Thanksgiving

We're back from our super fun Thanksgiving trip, the boys loved seeing Grandma and Grandpa and playing with their cousin Dilyn. It was so much fun playing with family and just being together. Great Grandma Kjar came for the fun to and both boys loved seeing her as well. So what we did while we were in CA was, Thanksgiving day we spent all day getting food ready for the big meal. My Mother in law had us fill out a worksheet about all the things we were thankful for then we shared them with everyone. Then on Friday some of the family was crazy enough to brave the crowd at three in the morning for black Friday sales. the rest of us women were even crazier by braving the 10:00am sales, that I must say was a very interesting experience. We went to Kohls and shopped for about forty five minutes and waited in line for an hour but we got our good deals and had fun at the same time. While the women shopped the men went paint balling and my father in law came back with his usual nasty injuries of war. Then on Saturday it rained all day so the plans to play outside were canceled so we went to Chuckee cheeses instead and you would have though we had taken Josh to Disney land with the way he was acting. He had so much fun I don't think I have ever seen him that excited. He even ate all of his pizza which for him is a miracle because Josh hates pizza. We walked away from Chuckee chesses with some of the happiest boys on earth. Then that evening we got out the chocolate pudding and let all the boys paint on the table with it. They loved that especially my nephew Dilyn. He was eating and flinging it all over. When we put all three boys in the tub the water turned brown instantly. We came home on Sunday to a quiet house and finished up the day with a bowl of soup and sandwiches.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving too.

 The pictures are a little out of order. This is Dilyn while he was playing with pudding

 Josh and Eric pudding painting

 Eric eating the pudding

 Josh riding the biggest horse ever

 Eric taking a ride with Chuckee

 Eric loved riding with Barney. He wanted to do this ride over and over.

 Josh playing on the tube slides.

Grandpa and his Grand-babies

Thanksgiving Dinner

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a happy Thanksgiving and for those of you traveling drive safe.

:)

Spelling

So Jason and I have been forced to start spelling out anything we don't want Josh to know about. So when we are talking about Christmas things a lot of our conversations go like this,
"we need to start thinking about things for the
S T O C K I N G, maybe we could put a M O V I E in it."

well last night when we were having one of these conversations Josh spoke up and asked for a T O Y. and then told us what he wanted. we were both speechless because our four year old just spelled for us. We had him do it again on video. So we are the proud parents of a very smart little boy. So if you want your kids to learn to spell, spell everything out in conversations around them if they are up for a challenge they will start telling you what you are saying.

just because

Do you ever get those times in your life when you desperately need a stress reliever? When those times hit us we try to smile and take some pictures because before you know it tomorrow comes.

 Yes my son is sitting in a garbage can full of leaves and he took a bath right afterwards.

 Eric hard at work mowing the patio

 a beautiful sunset

Jason's 28th birthday cake

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is Jason's birthday but we are going to celebrate today cause he planned an evening out with the missionaries tomorrow. This year has been crazy but I guess I can say that about every year. Most years we just go to Folsom for his party so that we can be with his family but this year to many things came up so instead we will be having a friendly party here. Served with chili, cornbread and treats and playing games with friends. Sounds like a great idea for someone turning 28.

Jason on top of the world
:)

Growing up

Josh / Woody

The marsh mellow

This morning I was dressing the boys for the day when Josh came up with the idea to wear his woody pj's under his clothes given it's a cold day I agreed. When he came home from school he lifted up his sweater to show me that he was not Joshua Kjar but Woody in disguise. Every day I look at him and I can still see a glimpse of my baby but more and more each day he is starting to be a big boy with his own personality and opinions. Eric on the other hand is still my little baby who is now wearing his brother's coat from last year with no problems. He is my adorable little marsh mellow. I'm still not sure where the years have gone but Jason and I have done so much in that time. If only the time could go by a little slower so I could catch up.