Merry Christmas 2009!

We had a very low-key Christmas this year. Our family parties were a few days before and a few days after Christmas so Christmas Eve and Christmas Day it was just us. We invited our neighbors over on Christmas Eve for dinner and the kids all had a great time playing together. I did a little treasure hunt for the kids to find their Christmas PJ presents. They loved it! We will probably do it every year cuz it was such a hit.

The boys were up Christmas morning bright and early at 4:30am! They were too excited to go back to sleep so I put them in my closet with their stockings and that kept them busy for a while... until around 5am.

Then I put them in the bath and let them play for a while with their new stocking toys. That kept them busy for a while longer and then around 6am we woke up Shalise and went downstairs to open presents!

The kids were very excited to open presents and were really excited about all the fun toys they got. Shalise had some very cute expressions, you'll see them below, her and her funny faces...

Here are the kids with their Nono and Nona a few days after Christmas.

And here are the kids with their "loot".

We had a great 2009 Christmas!

Temple Square Lights

We went to Temple Square a few days before Christmas to go see the lights. The kids thought it was pretty cool and it was fun to be together as a family.

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Happy Birthday Shalise!

Shalise's birthday is on Christmas, so we decided to celebrate a little early. She was so excited to open presents and her brothers were very excited to "help" her. We had my family over as well to celebrate and I think she was a little overwhelmed by everything (as you can see in the picture where we are singing happy birthday to her) but she had a great time! And if you can't tell by her loot, her favorite thing right now is Dora so she was very excited about all the Dora presents!

Shalise is such a cute girl and we love her so much! Her personality is certainly emerging and she is turning into a busy busy little girl! She loves to sing and dance and is very animated. She makes the funniest faces and I wish I had more of them on camera, but here is one from the other day:

Happy Birthday Shalise! We love you!

Sledding on the BIG hill

Carson has been begging me all week to go sledding and find a really BIG hill. So we told him we would take him today. There in amp theatre out here that makes for a great sledding hill, so we took the kids there this afternoon. They had a fun time, although the two little ones weren't too keen on the sledding. Carson on the other hand, we had to pry away from the hill, he absolutely loved it! It was a fun Saturday family activity.

Fun in the Snow!

We found a fun little hill to sled down by our house this morning, the kids were SO excited to go play in the snow!

Triple Trouble...

Ya so this is why my kids don't usually sit by eachother in the car, one word, TROUBLE!!