Gingerbread house 1st attempt

So making gingerbread houses with a 2 year old and 1 year old went well.

Singing Christmas songs

Christmas in Provo

We went to Provo this weekend to have Christmas with our friends Ben, Kimby and Mantha. We had a blast they cooked a big feast of ham and Christmas potatoes and homemade rolls and jam delicious. Harper and Mantha are a couple months about and are glued to each other the whole time. Little Ben wants to play with the big kids so bad but they don't really let him. Soon Kimby will have a little boy then Ben will play with him instaed of climb up and down the stairs. We celebrated Christmas with them. Kimby made all us girls these really cool gifts I can't say what they are in case Chelsea reads this. It was great we had a lot of fun. Harper asked if he could stay at Manthas house. He already wants to move away with his friends.

Visiting Santa at "RUff Ra's" Walmart

Santa came to Grandpa Clair's "Ruff Ras" Walmart. WE went to visit him and tell him what we wanted for Christmas. Harper had to show him this reindeer toy. Harper was very excited to see him and only a little scared. Benjamin was not really for it, lets just say he sat on his lap but clung to mom as tight as he could. No tears from Ben so thats good. We know him! Santa that is really well and so Mommy was a little nervous that the boys would recognize him, which they did but only as Santa. Look at my eye I'm winking. whew. So I am going to post a video but I forgot to stop it for a minute so it kind of films some ceiling for a little bit.

Thanksgiving 08'

We celebrated Thanksgiving with our cousins in Evanston WY. We did the traditional olives on our fingers. The amazing picture of all 3 2-3 year olds smiling nicely with the olive hand did not work out very well so this is the best we got. Then the little cousins started a band that was pretty good. I can't teach them any Bon Jovi songs because I still have a ban on trying to cover them since nevermind I don't want to talk about it. Anonymous rocks! It was fun. The highlights besides the band was looking over the ads and deciding what sales we needed to get to. I left at 5 am and stood in line at Target and got everything I wanted and some impulse things as well.




Harper is not bad at the drums gets it from his mom. lol. Ben had a go at singing but was still too little the big kids didn't let him play hopefully next year. Ben did like going up and down the stairs which is his new trick lately.

Good helpers

Aunt Shantel needed pies for church so both Harper and Ben decided to help. Harper can put them on the apple pealer all by himself. Ben was busy putting the apples into a pot and stirring them with a spoon. The pies were delicious and my mom is a saint for being able to cook with a 2 1/2 year old and a 1 year old. Thank you Grandma for teaching us how to make apple pies.

Halloween 2008

Halloween was a lot of fun. Since there are not very many people home in our neighborhood to go trick or treating we met are cousins Jill, Danielle, and Chad at their church to g trunk or treating. Our friends Ben, Kimby and Mantha came up from Provo to play and spend the hoilday with us. The boys played gears of war and the girls all played a dice game called fargle after trunk or treating. Mantha and Harper played so well together all night. I asked Harper in September what he wanted to be for Halloween and he said a blue monster so I found one on ebay and other than it being a tad big and very warm he had fun scareing people with his "monser" roar. Ben was PO from Kung Fu panda beacause like PO he can climb anywhere to get food and candy. We went trick or treating at grandpas walmart and Ben pulled a fast one on one of the employees by throwing his pumpkin bucket at him to distract the guy while scooping armfuls of candy from the bowl into his lap. Ben thought it was the best day. Its funny Ben was born around Halloween and loves it and Harpers favorite hoilday was Easter which he was born around. I think that Christmas this year will become favorite however. I was supposed to be a monster mommy but when I put the blue robe on I looked huge so I still was a monsters mommy just different. Harper walking in his cotume was so funny because of his little tail following behind him.


So eye makeup on a 1 year old not going to happen. He had rubbed that all off. The head of the monster was too heavy to wear. If you look to the left or Rusty you can see the elephant pumpkin I carved. cute.