Sunday, January 20, 2013

Christmas Adam's

The day before Christmas Eve in our house is Christmas Adam's.  We had Ky's mom come spend the night at our house and we celebrated our Christmas with her.  Opening presents!
The kids opening their presents from Grandma.
We went and drove through the Layton lights.  We went and saw them about 5 times.  They were pretty fun!
Then we went up to downtown Ogden and they have a park there that was a Christmas village, and lights.  It was fun to walk around and see all the different little houses they had set up.  

It's funny to me to think back and I thought it was so cold that night.  But now, that would seem not so bad.  We really need to get out of the teen's!
Everyone with Grandma!
It was a fun night, and fun to be able to spend time with Grandma!

Saturday, January 19, 2013

p52 week 51

December 16th to 22nd
Our holiday baking!  Bethany chose to make peanut butter cup cookies. Rolling out her dough for the cookies.  It's fun that the girls are old enough now that they can actually help and do part's of it by themselves.
Rylan chose to make chocolate covered cherry cookies.  His favorite part is liking off the batter.
Hannah choose buckeyes.  Some of our good friends from Albuquerque introduced us to them last year. We all loved them so much, and now make them at Christmas time.  They are my new favorite, which means they are also kind of dangerous!  It's probably good we only make them once a year!
The boys exercising with me!  Those are their weights.  They are too funny and make me laugh!  I love having work out buddies!
Bryleigh's nursery teacher's put together this cute little Christmas card and mailed it to Bryleigh.  Love it!
We decided to make a huge change in our lives and to home school our kids.  This is them at their last day of school.  They all wanted to home school and are super excited about it, and so am I!  
The girls last day walking home from the bus.  I'm glad they got the experience of riding a bus for a few months, but I am also glad the experience is over.  It was nice and convenient  but I really did not like sending them off every morning on the bus, like at all!

sickies

The kids took turns being sick this week.  It started on Sunday with Hannah down with a fever, headache, sore throat.  Bethany was down the next day with the same thing. I got it too, and was down most of the day Monday.  It would last 2 to 3 days and then we were fine.  Bryleigh came down with it on Tuesday night and by Wednesday she was having a hard time breathing, so she got to go into the dr's after dinner.  Hers turned into croup, so she got her steroids for her lungs and was much better by the next day. Dallen was down with it in the middle of the week, and Rylan finished it off for us that weekend.  I was happy it cleared our house before Christmas.
Bryleigh getting all comfy on the couch with her pillow and blanket.  It was a little strange for her to stay in one place for longer than a second. 
Dallen had fun watching shows.  It's one of his favorite things to do these days.  When we are sick there is not much limit on the tv, one plus I guess.

Bethany's hair after 3 days on the couch not moving.  She had it the longest.  She ended up missing 3 days during her last week of school.  Hannah ended up missing 2 days that last week. The girls enjoyed reading books and playing their ipod while they were sick.  They also both took some good naps.
Poor baby!  You can tell she was not feeling well! She wanted to be held all the time, we had some good snuggles.
I really wish the kids would all get sick the same day, so we can be sick and everyone get it and be done with it in 3 days, instead of dragging it out all week.  It sounds so much more practical!

Ky's birthday

We celebrated Ky's birthday!  He got some fun presents and had cake.
Bryleigh had to take a trip to the dr. after dinner, which was kind of a bummer!
German chocolate his favorite. 

Happy birthday sweetheart!  We love you sooo much!!

basketball

Bethany decided to try out playing basketball.  She is having so much fun and learning a lot! She is still figuring out what to do during the games, and where to be and what to do with the ball when she gets it.  
But I am so proud of her for trying something new and for giving it her all.  I wish there wasn't a foot of snow outside, so we could go to the park and practice with her more!




Defense!
I'm so proud of my little Bethany!

p52 week 50

December 9th to 15th
We went to the Dicken's festival at the Utah fairgrounds.  We had fun hanging out with our friends and watching the play Oliver.  It was snowing outside, and we got some fun pictures.
My cute family!!
Checking out Santa's reindeer!
Bryleigh has started to actually play with her baby dolls.  She gets them all set up for bed and loves to carry them around.  She is becoming such a little girl!
Rylan was having a rough time at dinner and kept bugging everyone at the dinner table.  After moving him around a few times and he kept upsetting people, he got moved to the floor, all by himself!  He didn't want his picture taken.
Hannah with her festive crown she made at school.  I think in a different country the oldest girl in the family wears this crown during Christmas time.  She was nice and let Bethany have a turn wearing it since she is the oldest in our family.