Christmas Time Finally!

Christmas time with kids is the best they bring all the happiness. It makes all the stress worth it. Anyway this is the kids in their new PJs they got to open for Christmas eve. We let them open this gift and the gifts they give to each other. It has been great for us, by opening the gifts from their brothers makes it more special, and not just another gift they got on Christmas.(Plus we don't have to hear the nagging of opening up a gift.

Caleb being Caleb.

Waiting to go look under the tree. I like to be the first one down so I can get their picture. They weren't too happy about that.

Jared and his new bike.

Drew and his wiggle car.

Caleb and his wiggle car. The boys loved them.

At our house we take turns opening a gift one at a time. The boys are very good at it, but sometimes they get too excited and so this year we sat in the TV room and had one gift brought in at a time. We LOVED it. It wasn't so rushed and the kids really enjoyed each gift. We will for sure do that next year.

Caleb choosing a gift for his brother.

Caleb with his favorite gifts, his wiggle car and guitar.

Loved getting a new pillow.

Jared and Drew got down comforters. Now I can have mine back. They were taking turns using it.

Jared being Jared.

Teamwork on opening gifts.


Drew was so sad. For Christmas I got a BYU snuggie and they boys got one to share. He wanted his own. He was so tired by this time. In all we had a great day.

Live Nativity

For the second year in a row he were able to participate in the Live Nativity at Tuacahn. Tuacahn is a beautiful outdoor theatre that has plays every summer/fall. At Christmas time they have the Live Nativity. It is a 25 minute play with music and a narrator. It is so amazing and you can feel the spirit so strong.

I am amazed how good the boys are. We had a talk before we went. I told them they are there to help everyone who comes to see them feel the spirit.

They thing the boys love about it is the animals. They have horses for the soldiers, goat with the Shepard's, Mary and Joesph have the donkey and the wise men had a camel. Nothing like kneeling down 20 feet from a camel. Good thing he was a good camel.

Drew and one of his best friends, Kess.

Boys in their townspeople customs.

The boys and Kess during the walk through.

Me and the boys at our "Inn" we were the first inn to turn Mary and Joseph away.

Jared pretending to be one of the soldiers. We had such a great time this year. Only about 40 people came. Therefore we had to play bigger roles this time. The boys loved it. We got to go under the stage to get from one place to the next and go through secret doors.


Drew pretending to be one of the soldiers. The thing that I loved the most was sharing this spiritual experience with my boys. It is the most amazing thing to be able to kneel to Jesus. It makes you realize what it may have been like when Christ was born.

Sing a Song

This is Jared's Choir. They are amazing. There are about 110 kids and the teachers do an awesome job. They have even been asked to teach a class to teach a class to all the music teachers in Utah on how to have a great choir. When Jared first told me he wanted to be in choir I thought he was joking because I am with him in primary and he doesn't sing. It also requires him to get up and go to school early twice a week. But he LOVES it and is in his second year. This is his Christmas Concert. By this time I am a little tired of the songs because by now I have seen their Christmas song 5 times at different places. But it is still awesome to see it.

Poor Caleb has also seen it several times and wasn't too happy to see it again.

This is what we started out doing. Good thing it was only 40 minutes long.

Here is Jared he is on the third row up, third child from the left or the cutest one there.

This would be Caleb in time out because he wanted to be loud and run around.

We went back in to listen because Caleb loves the Twas the Night Before Christmas Song.

But that is about it, so we were in the hall AGAIN.

Jared did a great job.

Caleb was ready to go home.

Drew did great. He loved going and listening. I love my boys so much, they make me happy(most of the time)

Weblos and wolves and BEARS oh my!

Thanks for bearing(no pun intended) with me as I try and blog our happenings in December. I might have it done by April. Any how in December Jared received his Bear advancement in Cub Scouts. He really earned it in October, but I didn't know. I thought you had to do all 20 sections in the book, it turns out you only needed to do 12. It turned out good though. We just had him receive it in December when Darrin could be there. However Darrin was very sick and couldn't be there anyway.

Jared after he received his Bear. It only took him about 6 months to earn it.

In our ward we paint their face with some story about talking a trail to get to where they are. The boys love it and I enjoy doodling on Jared's face.

This is Jared and his AMAZING scout leader. Bonnie has done a lot to help Jared get many patches, belt loops and pins.

This is all the boys who received advancements. Pretty awesome since that is about half of our pack. I love working with the scouts. They are AWESOME!

Let It Snow!

You can't tell from this picture, but before Christmas we got snow(about 1/2 inch maybe). When it snows here the kids get excited, get dressed and play in the snow. He find that the neighbors driveways are the best hills. The kids had a ball sliding down.

They always try to go down on feet. Even Caleb.

Drew trying to climb the hill, I told them to use the stairs, but what does Mom know?

You get very creative with no sleds. Caleb had a ball.

Drew trying to get down the hill, he was a little heavy for it to work.

Caleb keep trying to eat the snow. Sad to say not enough on the ground to get just snow. You got dirt too.

We finally pulled out a tube. It worked like a charm.

Amazing the tube worked so well with so little snow.

Isn't he so cute.

Drew's favorite was the tube.

Jared just loves it when it snows.

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.