Bronson's Birthday

Bron is One!!! Holy cow, it's gone by so fast, but at the same time, seems like he was born yesterday, but that he's always been here...it was weird for me to have my youngest turn one, I got a little chocked up when we sang happy birthday. I know it sounds lame, but my baby is getting old! We are at this stage in our life where we're not sure we'll have more kids, we think we will but if we don't... I don't know it just kinda hit me when we sang him happy birthday that my kids are getting older, and this time is flying by... it is so fun to have small kids in the home, they are so fun and innocent.... but they don't stay little long. And Bron just really isnt' a baby anymore and I love babies... he is walking now so is even more all over the place... he has been moving since he was about 5 months old, and I mean moving..... crawling everywhere, getting into everything, now he just moves around upright, but has started to get up on things... he climbs on the fireplace, on the couch on his walker thing he will crawl into it or climb up on it and stand up... he has no fear... hes into all the cupboards, he goes in the boys room and dumps out all the toys... he really keeps me busy,and has a lot of energy... he is layed back and content, but also seems to have a slight temper, he can get very upset... he's easily entertained and loves to laugh, and is starting to talk he can say uh oh, mom, dad, and pa-pa, he loves to play with his brothers and loves to watch what they are doing. He is so much fun.... Three boys is really starting to seem like three boys.... they're messy, and stinky, and into everything, they think certain bodily functions are hilarious, they talk like boys... they burp like boys... they fight like boys, they love to wrestle, they run around, they yell, did I mention they're stinky, I can only imagine what lies ahead... I love my boys and wouldn't want it any other way, they are so much fun and can't imagine my life with out them...

New Years Eve!

We had a blast New Years Eve, we managed to squeeze in a lot of activities in just one night, we went bowling, we played tennis, we played a couple baseball games, had a few tennis matches, few rounds of boxing, played spoons, and jenga, well the kids did and were surprisingly good at it, we played card games, aka water works and head lines, fit in a little golf, went on a train ride aka ticket to ride, and also lit off some fireworks, ate a lot of food, had some bubly, we started playing Pop culture Trivial Persuit, when I drifted off at around 2:30 or 3:00, others stayed up till around 4:00 or 4:30, playing water works, bunch of crazies, we all stayed the night at mom and dad's and woke up and had big breakfast, it really was very fun, it's one of my most favorite things, is just getting together with everyone and playing games... good times, lots of laughs.....very tired the next day : () yawn!

Christmas Day!

We had a blast Christmas morning the kids got up around 7 - 7:30, they waited somewhat paitentley until they got the ok to go out, the kids must have been good, cause Santa came, we started with opening the presents from us and then continued onto the presents from Santa, the kids were so excited with every presents, it was so cute, it was nice to take the morning slow they would open a present, we would play with it, then move onto the next, the kids loved every minute of it, Santa left little cereals in their stockings so they had that for breakfast and we later went and had a bigger breakfast with Nanny and Granddad, Sara, and Devin, Jenny and Aaron and Chad, they always have fin and haddy if thats even how you spell it..... fish is what it is, Brad loves it, so we had that, delicious wassle, eggs, hashbrowns, the whole bit, then we opened presents with them, and just had a nice afternoon there, later we went to my parents and were first able to talk to my brother Jesse, who will be home from his mission in 51 days (but who's counting) he sounds good, he's excited to see us all again, but also knows he's really going to miss the people and the whole experience, he has a great attitude about everything, we are so ready for him to come home. After we talked to him we opened all our presents from mom and dad, lets just say we got spoiled this year from then... it was really fun, we just hung out there for the rest of the night, playing with new toys, and enjoying the day, we are so blessed to have such great families, I'm sad the Holidays are over now... but excited for the new year too! I have not officially written down my goals for this year, but I will and get them posted for more motivation to do them! I am grateful for my family and the memories we are making now, my kids are so much fun!!! I love them and Brad more than I can say!!!!

Christmas Eve!!

We spent Christmas Eve this year with the Bevan's we started the evening off with a nice Christmas Eve dinner, the food was delicious and it was snowing outside making for a picture perfect Christmas Eve. Following our meal grandma and grandpa Bevan stopped by to give us all our Christmas presents, grandma and grandpa work so hard every Christmas to pick out gifts for the many of their kids, their grandkids and their great grandkids, they are so sweet to put forth so much effort during the holiday season, to show us that they love us, we love them... after they left to go see more of their grandchildren, we sang some Christmas carols... Matt, Dad, and Kara all played their guitars while the kids took turns playing the drums, which they did an awesome job at, it was fun... Matt also performed the Christmas song he wrote for the fam several years back it's such a great song we love hearing it, he is very talented... afterwards we had some delicious chocolate pies made by Chris, he makes a mean dessert, ... we were then able check Santa's current status, we had to see how much time we had before we had to get home... we didn't have much time, Santa was in New York, we figured we did have enough time though to fit it our usual Christmas Eve "hay" ride, we get all bundled up and ride on the back of dad's trailer and cruise around the neighborhood singing Christmas carols, and waving to everyone telling them Merry Christmas, we each take a turn choosing a song, and we sometimes don't know all the words, and our mouths are frozen from the cold, but it is a blast and one of my favorite things we do on Christmas Eve!!! Following the chili but very fun "hay" ride we figured we'd better get home... we hurried home opened our Christmas Eve jammys, read some scriptures, hung our stockings, and set out Santa's cookies and milk, and got to bed just in time!!! It was a very fun Christmas Eve!!!

Playing in the snow!!

The boys are always wanting to play in the snow, they love it!!! Aren't they cute!!

Christmas Party!!

We had a Christmas party slash birthday party for Brad's older brother Chad, he had Santa come at the end, the kids thought it was great, Parker was talking to him non-stop, it was pretty funny, and asked for a Nintendo DS star wars game, and Max at first was a little timid but opened up pretty good, he asked for Transformers, and Bron wasn't sure what to think about him and obviously didn't ask for anything, I guess he'll just get a surprise!!! It was fun to have them see Santa then we didn't have to stand in the long line at the mall... the kids are so excited for Christmas they are at such fun ages, it's going to be a blast!!

Decorating the tree!!

We put up the tree a few days after we cut it down, the boys had a blast decorating it. They both are good little helpers, it's so fun to put on some Christmas music and just spend time together as a family, Parker did a great job putting the star on the top, needed a little boost but did great, and Bron has done pretty good at leaving it alone, Max actually plays with it more than he does, he likes to take off the ornaments and play with them, and I'm always finding little "guys" in the branches somewhere, "guys" are Max's favorite thing to play with and he has found a little hide a way for them, it's pretty funny!! Although I'm vacuming needles up like crazy cause he's in it so much, but that's ok I think it's cute he has so much fun with it....