Las Vegas Temple

A few weeks after we moved to Las Vegas, we decided to drive over to the temple and check it out. I had never been to the Las Vegas Temple before and I really liked it. The kids were really excited to be outside and loved looking at all the flowers.

Dad Turns 70!!!

This year J.'s dad turned 70. His birthday is on New Years Eve so everyone decided that we needed to throw him a surprise party a few days early in honor of the momentous birthday. All I have to say was that he was definately surprised. We had the party at thier church building and so to get him down there a little white lie was told, something about the Bishop wanting to talk to him. I can't remember but it the trick. He was surprised, he walked in, we yelled "Surprise" ,and then he walked right back out. Priceless.

All of J.'s siblings and thier kids.

Uncle Mark is back, Uncle Mark is back!!!

One of the real reasons that Christmas was so exciting this year was the fact that my brother Mark was coming home from his mission to Russia. I was so more excited about that than Christmas. He supposed to be home two days before Christmas but because of weather and flight delays he wasn't able to make it until Christmas night. His flight didn't come until late Christmas night so we didn't get to see him until the next day. It was a frustrating few days but all that mattered was that he made it home.

Before Mark left on his mission, Kaiden and him were good buddies. She was really excited to see him again. Please try to ignore the fact that it looks like she is picking her nose or maybe she actually IS pickig her nose. Nice Kaiden.

Mark is already roped into reading a story to Robby, Kaiden and Adi.

Love the Russian hats!

Merry Christmas!!!

My family usually gets up at the insane hour of 6 a.m., however this year we were able to convince everyone to sleep in a little bit later. The kids were still jitterey and anxious to open presents. I wish that I could still get that exctied. Sigh. The good ole' days.

Carson really liked ripping into his presents. In this picture though it looks like J. is taking over the opening. Boo, J. Carson got a lot of cars. He is especially in love with all the Disney Cars.

The majority of the presents Kaiden asked for this year involved the Disney Princesses. She is some kind of crazy over them. I wonder if I should be concerned or if this is normal.

Putting out treats for Santa and his Reinderer

Kaiden and her cousin Adi were really excited about Santa this year. So my mother being the wonderful person that she is, helped them make cookies for Santa. They were so excited to leave him a plate of goodies and even made a plate of carrots for the Reindeer.

Christmas Eve- The Nativity Story

Every year my family reads the birth of Jesus and acts out the nativity story on Christmas Eve. Since we had all the grandkids together this year, we thought it would be fun if they dressed up as the characters. Kaiden and her cousin Preston were Mary and Joseph. I have to say that Kaiden was the best Mary ever. She was so attentive to her baby Jesus and never left his manger. At one point she came over and asked me if she could get him a baby toy to play with. So sweet.

We tried to get Carson to participate as a shepard, but he didn't like wearing the robe for very long. But he did make one cute little shepard!

Fun in The Snow!!

We went to my parents house for Christmas and Kaiden was really excited to go and spend time with her cousins, grandparents, and whoever else was there (we had a very full house). Besides all the visiting, Kaiden was really excited to be able to play in the snow. I have to admit that being a person who hates being cold I wasn't as excited to go outside everyday. However, between J. and I, she was able to get outside and play. Carson wasn't to sure about the whole snow thing and would only stay outside for a few minutes.

Ward Christmas Party

O.k., so I know that it is March so it is pretty sad that I am now getting around to posting some Christmas pictures but I do have a good excuse. That excuse would be the move down to Las Vegas and that fact that our computor died and we just got it replaced with a new one last week. Anyhoo, here are some fun pics with Santa Claus.

Christmas pics.

We decided to only do pictures of the kids this year for our Christmas card, mainly due to the fact that I desperately need to get myself to the hair salon and have yet to do so. They are much cuter anyways. First off let me complain and say why is it that everytime you want your kids to smile they never do so at the same time. We got some cute pictures of Kaiden smiling and Carson is not ,and vice versa. Aggravation. This is the closest we could get of the two of them smiling in unison.

After 5 minutes of picture taking, Kaiden the DQ (drama queen), decided to have a meltdown for no apparent reason. After that it was impossible to get her to smile again. Carson our happy-go-lucky guy decided we were mistreating Kaiden by begging/slightly yelling at her to smile and he decided that he to was done with it. So we had very little to work with. Isn't that always the way it works.

...maternity pants!

So most people who know me, know that I really do not like being pregant. The major factor in this horrifying thought is that I hate wearing maternity clothes or more specifically maternity pants. There is just something about how they never stay on your ever expanding stomach and you always feels like the crotch of your pants is down to your knees. Why? Why is it down there? What can I do to make it stay in place? I. Hate. That. So as most of you know, I am pregnat again with my third child. While I am excited to have another kid (most of the time, then I am scared the rest) I once again find myself dreading the cursed word. MATERNITY PANTS. Yes, I don't even want to utter it aloud for then I know I will soon be wearing them once again. Ugh. Well, I am almost 16 weeks along now, and am qiute lucky in the fact the I am now noticing the tightness of my "normal pants". Well let me tell you, I am doing everything I can possible do to cram myself into my "normal pants" as long as possible. However, I am finding that my jeans do not seems to want me in them anymore. Everytime I wear them, they are so unforgiving and seem to come unzipped in protest of my expanding hips and stomach. But don't worry I am not giving up the fight just yet and plan to continue to war against them until I have to surrender and wear...maternity pants.