christmas shopping!

A few months ago we exchanged gifts with my family and Grandma and Grandpa gave all of the grand kids a gift card to Target. A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to Target to pick out their own toys. They thought that it was great fun to go toy shopping and deciding just what they wanted. Ashton found the thing that he wanted right away, batman weapons. He was not about to change his mind, that is what he wanted. Ransom was a little harder to help. He goes from thing to thing and it all looks like fun. Here he is holding a doll and in the end he got a big truck that stores cars. That seemed fitting for him. I just picked out something for Tahlia, I hope she likes it! That was fun for everyone.

Just Chips, I thought

So the other day we were eating chips with lunch. They were there and the boys love chips. So Ashton had a few and then he says to me "these chips are full of flavor and texture." My oh my does he think he is on TV, maybe he watches too much food network. I was on the floor laughing. It was too cute.



Ashton also says some other things that just crack me up. He was so happy that Aunt Lisa had given him a "crisbee" for his birthday last month. Can you guess what he got for his birthday? Well, it was a Frisbee. Lisa was surprised too.
So while decorating for Christmas I hung up the stockings. Ashton has been fascinated by them. He loves to leave little surprises in the "socklings" just for us. It has been a lot of fun.
I would tell you of all the fun things that Ransom says but you really do not want to know that he always says "PSSSSSS, I pee you." Where did he get such a potty mouth and why is it that of all the things that he could be learning to say he chooses to say that?
Tahlia talks up a storm all day long. It has been pretty funny she says "dadada" all day. Of course I think that she is a genius and knows what she is saying. I am working on getting her to sign "more" now.

Graham Cracker Houses

Here are the graham cracker houses that we made with friends. There is Ashton's house with a front porch held up by "dead Santas." There is John's and Ransom's who is our little candy man, just ask him, he ate all the candy off before he left the table. Good thing Ashton used enough to share.

Treat Monster

Here is out treat monster! She is very picky about what she eats and when she eats. She always has been. There have been many times over the last nine months (I know it is hard to believe that she is 9 months old now) I have tried to give her a bottle because she is crying and she will not take it. So I will go about my business and 10 minutes later she is screaming and really wants to eat. Yes, that is my daughter, she has a mind of her own and will only do things if it was her idea first. But she loves little puffs she will eat them all day everyday. She doesn't just eat one at a time she will shovel them in and demand more and do it over again. Of course her brothers are more than willing to feed this habit. Too cute!
Here she is with two binkies. Yes two one for each hand and she has to taste test them constantly.

Trading pajamas!

The other night the boys thought that they should wear each others pajamas. Ransom started it of course. The crazy kids!

Christmas Spirit?

So, Wednesday evening we finally got around to decorating the tree. I really do not like to decorate for Christmas, I know go ahead and think Scrooge. I have my reasons, it is a lot of work to get everything out and find a home for it and put other stuff away just to do the reverse in a couple of weeks. So I have been lax about decorating the tree that had been here almost a week. Well Ashton bugged me enough and we got it done and sent the kids to bed for the night and then we went to bed very very tired. I have not been sleeping well. Well at 4:15am I woke up thinking that I had heard a crash and woke John up to see if he heard the crash and he of course said "No." I said then I told him "I think that the Christmas tree fell over!" Then I sent him to check, sure enough there it was on its side! So there we were at 4:30am redecorating the tree. I think that was just what I needed to get me in the Christmas Spirit. Decorating the tree the second time was not as painful as I thought. It was actually nice and relaxing.




Surprisingly only one ordainment broke. And all the kids slept through it.

On her Knees

Yeah! Tahlia got up on her knees a couple of weeks ago. I did not even know that she could. I was so suprised and excited. Now she is pushing her self backwards all over the place. It should not be too much longer before she is crawling.

Family Pictures

Here are some pictures that we had done over Thanksgiving weekend. I know that it has been a long time I did not think that I had anything to blog and then I found a bunch of pictures that I wanted to share.







Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Ashton!

I thought that I would share Ashton's birthday with you. He just turned 5 and thinks that he is all grown up now!

Pure Joy!

I just had to share. Tahlia was so happy with the new game she found!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is a very busy time with the church activities, carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating. So I thought that I would share some of our fun. Enjoy!

