Christmas 2016!

Some candid moments from Christmas. We had a wonderful and family filled Christmas day!

Brigham, Elli, and Elizabeth were playing together so well when we got together for dessert on Christmas Day night.

Excitement of first seeing what santa brought!

opening Santa gifts

I love seeing the joy on their faces!

Joshua got some arrows!

Not sure why everyone is happy about Brigham's present, maybe something else was going on off camera?

Snow Day!

A few weeks ago we actually had a good snowfall for the first time in three years! It was a school snow day and the kids were out playing in it by 6:30 am!

The three christmas trees that grace our front view.

awesome patterns from the lights and snow!

 Logan wanted to build his own snowman.

The snowman everyone else built.

Brigham even went out! He wasn't sure about it at first, but I had a hard time getting him back inside later.

Brigham loved sledding down the little hill with Joshua!

Jonas, Jesse, and Abi behind their fort waiting for the snowball fight to begin.

Joshua and Cody with their load of snowballs all ready to attack!

Christmas Celebrations!

We had our Ward Christmas Party a little bit ago, and Jesse got to be Joseph and Jonas was a shepherd. The paper chain on the christmas tree was made by the primary. Each week this year, all the kids who read their scriptures got to do a link. They made a chain so big it went from the Primary room to the other side of the church.

Brigham wasn't too happy!

Of course we did our traditional gingerbread houses. Joshua didn't want to be pictured and Jesse was sick so he didn't participate.

I was monitoring the younger ones and didn't catch Jonas until too late, he had already exceeded his candy allotment!

Snow fun!

Nathaniel took the older 4 boys and 2 cousins up to Hurricane Ridge where there is already lots of snow! Unfortunately, it was soooo windy that they couldn't even get up to the sledding hill and chose to play in the snow that was protected from the wind by the lodge. I think they still had fun.

Joshua and Cody

Joshua with snowball

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Cody's handsome smile

Logan having lunch inside the lodge

Jonas, Cody, Abi, Jesse, Joshua

Jesse and Joshua

Joshua, Abi, Jesse

Jonas, Joshua, Jesse, Abi, Cody

Jonas, Joshua, Abi, Jesse, Cody

Joshua and Cody obscured by the wind!

Jonas and Abi

Abi and Jonas on the tiny mound that they attempted to sled down

Look at that wind!

Abi, Jonas,Cody, Logan, Joshua (only picture of Logan outside!)

Brigham is 2!

Brigham is getting to be such a big boy! We had a very busy day on his birthday, so he was clueless to it being his special day. Jonas had a doctor's appointment to check up on his psoriasis, and he was so brave to get his blood drawn. Then, Joshua and another young man from the ward needed their Board of Reviews for scouts so the leaders came to our house at 5 pm to do that. Meanwhile the other boys were scarfing down leftover dinner because mom was busy cleaning and making the birthday cake. Cousins came over at 6 to celebrate Brigham. He ripped through the presents as fast as his brothers shoved them at him! What a cutie! Also, Brigham, Wesley, and Mommy are recovering from bad head congestion colds. 

Brigham's hair cut was shorter than I meant it to be. We will see how fast his hair grows!

He LOVES popcorn. At bedtime on his birthday, the kids were all going upstairs to bed and mommy was turning out lights, but Brigham ran over and got out the air popper to make popcorn. He was pretty  upset when I said no.

Brigham with his airplane birthday cake.

Loves his Star Wars Playdoh gift from the cousins.

He was excited about the candles and cake. He even tried to blow them out, but gave the tiniest puffs!

Posing with some of his brothers and his soft teddy from Grandma and Grandpa Burt (he is sucking on a Ring Pop that had no sucker left on it).

Update on the Burt family

Hiking trip!

I went on my first in a long time hiking trip. I don't know if you could really call it a hiking trip because the hike was so short and easy, but we had fun!

The boys sitting around waiting for the fire to magically be started. The trash in the pit was leftover from previous campers. I got to sleep in the tent with Jonas, Jesse, and Logan while Nathaniel slept in his hammock. We were right next to a beautiful river!