Christmas Fun!

Well, now that Christmas is over, here is our Christmas post. We had a fun Christmas season this year. Ben is finally big enough to be excited about Santa, snow, presents, Christmas lights, and more Christmas lights...

...so we took him to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square.

He loved it!!!!


He loved the lights so much, he even came up with his own "Christmas Lights Dance", which was pretty awesome!!!

We had fun too, even though it was FREEZING!!!


We caught the end of the nativity program they had by the Tabernacle, and McLain got this awesome picture with the Christus in the background.


Christmas morning was fun too. Brooklyn is just cute as ever.


And Ben was super excited to get out of bed and open presents.


At least we thought he would be!

Getting Festive!!

Well, we don't seem to take many pictures around here, but now that finals are finally over for McLain, we can fully invest ourselves in the Christmas season.

Decorations are in the process of going up...

Lights are being untangled...


Lights are burning out...

And Sheri learned how to make these yummy treats which McLain has since dubbed:
"Moose Poo Delights"

We are super excited for the 4 week long Christmas break (compared with the usual 3 weeks). Aside from McLain being able to work and save us from an untimely financial death, we don't know what to do with ourselves. With the cold, we might just stay inside and, well . . .










ya know . . .












SLEEP!

Happy Late Halloween!!

We had a fun Halloween season this year! Here are some of the fun things that we did...

One of the ladies in my ward taught us how to make these super cool bug cupcakes. So, when my sister Emily came to hang out with us one weekend, we attempted making them.

We had centipedes and ticks, and many other things.


But my favorite had to be Emily's creature. Can you guess what it is supposed to be?


If this is what you guessed, you were right...a scorpion!


We sure had fun!!!

We also went to the pumpkin walk with my sister, Julie and her husband, Doug, and their cute little boy Zach. Good times!

Like father, like son...


And now for the cute costumes.

At the ward party, we went as Peanut Butter and Jelly.
Ben was a Pea
Sheri was a Nut
Brooklyn was Butter
McLain was Jelly
We were Pea, Nut, Butter, and Jelly.
Sorry, no pics of that one.

But here are the cute kids on Halloween night.

Ben was a rugby player, and he loved going Trick or Treating.


And Brooklyn was a cute little bumblebee!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Ben's newest trick

Every day, Ben does something new that just makes me laugh.

For example, when I looked over and saw him eating his "raisin patty", I couldn't help but laugh ... and almost gag.


But I think this newest trick of his tops them all.

And of course, here are a couple pictures of Brooklyn, just because she's so dang cute!!!

Burning Cakes, Hikes, and Parmesan Cheese

So Ben turned 2 last week!!! CRAZY!
Here are the before and after pictures of the airplane cake that I made for him.

BEFORE we ate it

AFTER we ate it and McLain got to it

He sure had lots of fun with the fire!


So, this last weekend, we went to Moab to see our beautiful niece be blessed. It was so fun!!!
We took Ben on a little hike while we were there.

Good times!


And yesterday, Ben was eating his breakfast. We kept hearing him say "Parmesan cheese." What??? Did he want parmesan cheese on his Tootie Fruities? That's gross!!!

So I went in to see what in the world he was talking about. There he was looking out the window and repeating "Parmesan cheese on car!" Huh? So, I took a peek out the window and this is what I saw.

That's right, it was snow. You've gotta give it to him though...it does look like parmesan cheese.