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Christmas Eve?

While listening to Christmas music, Jett asked me about Christmas Eve. When is it, what is it, etc. After explaining it all he thought about it for a bit and then asked,
"What about Christmas Adam?"

I love that kid!

Santa!

We went to our ward Christmas party last night and had a great dinner and program and then the kids got to see SANTA!! I love this age - it's so magical for them! They kept planning on what they wanted to tell Santa and they were so excited about the gift they got - a bag full of peanuts, an orange, a candy cane and some other candies.

Not the greatest Santa pics, but that's okay. There was another lady taking pics of each kid which is why Santa and the boys are looking in different directions - oops. And Dallas slept through Santa's visit so maybe another time for him!
Gotta love it when Santa Claus comes to town!=)

Sickos

So we got a bug here. Not sure where it came from or when it started (Dallas and Jayson could have had it?? but it was only a day and not so bad??) but poor Jett and Tucker were hit hard with a nasty stomach bug. I don't think it's the flu because there have been no fevers, but the boys have had a lot of throwing up and diarrhea. ~Yuck~ . It really got started on Saturday and finally! today - Tuesday - they haven't had any episodes. (yet). Last night there was a lot of clean-up in the wee hours and blessings from daddy and now I'm so hoping that was the last of it! I'm tired of puke and poo! Thankfully I've been able to keep the boys from getting too dehydrated and they have more of an appetite, but we're taking it easy and resting. I'm also glad that me, Jay, and Dallas aren't showing signs of picking up this nasty bug. Hopefully we'll keep it that way.

So here's to getting my two boys healthy and back to normal! And hopefully being done with the sickies!*Some silly pics!*

Thankful....

This Thanksgiving was as others have been with family all around, games, a fabulous feast. But over the last week I have been pondering on what I'm truly thankful for and I've been noticing a lot of the little things that make life so pleasant. I am sooo blessed!!! I have a wonderful little family and an incredible extended family and we all are able to get along and spend time together. We're all healthy and faithful. I have an adoring husband who works hard and does such a great job providing for and protecting and presiding over our family. My kids are seriously awesome and I'm so lucky to be their mom and stay home with them and teach them and play with them and learn from them. We have a comfortable, warm home and plenty of food. We live in a free country and have people fighting for us to keep us free. We have great friends and many great people to look up to and learn from. It's sunny outside right now and I so love it when the sun shines and the colors are so bright outside. I'm so blessed and Oh! how thankful I am for these blessings!!! It really is great to have this Thanksgiving holiday to reflect on what we're thankful for.

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Rowley/Trettin clan. It was great, as always, to spend time with the people I love. And oh my what a feast!!! I love Thanksgiving food and it was all so good! I didn't want to stop eating, but after I ate, I went to help the kiddos eat, and my plate was taken away, which was probably a very good thing. I thought about getting another plate and filling it up again, but everyone was done and cleaning up! (I'm such a pig!) We have amazing cooks in the fam and we had such a bounty of deliciousness!!! Thank you to all who provided and prepared that yummy food!!!
Later on in the evening we had a family-wide Wii bowling tournament. There were 2 groups of 4, and 2 groups of 3. Then the winners from those groups competed for the all time bowling championship. I won! Haha! =) Grandma Fran provided a See's candy bar for the winner and I do love chocolate! There was napping and reading, games and chatting and movies and all over great time spent with family!

Happy Thanksgiving!



....And now on to Christmas!!! Woohoo!

Handsome!

The boys got their pictures taken yesterday. They turned out great! Tucker had a hard time staying still and smiling at times. We did our sitting with my sister-in-law Clarissa and her 3 cute kids too so it was busy, but in all I think it was a success!!

This pic was done near the end of the shoot and Tucker was squirmy and silly and Dallas kept wiggling too, but we got a good enough shot!
I love these BOYS!!!My handsome Jettster

My Tucker-Tuck-man
My peekaboo Dallas baby!
(with a little tooth!)

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween and made out with LOTS of candy! We went trick-or-treating at a shopping center around to all the stores with the cousins, went out to eat at Sweet Tomatoes with everyone and had a great time at our ward's trunk-or-treat in the evening! I love to watch my kids have so much fun. They loved dressing up in their costumes. Tucker was so funny because he would just stand around looking at all the costumes trying to figure them out. I had to push him along sometimes because he would get so distracted. Jett was so great at saying "Trick-or-treat!" real loud followed by a big "Thank you!" He's such a good kid. Dallas was great all day and it was nice to have Halloween on a Saturday so Jayson could enjoy the holiday with us! We all enjoyed a happy Halloween!

Policeman
(by accident he kind of looked like Paul Blart - Mall Cop! hahaha)
Bob the BuilderCute little Scarecrow and Daddy =)Cousins!
Brenna (Bo Peep), Jett, Tucker, Dallas, Madison (Builder Paige), Natalie (baby), Jackson (sheep), Ashley (nurse), Landon (sheep)3 buds ready to Trick-or-Treat!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!