Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Everyone! We had such a great day yesterday. December as flown by and we have had so much holiday fun! Here are some pictures that sum it all up!

The boys LOVE apples. Ethan climbs up and grabs everyone apples, then they sit on the chair and eat them!  

Ethan had  a Christmas Party at school and they got to wear Pajamas. He was so excited to decorate a gluten, dairy, egg, nut free graham cracker house!

We also decorated gingerbread houses at our house! For the next week the kids would just take off the candy. 

Its official. Luke is now in a bed. He learned to climb out of his crib, so we decided it was time to move him. His first night started out like this ^^^^^^^^^

and ended like this  ^^^^^^ typical Luke

I just love these three boys. They are the best!

This is Orfy, our "elf on the shelf". I couldn't bring myself to spending $29.99 on the real one, so our elf is more like  an old elf. The kids don't know the difference though and we have had a BLAST with him

My parents have Santa Claus outfits and the boys had so much fun trying them on. On Christmas Eve  we all went caroling and the boys wore them. Everyone at the houses loved them!

It's not very often we take candid family pictures! (ps I DO have hair, its just behind my back!)

We spent Christmas Eve over at my parents, as usual! We had an amazing dinner , went caroling and then opened  some pajamas! It had snowed on and off all day and the drive home was terrible. It took us a LONG time to get home and we were happy to get there in one piece. 

Opening our gifts on Christmas Eve!

Emmett's Santa Claus gift! All the kids LOVED IT!

So Ethan loves the color white. Every time we go to Macey's (local grocery store in Utah) he wants to get a gumball. He gets pretty bummed when he doesn't get a white gumball. Last week he wrote a letter to Santa (3rd one) and asked him to bring him WHITE gumballs. Lucky for Santa there is a cute little candy store in Tooele that has every color of gumballs!

Ethan's gumballs! He was freaking out that santa actually got them for him. 

Luke, opening some gifts!

The boys were spoiled rotten. Thank you everyone for all you did for us! We are so lucky.

We also had a Christmas party with Richards family, but my dang camera wont load pictures! (these are all from my phone!) Hopefully I get it working soon and will post those also. 

Happy New Year!!!

Halloween and Other Randomness

 So I am working way backwards, since that's how the picture went on here! We had Ethan's allergies tested  again this year. His break outs have increased and we thought that maybe he was been affected by cross contamination. After getting his test results back, we found out that he also has a wheat allergy. Nothing as severe as his milk, egg and peanut allergy, but still something he shouldn't be eating. It honestly came as a huge surprise to me, but we are working hard at steering away from it. He was such a trooper during the whole process. We are so very grateful for Ethan. He is such a joy in our lives and even with all that he deals with, he is so sweet.

We went down to my sister in laws last week and babysat. The kids were in heaven playing together!

I found them upstairs in Kyson's Room reading books under  the covers. It was so cute1

Emmett has been teething and loves to go hide in the corners when he's mad! At  least I can get him to smile :)

We got a TON of snow the other day. Ethan and Richard had so much fun playing  in it.

Don't mind the crazy family picture, but its one of the only ones we get!

Emmett is such a copy cat. If Luke has a sippie cup, or blanket, or cookie or ANYTHING  for that matter, Emmett has to have it. It's so cute!

We had an amazing Halloween filled with class parties, work parties and trick or treating. Richard loves to deck out my parents garage like a haunted house and scare all the kids in the neighborhood. They LIKE it, but am pretty sure Richard LOVES it. 

The Boys WERE NOT impressed with Richards costume!

This is Ethans Little Friend Cadynce. Ethan and her are best friends in class!

Oh my goodness, can you even get enough? I sure cant!

Here is the creepy part. This is all part of Richards decorations in the garage!

Richard and my Dad made this stand up coffin a couple days before! Isn't  it awesome!!!

Love my Kids

Ethan has been loving preschool and this month the field trip was going to a fire station! We had so much fun. 

