A New Year 2015!!!

New Years was a lot of fun!  The Rigby's, Max and Brit, and Grammie and Pa were all here to celebrate!!  We too the side by side out in the doctor's field and pulled it sleds.  It was super fun and then we went sledding and ice skating!  We had a kinnect sports competition night and rang in the New Years watching America's Funniest Videos!
It has been so fun being closer to family so that we are able to do these things more together!  I am thankful for such a great family and I am so thankful that we are such good friends and love spending time together.

Christmas 2014

We had a great Christmas!!  We were so excited because Grammie and Pa decided to come down and spend it with us.  They came Christmas Eve, which was too late, according to the boys, but they stayed with us for a week because everyone else came down over New Years and they figured they didn't need to drive up and back - and we were so glad that they did.  We had a great time!

My Super Heros!  Seriously!  I love my boys especially when they dress up!!  They love it and they love to play these superheros!

We had fun while Grammie and Pa were here.  . . . we played games, watched movies,  played alittle in the snow, played basketball and made our annual gingerbread house (or village).   The snow this year was a Christmas miracle.  They kept saying it would snow Christmas Eve, but I was pretty doubtful.  I was so excited to wake up Christmas morning to a White Christmas!! My favorite!!

Pre-Christmas Activities!

To start at the beginning of the month, we had a ward Christmas party and they asked our family to be a shepherd family for the play.  Our little family of boys and Mike and I sang The First Noel, by ourselves and  a Capella - and for those of you who know me and my family, singing in front of everyone is not a thing we do! :)  But it went well and we had a great time with the boys, especially our little sheep!  In the video, which I will try to load, while we were singing Turner kept trying to take Titus hat off and then he'd reach up for Mike and want him to hold him.

Another thing we ( I say we but really the boys and Dad) started was helping do "farm" chores for a couple in our ward, the Pace's.  They have some sheep and Mike decided to ask them if we could help.  Mike and I really want the boys to experience the joy and sacrifice of work and since we don't have animals of our own yet, Mike has been dying to get them out doing them.  So every morning before school he takes one of the boys and they feed the sheep and the dog and clean up a little.  They were so excited and I thought the excitement might wear off a little, but it hasn't one bit.  They have never complained.  Even on Christmas morning, the Paces offered to do it because we had little children and they didn't, but the boys wanted to do it especially on Christmas day.  So to be completely honest I was a little like "oh great" what about Christmas morning and them waking up and drinking our hot chocolate, but that was okay.
Christmas morning was awesome!  Our three little boys, as excited as they ever were, when they woke up didn't run to see what they had got but ran outside excited because it had snowed!  Another Christmas miracle for me! :) and they helped Dad shovel the driveway and then asked whose else should we do and then they went and all feed the sheep.  They are such great examples and I hope that they remember this Christmas and the meaning of serving and trying to be like Jesus and that is exactly what they did!
I was able to take the boys a couple times when Mike couldn't and it was so fun to see them go at and just know what to do and how it works!  I am so proud of them!  Here is one picture we have of that.

Playing Santa Claus in our hats

I love the way Turner was looking at Titus in this one.

Loving the stuffed snowman . . .they would throw, tackle, wrestle and do whatever they could with this snowman which we repeatedly told them it was not a toy,but they never seemed to understand!!!

Going to help at Dixon's school with Gingerbread house making and watching his program!!

Of course Shookie came!!  The boys loved this one that he left them a little surprise in the bathroom!

And last but not least, I got around to making a card this year.  I figured we had a picture so we'd better use it!

Thanksgiving and More!

I realized that I didn't take a lot of pics at Thanksgiving this year.  But here is what I do have.  We had Thanksgiving with the Gambles this year.  We were going to go up to Grandma's in Idaho but it was only going to be us with Ben and Miki because of work schedules and Nedra fostering Braxton she couldn't leave the state, so en-route coming up North Mike talked to his siblings and we pulled together a last minute Thanksgiving at Darla and Cody's house so that everyone could be there.  It was really nice and fun to have everyone there.

Here are my thankful little turkeys.  In the month of November, each night we like to write down what we are thankful for and usually we save the strips to make a chain for Christmas, but this year we wrote them on the feathers and made a thankful turkey!

We spent some time with Grammie and pa and Mike and I were able to go to the temple with Max and Brit and Jac and Jake early one morning.  It was great fun!!  We also go to play some "church" ball and I would call it with all the cousins  - where we go to the church one night and bring all the balls we have and just play!  We played dodgeball, glow in the dark ball, wall ball, you name it we played it! :)  The kids have a blast when we do that!

Just some fun pics our little Turner, mostly our messy little Turner!

 He cracks us up! He loves to make his brothers laugh at dinner time!

  We took this picture of Turner with one of the headbands I had made and he just made the cutest little thing . . . it reminded me of this picture of Jac when she was little!!

Will's 9th Birthday!!

Will turned 9 this year!!  Wow! I can't believe he is getting that big!  We decided to give him a party . . . we haven't done very many of those, in fact his last one was when he was 4! I found some fun ideas and we did a Spy Party.  It was a ton of fun and the boys loved it! We sent out invitations that we "spy in training".  So when they came they came to the Spy Headquarters.  When they came we fitted them out with spy gear (mustaches, glasses, hat, notebook and badge).  Then they had to complete some obstacles before their mission.

The laser beam obstacle!

 The memory detail obstacle!

and of course our nerf gun range! 

The final mission that they had to accomplish was a file that came in saying that the "Evil Dr. Chaos" pictured below had broke into the bank and stolen some money and they had to figure out the clues to get it back!

 And thanks to our super spy's Evil Dr. Chaos' plans were foiled and he didn't like it very much (as you can tell).

We love our Will.  Happy Birthday to him.  Just hope that he is patient with him Mom and Dad while we try figure this parenting thing all out.  He is a great big brother and loves his brothers so much!  This was the morning of his birthday . . eggo waffles with a candle!