Christmas Parties

Jayson did his first job this week. He shoveled our neighbor's sidewalk and driveway and they even paid him for it. He was very excited about it (even though it was only 2 dollars). He would not come inside until he had finished every last bit of the sidewalk and the driveway. He was very thorough. His dad was very proud of him. The kids had all of their holiday parties on Thursday so the younger two and I went to see the different parties. They all seemed to have a good time. We then had the really long drive back to Colorado. It sure seems like a long drive, of course it is much closer than some of the places we have lived. The kids are so excited about Christmas luckily for them (and me) there is only three more days. They are super wiggly. Well there really isn't too much to say this week.

Ginger Bread Display

This weekend we took the kids to see the gingerbread display that they had at the Mormon Trail Center. The kids had a pretty good time. The display was much larger than I had expected. They had a scavenger hunt for the kids, where they had to find different things in the displays. We also went over to see the Winter Quarters temple grounds. That was pretty much the only thing that we did this week. Glen switched to nights, so he and the kids have been trying to adjust to the new shift. They have to be quite for a few hours after they get home from school. They of course forget, but luckily Glen is a pretty sound sleeper and doesn't wake up too much (or else he just knows that we are trying, and doesn't want us to feel bad, who knows). The kids are super excited to go back to Colorado to see their cousins and grandparents. Well that's about the only exciting thing we did this week. Mostly we have just been busy getting ready for Christmas and our trip. So anyway I guess that is about it. It sure feels like I do a whole lot more during the week, but then when I go to write about it, I realize how not exciting it was. Kyler this last picture is for you. It's kind of hard to read, but it says Buffalo St.

Getting Ready for Christmas

We have spent most of this week getting ready for Christmas. The kids had all kinds of fun stuff to do this week. This picture is from the base tree lighting party. It isn't the best quality picture since it is a scanned Polaroid, but its cute and has all of the kids in it. The base always has lots of fun stuff to do with the kids. The tree lighting was cold, but afterwards they had snacks and hot cocoa, and of course Santa and Mrs. Clause, so the kids thought it was great. They had a game room with 3 different Wii's and games set up and a bunch of pool tables, so Glen and I had fun trying to teach the older 3 how to play pool (of course Glen had to resort to cheating to finish the game since neither of us are any good at pool anymore). We bought and decorated our tree this week also. The kids got milk and cookies after and I was going to take a picture of the kids with our tree, but of course I never got around to it. Glen's squadron has a Christmas party for the kids also. They have the kids sit on Santa's lap and they get a present (of course we provide the present) Santa had a hard time with Ellura's name and so when he got to Aaric he was afraid to even try to pronounce it. The kids thought it was kind of funny. Jeremiah cried when he sat on his lap. We even managed to finish all of our Christmas shopping, and got them all wrapped. Of course now that I think about it, I just remembered another present that is sitting in our shed, hopefully I will remember to wrap it before we leave. So anyway I have all kinds of cute new pictures of the kids from all of our holiday fun, maybe someday I will get around to updating my flickr account, then again maybe not. The kids are so excited to go to Colorado in a few weeks. Well that is about it. I never really have anything exciting to say, I guess it is a good thing I only update this once a week, or no one would ever read this ( I suppose I'm not really even sure anyone reads it as it is =)).

Thanksgiving!!

The kids are back at school after 5 days home for Thanksgiving break. They had fun, but were glad to go back today. Glen's mom and sister spent the week here, the kids were excited to take them to the zoo and the base gym. I made the kids go to the gym with me everyday, at least it has a playground. We were pretty busy getting everything ready for dinner on Thursday. Ashleigh was so happy to finally get a chance to help cook. She wants to help every day, but my kitchen is so small that we don't have enough room for anyone else in the kitchen while we are cooking. Thanksgiving turned out pretty well, even though nothing seemed to go as planned. Dinner was a few hours late, I went to go get butter and dishwasher soap and ended up donating blood. I got the butter but forgot the dishwasher soap, so we ended up washing all the dishes by hand. That was fun. The weather was really nice for our trip to the zoo on Friday. The zoo has the coolest shark tank that you walk through and can see the sharks and rays swimming around you. Its Elly's favorite part of the zoo. Jeremiah has learned to climb on everything. His favorite thing to climb is the table. With all the times that he has fallen you would think he would stop, but so far that has not even slowed him down. He is just into everything. This morning he filled the cat food dish with cat litter and carried it all over the house. I am going to pretend that he didn't eat any of it and he only had cat litter on his mouth because of some other reason. What is it with that kid, he won't eat chicken or pasta, but he'll eat cat litter. So after spending my whole morning scrubbing down him, my living room, laundry room and bath tub, I think I got the last of it. Hopefully. Baby's are just gross. I guess it is a good thing they are cute.