Grandma's here!!!

Grandma's here!!!! Finally, she moved to Alaska five years ago which I must admit I wasn't happy about one bit! She had lived in Colorado on a ranch I grew up visiting and when I heard they were going to sell it and move to AK I feel like I lost my childhood with it. I haven't seen her since she moved since it's a bit out of the way! At least before it was a nine hour drive, no biggy. So now I'm glad she's here so we can go visit anytime we want! Yeah!!!

All of us

Mom and Grandma

My Aunt and Uncle with Mom and Grandma

Just admit it, it's awesome!

I actually never thought I would buy a Snuggie until..... I saw this BYU one. I had to get it for Jared's Birthday! I'm sure he never saw it coming, can you read into his excitement? Actually he thought it was pretty cool! He went and bought one for my B-day and the kids for Christmas.

How handy to have your arms free to hold a remote! LOL!

Tradition

In our family we have a Fondue dinner on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition adapted from my husbands side of the family, and the kids love it! They feel so important with their "wine" glasses!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is past but I still wanted to post it. Amara was my brave one in helping me with the turkey. The other kids took one look at it and said," That's turkey? I'm not eating that, gross!" I made them watch as I pulled out the "goodies" from inside. Needless to say, they left in a hurry! But Amara didn't seem bothered at all by it, she rubbed and patted the turkey with the seasonings and thought it was just great!

Our tradition after Thanksgiving dinner is to decorate for Christmas, the kids are so excited to do that and I just let them decorate the tree like they want to. I used to have glass ornaments on the tree and would stress about them touching it. I learned to just buy unbreakable decorations and let the kids have a good time with it. I want them to have fond memories of Christmas and not memories of a mom that said, "don't touch!"

The Mommy Hook!

My sweet SIL is always sending me things and this is the latest, The Mommy Hook! I'm so excited to use it, I'm going to make a special trip to the mall so I can try it out!

It's massive!

OH MY HELL!

There are some things you think your children will never ask or do. Sometimes they ask questions like Tayah did they other day. She was practicing the song Silent Night and asked, "Mom, what's a virgin?" I had to take a minute to think about it, my husband was of course very interested to hear my response. I told her," It's a mom that hasn't had a baby yet." I thought I did well with that one.

Now I have a bedtime story to share. We're getting the kids ready for bed. Kael comes to me and wants me to pick him up. I picked him up and naturally I kiss my babies whenever I pick them up. But when I picked him up his breath STUNK! I mean like BAD. So I admit I put him down and thought how strange. I continued to round up the kids for family prayer in the girls room. We were all kneeling down and we notice a "raisin" on the floor. Jared picks it up and smells it and it is not a raisin....it is poop!!! It was very MOIST! And then it dawns on me why Kael's breath stunk so bad! OH MY HELL! He put it in his mouth and apparently spit it out. GROOOOSSS! My first reaction was gag, dry-heave, and running to the computer and googling how to disinfect your mouth! I have NEVER had a child have any sort of a "poop" accident! So the younger child who had a "minor" incident shall remain nameless. For some reason they were preoccupied by their new McDonald's toy and couldn't put it down for 2 minutes!

Halloween a bit late...

Halloween!

We started off Halloween with our Jack o' lantern Pizza!

The girls digging through their "stinky" pumpkins!

Corbin oblivious to the camera, that's a boy for ya!

Corbin's

Tayah & Amara's

Corbin as a masked Phantom....

Tayah the Witch

Amara the Fairy Princess

All of them together! Kael sported his Buzz Light Year P.J.'s

School Parade pics, Amara joined in Corbin's class line to walk through too!