The three boys before we walked up to the fire station.

Yup, that's Ethan laying there. He got to be the volunteer . They practiced what they would do if there was a fire when they were in bed sleeping.

Oh, doesn't this just melt you heart?

These two little rascals wouldn't hold still when the fireman was talking! So I let them run around :)

The fireboy and I

So Luke's favorite thing to do is get my phone and take pictures. Here are some for your viewing pleasure.

Front camera picture haha

 There are several girls in our neighborhood whom we have gotten really close with. They are so good to come over and play with the kids and have become my extended kids. They have been asking me if they could have a lateover/sleepover for a long time and I decided it was just about time to have one. Since its UEA weekend here in Utah they had the rest of the week off. They came over after mutual on Wednesday and we played games, at food and watched a movie!

Our treats

Yummy cake!

Richard loves halloween, so this is what our house looks like right now!

My Dad just got back from Japan and brought back these toys for the boys! They have been a HIT!

And last but not least, just a couple cute pictures of these cuties. I love them so much and am so grateful they are my kids. They are the best!

Playgrounds, and Field Trips

We have had such a fun month. I love this type of weather. Not too hot, not too cold. Its been great to get out of the house and get energy out. We pack a lunch, (or sometimes get McDonalds :) ) and head over after Luke and Emmett take naps. 

Just a little update on our crazy lifes!

Emmett is growing up too fast. I find myself wondering everyday how he could possibly be as smart as he is. I mean he's only 1. Wait... fifteen months? Where did time go. He favorite thing to do these days is open the dishwasher, while its running, and climb on in. I know if I hear the dishwasher turn off, he is somewhere close! He loves to copy everything Ethan and Luke do and LOVES his big brothers. He is still a tank and we love to cuddle up with him.

Luke is such a fun boy! He is always wanting or needing something and wants to big, just like Ethan. He is so helpful, sometimes too helpful and forgets sometimes that Emmett is still smaller then him. I think I was Heavenly Father may be giving me pay back for how EASY of a baby he was, because he is definantly a handful. In any case, we LOVE this kid. He keeps us on our toes!

Ethan is loving preschool. I wish we couldve found one by us that was three days, instead of two! He begs to go everyday and is learning so much. He could sit for hours writing his numbers, or letter or even better, his name! He walks around the house singing the song I made up for him to learn his name " This is the way we spell Ethan E T H A N. He is such an amazing big brother and all in all a great kid. I was emailing his preschool teacher today about his allergies and asked how he was doing in the class this was her response...

"Ethan is doing great in class!  He is very helpful and sweet and always a good helper when it is clean up time. He always waits until I say it is "okay" to eat his snack.  You have taught him well since it is such a safety issue.  Well done MOM! I am so glad to have him in my preschool class!" 

For Preschool, we got to take Ethan on a field trip to the Tooele Gymnastics Academy, so i am including some pictures of that as well. Hope all is well with everyone!

Not a great pic of them, but what more can I say? Luke is eating, Ethan is making a "zombie" face and Emmett... Smiling as usual. These are my boys 

Ethan is such a scaredy cat, so its pretty impressive when he goes down slides!

This smile makes me melt.

Pepperoni sandwich anyone?

He's not my little baby anymore.

Their favorite thing to do at the park is swing. I have to run back and forth pushing them all.

Chicken Nuggets and Milk. His Favorite

Look likes to hide and pout. Poor Luke haha

This was such a fun place to go to. If anyone lives out here, I would recommend going one Saturday with your kids!

Circle Time

Ethan got picked first to run under and tickle someones toes. Once you got your toes tickled you would let go and tickle someone elses toes, until everyone had their toes tickled. Too cute

Follow the Leader

Ethan didnt fall off the beam once! Thats my boy :)

Again, scaredy cat... Wouldn't jump into the foam pit....

Bars!

This is his new friend Caden from his class. They have so much fun together.

He got so brave by the end he would hold his hands straight out, or clap his hands.