Monday, January 2, 2012

Major update!!!!

Wow, I can't believe it has been so long. I guess i just got so busy that blogging ended up on the bottom of my ever growing list!!!! We had a great Thanksgiving!!! Didn't get a whole lot of pictures this year though!! We had actual Thanksgiving day dinner with Tyler's family. Both of his Sisters from Idaho and a Brother from California and all their family's were there!! My kids just love spending time with their cousins. We then went up to the cabin with my family for the post Thanksgiving dinner and fun!!! My kids love going there!!!
Most the beginning of December was spent preparing for Christmas, and trying not to become to tired and grumpy!! I love being pregnant but man do i get a little crazy sometimes(Tyler would say most of the time!!!!) Seems that my mom has started a tradition of getting hats for my brothers and brother-in-laws. This year I made the hats and decided the girls needed some too!!!!
The hats were fun to make but took up alot of time!!! Which helped me stay off of my feet so that they didn't swell up to big!!!! I was happy that i was able to finish them all!!!
On Christmas Eve Santa ended up visiting us at my parents. I hadn't really thought or worried about taking them to see santa because no one seemed very interested, but the day before christmas eve T.j. started getting worried that he hadn't told santa what he wanted for Christmas and was begging me to take him to see him!! There was no way i was braving the mall to see santa and thought T.J. would just have to survive, but santa texted Tyler and said that he would be willing to make a visit to us!!!! Tj and Pearson were soooooo excited!!! Creedance on the other hand had to be dragged upstairs into the room while he was there and was not happy about the pictures. Toph is smart and figured out who "it was" right away and had to be talked to so as not to ruin it for the other kids!!! I am not sure if he still believes in santa or not but definatley knows this santa was a helper. My dad this year told his yearly "why santa might not be coming story" too!! It is so fun to watch the kids faces as he tells this story. We didn't take any pictures only video of this!!! This year santa drank to much bad milk and ended up in the hospital. Toph was very upset with China!!!
Christmas morning was spent opening presents. Toph set his alarm clock for 6 because he knew we had to be at church at 9 and wanted to make sure we got the presents opened and played with before we had to go to church. They all ripped into the presents pretty fast and did get some time to play before we started to make them get ready for church!!!
After church we had a big breakfast and played with all the toys until it was time to go to grandma's house to open presents there. Some of my siblings and families had already started to get there!! By the end of the week we would have all of us together but only some were there for christmas. At grandmas we had to rip into more presents.
Poor kids!
We did alot of playing and getting together the whole beginning of the next week. Even tried taking the kids ice skating at the out door rink, Toph had the most fun, Ava i believe had the least as she fell on the ice hit her mouth and started to bleed. She did not want to stand on the ground very bad after that!! We headed for the cabin, some on wednesday and some came up thursday!!! We had the whole family together, (except for my brother-in-law Sean who got sick at the last minute! no fun) We did alot of things together. Swimming, the Imax, shopping, playing, sledding, snowmobiling, they even made an igloo!! I think we all had a pretty good time!!!

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