Christmas Party's

We went to our ward Christmas breakfast and ate a breakfast potato casserole, oranges and Costco muffins! Later, after a shepard read the Christmas story out of Luke, Santa Clause showed up and handed out candy canes with an ornament wrapped around it.

Mommy had to bring a casserole early to the church Saturday morning so Dustin brought the kids over later. He dressed the kids and had them to the church by 9am. Dustin did good with the red and white stripe action with McCall. The hair could use a little work!

My mommy and daddy came down to Boise a week before Christmas and brought their presents for us and the kids.

Jackson saw Santa twice this year. Santa came to his preschool and the parents were invited.

After Christmas party picture because the first one didn't turn out with McCall and Jackson on Santa's lap at Jackson's preschool.

Take #2

I helped out at Andrew's school for the Christmas party. They had three tables with 8 kids each. Snack table, games, and craft. I was in charge of a game so I looked online and found this cute relay race. They had to pick up peanuts with a spoon and run them to a stocking that was hung up on the other side of the room. The first to fill the stocking won. They really enjoyed it.

Grangeville For Thanksgiving!

We had a good time in Grangeville and eat and eat all the traditional foods along with our families traditional hominy casserole. We watched movies out in their half court basketball gym and danced and played a little ball.

The kids were brave going without their jackets for another picture.
Is this my twin or what? The kids love their cousin Kylie!

Grandma wants to update her wall will current family pictures so we came prepaired to have a family photo session! It when pretty smoothly. A little cold but we survived.

One our way home from Grangeville we stopped off in McCall and found our Christmas tree with the Cazier family.

McCall didn't have much luck walking around in that snow outfit!

Andrew decided he wanted a tiny tree for his room and they found a perfect one crowding two smaller ones.

Annual Thanksgiving Feast with Bledsoe's and Gerratt's

6th Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner with dear friends!

We had a wonderful evening with delicious food. Everyone brought their specialties. The Gerrett's always bring the best turkey! Rebecca cooks up the best yams ever!! We love this holiday tradition with these two beautiful growing families! Look at all the kids now!
Sommers, Brook, and Rebecca with our babies (Shaydon, McCall and Tian). Mine is not much of a baby anymore!
The adult boys are hard at work cleaning the playroom. We left the kids to play and enjoyed our meal and when we took a peak in the playroom....every toy that I think we own was out and all the puzzles were out of the boxes and all the games and their pieces! Ya, the kids I think had a blast! The boys were so helpful and jumped right in trying to piece everything back together. It was cute to see them on their hands and knees cleaning!
Thanks, Boys!
Thank you Gerrett's and Bledsoe's for another wonderful evening together catching up and eating great food! We love you and your little ones.

Andrew and his first dirt bike ride

IDAHO CITY IN NOVEMBER

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

We took off for Idaho City last weekend to go riding at about 9:45 am and arrived home about 5pm. The whole Cazier family rides dirt bikes and Grace, their 7 year old did not feel like riding. I asked Andrew if he wanted to try it and he smiled really big and said "YES." He hopped right on and took off like he had been riding for years. The day was very warm for November (48 degrees). We drank hot chocolate by the fire, had lunch and took turns riding!

Thank You Cazier Family

Andrew followed this same trail over and over and over for about 30 minutes!
Dad was right there for the first round then saw how confident he was and we all just watched form afar.
He went over bumps, through rocky terrain, and even a mud puddle!

He was speckled with dirt when he was done. He quickly asked when he could ride it again.

McCall had fun walking around picking up sticks and getting really close to the fire!

The whole family enjoyed the day. Oh, almost forgot the trauma in the car with Andrew before we arrived. Andrew was complaining about sticky hands. We gave him a baby wipe and he used then 2 minutes later he was still sticky and wanted another one. I had about two in the case and needed to save them for McCall when she did her thing. Andrew just started wigging out, crying and crying and complaining for about 10 minutes. When we arrived he couldn't get his seat belt off and just went off crying again so we left him in the car and dad banded him from his bike. He stayed in the car for about 10 minutes crying acting like he was stuck in there and couldn't open the door! But the rest of the day was great!

Tyler and Dustin took a nice 45 minute ride up the hills.

Andrew found the coolest stick that looked like a hammer!

Grace loved those marshmallows

Jaycie and Ammon looking cool in their gear.

Jackson liked those marshmallows too.

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Halloween Night

The kids were all NASCAR themed. Andrew and McCall were race car drivers and Jackson was a race car. Mom and Dad were the fans!
Mom took the first shift walking the kids from door to door. Our first 5 minutes out Jackson was having problems with his straps...they kept falling off. Then both of them have to pee. Andrew's outfit Velcro's up the back so it's not very conspicuous when trying to pee. I had both of them pee in the bushes when no cars were going by. Then Andrew decides he wants to trick-or-treat Ella's house (a girl in his class) so we head further away from the house towards Ella's. He assures me that it is not far. Well, Andrew is riding in this Race car go-cart that has a battery life of about 20-30 mins. The classmate lived at the very front of the subdivision. I made us turn around half way there knowing that I would be pushing home a go-cart with a card board car inside it!
On our adventure we saw Governor Palin and John McCain. Palin was holding a little baby and a coffee mug and McCain was holding up a campaign sign. It was hilarious!!


On dad's adventure out with the boys, he took them to LOCAL neighbors and to a neighbors Hunted Maze. Jackson said it was scary and Andrew said it was cool. They boys came home about 9:00 pm and immediately dumped out their candy and sorted them. Oh, the memories!

The Boise Zoo Halloween

The Boise Zoo does a Halloween day the Saturday before Halloween. A variety of different companies set up booths in the Zoo and hand out candy to the kids. The Zoo also has a costume contest and different crafts for the kids to do and bounce houses.

The race car drivers got to race an old safari jeep!

Andrew took the drivers seat ready for a race.

The Zoo has a new exhibit that has been in the making for a year!

They now have giraffes!

We went with the Weiss's and they took a pictures of our family by the river.