this past week...instagram style

Kaden lost a finally lost a tooth!  He's been dying to have one come out so that the Tooth Fairy could pay a visit.  He was really late in getting teeth as a baby, so I wasn't at all surprised that he was late losing one.

We've been doing a lot of snuggling.

We celebrated on New Years Eve by bringing Chilis home for dinner, having ice cream, and watching college football games.  Can't get much better than that.

 

Spider man showed up to fight all of the bad guys that were lurking in the shadows.

 

On Kyle's day off this week, he and his sidekick hung out all day.

It has been cold here.  SO cold.  I just looked at the temperature on my phone as I'm writing this at 8pm and its 12 degrees.  Going to be another cold night.  

 

And there you have it for the week.

christmas fun

Christmas Eve we went down to my parents.  We watched a DVD about the birth of the Savior, had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner (rolls, meats and cheese, baked beans, dips/chips, grandma's cheese ball, great grandma's orange cake, pies, etc.), opened gifts and predicted where my parents might serve their mission.  They are in the process of filling out paperwork, and expect to be gone by the first of June.  

For the record, here's our guesses:

Kyle:  Vancouver, Canada

Shelby:  Alberta, Canada

Kaden:  Las Vegas, Nevada

Bosten:  Disneyland

This is kind of blurry, but you can see how thrilled he is with the new blanket Mimi made him.

 

Bosten scored some good stuff too.

Then it was home (through the snow) to get Christmas jammies on and get off to bed.

Christmas morning was a lot of fun.  The boys were so appreciative and excited about what they got (and each other got).  We opened gifts and had breakfast (without Mimi and Papa), played with our toys, and then headed up to Ryan and Kerry's house to hang out with their family and Grandma.  

 I made both of the boys blankets.  Bosten saw me working on his, but I had told him that it was for Papa.

Kaden had no idea.

He was really excited about what Santa brought.

Bosten was too.

This is the only picture I took at Ryan and Kerry's house.

 Weird. 

 

so much snow

I'm the first to admit that we were hoping for a white Christmas.  When it started snowing on Christmas Eve, we were pretty excited.  The boys were excited to go out and play.  We thought we'd get ahead of the game by shoveling the driveway before heading out to Christmas Eve festivities down at my parent's house.

But, it didn't stop all night.  It was a little crazy (in spots) getting home, and it messed up having my parents come for Christmas morning.  It snowed for 3 days.

Enough is enough already.

I think we had something like 19 inches.

 

The one good thing about all of the snow was it made for some really great sledding.  Kyle found a great spot to go, and we went one afternoon.

This was right before the first run.  Everything looked good, until they were about half way down the hill and we saw the jump that they were going to hit just right.

It left a mark.

It didn't seem to slow us down.  We played for a long, long time.  We (Kyle and I) were ready to be done a lot sooner than the boys were.  We're are for sure going back.

Another day we went sledding with some of our cousins.  So fun too.

lights

We always go see the Layton lights, and this year was no different.  Our plan, usually, is to drive though the display and then get out and walk around to get a closer look.

In case you couldn't tell, that's a bear standing right behind us.

 

Kyle went too, but for some reason wasn't in any of the pictures.  Weird.

Anyway, Happy Christmas Eve!

cookies galore

One night this week we decorated cookies.  I had made the cookies earlier in the day, so that it would go much faster.  They boys were happy to let me do the frosting (after instructing me what colors they wanted) and then they got to work.

Pretty fun project!...and pretty fun eating too.

merry christmas...and a favor

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!  We hope you have a fantastic holiday.

If any of you happen to be visiting relatives in the next couple of weeks and hears of a neighbor or cousin or friend or anyone that is facing an unplanned pregnancy, would you please consider mentioning that our family is hoping to adopt?  We'd be happy to get your our blog/profile information that you can share.

Thank you so much!