January

January has been both extremely busy and long. We are heading out for Hawaii tomorrow so it seems like the month has dragged on waiting for the trip to come. Scott is in the process of opening his own office (with Edward Jones) which should open about a week after we get back. He has been using office space at another financial advisors office and he is very much looking forward to getting out on his own.

In other exciting news for Scott he turned 29 earlier this month!

Jaden was invited to a princess/knight birthday party last week. He had a blast and has been slaying dragons all week.

Scott and I had a couple of meetings last week which got Jaden to thinking that they never have kid's meetings. He really wanted me to invite his cousins and friends over for the "children only meeting." Since he came up with the idea late in the day the only ones attendance was himself and Logan. Jaden got himself and Logan all dressed up in their church clothes and pulled a chair into his room for Logan to sit on. He got out a Friend magazine and gave a really nice lesson.

Jaden made sure that they had time to color a picture before the meeting was over.

Christmas 2009

So I was a little vague in my last post - baby #3 is due July 4th. I'm just about 4 months along now, but I look like I'm at least 6 months. This pregnancy isn't going to be kind to me. Other than that I am feeling great, just tired all the time. Since I go to bed so early these days I haven't been very good at blogging. So here is our Christmas...just a few weeks late.

A couple of days before Christmas there was ring at door at grandma and grandpa's house and who could it be? Santa himself!

Jaden seeing who was standing at the door.

He was pretty sure it was his Grandpa dressed up, but not sure enough to get too close to him.

Logan wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. He still talks daily about how he was too scared to sit on Santa's lap.

I wasn't afraid!

The boys attempted a gingerbread house.

We've entered the awkward picture phase.

Christmas morning!

After opening gifts at our house we headed over to my parents and the kids got to open round two of presents.

After several days of celebrating and staying up late playing with cousins Logan couldn't take it anymore and crashed out about 5 pm.

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.

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