Christmas past

We had such a wonderful Christmas, we hope you all had a great time together with your families as well. I think this will be one of the most memorable ones, because as our children grow they are not going to be as happy to have SANTA come to our home with presents, though I wish it would stay like this forever. The kids loved their presents. I think we did good this year, they played with their toys and are still playing with them, and that's how you know you did well ladies and gentlemen! One of our favorite presents came from Hong Kong. Their grandparents sent them these cute shirts with their names written in chinese formal calligraphy and their meaning in chinese. Karina has three characters meaning 1. Admiration 2. Lotus flower 3. Elegant. Troy means Fortress, and boy is he a Fortress of fun! Trey means Excellent, and I know this is coming from his mother, but he really is one excellent baby! Anyway they were by far one of the best gifts. Also is our grandma good or what?? She has not seen these children since April, infact she's never met Trey, but she was still able to buy shirts that fit our kids perfect, even our little chunk Trey. Thanks Grandparents we love you!

Snowman in the making

We finally have snow. The poor children have been waiting for the snow to make a snowman and we have not had sufficient snow to do anything with it, their has not been enough to shovel it. In fact the first time it snowed Troy said," lets go out and make a snowman with a carrot nose!" So Tuesday morning they were excited. Karina left for preschool knowing when she came back they were going to make a snowman. Thank goodness Grant was working from home, because I sure was not going to go out and play in the snow nor make a snowman! So here it is the snow man in the making. Thanks to our sister in law Elizabeth for giving us these jazz clapper thingies, they make great snow man arms and at he same time it's saying "Go Jazz!"



Well he had a carrot nose( but we only had baby carrots) so its a bit small, and he had a bright skittles smile and some whopper buttons. I think he looks great. Good job Grant! I think Karina and Troy did not help much, they did enjoy watching though and playing in the snow. They love being able to just move the curtains and say "Hi" to the snowman. Today they said, mami he's still there!

Monday night

Monday night we had a great FHE. We had a graham cracker house making contest with our left over halloween candy. It may be gross to you all to use this old candy, but it makes for an awesome selection when building "gingerbread" homes. We had the Grant Olson group, the Ben Olson group and the Coutts group. We all did pretty good, but the Ben Olson group did the best. Good thing we had Holly be the judge she was very fair and had all the homes win, each had a feature to why they were the best. Ben's group had great windows and it was nice and tall, ours had a great entrance and canopies on the roof, and the Coutts had great snow. They had a blizzard come and blow their house down. I'll have to say the Ben group had a great roof too.

DANCE RECITAL!

Today was our Christmas dance recital at the festival of trees. It was so cute!!! Our little Karina did so good, considering that she had the stomach flu yesterday night, but please don't be mad at me for exposing everyone. She was feeling a lot better today and if anyone gets it, it will be me. No one has been closer to barf than myself, lets just leave it at that. Anyway she did awesome this was the tap routine, come spring they will be doing the ballet one so stay tunned. Even Troy congratulated her on her performance. But enough talk, here she is the real, real, short one on the front row 3rd one down from the right.

She ended up only doing like half of the dance, since she spent the other half doing the one step she really likes, but it was still darn cute! Maybe it just looked cute because she's only like 3 sizes smaller than all the other girls??

Christmas is here !!!

This last Monday we had a couple of our friends over for FHE. The kids love to see each other and we love to visit, and of course have family home evening. This week, since it's December and it was at our home. I decided to ask my next door neighbor, who also happens to be our hometeacher, if he would come to our home dressed as Santa.(I did not ask him randomly, I knew he had a Santa suit) It was so much fun to actually have Santa at our house. I told our kids that this was special, and that he does not come to every ones home before Christmas, but that they were lucky. They were so impressed, because this is the first year that Karina actually gets it, even Troy gets it for being so little. They loved every minute of it and went to bed very happy to know it's almost Christmas and they got tell Santa what they wanted.

We read a couple of Christmas stories while we waited for Santa. Thanks Jenny they were hooked!!

You can see Troy just bouncing up and down, he did not even care for the gifts he had, he was just thrilled to see him. We had requests for train sets, a bow and arrow, and kitchens and Troy's special request.... a Yo-Yo. Yes I know, interesting request for a boy living in the year 2008, but he just likes them. This has to be one of my favorite activities so far, I hope it was for everyone else.

I realize that this was only a success because of their ages, so I feel I have to cherish every moment of it. Time goes by so fast, I wish they could stay like this forever.

So sorry

My dear husband told me how much he enjoyed reading our blog, except for all the small grammar errors he has been finding. To which I honestly have no excuse for not proof reading my posts. But I would like to add, just so all you readers know. It gets pretty crazy to keep up the blog with these kiddies, so most of the time I have one or all three of them with me while I'm on the computer, and usually I'm holding Trey. So just imagine typing with one hand and holding an 18 pound baby with the other. And on top of that, English is not my first language, and English was not my major, and I'm also usually cooking or doing one other thing aside watching the kids and blogging. I probably should not be doing all those things at oncce, I should just be watching the kids, but I feel like I have to use my brain for something other than changing diapers, cleaning and cooking. So if you can read past that, please enjoy reading!!!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My parents came from Cali, and that's always a treat! The kids loved to see the abuelitos and this time they even got to see the cousins that speak espanol, like Karina says.(Even thought the girls only speak to her in english) We got to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square, and we went up to Sundance for some sledding fun. We actually used some plastic mats, that were super fast and lots of fun. Thanks fam. for visiting us and our children, and for going shopping with me on "black friday". Which I'll never do again, it was too scary.

This was my dad and Trey Thankgivig day, sleep got the best of them. We had a great time.