Christmas Morning

Cameron digging in.

Jorie emptying her stocking.

Cameron and Jorie with their new "oven" that they found at the end of the treasure hunt.

Christmas Eve

The kids getting ready for acting out the Nativity.

Our Snowman

Cameron, Jorie and our neighbor next to our snowman we made from the most recent storm.

First Big Snow Storm

My kids were so excited to wake up to snow this morning. They ran around and played in it while I shoveled the walks. Then Cameron went to his friend Max's house and they went sledding. They are sad that it is starting to melt. But I am sure John is glad it is melting. He said it took over 2 hours to get to work this morning. Yuck! These are the days I am reminded how grateful I am that I can just stay home if I want too.

My Big Helper!

Cameron is becoming such a great help around the house. He has learned to make his bed. He likes to make our bed too. I have gotten in trouble a time or two for making it before he has a chance. Today he got the bottle of water and asked for a rag so he could help me clean. He cleaned his bathroom, my bathroom, the basement....
So anyone looking for good help. We might consider letting him do some contract work if the price is right. $$$$

Putting up the Christmas Tree

On Friday, we decided to put up the Christmas tree. The kids and I were so excited.
As soon as I got all of the Christmas totes upstairs I lost some of my enthusiasm.
I found my self saying "Slow down", "one thing at a time", "We have to put the lights on first!"
Oh, the simple joys of childhood.


So much help!

"Look Daddy! I got another one"

All three of us hard at work.

The Original Finished Product.
It has changed design many, MANY times since Friday.

A great weekend with Family!!

Cousins at the Zoo. Priceless.

Jorie and Allen checking out the monkeys.

Cameron checking out the Rhino's

Papa, Jorie, Hailey, Savannah, Kaleb, Cameron, Allen, Grandma, & Mel at the Zoo

Who Stole the Cookie?

I was frosting cookies for Cameron to take to preschool.
When I finished enough for him to give to his class
I stopped for a few minutes and went in the
other room to talk to John. We soon realized that Jorie had disappeared.
View the evidence of what I found....

"Jorie stole the cookie from the cookie Jar? "
"Who Me?"
"Yes, you!"
"Couldn't be!"
"Then Who?"

The Gingerbread Festival

Today we went to the Gingerbread Festival
at Thanksgiving Point.
Some of the Gingerbread houses were amazing

The kids loved playing around this big wooden Gingerbread House.

Cameron, Mrs Claus, Jorie and our friend, Lydia.

Random Pictures of Our Two Adorable Children

Jorie likes to play with the spray bottle of water
that I use to calm my children's hair.
The only way she can get it to spray is to hold it facing her.
Splash!!

BOO!
Jorie has discovered a great hiding place for
hide-and-go-seek!

Two little angels watching TV on our bed.
I couldn't resist.

Happy Halloween From Link and Princess Zelda

"It hurt my brain"

Kids....Funny story...It wasn't funny a few hours ago. But I am laughing now.

So I have been holding on to my birthday money to buy a new comforter for our bed. Finally after a month of looking I finally found one I really liked. I ordered it and it arrived yesterday. So today I got it out, ironed the bed skirt, and washed my sheets. I got the bed all made and put the new pillow shams on the pillows. I talked with Cameron about taking care of my new "bed". He jumped up on the bed and laid down to watch PBS. About an hour later I came back in and noticed that three of the four buttons were missing on one of my pillow shams. I was livid. I finally got Cameron to fess up to doing it and located the missing buttons. I asked him, "Why would you pull the buttons off of my new bed?" And this was his reply,"Because, they hurt my brain." How can you not laugh at that? He is probably lucky he said that or he might have spent the rest of the day in timeout!!!!

Cameron's First Day of Preschool

I can't believe my baby is old enough to go to school.
Cameron on his first day of Preschool with his teacher Jenni.
He wouldn't look at the camera

Fathers and Sons

John and Cameron went with Grandpa Hutton to his ward's Fathers and Sons campout.

They stayed in "triangle cabin #9"

Our trip to the Hogle Zoo

On arrival at the Hogle Zoo.
It was Teddy Bear Picnic Day.
We got to see them feed the Bears.

By the Asian Highlands.

Cameron has a lot of growing to do to be the size of the Gorilla.

On the Carousel.

Later that day we asked Cameron what was his favorite animal at the zoo. He said, "Peek-a too". John and I were stumped. We thought he was making it up so we asked him what it looked like and he said, "I don't know." John said,"Did you like the bears?" And Cameron would respond, "And the Peek-a-too". John said,"How about the giraffes?" and the response was the same, "...and the Peek-a-too." We decided to drop it and have him tell Grandma Hutton what his favorite animal was. Maybe John and I missed an animal at the zoo. Again at the Hutton's the response was the same. "My favorite animal was the Peek-a-too." Grandma looked at us and us at her. Still stumped. "Was it a snake?", "No", Was it a monkey?", "No", "Was it a bird?", "Yes!" Finally we realized that his favorite animal was the Cockatoo.

Our Garden

So I took this a few weeks ago and am just now getting around to posting. We are actually starting to get produce from our garden. This is a picture of the first harvest...Zucchini and Peas. We have since gotten green beans, cucumber and today cauliflower. We are having fresh veggie stir fry tonight for dinner. Yum! Yum! I love fresh vegetables.

My Girls

This is a picture of my girls at Girls Camp. We have some great girls in our ward!!!!

A week at Grandma and Papa's

The kids spent a week at Grandma and Papa's house in Idaho while I was at Girl's Camp.
They had fun playing in the pool and fishing.

We went to the Twin Falls Temple Open House when we went to pick them up.
What a beautiful temple!
There is a wonderful mural of the Shoshone Falls in one of the ordinance rooms.

Happy Birthday Jorie Ann!!!

Jorie helped clean up after baking her birthday cake. Yum! Yum!

Jorie's Abby Cadabby birthday cake.

Jorie's Birthday Party!! We can't believe she is a year already!!