oh Christmas tree!

Today Dallin and Truman took our Christmas Tree tag and went in search of the perfect tree.  They went up to Soapstone with their tools and a sack lunch.

A big thanks to Dallin for taking Truman and for taking these photos - too cute!

Opps!  The axe gell out of his hands on his back swing.

{Truman took these photos}

What a great adventure for a little boy.

Green Smoothy.

We started having "green smoothies" for breakfast this summer and now my kids ask for them!

We start with a huge handful of fresh baby spinach

a big handful of fruit

{I used fresh in the summer and now I buy frozen mixed berries and tropical fruit}

a banana

1 cup of water/milk {more if your fruit is frozen to thin it out}

2 tablespoons of flaxseeds

4 drops doTERRA wild orange

I mix it up a bit depending on what I have in my fridge and what I need to use up.

They are very tasty!

Enjoy!

Sleepover.

These pictures are from a few weekends ago, but I still wanted to get them up.

Jean spent the night at our house and I thought it was pretty cute when I went down to Trumans room and they were asleep in the exact same position.

Love cousin sleep overs.

Selling.

I am selling my desktop, if you are interested please let me know.  It is in perfect working order, I switched to a MAC, that is the only reason I am selling.

HP Pavilion Desktop

A 6700Y PC

4 GB Memory

500GB Hard Drive

Runs Windows Home Premium 7

Acer 23" Screen

keyboard and mouse

$325

{selling on ebay for $365-$550} 

I have all the original boxes, CD's, manuels, etc.

Runs perfectly.  I have completely restored it to a factory setting.

Also selling Dallin's iPad.

He used it this summer for work - it was purchased in May {new}

White

32 GB

$499

friday flashbacks.

My mom was cleaning out last weekend and found this picture I had drew when I was little - she said she could not throw it away because it was so funny... if you look closely you can see that I drew myself thinking about a baby!

Dallin and McKay are not in the picture so I must have been somewhere between 5 and 7 years old.

And yes, we did have a black cat named Midnight.

Snow in Instagram fashion.

We received our first major snow storm of the year last weekend.

My boys were elated.

The picture above is of them watching from the window all morning.

Pictured below: We had to dig ourselves out to go to church.  Bodie loved it.

Our first snow man of the year.

Truman singing an "army" song in the car.Bodie sleeping through it all.

"Savior"

 Tonight my mom took me and Dallin {and our dates} to dinner and the production of "Savior of the World" at Temple Square for an early birthday gift.  McKay has been in the production for a couple of years; this year he has the part of one of the disciples.   

 If you have never seen the production it is a must!  It get's you in the Christmas spirit!

Great job McKay!

Trains.

 

 Bodie loves to drive trucks and other cars around the house - he especially loves this train that Grandpa and Grandma Simons gave him for Christmas last year.  When Truman is at school Bodie usually plays upstairs, loading this train full of his current favorite treasures and driving it around in circles.  I remember my brothers doing the same thing - is it just a boy thing?

 Today this is what is loaded in his train.

Beep, beep mom ...

McDonalds, ice cream and brain freezes.

Truman had 'parent-teacher-conferences' at school today which I thought was a little bit ridiculous at age 3 ... but we went anyway.  After we took Truman out for a little lunch dad for a mine cone at McDonalds.

That is where the brain freeze happened.

{see photos below}

Once the brain freeze was gone everything was back to normal!

This is the paparazzi hand ... 'mom, stop'

We love you Truman and are happy you love school {and McDonalds}!

Trumans writing.

Tonight Truman asked me how to spell his name.

I yelled out the letters from the other room and this is what he brought to me when he was done.

So cute!

"Truman Paul Simons"

The 'Paul' across the middle is the hardest to make out.  The 'Truman' is really good except he is missing the "R" and I love the "S" at the beginning and end of Simons.

I wasn't sure if he would be able to write each of the letters or even write in the correct order or direction.

Vote.

Gold for my goals.

Here are some videos I took last week at the park.

The kids had been in the car a ton one day while I ran around Park City, Heber and Midway working so in the afternoon we spend 2+ hours and two different parks playing and enjoying the last good weather.

Coloring.

Truman love to color.

I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago when he was doing a coloring assignment for Music Class.

Friday Flashbacks.

Camille and Nate | June 2004

It's my brother Nathans birthday on Monday so this Friday Flashback is for him!  I have so many great pictures of Nate, but I love this one!  It is the day I got home from my mission.

Happy Birthday Nate the Great, you really are great!

Dad.

The boys are obsessed with their dad right now, and it's really cute.

Here are Truman and dad reading bedtime stories at Grandpa and Grandma Quinns - Truman fell asleep in Greggs arms right after this picture, it was so cute.

Bodie in the garage helping dad fix a light on the car.

I love when they want dad and not mom!

And I mean that in the best was possible!