Two in One Day

Monday Josh stayed home from school sick (throwing up). And since he had nothing else to do (except lie around and watch TV), he worked on getting a loose tooth to come out.

And then when he had that one out, he pulled out the one right next to it. Two teeth in one day! And now he can do really cool things, like stick his tongue out the gigantic gap.

Penguin Aaron

Aaron had his school music program this week. It was a cute little program about Santa falling out of his sleigh at the South Pole, surrounded by penguins. Aaron was the narrator and had the very first line ("The place is the South Pole, the time is Christmas Eve"). That was his only line, but he was sure proud to say it. Owen wasn't thrilled about having to be there, and only wanted to play with Scott's phone taking pictures, but once the program started, he was good.

I only had Scott's phone for a camera, so I had a hard time getting a good picture of Aaron up on stage. He is on the top row, fourth from the right.

Such a cute little kid!

First Snow

On Saturday, Scott took Josh, Sara, Aaron, and two of the kids' friends to a football game at the BSU stadium (the Great Potato Bowl). While they were gone, Savannah and Nate rummaged through our storage closet and found these build-a-snowman kits we got last year for Christmas. We never got enough snow to use them last year, and so far we haven't had so much as a skiff of snow this winter. So, Savannah and Nate decided to use them on themselves. They made pretty cute little snowmen.

And then that night we finally got snow.  The kids couldn't wait to get out and play in it before it melted away.  I won't even begin to tell you how much of a pain it was to round up enough snow pants, gloves, boots, and hats for everyone.  But, we finally got everyone dressed and sent outside to play.

The kids instantly set to work building a snowman.

Owen preferred to not touch the snow. He enjoyed just riding his scooter around in it.

The final product. Notice the lack of snow around on the ground. They had to use every inch of snow in the front and back yards to get that snowman. (Brynne and Liam, our neighbors were here helping.)

Christmas Activities

This month has been such a busy one.  We started off the month with our ward Christmas breakfast.  Of course, Santa was there.

The next Saturday, we drove out to Homedale to support Aunt Jamie's PTO Santa breakfast at her kids' school. On our way home from Homedale, we picked up Savannah's friend Ashley (Savannah's very best friend), and headed to the city of Eagle's Christmas celebration on Heritage Park. The kids got to make crafts, get their faces painted, and see Santa again.

The week before at our ward's party, Owen couldn't wait to sit on Santa's lap. On this day, he was a little more reserved. Scott had to hold him next to Santa for the picture. Then, after Owen got down, he decided that he'd be ok to give Santa knuckles.

That night, we were very tired, so we did a fast food run for dinner. The two little boys got to come along. We weren't the only ones that were tired--Owen was asleep within minutes.