Christmas (cont.)...

Jacob got to shop at Santa's secret shop at school this year...he was so excited to give them to us, but he was even more excited to give us his Christmas tree ornament he made at school.

Wade's parents brought the brothers T-shirts from Jamaica.

We were so happy to be able to spend Christmas with Grandpa B...

Grandma B...

and Uncle Devin and Aunt Brittany

We had a great holiday and hope you all had a great one too...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Jacob's 6th Birthday...

My baby boy is 6...I can't believe it! Because of the date of his birthday (12-27), we get to celebrate a lot...

Here he is at his class party...

Then bowling with his friends Nick and Eastan...


and finally opening presents on his real birthday. We also went to Cold Stone for ice cream that night and lit a candle and sang to him at the shop, others waiting in line sang to him too...he was so embarrased and cute!

Harry Potter Premier...

Some friends of ours got free tickets to the Harry Potter Premier and invited us to go, we had so much fun being sorted and drinking butter beer, and Wade even got tricked into getting face painted.

Let it snow...

And snow it did...definitly not the most Utah has ever seen, but it did snow consistantly late Saturday night through late Sinday/early Monday, plenty to play in!



Trying on dad's snow clothes...I like how the knees of the pants are in the shoes and then the rest of the pants hang out the sides.

Halloween Breakfast, Boo at the Zoo and Trick-or-Treating...

I thought it would be fun to spice up breakfast, so colored sprinkles and mini M&Ms made for fun pancakes.


As usual, the kids loved the zoo and all the candy they got trick-or-treating.


This is right before we went out trick-or treating, it was pretty rainy outside but the kids didn't seem to care too much, they just wanted the candy. When we got home Anna's sweatpants were soaked past her knees, but her dress wasn't wet at all, not really sure how that all worked out, but she didn't complain. Jacob's costume was kind of plasticy (I know that's not a word) and he was dry as a bone. They had a blast and brag about all the king sized candy bars they got.

Carving Pumpkins...

Usually my kids are big chickens like their mom and don't like scary things so I was kind of suprized that they chose a creepy skeleton and the grim reaper for there pumpkins. (See finished product in later post.)

Halloween Party...

Wade's 30th...

So Wade turned the big 3-0 this year and we weren't able to do any huge celebrating, but I think he had a good day anyways. The Friday before his birthday, the kids and I took balloons and a cake to work and then went out to lunch. Then Saturday, on his birthday (Oct 16th) the kids gave presents...

Then Wade's brother and sister in law gave him a gift card to Moochies, this mom and pop italian shop with amazing meatball subs, steak and cheese, and fries. It was featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives and we thought it looked really good and wanted to try it and it was really really good! Afterwards we had cake (Oreo Ice Cream Cake)with Dev and Brit and then played games...hopefully he had a good birthday and maybe someday I can make up for the lack of celebrating.

A lot of Posts...

Below are a bunch of new posts of my brothers wedding, our trip to Disney World, and Anna's Birthday...we have been busy, busy, busy. Enjoy!

Anna's Birthday Party (Oct.9)...

As you know Anna loves Sleeping Beauty. She begged for a Sleeping Beauty Cake, so here is my attempt, could have been better, but could have been worse.


We had 3 girls and 4 boys at our princess party, so we played pin the crown on the Prince or Princess.

and had a pink and purple heat pinata, (Thanks Darcy for holding it when out nail gave out).

And of course we had presents.

Anna's Actual Birthday (Sept. 14)...

Anna on her birthday Morning...in Wade's family they got to open presents when they woke up, in mine, you opened them after dinner, so now we do a little bit of both.

New jammies and a princess card form G&G Burnett.

Inside of her princess card was some paper princess bling...she wore it the whole day including the doctors office and while she got her hair cut

After Dinner...More presents and pizza...

The Magic Kingdom...

After Zach's Wedding we went to Disney World, a first visit for all the members of my family including my Mom and Dad ( none of us have been to Disney Land either so this was very exciting). We went for 2 days and each kid got to pick a park, Anna's pick was the Magic Kingdom, so she could go on the dumbo ride and see the princesses and Minnie and Mickey. We had a lot of fun that day, despite the heat. Some of the favorites were the Winnie the Pooh ride, Splash Mountain, the Buzzlight year ride and my personal favorite was the Monster's Inc. interactive comedy show where people in the audience were randomly selected to be a character from the movie. Anna got to be Boo and they showed her up on the big screen for all to see. Kind of fun.