Sage's first visit to the dentist.

Sage went to the dentist for the first time this month. Of course I forgot to take bring the camera to take a picture of her in the chair, but here she is with her new toothbrush (and yes, she insisted on bringing her towel in the car). She did great and had all the dental assistants laughing at her goofy-ness. She loves her new toothbrush with the "beautiful butterflies!" on it. And she is so proud of how well she did. She keeps telling me how "brave" she was. (I think its funny because she didn't act scared at all. She was just cracking everyone up the whole time.) Way to go sweet girl!

December 2012

Every December we do an advent calendar. The kids look forward to activities everyday and, honestly, I do too. This year I was not perfect at taking pictures of all our fun-ness. Not everyday is something big. Some days its "watch a Christmas movie" or "read a Christmas story". We do try to do one or two big things a week. In past years we have gone swimming at the rec center, but this year we didn't make it. Hopefully we'll resume that tradition next year.

 

Making and decorating sugar cookies.

 

 

This was after our nativity lesson. I bought the fisher price nativity set (behind Sage in this picture) off Ebay two years ago. Best Christmas decoration we own. I wanted it to have all the pieces (some are just sold with the wise men, no shepards), so thats why I chose Ebay. Every year we pull it out and talk about the nativity using the pieces. Someday I'll have a nice nativity set, but until then I love this one.

 

 

Decorating the tree!

 

Just a funny, random picture. Having a sister is awesome.

 

One day we went for a walk out in the snow. This is the only picture I took. Wow he is cute.

 

We made salt dough ornmanets with Camille, Jackson and Jayne. We did their handprints (and Jonas' footprint also).

 

Temple Square. The temperature was in the teens. Brr.

 

After walking around temple square we got ourselves some awesome hot cocoa. The kid got an oreo one that had a bunch of oreos crushed up and put in the cocoa. It was delicious.

 

(We took down some chocolate cake in about 10 seconds flat. We're pretty good at that sort of thing.)

Macy's is bringing back the old ZCMI window displays. This year they were ornaments made entirely of candy. 

We also were able to spend some time with cousins. Lindsey brought her kids down a couple of times and we got to spend some quality time with some of our favorite buddies.

 

We built forts.

 

And painted toenails.

This year I got smart with our neighbor gifts and made something quick, easy and delicious. In years past I have made pumpkin roll, sugar cookies, and frozen cookie balls. As our neighbor list grows (as does our family), I have found that I can't take on such a big project. So instead we made these rolo turtles. They are yummy and we knocked out 150 of them in about 20 minutes.

 

Not pictured:

 Delivering neighbor gifts. We have a tradition of caroling when we deliver the treats. This year we spiced it up a bit with a series of percussion instruments (the kids both had drums and Nic and I had bells). Its was festive. I always tell people they should feel lucky if they weren't home when we dropped presents off.

 

The church history museum where we visited with Father Christmas himself.

 

Dinner with Nic at the Huntsman. (We actually do this most weeks.)

 

Wrapping presents.

 

Going to the dollar store to shop for sibling's presents. (Mason got Sage a new crown (he broke her other one) and Jonas a book, Sage got Mason a puzzle and Jonas a book, and Jonas got both the kids a finger puppet glove craft kit.) I loved doing this with the kids. They were so sweet trying to find the perfect present for each other.



November

In November, Jonas turned 2 months old.

This month he started to give smiles very willingly.

And he realized that life with two older siblings=constant entertainment. As you can see he is beyond excited.

In November, we had our first major snow storm of the year. 11+ inches.

So we built our first snowman of the year. This was taken during a lull in the storm. He eventually just became a big snowy lump after the rest of the snow came down.

In November, Nic did a pizza station with the kids.

And we played in the snow some more.

In November, Froggy made his debut in our home and has replaced Minnie as the favorite stuffed animal. He has been dubbed "Quincy" and here he is next to his buddy Jonas.

In November we also spent two lovely, sunny weeks in Arizona. Post coming up next.

First month.

A few pictures from Jonas' first month.

Adventuring with Dad on the Frontrunner.

Kangaroo Zoo with daddy.

Nic and Mason playing "bank". Nic teaches Mason math and money and Mason thinks its awesome.