Sunday, February 17, 2013

Valentines Fun!


Cannon and Jane helped me make sugar cookies.  The warmth of their hands and the butter in the dough made for quite a fun mess.


 One of our favorite things to do with our Pass of all passes is the rock climging wall at the Lehi trafalaga.  The kids are experts at it now and love to race each other.  Even Jane can hold her own.





 This is the frog hopper ride at the same place.  It isn't Disneyland but is good for a few seconds of thrills!
 Hunter and Jacob have mastered going up the wall frontwards so now like to climb up backwards, Crazy!

 We had our annual valentines breakfast and birthday celebration.  I made personalized cookies this year instead of notes, funny because Aly noticed and asked where their notes were.  I guess I better not change traditions.
 The boys are official teenagers!  They took some friends to planet play for their birthday last week and then we had a great family birthday for valentines day.  Uncle Don took us all to Red Robin for dinner and then we came home for cake and ice cream and a movie in our theatre.  Love that they don't have glasses to glare in their pictures this year.
 Aly made a cute valentine's box for her class party and got way to many treats.


 I am Emily's room mom and the little ones had fun coming with me to put on her class party, although Janey's face would say other wise.  They both ate way too much sugar that day.

 The boys both wanted candybar cake for their birthday this year.  Hunter had a snickers cake and Jacob had a kit kat cake.  We froze one of them because we had so much cake and Emily's birthday is in 5 days.  Way too much cake for one household.
 Emily was super creative and made her valentine's box into the BYU stadium.  It was all her own idea and making and we all thought it turned out great!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

December 2012

 Merry Christmas.  The month started out with a couple of needed haircuts.  The girls love their new shorter hair and Mom  loves less tangles and tears.  Aly also had her first piano recital.  She played jingle bells and Rudolph and did great!
 We had our anual Santa Lucia program on the 23.  We greatly missed Grandma and Grandpa Brinley,  it just isn't the same without them.  Aly was our Santa Lucia even though she was fighting a high temp.



 We did homemade sibling gifts again this year and the kids did a GREAT job.  Girls got magnet boards made by Katy and Cannon (OK, mom), Jake made a personalized hook board for Katy, Aly and Emily sewed BYU hats for the boys, Jane made and fun cover for Emily's babybook,  and Hunter made a personalized puzzle for Cannon.  Everyone loved making and receiving their gifts.

We had a great Christmas despite half of us fighting a severe cold flu bug.  Cannon was in seventh heaven on his new 4 wheeler from Uncle Don.  Can't wait for the sidewalks to be cleard from snow so he go ride it.




 Emily, Hunter and Jake all got sleds for Christmas and thankfully we had some great snow New Year's Eve to test them out. We had a great time sledding with cousins at Rock Canyon.




 Jacob got a broken hand from our fun sledding day but has been a great sport about it.  Both boys got contacts for Christmas and look so handsome.  They love seeing without glasses!