Things kids say...

Adam was putting Brody to bed tonight when he told Adam to get on his knees and pray and then after the prayer Brody said, "Dad I want to go on a mission and teach about the restored ospel (gospel) and Joseph Miff (Smith). It's amazing what our kids can teach us and what they remember.

Temple Square lights

Every year we love to go see the lights at Temple Square along with the trillions of other people. I think there are more people every year because when we went last night (also Family Night for everyone in Utah), it was so crowded that you could hardly move. But despite all the people we had a great time as always! We met Joe, Claudia, and little Adam there. They are such good friends and we are so grateful for the time we have with them. Maybe someday we can live closer to them. Brody was having the time of his life, free to run. Then at times he would say, "I tired, hold u". So Adam would hold him so he could catch up on his breath then run some more.






This morning we worked on Brody's gingerbread house. I think he ate more candy then put on, jk actually he listened and wanted to put it on his house. Here is the completed house.

Our fun filled Saturday

We started off the day by having breakfast at the Pace's house (ward friends) and then Santa came to see the kids. There were kids waiting in line to see Santa and Brody didn't know how to wait his turn so he booked it for Santa and jumped right up on his lap. He definately wasn't shy/scared. He told him he wanted a red helmet, tractor and trailer. Santa was so cute with him and spent time with each and every kid. He is definately the real Santa ;)

I know this isn't the best picture (my lens was foggy) but I love how Brody is looking so closely at Santa and Cooper wasn't scared, just yet, he also was trying to pull his "real" beard.


Then we took Brody to get his first professional haircut at Cookie Cutters. Can I just say it was worth every penny. We have been struggling to cut Brody's hair recently, I have cut it since he was born and then all of a sudden he put a stop to it. After a little convincing the girl was finally able to cut his hair. It is so cute!

Saturday night we went over to make sugar cookies with Nanny, Taya, Aunt Dem, and Aunt Tar. Brody and Taya like to get into their work, we had flour everywhere but that's part of the fun.


Hanging out with Poppy

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Oh how I love the snow, especially more since having kids who also enjoy it. Yesterday we got so much snow, it came past Brody's knees in some areas and it still kept snowing. I plowed/shoved twice yesterday. Brody was having the time of his life. I made trails for him to go in since it was so deep and he even fell in face first a few times LOL. Then he realized how fun it was to eat the snow, good thing the snow was nice and fresh! He got his trike to play with and put it on snow mounds. We had so much fun. It is so nice to be home and not have to drive anywhere.




Brody insisted on only wearing one glove, that was until he fell down and realized the snow was freezing cold.

After Brody's nap we made sugar cookies and decorated them. I have to say Brody did pretty good, not too big of a mess and he actually decorated the cookie.


What a happy boy! Cooper loves his exersaucer, it's so cute to see how excited he gets when he is put in there.
Cooper is almost crawling, he does the army crawl and scoot around to where he needs to. I think he'll be walking before he crawls, he wants to stand all the time. I sure love him, he is seriously the most chill baby I know. It's so fun to see Brody and Cooper play together, they just love each other and they both get so excited to wake up and see one another in the morning. Adam took Brody to do errands and I took Cooper to go grocery shopping and when Brody got home and realized Cooper wasn't there, he was so sad. He always wants Cooper to be with him and home when he returns. I sure love these boys!

Festival of Trees

Last Saturday night we took a stroll on down to the Festival of Trees. We got there kind of late (hence Cooper being in pj's) but were still able to spend a couple hours looking at all the beautiful trees. It's amazing to see the kind of work that goes into each and every tree.


There are many trees that take true talent. Here's a few of our favorites...

Brody loved the tractor tree

Adam's favorite:
Top part of the outdoor/camouflage tree

Bottom of the camouflage tree

One of my favorites, there were so many

Some of the absolutely amazing gingerbread houses. Adam talked to one of the guys that did this gingerbread castle and he said it took over 1,000 hours to make. Can you belive that, all for Primary Children's Hospital. What a huge sacrifice that is going to a good cause!

Family Prayer

Brody usually repeats everything we say in our prayers but lately he is starting to add his own wording. For our dinner prayer, Brody was repeating after Adam but as Adam proceeded with the prayer, Brody decided to be done and said, "In the name...etc.".

Here is how part of our family prayer went tonight:
Me: Thank you for our family.
Brody: And food.
Me: Thank you for our house.
Brody: Thank you for food.
Me: Thank you for our leaders.
Brody: Thank you for Kenna. (Kenna is his cute little friend at church and he gets so excited to play with her in nursery every week.)

As we were saying good night we had a family hug and Brody said to me, "I love you". He says this all the time when prompted but tonight it was completely on his own. How can you not love this kid!

Don't my boys look so cute all bundled up? I want to make sure that they stay nice and warm!


Brody loves to help with everything right now. He decided he wanted to feed Cooper so I thought hey why not. He did such a good job feeding Cooper and I was able to finish making breakfast. Brody can be the best helper at times!


For family night last night we put up our "brand new" Christmas tree. For those of you who don't know we have always bought a real Christmas tree but this year we decided we needed to go for the fake tree, not because we wanted to but because we needed to for safety reasons. We are kind of sad to say good-bye to the yummy smell of real trees but we could always do candles or wreaths inside our house. We will figure it out. So anyways here is our new Christmas tree all decorated.

When decorating our tree Brody found a hammer, wrench, and screwdriver ornaments. The hammer didn't work like a real hammer so therefore that one broke and the screwdriver is still intact and working great for his little projects. I guess we need to get some more tool ornaments.