Saturday, December 6, 2008

Christmas Parade

on thursday night, there was a christmas parade downtown. it was really fun. we made hot chocolate, found a corner on the street, and watched all the cool floats with lights, trees, and decorations. i have never had to bundle my kids up so much ( you know, coming from arizona) and it was fun to buy them big coats. but we definately  needed the warm stuff.

here is mikenna and treston, with the lighted swords we bought them, waiting for the parade, drinking hot chocolate
here's andon and sawyer sitting nicely in there strollers with there swords
me and my baby boy. he is so cute
here we are watching the parade

janell with her boys, treston and sawyer
grandpa and the grandkids
here is our texas clan (everyone who is here) at the parade
and of course my wonderful hubby and kids... our family

so if you were wondering or even care, no i didn't take any pictures of the actual parade because i find that when i take pictures with no people in them, i don't ever use them for anything so it is kinda a waste. 
fyi: also to clear up my whole house situation, a lot of people had questions about it from my previous post of the decorating, it is a bit confusing thing and may not make sense to any one but it is what we are doing until things are a little further on with the business. we are moving out of our apartment that we are in right now and moving in with janell for a few months. my dad is moving out of janells to get his own place for when my mom gets here for christmas. and this is all happening this month. probably in march, we will move into our own house. we want to build a home here so we may not be completely settled and in a permanant place for a year or so. i hope that clears up any confusion anyone had. 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

22 Days Till Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

We helped janell decorate her house chrismasy since that is where we will be for christmas and we are moving the end of the month so i am not putting stuff up in my house. 
so janell treston and mikenna put together the deer...
andon and sawyer just played around and got in the way...
and i had to put the lights on this tree and it was not easy but it was fun. we finished the outside just in time for it to rain.
kelton hung out and watched us
inside we put up the tree...
and we all decorated it


the finished product and the happy kids



Thursday, November 13, 2008

Just Some Pictures

these are just some random pictures i have taken over the past week.

i started giving kelton baths in the tub on his bear. he loves the water and there is definately more room than the sink.
janell and i took the kids to the zoo and this is the only picture i took. i guess i wasn't in the mood to stop and take lots of pictures. and you can't see very good but mikenna and andon are in front of the lions.
the kids and i started to have play time with kelton. when i lay him on the ground i have to watch him carefully because he gets clobered. so here i just took some fun pictures of them.

mikenna was talking and playing with kelton and she just looked so cute being a big sister i had to catch the action on camera.


Monday, November 10, 2008

Jack Jubilee

last weekend my nephew treston had an activity night at his school called jack jubilee. we went with them to it and the kids had a blast.

the kids played soccer...


they jumped on the bouncy thing...
treston and mikenna had a gunny sack race...

my sister and i even got in on the fun ( and i won)
and the kids got a horse ride (this was the highlight for them)
we attempted to get andon on and as you can see he didn't like it ( but he was facinated with looking at the horses)

treston and sawyer liked the ride



Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Kelton's Blessing

kelton was blessed this past sunday the 2nd. it was a very special day and kelton was a very good baby during sacrament (even though his pictures say otherwise). he received a very beautiful blessing by john. i missed all our friends and family from home to be there.

kelton cried every time i tried to take a picture of him but he is still adorable 

mikenna, kelton, and andon
kelton was asleep but we still needed pictures after church
i was determined to get a family picture because we haven't got one since kelton was born. so here is my family i love so much on a beautiful sunday afternoon.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Making Pizza

the kids got to make pizzas at the pizza store on saturday and we had a blast
first was rolling the dough out...

then they rolled out the air bubbles...
next comes the sauce...
then the cheese...
andon liked to eat it

next is lots of pepperonis...
stick it in the oven...
and last of all enjoy eating the pizza.