11 Questions with Josh

1. Favorite Family Activity: Playing board games
2. Favorite Movie: Cars
3. Favorite Color: Blue and Red
4. What do you want to be when you grow up: A police man
5. Favorite Sport: Golf
6. Favorite Food: Pancakes
7. Favorite Cartoon: Wild Kratts
8. Favorite Holiday: Christmas
9. Favorite thing at School: Class Parties
10. If you were rich what would you buy: 100 hot wheel cars
11. Favorite Scripture Story: When Nephi get the plates

11 Questions with Mason

1. Favorite Family Activity: Sing songs
2. Favorite Movie: Go Diego GO
3. Favorite Color: Yellow
4. What do you want to be when you grow up: A policeman
5. Favorite Sport: Basketball
6. Favorite Food: Chicken Pillows
7. Favorite Cartoon: Wild Kratts
8. Favorite Holiday: Christmas
9. Favorite thing to do at school: Make Crafts
10. If you were rich what would you buy: A House
11. Favorite Scripture Story: When Nephi gets the plates.

7 Question with Sara

1.What is your favorite family activity:  Snuggle
2. What is your favorite movie: Strawberry Shortcake
3. What is your favorite color: Blue
4. What is your favorite food: Corn Dogs
5. What is your favorite cartoon: Super Why
6. What is your favorite song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
7. What is your favorite toy: Leap Frog Puppy I got for Christmas

Matt had a birthday

We celebrated Matt's birthday at the end of last month. He turned 31. We had Matt's parents and sister over for cake and ice cream.

 Later Melissa and Logan stopped by to say hi. I am not sure what his favorite present was. His very own candy mountain courtesy of Melissa and Logan. OR...

 His new old car. We finally parted ways with Matt's Subaru. It was starting to slowly fall apart on us and we just didn't want to have to deal with a car that was going to nickel and dime us. We were sad to see it go (kind of) but  are glad to have something a nicer.

Pinewood Derby

This year Noah got to participate in the Pinewood Derby for the first time. He had so much fun though he did admit that he was nervous that he was going to loose. He did all the work on his car with just a little help from Matt and I. He did a great job! He won the award for best workmanship.

He raced 6 different races and took first or second place in each of them. He took second place in his age group. It was definitely a learning experience since it was our first time. Now we'll know what to do different next year.

Christmas

We had a good Christmas this year.  Our tradition is that we don't do anything all day and sit around in our jammies playing with all the new toys. This year of course we went to church. This year on Christmas Eve we had Matt's parents over for Christmas dinner. After they left we got the kids ready for bed in their new pjs that our elf Freddie brought them. When they got in bed they all found that they had tickets of some sort in their beds. The tickets were for the Mini Van Express. After they got their tickets punched they came to the kitchen to get some snacks for the ride. Hot chocolate, popcorn and marshmallows. Then we piled in the mini van and went in search of Christmas lights. Our area doesn't really do anything exciting with lights, but we still had fun driving around looking at them.

 Christmas morning the kids slept until around 7 and were really excited to see what Santa had brought them. Of course they never get everything they want but we always hear, "This is the best Christmas ever!", come from them several times.

I'm horrible at taking pictures so this is all I took. I want to work on that this year.  The kids are already talking about next year. Christmas with little kids is just so much more fun!

Freddie the Elf

This year we were lucky and we got to have one of Santa's elves come and stay with us to check on the boys. He was quite mischievous and got into a little bit of trouble now and then.

One day the boys were a little naughty so he got out all their clean underwear and decorated the front room with it. They thought this was great.

 He must have been cold when he got back from the North Pole.

 Playing board games one night.

 He strung string all over the front room. The boys loved that the hard to crawl and maneuver around the front room.

 There was the great toy war that took place in our kitchen.

 Reading Christmas stories to the stuffed animals.

 He made several sugar angels in the kitchen one night after it had snowed.

 This one freaked the kids out the most. He turned a new gallon of milk green. Mason wouldn't even eat his cereal because the milk was green. The boys couldn't figure out how he had done this.

The kids loved having him here and they were sad to see him go.  We didn't get pictures of everything he did, but the kids loved getting up each morning to see what he had gotten into.