Christmas Time 2010

This year Hayden and  I were in the Treasure Valley Night Light Parade. We were part of a float for a new charter school we are trying to get in to. Hayden thought it was pretty cool that he got to be a part of it. We had fun, but we were freezing at the end.  

We had an early Christmas at Gary and Vanessa's, like we usually do. This is McKall who was really enjoying chocolate of some sort, obviously!





On Christmas Eve we made sugar cookies for Santa, and the kids both heard Santa's sleigh bells outside of the house! Hayden could would not fall asleep as he was a little bit excited! Hayden wrote a letter to Santa this year and asked him to bring each of us 100 presents. This is the kids in their new Christmas Eve jammies.

Opening presents on Christmas morning.... they were still calm.

I gave up trying to take pictures of them because they would not sit still with all of the new toys around. This is the quality of pictures the kids were giving me. New toys more important that mom trying to get pictures on Christmas morning? Just a few of our favorite gifts this year... Mike got me an Escali Pana kitchen food scale- yay! I made the most delicious rolls and I am excited to play with it! Hayden got criss cross crash from Santa, and McKall got a ton of baby doll stuff. Mike wanted a good one one this this year. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to fulfill his request, but he did end up getting his $8.00 stapler that he wanted so badly! Later that day we went to Grandma and Grandpa Barbour's. Amanda and Jeremy were here for Christmas.

For New Year's Eve we are off to spend it with some friends. This year went by very quickly! Here is to a great 2011!

Why do Policemen have guns?

Yesterday we were at Walmart grabbing a few things. On one of the isles Hayden picked up a bottle of cupcake sprinkles, accidentally dropped it, and broke it. I picked it up, kicked the sprinkles over and told him not to touch stuff in the store. I also told him that he could get in trouble if anyone saw him do that (gotta scare the kid- right). We moved on, paid, and went on our merry way.

A bit later, in the car, Hayden said, "Why do policemen have guns?" We explained why they have guns. He thought a bit and said, "Do policemen come for falling food?" At this point we weren't sure where he was going with this, so we told him that if the falling food was hurting someone the police may come. About 30 seconds passed and he said, "will they come if the falling food happens just once?" 

I looked to the back seat and he had a really worried look on his face. Mike and I then both realized he was scared about a policeman coming to get him in trouble for the sprinkles. It was one of those moments that we were trying not to bust out laughing and trying to comfort him at the same time. It was so sad and funny at the same time. I felt so bad for him, my sweet little boy.

First Big Snow Day!

We got a ton of snow, so the kids and I headed outside to build a snowman! The roads were crazy, and it took poor Mike 2 hours to get to work! I don't really like the snow and cold, but there is something about the first good snow fall of the year!

Princess McKall turns TWO!

This year for McKall's 2nd birthday we celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa Barbour at Idaho Pizza and then we all headed over to Chuck E. Cheese! One of the kids' favorite places. Hayden wanted to invite all of his friends to CEC for her "party" and we explained to him that they are his friends and that she could just have a party with her family. A little while later he had a solution... we had to invite his friends' younger siblings. One was little tiny Lucy McDonald who was like 10 days old!! He was so cute being concerned about his little sis' birthday and he wanted to make sure she was going to have fun!

We headed home for some cake and presents.

Yummy!

We are so grateful to have our little princess! She is the sweetest little thing. She is starting to say lots of new words and sentences and is keeping up with Hayden running all over the house to do what ever he is doing. She can also be a little trouble maker- one day the kids were having apples for a snack. I left the room for a minute to find that McKall had gotten a hold of the ranch dressing. She was eating it with her hands. On another day I was getting my wallet out of my purse for something and she walked over and held out her tiny had and said "money." She looks adorable in pig-tails! She still has curls in her hair, but the top part is starting to go straight. She doesn't eat much dairy because she doesn't do very well with it- but she loves it. She is very sensitive and dramatic. She loves her baby dolls, and tells us to be quiet when they are sleeping. About 1000 times a day she says "mommy, mere," "daddy, mere" (mommy, daddy come here). We tell her we are right there and she says "k," really loud.

Nice outfit! She loves to "dress up," and this particular day she had on pj pants, a striped shirt, silver shoes, and goggles. Love her!

This is my life...

...and I love it. Enough said :)

Cousin Lilly

We took a short trip to Salt Lake to visit Amanda, Jeremy, and Lilly because they were being sealed in the Temple. Mike and Jeremy went to the Jazz game one of the nights, so the kids and Amanda and I hung out in the hotel room. Hayden and McKall had Lilly laughing so hard. The funny thing was they weren't really doing anything- just jumping around and being crazy- pretty much being their normal selves! While we were visiting Lilly got her first taste of meat. Amanda made us dinner and she left to get Jeremy from work, so we were waiting to eat. Lilly climbed up on a chair and started picking food off of the table... Meat. So, we decided to feed the kids before they got back. I gave Lilly a serving of meat. Amanda informed us after she returned that she doesn't eat meat because she is a vegetarian. Whoops. (P.S. Lillian- it was good huh!)