Enoch's Birthday.

After school today we rushed down to Enoch's Lego birthday party.

 Tiff had some great games for the kids - first we set a timer and the kids had to pick up as many legos as the could with chop sticks.

 Bodie was concentrating so hard!

 Baby Nelson enjoyed just chilling and watching everything.

 Next we played a game where you had a few seconds to build a lego and then you had to pass it to the person next to you and they added on to it before having to pass it again.

 This little girl was dressed for the occasion!

 The happy birthday boy with his lego cake {made by his sister Addie}.

Blowing out candles.

Happy Birthday Enoch - thanks for letting us celebrate with you.

Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies.

My friend Andrae brought me the most amazing chocolate chip cookies with Oreo's in them when we first moved into our house.  I have made them twice since and wanted to share the recipe.

It's easy.

You make your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and throw in a package of Oreo's at the end.  Today I made them with cool mint Oreo's - so good! {although when I went to open the package or Oreo's about half the package was missing ... }

 Mine don't look at good as Andrae's did - I am still trying to perfect them, but they are so good!

CTR 4 and Nursery.

It is a new year and that means new classes at church.

We get to stay in the 9 o'clock time slot for now because our stake is expecting "big changes" soon.

CTR 4 Boy

Because of the 'big changes' that are coming Truman gets to keep his Sunbeam teacher for now which he is really excited about.

Truman currently has a serious sledding wound on the entire left side of his nose - I am pretty sure he broke his nose.

Nursery - second year.

Bodie loves Nursery although his buddy from school {who is also in our ward} graduated to Sunbeams so he is bummed about not seeing Ty at church.

Because our Nursery is so big they don't do any kind of activity of coloring sheet {in an effort to keep the chaos to a minimum}.  Every week without fail when we pick Bodie up from Nursery he says, in the most disappointed voice "we didn't color anything today".  

We always check in halfway through Nursery and take Bodie to the potty - the other day when we stopped to get him he was sound asleep {at 11:00 AM mind you} in his chair in the middle of song time.  Apparently he slept for over 30 minutes.  I wish I had a picture!!!

Gregg and I also got a new batch of 13 year olds in our Sunday School class today.  We went from 22 kids to 21!!!  I was reminded today how immature 13 year olds are, we had to establish the rules and then we did a little get-to-know you game.

Frozen.

With all the hype around the new Disney movie 'Frozen' we decided it would be fun to see it in the theaters to end our holidays.  We met Gregg in Park City after work for the show - complete with our PJ's on.  Cute show!

High School Friends.

Tonight I met up with some friends from my Park City High School days for dinner.  When ever we are all in town we try to get together and catch up.

Me {pregnant with a boy - my third child}, Tessa {pregnant with a boy - first child}, Jamie {pregnant with a boy - second child, first boy}, Dayna {recently engaged}.

We all met in SL at Settebello Pizzeria - it was amazing, I highly recommend it.  It is the closet to real Italian salad, pizza and gelato I have had in America.  

After eating, sharing pizza and talking for almost two hours we asked for our check to discover that the nice gentlemen next to us had paid our tab.  What a pleasant surprise!

We already planned our next get together for May when everyone is together for Dayna's wedding.

New Years Day.

 We had a perfectly lazy New Year's Day.  The Simons family invited us over for traditional "New Year's Breakfast" {recipe HERE}.

 Gregg enjoyed lots of snuggles from our new niece Evelyn who is living here in Midway for a short time - I think someone is ready to hold a baby of his own soon!

New Years Eve.

Doesn't it look like our New Years eve party was amazing! Ha, ha.

Happy New Year.

My parents came over to help celebrate with us, we at some junk food and then played games.  The boys played games together while the adults followed tradition and did a puzzle.  

Truman has been begging to do fireworks since the 4th of July so we dug out some snappers and sparklers.  It was all he could talk about today.

But when it came right down to it, Bodie hid inside and Truman freaked out on the front porch while Gregg blew his horn and did sparklers.  Classic.

Everyone was in bed by eight o'clock!

Happy New Year 2014.

Christmas Cards.

I love sending and receiving Christmas cards.

This year it was fun to get cards from new neighbors and ward members.  The boys loved looking at all the cards, especially the ones that had pictures of their cousins on them :)

Best card by far!

It's from our new neighbors who have four boys.  It says, "Love & Cheer, texting you Happy Holidays"  and it's a picture of their boys at the beach all sitting on a bench on their iphones.

So funny!  

And another favorite {my mom's favorite} from our friends the Robinson's.

The pictures are from our trip this summer to Bear Lake - love all the colors!

Christmas Elves.

About a week before Christmas these boxes showed up at the house.

Gregg decided he wanted to surprise the boys by finishing the basketball court by Christmas.

It was SO hard keeping Bodie and Truman from going down there.

They kept seeing Grandpa Quinn and Grandpa Bob come to the house {they were coming to help with the installation} but wondered why they couldn't play with their grandpas.

My dad and Gregg laid the floor one Saturday - although I think Gregg stayed up until about 2 AM to finish.

And then late Christmas Eve grandpa Bob came to help install the basketball hoop.

The basketball lines are being painted sometime mid-January.

The kids table.

Over the holidays my brother Nate and his wife Lauren came to visit us one day.  I got a kick out of Nate and my dad sitting at 'the kids table' for lunch - well, I guess it is the only place to sit to eat beside the bar.  We are narrowing down a dining room table we like so in the mean time everyone uses the kids table.  Truman and Bodie love it.

I had fun sitting around all afternoon with Lauren discussing our upcoming deliveries, we are both having boys about a month apart.  I gave her all my best post birth/pregnancy tips and tricks!  

One last funny story while I am on the topic of food;

my parents stopped by one night recently on their way home from a trip.  I fed them dinner and as they were leaving my dad pulled out a $1 bill and left it on my countertop and said, "here's a tip"

Totally random!  Thanks dad.

Where's Waldo.

Hopkinson's gave the boys a set of "Where's Waldo" books with a magnifying glass, flashbacks to the 1990's a my childhood!  It was the perfect gift, I get a kick out of Truman in bed like this at night studying away!

Here is a picture of Waldo that Truman drew on a thank you card to Hopkinson's.

I love it.

Doing Waldo with dad one Sunday morning.

 This is serious stuff!