This is what I wake up to every Day

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Trace Dancing to Christmas Music

This is so cute, I just had to share it. Trace loves to dance.

Merry Christmas

Have you noticed that nobody says Merry Christmas anymore? Are we so afraid that its not P.C. that we can't say it anymore? I think we should say Merry Christmas to all that we come in contact with......try it out and let me know what happens. I'll bet you'll put a smile on someones face or cheer someone up just by saying those words.

Anyway, here is a sweet picture of Brooks wishing you all

Merry Christmas!

The ONLY way to go SLEDDING - Chris Style

Who needs a big hill or a park to go sledding?---I get worn out too fast doing it that way. So, I took the boys sledding this morning for 2hrs behind the 4wheeler. Not once did they complain or get scared. We toured most of the neighborhood traveling on the road (shhh, don't tell Jamie). I just hope I didn't make the neighbors mad by icing up the alleyway behind our house.

Trace is 4!

Trace turned four yesterday but the celebration lasted a few days. I visitted his preschool class Thursday and they all got to sing to him and have a piece of cake. I think he loves being the only boy there!

We celebrated mostly on Saturday starting the day with a big breakfast, complete with a candle in his eggs. We headed to Trafalga to mini-golf for his birthday activity and he loved it. It was a lot of fun and not too pricey which always nice for a winter birthday. Shan and Jed joined us and we had fun eating cake and opening his presents.

I can't believe he is 4. He was my baby for so long that I don't realize how big he really is. We went to the Dr today for his check up and he was thrilled to see how big he was on the chart, and let everyone know he was soon catching up to Kayden.

The Bestibal of Fwees-Trace says

I hope you all made it to the Festival of Trees this weekend. This is the first year we've gone to Santa land and enjoyed some of the games there. The boys loved fishing in the ice pond and a personal favorite....... cinnamon rolls and scones!!

Every year they add to the activities at the Festival of Trees. This year we stood in the horrible line to see Santa. They were so excited then totally froze when we got to him. Trace could only nod and shake his head. Santa asked him if he would like something cuddly to snuggle with, Trace had a very blank stare on his face and just shook his head no. So Santa asked him if he would like a big red fire engine and he got a small smile and nod.

Kayden couldn't remember how to talk and kept mumbling about a small hand, Bumble Bee, small hand something. As soon as we left, like 10 feet away he goes 'Dang it, why couldn't I remember I wanted the Bumble Bee hand cannon.'

So blessed!! Look at those handsome boys!!!!

The boys even got to call the north pole and talk to an elf! They loved it

They also made a little craft to come home with . I started taking pics of my favorite trees then soon realized there were far too many to keep track of. Much to my boys (all 4 of them) dismay we were there 5 wonderful, glorious hours. I loved that place and hope you all got to go!

YUMMY!

I seriously could eat this kid!! He is into everything-all the time. He headed to the plant for the first time last night, bummer.

A Shameless Plug

If you have never been to the Festival of Trees you are really missing out. We have been every year for 4 years now. 2 years ago my mom was in town and came with us and we were so inspired by the generosity and talent of so many people we signed up to do a tree. It took me 2 years to get my act together and actually do it, and I'm hooked! I've been shopping the after Christmas sales the past 2 years and we had enough stuff to put together. We figured since we're all from New Mexico we'd do a southwestern tree. It's entitled Sunny Southwest.So I'm not THAT talented to do a full size, but this little 3 footer did us nicely. We bought a pre-lit tree last year after Christmas and that was a very smart move. Everything has to be wired/glued so it can be easily transported and so the pre-lit tree was very cool to work with. We had dream catchers, chili's, rugs, a storyteller, a gecko, a little adobe village. It came together really nicely. And it's the ONLY one of it's kind which is pretty cool too.

My sista's came up and we made an evening out of it, hitting Cafe Rio afterwards. It was great, and I'm already thinking of fun themes for next year.

It's at the South Town Expo Center in Sandy this weekend. It's a wonderful family event, tickets or only $5 or so and I think there is a family discount. We walked over and saw Sadie's amazing tree! I lost it and wanted to hug her sweet picture. The whole place is just filled with such love and hope for PCMC and all the good that they do. I would recommend you make it a family outing-and try the cinnamon scones, yummy!!

Jess's B-day

I'm totally copying my sister's blog for this one......

Ditto to everything she said!

www.shedrobison.blogspot.com

Life Before a Blog

Did life really exist before I blogged? Our camera is still broken so I've been looking through old pictures. 2 years ago we went to Montana with the Schauers family. We had such a great time. This is Kayden and Miles being pirates. A very cold sledding trip. Yes, Chris' hat is pink, it was the only one we could find and it was freazing!

Remember Trace's monkey hair?

This is 3 years ago, I forget how small they were. And how I'm a few weeks away from entering this stage again! It sure is a lot of fun, and a lot of work keeping them from climbing into everything. This is Trace but it sure looks like Brooks. Trace was walking at 9 months to keep up with Kayden so he skipped a lot of 'baby' stages.

Kayden has Always loved the camera.

Just a little walk down memory lane for fun. Happy Thanksgiving everyone-and good luck Friday morning!

Random Ramblings

So my neighbor Colleen saved my bacon last week one night when Chris let me know about 6pm that he wouldn't be home until???????? I had a meeting to go to at 7 so I called Colleen and she graciously took the 2 older crazies and the baby came with me. The next morning I asked the boys how it was at their friends house and for the next hour, well almost all day they kept talking about 'anna and the jones who had the coolest slap in the world!' It took me until early afternoon to get that they had played Indiana Jones and he had a cool whip, hahahahahaha.

Last night I was lieing by Kayden in bed and he said 'Mom I have a secret, and it's not bad.' Okay he had my attention. 'Everyday when we go on the carpet squares for reading time, Lexie comes over and puts her head on my shoulders to hug me, and I don't tell her to not do it.'

With the cold weather we've been through our winter clothes and of course Kayden has out grown last years coat so we made the dreaded trip to Walmart Monday afternoon to outfit him in this seasons snow gear. I told him to take good care of his new coat cause if he lost it I wasn't buying a new one.

Today was such a nice day we decided to walk to pick him up from school. His teacher came over to me (usually a bad sign) and said 'So did you tell Kayden you wouldn't buy him another coat if he lost this one?' I was afraid to answer! Was this some kind of social services question? Crap, so I said yes. She said 'Well he won't take it off in class, at all. The last 2 days he's done all the activities and homework in this big bulky coat and today he was sweating, his hair was wet. Can you tell him it's okay to take it off?' oooooooooooooops

Trace is Loving school, maybe cause he's the only boy with 4 cute girls. Each day I pick him up and ask him what he learned he says 'Noffin mom, I learned noffin.'

Oh, and Brooks has 5 teeth!!!!!