Love to see the temple!

Busy Girl

My kids got tired of me taking pictures of them so I stole some family members to help me out. These are a few of my favorites.

Little Ballerinia

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas was awesome this year. Having Jake here really helped fill an aching gap that was especially poingant durring Christmas. Usually at Christmas I am so excited I have a hard time sleeping. Not so much this year as the kids got up at 2:30 am!!! I sent them back to bed but they came back in at four saying they were starving and needed breakfast. Then we put them to bed AGAIN. Then they came at got us at 7:30 and we finally caved. It was hard to be mad because they were so excited. This is one of my favorite Christmas pictures. I will call it "Ahhh... Shoes" (that's my girl.) Bryce is the funnest to watch at Christmas because he is equally excited for all his presents, start to finish, toys or clothes. He even got excited about a new tie he got for church. Shaylee graduated to electronic toys (a CD player) but will have carefully edited music for atleast 10 more years. Jacob fit in perfectly and had a great time making all kids of impressive Bat Man sound effects with his new toys.

Ahhh...Shoes


New Fuzzy Jammies

I bet God gets a pretty good kick out of little kid Christmas pageants


Harley wanted to be part of the pageant so we let him be a baby sheep

My AWESOME blueberry cheesecake for Paxton's birthday


Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR ya'll!

Night over Boise

It is Paxton's birthday tomorrow on Christmas Eve. When people hear that they usually feel sorry for him. But I beg to differ. He never has to work on his birthday, or go to meetings. He always has lots of food and family around. I think he has a pretty good deal! This year his parents bought him a suprise helicopter ride over Boise. It was really cool. I am used to flying but it is really strange to feel a sidways movement instead of just forward. It was cool to get to hang out just above the city and see all the Christmas lights. It was even cooler that the pilot was Paxton's cousin Bryant. The only part that made me nervous was when we made a sharp bank and my body was literally perpendicular to the ground. It is unerving at 3,000 feet. We finished up the evening by going out to dinner. It was an awesome night and Paxton was a very happy boy!








I couldn't figure out the right setting on my camera so I got some pretty strange pictures over the city. In these ones you can pick out the capital building and the Christmas tree on top of the US Bank building. (If they don't make you airsick.)

Quote of the Week

Avery (age 4): Daddy, I like you. You can be in my club.

Loves...

We are adoring Jacob but I am still missing my Colin. Jacob has a very definate place in our family as does Colin still. My heart has grown to encompass Jake but there is still a hole where my little Colin should be. I love my FIVE kids.

Where Santa came from

Bryce: Mom, I think I know something. If Christmas is to celebrate Jesus's birthday, but he is invisible and we can't see him so he sent us Santa Clause!

Let it snow!

I've been playing! I shouldn't have this new camera till Christmas but the pretty snow was too tempting.

Quote of the week

It cracks me up when kids try to use big words. They either get them wrong or use them completely out of context but either way it is always a laugh.

Avery(while noticing we were out of Purell): Mom, I need some more hanitizer
Jacob: You mean sanditizer
Avery (waving her hands): No, hanitizer. Like for your HANDS.
Jacob (very seriously): No Avery. It is sanditizer because it is made from sand.

Me: Bryce, it is past your bed time. Why are you still awake?
Bryce: Because me and Jacob were disgusting something really egg-mazing.
Me: What were you discussing?
Bryce: Spiders
Me: That is disgusting.

At thanksgiving when all the family was saying what they were thankful for:
Me: Forever Families
Shaylee: Animals
Avery: Jacob
Jacob: this new family
Bryce: I'm thankful for meat-eaters because the meat-eaters eat the plant-eaters. If they didn't then there would get to be too many plant-eaters and they would eat all our food so there wouldn't be any left for us. So it is a good thing we have meat-eaters.

While I was at Bryce's class helping out a fireman came and did a demonstration for their class. At the end he asked for questions and Bryce raised his had. I really hoped he wouldn't say something about how I started an oil fire on our stove and set off all the smoke alarms the week before.

Fireman: Did you have a question little guy?
Bryce: Sort of. I just wanted to say that if there was a fire at my house and I couldn't get out my room then I would just get an axe and I would chop open my window and chop up anything that was in the way. Then I would jump out the window like Superman like this (insert Superman arm actions and sound effects).
Fireman: Uhh....
Me (raising my hand from the back of the class): By the way, he really doesn't have an axe in his room.

New Pic

My latest painting. I actually finished it a while ago but haven't gotten around to posting it. BTW all my paintings are my own copy of a photo or painting done by someone else. I just do it for kicks.