Farmer Ky

I'm pretty sure that Kyler will be a farmer when he grows up because he is such a good milker! He milks his bedtime every night!  We have him downstairs and for a long time he would hide waiting for us to tuck him in.  Then it moved to boobie trapping us which sometimes the room looked quite dangerous.  Lately he's been creating games.  They have a board and you have to "move forward 5 places, or move back 10 places"  so I don't know if winning and finishing the game is even an option.  Last night he drew a picture with hidden objects to find and a search key on the back.  Either this kid is really creative or really doesn't want to go to sleep!  Either way, he keeps us smiling! 


Finally after 10:00 saying, "Go to Sleep!" (Isn't his bedtime 8:30?)

Christmas Tag

Lori, I am faster than you so how can you keep tagging me?  Is it your marathon training?  

Here goes my edited version...

1.  Egg nog or hot chocolate?  Definately both!  But I'm pretty sure humans are not supposed to drink much egg nog, The Cocoa Motion is running all winter though and Zach's learned how to make it now, (although a few watery failures.)

2.  Wrapped or unwrapped presents?  If you can wrap it, it gets wrapped.  I'm the worst wrapper though.  I sometimes tell people that my kids wrap b-day gifts when it was really me.

3.  Colored or white lights on tree or house?  Is this a prejudice question?  I have white on house and tree and colored on porch.  (Layne was doing the whole house colored but they ran out at Costco after he was half way done, so we switched.)

4.  Do I hang mistletoe?  In our condo I did (newlyweds) but now our ceiling is too high (boring)  My friend told me she has a tree in her bedroom though and many "presents" are given all month, so lucky them!

5.  When do I decorate?  Thanksgiving weekend, and I have to admit Layne does 90% of the work!

6.  Favorite holiday memory as a child?  Just trying to go to sleep and dreaming of all the gifts.

7.  When did I learn about Santa?  6th grade my dad took me to Mcdonalds for a sundae and broke the news.  You "know" but "maybe" is still there.  Then I got to be an elf and when the little kids went to bed I filled their stockings and helped finish wrapping.  It was cool.  

8.  Can I remember my favorite gift?  I love the cedar chest Layne made the christmas we were engaged!

9.  Favorite holiday treat?  Homemade toffee, with chocolate and nuts.  And pretty much everything else!

10.  Holiday traditions? Making gingerbread houses growing up, looking at lights, going to see the live nativity by our house, some fun original game for our party like race cars, or shooting pellet guns, or Jeopardy, or D.I. Christmas,  P.J.'s on Christmas Eve, stories and songs.

11.  Favorite Christmas song?  I love The First Noel cause that's my name. I just love all the songs and so I sing in the choir so their in my head.  Last week I had to tell my friend Dana during practice to "Stop It!"  cause she could not stop crying through all the songs and it was contageous.  I love the spirit the songs messages bring!

If you feel ambitious, then you are tagged!!! 

Little Mozart

I can't believe Kenzie was baptized on Saturday.  It was really wonderful!  That means Kyler is next. My mom read a letter from Justin and it was awesome, he got to baptize a little 8 year old girl the same day in Brazil.   Zach played all three verses of "I am a child of God"  while the audience sang.  He was nervous but he did great and when it was over he let out a huge audible sigh.  I'm really proud of him and thanks to Aunt Becky, his piano teacher!!  

Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We started the day out great with the Thanksgiving day run at the rec center.  Lorilee, Jessie, Corrine, Rachel, Becky and me (missing is Dana, sick in bed).  It was a little rainy when we got there but the race turned out beautiful.  We really all did miss Dana as she was our excuse to maybe walk for a minute or two, but alas, we had to run.  Thanks Dana!  
You may think it's a shirt on my head, but Lori's original design of my pilgrim head wear was met with many jealous eyes!
Just two little pilgrims looking for the Mayflower and thankful the scurvey is over!
We are grateful most of all for family, gospel, prophet, uncle justin, work, Christ, food, and home!
We ate too much at Grandma Liston's and again at Grandma Woods.  It was a very fun and full day!

Morning Lesson

My boys are really into reading the back of the cereal boxes.  I'm talking like the nutrition facts.  Weird huh!   I suppose they are just wanting to be real informed.  So they read Vitamin A, Calcium, Iron Zinc....   A few minutes later I hear,

Kyler:  "I think they put metal in this to make it crunchy"

Mom:  "There's no metal in your Apple Jacks!"

Boys:  "Yeah mom, there's iron!"

Mom:  "I pretty sure it's a different kind of iron"

Zach:  "I promise mom, it's just tiny shards of it!"

So, I'm glad I'm just a dumb mom who doesn't know anything and can learn from my wise children.  Thanks kids!

Tagged!

This is my fourth pic from my fourth file.  Layne titled this file "white trash photo studio".  He wanted to take pictures last year and so he got a paint drop cloth, our bench, and his construction flourescent lights.  He developed a whole bunch in black and white and our skin just didn't look right.  I finally made a little comment on how you could see every one of my freckles and then he went and bought this home photo kit with real lamp lighting.  The above picture of the scary cousins show the real pro job,  much better!  Although who could resist this little guy ever!  Ky's smile is always cute!

I tag Becky, Mindy, Lorilee, and Cissy to find 4th file and 4th pic.  Good Luck!

Trick-or-treating!

Zach, Kyler, and Paige Halloween 2008

The two little "Stinkerbells"

Zach and cousin Carly had fun going around together.  It was a success!