Christmas 2011

This year we spent our Christmas with Jason's family and it was a really fun experience. Our first night in CA we went to see some really elaborate Christmas light decorations. The second night we....

 had a very special visit from Santa. 

 Eric was so happy he ran over and gave Santa a hug.

 Josh was the first to sit on the big man's knee. Santa gave each child a present of Christmas PJ's.

 Eric receiving his present from Santa

 Christmas morning and Eric, Josh and Dilyn were so excited.

 Josh and Eric enjoying their gifts from Santa Christmas morning.

 Eden enjoyed her gifts from Santa too.

 Jason was excited about his CD player for the car. No more dark age technology for us in the car. hee hee. 

 Eden in her pretty Christmas dress ready for Church.

All three kids ready to go to church.

We were so blessed this year and we hope all enjoyed their Christmas holiday and  remembered who the holiday is celebrated for.

kids say the darnedest things

The other day our new furnace was finally installed and yes our family is gratefully warm again. While the man worked on it he had a very distinct smoke oder on him. While working the entire day he had five different smoking breaks and nothing was said till Josh came home from school. Josh after watching the man take yet another smoking break seemed to think that enough was enough. When the man came back in to continue working my five year old walked over to him and said, " don't you know that Jesus said you shouldn't smoke? and that we must always do what Jesus says." I was part horrified and part pleased with Josh for standing up for his beliefs and sharing them with another. As for the man his response was "kids say the darnedest things." He had a smile on his face and finished up his work. I hope that one day he listens to the wisdom of a small child and makes a better choice for his body by quitting the bad habit.

Stockings

Are you ready for Christmas? Our family is soooooo ready to be with family during this Holiday season that every day Josh asks if we can go see Grandma yet. I love that he asks for Grandma and not Christmas presents. He also thanks Jesus for Christmas day in his prayers.

Santa

Our Ward party had a very nice visit from Santa Clause. Josh loved sitting on his lap Eden didn't care much and Eric gave Santa the stink eye the entire time he was on his lap, but we hall had a really good time as the kids made memories and I captured it on camera.

 Josh on the big man's lap.

 I love the stink Eye expression Eric is giving it's better than a screaming child.

 Josh my ham

 there was also a really big villlage set up and a electric train that Josh and Eric were really entranced by.

 this train is about fifty years old.

the three kidos all ready for bed.

Merry Christmas Everyone

I came in to this

I came in to check on Eden this morning and this is what I found. Now don't they just look so comfortable Eric was in the crib with them but he was more interested in the crib toys.

My big girls is almost five months old and she loves to sit in her Bumbo.

And loves to play with her rattle.  

She is so pretty

Josh's song

For this years Christmas Eve program Josh is going to be singing to the family accompanied by his Daddy so we practiced yesterday. I love young budding musicians.

spinach

I ran out of sweet potatoes  so today I looked in the freezer to see what we have and found Spinach and thought oh boy she is not going to like this but hey it's good for her and I should at least try.

The picture says it all.

She devoured it all!

so much has happened

My computer was having some major problems for the last two weeks so now that it is miraculously feeling better on it's own I'm able to post some fun pictures of the kids and what we have been up to.

 Eden love's sweet potatoes!

 Saying goodbye to an old friend

good luck in CA Sabrina

 Eric and Eden chilling in their bumbos

 Josh getting his first tooth pulled, he asked us to and he was so brave through it all!

The prized first tooth

Josh's new look

Eden looking so happy in the bumbo sitting up like a big girl.

 So this month we, put up all our Christmas decorations and Eden enjoyed her first bowl of rice cereal and sweet potatoes and experienced what is was like to sit up, we said goodbye to some of our friends that we have known since we were first married, we lost them to the state of CA now they are happy in Elk grove Josh lost his first tooth and we will be getting our new furnace this week. Our house is never dull.

Thanksgiving weekend

Okay now that things have calmed down a bit at my house. Let me tell you it has been insane the last couple of months going to Dentist appointments, Dr's appointments, vaccination appointments play group activities family coming to town, and so on and so on and that's not even our everyday stuff. Sheesh adding another baby to the family all of a sudden I find my self going to appointments every week it seems. But we did have a very nice Thanksgiving with friends and family at our house.
I also went to black Friday midnight run , it was so nice to get things for Christmas at 75%off. I got almost everything I needed at the price I wanted and everything else was rapped up by Monday so we are completely finished with our Christmas shopping before December 1st and it feels so good. Now we can sit back and relax for the rest of the month. And contrary to what the media was trying to portray black Friday as everyone was polite and the only down side was I stood in line for an hour and half with my mom but it was so worth it.