Grandma's House

A couple of weeks ago Ashton told me that he really like "Daddy's Grandma and Grandpa's house." I said "Oh, why is that?" And he said "They have dress up cloths." So here he is all dressed up. He seriously loves Halloween and dressing up anytime of the year. Ransom of course did not want to be left out and so here he is dressed up too.

(This is my favorite!)

We did head south so John could go deer hunting with his dad and brother. None of them got anything this year and I am very happy about this. The memories of me helping cutting up one last year are still a little to fresh for my taste.

Zoo

On October 9th I took the kids to the zoo. I met Laura and her kids, and Sara and her kids, and Angie and her kids there. I helped getting my nephews, Sam and Jarom to the Zoo too. It was a busy day and a lot of driving for me, but we had a lot of fun getting the kids out and seeing the animals. I have only been there during the heat of the summer and the animals stay as cool as possible and hide. Since it was a perfect day to get out weather, it was nice to see the animals out and enjoying the sunshine ans cooler weather too. This is how Ransom measures up to the Gorilla!

This is how Ashton measures up to the orangutan!

Thankmas in October!

I thought that I would share pictures of a couple of fun days that we had with most of my family around. I actually got them ready for a scrapbook! I know, how fun is this? We missed those that were not able to be with usbut had a great time with all here.

four year old view of the world!

I think that the title says it all. This is what you get when you give a four year old a camera when it is on.

(A self portrait)



He thought that it was so much fun last night he wanted to do it again today! There were many many more. It's funny to think we never did that when we were young the film was too expensive, now who cares use the delete button and recharge the battery, done!

The new game at our house is closing the gate and making others ask to get through it. Well the other day their gate was the gate at the bottom of the steps and they closed that gate and I stopped to ask for passage. Ashton replied "credit card, please!"

Then last week Ransom asked to sit on the potty to go "popo" I said fine and put him there but he does not like to stay for long and then runs around back and forth until he goes. Then I asked Ransom "why do you stay on the potty for daddy and not me?" Then Ashton pipes in and says "Ransom, do you like daddy better too?" What a mean child I have!

I know that I keep adding to this post I am just too forgetful. But this is classic Ashton. The other night I did not think that the morning was ever going to come. Tahlia wanted to eat at 2am, surprise, surprise. Then Ransom woke up at 4am crying and crying and would not stop so I went to calm him down and asked him what he wanted and he said "drink" So me being very tired I said "Why?" At that point Ashton chimes in from the darkness "I think he is thirsty!" Well, thank you Captain Obvious for that. I decided that I guess I better just get the drink so that we could all go back to sleep and hope that it would be late when everyone woke up.

Our Weekends!

A couple of weeks ago John's work was celebrating 20 years for the concentrator and was giving tours of it, had lunch and activities for the kids. The kids had to be 5 and older so I sent Ashton with his dad to get a good look at it. He loved it! Of course digging in the saw dust for vampire teeth was the highlight for him. If you need a pair of orange vampire teeth we have more than enough.
Last Saturday we went to an activity for Ransom through early intervention program that he gets his speech therapy from. There we met Bumble the mascot of the Salt Lake Bees.

Then I sent the boys to get their milk mustache picture taken. John what is wrong with yours?

baby love

A couple of weeks ago John was holding Tahlia and she found his shoe string and started to chew on it. YUCK! As she did that I remembered that Ransom use to do the same thing. Her first time in the jummper last week and she fell asleep!
All dressed for church and no place to go. She looks just like a little princess if I say so myself.

Utah State Fair

The end of the world may come I am showing pictures from today. Today we went to the state fair. I had never been to it here. Last fair I remember attending was the Hookstown fair years and years ago, the ward had a both to earn money, but that has all gone away, well I am sure that Hookstown is still there and the fair too for that matter. The fair sure has gotten expensive over the years. It was fun to get out and see "fair" stuff. I always enjoy the animals and booths, really it is just the food I want. I did not get any funnel cake so I just may be making some tomorrow to eat. Yummy!
Look at the cute dancing sheep and pig!

Labor Day

On Labor day we pick up Mom and Dad and went to Antelope Island for the day. We got to see the bison and antelope.
Here is Grandpa and Tahlia.
Here we are watching the "silent glider" going by. The guys doing it were from New York. Long way to come to fly a glider if you ask me.

These were too funny not to share. I love it. These two boys are too cute for words and even though they can drive me crazy sometimes I sure so love them. It is kinda crazy that one could have such contrast in feeling for one person. They sure do crack me up!