I am Me (everyone else is taken): December 2009

Sunday, December 27, 2009

christmas morning!

Our Christmas morning was delightful.

6am and waiting to go into the Christmas room (it's so exciting!)

Everyone got what he wanted...

Mom and Dad gave each other the same present :) Waffles, anyone!?

Mom needs a long Winter's nap...

Happy Holidays everyone!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

santa's been here!!

...and the kids don't know it yet!! It's all so exciting...I sure wish this peaceful feeling would last.

I heard the two oldest boys plotting to set their alarm for the middle of the night so they could get a good peek before anyone else, but...

Clever Santa...he wrapped up the whole room, so there will be NO PEEKING!! :)

Merry Christmas

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

holiday tradition

One of our traditions (that we stole from the Laycock family :) is to go to the Salt Lake Marriott the week before Christmas to partake of the wonders of the Holidays in the city.

The view from our hotel room...overlooking the skating rink.

Nothing like ice skating the week before Christmas!

This year we were lucky enough to have cousins with us and we had so much fun. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures until after they left, but we sure loved having them. We road TRAX, ate at the yummy Lion House, and swam in the hotel pool. Too much fun. Let's do it again next year!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

family christmas card

I realize that just about anyone reading my blog will be receiving one of these in the mail, but at the rate I'm going, my cards might not arrive before ~~2010~~ December 25th, so I'll post here just in case.

Family Christmas card shoots are ~~miserable~~ challenging, but I thought this year I'd try to take advantage of one of the more ~~violent~~ funny pictures we took that day.

May your Holidays be filled with peace :)

*Card supplies by DigitalScrapbookMemories

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Kyler - March 2011 - After we told him to pack his suitcase...we were going to Disneyland: "Oh my gosh. I think I almost happy-cried!"
Kyler - July 2009 - After walking through a temple open house and seeing a player piano in the reception hall: "Mom, I think the Holy Ghost is playing that piano!"
Kolby - June 2009 - Shooting his very first bb gun, taking turns with Mom and LOVING it..."I get three turns every time because I'm three, right Mom? How many are you?" Mom says, "35." {pause...pause...} "I get three turns because I'm three, Mom, but you just get one turn because you're too many!"
Kolby - March 2009 - At the dinner table Kenyon accidentally knocked over a cup of chocolate milk and it landed in Kolby's lap. We were all waiting for Kolby to freak out. He looked at Kenyon, and, in an exasperated tone, simply said, "Why." And it was not a question. It was a statement.
Kyler - Fall 2008 - We were getting ready for our Primary Program and had been practicing the song, "Onward, Ever Onward...." Kyler was in his room one day singing it at the top of his lungs, only this was his version: "Awkward, Ever Awkward..."
Kyler - 2008 - While talking with his five year old friends (who obviously have older brothers): "Kaylee is hot!" Then later, after his friends went home, to me: "Mom, what does 'hot' mean?"
Kolby 2008 - "I love you so much!" (He says this several times a day, particularly when he knows he is in trouble.)
Kolby 2008 - After sneezing on me: "I got achoo all over you!"
Kolby December 2008, at the Lion House Restaurant, very loudly - "Hey! Kyler has fire on his weenie!" (He meant to say that he had a PICTURE of fire on his BEENIE.) To which the other three boys guffawed and loudly repeated several times. The other restaurant patrons were not quite as amused.
Kolby 12/28/08 - (From his carseat, in an exasperated tone, while trying to reach something) "Aaargh! I can't get that forkin thing!" We think he meant to say "freakin" but it really sounded like something else and shocked us all.
Kolby 11/28/08 - (About Grum and Tannie) "Hey, they have the same head!"
Kaden's famous saying in response to "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit:" - "You get what you choose and you choose what you want!"
Kenyon - first grade - (Written in his Christmas wish list booklet,) "If I could have one thing for Christmas, it would be Miss Winkel's phone number."
Kyler - 2006 - After receiving a total revelation - "Mom! Did you know that every day has a night!?"
Kenyon 2005 - (At the grocery store, looking up and down the aisle for chicken broth,) "I didn't know chickens wear bras!"
Kaden - 8 years old - (When asked if he could tend our Spanish-speaking friend's snake for a couple of years,) - "I wish we could take it, but we don't speak Spanish!"