Bowling

We went bowling with these cute friends at Jack and Jill's! Then we went to Sub Zero! (Blake was feeding "Nandi" pizza!! Andi Armstrong)

Treadmill

Josh was cleaning out his "gear" closet downstairs and the boys gathered! Blake wanted the treadmill on. Josh turned it on and they began to slide!! He called me down to video! The boys were having a blast!!

Trent explaining that Blake was crawling up the treadmill!! Trent was cracking up!!

Love my brothers!

Driving to the cabin, Blake did not need to hear out of the headphones . . . as long as he looked like his brothers he was happy!!!!

Blake update

Here are all the words I can think of Blake has said at least once up to this point . . . mom, dad, Josh, ball, hello, home, Aly, Grant, bite, up, down, chip, Trent, soft, done, cow (tow), moo, more, candy, banana, hi, bath, ow and owie, light, belly, bum, on, show, no, towel, water, cup, back, c'mon or mon, done, mine, me. I love how he imitates everything! He . . . talks on the phone, reads books, brings me a flosser and lays down to floss, helps wipe during diaper changes, cleans with rags, sings, hides, wears every one's shoes, watches movies for one minute on his belly chin in hands, turns on the TV and hops on the couch upstairs to watch Boondockers the snowmobiling DVD, rides our big stuffed animals, touches your face softly says soft and claps, golfs, plays the DS especially with the pen, roars for play dinosaurs, vrooms trains and motorcycles, lays on anything and everything soft or pillow-like and says "ahhhhhhh," and he drives.

Boys home sick!

The boys have had terrible coughs this week! I had Trent home Monday through Thursday afternoon, we took him to school after lunch! To tell you the truth, they got along so well it was nice! I think being so sick myself, it was a neat break for all of us just to chill! We watched movies and one day the boys took 3 recreational baths! Trent told me they were playing baths not cleaning baths!

Sleepy Boy

Josh was at school and I got the boys ready for bed early! Blake had a shortened nap that afternoon! The boys and I were talking in my room for a while and I could not hear Blake. Grant went to look for him but decided he didn't want to go alone in the dark! We all headed to the family room quietly and there was Blake asleep on his panda and Grant's lion with one of my slippers on! We all cracked up! I grabbed the camera then carried him to his bed!!

Sledding

We met the Becker's at the park by Britt's house to go sledding!! The boys LOVED it!! I was sick but Dad was lots of fun!! (It was at the park that Evelyn and I decided I needed to be hydrated!!)

New Years Eve

On New Years Eve Josh went snow mobiling! When he got home we headed to a party at Noah's! It was a blast and unfortunately I forgot my camera! There was lots of food, video games, ice skating, ping-pong and movies! The rink was fantastic . . . Josh and I could walk in our shoes helping the boys to skate! They absolutely loved it! I stuck Blake's feet with shoes in skates and kind of skated him around a lap! We left right after that with him hysterical because he wanted more! I was done though!

Bath Time!

Sunday I was giving the boys a quick bath before church . . . came in and surprise Blake in his jammies!! The boys loved it!! My parent's arrived to go to church with us and got to see!!

A few days later Grant got in the bath with Blake and pulled out his Christmas shaving cream! I could smell it through the hallway . . . he used the whole can! The pictures do not do it justice! It was a tub full of shaving cream!! Trent saw and had to join the fun!! I drained it because I worried someone would be poisoned!!

Spaghetti Mama's

Friday evening we met the Becker's and the Jensen's at Spaghetti Mama's! (We had Verne, Ben, Britt, Chels and Jocey + families!) Blake loves to dip!!

Christmas Morning

This year Trent tried so hard to sleep! I told him I was too sick to get up in the night! They got up at about 6:45am! Santa brought red bricks and card board houses for both of them! They each got an animal pillow too!

Grant got a skateboard van!

Trent got rock house dinosaurs!

They both got a few long sleeve shirts! (NEEDED)

When Blake woke up we were done!! He came out to see his new slide and was very distracted by blown up punching balloons!!

Blake also got a little dog on a leash that barks!

All the boys got Starburst, Strawberry lemonade and toothbrushes! The bigger boys got band aides and shaving cream to play with in the bath! They also got some paint to decorate their card board houses!

Grandma and Grandpa Reese came to see the stuff! I got sick and felt much better so we had eggs and sticky buns!! Later Josh took the boys to see Alvin and the Chipmunks while Blake and I slept! We headed to Sandy for ham!! I was very sick! (I think lack of sleep!) I did not even have dessert! Everyone else had Raspberry Delight I had made! The big boys slept at Grandma and Grandpa's house and went to the Kangaroo Zoo the next morning!!

Santa - this is for you!

When we got home from Grandma Evelyn's house . . . Josh and I gave the boys Night at the Museum 2! They watched it then got ready for Santa! They put out cookies, carrots and milk! Then they went out front and sprinkled the oatmeal glitter mixture Trent's teacher gave him! It helped Santa find out house and the reindeer smell it!! They loved the capes so much they slept in them!! Once the cookies were out, Trent got very concerned that Santa did not get any presents! He put together an envelope with a note and some Shrinky-Dinks he had made that morning! He left that out for Santa as well! The boys wanted their picture with their capes on so Santa would know that they try to Choose the Right!!