip to Vernal

Last weekend we took a short trip out to Vernal. We hadn't been out there for awhile and Patty wanted all of us out for a little get together. We had a good time! On Saturday we went to the dinosaur musuem, it was a lot of fun. I haven't been to the dino museum since I was like 8 years old, and the new building is really cool. There is a short movie presentation telling about how they discover fossils and stuff, then they have really neat exhibits of fossils and hands on activites you can do. It was fun! Brayden and Adi loved looking at the dinosaurs, especially the wooly mammoth! We had to record a show on animal planet called "Land of the Mammoths" for Brayden and he watches it almost everyday. His teacher was telling me how he was telling the class all about "Land of the Mammoths"! He is a big animal lover and knows all sorts of facts about a lot of different animals, his specialty is elephants, he can even make a sound just like one too!

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