Ski School

The boys chose ski school instead of basketball this year. We became a little worried when snow seemed to skip over Idaho this winter, but we ended up having just enough to ski on. The boys loved it & picked up on it really well. We hope to do it again next year.

Dixie's last day of....

GLASSES!

This picture was taken at lunch just before Dixie's lasik appointment (hence the no makeup & glasses....YIKES!). This little girl took our order. It was so sweet!

P.S. The lasik was a hit! 20/15 vision in the left eye, 20/10 vision in the right!!! Woot! Woot!

Christmas in Driggs

Jake "helping" Santa on Christmas Eve

On Christmas morning, the boys have to wait while we as parents torture them...ahem...I mean until the parents are ready before they can go see the presents. Then they have to pose for a picture in the hallway.

They usually get pretty lovey after a picture or two. Our kids will generally do anything we ask when have a tree full of presents waiting. "Okay boys. In the next picture I need you to..." ...or maybe not, but the endless list of possibilities is an entertaining thought....

 Lander, Jake, Grams and Nana

 Lander, Jake and Grams

 The gift of all gifts if you are a 9 or 11 year old boy. Yeah, the boys weren't that excited about them.

typical morning

This is pretty much is a typical morning at our house

Lander, sitting on the heater, eating oatmeal & playing with a lego
 set in his too-small & mis-matched, but much loved "cloud" pj's

swordsmith Lander

 Lander turned our wrapping paper rolls into swords.

all fun & games

until someone gets hurt

Lander loses a tooth

Lander tried & tried to pull his loose tooth. It was literally dangling by a thread, but he just couldn't do it. So he asked for a daddy intervention. Don't worry, the intervention looks worse than it was.

See those big tears. So sad!

 Luckily, the tears didn't last.

Quote of the Day

"I work for Pringles."

Really? Wow. If we'd have only known that 11 years ago!

oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree

Warning: 

potential blackmail pictures

 We put up our Christmas tree today & got to use the new tree skirt from Grandma Nala. The boys thought it made an excellent skirt to twirl in (who would've guessed that boys like to twirl too? I sure wouldn't have!)

We decorated the tree with hand me down decorations from their great-great grandma (Grandma P) & great grandma (Grandma J) mixed in with a few of our own creations.

Thanksgiving Highlights

#1. FAMILY!

We held Thanksgiving at our house this year, with Randy & Keri and Cedric & Kelsey. We played lots of games & had a great time. Then we headed up to spend a day in Driggs with Jarrod, Shelly & Grams. It was a nice holiday...so good to see the family!!

Drew, Grams, Jake, Lander, Jayden & Ava, decorating the Christmas tree in Driggs

Disc Golf with Jarrod

Josh & Jarrod at disc golf course

Josh throwing a disc

Laser Tag

I think a tradition has been started....let other people shop on Black Friday. We'll go play instead.

Josh, Dixie, Randy, Keri, Cedric, Kelsey

Superhero Nerf Battles

 a Thanksgiving highlight--the cousins playing superhero Nerf battles. It looks like Lander lost.

(Lander, Sydney & Jenna)

Game Time

Keri, Randy, Kelsey, Cedric, Dixie & Sydney enjoying games on Thanksgiving day

Lander's (almost) stitches

Got a phone call from the school today saying Lander fell down at recess and cracked open his head. Went to the school and was so relieved to see that although the cut is pretty deep ("It goes almost to my brain mom! Do I have to go to the hospital? I don't want to go to the hospital!!!--Lander), it was pretty small. It would've only taken 2-3 stitches.

Whew! We really lucked out on that one. A little super glue & a steri strip & we were done. No stitches. No hospital. I'm so glad I'm a nurse!

Lander felt that he should have his head wrapped so that it can heal better. Of course it will heal better. How could it not??

Carrots of UNUSUAL Size

We have started picking carrots from the garden, and this is what we are finding, freakishly large carrots of unusual size. Not quite sure what happened here, but were wondering if we could do the same thing with our pumpkins next year...

Raking Leaves

We all went to Driggs last weekend to take care of the leaves. And wow, were there a few! Lander raked a big pile for the boys to jump into. Jake & Lander are standing in the tree house getting ready to jump.