9 months.

Bodie had his nine month check up today.  He is still super small.

15 pounds 6 ounces | 26 inches

Sunday night his top left tooth came threw and today it was is top right - he hasn't been to happy about it!

Despite what the American Academy of Pediatrics says my kids get a clear runny nose and high fever every time they get a tooth.  He's my little elf in these cute Christmas pj's.

{click here to see Truman at nine months}

family.

Bodie rocking away looking at the Christmas tree!

 Bodie and Truman before church in their Christmas outfits {are boys aloud to have Christmas outfits like girls do?!} - Merry Christmas!

After church Tara snapped these photos of us - thanks!  Merry Christmas.  I wish we had snow!

ski day.

 Look at that big smile!

I dropped Gregg off at Park City Mountain resort this morning to ski with my brothers and our brother-in-law.  My parents bought all the boys ski passes for Christmas.  They got their Christmas presents at Thanksgiving {when everyone was in-town} but never skied because the snow was bad.

 The little boys spent some quality time doing puzzles with grandpa.

too cute.

They came home for some warm soup at noon and then headed back up to the slopes.  Tonight they are all at the St. Regis working out.  I guess you could say it was "guys day out" 

They look like ... the four amigos!

McKay, Aaron, Dallin, Gregg

music.

 Today we went to a holiday Music Together class.  My girlfriend Kristi is a music therapist.  She teaches two semesters of music classes a year.  Last fall Truman and I took one her classes; I am debating doing it again this winter with both the boys. 

 Truman loves music - in the car on the way to class he sang a ten minute rendition of "Twinkle, twinkle little star".
He is getting his bells on to sing "Jingle Bells".

Kristi always plays a song toward the end of the class that the kids can pick any instrument to play along with.  Truman usually goes for a drum.

 Our friends the Fifes were there.

 Kristi with her two youngest kids.

After class Kristi hosted a pre-birthday celebration for me {Tara is missing, sick with strep}.  Starting in August we each have a birthday, one a month for six months.  We have been going to the late night movies or out for chocolate dessert for the past three months but, with the holidays this month we decided we better meet for lunch since nights are busy with parties.  Next month is Kristi's birthday so hopefully we can get back to our night out {with the husbands at home putting the kids to bed}!

{me, Kristi, Ali, Tami, Laura and baby Annebelle - remember her here?}

Thanks friends!

friday flashbacks.

Anthony Quinn

Year ??

{I can not get over how much his son Ira looks like he did as a child}

lights.

For mutual tonight we braved the bitter cold weather and the huge crowds to see the lights at Temple Square. 

 These are the wonderful ladies I serve with, Caprice and Michelle.

 This was our best attempt to get a group shot.

 Some of our girls.

Seeing the lights on Temple Square as on our family 'to do' list so Gregg and the boys came with me.  What a crazy time of year to attempt to take our kids to see lights, especially on a Wednesday night in Utah!  Bodie was the most well behaved out of anyone in our group; he didn't make a peep from about 5 o'clock when I woke him up from his nap till 9:45 when we finished dropping girls off at home.

people.

Truman loves to draw and color; I have posted about it before.  Today he drew a person, presumably a football player, for the first time.  I had to take a picture because I think it looks pretty good for a 2-1/2 year old!  You can also see at the top of the page that he loves to draw "T"'s.

Ward Christmas Party.

 The Young Men and Young Woman in our ward were incharge of the infamous Ward Christmas Party this year.  With alot of help we pulled it off with a short amount of time to plan.  The youth served dinner and then we had a short Nativity play.

 The Relief Society made all the food {thank you}. The youth helped dish it up and serve it to about 200 people.

They voted to wear goofy Christmas hats!

 Mary and baby Jesus.

We wrote a really cute and really short nativity play.  We had the wonderful  Dean and Kathy Hughes from our ward narrate it for us {basically the Christmas story from Luke 2 tied in with testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Thomas S. Monson at the end - very powerful}.  We had a few songs mixed in as well; a solo by a primary child, a small RS number, and numbers by the Young Men and the Primary.

{if anyone is looking for a Christmas program email me and I can pdf you a copy}

I thought the decorations turned out awesome.  I had the high priest run wire from bolts in the gym and then we strung Christmas lights from the wire {it dropped the ceiling to 10 feet which made the space feel more intimate}.  The tables were set really simple but really elegant and then we had a few trees with white lights and simple decorations. 

We asked people to bring donations for our local food bank.

I didn't remember my camera so these pictures are thanks to Caprice and John.  Unfortunately no one get a picture of the place settings or the entire gym all set up.

Thanks to everyone who made this ward Christmas an elegant success!