Gingerbread House and Santa Claus

I bought a gingerbread house kit and one night we took it to Grandma and Grandpa's house to put it together.

 Morgan tried to eat the candy the whole time...

 Mason was interested for a few minutes...

 Brad is the cubmaster in our ward and the December activity was going to the museum as a families to see the Nativity and gingerbread house exhibits...I didn't know that they had Santa Claus at the museum until we got there, but it was a nice surprise! Morgan did pretty good sitting on his lap, especially once she saw the candy canes...That girl will do anything for sugar : )

 On the other hand, this was as close as I could get Mason to go...but at least we can say that we saw Santa Claus! 

Christmas Tree

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Brad took Mason out to cut down a Christmas tree with Corey and MaryAnn and the Doty's. They found the perfect tree and cut it down and brought it home. Then came the fun part of decorating! 

Chicken Pox??

One morning I was at work and I got a text message from Brad saying that he had woken up to Mason with chicken pox...I was pretty shocked and wasn't sure where he would have gotten them from since he has had the vaccines. Then I saw the picture that Brad sent me...

Turns out that Mason found a marker before anyone else was awake and gave him self the chicken pox. Silly boy! 

Mason goes to the dentist

I finally found a children's dentist here in Idaho and made an appointment for Mason to go. It was a pirate/ocean themed office so he had a blast playing on the giant pirate ship in the waiting room. He did really good for his x-rays.

 He wasn't a huge fan of the light in his eyes

 Showing off his super clean teeth with a super cheesy smile!

Unfortunately, Mason had a couple cavities so I took him back a couple weeks later to get them filled...I chose to have him sedated for the fillings and ths boy does not react well to Versed...it made him very upset...but we survived the fillings and made it home with a super loopy Mason. He kept looking around as I was driving home and asking "what world are we in mom?" It was pretty funny. Then we got home and this poor kid couldn't even sit up without falling over...After a sippy cup and a movie, he was feeling back to normal and had no memory of the dentist : )

Halloween 2012

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. We grew some pumpkins in our garden and ended up with about 20 of them. We carved a few one night. Mason was just super excited to get to use a little pumpkin carving knife. He spent the whole night just stabbing it into his pumpkin so he ended up with little tiny holes all over. 

 One afternoon we went to Trick or Treat Street, where a bunch of local businesses decorate a trailer and then hand out candy. The kids had a blast of course.

 I went to Mason's school for a Halloween party. It was a ton of fun for the kids. They got snacks, played games, and read stories.

 An attempt at a class picture of 3 and 4 year olds...

 Mason kept telling me that he wanted to be a mummy for Halloween so I spent an afternoon cutting out strips and making a mummy costume...of course after I spent all the time making it, Mason changed his mind and refused to even try it on...luckily he had gotten a new pirate costume for his birthday and he decided to wear that instead. And I learned my lesson and will never make him a costume again : )

 Happy Halloween from the cutest little witch and pirate! 

The rest of the Summer...

On Mason's actual birthday he got a couple more presents...this time he talked Grandpa into helping him build his legos.

 Mason helped Grandpa trim the chickens wings.

 Morgan scraped her nose after falling down the cement steps. She got all dressed up for a Daddy/Daughter activity at the church

 Mason and the Doty's played with the new croquet set he got from Aunt Kelli for his birthday

 We took a really quick trip down to Las Vegas/St. George for Shane's wedding.

All the pumpkins from our garden :)

Mason has a birthday!

Mason turned 4 on August 28th. I gave him a choice between having a party or having a special night out with Mom and Dad. He chose the night out, so we left Morgan at my parent's and set off to do whatever Mason wanted.

We started with some rides and arcade games at Leo's place.

Then we had some dinner at Red Robin. 

After dinner we went to Toys 'r us to let Mason pick out a toy. He knew he wanted some legos but once he saw how many legos there were, it took him a while to pick out what he wanted. 

He ended up with a lego log cabin (it took me 2 hrs to put it together...good thing he is  cute kid) and a little lego fire truck. 

Morgan turned 1!

Morgan turned one on July 24th! We had a little party for her while the Lyman's were still in town.

Morgan actually wasn't a big fan of the cupcake. I don't think she even took one bite 

 She was more interested in the presents, especially a little toy iphone that plays music and a little doll and stroller that she got from the Doty's. 

 We got Morgan a pink Little Tykes car. Mason was really in to this present and he ran and got his toolbox to help Daddy build it one night after Morgan went to bed.

 Morgan really likes the car, especially when she gets pushed around in it and doesn't have to do any of the work.

Morgan weighed in at 18 pounds and 27 inches at her 1 year checkup. She started walking about a week after her birthday and grew her first 2 teeth about 2 weeks after she turned 1. We sure love this busy little girl!