All I want for Christmas is....to be on the nice list!

The tooth fairy is going to be broke. After coming to our house this season. In a month time Drew lost 3 teeth and Jared two teeth. Drew lost his two front the weekend we went up for our niece's wedding.

This is Caleb and his best friend Tanner. They love being with each. This is how they like to watch TV. Too cute.

Caleb thinks he is a builder. Which is a good thing. Those of you who have facebook hear some of the things Caleb gets into. He thinks he is as big as his brothers and can do what they do. Even if he is only almost 3. One thing he did that I haven't told was one day Darrin was getting ready for work. He came downstairs and saw the Caleb had cereal and a bowl in front of the TV and he had poured the cereal in the bowl. Darrin was impressed that Caleb didn't spill. Darrin was going to pick it up but wanted to start his car and get it warming up first. By the time Darrin got back in, Caleb had got out the milk, poured it in his cereal(amazingly only spilling a little on the floor) and was stirring the milk with the drumstick from rock band. He LOVE to get into things as you will see down below.

Good thing he is so cute.

I don't know what it is about him and cereal on the floor and no clothes. He has done this twice.

This is Caleb claiming his chair. In our house if you want your chair back you say: "Tap, Tap"
and it is your chair when you come back from the bathroom and helping a parent. Caleb would "tap, tap" this chair all the time.

VanderToolen Christmas Party!

December has been a busy month for us. It started off with our camera breaking(which I didn't mind because I wanted a new one anyway.) So I am behind on blogging. I will start with the first of the month and show you how our month has gone. Crazy, but tons of fun. The holiday season started off the week before Thanksgiving. Our niece Kara got married in the Draper Temple. So great to go up and see so much Buttle family. Lots of fun. Darrin took the two older boys and went with Ron, our amazing brother-in-law and awesome nephews: Juston, Mason, and Brad to the BYU football game. The boys had a blast.

Two weekends later we went up North again for the VanderToolen Family Christmas party. So fun each year. My sister RaeAnn was the host this year. She cook TONS of food. It was lots of fun, everyone brought their favorite ethnic food. I am so blessed to have all my family close that we can get together often.

Caleb loved the tables. His cousin Marinda put candy at every table.

Boys had fun playing basketball. Lots of boys to play with.

The favorite part of the night. The pinata. The boys always have fun hitting it. This is Jared and Dallin(they were baptized on the same day) waiting for the candy.


Dallin, Wyatt, Drew, Devin and Gid waiting for candy.


Caleb and his cousin kid. They are one year apart in age, but the same size. Caleb is a small fry.

Caleb got a couple good hits.

Drew hitting the pinata.

Jared gave it a beating and made candy fall out.

This is the "Big Kids" pinata. My brother makes it each year for the adults. It is a box in a box re-enforced with steel. All who want to beat on it as hard as they can to try and break it. We beat it until the candy turns to powder, then open and dump the candy out.(the "big kids" love it.)


Collecting their treasures. They had way too much candy.

By the end of the day the kids were ready to go home. Lots of fun. I love my family.