Jimmy * Esther * Zeke * Lilly

We had one of our most fun New Year’s Eves ever! Some family came over, and my mom made scones,  and we played games, nothing too out of the ordinary, but it was so fun! My kids both made it to midnight, and we all went outside and tapped spoons on tupperware, and shouted “Happy New Year!” :)

My brother taught us a new card game, and someone thought of the idea that the first person to lose had to do a dare and the person who won got to choose the dare. Jimmy got out first, and my brother Carlin won, so he dared Jimmy to swallow a spoonful of Apple Cider Vinegar. (We haven’t had to use it for weeks, my kids have been so good with not using potty words :) I wanted Zeke and Lilly to see their daddy take a spoonful, so I called them over to watch. My brother Joe, and Carlin decided they’d try it too.

Zeke was so amused with the whole thing! I tried to capture their smiles, here’s the best I could do-

The best part was right after this picture, Lilly turned to me and asked, “Mommy, did Daddy say poo-poo pants?” It made us all laugh so hard! She thought her daddy did potty talk, and now had to suffer the consequence!

The apple cider vinegar is nasty stuff, Jimmy’s face says it all…

Haha! You can’t fake a face like that! Jimmy now knows why we haven’t had potty talk in our house for so long :)

 

It was a wonderful Christmas! Each year becomes more fun as our children get older, and can understand more. This year was so exciting!

Zeke and Lilly left treats, and pictures for Santa. They even left some Cheerios for his reindeer :)

They’re not to the point where they can’t sleep on Christmas Eve though :) They both slept so well I had to wake them up at 7:30 because I couldn’t wait any longer!

Zeke got this bed set as an early Christmas gift. He has been doing so well sleeping in it! It’s cool because you can connect an i-pod to it and it plays music. The speakers are the two circles on the ends of the football part. The night we set it up, Jimmy played some songs on it while he and Zeke and Carlin played a basketball game in Zeke’s room. Zeke loved it! He said, “It’s like a party in my room!”

The only thing Lilly has been asking Santa for is a “boy lipstick”. She talked about it all day, everyday for the past few weeks. She would ask me, “Santa bring a boy lipstick me?” I would tell her, “Yes, on Christmas he will put it in your stocking”. When I woke her up and told her it was Christmas, the first thing she said was, “Santa bring a lipstick me?” I was worried I might get the wrong kind of chap stick since she was so particular about it being a boy lipstick, but she was happy with the blue Cinderella chap stick she got.

Santa left Zeke and Lilly each a personal letter, and he even left a few cookie crumbs on his plate. (Jimmy had fun with this :)

Zeke surprised that Santa got the white board/chalk board toy he wanted! We saw only one left in the store, and when we went back, Zeke was disappointed it was gone. Santa sure is sneaky!

Lilly was happy with her kitty from mommy, it meows, blinks, and moves its tail.

Another favorite this year was her big doll from Santa :)

Daddy got Zeke a Star Wars lunch box with neat sandwich cutters inside.

I gave Zeke a lego, he and Jimmy had fun putting it together.

Uncle Adam gave Lilly a Lion King Sing Along DVD

Lilly bottle feeding her horse from Grandma S :)

Her kitty came with a bottle too, she’s going to be such a great big sister!

Jimmy got a new suit, this is actually the first won since we’ve been married. His mission suits lasted a long time!

(This was actually the Sunday before Christmas, which is why Jimmy isn’t in his suit. I forgot to get a picture of all of us on Christmas.)

Jimmy was making them smile this cute by being funny behind me :)

Church was only an hour on Christmas, then it was back to jammies, and playing with toys, then we went to Jimmy’s parents’.

Lilly got the Rapunzel Barbie from Grandma and Grandpa Z

Zeke got a cool remote control car

Zeke and Dallin played like Lilly was the powerful girl, and only their helmets could keep them safe from her. They thought it was so funny when she would bonk them on the head with her candy.

Lilly had her chap stick with her the whole day. She also used it all up in one day :) She now talks about how Santa will bring her another one on Christmas.

This one turned out blurry, but I love it anyway!

Both kids fell fast asleep on the way home. Grandma gave us the left over chips, and Lilly held tightly to them the whole way home.

Here are some of the things we’ve been up to in December, (in chronological order :)-

decorating for Christmas :)

Cousin Dallin’s 5th birthday! Check out that awesome shark cake his mom made! His party was at the aquarium, in the sunken ship party room. It was fun!

Zeke’s favorite was still the sting rays. Lilly liked them a lot too.

(Zeke told me to put this one on the blog, so here it is :)

We got a one month pass to a bouncy house place, my kids love it!

Lilly does well getting through all of the obstacles. She tries hard to keep up with her brother, which isn’t an easy thing to do.

weee!

Gramma Charlotte came over, and Zeke and Lilly got to open their gifts from her, which they both loved!

Our kids thought it was so neat making sugar cookies together last week! It was a very fun family night!

Zeke wanted to make a football, triangle, moon, and bee cookie. Lilly did a few clumpy cookies, and some circles.

Apparently Lilly really likes red sprinkles :)

Zeke in his awesome Star Wars Lego robe, and Lilly in her cute princess jammies they opened from a package last night from Grandma Linda and Grandpa Dave!

Tonight we went to see the lights at Temple Square with Jimmy’s family. It was beautiful!

Lilly didn’t want to keep her gloves on, she had a better idea to keep her hands warm- put them on daddy’s ears under his hat!

Zeke had lots of fun chasing cousins, it was tricky to get him for a picture, but we got one of all of us together:)

Wow, that was lots of pictures, I should really post more often so each post isn’t a mile long!