Welcome 2010!

New Years Eve was a blast this year. John, Hailey and Coleton stayed up and enjoyed the midnight fun....I am ashamed to report that I fell asleep before them. Easton made it to 11:00 which was WAY to late for him.
We started the evening off at my sisters where we enjoyed good food and some wii. Well, the guys enjoyed the wii. We came home and did sparklers at 9:30....it was already freezing cold and we didn't want to wait to go outside any later. The kids loved it and our cute neighbor girls came out and added to the excitement.

Easton enjoying his sparklers!

Nothings safer than running around with sparklers....

After sparklers we all got in our PJ's and enjoyed a little G-Force. The kids loved it and John hated it....I slept through it.

And last but not least, here is a picture of the blue moon on New Years Eve. This only happens on this night once every 19 years so I am taking it as a sign that 2010 is going to be a great year. Happy New Year everyone!

It's a JOLLY holiday.....

On Christmas Eve we spent the evening with John's family. The kids acted out the nativity. This year there was a way cute star, a bale of hay and a shepard that rode a donkey??? Each year it seems to get more creative.

Our sad shepard boy who did not want to be dressed up!

Coleton the shepard riding a donkey to see baby Jesus....(i am pretty sure that Mary was supposed to ride the donkey????)

All of the cousins

There is nothing like wresting in the wrapping paper

The annual Christmas Jammies. When Coleton opened his, he was so disappointed that it wasn't a toy. Apparently he hasn't realized that is what he opens every year on Christmas Eve. I love this picture because it shows so much personality.

Christmas Morning

What did Santa bring...oh the suspence was killing them!

Exploring what Santa left!

Easton playing with his fire/police house

Hailey with her "real" digital camera

Easton's favorite toy...a garbage truck

Easton and a dino
Poor Coleton...I didn't take any pictures of him opening gifts. He got some transformers and a remote control car that can go on water...(the requests that kid has....)

On Tuesday we were able to go to Soldier Hollow tubing. It was a blast. We left Easton at grandmas house where it was nice and warm and the rest of us braved the cold and loved every second of it.

Coleton all bundled up ready to go

The pink marshmellow girl....oh I love that she LOVES pink!

Relaxing on the way up the hill

All Coleton needed was some hot chocolate and he would have been set. Aunt Marquel would pull him on his tube and get him hooked to the rope and then she would pull him to the hill and push him down. The lucky kid hardly had to get off his tube. No wonder he thinks she is the greatest....that and she drives fast:)

All of us at the top of the hill.

Happy Graduation Easton!

Easton graduated from speech therapy on Friday! He is doing phenominal. The progress he has made over the last 6 months has been amazing.
Here are his stats from before and after....
before/ after
Gross Motor 37%/ 99% percentile for age
Fine Motor 50%/ 92%
Cognitive 56%/ 73%
Receptive Lang. 75%/ 82%
Expressive Lang. less than 1%/ 82%****HOORAY*****
Social 43%/ 43% peer 95%
***He really does not handle large crowds at all, but he
is nice to the kids in nursery now, so we are making
progress!
adaptive 16%/ 99%
Easton knows most of his colors and shapes and all of his letters and numbers to 9. He is very interested in the letter sounds which makes me laugh. He comes up to me holding a letter and say, "Mom, what that say." He is so much happier most of the time and loves to laugh and make us laugh. We are so proud of you Easton!

Coleton's Preschool Program

Coleton had his preschool program on Friday. He did a great job and we found he really isn't bothered being in front of a lot of people. He sang his little heart out and danced like a crazy man!

Coleton saying his part.

Austin, Coleman, Coleton, Jones, and Dylan....That doesn't look like trouble at all does it???

WINTER WONDERLAND

One of our favorite things about winter is sledding at the hill by our house. Even though it was FREEZING...literally like below freezing, we braved the cold,(checked Hailey out of school..shhhh!), and headed out. Easton amazed us and loved sledding and eating the snow. He would fall down, put his head in the snow, and then declare, "delicious!" Coleton and Hailey loved riding down on Johns back. Their faces shone with pure delight, but I couldn't make myself take my gloves off again to take pictures...maybe next time.

Because the Bathroom Floor is more COMFORTABLE than a bed?

Fall 2009

I know it has been FOREVER since I posted, but I have had sooo much to post that I just haven't wanted to take the time to do it! (I am becoming quite the procrastinator....yikes!)

We were so excited for the first snowfall way back before Halloween. Coleton waited all day for John to get home because he wanted to hit him with a snowball....oh the love around this house! Of course the minute that John starts throwing snowballs, the neighborhood comes alive!



It is official....John and I are now a GREAT UNCLE and AUNT....John's niece just had a darling baby girl! We had a shower for her and it was so fun to plan. She wanted a book shower because she did not know the gender of the baby. We went with a Dr Seuss theme. The invites were little books with a poem inside, and the food all coordinated with Dr Seuss books. I only took a few pictures, but here they are....


We had a fun Halloween. We ate our traditional pumpkin stew...well the adults ate the pumpkin stew and the kids ate pizza. Hailey informed me that the stew is the only thing she really doesn't like about Halloween. Hailey was a "Twilight Tiger", Coleton was a dinosaur, and Easton was supposed to be Tigger, but he would not wear his costume, so I settled on his Superman cape. (You can tell he is the third child, at this point it is really not worth the fight...right??) Coleton was very specific that he wanted to be a brown dinosaur with green spikes and a club on the tail. I ended up making his costume. It was so fun for me and I hope next year to make all 3 of the costumes...if Hailey will let me that is :0

Here is the very large trick or treating group!

The costumes

Our pumpkins. The kids will not put their hands into a pumpkin so John and I carve and the kids paint.

After trick or treating we go to my mom and dads and they give the kids matching jammies....one of our favorite traditions.