That's Just the Way We Roll...: December 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Years Eve with the Babies...

For New Years Eve I got the opportunity to spend the evening with my niece and nephew. My brother and also his ex wife had plans to go out and do different things. I was all for having the kids come over here and hang out with me. Kim and her family dropped the kids off and went to the McKay Event Center for the New Years Eve concert. Kim's mom, Sandy, is a huge David Archuleta and for her birthday they got her tickets for the concert and after party (the dance) because he was going to be there. My brother, his friends and Whitney also went to the same event. In fact they ended up sitting right by Kim and her family.

Back at home, we decided to have a party with the five of us there. We made our annual New Years Eve food and then Cori, the kids and I went and watched CSI for most of the night. Here are a few pictures from our eventful evening...

Ron, Ammon, Tony and Whitney right before leaving for the concert...

Lilly showing Ry how to use the potty...

Ry helping Cori make her salsa. He is such a great helper!...

Ry learning how to use the blender...

Ry sporting a chocolate Hitler mustache...

Lilly and me...

Cori and Ry...

Lilly wanted to take a picture...

Lilly's second picture...

Lilly's third picture...

Ry and me...

How we spent our night... (CSI)...

The kids decided that they wanted to go slide, so they got the toy box lid
and made their own slide...

After sliding for a while they decided to wrestle...

Then Ry decided he wanted to color so he colored on his toy box lid...

After this, he went up to grandma's room to color on a coloring book...

Potty Training by a Little Girl...

Kim and her mom and sister dropped the kids off tonight around 4:30... The kids started to play with the new plastic animals that grandma bought them when Ry needed to go to the bathroom. We have slowly been potty training him... He went and sat on his little toilet and grandma kept telling him to push and would then make a face to show him how to do it. Lilly decided to get into the action and began to show him how to push... Luckily I had the camera taking pictures of the kids playing with the animals and was able to catch this on tape. After Ry got done, his little sister went and sat on the little toilet and once again showed him how to push.... Enjoy!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas...

This year we had two Christmases. One happened at 8:00 in the morning on Christmas day. We had our annual Christmas pictures of us standing as the kids by the stairs waiting anxiously to see what Santa brought us. We then opened our presents like we do every year. A little later in the afternoon Ammon's friends Ron and John came over to spend Christmas day and evening with us. We decided to split up into two groups (boys vs. girls) and played Cori's new CSI game. Of course we kicked the boys butts! Then the boys went and got the kids from Riverton and our second Christmas began. We ate a nice family dinner and then watched the kids open their Christmas presents. After all this, we went downstairs and spent the rest of the night playing games on John's wii.On Christmas Eve I was given the small couch to sleep on. I couldn't get comfortable on it and so I ended up curling up on the floor wedged inbetween the small couch and the matress that Cori brought up for her and Whitney to sleep on. It really was more comfortable than it looks!

Cori and Whitney sleeping on Cori's matress...

Ammon sleeping on the big couch....

The annual kids Christmas picture. I look pretty bad!...

The girls with their stockings...

For Christmas I tried to think of something good to give to my family. With being big into genealogy I decided to make books for everyone with the life histories of a bunch of our ancestors. The really cool part was that I took the video that was made of my dad a year or so before he died and I typed it out and put that in... here is Whits opening that present...