We were sealed as an Eternal Family September 17, 2008! What an amazing day!!

Monday, November 30, 2009

Christmas is almost here and I am so excited!

Traditions!
Some things I want to start with my kids this year:

I want to learn to make my moms amazing candy!
I want to make a cookie house and decorate it!
Go find a tree to cut down, decorate it with my kids and listen to fun music. I think the tree is for kids and I don't think it should be perfect with all the same decorations. I want a variety of fun even homemade decorations that they will remember.
I want my kids to know and understand the true meaning of Christmas. I want to make it a tradition to see a live Nativity and to read the same Christmas Story every year on Christmas Eve. (Anyone have any good stories or fun craft ideas?)
I want to do chocolate fondue on Christmas eve!
I want to find a Santa to come visit on Christmas eve. (Anyone know a Santa that does house visits?)
I have been collecting Children Christmas books and want to collect more. I am going to put them in a basket in front of my tree wrapped. Every night before bed let them unwrap one for bed time stories. I wrapped them last year:)
I am going make a SPECIAL Christmas Pillow cases for my kids to sleep on this month so they have sweet Christmas dreams. haha I know it sounds silly but I think my kids would love it.
I am going to buy my kids an ornament for the tree, put the date on it.
I am only giving my kids three gifts! Like the 3 wise men. A toy, a book and something to wear. I am not stressed at all about Christmas. I can focus on others more. hurray!
I want to do a Christmas Count down
I am going to do the 12 days of Christmas.
Feel free to leave a comment on some fun family traditions. I just want to make memories for my children that they will hopefully never forget.
I love the holidays!!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Late, Late, Late and Late Entry

Thought it is about time to catch up on everything... or I should say most things. I am very late on some of them but oh well.

Zac and I had a great 5 year anniversary. We went to Zion and hiked for the day. It was beautiful and we had a great time. It was nice to get away for the day and spend time together. Kristy watched the kids for us so that was nice.








Easton Started Preschool officially this year in September. He loves it so much. He goes to SuperStartpreschool and loves his teacher Mrs. Nobis. He has 13 kids in his class and he already has friends that he talks about everyday. He is super friendly. Everytime I drop him off he calls every kid by name and says hi to them. He is so social, asking them how they are doing and what they have been up to? He just cracks me up. He also has to give Jax a hug and kiss bye. He always tells him... "Love you Jax, you have fun with mom and be good for mom okay" I love it. He is so adorable. I sure hope he is good in class and hope he listens to Mrs. Nobis. He has learned so much already. I am very impressed.



For Halloween this year both Jax and Easton were cowboys riding a horse. If anyone asked them what they were going to be they would answer " I am going to be a horse" haha. I thought that was so cute. They were super cute and they had a great time trick-o-treating. I worked on halloween so my sweet sister got them ready and took them around her neighborhood and then when I got off work I took them to a few houses. I laughed so hard when I took them around and figured out that thier costumes were switched. I didn't tell Kristy that there were different sizes. haha. Jax had the bigger horse and he really struggled walking around. Kristy mentioned to me that Jax got really tired and had a hard time with his horse. Eastons horse, the legs were short in front and he really got around fast. haha. I laughed and laughed. It was so funny



Making cookies is always a must at halloween:) I was planning on taking them around to friends but didn't. We ate all of them! No wonder I have gained a couple inches:( But they sure were good!




Carving pumkins and the boys really didn't know what to think about the slimey goowy mess inside them. They didn't want anything to do with putting their hands inside.

We went to Staheli farms and visited the pumkin patch. What a great place to go as a family. They had fun games, food, a petting zoo and a corn maze. Great time. Wish Zac could have been there with us. Kids loved it



Horse swing. Easton and Jax stayed on this swing for so long. They loved it so much I think they would still be on it now if I didn't make them get off.



Enjoying the fall weather. I love love love when the leaves start changing. Its the most beautiful time of the year. We took a drive up to Kolob and loved every minute of it!
Jax loving life

Even Troy Joined us for the day. He is so fun. We sure love him. He was teething and not feeling the greatest but he sure was a good sport.
Two buds... I just had to have a picture in this amazing field. I just loved the dead grass effect.. Haha... Zac just laughed and said "Its dead grass, why do you want a picture of dead grass?" I love the way it looked with my two beautiful boys standing in the middle of it.
Easton
Jax and Easton loved looking at the fun leaves. They gathered a bunch to take home with us:)
Zac sure has had a great time Duck Hunting this year. He was very excited to have killed two wood ducks. We are getting them mounted. I guess they are really rare around here. I am excited because he is excited:) The kids loved seeing his ducks
Jax wanted to "Hold it" He wants to "Hold" Everything. Zac let him hold the drake they shot. He carried it everywhere... funny boy
Shirley is proud too
Zac took my camera out and took some pics of some ducks! Wow huh! He did a great job. I think he could enter this pic into a contest and win. I love it

We went up to visit Grandma and Grandpa Fotheringham and I just loved this picture of my kids with grandma.

Knudsen Family

Knudsen Family

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Jaxon or "little stinker"

Jaxon or "little stinker"

Easton, often called "little dude" or Grandpa Knudsen calls him "tornado"

Easton, often called "little dude" or Grandpa Knudsen calls him "tornado"
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