Friday, January 30, 2015

Lazy January Days

 I honestly am not doing great with this whole blog/journal thing cause I honestly don't remember what we did for New Years Eve and I took no pictures. All I can remember is it was just us.  No friends, no family.  We were lame. haha! New Years Day we did go out and go sledding with our new sleds and broke 2 of them.  But it was fun!
 Not sure why I took this other than, he is just cute!
 For Family Home Evening one night we talked about prayer and then made our own prayer rocks!  They turned out great.  Its funny how quickly the rock becomes apart of your bedroom furniture and you forget about it, but the art project was perfect and the kids still have them while I'm writing this (9 months later).


 Cordelle's. (unpictured)
 Seth and Jaq headed back to school and I snapped this picture (below) just because I love watching them walk out of school for some reason.  It just reminds me of how they are truly in their KID LIFE.  Anyways.  I just love capturing everyday regular life stuff some times.  (We got a good kick out of some of Seth's journal he brought home--so sweet about missing Scott on his mission. I think this pic was taken to sent to him).


 You cannot give an 8 year BYU football fan a helmet and not expect him to create his own BYU football field in our basement and constantly beg people to play with him.

 Love my little BYU fans!

Oh the Pinewood derby begins.  We have no idea what we're doing.  But here goes....


 The finished product. :) Hum...a BYU car?  NO way.   He definitely didn't win a lot, but at least he won once!  He was a tremendous sport about it though and loved just watching the races.  He's a good kid and has a great attitude.  Of course we would have loved to win more, but he was happy for the kids who did well.

 I love that Jaq and Collin were doing this all on their own. Even thought she can't really read, she will scan the lines with her finger (like she's reading brail) and say she's reading the scriptures.  And sweet Collin just is following suit.  SCRIPTURE POWER!

 She earned it!  Her pink football.  (I can't help that she was a little influenced by someone in choosing this as a reward for good behavior and cleanliness)  But she REALLY wanted it.  Hence the picture of both of them.
 And now they're ready to play.

 Collin having a party with all his "friends."

 And this is what you get on a lazy morning before Kindergarten and your mom is in the shower. :)

 This was one of about a million pictures I found of all these barbies on my phone.  Who could possibly be the culprit?

 Collin teaching or reading to Olaf.  

 For some reason, pictures like these crack me up.  

 I LOVE THESE PICTURES.  They are so sweet to me.  One day Jaq created this whole little set up with snacks and blankets like they were on a picnic.  Then they laid down to take a nap after they ate and lo and behold they really fell asleep!  Collin loves her and I am so grateful she is still home (even for a half day) to play with him.



This package totally made this girls' day.  While we were up north at Christmas singing songs with Cordelle's family, Jaq was trying to remember a song she had learned in Primary that no one knew.  Anyways, later Lisa Morris found it and sent it to her in the mail so she could have it.  How thoughtful is that?  She was just as excited to get her own package as she was to have the name of the song she couldn't ever remember. 

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

December Extras

 This picture is really the only picture I have of my kids up north when we went to the Mason family Christmas party which we did for the first time AFTER Christmas.  We celebrated it at Tallie's this year and had a good time exchanging gifts and visiting together with everyone. My parents gave the two older kids their very own ukelele's since Granny has been teaching them every time they get together lately.  They loved these! They came with their own cases and everything.  They gave Collin a huge Olaf which he of course loved!  It was a great evening.
That weekend Tallie suited and boarded up Jaquelle an took her snow boarding for the first time down some sledding hills near her home. She was INCREDIBLE.  Seriously, I have no idea how she did so well, having never done it before.  It was so much fun to watch her.  She almost never fell and had complete control and just went down easily.  Seth didn't try because his collar bone was still broken from slamming into a neighbor boy while jumping on the Perkins trampoline. But tried sledding a few time until he got nervous that he would hurt it even more. 
And then the above picture is before church on Sunday.  I love Collin just leaning on Gaven.  Cousins!
 Seth spreading his BYU love with his sister.  All of that stuff is his.  But he is cute that he wanted everyone to feel apart of HIS team.
 Jaq got this for Christmas and  I got to say, I had so much fun with it.  I remember these from when I was a kid and they are hours and hours of fun.  So one night after she went to bed, I made this art piece for her.
 Cuddle time
 Mermaid blankets.
Our busy December!

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas Morning

 Collin was surprisingly not too concerned about getting down to business of opening presents, but rather saw the boxes of cereal and wanted breakfast....like now.
 
 but he did get into it eventually.

 Seth and his loot

 Jaquelle 2014 Christmas

Collin Christmas 2014

I guess we didn't take as many pictures as video's but hopefully we captured it there.  It was a fun and magical morning followed by a very chill day. Merry Christmas.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Christmas EVE!

The excitement is growing!!!  Everyone's equipped with their new jammies and its time for..... bed!
 Before Santa......

 After Santa!!




Saturday, December 20, 2014

A few things around Christmas time.

 One Monday for family night we got to watch my friend's little boy and Collin enjoyed reading to him.
 We took him and our kids over to Debra Ley's home (a woman in our ward) who has an incredible array of Christmas trees throughout her large home. The kids have a fantastic time finding the 100+ baby nativity scenes around the house and seeing all the tree's theme decorated in each room. She has an incredible electric train and always serves hot chocolate, cookies and/or herbal tea.  Such a great, fun Christmas tradition.

 Little Ben!

 This was Collin who fell asleep in this totally chilled, relaxed position.  Totally made me laugh. Who can fall asleep like that??
 
 ....Because I am the coolest home ever! Errr, I mean Melf and Kelf are the coolest.  We have 2 elves at Christmas time that do funny things around the house.  This time "they" created a fantastic toy town with action figures, train tracks, a dance off between princesses and star wars action figures. :)
Cuddlin' on the couch in the basement after the kids are in bed.