Pterodactyl

Liam said "I want a pterodactyl....you can get them at Costco!"

I was laughing so hard until I realized he meant a toy one, not the real thing. Now THAT would be something.

Christmas

The BIG present...Playmobil Zoo...the kids loved it!

Adam reading The Chronicles of Narnia to Grace in his new hat.

Liam and his rescue helicopter.

Cute Claire...eating chocolate probably. We had enough of it lying around!

Luke with Dragonoid Colossus and lovely Grace

Super goes shopping at the zoo...this bird is hilarious. I highly recommend a bird for a first pet. Very low maintenance.

Claire LOVED her baby dolls...all three!

Grace in her new jammies

Making Cookies

The best part....the dough! Like mother like....well all the kids love dough, who am I kidding?

Santa

Well (one of) my New Year's Resolutions was to try and keep updated on the blog. We go through our busy times and not so busy times. Actually we don't really have not so busy times...maybe I should say our crazy times and our busy times. I have lots of pictures from December I hope to get up in the next few days. Starting with the wonderful Santa who comes to the top of the mountain every year. Last year Claire had no idea what was going on and I don't even think she actually SAW Santa before we quickly plunked her down for a photo. This year was a little different...



And Grace was having none of it either, she chose to make a craft instead, one of her favorite things to do anyway. Oh well. I am picking my battles this year...BRING IT ON!

Moments of Thanksgiving

Say Say Oh Playmate

I wonder where she gets this face from?

Love the Daddy

Learning something new from big brother

Hey wait Grandpa I don't have lots of hair to begin with!

Always reading

Grandma Joyce shows me how to cut Grace's hair...I might try it next time if I feel lucky.

Singing in Payson

Me and Adam

Halloween!

Luke and his friend J at the school Halloween parade.

Grace as a vampire! I think she was the scariest one in her class.

Dragon Seth and Vampire Liam

Grace decided to be a witch on Halloween after receiving a witches hat and dress from our nice neighbor. She is still beautiful even with ugly witch makeup on. I tried to get her to have a big wart on her nose but she wouldn't do it. It looked so real!

Okay I thought this picture was stretched length wise at first but really my kids are just tall and skinny! Love those costumes!

Surprised! I don't think anyone got it, oh well, better luck next year. I thought it was funny anyway.

Carving Pumpkins

I love these pictures of Adam and the kids...he always has so much fun with them. Here he is carving his pumpkin and cackling up a storm.

Getting gooey...

Grace looks like she scared to death. This was part of my Halloween outfit, I wore it like 4 times that week...school and preschool parties and parades oh my!

Liam wanted to carve his own, it turned out awesome!

Mom's, Liam's

Luke's, Grace's, Adam's

I taught Luke how to carve just the outside skin off and let the light shine orange, he was carving up a storm. We all laughed because this is supposed to say Boo! but instead looks like Boob. We fixed it before the innocent neighborhood children arrived on Halloween night.

Temple Square

The weekend after Conference we decided to take the kids to Temple Square. We went once a long time ago but thought it would be fun for the kids. The loved it, and it was FREE! We didn't even get to see everything we wanted. The first stop was Brigham Young's grave which I didn't even know was just up the street from Temple Square in this teeny park/memorial place. Luke had a spiritual experience there after he kicked his shoe off (you can see below he doesn't like to strap them on) into a very stickery bush and we absolutely couldn't find it. I mean, we all looked for several minutes and then decided to give up. He was going to have to walk around Temple Square with one shoe. So Adam suggested that he say a prayer and so Luke decided to kneel down and said a prayer he would find his shoe. We decided to look one last time and it was literally right on the edge of the bush, right where we had all been looking but there it was. So Luke got a great lesson on prayer and he had both shoes for the rest of the trip. Thank goodness it was a quickly answered prayer!

Scrunchy face

Luke and Claire on the top of the Conference Center...Luke said "Hey there's supposed to be a park up here!" We told him this WAS the park, I think he was imagining a swing set or something.

For posterity...thanks to Luke for taking the picture. Note to self...always have someone taller than you take your picture.

Outside the temple doors...this picture is classic. Luke is looking at the details of the door, Liam is, let's say...energetic, and Grace is posing. Love it.

Outside the Lion House...they were out of rolls, darn it!

Liam the Soccer Star

Liam played soccer this fall and will again this spring. He has lots of energy to get out and this has been great for him. His team was the Blue Storm. What a cute bunch of kids. I think Liam should have won the award for Most Inspirational, he was always cheering everyone on and so excited for his team when they scored a goal. Also he would really love to be the goalie, but they don't allow it at this age. Someday...

So cool because he got his OWN Powerade.

Coach Travis....normally not this scraggly but they had literally JUST gotten back from Hawaii a few minutes before. What dedication!

Getting ready to kick it!

Thumbs up! He was always doing this, so cute!

The ready stance. I love it.