Christmas morning pictures

Christmas Festivities

Since Christmas was on a Saturday this year and Todd's family was heading up to Cedar we decided to join them instead of staying in Vegas. We left on Friday after work to head up there. Luckily we were able to get off a little early s we got out of town around 6. The boys did really well in the car on the way up there, but Kaeden started not feeling well once we got there. Poor thing had a fever and a very upset tummy. Once we got the boys to bed we got everything wrapped and put out for the next day. The next morning the boys actually slept in. By the time Avery woke up Tyler and Anamarie's kids had pretty much finished opening their presents. We had to go in and wake Kaeden up (he still had a fever and wasn't feeling all that well). So we opened our gifts we headed over to Trudi, Tristen, and Katie's house to open the gifts they had made for everyone. Unfortunately I forgot the camera for the second half of the gift openings. The boys loved their gifts!

Later in the day we had scavenger hunt around town that Katie and Tristen put together. It was a lot of fun. I was on a team with my mother and father in law and my niece Jorgi. We won!! Woot Woot! lol. Surprising since I was the runner. We then went back and had dinner, played games, watched a movie and just hung out. We had an awesome Christmas this year and are so grateful to be able to spend it with family and friends.

(pictures to come in the next post)

Christmas Party

We had an awesome Christmas party this year. Todd sang in the program. I was unable to get pictures of him singing in between wrangling the children. lol But they sang beautifully. We did however get pictures of the boys with Santa.

Deklan slept through the entire ordeal (this seems to be his MO)

Kaeden may not look excited but he couldn't wait to see Santa

Avery was beside himself with happiness to see Santa. He was so funny, he had to whisper his list to Santa so that no one else could hear it.

Christmas Lights

We take the boys to the Ethel M Chocolate Factory to look at the christmas lights every year. This year Deklan and I were both sick so Todd took them along with his family. Here is a picture of the boys sitting in Santa's chair.

Adorable child

So this morning we went to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast as a treat for the boys. Kaeden being the silly boy that he is was making faces at me while we were eating. He was going from happy to sad and back again. I was recording him being silly and when I was done I noticed someone had walked up to the table. He was wearing a Sams Town jacket and proceeded to tell us that Kaeden was adorable. He was then asking where we were from. We told him that we lived right down the street. He said ok and then asked if we were going to the Rodeo at all. We told him that we would love to go but had never been able to or gotten tickets. He kind of stopped and thought for a minute and said ok, well, maybe we will be back to spread some holiday cheer. He came back about 15 min later and handed me 4 tickets to the Rodeo for Wednesday night!!!! We are soooo excited to go and hope that the boys will love seeing all of the animals. Who knew it would pay off to have such an adorable kid??? ha ha ha We should take him out in public more often!

Helpful brother

I walked into the living room the other day and found Kaeden sitting on the couch like this:

He says to me - "Alright, I am ready to feed baby Deklan!"

This was his angry nursing face. lol

So glad that I have boys who want to be soo helpful with their new brother.

Deklan's First Bath

Here is pictures of Deklan's first bath. He loves them!!! Put him in the warm water and he just relaxes and would probably stay in there all day if we would let him!!!

The grandsons

Since all of the grandkids where here in Vegas my mom wanted to get a picture of them in matching outfits all together. Here are a couple of the shots. The older boys all have the same shirts and the Logan and Deklan are matching since we couldn't find the same shirt in all the sizes. But they all have the same theme and are the same colors which worked out perfectly!!

Avery, Deklan, Kaeden, Logan, and Tyler

Here is one with Avery's face showing since it didn't in the other one.

Look at these three monsters!!! I think it may be a good thing that we don't live closer. They would probably get into a lot of trouble!!! They loved hanging out with each other for the weekend. I loved listening to the conversations that Tyler and Avery had with eachother. If I only had a tape recorder. LOL.

Best Buddies (for the moment at least)

Deklan's Blessing

We were so lucky to be able to have almost my entire family here with us on November 6 for the blessing of Deklan. We definitley missed those who didn't make it. Here are a couple of pictures from the day. As you can tell we definitley had a house full!

Halloween 2010

I got released from the hospital on Oct. 30 and so I wasn't feeling up to engaging in the Halloween festivities. But I didn't want the boys to miss out on the fun just because I was not feeling well. So I talked Todd into taking them to the ward trunk or treat by himself. He said that they had a really good time.

Kaeden the Lion, Daddy the surgeon w/"baby, Avery the scary Mummy

Here is the "baby" that Todd took with him to the Trunk or Treat. Apparently he got a couple of people with this. They thought he actually had Deklan out with him!! He got quite the kick out of it. lol

Playing catch up

Alright, so I am going to REALLY try to be better about blogging. I know that some people this is the best way they can keep up with the family and I have been really slacking on it. I am sorry. I am going to go back through Halloween to update everything. Love you all!