Saturday we got the Christmas lights up and Sunday we decorated the inside of our house and did our annual ginger bread house.

My pretty Table for Thanksgiving

 My Dad chilling while the dinner was being prepared.

 Most of the family was busy watching football all day.

 My perfect turkey with the guidance from my mom.

 Uncle Eph and the boys

 Eric kept giving my dad the stink eye when ever he felt wronged. He really shouldn't do that but it sure is a perfect replica of me.

Thanksgiving was over and Eden was ready for Christmas season to start

 Saturday after Thanksgiving my little brother did a photo shoot with my family so we could have updated family pictures with Eden.

Eden was super cute in her huge but very pretty Sunday dress.

 Sunday evening we did our family gingerbread house.

So once again a very successful Thanksgiving.

Eden's four month check up

Eden saw the Dr. today for her four month check up. It was good timing since she and Eric are both sick with colds and were seen in one trip. Eden is doing very well the Dr. says she is now ready for fruits and veggies with her rice cereal and that she is growing just fine. I was concerned with her growth since she seems so small still but she is still growing.
Her head is 16 in and that puts her in the 10th percentile for head size.
Her weight is 11lbs 4oz and that puts her weight in the 10th percentile for her age group.
Her hight is 24 1/2in that puts her hight in the 50th percentile for her age group.
So she is a long skinny girl, her body type is much like her Daddy's.
She giggles when she smiles and her favorite person in the whole world is Josh.

 Eden and my father 

taken by my little brother.

From Conception to Birth

http://youtu.be/fKyljukBE70


I have never seen something this beautiful  before. You can not see this and not know of a higher being in our lives. Please watch this and share it with your friends.

Teachers

It's no secret that I will forever be grateful to Josh's preschool teacher. She gave Josh the head start he needed and the love for school that is essential to future success in school. Today she offered to enroll Eric in her class for next year so that he too would have the same opportunities as Josh. Now Josh's Kindergarten teacher has done a wonderful job with Josh as well. He is flourishing in her class and is excited to go to school every day. So Thank you to all educators who instill in their students what my child's teachers have instilled in him.

 Ms. Kathy and Josh last day of Preschool.

Breaking Dawn Premier

My friend offered me a chance to go see Breaking Dawn with her at the special early 8:00pm showing it was awesome! No line to wait in and I didn't have to stay up late to see it. When we left the movie the line for the 12:00am showing was insane.

 This line snakes all round the theater.

My friend Shirlee and me as we were leaving Breaking Dawn.

A video of Josh READING!

Last night at story time Jason and Josh read a book together. Josh is so close to just reading on his own. We are so pleased with his efforts and wanted to share with everyone else.

if you watch Josh's hand you'll see him making the sign for R.

Firsts

Eden is just two days shy of being four months and has had a couple of firsts this month. She had her first cold, no fun for mommy, She had cereal for the first time last night and consumed it like a pro, and she now has her first tooth on the bottom much to her parents surprise. She is growing and other than the tooth she is a very happy baby. Last night was the first time in a long time that she only woke up twice. She had been waking up about four times every night. She didn't spit up any of the rice cereal, I think it was because she ate it really slow but anyways she is doing well and well still allergic to milk products but I hope she out grows that around six months, that may just be wishful thinking. Another first was Josh visited the dentist yesterday for the first time and he is doing great!

If you look closely you will see two sets of little hands that belong to the boys. They were so excited for Eden's first solids meal. Eric even insisted on tasting it before Eden so he could put his stamp of approval on it. Problem was he wanted more.

Oh, and Eric used the potty for the first time.
Lots of firsts at our house!

weekend vacation

Over the weekend we took off and drove to Fresno CA to visit my parents while we were there we took some family pictures courtesy of yours truly, and celebrated Jason's birthday. This year Jason received three cakes all for himself since his wife can't eat them and lots of fun things to enjoy. We also visited Jason's parents on our way back so we got double the family time.

These are some of my favorite pictures from the trip

 Papa and Nana

the leaves in this park were so beautiful.

 Eric

 Brianne and Jason

 Josh was the most difficult to get a picture of just right because he loves the camera so much that he does all these funny positions so we had to actually go back to the park to get a good picture of him.

 Josh and Mommy

This was probably the only time she smiled that day. She has been teething and is very grumpy these days.

 Jason's 29 Birthday one of the three cakes.

 new hiking backpack

 Cake number two

 Josh loved all the cakes as you can tell.

Eric too.

Cake number three, Jason enjoyed this cake with all the youth in our ward.

Eric enjoying the paper at Nana's house

All in all it was a very fun weekend, now we have another week to look forward to.