Merry Christmas

We are wishing all of our family and friends a very Merry Christmas.

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More Disneyland Pictures

The castle at night during the fireworks was none less than magical!

We drove all the way to California to drive a horse, but this is a magical horse (everything is magical at Disneyland, well except for when my cousin is there). The highlight here is that when Jackson and Halle were "driving" the horse it pooped right on main street. Jackson found this rather funny and laughed about it for days. Jackson has told everyone that Kayla (the horse) pooped right on main street!

Jay and Jackson were SO sick during this vacation. Wednesday went well, but Thursday I think they went on a total of two rides. Jackson slept in the stroller the whole day and I think Jay wanted to join him. I drug Jackson on two ride and then decided it wasn't worth it. Friday was better but Jackson was still a little cantankerous (not my sweet Jackson).

This is my sister, me and my brother. We decided that this was the first picture taken of us in years. We were waiting for the fireworks (1 hour) about 10 went off and then they had to stop due to high winds in the higher altitudes. I personally think Disneyland executives were just trying to cut corners by saving on firework costs but keeping everyone in the stores shopping. None the less I had so much fun with my siblings, I wish my sister didn't have to leave a day early.

Jay is really good about my want of all the photo spots, Halle is the hard one to coax into a picture.


Jackson's favorite ride was Splash Mountain (because you got wet), Astro Blasters (my favorite ride as well) and when Kayla pooped. Halle's favorite ride without question was the Carousel. Many times did we go around and around and around.






Stay tuned tomorrow for the crazy jealous cousin story everyone has been asking for. Feeling are still a little too close to the surface so it may not be entirely nice and I also wanted to take picture of the nice artwork on my car even though she did have a hard time spelling. I guess that's what happens when you can't pass the 3rd grade. Have I ever mentioned there are a few crazies in my family?

Disneyland

Soo much fun at Disneyland. I want to write more, but Halle is having a massive break down so I will post more later. I will just mention that 80 degree weather in December is a place that I can live!!!

Potty Trained

My sweet 2 year old is 100% fully potty trained, she did it all herself. I had no desire to do this as we are going to Disneyland soon and the holidays are upon us, but she was bound and determined. She sleeps 13 hours in underwear and we can shop for hours without her needing to find a restroom, I don't even remember the last accident. Crazy thing was it only took about 2 weeks to get to this point. I sure love that little girl!

Santa

Jackson has been so excited about Christmas this year. He has been telling me he is going to sneak out of his room to see Santa putting the presents under the tree--but he would be really quiet so Santa wouldn't fly by our house because Santa knows if kids are still awake. He also asks me where things are when we see a Santa, like where is his sleigh or reindeer or such things. Well last night at the ward Christmas party none other than Santa himself showed up. Jackson stood in line but got quieter and quieter as we got closer to Santa. By the time we got to the jolly old man Jackson had sat down on some chairs away from the line. Halle walked right up to Santa and sat on his lap and took the candy he offered, she stared at him with the look of I don't like you or this situation by I will do anything for candy. Jackson absolutely refused to sit on him or even come close. So I went to get him because of course I wanted a picture. He tried to squirm away. I ended up sitting on Santa's lap with a very unhappy Jackson on mine and a not so excited Halle next to me. The best part about all of this is that Santa then reprimanded me for forcing a child to sit on his lap, he said to me "Santa never makes a child sit on his lap if he doesn't want to" I then replied "Yes, but I do for the pictures!" Glad that's over with!

Computer Problems

Our computer is down and out, so I will not be responding to emails (not like I do anyways) or blogging for the next few weeks until we decide if we want to fix it or go the new route. Its in the shop right now and I can't decide if I want to pay hundreds for repairs or hundreds more for a new one! Aah, the traumas of life!!!!

Is it to early??

Is it to early to change my background to Christmas, and call the radio station and request a Christmas song I love and haven't heard yet? I have been listening to Christmas music since Nov. 1 (except when Mr. Bahumbug is in the car and says its to early and uses the controllers on the steering wheel against me!!) For some reason this year I can't wait!!

Pres. Monson

So I know I'm a really big dork, I'm okay with that and have learned to live with it. Well, tonight Jay and I went to the Jazz game. We were fortunate enough to get box seats from a guy that LKL does business with. So, box seats at a Jazz game, I know your all thinking yeah, fun, oh wow I wish I could be there, right? Well, it gets better, in the next box over Pres. Monson is just sitting there enjoying the game. I was super star struck, this is the closest I ever have been to the prophet. I sat with a bunch of teenagers trying to get a good picture of him on my phone. Then the adults who were afraid of looking a little silly (who me? never!) started asking me to take a picture with there phone for them so I took many pictures tonight. The teenage girls took a pretty good picture and emailed it to me. It was kinda hard to get a good picture through the glass, we were trying not to look obvious at first, but that soon went out the window and we were probably borderline driving him crazy. The best part was when he stood to leave I had super charged our box and they all followed me out to shake his hand. We couldn't even catch him he is sure speedy when he thinks the crazy paparazzi is following him, his body guards had him out of there so fast! So this picture was the best I could do. Wow what a fun night, oh and I couldn't even tell you the score of the game (surprise, surprise)!!!!!

Happy Birthday Halle

Two weeks ago my baby turned two. I am a little late posting these pictures, but I seriously can't believe she is two!!

Quotes from Conference

Jay was gone this weekend, so I was alone with the kids. I had it pretty easy, the kids sat and played games with each other while I was able to watch most of conference, there were still battles and the ever popular books that Halle always wants to read. I had been trying most of the weekend to teach Jackson about Conference and why we can watch TV on Sundays but still not watch movies. I have also been trying to teach Jackson to recognize when our new prophet, Pres. Monson, is on the TV. Jackson did very well and always came in the room when they were singing or saying a pray and would fold his arms. He would also talk about our new prophet telling me his name is Pres. Monson. With that in mind here are my favorite quotes from conference.

During the last prayer of conference Jackson had been folding his arms and bowing his head, about two thirds of the way through a longer prayer he looked up and said "Why's he taking so long, my head is getting tired".

The other one I hope it not blasphemous, on Saturday Jackson had be playing cowboy all day with his guns, cowboy hat, and cowboy boots. He came in the room while President Monson was speaking and I happened to say this is our prophet and asked if he remembered his name. He said that it was our new prophet, Pres. Monson because Pres. Hinckley has died. He then looked up and said "why did Pres. Hinckley die, who shot him?" Sitting there with such a serious look on his face and a toy cap gun in his hand I tried not to laugh and explain when people got old they die, well that opened up a whole new discussion about old people that I will not get into, but was rather funny as well.

I sure love my little (but ever getting bigger) boy!