Christmas

Another wonderful Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas morning with Eric's family and feel so lucky to live by our families.

Our little family on Christmas Eve

Hunter and I

Silly boys!

My sisters and I

Steve and Eric got 4th row tickets to the Lakers/Celtics Basketball game

Can you see the pure joy on their faces

Can we open presents yet?!?

I only wish that a 7 dollar toy could bring joy forever

Away in a Manger

Its no secret that me boys love to dress up in different costumes and this time it was the nativity scene characters. They enlisted me to be Mary for lack of other females in our house. They make Christmas so special!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I haven't gotten around to doing Christmas cards yet, so I think I am just going to take the year off. But we wanted to wish all of you loved ones a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Thanksgiving

I have so much to be thankful for this year, particularly my 3 boys. They are my world!! I am also thankful that we could travel to my sister's house in Arizona for Thanksgiving. We had such a fun and relaxing time.

Here is us on Thanksgiving with very full bellies. Great cooking Laurie!!

We also got to go to the Wildlife Zoo in Arizona. It is 6 miles from my sister's house, so you can't beat the travel time. It was also the most family friendly zoo I have ever been too. We had a great time and was one of the highlights of our trip.

You could get really close to the animals at the zoo. Here is my niece Hannah hanging out with the Swans. So neat!!

Here is our whole gang trying to get up close to the Giraffes.

Trevor feeding a Giraffe.Eric and Hunter feeding a Giraffe. So cool!!
We had such a good time at the zoo we decided to be monkeys and stay.

Give a Mother a heart attack

The other night I went to check on the boys in bed right before I went to bed. This is something I do every night, but this particular night almost gave me a heart attack. I went into Hunter's room expecting to find my peaceful sleeping baby, but this is what I found instead.........

Nothing!!!

My heart began to beat so fast and I couldn't catch my breath as I stared at the empty crib. Where was my beautiful sleeping baby that I had personally laid there over 2 hours ago??

Just then my Mother's instinct said look under the crib and low and behold there was my peacefully sleeping baby!

We had to get some pictures before we moved him back.

I hope they call me on a mission

Last Night we had the Missionaries over for dinner. So this morning Trevor wanted to play Missionary. On his own he went and got a church tie and belt for him and Hunter. Then they took backpacks and filled them full of toys and their own copy of the Book of Mormon. (The backpacks are because our Elders are on bikes so they always have backpacks.) Then Trevor recruited me to be a Missionary too and we went and knocked on doors (our bedroom doors) then Trevor would pretend to go in to someones home and eat dinner and then share a spiritual thought, which he always got his Book of Mormon out for. We continued to do this to every door in our house. They are so cute and this is such a priceless time. Keep up the good work Trevor and I know one day you will be a great Missionary and I probably will be just as touched by your sweet spirit as I was today.

Pumpkin Patch

I know its not Halloween yet, but my boys have their Halloween costumes and they dress up in them daily. Hunter is a Dog and Trevor is a Jedi. Who knew that boys would like dressing up so much too.

The rest of the pictures are from the annual Aragon outing to the pumpkin patch. We had a great time with family kicking off the fall season.



Even Emily and I couldn't resist the pumpkin patch slides.
Good Times!