Christmas Eve 2013

We'll Let the Pictures do the talking....

A Little Bit of December

My blog has suffered lately but not from lack of try.  I have tried multiple times in the last few weeks to update but when I try to publish to blogger straight from Picasa like I would normally do I get a service error.  I cannot figure out what is wrong! So today I resorted to the old fashioned way of uploading pictures and it took exactly 11 minutes and 48 seconds to upload just this post.  Who has time for that? 

Anyway I'm still trying to catch up from December which seems like ages ago and only yesterday at the same time.  It was all a blur but I have a ton of pictures from all the fun we had.  

Kallie had her Christmas piano recital, she did great.  Her piano is really coming along.  She is way ahead of me however that isn't hard seeing as I can't play a note.  

Hayes is growing fast and was two months old in this picture.  He slept the month of 

December away and managed to stay healthy through all the parties and hoopla of being passed around by every family member on both sides.  

It's a rare thing that Weston has time to sit down and snuggle with our boy.  He has a busy life and we enjoy every second we get with him.  He may not enjoy his home time so much as it is total chaos these days.  

Hagen continues to be overzealous about healthy eating.  While the rest of us are making and eating no bake cookies he would prefer and apple (with the skin off of course)

My mom and dad came over to watch the Christmas Devotional with us and to receive an excellent FHE lesson by none other than Kallie herself.  That girl is determined to teach us the gospel.  She prepares a lesson for us every week without fail!  I love having my mom and dad over and all to ourselves at times.  There are so many grandkids now that it is just crazy chaos every time we are all together.

Cole is such a good big brother and the kids can't get enough of Hayes.  Hayes is supposed to have this high calories formula twice a day (I am terrible about giving it to him because then I just have to pump anyway and who has time for that really?) The kids love it when he gets a bottle though and fight over who gets to feed him.  

My poor Hagen got completely worn out over the holidays.  This boy refuses to nap and goes to bed around 9 and is up by 6 every day.  Knowing that he couldn't get off the rug until he took his shoes off, he simply succumbed to exhaustion and fell asleep right there.  

How bout a closer look at his cuteness?

I love time with my kids and just cuddling on the couch.  As much as I love summer and warm weather it is nice to be able to just hunker down with these sweet babies for the winter!

Baby Blessing

We blessed Hayes the first week in December.  He was two months old but growing and doing great so we decided to bless him while his outfit still fit.  He wore the same blessing outfit as our other boys.  Cole was way too big for it, we couldn't even zip it all the way up and he was only three weeks old.  Hagen fit into it just right, and it was plenty big on Hayes.  It is fun to watch how each kid grows at different rates. 

Weston did a great job on the blessing and it was so nice to have all our families at church for the occasion.  For the first time though we did two seperate dinners with the families.  I think everyone enjoyed this more as it wasn't quite so chaotic. 

My family came right after church for lunch while the rest of Weston's families went back to the rest of church at their own wards.  The Crapo family came that evening for dinner and then the kids had their piano recital so it really worked out pretty good. 

 

 

 

 

 

Somehow we didn't get a picture of Hayes with Grandma and Grandpa Crapo and Great G &G Dayton. We did however get this gem of Uncle Coy that we will put in place of the grandparents:)

 

 

New Obsession

The day after Thanksgiving Regg came and hung our Christmas lights up.  He then took Kallie, Cole, Preston and Hagen to a track nearby with their four wheelers. They had a blast and didn't want to come home.  After that and a date to the movie Frozen, Regg is rapidly earning points in the favorite uncle category. 

 

 

 

The kids seriously had a blast and from that day on asked for motorbikes for Christmas.  I'm not a huge fan of all the jumps and craziness that comes with motorbikers but after seeing how much fun those kids had it may be inevitable. 

Thanksgiving 2013

I have a lot of catching up to do and life is finally slowing down and getting back into a routine around here which allow me a little time.  For Thanksgiving this year my mom wanted to have dinner with her whole family at a church.  We all whined and complained a bit for one reason... I love to be lazy on Thanksgiving and wear my sweats and eat until I am sick and then eat some more. The problem is all my cousins on my mom's side are GORGEOUS girls.  Wearing my sweats just wouldn't cut it and how could I possibly pig out the way I wanted with all those skinny minnies watching me. 

Turns out, we had a blast! Also turns out, all my skinny cousins pigged out right along with me.  We really had a great time.  Even "Fun Weston" showed up to the party.  We joke because Weston is either a ton of fun or a total grump.  As the picture below with my Aunt Kelly shows, it was definately a "fun Weston" day.  I set my camera down for five seconds and found a bunch of selfies of these two dorks along with some totally inapporpriate pictures courtesy of my cousin Lindsey. 

My Grandparents whose health is terrible showed up for only about 45 minutes.  They just didn't feel well enough to stay long.  They insisted on a picture with the granddaughters.  (there are five missing though)

It has been years since all us girls hung out and laughed like we did.  We set up some chairs in a corner and giggled like little school girls for hours. 

We then discussed the best style and beauty topics....

Mugged on each other's sweet babies....

And then spent the rest of the day inflicting pain on one another in the form of a wicked game of dodgeball!

 

 

 

All in all the day was a complete success! We appologized to our dear mother for whining about the idea of such a wild Thanksgiving, and truthfully hope to do it again soon!

PreChristmas Festivities

Between school programs, recitals and parties our December was jam packed.  Not to mention that Weston had meetings in Jackson one weekend along with Hagen's appointment in Salt Lake and a Bowl game in Boise another weekend.  December flew by. 

The program the school puts on for Christmas is always a hit and this year was no different.  The kids did a great job and were pretty proud of their performance.  Cole was NOT happy about having to wear his church clothes to school but the kids all looked so nice.
 

 

 

 

Kallie's clogging team danced at the Homestead Assited Living Center. They did a great job and looked adorable.

 

The kids were also part of the Nativity at the ward party. Cole was a wise man and Kallie an Angel. Weston sang a duet with Bailee which he didn't bother to tell me about.  He wasn't thrilled about being roped into that but has a hard time telling people no when it comes to church things.

 

At the party I went to get Hagen a cookie and was told that they were all gone.  Then I noticed this particular families table.  No question where all the cookies went! Wow, that's some nerve!

 

 

The kids were happy to see Santa after a long wait in line, Cole asked for a surpise, Hagen a motorcyle and Kallie a music stand?? Not sure where that one came from! Her list changed every day all month. And to finish it off, Why wouldn't we traumatize our children by making them sit on Jolly ol Saint Nick's lap?