New Years Eve

For New Year's Eve we went to a friends house and did some dinner and fireworks. It took the boys a minute to get comfortable with the fireworks, but once they did, they loved them, and were sad when they stopped.


Sky and David




Connor enjoys watching the show

Christmas Fun

Christmas Eve

We had a lot of fun celebrating Christmas. We had Papa Craig, Grandma Teresa and Uncle Bryan (aka Jesus). Grandma Erma was around for a bit as well. We had the Fife's famous tacos for Christmas Eve, then we let th boys open up their new pajamas to sleep in. After that, to keep with the true meaning of Christmas Papa and Grandma told the story of the nativity as best they could to two 2 year old using a felt board. After the boys were in bed we had some fun playing Scrabble and opening a few gifts of our own.








Christmas Day

The boys had a lot of gifts to open, and were kind of overwhelmed. Once they opened a few, they wanted to enjoy them, so we set the gifts aside and let them open them throughout the day. We are so grateful for all the wonderful things that our family and friends gave to us and have really enjoyed everything.




Grandma Connor got this cool digital photo frame from her kids. There were pictures of all her family, kids and grand kids. We tried so hard to help her understand it, but I think she might need some reminding.

BTW...if you are curious about the Uncle B being Jesus, it is a funny story. I have been making more of an effort to teach the kids about Christ, but am at a loss how to do that with two year olds, and we don't have a lot of things around the house geared toward two year olds. Anyway, I have an I-SPY bag that happens to have a small picture of Jesus in it. I was sitting with Skyler before bedtime doing the I-Spy, so I found the picture and asked Skyler... "Who is this?" He thought for a moment, looked up at me and grinned is cheezy little grin and said..."Uncle B!" At the time Uncle B had longer hair and a beard. Anyway, as embarassing as this is for me to admit this failure in my parenting, it is kinda funny.

Getting Ready for Christmas

We had a lot of fun getting ready for Christmas. The boys experienced their first Christmas tree, and helped the best they could to hang ornaments. They also enjoyed the decorations around the house. My favorite decoration growing up soon became their favorite. The crank ice pond with the twirling skaters. They loved to listen to the music and watch the skaters....so much that the pond is no more :( I am hoping David can fix it for next year. They also liked this inflatable snow globe with a snowman inside.


Connor and Skyler decorating the tree

Skyler decorating
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Connor enjoys the snowman.

Connor admiring the pond

We also had a lot of fun doing a chocolate calendar to count down to Christmas.

Vising Santa

We went to see Santa at Albertsons. They boys were a little timid, but eventually warmed up. They loved to give him "booyaas"


Skyler and Santa

Connor and Santa

We also went to see Santa at the mall on Christmas Eve with Papa Craig and Grandma Teresa. This time they didn't want to sit with him, but we still got some good shots.



The boys then got to ride a couple rides.

Thanksgiving Weekend

For Thanksgiving this year we went down to Las Vegas to spend it with all my (Cassie's) family. All 5 of us siblings and family were there, so it was a lot of fun to see everybody. The cousins all jumped on the trampoline quite a bot. We also took the kids to the little municipal airport in town. We ate lunch and watch planes land. It probably wasn't a SUPER busy day at the airport, so there weren't a whole lot of planes, but fortunately there was one plane that must have been practicing taking off and landing becasuse we saw that plane like 15 times, and the kids didn't know the difference, it was awesome. We also saw a helicopter. The boys really love planes and helicopters right now. I don't know how but anytime we go outside the start yelling, "airplane" and I think they are just doing it...but then I look where they are pointing and...theres a plane, that I would have NEVER noticed. It was a fun weekend and good to see everybody!

While working on Thanksgiving Dinner, somehow this plastic cutting board stuck to the bottom of a pan that was on its way back in to the oven, a GREAT mess to clean up while stressing about dinner :) Kristy is showing off the handy work!


The kids on the trampoline




At the Airport




Other fun pictures from November

Halloween

I am FINALLY posting pictures of Haloween. I tried to be creative and do another TWIN themed costume, so they were MARIO and LUIGI. Skyler was Mario and Connor was Luigi. For Halloween we went to the High School and did their trick or treating through the halls. We also went to our ward Trunk or Treat. The boys got their costumes all wet at the ward activity, so when we got home we changed them out of their costumes. Connor didn't seem too interested and had a hard time even giving the candy to the those that came by the house. Skyler was very wrapped up in the spirit on Halloween, and loved answering the door and handing out the candy. I decided that he should be rewarded, so I threw on an extra costume my sister let me borrow (the elephant) and took him out trick or treating. It was seriously SO much fun. He was so cute, he learned not to walk on the grass, to go to houses that had porch lights on, to have his bucket when he knocked (it was kinda heavy so I was holding it), and to say trick or treat when somebody came to the door. Only he held his hand out instead of the bucket. By the time we got home, Connor seemed to be in a more chipper mood, so we threw a Dragon costume on him and David and I took the boys to a few more houses. We really had a fun time.

Staheli Family Farm

The weekend of October 23, my sister, Erica, and her boys were in town. David and her husband, Heber, went up to Provo for a football game. We had a lot of fun that weekend. One thing we did was to go to Staheli Family Farm. Our cousin Cinthia also went with us. The boys had so much fun on the corn slide, then the petting zoo. Eventally the did the train ride (pulled by the tractor). And finally they enjoyed the tire swing made to look like bulls. Skyler absolutely LOVED the train ride and seeing the cows during it. He would have riden it all day. Connor enjoyed the tire swing, and it was quite a challenge getting him off.