We had a super busy and FUN Christmas Season. Here are the cracker houses the kids made.
The kids wanted to eat them that night and I told them no that much sugar would make them sick. So when it was time to eat them
Ruston looked and me and said, so is this a good day to get SICK? I had no idea what he was talking about it was funny how concerned he was about it being
ok to get SICK. I finally caught on to what he meant and said sure you have 10
mins to eat as much candy as you can and then they are going in the trash. He couldn't finish is house before he had had enough. Annie on the other hand ate all of hers and half of
Lindsays!
The kids had a great time making sugar cookies. I found a fantastic frosting that works like easy cheese cans it was so smooth!
Alder Super Saturday
After the Alder party Lindsay cut her finger on a glass
Christmas tree bulb. She came to me really calm and placed her thumb on my arm I looked down and saw all the blood dripping off my arm and raced her to the bathroom. I could not get it to stop bleeding and it was really deep so off the the ER we went. She fell asleep on the way there but she ripped the bandage I had put on off so blood was just dripping down her coat for 20
mins. She looked like a war scene by the time we got to the doctors. It took seven stitches to close her thumb up. All the nurses were eating her up as she calmly watched with interest as they stitched her up and she kept saying thank you to them. What a brave little girl.
Christmas EVE
Rusty & Ruth
I made a quilt out of
Ruston's baby shirts.
Ruston built his 600 piece pirate ship by following 48 pages of instructions. What determination I only helped a little.
I repainted a toy box for Annie to store all of her dolls and dresses.
We had a wonderful Christmas. On Christmas eve we were in the bathroom brushing our teeth getting ready for bed and
Ruston looks and me very seriously and asked "Mom am I going to have sugarplums in my head tonight. Before I could answer his 7 year old cousin Eli says Ya! (Like how could you even question it) It was so funny. So the next morning I asked him if he did have sugarplums in his head he simply said yep.
We were all sitting around the dinner table and
Ruston said, How come Lindsay has ELK teeth. None of us got it and then five
mins later Grandpa said do you mean BUCK teeth? Ya why does Lindsay have BUCK teeth? We all had a good laugh. My
Ruston is so funny.
June 25th The lehi parade was awesome this year! My kids loved it and got tons of loot. Thanks aunt Ruth for sitting in the hot sun with my kids.
We had a great time! It was fun to visit with everyone.
June 16 at the princess festival
Mindy was a great face painter all the kids loved it.
The day after school got out we headed to Lake Powell to start the summer off right!
Annie's first dance recital. She did great and loved preforming. She also graduated from preschool, but she will go again next year.
May 27th Happy 2nd Birthday Lindsay!
We went to Build a Bear Work Shop! The kids LOVED it and have done everything with their new little friends. I had to draw the line at taking them to the bathroom with them. 
The proud new teddy bear owner. She was so excited to carry her own box. It took us a long time to get all the way to the car. When we finally made it we headed down to Fish Lake for Memorial Day Weekend. 
Six kids six fishing poles and luckily twelve eyes!
Why sit at a table when you can eat in the dirt under Dean & Lori's camp trailer?
It was a little cold and windy but we had a great time!
Annie at dance class. She loves it!
April 11th our 10 year Anniversary
Spring Break
Alder Easter Egg Hunt always tons of fun.
We also celebrated my parents 40th Anniversary. It was a really nice day. Way to go Mom & Dad!
Easter Sunday
Annie had the BEST birthday ever. She got to have 3 Princess parties!
Alyson Annie & Ivy
I was just looking at my pictures and realized I didn't post about the cute tea party the girls had with Grandma Kat over the break. 
Annie just started preschool and dance. She loves it and can't wait to go to school everyday like Ruston. My kids are all growing up to fast. About a week ago Lindsay was sitting in the high chair saying MOM and I would say what and she would say MOM and I would say what This went on and on so I stopped answering and she tilted her head looked directly at me and said Janice! She is so funny and smart.
We had a super busy and FUN Christmas Season. Here are the cracker houses the kids made.
The kids wanted to eat them that night and I told them no that much sugar would make them sick. So when it was time to eat them Ruston looked and me and said, so is this a good day to get SICK? I had no idea what he was talking about it was funny how concerned he was about it being ok to get SICK. I finally caught on to what he meant and said sure you have 10 mins to eat as much candy as you can and then they are going in the trash. He couldn't finish is house before he had had enough. Annie on the other hand ate all of hers and half of Lindsays!
The kids had a great time making sugar cookies. I found a fantastic frosting that works like easy cheese cans it was so smooth!
Alder Super Saturday
After the Alder party Lindsay cut her finger on a glass Christmas tree bulb. She came to me really calm and placed her thumb on my arm I looked down and saw all the blood dripping off my arm and raced her to the bathroom. I could not get it to stop bleeding and it was really deep so off the the ER we went. She fell asleep on the way there but she ripped the bandage I had put on off so blood was just dripping down her coat for 20 mins. She looked like a war scene by the time we got to the doctors. It took seven stitches to close her thumb up. All the nurses were eating her up as she calmly watched with interest as they stitched her up and she kept saying thank you to them. What a brave little girl.
Christmas EVE
Rusty & Ruth
I made a quilt out of Ruston's baby shirts.
Ruston built his 600 piece pirate ship by following 48 pages of instructions. What determination I only helped a little.
I repainted a toy box for Annie to store all of her dolls and dresses.
We had a wonderful Christmas. On Christmas eve we were in the bathroom brushing our teeth getting ready for bed and Ruston looks and me very seriously and asked "Mom am I going to have sugarplums in my head tonight. Before I could answer his 7 year old cousin Eli says Ya! (Like how could you even question it) It was so funny. So the next morning I asked him if he did have sugarplums in his head he simply said yep.
We were all sitting around the dinner table and Ruston said, How come Lindsay has ELK teeth. None of us got it and then five mins later Grandpa said do you mean BUCK teeth? Ya why does Lindsay have BUCK teeth? We all had a good laugh. My Ruston is so funny.
A panda bear cake for her teddy bear birthday.