Christmas 2011

This Christmas was wonderful and it came and went so quickly.  We were able to get a  beautiful Christmas tree this year from Woodbury tree farm in Moscow.  I love the smell of fresh pine.
It took me 3-4 days to finally get it decorated, thanks to my boys for their persistent prodding.  I love it.  This Christmas we had Grandpa and Grandma Morley come and visit! Thanks so much for coming!  It was great to see you guys and spend Christmas with you! Thanks to all you siblings who shared them with us this year!  We had a wonderful year and were very spoiled. We are so truly grateful for all of our family members who sent us packages and surprise deliveries this year!  

Here is Daddy imitating how much Santa will love our cookies:)

            So Christmas Eve, we did a little last minute shopping and had a wonderful dinner of roast and funeral potatoes, jello, home-made rolls, fruit and dip-I introduced them to sour cream-pudding fruit dip:) So good for dipping rolls and potato chips too! We read the Christmas story in Luke and watched the nativity clip from Joy to the World DVD. After family prayer the kids went to bed and we did the dishes and finished wrapping our last minute gifts. We fed the reindeer and left cookies out for Santa.

Grandma loves her new electric razor from Gpa!

The boys love there treasure chests and silver $'s!

Cameron's showing off his new puzzle!

        

The boys checking out their new presents!

Spencer's face shows his excitement!

Travis opening his presents!

We spent the day playing with our new presents and playing games together. Still no snow yet here..... but that is not what matters at Christmas time. We enjoyed going to the Nativities in Moscow this year and spending time with each other over the holiday. Church on Sunday morning was beautiful and we all talked about how music can really bring the spirit of Christmas. Thanks to all of our family and friends and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas this year!

Funnies and Randomness

So this week I got a call from the nurse at Spencer's school. Spencer wasn't feeling good and was really cold. So she took his temperature and it was 99.5. She wanted to know what i wanted to do. So I asked to speak to him, and  this is our conversation:
Hey mom,
Hey buddy, so your not feeling so good?
No, I just cant get warm, my body hurts.
Your body hurts?
Yeah, my finger hurts, my foot hurts, I have a scab on my ear..I'm just not feeling to good. (LOL)
Oh. Well a scab doesn't make you sick. What do you think we should do?
Well I don't want to go home. I think I'll just drink some water.
Yeah, that would be good. maybe you should stay in at recess and get warm too k?
Ok mom, that should work.

An hour later I get another call from the nurse, and he is still really cold, so she took his temperature and it had gone up to 100.5. Which in the Pullman school district any temp over 100. the child should be sent home.
So I went and picked him up from school and he spent the rest of the day sleeping and getting better. No more fever.... The next day he tells me, Mom Im all better now, Im fresh!

So this morning,Spencer wakes up and is covered in HIVES!. Yes hives. I gave him some benadryl and he took another shower and we rubbed calamine lotion on them. No idea why he has them, but man they looked uncomfortable.
Today is his last day of school before break and they had gone down and were almost gone by school time.

HOLY HIVES BATMAN!

 Crazy huh? Scott used to get hives like this earlier in our marriage for no reason at all. Oh man, Im getting itchy just looking at them.

Basketball pictures/videos

Here is Spencer playing in some of his basketball games! Enjoy!

O' Christmas Wreath......

So this year I decided to do something for me. We'll call it an early birthday present:) I went and made a fresh Christmas wreath through the parks & rec program on Tuesday night. it actually was a lot of fun and super easy! Next time I would do it with a group of people I know, or do it myself at home. Anyways it was nice to have some time for myself and be a little crafty.! I love the candy canes and how well it turned out! Check it out!

Travis is 17 months old!!

I cant believe how fast my baby is growing up! This time next month he will be able to go to nursery at church and I might be able to go to class... Who am I kidding, I'll have a newborn 2 weeks later... and will still be a single mom at church... with 4 kids...:) As of last week they split the 2 wards here in Pullman and we now have 3. unfortunately we are in the brand new ward. Now, I don't really care about the ward switches, but i do think it will be hard to be in a new ward and have a baby and I had a lot of support in our old ward... but anyways, enough about that....back to Travis.
Travis went into the doctor this last week and had his immunizations and a flu shot. He was a champ about it though,he cared more that I took his sucker away than the pain....  So here are his stats:

 Weight: 24lbs
Height: 30 Inches
He's in the 15% for height. Crazy huh.. He'll catch up.
Travis has only ever had one ear infection, and this last one didn't go away, so they put him on some stronger meds. Travis is such a sweet handsome boy. He loves people, and isn't afraid to be held by anybody.  He is uber ticklish and loves music.  He still has a texture issue with food, but is doing so much better. He is mimicking words and sounds all the time. His newest word is no-no. He must hear it to much:) He is a climber and climbs everything and gets into everything.. no matter where we go, or what barriers we put up. He's very mischevious. Anytime the front door or the fridge opens he runs for it. He will grab whatever he can out of the fridge and turn around and run with it. He loves hide & seek and peek a boo. He loves looking at his animal book and loves to hear everyone make the noises. We love you Travis and are so grateful your in our family.

All I want for Christmas is my:

One front tooth!

Last night Spencer lost his 3rd front tooth.(last year he lost his 2 bottom ones). It was a little loose and then 2 weeks ago in basketball he collided with another boy and it knocked it way loose. He's been playing with it ever since and last night he finally let Dad put some floss around it and Spencer pulled. It was quite the experience, and I think Spencer has decided that next time he'll let his dad tie it to a string and slam a door....:) Now i just need to find the lyrics to that song.... All I want for Christmas is my two(1:) front tooth, and teach it to him! Love the big smile bud! Your growing up sooo fast!

Thanksgiving Crafts

So here are a few of the Thanksgiving crafts we made this year!

Gratitude Tree- A FHE lesson- I was able to get the paper from Cam's Preschool and we traced fake leaves and taped it up in the corner of our living room. Every night we would think of things to be grateful for. The envelope held extra leaves and the pen.

Turkey Apples! We used to make these as kids. my mom brought them for the kids craft. All you need are toothpicks, raisins, gum drops and apples. We marked where the feathers could go and helped with the gobble, but let the kids have fun and they did a great job!

Grateful Turkeys-We traced our hands for FHE one night and added feathers on the back. We wrote on the feathers what we were grateful for and added fun features! These went on our front door!