Xmas pictures 2009

my favorite. she was mad because she said that she does not know how to smile

2009 is almost over. wow.

We had a great Christmas. the kids were spoiled like normal. Santa brought them a new trampoline to replace the broken pieces to the old one. (it was much cheaper to buy a new one then to order a new pad for the springs and net for the enclosure) Sean got a new tv. We video taped but did not get many pictures. sorry. I will see if I can get some of the video on the computer.

We spent Christmas eve baking cookies and then had our Christmas party with Erik's family. by the time we got back from church and ate and then they had to wait for me to get home, (I had to work 2 services at the church0 and opened gifts and everyone left it was pretty late. I think the kids got to bed around 10:30. they did get their notes written to santa. Jake's cracked me up because he wrote. "Dear Santa, I do not have a cavity and I want star wars clone wars. Love Jakob" We did have dentist appointments that week and we had gotten a letter from school saying that they had a teeth screening and it appeared that Jakob had 1 or more cavities. He was really worried about that and when the dentist told him he did not he was pretty excited but was not expecting that to come out on his Dear Santa letter. made me laugh. well Erik and I were up pretty late finishing wrapping and getting stuff set up.

Christmas morning the kids slept in to about 8 and then 2 of them the girls woke up and we had to wake the boys up. we opened gifts and then played a bit and then had breakfast/brunch. after we cleaned up we went to Erik's parents house to deliver their gift and she gave the kids some stocking gifts that santa left there. and then onto Aunt bonnies and uncle mikes.

Saturday
I had work and the 3 younger kids came with me. then we dropped Jake off at home and went on to do some shopping and pick up lunch, then home to get ready for company. Aunt Cathy, Michelle and Jason and kids came over to visit and have dinner.

Sunday

I worked and then we went to Caleb's 1st birthday party. and then home for a nap. and we did noghting. just hung out and relaxed. A great way to end a very busy week.Sean putting on the Angel

hello everyone
Hope you all had a great thanksgiving. We did our normal, dinner at Erik's family in the early afternoon and then dinner with my family in the evening. We were pretty stuffed after all that food. The kids had fun. Sean was upset the day after thanksgiving because his girl friend broke up with him but he is doing fine now and flirting with other girls.

We have been busy with the kids conferences, and getting ready for Christmas, plus the usual everyday activities. All the kids are doing well in school. Sean getting all A's still, He needs to get more sleep though sot hat he does not fall asleep in class. Kaelyn is doing everything that she needs to do. Jake needs to work on his reading but the little man is so smart. He had an assignment to do in class Filling out a 100's chart. and he still gets mixed up on writing numbers so he remembered that there was a banner on the wall with all the numbers on them and took his paper over to the table closest to the wall and started frantically writing down the numbers. His teacher thought that the other kids were going to notice him and figure it out as well but they were busy working and did not notice him. She thought that was very smart of him to figure that out. Jessie is doing great. she loves to read her wall words and is very good at memorizing them. she has a hard time sounding out words still but we are working on it very hard and she is very determined to catch up to Jake. Her teacher said that she is very strong in math. However she is having a hard time making friends at school, so we are going to work on some play dates for her.


Kaelyn had a big week She got her Braces off and retainers in on Thursday and had her last meet of the season. The Women's Junior Olympic State Championships for level 5. She was awesome. There were 20 in her age group. She got an 8.85 on Vault and came in 4th place, 9.00 on Bars and came in 9th place, 9.125 on Beam and came in 6th place, 9.250 on floor and came in 2nd place, and 36.225 all around and came in 3rd place. pictures and videos to come as soon as I get them on the computer.

Jakob had scouting for food and a trip to the fire station this weekend. Scouting for food the girls tagged along and helped and between the 4 kids that we had there they got it the neighborhood done in about 30 min. We had one lady that was really embarrassed though and the kids thought it was really funny. Sean's troop passed out the bags during the week and Jake's pack had to go and pick up the bags filled with food. They were just suppose to put out the plastic bags on their front porch. Well there was one house that had a plastic bag out but it was not filled with canned food. it was filled with doggy mess, and of coarse boys being boys had to take their turn looking in the bag. Well we left that house laughing and but the other dad that was with us did not see us go to that house and thought that we missed a bag so he went running up and had to look in the bag as well. at that point the lady came running out of the house to pick it up and then came back with a garbage bag filled with canned food. and we all had another laugh. On Sunday grandpa took Jake and Jessie to the Fire House trip. I am not sure if they got any pictures but I guess we were the only family that showed up to that trip but Jake did not care, he had a blast.