Christmas 2008

we had a great christmas with our little family as well as our big family. on christmas eve we went over to mom and dad's and had dinner then played the wii for a bit. it was fun trying to teach ammon how to bowl and tierra did pretty good bowling a strike and a spare. the kids opened their traditional christmas eve pajamas: lucy had disney princess, tierra had hannah montana, and ammon of course had batman.

christmas morning started at 7:00 am when ammon woke up. i was actually pretty surprised, he has been waking up between 5 and 6am lately. it was the same as previous years as tierra pointed out what every one else got: "look ammon! you got a hot wheel track!", before noticing whatshe got from santa. to say she was excited about her nintendo ds is an understatement. it is all she has done and talked about for the last day and a half. we had her good and convinced that she wasn't getting one so she had started to ask santa for a turtle or a snowsuit. i think she was pretty surprised.

after we were all fed, dressed, and had some of our christmas mess cleaned up, we went back out to mom and dad's. we ate our traditional ham and cheesy potatoes then openned our christmas gifts to each other. landon had our family's name this year and surprised us with games: the office dvd game and hungry hippos for the kids. nick also go the seinfeld scene it game and we are excited to play that.

i think the best part of christmas this year was being with family and knowing the kids were excited about christmas and getting into the christmas spirit. every time ammon saw a star lit up with christmas lights he said, "look mom! it's the shape star that shows where baby jesus was born!" tierra got super excited about all the little gifts she picked out for the family and was sure we would all LOVE them.

we had a great christmas, hope all of you did too!

funny things...

just wanted to share some funny things that happened today:

nick and i had just picked up the kids from my parent's house after going to the mormon tabernacle choir "music and the spoken word" and christmas concert. it was pretty snowy and as we were just about getting into logan nick told me he saw a dog on the side of the road that was hurt and we needed to turn around (FAST!) and go help the dog. i was finding a spot to turn around thinking that i didn't see a dog, and if there WAS a dog, i didn't know the first thing about helping it. nick kept telling me that i needed to HURRY! as we were driving back the other direction, i saw what he was talking about and it didn't look anything like a dog to me. i told nick this and he told me i needed to hurry and turn around, it was a big sheep hearding dog and it was trying to stand but it's legs were hurt. when we pulled off the side of the road, i saw the poor dog: a black garbage bags full of leaves. i haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

the other funny was ammon. he was telling me that he needed to go get a pet (something he says a lot). i told him that cats make mommy sneeze. he is a very thoughtful and smart kid so he said: "mom, kitties can bring you tissues".

i have funny boys.

also, words that lucy has been saying:

momma, daddy, go, wow, night-night, ball, more, puppy, ammon