Our New Year so far!

These last couple weeks have been the busiest of the year! hahaha. We actually started the busy time on New Year's Eve....Aaron's 8th birthday!! Happy Birthday Aaron!! He got some fun presents---an engine to put together with Dad, a rip stick, his very own scriptures, Legos.....and more. :)  He wanted to go to work with Dad for his birthday, so he and Ashton helped out Adam for a while. FUN!

On the 2nd, Preston had a big day. It was surgery time for Preston.....Tubes in his ears, tonsils and adenoids out. I've actually been looking forward to this. Is that terrible? I really believe he will be so much healthier and his ears hopefully will cause him less trouble. He had a rough couple of days, but he is back to mostly normal now (just no chips!) And he's been sleeping better!!!!! 

On the 5th, Aaron was baptized!! We belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We are so proud of Aaron and his choice to be baptized. Doesn't he look so handsome in his new suit?! 

We had lots of family here to support him, and I feel bad for not taking more pictures! But I am so grateful to those that could make it out to support Aaron.

On the 8th, we had another birthday!! Livia turned 4!!! Where has the time gone?! She is such a GIRL! She wore a puffy sleeved, twirly dress for her birthday, and that is totally her. 

Adam and I got her a microphone for her birthday, and in hind sight---I think we overlooked the fact that a microphone amplifies a voice. It's been pretty loud around here!! (Praying for dead batteries soon!!) 

Happy Birthday Livia!

Then yesterday- the 12th we had our first Pine Wood Derby for Scouts! Now that Aaron's 8 he gets to go to Scouts. (A whole new adventure for us!)

Check out this car that Adam (I mean Aaron) made!

That was our busy couple of weeks so far this year! We are looking forward to a wonderful 2013!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas in Washington!

We had a wonderful Christmas vacation at my parent's house in Washington this year. No one got sick, or hurt, everyone slept well, and played well. We had a blast!!! We started things out by riding horses for a little while---this was one of  the only days without snow!

 Then later on Saturday we went on an "eagle cruise" around Lake Coeur d'Alene.  It was amazing! The eagles come down from Alaska and nest at the lake for winter. We saw about 250 eagles in those 2 hours! It was so much fun.

 The kiddos with Grandma and Grandpa

 Family photo :)

My dad was teaching the kids how to fence. :)  At least they had face masks. They really enjoyed that.

 One of the boys favorite things to do is build a fire with grandpa. :)

 On Monday (Christmas Eve) we woke up to about 6 inches of snow! Beautiful!  It was a white Christmas!

 This girl LOVED the snow! She was the first one out and the last one in every time!

 So we decided to build a snowman. And not just any snowman. It ended up being about 10 feet tall! And my dad made a snowlady for the snowman. :)

 So--Adam is 6'5" so you can really see how tall these snowpeople are!

 Merry Christmas!!!!! The kiddos waited until 7:00 to come upstairs. Thanks guys.

 Merry Christmas mom and dad!

 Captain Underpants!! hahaha

 I love Liv's face!

 Ashton was so excited to get his remote control helicopter. Aaron got one too.

Hopefully this video of the eagles works. It was such an amazing thing to see.

It was a wonderful Christmas full of beautiful memories. 

November and some December.....

I try not to feel too guilty for not posting every week- but in the back of my mind, I always feel like I need to. Well- my blog is turning in to a monthly posting lately. If you knew what our days were like here though- you'd be surprised I could fit in a monthly posting!

 

First off----Basketball!!!! We love basketball season! The boys were on different leagues this year. Aaron was on the "Heat" and Ashton was on the "Broncos". Both #8. They did so good. They both were pretty competitive- especially towards the end of the season, and they both had really good teams.

 

 

 

 

My parents came the day after Thanksgiving and got to go to a basketball game with us. :)  It was so fun to have them with us for a few days!

 

 

 

 

Some family pics....

 

 I love setting up the tree! The kids love looking at all the ornaments. And then all month long they un-decorate, and then re-decorate the tree!

Adam decided to go all out and decorate the 75 foot tree in our side yard with Christmas lights. He took all the kids for a ride on the crane too. Not me- I'm a chicken!



Well that was our month in a nut shell. Stay tuned for our Christmas post--we are off to Washington in a few days!!!!! So excited!!!!