dino museum

Its been a rough 3 weeks or so, and we needed a break.  So, we headed down to the dinosaur museum.

It was decked out for Christmas, which the boys thought was super funny.  We had a good time, which was exactly the point.

Not even too scary.

round one...

Kyle and I had a meeting this week, and Mimi and Aunt Debbie (who's in town visiting for a few days) came to watch the boys.  They were pretty excited to have them here.  

I thought it would be fun for them to have something to do together, so I got a gingerbread village kit so they could do miniature gingerbread houses.  

The boys said it was really fun to do it, but they were bummed that they didn't stay together.

Bosten's looks pretty good at the moment, but it was short lived.  You can see the disaster in Kaden's picture, and how he felt about it.  Its a good thing we've got plans to do another one.  Consider this the practice round.

o christmas trees

The boys both have little trees in their rooms. 

 It started by accident, but now its a tradition and they love them.  Kaden has an Army tree (clear lights with green and gold ornaments), so Bosten wanted/has that too.

Kaden hugged his tree for a picture, so Bosten thought he should too.  

Cute brothers.

'tis the season...

...for Christmas movies

(By the way, this is the best Christmas movie. Ever.)

...for popcorn tins.

...for holding hands and snuggles with my cute little boys

...for bowl games to start

...for Buddy to be back

Its a fun time of year!

holiday ornaments

One of our family traditions is to get each member of our family a new Christmas ornament each year, and then they're the first ones that go on the tree.

2012

Bosten:  A Santa Soccer Player.

Kyle:  New House

Shelby:  A Brick of Tillamook Cheese

Kaden:  Lego Star Wars Storm Trooper

Its been a fun tradition, but even more fun is getting all of the ornaments out and talking about whose they are and what year it is from.  Let the Christmas fun begin!

dear santa

We took the boys to see Santa at the mall. 

We got there right as the mall opened, so we were first in line to chat with the big guy.  They decided they wanted to talk to him together.

Kaden told him he wants a puppy for Christmas.  A real puppy.  Yikes.  We've talked a million times how we can't have a puppy because Bosten is allergic.  He told me that he could just keep it in his room all of the time.  Poor Kade.  As we talked about it later, I reminded him that we couldn't have a real puppy and he said he totally knew that (duh), and that he'd be happy with a cute, stuffed one.  

Phew.  

I can handle that.

this and that

Here's what we've been up to in the last week or so...

The red wall in the family room is gone.  I never was a fan.  Even just with primer on it, it has brightened up the room a ton.

My sister's twins arrived.

Kaden adored them.  

Bosten wanted to see them, but wanted nothing to do with holding them.

 

Kaden had a first Thanksgiving feast at school.  He wanted Indian gear, and this is what I came up with the night before:

Kaden had no school the day before Thanksgiving, so we invited Mimi and Papa and Brody to go to the movies with us.  It was a fun date.

We spent Thanksgiving with my family, and hung out with Kyle's family on Friday.  So fun to have Adam and Ang here!  We went to Scheels and Temple Square to see the lights.

What a fun week.