Winter break is over, the kids are back in school, and the house is quiet. Today I'm taking down the Christmas decorations. Feels good. I'm taking a minute to post some pictures from the last couple weeks. What a good couple of weeks we had:
We enjoyed the lights at Temple Square.
The home teachers came and brought some Piroutte cookies and the kids immediately started smoking them like cigars. Nice. I'm pretty sure that's not what the home teachers intended.
We were able to attend a couple BYU basketball games. One at Weber State and one down in Provo. I can't believe it has been 16 years since I was a student at the Y. The ol' Marriott Center brought back so many memories. Pretty glad I'm not having to write papers and take exams, though.
Ben turned twelve on Christmas Eve. I love that boy. Such a good kid.
Ben informed me recently that he would love to try hockey. (Yeah, I'm sure we could fit that in between football, basketball, and baseball. Not.) So, he decided to go ice-skating on his birthday.
I think this is where he is thinking hockey is definitely out. In fact he told me that ice-skating was pretty much the dumbest thing he could've done on his birthday.
Here's Jordan, our "fourth" son hitting the deck. I'm glad he found it funny.
I'm happy to report everyone (including Ben) had a great time in the end after they caught the hang of it.
What a great Christmas we had. Here Erin was pretty happy to receive the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" Book set from Grandma Bailey.
Over the break, Ben and Alex worked on and completed their Carpentry Merit badge for Scouts at Grandpa Bailey's house.
Alex and his good friend Alex working on some masterpiece, I'm sure.
Erin serving a meal to her new pink Sock Monkey. I think she must be very hungry.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season. I was pretty lame and didn't send out any cards this year. I've never done that before. Everything just came at me too fast so I apologize if you were waiting in anticipation for our card. I also hope 2011 will bring much happiness to all my family and friends. I know it will for us.
3 comments:
I cannot stop laughing. I Love that your kids "smoked" the treats from the home teachers. It's too bad that Ryan and Troy were taking drags with them.
This is Boyd, by the way.
Great pictures Shelley.
shelley, this post was hilarious. i laughed multiple times... kids smoking treats with their home teachers, erin feeding her starving sock monkey, ice skating falls, carpentry masterpieces! you don't blog nearly enough :)
we miss you guys SO MUCH. love you!!
ps: i totally hear ya on the being glad you're no longer in school thing. it's so fun to go back & visit, but then go home... without homework!
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