December so far

We headed over to Idaho the first part of December to visit Scott's family. Scott's little brother was blessing his baby so we were lucky to be able to see all of his siblings and their families at once. The boys were great travelers and very excited to get to Grandma and Grandpa's house. We got to their house on a Friday afternoon and then on Saturday we drove up to Rexburg where the baby blessing was going to be. Scott's parents had rented a house for us all to stay in that night. The place was perfect for the kids with toys and play areas all over. The favorite was the bike room, it was so nice for the kids to have a place to run around.

They had several bikes and scooters there, but Jaden always seemed to be drawn to the pink bike with the pink helmet. Not sure what to think about that one.

Lined up for a big race

Looks like Dallin won by a landslide

They had a slide that went a play room upstairs to the bunk bed room downstairs.

Logan was his dad's little sleeping buddy on the trip.

While we in Preston Scott took the boys outside to shovel the snow. Jaden loves the snow and never seems to mind the cold, but Logan had a hard time out there. He wouldn't keep his gloves on so his hands were freezing and after only about 5 minutes he gave up and cam inside. He kept saying over and over "I really, really cold". This is a picture of Scott trying to help warm him up.

We also were able to help Scott's family go cut down their tree this year. Again Jaden loved being outside in the snow and Logan cried most of the time. If was a quick trip to Idaho but well worth it!

A few days ago I watched my friend's baby for her. The boys loved her! They kept bringing her all sorts of toys and dancing around for her. It was reassuring to me to see how well Logan did with a baby around since we will be adding to our family this next summer!

Christmas is in full force at our house right now. It's so fun to see the boys enjoying all the magic of Christmas.

The kids got to see Santa this year. Jaden told him that he wanted "everything". Up until that day he was telling everyone that he wanted a unicycle. That morning Scott showed Jaden a unicycle at a bike shop and he changed him mind about it once he found out they didn't have handles.

Poor little Logan we forced him to take a picture with Santa.

Bad Hair Day

It's getting colder

It has been a pretty low key November so far and I am really enjoying that. For the most part Logan quit napping so the days seem so much longer but my nights are going much better. Poor Logan would still take a 2-3 hour nap everyday if I let him but if he does the little guy won't go to bed at night. Even if I wake him up after only an hour he is still wired all night. Now he stays up in the afternoon but goes right to sleep around 7:15. Logan falls to sleep if we are in the car for more than 5 mins in the afternoon. One day I carried him inside the house and Jaden wanted to hold him. I thought it was pretty funny to see him trying to cuddle his giant little brother.



We have been raking like crazy trying to keep our leaves under control. The trees are still half full of leaves, we're hoping they fall before it starts to snow.

White Pass opened up this weekend so Scott and Jaden braved the cold and went skiing Saturday morning. Jaden of course had the time of his life and has been trying to earn money so that he can go back.

A spooktacular week

Last Sunday was Jaden's primary presentation in sacrament meeting. The Program started off with Jaden singing a solo of I'm A Child of God. He did such a great job and looked so handsome up there in his new suit. Jaden said that he was a little nervous but you couldn't tell, he marched up to the microphone and sang in loud voice. After his song he recited his part which was "I am a spirit child of Heavenly Father. In Psalms 82:6 it says, you are all children of the Most High". It was quite the mouthful for the little guy, but he had it memorized and did perfectly.

Logan loved watching Jaden sit up front at church and kept waving at him throughout the meeting.

Last weekend we also got to see the Oscar Mayer truck at one of our local grocery stores. The kids got to walk through it and got a wiener whistle so it was an exciting day in our book.

I got really sick earlier this week with bronchitis so my kids got to spend a few days playing over at grandma and grandpa's house. They loved it and keep asking why they can't keep going over there everyday. While was on my deathbed Jaden's preschool at a Halloween party so I wasn't able to help out. However, by Friday was well enough to drive and and help out at his field trip to a pumpkin patch. They had a haymaze there that they kids ran through about 300 times. So cute!

On Friday we had our ward Halloween party.

Saturday we finally got around to carving our pumpkins.

Trick-or-treating....or as Logan kept saying "Cookie-treat".

More visitors

We were lucky enough to have Scott's other set of grandparents come and visit us last week from Logan. The kids loved having so many visitors and all the extra attention. These picture are all in reverse order but we had another fun filled weekend with the Crockett's and my mother-in-law (who stayed behind with the first group left).

We had an early birthday celebration for Grandpa Crockett. He got to wear this awesome hat while the waiters sang to him. It's worth it for free ice cream right?!



Of course the boys each had to have several turns blowing out the candle.


Jaden loves climbing trees and he also loves to have me take his picture.

After church on Sunday we drove over to the cemetery. A women in Logan had said that the Yakima cemetery was the prettiest she had ever seen so we had to go and let them check it out themselves. We also snapped several shots of the kids. I wish I would have thought ahead to have us wear nice clothes so we could try for a decent family picture, it was gorgeous outside that day.

This is Jaden trying to help Logan figure out were to stand for his picture.

Feeding some ducks at the cemetery.

Despite the rain we took the boys to a pumpkin patch on Saturday.

We let our boys paint the pumpkins when they first get them. I think we will probably carve them tomorrow now that it is closer to Halloween.

Earlier last week Scott and I went to a murder mystery party. The theme was 1930's Hollywood premier. We only had two days to come up with costumes. I think we did pretty good. Regardless of how we looked, we had a blast and it was fun to get of the house without the kids.

This is another of Jaden's "Mom take my picture"

This is another random picture of Jaden just lounging around the house.