It's December!

December 2007

Justin, Megan & Katie

There is such a magic about the holidays that I love. It has been such a fun December watching my kids get excited about Christmas and getting everything ready. I have been so busy that it has been hard to keep up on the blog, but we are all enjoying our holiday so much. The kids love doing the countdowns till Christmas, the secret santas, and the 12 days of Christmas. I think Justin has wrapped more of his homemade gifts than I have and he is really loving it. I just might get him to start wrapping all my presents since he does such a good job. Anyway I thought they looked so cute by the tree.

Rob's asking for it now!

December 2007

Tonight after one of our huge snowstorms (and our ward Christmas party) Rob, my brother Brandon and their friend Dax went on a midnight... well....extravaganza. They started out shoveling one another's driveways, then the neighbors driveways, that quickly turned into a snowball fight with our neighbors across the street (mom and 3 teenage daughters). Then they got this idea to build a giant snowman (or 2) on our neighbors driveway. And this photo actually doesn't do it justice. This was after the teenagers knocked the top off and threw giant snowballs at it. They said they weren't done but they saw them drive in and so they ran away before getting done. The best part was though they shoveled the driveway all the snow to build the snowman was used off the grass so it didn't look like they had any snow. After this they decided to go over to another families house and build another snowman on their roof and then color it red (they are big BYU fans) with koolaid. When they got there though they weren't quite sure how to get on the roof so they decided to do something else instead... (see pictures below).


They decided to srart by building a snowman and put it on their porch in front of the large lit up Y in the house. This was a huge snowman too. You actually can't see it in this picture since the U covers it up. Well after doing the snowman they just didn't think that was good enough so they decided to build a giant U of U on their front lawn and driveway (now again this photo doesn't do this justice, it was huge, at least twice Rob's height). They said they had so much fun and here I was at home thinking they were out shoveling walks. One of their neighbors watched them out his window and even got it on video, he said it was unbelievable and at first was wondering what in the world they were up too. But once it started to take shape he thought it was really amazing. Rob walked in past 2 am and just laughing said...you have got to drive over and see what we did. When he told me I thought ok, but when I saw it I just had to laugh and congratulate them on a job well done. GO UTES!!! It was really great. The best part was the following day and Sunday at church We had so many people saying, "why didn't you call me" and "that was so awesome, great job" etc etc. The family did knock it down and turn it into a y sadly enough. But even weeks later people are still commenting about it. They say that they are planning something to get us back so we are just waiting for it. Rob says that's ok, it was well worth it.

Silly at bedtime

December 2007

Tonight Justin and Katie were being so silly at bedtime. I was sure they would never fall asleep. They were up giggling and laughing for a while. You would think after such a long day they would crash. But somehow at bedtime they get this bit of energy and they want to play. Sometimes I come in and they have the whole room set up with all their animals, and beds made up for them etc. And other nights we put them to bed and they are out in a few minutes. They sure do love sharing a room though. We have begun to let Katie know that eventually she will share a room with her sister and she doesn't like that idea at all, and neither does Justin.

So blessed.

December 2007

I had the kids dressed up tonight, and they just looked so cute. Rob and I are so blessed and so lucky to have 3 such great kids. It doesn't take Christmas to remind me of that, I am blessed to see it every day. Thanks for being so great and teaching me so much. I love watching all three of them grow, learn and play together. I love how much Katie looks up to her brother and follows him everywhere, and how great Justin is with her. They have such a great relationship and one I hope they will always treasure. I can see it in Megans eyes allready how much she watches her older brother and sister and wants so much to play with them. Soon little one soon.

Growing up!

December 2007

Megan is growing up so fast and it is so fun to see her little personality start to develop. Such a giggly girl and so fun. She says ma ma now too and loves to be held. Mom is in love with her cute curls (not natural I have to sponge curl them), but I think they look so darling on her. She loved this bell around her neck and would cry if I took it away from her. She is starting to scoot around on her behind and in the first stages of wanting & trying, yet failing to crawl. Sooner than I think I will be putting up gates and babyproofing everything a foot off the ground again.

Work Party

November 30th, 2007
Sorry I know this is a little out of order but I neglected to share an awesome night of food, fun friends & dancing. Rob's work always put together such a great Christmas party every year at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. They had a great dinner and after they had dancing and it was really a lot of fun. Rob was still really sick but he was such a trooper. He is a really great dancer and so we had a lot of fun. I have been trying to learn some more swing, ballroom, cha cha, and fox trot so it was a lot of fun to try some of the moves. We even did some country swing and polka. I am still learning more and really enjoying it. He is constantly teaching me and some of our favorite date nights are dancing around our basement to Michael Buble after the kids have gone to bed. SO FUN!!! I love it. A special thanks to my sister Shannon, she came out and played with the 3 little ones so we could go. They all had a great time with her and couldn't stop talking about how much fun they had.

Ward party

December 8 2007

Today was the ward Christmas party. Here Justin is singing with some of the other primary kids (in striped shirt front). The theme was Christmas around the world and it was really cute. We all had a great time.

Shower Caps!

November 2007,

Kids can be so cute and so funny, I can't help but laugh along with them. This night the kids were in getting ready for bed (I thought) I was in my room, they came running in with Katie's pull ups on their heads. They were dancing around and singing. When I asked them what they were doing they said showering, and these were their shower caps! I was on the floor laughing. It was really hilarious! Silly kids!

Swimming

November 2007

Rob and I joined a gym (Lifetime Fitness)

in the first of October and
we have really enjoyed it. The kids have too. This is the kids swimming one day. They have a water slide but the picture didn't work out, Justin loved this. I had a picture of Megan and I also but it wouldn't post the picture rotated so I just deleted it. She loved the water and I was suprised how long she swam. Katie and Justin are also little fishes. As you can see they loved the water and have been begging us to go back. Katie kept walking out too deep and would start to float on her back she DID NOT like that. Other than that she enjoyed it. We are hoping to go again tomorrow now that our 4 weeks of sickness are over. We had a flu that went from one to the next in our house for over 4 weeks straight and it was awful. I am glad to be away with it now. I missed working out and I was glad to get back to my kickboxing and other clasees this week.