Noah's glasses

Well Noah was having a hard time seeing the board at school so we took him to get his eyes checked. The poor little guy can't see a thing! He was so happy today when he put his glasses on and he could see. The ride home was so cute. Mom I can read that sign over there. I can see the rain drops on the window. So here he is with his new glasses.

Three times the love

So this is a bit late, but hey life is busy and time goes by way to fast. We had a fun Valentine's day well I should say days at our house. We had the kids school parties (day one) then we had a party at our house (day two) then it was the actual valentines day. Wow it was a bunch of work but it was fun too.

Here is our dessert. The kids love to get this when we go out to eat so we thought that we would make it for our V-day treat.

The puppies even got special pancakes for breakfast.
Here is my gift from Matt. I love it so much! I love that Matt picked it out!

Here is Matt's present.

Here is Emma at our breakfast.

The week before my dad died they were up here visiting and took us out for lunch. We were looking at the breakfast menu and the kids saw that they had pancakes with sprinkles on them. My Dad (being the grandpa that he was) told them that when he came back in September he would take them for breakfast so they could try out the pancakes. We are so sad that we never got to do that, but the kids said that we could put sprinkles on our pancakes. So now we do it all the time!

Cupid comes to our house the night before the big day. Libbie was so excited that he was coming. Emma did not believe it for a second that a half naked fairy was going to fly to our house and give them some presents. (I love that she still finds it believable that a big fat elf can fly to our house and leave her presents. Kids are so cute!

Here are the kids making valentines at our party.

Here they are decorating sugar cookies.

Here is Libbie making a card for Dad. She told me the other day that she was sad that I got to marry Dad and she didn't.

More fun

Here is Noah at his class party handing out valentines.

Libbie and Noah sitting at his desk. Noah was letting her help him play bingo. He is a very good big brother.

We made 60 bags of white chocolate popcorn for Noah and Emma's classes.

Here is Emma checking out all her treats.

Libbie helped her hand them out.

If you have never had an Oreo pizza then you have to give it a try. We eat homemade pizza a lot (it's a Friday night tradition in Matt's family. Are we the only ones who do it???) Anyway we like to try to change it up and this is one that we will make over and over!

Here is Libbie playing with non-Newtonian fluid or if your your Libbie you just call it gloop:o)

Owen wasn't sure what to think of it. It was so funny to watch him. This isn't his first time, but he must not have remembered!

The new scripture theme for the youth of the church is 1st Timothy 4:12 : Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. I made this for our table in young women's. I would just have to say that we have some of the best (an funniest youth in our ward). I am so thankful for the chance I have had to get to know them. It gives me hope that my kids will be able to make it in this world!

What really goes on when the husband is at work!

When I got home after work 11:30 pm the lights were still on, I got inside and there was Lindsay gunning down some Germans.

I couldn't get mad though because my dinner was on a plate waiting for me, the house was clean, the kids were all asleep, and it's pretty hot seeing her gunning down everyone.

EMMA'S LATE B-DAY PARTY

Emma swinging at the pinata.

The line up for the games

PIZZA & CAKE!! Does it get any better

Lindsay as always made some pretty awesome puppy cakes. (I felt like I was in Korea or China eating dog for dessert)

The dogs all lined up for the slaughter.

Angie and Ryans cute kid (Ryan angies husband not brother other wise she wouldn't have turned out this cute)

Uncle Courtland playing duck-duck-goose with the kids, they love their unlce Courtland

The kids making crazy faces at Taco Bell, they were pretty happy to get out of the car.

calming down for the night at the hotel.

Owen loved chucky Cheeses, he kept asking for the truck ride.

Boise and Barfing:o)

Well sorry there are no pictures, they will come soon. We went to Boise this weekend and had so much fun. We did some shopping ( at toys R us, rei and sierra trading post) We looked at some houses that maybe in a year we can buy, and spent some time with Matt's extended family. It was awesome and his family was great. It made us want to move out their so that we could play games and hang out all the time. We got back Monday and that night Owen started to throw up. Then Emma woke up at 4 and started. Shortly after that I started. Poor little Owen got sick about 30 times and still isn't walking around yet. Emma and I are doing better, and I am so grateful that we got sick when we got home and that we were able to have such a fun weekend. So pictures will be coming as soon as I can find the camera:o)

Christmas break

Here are the kids making cookies for Santa.

Here are the kids acting out the nativity. They did a great job, and it was so cute.

Here are the kids making gingerbread houses.

Christmas was so much fun. The kids had so much fun opening presents. They are all getting older so it was fun to just sit back and enjoy watching them, and not running around from kid to kid helping them open presents.

All month long if you asked Owen what Santa was going to bring him he would say a dinosaur. It's a good thing Santa came through, and Owen was so excited to open his present and see that his letter to Santawas answered!

Here are the girls trying to pick what present to open.

Isn't this awesome. What's even more awesome is that Matt and I finally went to Pomerell and snowboarded yesterday. It was so much fun. It also made me realize that pebble creek is really steep. It was so much fun hanging around with Matt and just having fun. We are also very thankful that my mom is willing to watch our kids so we can go snowboarding every week:o)

Here is my super hot husband hitting a jump. It was an amazing day! I have to taking back all my making fun of Nate and Kip for sleeping in a snow cave so they could ski everyday, that would be awesome! (We will however continue to make fun of the candle)

Lots of fun stuff

We just got so much snow!!! It's still snowing right now. Matt helped people dig out of our parking lot this morning before heading off to work. It was a bunch of fun. Even the garbage truck got stuck. Matt and I woke up every hour last night to see if it was still snowing in hopes that pebble creek would open! It did and they open tomorrow. We were going to go snowboarding but he has to work so we will have to go after Christmas, but we can't wait. Well on to the pics. Here is my man building a snow cave for the kids. Matt and I played outside long after the kids got cold and went inside!

Here is Emma and Libbie inside the cave. They think it is awesome! Matt thinks it would be awesome if he and I slept in it tonight. I'll let you know if that happens:o)

Here is the boys packing all the snow.

We have some rad snow drifts around. This is a small one, but the kids had fun in it.

Warming up after the snow.

Owen has been sick and didn't last too long outside, but he loved coming in and having hot chocolate.The kids wanted to skip their date nights this week and have a family date night/ Christmas party. We had so much fun. We made stocking and painted Christmas decorations. Then we ate snacks and watched a movie. It was a blast. Here are the kids with their stockings.

Here is Libbie after painting. She wants to keep them forever!

Owen had more fun than I thought that he would. He is growing up so fast.

Emma is a bit of an artist. She really gets into her crafts. I think that it runs on both sides of the family.

Here is Noah painting. He did such a good job.

Here is Libbie hard at work.

Owen making Santa look good.

Emma and Noah made these candy canes for everyone in their class. In the end we made over 50 of these. Matt was home when we did it and that was a big help. Libbie made some too and we took her around to her friends and she handed them out.

Here are the kids with all their hard work. Matt made these holders for us so that we could get all those candy canes to school=)

Here is Emma at her Christmas party telling the class about the treats that she made.


Here is Noah handing out his treats. They were a big hit with both of their classes.
Here is Emma singing in her Christmas program.

Here is Noah in his Program. It was so cute:o)

Here is Libbie with a basket of gifts for our friends. It was about 4 with the wind chill outside when we went out, but the kids had fun and worked hard handing them out.

So we have had a bunch of fun in the last little while. We are looking forward to Christmas and wish you all the best in the new year!