Cute Boy Logan

I have been so bad with picture taking lately. I realized I haven't taken any of my cute little boy (well, today he is more naughty than cute). He loves loves LOVES his big boy bike he got from Santa. Anytime we are outside he goes straight for the bike.

Logan is getting SO excited for Disneyland this month...we keep practicing what to do on rides. Anytime I say Disneyland he immediately puts his arms up in the air! He's so funny!

Individual Worth

For our personal progress activity this month we worked on passing off an Individual Worth experience. Since it is February I tried my hardest to tie it in with Valentine's Day. I really wanted the girls to decorate the mail boxes from target. So, we did the last experience, which is about gifts the Lord has given us...or talents.

I had all the parents email me a letter or list of qualities about their young women. Then I fixed it up, stamped it,and then laminated it. I thought it would be nice if the girls could put it on their magnet board or somewhere where they could see it often.
Then we decorated the cute mailboxes...the girls had tons of fun. We did them super simple..I had everything cut out and sticky taped before to help the night go smoother.

After we decorated them I had a million cut out hearts that we used to write down a talent or positive quality each girl has. To pass off the requirement each leader did it too. Then we had yummy sugar cookies that I love making at Valentine's Day!

Jillian's Mystery Tooth!

Over Christmas break, Jillian bit her fork so hard it bumped her little bottom tooth slightly loose. It bleed and bleed but wasn't loose enough to fall out. Then a couple weeks ago Jillian was playing in her bunny costume hopping around on the floor and started screaming bloody murder...big time. I ran to see what was going on and just saw blood dripping from her mouth. I immediately thought she somehow bumped her mouth and forced the tooth to come out. Mallory was in the bathroom at the time, so I was pounding on the door to get something to catch all the blood. In the meantime, Michael thought something really terrible had happened and almost knocked the door down. When he found out she had just lost her tooth he was pretty mad. (I guess we are pretty dramatic)

So, somehow Jillian lost her first tooth, which I really don't understand still. It was so not loose enough to just fall out on its own, and she said it just popped out. I guess she was freaked out because she thought this was the only set of teeth she was gonna get. She had no idea that we get adult teeth. Such a funny girl. She was excited to experience the tooth fairy...which I nearly had to tape Mallory's mouth shut, not to spoil any childhood fun.

I really hate when kids loose their teeth. It makes them look so big, but I guess she is growing up. She said a bad word yesterday when she was mad at the wii!!! It shocked me to pieces...I hate playground mouths.

Feasting Upon the Word

We have such spiritual children...we must be really good parents!!!

Hiking Little Yosemite

The girls went hiking with all the boys, plus Megan...who gave up shopping for hiking!!! They had tons of fun being outdoors and seeing some pretty things. (we live in the ugliest area)

It's SO green. I've kinda forgotten that color.

Wish they were always this willing to help each other.

My cute Jilli

...and Mallory

This picture CRACKS me up big time. I guess some areas were a little tricky. They all came home wet.

Jeff and Jilli

Compliments to Jeff for the awesome pictures!!

Christmas and the Magical Ham!

Christmas morning finally came. The kids were so excited and wanted to run out to the family room to see what Santa had brought. We made them wait until 8:30, which is early for us. They usually sleep until 10:00 on Christmas morning. Logan went straight for his big garbage truck and was happy with that. He finally discovered that this bike was for him. He does love trucks, and he did get a million!

He was all about opening presents!

He played in the kitchen for hours on Christmas...i guess the trucks go better on flat ground!

My sister made the girls super cute aprons!

Jillian with her Santa surprises!

I love having a little boy...trucks are so fun to buy him (and cheaper than what my girls like)

Santa brought our family the wii (or was it for my brothers????) The kids love playing it. I'm proud to teach them how to master mario brothers!!

Mallory was so excited for her pink i home.

Gramma gave Mallory the cutest American Girl outfit.

After presents, Papa heated the spa and the kids got to swim on Christmas Day! It started raining on them but they didn't care. They had tons of fun!

It took Logan about 1 second after he woke up from his nap to figure out what was going on.

He loves playing with Papa in the spa, especially with all the bubbles.

We had such a fun Christmas Day, and even better Christmas dinner. I finally got to eat the ham that I had been craving for weeks and weeks. I think since that gross turkey day I had been craving ham. And it was magical. After eating all that I could I magically felt better. The morning sickness started going away instantly! I could so go for some right now. I need my mom back to cook for me.

Christmas Eve

The kids were so anxious for Christmas Eve to come...they were SO hyper!!! It didn't help with all the Uncles around to make them hyper either!! We had a fun dinner, some Christmas stories, and the nativity. Then we went caroling to Gramma's neighbors and went to see an awesome house all lite up. It even had a little train for the kids to play in and pretend snowy bubbles. The kids loved it! We let the kids open 1 present which always turns out to be new Christmas jammies. Then we played games with the kids...Gramma had a new game called Telestrations which was really fun for kids. The girls got more hyper and didn't want to go to bed!! After they were in bed the adults played Texas Holdem until 1:00AM. We all brought fun gifts for the poker pot, which made it fun. Then we had to get busy with our Christmas Eve set up. So, I think every Christmas we need to be with my brothers (who have no kids) so are totally helpful and got everything put together in matter of minutes. It was awesome.

Logan loved his new Buzz PJs.

He wanted to keep opening up all the presents.

Cute jammie girls!

They started getting a little bit silly!

Then just crazy!

Think they were looking for more presents!

Naughty little girls!

Christmas Eve complete!!! My moms tree was so awesome.