Christmas 2011

Here are some pictures from our Christmas! The boys were completely spoiled by Santa and their grandparents!

Ammon really loved his new train! (the train I had to 'send' to Santa per Nathan's request!)

 Nathan kept saying that Santa brought him a Buzz last year and this year he wanted a Woody- Santa delivered!

We had a great Christmas and I sadly forgot to take my camera to our parent's houses but these show the beginning of what was a great day!!

More pics to come from our sledding trip on our 5 year wedding anniversary!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season!!!

Halloween 2011

So Halloween was kind of a dud at our house this year :( Not because I didn't get the costumes done, not because Michael had to work (he actually had the day off) but because Michael and I came down with the FLU!! Not the stomach flu but the achy, yucky, just want to sleep flu. Our boys were not neglected in the candy department however, the Great Pumpkin came after they went to bed and brought them each a small basket of candy because they didn't get to go trick or treating. We actually had the most trick-or-treaters at our door this year and we were just no fun. I was disapointed becuase we had a great matched theme this year- Nathan wanted to be Capt'n Hook with the hook and mustache- so I made Ammon Smee :) Here is a pic of the boys all dressed up at the library.

We did get some pumpkins cut before Michael and I crashed on Sunday :)

Amon didn't know what to think but Nathan just jumped right in! We let them paint their pumpkins and I learned the sad way that Dollar Tree finger paint does NOT come out of clothes :( but at least we had some fun!

It seems that I just can't stay healthy- last week I got food poisoning and that kept me home from church for a day of recuperation. Today is our primary program so I am a little nervous- I have never been in the Presidency before and I haven't done one in quite a while!!

We are taking Ammon to Casper tomorrow to have his ears and hearing checked and we hope they will schedule a date to put some tubes in. The poor kid has had 9 ear infections since March!

I am a little anxious but hopeful that it will be a good visit and productive.

Hope you all are having a great Sunday and have a great week!!!

Celebrating Family

One of my favorite blogs is We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ. Now starting on Friday- the  Celebrating Family month begins!! A couple of blogs get together and talk about how we can all make the Proclamation to the Family a part of our lives. It is great and I am soo excited for all the wonderful postings and ideas!! Head on over here to join in!

 

On a family note, Ammon has started WALKING!! It is been lots of Fun! 

We have been trying to get Nathan potty-trained but he is being so stubborn! When we went to Salt Lake last month he went the WHOLE weekend and had just a few accidents in the evening. Got home and REFUSES TO GO!! We are about to go crazy with this whole thing so any ideas would be WONDERFUL!! 

Hope you all had a safe summer and are having a great Labor Day!!

1 already???

Today is Ammon's 1st Birthday!!!! It just doesn't seem possible!! I will update more later but I wanted to show off the birthday boy and is cake- :) 

We just LOVE this boy!!!

Our Summer So Far...

We signed Nathan up for the summer reading program at the library. This year they are doing activity nights based on different countries that the children librarians are from!!

So first hand knowledge!

The first night was by Fanny who is from Switzerland.

 Nathan's Mountaineer Climbing the Alps

Nathan and Fanny

Then a few days later we walked in Relay for Life. We originally were going to walk a mile and we had both strollers for Nathan and Ammon.

Nathan walked the first lap and then rode in the stroller the next two. 

 On our last lap, Nathan wanted to walk and continued to walk another two laps!! My little three year old walked 3/4's of a mile!! 

So we walked a total of 1 1/2 miles due to Nathan's extra effort!! 

Hope you all are having a great summer!!!

Dew This Giveaway!

HI guys! Just wanted to let you know that I am hosting a giveaway on my Dew This blog!!

It is a interchangeable countdown calender kit!!! 

I am not selling these in my Etsy store :)

Click here to enter the giveaway!!

Good Luck!!

Now here are some pics of the boys- always have to show them off !!

My New Camera!!!

 Here they are the pictures from my NEW CAMERA!!! For my Mother's Day/ Birthday present- Michael bought me a new Canon Rebel XS EOS camera!! I am soo happy and excited!! I LOVE it and I am afraid that I will take WAY too many pictures!!! :)

 I was practicing my manual modes and had Nathan run for me- he really got into it and kept say 'Ready?? GOOOO"

I Love all our new pics:)

Last weekend, we went to Bountiful/Salt Lake for Micheal's brother Levi's wedding! It was beautiful- they looked so happy and it was a great weekend!!!

My wonderful, amazing friend Isabel was a SAINT and came to watch Nathan and Ammon during the sealing- that morning my mother in law's babysitter fell through and she was wonderful enough to watch Micheal's twin brothers as well!!! THANK YOU ISABEL!!!!

Here are the newlyweds- aren't they adorable?? :)

We went to the church history museum after the wedding and their children's area was LOTS of fun!!

I really liked getting to dress up in the fun skirts:)- Ammon thought they were fun too!!

 Nathan and I learned how to do a few Mexican Dances together- he was so cute!

 They had this huge mirror and Ammon found his soul-mate! It was the cutest!! He kept trying to crawl into the mirror! :)

 Nathan and Ammon got to meet up and play with their cousin Marty (he is 8 months younger than Nathan)

 They played really well with each other!

It was fun trip, great weekend, and lots of fun memories!!

Hope you all have a great week!!

Easter!!

Here are some pics of our Easter!!

We had a GREAT Easter!! Hope you all did too!!!