Danger, Danger!

The boys got snow tubes for Christmas and they had been begging us to go sledding.  We finally found a few minutes on a Saturday afternoon and took them up to the East park.

They were anxious to have some fun before it got too dark.  It was funny watching Holden pull the big tube up the hill.

They were having so much fun!!  It had been a couple years since we had been sledding at the park.

Happy Holden.

Thumbs up from Logan.

Snow bunny Ally.

Jensen got this tube for his birthday last year and it was the fastest and the funnest tube of all.

Mom and Dad even got in on the action.  Shocking, I know!

Phew, we didn't break ourselves.

Oh wait...

Jensen wanted to take the fast tube on the jump just one last time....

Yup.  Broken wrist.

Sledding is dangerous.

 

Powder

We went skiing again on MLK day.  We headed to Powder Mountain.  We had never taken our family there and we loved it!

It was so pretty on the chairlift.

Taden and Logan.

Jensen (with tag-face) and Ally.

Getting off at the top.

Our skiing family. :)

Logan. I was waiting on the green run watching them go on the non-green runs.  I only do green. :)

Ally.

Jensen and I waited at the bottom for the others a lot.

The fun pull lift that Taden fell off. Hee, hee.

Simply breathtaking.

It was SO nice to be out of the inversion for the day.  We had forgotton what blue skies looked like.  It was a wonderful day.

Holden's First Time Skiing

We had a moment of insanity and decided to buy Holden some skis.  Not really sure what we were thinking.  So naturally we had to take him to try them out.  We headed to Wolf Mountain on Dec. 31st for the afternoon.

He was pretty excited to go, even if he had no idea what skiing actually was.

He did really well!  He hardly even fell and wanted to go again and again.

On the magic carpet.  He got on and off like a pro!

He wanted to go on the big hill.  He wasn't really a fan of the ski lift.  Or the big hill for that matter.  As soon as he got back down he wanted to go home.

Jensen and Logan were there, too.

Skier Ally.

We spent the rest of the time in the lodge buying overpriced food to keep him happy.  Then Josh's parents came and got him so we could finish out the night.  We went skiing several more times after that, but he never wanted to go again.

There's always next year!

Christmas!!!

I love having all the kids in the house for Christmas.  This year I kept thinking about how fast they are growing up and how I needed to cherish these moments.  I'm not sure when the shift happened, but I've started thinking of Ally's age in how many years she has left until she goes to college!  Weird, but it helps me remember to enjoy these moments, craziness and all!

At least she's not too old to still be silly.  In fact, I think she was the most excited for Christmas out of all of them!

We had the kids do "Secret Santa's" again.  They opened their gifts to each other on Christmas Eve after they told what they had been secretly doing for thier person.  I hope to continue this tradition.

Christmas morning.  Ally and Logan had VERY expensive things on their Christmas lists.  We told them if they wanted something, they each had to pay for part of it.  They forked over some cash and were excited to see what they were going to get Christmas morning.  They ended up with iPod touches.  I'm pretty sure they were happy. :)

Holden wanted a green gun with bullets and "green stuff".  We never did figure out what "green stuff" was, but he was happy so we didn't worry about it.

Jensen wanted an electric scooter.  Too bad the snow was so bad he couldn't use it until March!

Classic Christmas picture. The hair, the smile, the love of family.

Opening presents.

Holden's haul.

Ally's stuff.

Jensen was upset about something (can't remember what) and wouldn't smile.  He then threw a fifteen minute fit because he wasn't smiling in his picture.  I took many more pictures until he was finally satisfied.

This is the one he liked best.  Hmmmm....

Logan and his stuff.

We had the white elephant at Kellie's house this year.  We took a toy elephant and painted it white for one of our gifts.  It was a great day, even if my sister's dog did die in the middle of our party.  RIP Zeke.

December Happenings

December always seems to fly by with lots of shopping and parties going on.  We of course had a great month.

 

Bingo at the Hartley Party.

The kids can hardly wait until they get a bingo!

Holden won a snazzy musical tie!

Still not too sure if he likes Santa.

We told Ally and Logan that they had to sit on Santa's lap if they wanted him to bring them presents.  They loved it-he he.

JT and Santa

Can't believe my baby girl is getting so big!

I bought a Lego advent calendar and it was a lot of fun to open a new thing every day.

A final photo of our old piano.  We sent it on it's way to the Piano Gallery to sell on consignment.

Logan got his Arrow of Light award.  For some reason they decided to hold pack meeting outside. Brrr.

The kids decorated Gingerbread Houses for fun one evening.