Christmas

I am finally getting some Christmas pics posted. (PICTURE OVERLOAD)

We started out December by going to cut down our tree.  Such a fun tradition we've been able to do for the past few years.  I must say, Josh found a winner this year, we loved it!

Our boys aren't the most adventurous.  They stayed inside the car while Daddy did all the hiking.  Tyler gave him the thumbs up on the tree to cut down though.

Yeah, they finally got out for a few minutes...until they decided it was too cold and got right back in the car.

Josh and the boys putting on the ornaments

 We spent some time bowling with some friends.  I love the holidays!

"Elfie" brought Tyler and Tanner a gift when he got to our house from the North Pole.  An elf hat, movie and a new ornament.  Tyler made sure Tanner knew that "Elfie saw that" whenever he was naughty.  They loved looking for Elfie every morning.

Santa visited our neighborhood.  Tanner squirmed off his lap pretty fast but Tyler is at least coming within a foot of him...while hanging on tight to Dad.  So much progress!

We got to go see Prancer and the beautiful lights at the Botanical Gardens.  Tanner LOVED looking at the lights!  That might have been my favorite part about this year.  I enjoyed driving around at night just so I could hear him "oooooo" a lot.

The boys in their Christmas jammies.  (Well, Tanner's aren't new.  Just wrapped up some he's worn a billion times.  The fun is ripping that paper anyways, right?)

Christmas morning is so fun!!

 Tanner showing me his yummy candy

 Wouldn't be Christmas without watching "A Christmas Story" at Gma and Gpas

 Tanner making his typical mess of food (I love Will Ferrell in the background!)

 Grandma and Grandpa got a cool new car at their house and the boys had a great time riding it.

We loved our low-key, stress-free Christmas and only hope it can be this fun every year!  Happy 2012!

Halloween, Thanksgiving, and in between...

The boys had a great time helping make sugar cookies for Halloween.

Trick or Treating was great!  We took the boys downtown to a really cool street!  Tons of people, lots of candy, amazing decorations - it felt like we were in a movie.  Tyler was pretty cautious (shocker!) but still had a good time.

 Just one of the houses

A view of the street.  Kind of hard to see but there were people up and down both sides of the street.  It even got a lot busier as we were leaving.

 Just a cute pic of the boys getting ready for bed.

We were able to squeeze in one BYU game this year.  Next year we will hopefully go earlier in the season so we don't freeze.

 The boys making apple turkeys

Tyler dancing and Tanner licking the beater full of pumpkin cookie dough.  (Don't worry, no eggs involved)

 We were able to go to Grandpa and Grandma's new house for Thanksgiving.

Tyler and Carson spent a lot of time outside building their own house with all the scrap wood that was there.

That's just a little bit of what we've been up to.  Now we are deep into Christmas prep and loving every second of it!

Dress up

 I thought only girls liked to dress up.  Not so.  Tyler LOVES to watch different movies dressed as the characters.  Thank goodness it's October and costumes are pretty easy to find.

This one is his actual Halloween costume.

And this one is Josh's Halloween costume.

Not really dress up, but I love how anything he puts around his big head is super tight!

Loving Fall!

We have had such a nice warm couple of months.  I am really not looking forward to it getting cold.  This was just a month ago.  The last day we were able to get the pool out.

These two have so much fun!

 Josh turned 33!  Yikes!

 Tyler "won" a Tae Kwan Do class.  He was totally not interested...but at least he got a cool uniform!

 Tanner's favorite thing to do right now.  Dump EVERYTHING!  I was going through Halloween stuff and somehow he dumped the entire box of Cheerios on the ground...and then thought he was really funny throwing them.  Such a BUSY boy!

 The boys continue to pick and eat tomatoes like candy.

 Tanner will sit himself down in the tomato plants and go to town.  Red, green, rotten...he doesn't care.

 He loves to get all of my hair bands and put them on like necklaces.  I think he has every single one on.

FOUR

I can't believe this guy is 4!  We just had a little get together with family at Chuck E Cheese.  The boys and I had never been there before and they were in heaven!  Tyler ran from game and game and Tanner LOVED the buttons and lights.  Such a fun place!  Who knew?

Happy Birthday Buddy!  We love you!!

All Growed Up

Tyler started preschool this week and he was SO excited!  He loves his teacher and asks everyday if he gets to go to school.  Yesterday wasn't a school day and he was very upset about it.  

Today was "share" day and he was supposed to take his favorite toy to show his class.  He didn't want to take anything but finally decided on an old broken fire truck.  When I picked him up I asked him about what he "shared."  He said "I just showed it."  Apparently he thought he had to take something to actually share with the other kids and wasn't about to take a nicer toy.

Baby T is ONE!

Our little monkey turned 1 the other day.  Quite possibly the fastest year I've had to date!

  He loved picking at the eyeballs on his cake.

See?

The presents were pretty fun too.

Love that kid!  Happy birthday little man!

Camping

We can say we went camping at least once now.  We'll see if it happens again this year, but we had a great time with our friends this weekend!

The only picture I got of the adults.  They were busy getting our foil dinners and yummy cobbler ready!

Angie and Maren

 Dallin loving the ketchup!

Tyler and his buddies Cam and Brynn

Tanner sporting the headlamp

All sticks became guns and swords. The guys even got in on it and started making machine gun sounds.  :)

Had to stop at the ice cream shop on our way home.  Bubble gum ice cream anyone?

 Thanks for a great time Wycherlys and Givens!  Let's do it again next year!