Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great fun. It wasnt very big just the 5 of us and our friends from Rexburg.

Max made a couple turkeys to decorate the kitchen.

Not sure what is wrong with this picture. but you get the idea of what it looks like.Wesley helped Max cut out most of these feathers. Max just wanted to cut them into confetti.Looks like this one was left out too long and got green and moldy. eww
When I was discussing with Daniel what we needed to buy for thanksgving dinner

Max yelled "CAKE! we need a cake" So of course we had a cake. and since I wasnt going to make a turkey shaped cake I let Max pick out what shape pan to use. - So Max is driving Thomas with 3 turkeys riding in Clarabell.

Brendon played us a concert on his Trumpet with Max helping on the bugle.

After eating and playing all day Max relaxed in the armchair watching tv.

He actually fell asleep like that. He NEVER does that. He normally asks to go to bed before he gets too sleepy.

Holiday Tag

Holiday Tag
I'm only doing this for Krista cause she told me I had to.

1.Eggnog or Hot Chocolate: I can not stand Eggnog and am currently addicted to hot chocolate.

2.Does Santa wrap presents or set them under the tree? Mostly wrapped but if the item is just too big they just get set out.
I still remember the year we bought bunkbeds for Brendon and Wesley for Christmas.
They fell asleep in thier old beds and we moved them to ours. We assembled thier bunkbed and put them in thier bunks. == On Christmas morning they woke up in new beds and came out of thier room to open presents and didnt say a word about thier new bed.
Man I would have freaked waking up in a different bed. Espically like Brendon who was on the top bunk!

3.Colored or white lights on tree and house? Multi-colors

4.Do you hang mistletoe? Nah I did a few years ago just to get to be able to kiss the kiddos LOL.

5.When do you put your decorations up? Depends, Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? I can't think, Krista's answer makes me wanna hurl.

7.Favorite holiday memory as a child: will answer later

8.When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? the Truth? what are you talking about? haha just kidding...I don't honestly remember. Probably 3rd or 4th grade. (keeping Krista's answer)

9.Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes but only one.

10.How do you decorate your Christmas tree? We have alot of random ornaments either from kids school projects or bought here or there - none of them match and alot of them are characters from whatever movie/show the kids were currently obsessed with.

11.Snow. Love it? or Dread it? HATE HATE HATE HATE it.

12.Can you ice skate? Nope.

13.Do you remember your favorite gift? ??

14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Spending time with loved ones.Espically when we are able to make it home. (which we can't this year)

15.What is your favorite holiday dessert? Cake, pie, cookies, whatever LOL

16.What is your favorite holiday tradition? We really haven't started one yet. Never really had any major ones growing up either.

17.What tops your tree? I think ours is an angel.

18.Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?Giving, espically watching one of the boys open that just perfect present.

19.What is your favorite Christmas song? Little Drummer boy i think

20.Candy Canes? Yuck or Yum? yummy

Recent Happenings

Max loves jumping. I caught him in action the other day jumping off a chair.We went bowling the other day with Wes' friend Neil. Here is Wesley bowling. I didnt get alot of pictures because Neil was in a tournament and I didnt want to annoy people with the camera flash. Max doesnt want to wear anything other than Thomas the train shirts. He doesnt have many that are long sleeve so I bought a white shirt an embroidered Thomas on it. Max wont wear this willingly either but I make him. Here is Max on Halloween trick-or-treating as Thomas. He ran into the tree on purpose and told me to take a picture.
For Halloween we set out some of our halloween spooky village by the front door. I dont think many people actually noticed it so I doubt we will set it out again. But it was nice getting it all out and set up and having them all turned on.

Softy loves laying on the cable box cause it is warm. He was laying here for an hour or so Sunday night, but left when we had company. He still doesn't like strangers. silly cat

So we had friends over on Sunday for the Dallas game. And WOOOHOOO they won :)

I made a cake in the shape of a cowboys star. :) It was to big for the tray that I have so I told daniel that we at least had to eat the points of the star before it was put away that night. So Max helped with that ..... He leaned over and took a big bite out of the corner. That was before I iced it so i left the icing off that corner so I knew which one was his.

Oh and while I was icing the cake Max was cleaning off all the spoons and such. I guess it was yummy.

We had a great time with the "party" It was Brendon's friend Daxton's family. Brad and Onala, and most of thier kids. They have 6 and one on the way. 2 didnt come (they were at a cousins house).... Well thier oldest came at the end since her boyfriend lives right across the street from us. __ Anyways It was great fun they are such a great family.Even Max had fun - thier youngest is also 3 And they got along even if she "not a boy".

My Friend Krista (Neil's mom) was also in town and took Wesley to see Madagascar 2. Even tho they tried to tell me they saw "Saw 5" instead I didnt believe them cause Wesley was smiling too much to have seen a horror movie.

So when they were done with the movie they came back and had pizza and cake and hung out for a while. Krista's friend Kelly was also with her.

At the "peak" of the "party" we had 13 people it was so much fun :)

So as I was cleaning up for company I made sure to clean Max's room so they could see the mural I painted on Max's wall. I remembered I hadn't taken any pictures of the whole thing. Its not really done but 99%. I kinda gave up on it when he switched from Mickey to Thomas.

His crib goes infront of the clubhouse and alot of mornings when i get him up he still tells me "thank you amama for apaint" (he adds an "a" to the begining of alot of words)

The painting covers his whole wall. The outline of a few things needs to be redone and the hills need to be blended in correctly. But I like it and so does Max.

Random Pictures

Well these are some very random pictures- They were all taken on my cell phone- I recently got a new phone because Brendon left his outside to get rained on. I wasnt gonna reward that with him getting a new phone. So he got my old one and so I got a new one.

I figured that would be a good time to transfer all my photos off the memory card. I can't get it to tell me the date they were taken :(


Here is Brendon and Max laying in Max's crib
Now that Brendon is 12 he can work out at the gym with me. Here he is working out one day.

Wesley and Max rolling a hill.

Max and Wesley watching tv in a waiting room. I love how they are in the same position.

Max "helping" Daniel drink a milk shake.

Max in a box.

Max on a train.

Max raking.

Max's curls sometime this summer. Softy helping me sew. (last years hallowen costumes)

Max would put this table infront of the door alot to hear if anyone came in. (too make sure he knew when Daniel got home)

This house is at the gym that I work at. (i work in the daycare for trade for membership) Wesley and Max were living in it for a while.

A cross stitch I made that is now on Wesley's door.

Wesley eating Jello with his hands.

Wesley getting his medal for football this year.

Random stuff

Wesley stayed home from school the other day and went to Max's play group with us. Max and the other toddlers LOVED having a big kid to play with.Brendon had his first band concert of the year. (Center back in black shirt)

Boo at the Zoo

We went last night to the boo at the zoo. all the boys had fun

Max

Max fell asleep on me and I had to get up but this is how he ended up sleeping for about an hour.

We were expecting 2 boxes in the mail for Max one was for christmas and one was for now. Well Daniel and Max opened one up on Friday..... Guess which one it was?

So here's Max playing with his roundhouse and turntable which I guess is a way early Christmas present