MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Merry Christmas to all! We had attempted to take family pictures, but Haley forgot the boys clothes on her mad rush out the door to beat the sun going down. As you can see, she failed at both, oops. Better luck next time! We swear Cru smiles, but he is a hard one to catch...

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas and we are thinking of you all.

Late Night Rendezvous

And no it is not with Matt and I... it was the kids! We have decided to put them in a room together to get used to each other to make room for baby #3 and while it's had it's good days and bad days, last night was one of the bad ones, but very funny...

So we put them to bed probably around 8:15 pm or 8:30 pm because we had a vacuum saleman over trying to show us this awesome vacuum. Well, they both were the saddest kids in the world to have to go to bed, literally kicking and crying. Matt and I just let them be and left, hoping that they would just go to bed. So we make our way back to the saleman, hearing all their laughing and carrying on that they were doing. Matt goes to check them out after about 20 minutes of laughing and scream outbursts. It was raining outside and making lots of noises so when Matt goes in to check on the kids, Treyson had made it inside Cru's crib just hangin' out. He told us that the rain noises were making him scared so he had to go into Cru's bed to feel better. He also threw in all his pillows and Cru's bumper pad that we had taken off a few days earlier and turned on the closet light "so they could see." We had a good laugh, but put them "back to bed" and went back to our night.

Meanwhile the laughing continues and we just let them be hoping again that they will just get tired and fall asleep, because by now it's like 9:30pm. Our friend Clark comes over to bring us some yummy toffee and so we sit and chat with him while the monkey business continues to go on... Finally Matt decides to go in and be tough dad and make these kids be quiet and go to sleep around 9:50 pm. He proceeds to open the door and he finds Treyson completely naked sitting on his bed, closet lights on, and looks over at Cru and there he was all in his glory too!!! (Cru obviously had help from big brother because he had a full outfit of sweats, long sleeve shirt, onsie, diaper, socks, the whole works taken off him!) He couldn't help but laugh and have Clark and I come see what was going on. What do you do about that?!?!

After putting clothes back on, we ended up putting Treyson out in the living room to hang out with us while Cru went quickly to sleep after 10pm! Please tell me it will get easier with them in their room together.... somehow I'm thinking it doesn't. Fun story!

Happy Birthday MATT!

Happy Birthday to Matt today... he is 28! In celebration of his day I have composed a list of his many roles he plays each day. Enjoy.

1. Shoe lover

2. Great "WWF" wrestler

3. Loves to wash his truck AND keep it clean

4. Avid bowler

5. Clean freak

6. Deacon leader

7. SEXY red head

8. Great vacuumer

9. Dallas Cowboys fan

10. Occasional golfer

11. Super dad of two...soon to be three

12. "Donut" maker in the snow

13. Solo practice dentist

14. Grapefruit eater

15. Case Graduate

16. Husband of one wonderful wife!

17. Mexican food lover

18. A 70s child

19. Dominican Republic returned missionary

20. Midnight snacker

21. Person with perfect eyesight

22. Cat hater

23. Steak lover

24. New owner of a king bed... and loving it!

25. Mayonnaise hater

26. Psi Omega alumnus

27. Lebron James fan

28. Tiger Woods PGA golf game player

28 Roles for 28 years of life! Have a great day MATT, we love you!

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Cru's new obsession

Cru is currently obsessed with these random "Mardi Gras" necklaces. He LOVES to find them and quickly put them on, he even gets upset if you put them on! It is quite hilarious and doesn't make Matt the proudest father in the world, but he thinks it's pretty funny. He even had to bring it to church yesterday, but I quickly took it off before we got into sacrament to not get too many looks. We love our Cru!

It's Contagious...

Here's my new "do"! It was contagious... all the new haircuts, I had to do my too. I actually was overdue for a hair cut and I just decided it was time to go one color and a bit shorter. Maybe a lot shorter! I am quite happy with it. The boys were all excited about it and said I looked pretty.

Thanksgiving

Cru and his friend Bear
Cru and daddy
Shelby, Jon, and Annie (Matt's sis) going on a winter walk.... brr!
Kallie, Koda and Treyson in their winter hats.
It's S'MORE time! (Could I not find a better picture of me, ick!)

A little late, but very thankful!

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year with Matt's family up in the mountain cabin at Brian Head. We rented a cabin for the whole family and hung out there for three days. We had great plans to go snowboarding, skiing, sledding, but the weather didn't cooperate with us. They were actually making snow when we arrived up there on Wednesday. And then that night it snowed about 2-3 inches, but it was way too cold (in the teens) to take the kids out to have fun. Darn! Treyson insisted that he get to go out and so we got him all bundled up and he lasted maybe 5 minutes out there with grandpa. It was still fun hanging out in the cabin and Treyson still talks about how AWESOME it was. It had a little pool table/air hockey that he loved! And since Matt's older sister Jamie and her family were a little under the weather, they didn't spend the night up there with us and Treyson had the whole upstairs to himself, which he loved. Here are some fun pictures of our trip.