The best gift of all ...

The best gift I received this year was to learn how to quilt. I had my good friend Sister Lillie Cooper teach me how to quilt. I made two denim quilts for Zac and Nate's bed. I took all of their jeans that i had saved over the years and I made a quilt with different color of fabric in between. Then I had a red flat sheet on the back and then put red ties on the quilt. From the pictures you can't see the red ties. It was just amazing when I put them on Zac and Nate's bed they looked so beautiful and finally their bed linens matched. The first thing Nate did was take his wallet out of his pocket and put it in the pocket on the quilt and told me thanks now he has a place to put his wallet. I am always glad I can help Nate. Sister Cooper did most of the work but we had so much fun doing it together. I did another project for Christmas in which I made quillows for each of my boys and husband. I will have post them up soon.

On Christmas Morning our tradition is to get up and drink our orange juice before opening presents. On Christmas Eve night as Boyd and I were getting ready we realized that we didn't have any orange juice in the house. I was so sad. I didn't want to break tradition. So Boyd and I drove to the nearest gas station in which was just about to close and we bought some tropicana orange juice. I was so grateful Boyd did that for me. Traditions are a big part of our family and they may be simple but they are important. They boys drank their orange juice in one big gulp and then we opened presents. But Boyd's pictures sums it up best of how we all felt Christmas day. He fell asleep with all this noise around him of the boys playing. Maybe this will be Boyd's new tradition.

Merry Christmas

The traditions of Christmas are my favorite. On Christmas Eve we get to open pajamas and then model them for the camera. Luke was so excited to get spiderman pajamas. He went and got his mask and then put it on with his pajamas. Some people might find it a little strange but I love spiderman so it is just fine with me. The older boys got shirts that had silly sayings on them. Nate's said "Cereal Killer" and then Zachary's said "Procrastinators unite tomorrow". We all laughed and had a good time. I didn't think it was funny that Boyd bought me a T-shirt that said "Drama Queen". I AM NOT A DRAMA QUEEN !! Nate asked me if I was trying to proof my point by screaming that to them. I guess I am the Queen of this castle. I guess it is o.k. that Drama is in front of it.

December brings the semiformal way of life ....

Zachary went to the Christmas Semiformal with Emily. They came back to our house afterwards for ice cream and hot chocolate. It was so great having some girls in my house. I think Zachary had a fun time. Oh, to be young again. Zachary and Emily went with Gantt and Casey. Boyd intorduced them to the trans-siberian DVD and they watched that on TV.


This picture made me laugh so hard. I don't know what Zachary was thinking. But he looks like his Dad.

Alex the wrestling man

Alex is up above in his starter jacket. Not every meet he gets to wear this jacket, he has to wrestle to get the number one spot on his team. Some of the meets this year he has started. He has already been to one state qualifier match and won a spot at state at the end of the season. Every match he learns a lot. This is one sport I am still trying to understand the rules. I just know it is the hardest sport to watch your son play because it just looks like they are in so much pain. The best part about this picture is that Alex got his haircut really short right after this picture. I will post one of those later.

The Littlest Wiseman

This vidoe was so sweet and short but it sure got me in the Christmas spirit really quick.

The Fall Leaves Are All Around Us

Luke had so much fun!We had fun trying to rake up all of the leaves. We still aren't done but we have a really big yard with lots of trees. So every fall we prepare our self for lots of cleanup.
Samuel was a very hard worker! I think about all of my relatives in Utah shoveling snow we don't have snow but we have lots of leaves.
Jeremy loved to run and jump in the leaves. He loved being buried in it too. I don't think Jeremy wants to pick up the rest of the leaves because he comes home from school and just plays in them. When we put Jeremy in the garbage can to push down the leaves Nate was trying to hold on to him but he fell and the whole garbage can fell over. I thought he was hurt but he was laughing so hard. I think he loved it.