It was a Very Merry Christmas 2011!!

Christmas Eve in their Christmas Eve Jammies!

Putting together Hungry Hippos. They have been wanting this game FOREVER!

You scored on that one Santa!!

I gave Stan a heated blanket... It was hard to get him off the couch and out from under it later! :)

Grandma and Grandpa decorated these notebooks with individual stuff that the kids love.

They were really excited about them!

Trypten was super excited to have his own mini cookies-and-cream candy bar all to himself!

It was a Very Merry Christmas 2011!!

Tree Gettin'

Last weekend we went up in the mountains to pick out our Christmas Tree. Trypten mostly hung out with me but went with Stan at first to make sure this tree was the "perfect" tree!

Then the other three boys chugged up to make sure too!

Trypten had his own ideas about what (or who) was going to get decorated this year!

And here's our beautiful Christmas Tree!

(Excuse the pan, Trypten likes pulling out the pans and whatever else he can reach in the bottom cabinets.)

Merry Christmas!

Ryker... caught!

I thought that the treats were safe up above the fridge...

until I saw this!

And because he's so dang cute and persuasive when he wants something...

I let him pick a treat... just because!

Ryker's First Day!

Ryker started pre-school last week. Here he is on his very first bus ride home.

I asked him how his first day of school was and he gave me a big thumb-up!

He also said, "It was awesome!" (In his most excited and theatrical voice.)

On another note... I forgot to take pictures of the kids all dressed up in their Halloween costumes! (Gasp) I might just have to have them get all dressed up and take an after Halloween one to post on here. Whoops!

These are the cupcakes that I made for Kyler and Corden's class parties at school on Friday. I thought they turned out pretty cute. Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

long overdue Moss post :)

This post is loooong overdue! 3 months ago when the downstairs flooded, I called my bestie Annette and asked her if the 4 boys and I could come to Wy. and invade her house for a week to get away from the craziness (and the smell). She apparently likes a full, insane, loud house... because she said yes! So, off we went.While we were there we went to a place called Porcupine Falls. It was beautiful!! I took this picture on the way down the mountain.

Annette and I didn't know it was going to be a crazy downhill, and then back uphill hike to get there...

So we wore our flip flops. If we ever go there again... I think we will be sure to take some tennis shoes!

Ryker and Mason at Porcupine Falls. Cute little fellas! (Oops, I mean handsome!)

They had Cowley Days while we were there so the kids all went through a "kid parade" before the "big parade" started. They loved that.

I can't remember the name of this place, but it was amazing! We all stood and yelled into the canyon so that we could hear our echos come back to us. It was awesome!

Here they all are waiting for the parade to start. We had such a great time and no one wanted to leave when the 8 days of fun and craziness were up! We miss the Moss family every day and count our blessings that they are a part of our lives! Love you guys! THANKS so much for letting us hang out! :)

You GET some... you LOSE some!

Trypten's 1st tooth! (Not so happy about being held still for this photo)

And don't mind the boogs in this one... he is teething after all!

Corden lost his FOUR front teeth!

It's pretty fun watching him eat corn on the cob! LOL!

broken ARMS!

Apparently last week was the week for broken arms because Corden broke his on Sunday and Kyler broke his the day after that on Monday!!
Knuckleheads!
Hopefully they don't plan on doing that again anytime soon!
(Actually I think never again would be nice!)

I was trying to get just one picture of the boys where neither one of them was making a face or sporting the "I'm not gonna smile face" (Kyler) ... Reagan snuck into half of them! What a ham ball! LOL!

Hangin' with the cousins is always an adventure! What a bunch of sillies! Love em'!