Silly Sammy

I gotta say... this kid says the funniest stuff and has been talking amazingly since around 18 months. I love it. I thought I should write down some random stuff he says now so I can remember later.

If you tell him to not do something he yells "I'n not, No I'n not"

I naughty, I sit on the step --- I good boy now, I get off the step.

Epitant (elephant)

Giggles (The Wiggles movies)

Gonas (Jonas)

I coming?

I yuv you mom (awww my favorite)

Elmo pooped ha ha ha ha

Soapie (Sophie) naughty

Soapie gots somesing

Soapie eating my binky (yes he still has a binky and the bottle to boot)

I'n going to pee on you (when I'm about to put him in the tub. I know, it's wierd, but funny)

I fauted (farted)

He also loves to sing the Hokey Pokey, and pretty much knows every Wiggles song. Even the wierd ones Shalom El Ehem (whatever that is) He growls when he's mad and rolls his eyes when he doesn't want to listen to you.
That's all I can remember for right now. But I'm sure I'll think of some more after I "publish post"

Turning 2!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Christmas 2009

Hooray it's Chistmas!!! (hooray it's over!!!) This has to be the most unchristmassy I have ever felt. But regardless, I feel good that I pulled it off... again.

Katie and Izabel

Patrick, Jackie and their new baby Andrew

We are so lucky to have Santa show up on Christmas Eve again this year.

Kade loved seeing Santa, it was so cute watching him. He was telling Santa all sorts of good stuff.
Kyler, Sam, Parker and Jackson. It was fun having the kids draw names this year, they actually watched each other open their presents and really appreciated their gifts.Grandma holding Andrew
Jonas and his cute smile
After everyone went home we opened our Christmas jammies... so cozy.

And then... Christmas morning. Always so crazy and messy.

Jonas really wanted a lego set to build. None of my kids have ever been very interested in legos, so this was pretty new to us. He did a great job though, I just had to help him follow the directions and he built the whole thing by himself.

One of the hardest things about having a fourth child is buying toys. I think we have had pretty much every toy ever made... so here is the second run on the Geotrax.

Kyler got a bunch of football stuff. He LOVES it. He said his receiver gloves he got on Christmas Eve was the best Christmas Eve present he ever got. Thanks Kade!

Katie got her little laptop she has wanted forever. It's pretty sad when that little thing works way better than my computer. I find myself using hers when I want to look up something real quick. Mine takes way to long.

All in all Christmas was a stressful success. I'm so relieved it's over. I know that sounds pretty bah humbug, but what can I say, I had a hard time feelin' it this year.

Please, Please, Please don't let the groundhog see it's shadow this year.

Oh Winter!!!

Winter time again??? It came a little too fast for me this year. Here's Sam, all bundled up. And a picture with his new haircut.
Thanksgiving at Mindie and Aaron's house.

And our sweet new nephew/cousin...Andrew Joseph. He is such a cute little baby. I think I could just take this one home with me.
Decorating the Christmas tree.

Even Sammy helped. Well maybe not helped, but made it last longer because he thought it was funner to undecorate the tree.

Fall

I thought I'd get caught up on Fall, considering Winter and Christmas are fastly approaching. This is our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. We have been going to the same one since Kyler was little. So it makes sense in my head to drive 30 minutes away even though there are others just down the street. It is pure torture for my kids to sit in one spot and let me take their pictures together. You would think 11 and 12 year olds would get over it, but they are actually the worst. Of course there is always the fight of who is not sitting by who and so and so is too close to them. Aaaahhhh... so much fun to do our annual tradition!
For some reason I didn't take very many or very good Halloween pictures this year. The kids were walking by so fast at the school parade, that the one picture I got of Katie and Jonas were totally blurry.

Jonas was a ninja... again. Katie was a pirate....again. Kyler didn't dress up and Sammy was a fat little bear. Ya... not too many pictures.

Kyler had his last football game of the season on Halloween. In... Tooele!!! The game was suppose to start at 3:00. Which meant they had to be there by 2:00, which meant they had to leave at 1:00. The game didn't actually get started until 3:30 and went into double overtime ON HALLOWEEN! Needless to say we had a late start this Halloween. But I did make some delicious chili. (I did not attend the last game of the season... because it was on Halloween) I guess all holidays can't be super great. That must mean Christmas is going to be fantastic.

Football

Kyler has been loving football. He runs the plays in and usually plays on the line. At his last game he finally got the chance to catch the ball and run it. Well, he caught the ball. He ran the ball. There were boys all around. He was runnin' and runnin' and 5 yards short of a touch down he started slowing down and got tackled. Poor boy he thought he was in the end zone. Nope, five yards off. It was kinda sad, but he didn't care. He was just happy he got the ball thrown to him and he caught it.

I haven't remembered to take my camera to Jonas' football games yet. Myke decided he would give Jonas a dollar for every flag he got and five dollars for every touchdown. Last week he wanted that flag so bad, I've never seen that kids little legs run so fast and he finally got one. The next game he got a touchdown. Yea Jonas!!! I am so glad football is almost over. Besides worrying about them getting hurt, we only get Sundays off.

Blood Sweat and Tears

Katie's Birthday sleepover. I'm pretty sure someone was bleeding, I was definitely sweating and there was a few tears (almost my own). Katie said it was the worst birthday party she ever had. 20 some odd girls sleepin' at my house. I don't know how it happened... but it did. This is Katie, Kaitlyn N, and Alexis setting up for the party. Three girls, that was a good number.

And then... the party started. It was utter chaos! Girls everywhere! They were outside, inside, upstairs, downstairs. It was an infestation. They were yelling, screaming and running around like three year olds.

She got a ton of presents. She adored every one of them.

They laid down after midnight, but did not go to bed. They actually started fighting with each other. Telling secrets in the bathroom. Calling boys. Then the worst part of it... a couple of them started tattle tailing to me. "So and so is telling secrets, so and so is swearing, so and so keeps texting boys after you told her not to". And you are telling me this, WHY. Oh yeah I'm the responsible person for all these girls. So I just told them what I tell my own kids. Go tell So and so to stop doing that.
Thank The Lord that night is over!!!