Super Sledding

This year between Christmas and New Years Spencer wasn't as busy as normal, so he had some extra time off- and he spoiled us!!!  We went out to breakfast one morning, we got to go bowling and Sledding a couple of times and he did some handyman work around the house.  It was Great!!! 
Eli's favorite activity, by far, was the sledding.  He loved it :)  Grandma Norma bought him his own special sled- it's shaped like a penguin and its the perfect size for him.  He was continually going down and straight back up as fast as he could.  He loved to race his aunt and uncles down the hill and won most of the time.  He never stopped the whole time we were there, which was a few hours.  He didn't even cry when his uncle Troy ran smack into him at the bottom of the hill.  He just popped up and told everyone he was fine and kept going - nothing was going to the stop him, he was like a sledding machine!!!

Ethan taking a ride down with his uncle - he wasn't as excited about the whole situation as Eli

Eli making the trek back up the hill - what a trooper!!

Ethan and Aunt Aleisha

Ethan taking a ride down with his Dad.  Of course, Spencer has his tongue sticking out :)

Eli went down on Spencer's back a few times

Spencer led the train down the hill.  They hooked three sleds together and then went down-it was a train wreck at the bottom, but luckily everyone survived!!



Christmas 2010

Our Christmas was really great.  We had a lot of fun and the boys were so excited.  Eli decided early on-like October, that he wanted every toy he saw in the Sunday Ads.  He would go thru them every weekend and circle EVERYTHING!!! Then there was Ethan, he didn't really understand what was going on until we started opening presents Christmas morning and he found there were toys underneath all that pesky paper!!


This is our tree.  Eli decorated it.  He wouldn't put any ornaments near the bottom because he didn't want Ethan to be able to touch any of them, so all the ornaments are on the front side of the tree in big clumps!!

These are the PJ's Grandma Charrisse made the boys.  They're all matching, sooooo adorable!!!!

I can't believe how hard it is to get a decent picture with all three boys !!  If only they would sit still :)

Eli got these transforming IronMan and SpiderMan cars.  He loves anything to do with SuperHeroes.

This is Eli's gift to Ethan-Monster Truck Lightning McQueen.  Interesting how Eli picked out all the presents he wanted for other people :)

Eli showing off his new Remote Control Iron Man G&G Beamish got him

Ethan figured out that he could sit on his new car AND open presents at the same time

Eli's already talking about what he wants Santa to bring him for next year - it going to be a very long year!!!

Annual Gingerbread House Extravaganza

Life seems to have finally calmed down from the holiday season, and I have a little bit of extra time to catch up on the blog.  Good thing too, cause we have a lot of pictures!!

This year we had a suprise visitor during our gingerbread house construction.  The kids had mixed feelings about his appearance.  The older grandkids were super excited and the younger kids wished he would just leave his candy basket and disappear.

Ethan would not sit with Santa by himself so Kyle being the awesome uncle went with him.  I love how Ethan is holding on to Kyle for dear life!!

 He still wasn't happy even after he got his treat from Santa :)

Bronson's first meeting with Santa-he did great :)

 

Eli had mixed feelings about the situation, a little bit nervous/a little bit excited.  He did great though!!

Ethan and Tanner weren't very interested in building gingerbread houses so they went in search of some mischeif!!

 

Sara is getting her baby time in - She's really great with the kids!!

Ethan is trying to sneak a snack

Spencer and Kyle were in charge of building our gingerbread house.  I only see Kyle working though, Spencer must think he's the supervisor. LOL

Our finished house-good job boys!!

Our Village

On the way home, we put Eli in charge of holding the house so that it didn't slide around in the back of the truck.  It's only a five minute drive from G&G's house to our house but Eli still fell asleep.  He kept hold of our house and amazingly didn't get strangled by the seat belt!!