Visit with Santa

Last weekend was the ward Christmas party, and my Jean / Jewelry party on the same day so Mike took the kids over to visit with Santa. I stayed home and looked at cute jeans and jewelry! He said that Ethan pretty much just froze and didn't really talk much and the girls were pretty good. They just sat there and kept looking at Santa. We had hoped to get to the mall and have them sit on Santa's lap so I could take some pics but Mike was able to get a few.

The Littlest Christmas Tree

I just got back from watching my big boy in his first Preschool Christmas play. It was called The Littlest Christmas Tree. Ethan was the biggest tree. Its about three trees, two of them get picked by a family and the littlest one gets left alone. Then bunnies come and decorate it with berries and garland and it feels like a Christmas tree too!! Such a cute play and all of the kids did such a great job. I got some pic but they turned out kinda crappy. I am so proud of our little boy. He is getting too big too fast. He was so excited for the play and did such an awesome job!!

Ethan was so funny...The second we go there he ran right to where he was supposed to stand for the play.

The Three Christmas Trees.

Singing a song

His part of the play is over. :) Waiting patiently.

Ethan and his friend Nadia. <3

Nickelodeon's Wii fit

Here are some cute videos of the kids playing Ethan's new wii game.

Gettin into the Christmas Spirit

Last night we put up our Christmas decorations while watching the Polar express. It was fun to get into the spirit of Christmas. I love the music, yummy food and being able to spend time with family.

 May be the cutest picture EVER!! Daddy and Emma.

 I made a Christmas wreath today!!

                                      Ethan's tree                                               The twins tree

 Emma

 Sophie and her cute little bum hanging out.

ZOMBIE LAB!!

Ethan has been asking for Dr. Dreadful Zombie LAB forever!! He sees the commercial on TV and goes crazy. It is gross....to say the least. You make things like zombie barf and bubbling brains. We made some super yucky stuff the other day and Ethan was loving it. The barf was.......not good.... tasteless but the texture was YUCK! The bubbling brains were sour and better than the barf but still. LOL Yeah he is one happy boy. Now he wants all of the other "accessories" that go along with the lab that he has, like the stomach churner. Oh boy

 Trying the zombie barf!

 looks like he like it! LOL

 Making the bubbling brains

 mixing the bubbling brains

EATING the sour bubbling brains!!!

ETHAN'S 5!!

I just can't wrap my head around the fact that Ethan is 5 already. It honestly seems like it was yesterday that we were just starting our family. He has grown into such a smart, kind, and funny little boy......no......BIG boy. After thoughts of doing a Justin Beiber Birthday party ( with some help steering him away from that idea ) he decided to have a Cars birthday party. This is the first year we have done it at home and I have to say it was a great success! Everyone had such a good time and I think Ethan had just as much fun as going somewhere.

                                      

 This is the first game I had planned....They punched out a light and there was a car and some candy for them.

 The second game was pin the car on the racetrack and a racetrack ramp for them to play on.

 AND..... a finish line PHOTO to end the game portion of the night!

 After opening many fun presents he was so excited to get MATH DICE from his Auntie Stacy! Silly kid!

 Everyone watching Ethan open presents.

 He was so cute...He kept his foot like that the whole time to keep his presents from falling.

 He LOVES the show Minute to Win IT!

 And the gift he has been asking for for WEEKS......drum roll........DR. Dreadful ZOMBIE LAB!!! (YUCK) LOL

 CAKE!

Playing one of his new games with his friends!!

Oh and another movie he was super excited about was the JUSTIN BEIBER MOVIE of course. LOL Thanks Sylvester FAM!!

I cant believe you are already 5 ETHAN!! I love you so much! I hope you had a great birthday!!

Wendover 2011

Ok I have no idea how this happened but I didn't blog about Wendover this year! I was going through some of my pics and just cant believe I didn't! So I hope you all don't mind me backtracking a bit. I just want to have it in my blog so when I get around to doing blog books it will be in it. So close your eyes.....wait dont close your eyes.....just pretend its still September. Ok here we go....

This is when we just got there. They set up their cute animal chairs and had a snack!

 

 

This was their face almost the whole time we were there......The kept saying "its too sunny" LOL

testing out the water

Ethan also thought it was too sunny! LOL

JUMP IN!

Yup thats the hot tub. It wasn't on this year. That's a first!

Jess and Melody

some goof balls in the pool....aka cousins

Looking at their happy faces!

We all got spray bottles from grandma Yoshi. It kept the kids busy for hours!

Looking at the lizard Jake and Jared caught.

iPhone TIME

I absolutely love having the ability to take pics on my phone......it sure makes for some great memories! Here are some great pics we have taken in the last little bit....

This is how the girls play with toys.....somehow always on the ground.

 

 Sophie's "happy face"

Ethan's Halloween craft from preschool!

Scary Halloween suckers!

Ethan "sniping" us

Just me and the girls being silly!

The girls cuddling in mommy's bed

The girls wearing big brothers clothes

Backpacks!!

THIS is why I had to take the changing table out of the girls room!

This is almost a daily occurrence.

One day they took their sheets of 3 times! So this is them getting in trouble. NO mattresses for you! LOL

BEFORE ( believe it or not there are 2 kids in this pic! Can you find Emma and Ethan???)

AFTER (Lets see how long this lasts)