Happy New Years!

On New Years Eve morning the first thing Jaycee and Vivian wanted to do was go out and play in the snow.

My girls love to play in the snow! The boys not so much. It is funny. The girls come out and shovel and would be out there for hours. On New Years Day Jaycee and Vivian went out to sled, it was so cold and windy and they stayed out there for a long time. They are die hards. We went up to Silverleaf to sled, we were there for a long time. When it was time to go Vivian started crying, she wasn't ready to go.

We headed over to Borgstrom's around 3 for games and dinner.

At around 8:30 we headed over to Trevor and Katie's for more games and more food.

Every year seems to be going faster and faster. I can't believe how big the kids are getting. I am having a hard time thinking about Bensen turning 5 and will start kindergarten!  Jaycee will be in 7th grade this year! It is just crazy. But I am excited to see what this year will bring.

Happy New year! 

December Catch Up

On December 1st Santa Wes made a appearance.

The kids were pretty excited.

On December 8th we had our ward Christmas Party. The Clauses showed up! The kids were able to make several kits to hand out to the homeless, and we had a pretty yummy breakfast.

My Uncle Vern passed away. He had been pretty sick for a while. We were able to go down to his funeral on the 15th. It was a good service. My dad gave a good talk.

This year for Christmas the kids are getting a Get Out Utah pass. While we were down in the Orem area we decided to us the pass and went to Momentum Climbing Gym 

 Most of the kids loved it!

 Bensen did finally warm up to the idea and started climbing about 5 minutes before we left.

We used our passes again on December 17th to go to a Ninja Obstacle Gym in Sandy. Wesley was throwing up and sick so Mike stayed home with him and Vivian. Jaycee and Bensen loved it. Bensen won't stop talking about going back.

On the 18th Jaycee graduated from the D.A.R.E. Program. It was touch and go there for a minute, but she pulled it off!

Jaycee's Jr. Jazz basketball team went undefeated! That was fun.

Since we are still obsessed with Mario, (I figure it could be worse...and who doesn't love Mario) instead of a gingerbread house we made a Mario castle.

This is probably the best gingerbread house we have ever made! 

November Catch Up

Bensen is starting to bee a little artist!

I don't remember why, but Viv got these glasses and wore them everywhere we went for a few days. Now they are lost.

We worked a little on potty training . I think we might wait a little longer, she does pretty good. This particular day she was not having it!

Bensen and Whitley had their Thanksgiving feast at preschool.

I love that they get to be in school together.

This year Thanksgiving Dinner was with the Borgstroms.

Man did we Feast!

I am so grateful for these people!

They are truly my greatest blessing!

I know I've said this before, but Mike is the best dad!

He would do anything to make the kids happy!

On November 27th Wesley got braces!

He has been so excited.

Now that he has them I don't think he is as excited as before.

I'm sure he will get tired of wearing that mask at night.

I am pretty sure I will miss his cute under bite!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve was spent at the Borgstrom. 

It is always fun to watch the kids do the nativity.

This year we made a little 1 minute video using still shots. We had a lot of fun, who knew it would take so much time to make a 1 minute video. Again Mike is the fun parent for sure. It just sounded like a lot of work to me.

I also was able to talk Mike into playing a duet on the piano with me. He's such a good sport!

The kids love and look forward to getting their pajamas.

Grandma and Grandpa gave us the Nest doorbell and a Google.

Christmas as a parent is the best. Jaycee and Wesley were both helpful this year and had fun making it fun for Bensen and Vivian.

From Santa Jaycee and Wesley got electric scooters, Bensen got a remote control Mario, and Vivian got a pretend make-up kit.

After we opened presents we headed over to Bailey's for Breakfast and more presents.

Grandpa said to Vivian the other day "Hi Sweetie Weetie". She turned to Bensen and said, "He called me "Teetie Weetie". It was pretty funny. She also thinks it's funny that Grandma calls her Baby Cakes.

 Grandma and grandpa gave each family a hoverboard!

Christmas this year was pretty great. We spent time focusing on the Savior, spending time with family, and playing in the snow.

October Catch Up

In October we went to a lot of soccer games.

We enjoyed watching Jaycee this year, she has a great team and coach, and has had a lot of fun.

She even got to play against Paige a few times.

This year Bensen became obsessed with Mario.

That is where the idea for our costumes came from.

I thought Vivian was going to love being Princess Peach. She loves all things girly, especially dressing up. She would have none of it. Luckily Jaime had two Yoshi costumes because she wanted nothing to do with Princess Peach.

I thought for sure she would change her mind with all the times we dressed up, but she never did.

It is always nice when all the Borgstrom cousins can be together. They have so much fun.

Grandma LouLou's parties are always fun!

It is always pretty crazy when all the Bailey's get together.

It's a good thing Joy's house is so big, they have a lot of room to fun around!

This year I swore I was just going to do a little trick of treating and then go home to pass out candy.

Well, that didn't happen. The kids were animals! 

 They all got really good candy, I couldn't believe it, there was so much chocolate! I think there was maybe 5 tootsie rolls in the whole lot!

I forgot to mention that Wesley was a good sport for our family parties and wore his Yoshi costume, but he really wanted to be a pile of leaves! I sent Mike to the store to pick up supplies to make said pile of leaves. He decided it would be cheaper if Wes wanted to be Groot instead. Wes agreed that Groot was pretty cool so I feel like we all won. 😊

We had a fun Halloween and I'm already thinking about what we can be next year.