Busy December

It seems like as soon as Thanksgiving hits, December has come and gone in a flash.  My Brother and Sister in law came to visit us at the first of the month which was so much fun.  Aaron helped the boys with their new leather making kits that my mom had sent them for their birthdays.  It was so cute watching them all concentrating so hard and having fun.

Don't you just love the red mustache?

And this goofball is my baby brother.

Milan celebrated his 40th birthday this year, he told me I wasn't allowed to throw him a birthday party to celebrate the occassion.  So I waited until after christmas and had a double surprise birthday party with one of his friends.  My friend and I told our husbands that it was a party for the other so they wouldn't figure it out.  The funniest part was when we got to the bowling alley, they went up and wished the other one a happy birthday and then they were both confused.  It was great.

After Milan's birthday, we have both boys birthdays.  It sure makes for a CRAZY month.  3 birthdays and Christmas.  But it's also alot of fun.

The boys wanted donuts instead of cake for their birthdays.

Ethan wanted this wand so bad, he was even saving his money to buy it.

Carson is our little movie maker.

CHRISTMAS DAY!!! 

Payton loves her daddys mini cooper, so for christmas she got her own.

Payton got dress ups for christmas and daddy had to try them out.  (He's gonna hate me for posting this picture of him)

Christmas outfits 

Elder Taylor even enjoyed the dress ups too!

Christmas 2010

Here it is, the KITCHEN you have all been asking to see. Finally finished!!! And I'm so happy that Payton loves it. She has played with it nonstop today. Milan asked me, now that I am done with it, would I do it again? and yes I would. It was alot of fun to build and seeing the look on her face was worth it. These are my favorite expressions today. Payton lay on the ground for a little bit while trying to wake up, but once she got the hang of presents, she just wanted to open all of them hers or not. Ethan and Carson were so excited to get the number one thing on their lists and they showed it. Now if I could only keep these expressions when I ask them to clean their rooms.

We are so grateful for wonderful family and friends who love us and are always there for us. We are so blessed this holiday season to have you in our lives. Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Chirstmas

We hope ya'll had a Merry Christmas. I love this time of year and the spirit that is here. I love to see the excitement on my childrens faces and to smell all of the wonderfuls smells of christmas, but I especially love being with family and friends.

On Christmas Eve it started to snow and Carson came running over to me to tell me. He said, "Mom, it's snowing outside, it must be a Christmas miracle!" I had to laugh because it was so sweet. It doesn't snow much in Texas if at all and he thought this was a miracle to get snow for christmas. It helped him feel like the Christmas' he had experienced in the past. It was like a little bit of home here in Texas so I guess in a way, to him it was a Christmas miracle. I wish everything else could be so simple.

























We told our kids they couldn't come down until 8 am (mean I know) since Payton wouldn't be awake yet, but by 7am the boys were downstairs oohing and awing over all the presents and what they thought might be inside each of them. By 7:30 we were opening presents. We were too tired to fight back.





















We had to wake Payton up on christmas morning, so she was still sleepy when we brought her in the family room. We were so excited to see how she would react to opening presents and to seeing her pink coupe car, but she was still sleepy so we just set her in it and she just sat there for a while, then we tried to give her other presents to open, but she just wanted to sit there in her car, and to even think about trying to take her out of it was a mistake. She just screamed at us so we left her in it most of the day.We were able to spend Christmas with my Brother and his wife before they move back to Utah in a few weeks. We are sad to see them leave, but are grateful we got to live by them for the year and a half. It was a blessing to us.