He loves me, he loves me not...

The other day, the boys wrote "stories" on their doodle pads.  Noah came over and "read" me his story.  It was SO SWEET!  All about how great I was and how our home is the happiest home on earth with the best mom in the world and lots of good food.  I thought...this would be great to get on tape...proof of sorts that I'm doing a decent job, right?  Well, my ego was a bit too big b/c Noah changed the story up a bit the 2nd time told it:

Christmas Pictures

Still behind...but here are a few pictures from this Christmas season:

We had an advent calendar (courtesy of my mother) for the first time this year (should have been included in the traditions I listed last week...) and each day had a little slip of paper with something simple and fun to do.  The kids LOVED it and looked forward to it each day.  We opened them after dinner each night and got to do lots of fun stuff:

Drinking Hot Chocolate with candy canes:

 

Coloring Christmas Pictures:

We even got to go visit Santa one night:

No, we didn't pay the $20 bucks to get a picture with him, so this is the kids in line:

We had a "polar express party" with the boy's joyschool group and Samantha got to come since it was at our house:

We made treats for those same joyschool friends:

We played lots of Wii with Granna:

ate dinner at In & Out on Christmas Eve:

We acted out Luke 2.  Noah was SUPER sweet!  He kept putting his arm around "Mary" trying to help her and saying things like "It will be okay, I love you."  Micah is a king.  That is the only crown we had!  And Samantha wanted a real baby (Hanna) in her tummy at first, so that was the best we could do and made her quite happy!

There were other things that we didn't get pictures of....always true I guess.  It was a really fun month / / week.   I will try to post Christmas morning next week!  (-:

Merry Christmas Nanna!

This was our gift to my Mom this year. The music and lyrics were written by an incredibly talented friend of mine. Once she'd written the song, she spent 3 hours with my kids recording it and then hours more editing it. Her talent is AMAZING. My kiddos can't really sing, but she has this method of getting things "just right." I added the pictures to the music for a slideshow. It is now my kids favorite song to listen to and I'm loving the memories. So is my Mom! If you are in So Cal & are interested in having one made let me know and I will put you in touch with my friend. Oh, and Samantha's last line is "I love you to the moon!"

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Halloween Day

Sam had a temp of 103, but was so so sadden by the idea of being left behind that we let her go. We made her stay in the stroller the whole time though so she didn't get close to any other kiddos. She only made it for about 15-20 min. and then asked to go to bed.

On the way out the door:



The beginning of the neighborhood parade:

The very first candy stop:
Right before we split up (I took Sam to about 3 houses and Cory went ahead (much faster) with the boys. Gotta love the boot Tinkerbell insisted on:
The loot:

Halloween Festivities so far.

I LOVE FALL!  I love the cooler weather, the leaves, the soups and hot cocoa.  I especially love all the traditions.  This fall has been the best b/c the boys are finally old enough to remember some of the things we did last year and our little family's traditions are starting!  I'm LOVING it!  They remembered that last year we made ghosts out of milk cartons and asked to do it again this year.  So we did:

They remembered that we decorated our door for Halloween last year as well and want to do it again, so we did that as well:

Proud of Noah

Today when I went to pick up the kids from the child watch at the gym the following conversation took place and it made me really happy so I wanted to be sure to record it:

Worker: Your kids are adorable
Me: Thanks.  I think so!
Worker:  No really, they are sweet and obedient ; just really good kids.
Me:  That is so good to hear. 
Worker:  In fact, today I asked Noah if he knew that his name was in the Bible.  He said: "Yes, and so is Micah and Samantha (Samuel) and Hanna.  We love the Bible.  We want to be like Jesus."

I almost teared up.  I was so incredibly proud of him. 

Easter Fun

So, I haven't blogged about Christmas, Thanksgiving or the 4th of July (yes, 4th of July 2010), so I thought I'd better get our Easter post down right away or I'd never get to it either. I love Easter. It rivals Christmas for me.  So, we had a fun week:

Today we made resurrection rolls and talk about what Easter actually means. We also had a ham and cheesy potatoes dinner, but I forgot to take pictures of any of it. They boys enjoyed the rolls though. They thought it was fun that the marshmallows disappeared, but I'm not quite sure they made the connection to Christ being resurrected. We read a few scriptures about it, but Micah's only comment was: Well Mom, marshmallows can't be resurrected, only people can b/c Jesus was a people!

Here is what cute Hanna did during all the activities:

 

Good Friends:

Valentine's Day 2011

The Funnies...

These kids are always doing / saying something funny. I just can't scrapbook and post them all. So, I've started a running column at the very bottom of our sidebar on the right. When something funny happens, I will just jot it down there. So, go check it out every once in a while. Here is what we have so far:

2/20/11:
While sitting on the playroom floor, Granna and Micah have the following conversation:
Granna: Are you in Nursery or Primary?
Micah: I'm in my house!

Micah was eating Nachos for dinner tonight. He said: "I love guacamole. Here is the guac and over there is the mole."

2/25/11:
The following conversation took place during breakfast:
Noah: Mom, I have a hypothesis
Mom: Oh, really? (where did he learn that word?) What is it?
Noah: Honey Nut Cheerios are really gross. I will now need a BIG bowl to test my hypothesis.

3/1/11:
I've been sick recently, so Cory reminded Noah before family prayer tonight to pray that Mommy's sick bugs would go away. This is what he said in his prayer: "Please bless that Mommy can take a shower so that she won't be sick anymore."

3/8/11:
Micah has a toy that asks him questions and then records his answers. I think the following two were a bit telling:
Toy: Pretend you're a Daddy. What would you say?
Micah: Micah, watch out! That's a bee!
Toy: Pretend you're a Mommy. What would you say?
Micah: Can you do me a big favor?

Making Cookies

They love her

Faces

Noah

All scrapbooking in this post was done by my amazing mother, Nannette Dalton. Thank so much Mom. I love it!

Carving Pumpkins

Crafts are Fun!

Halloween

Noah Makes Us Laugh

Micah and Noah are Three!