There's a first for everything

So we've had FOUR kids and although we've had a few stitches and bumps and bruises, we've never had any foreign objects lodged up the nose until tonight. #4 gets the prize. Cydnee was playing with those little round plastic beads that you make into shapes and then iron so they fuse together. I was doing a puzzle nearby and she came over and started whining, asking me to "get it out of my nose." I looked up there with a flashlight, and sure enough she had a bead wedged clear up there. I kinda panicked for a minute and even tried to call a nurse to see what I should do. No one answered. It was too far to try and get out with tweezers or anything like that and I was afraid I'd get it stuck even further. She didn't like it much, of course. It took about 15 minutes of crying and trying to get her to blow it out into a kleenex, but it finally worked. What a little turkey. I don't think she'll be doing that again anytime soon.

Better late than never

I know this is so past the fact and Christmas seems like ages ago, but I thought I'd blog a few more Christmas pictures, particularly for Dave's sisters and brother we didn't get to see :( I keep thinking I'll get to the computer more often to stay updated, but it just doesn't seem to happen. I don't know how you guys do it. You are way better bloggers than I am!!!!


Christmas morning- Santa was good to us- especially to the boys. I had convinced them that there was absolutely NO WAY Santa was bringing them a Wii since he knows their mom didn't want one, but he brought one anyway and they were sooooo surprised.

Annual Christmas nativity with the Kimball cousins. You're a good sport, Uncle Phil!

My attempt at a nice Christmas dinner. I drag out the China only on very special occasions and Dave just rolls his eyes. He can't figure out why in the world I thought I needed that for our wedding.

Super star Dad made most of the meals at Christmas time and even spoiled us with apple pie on Christmas night!

Breakfast with Santa at the church.

Christmas Festivities

It's the last day of the month and I've hardly blogged a thing. We have had a great Christmas month. Most of these pictures were taken awhile ago, but they were too cute not to blog. I'll add more later of actual Christmas day stuff.

This was our attempt at Grandma's annual Christmas picture with the grandkids. We normally have it professionally done, but ran out of time. So, this is as good as it gets this year. Actually this kind is much more true to life and kinda tells it like it is- kids will be kids!



Cydnee and Kennady in their new Christmas dresses.

Michael and Michele's boys stayed with us for a weekend while their parents were in Arizona. They are so great to have around- so easy and fun to be with. The boys entertain each other with video games, basketball and football matches in the play room so they hardly emerged from the basement the whole weekend except to eat. It smelled like a gym locker down there!

Dave's cousins Colby and Brad joined us for dinner with Michael and Michele when they came to get the boys. Such great guys!!! We love having them in our ward.

Finally!

Kennady has been WAITING and WAITING to lose her first tooth. Most of the kids in her 1st grade class have already lost several teeth, but our kids seem to be extra slow in this area. -Austin has only lost 9 and Spencer just lost his 8th- Anyway, last night was a great day at the Halls' house.

And this is what Kennady left for the tooth fairy- picture taken post tooth fairy visit, of course.

Getting in the Spirit

The kids and I spent an evening at the Festival of the Trees. We started at the gingerbread houses (their favorite part) and then continued on through rows and rows of beautiful trees. Here are some pictures of some of our favorites. The kids were tired and ready to quit after just a couple of rows, however and were fighting over who got to ride in the stroller. Cydnee just wanted to sit and watch the dancers and singers who were performing on stages nearby (not a popular idea for her brothers). We managed to get in the Christmas spirit a little bit and had a fun time.

This tree was called Kinetic Christmas and had balls that moved all throughout the wooden tree. So cool!

Maybe if we had a treee like this one, Dave wouldn't complain about decorating at Christmas time!

This was taken just as we were about to leave. Of course they were fighting me about taking pictures, so I said the quicker you stand there and smile, the sooner we'll get out of here. Are those some natural looking smiles or what? What we do for a picture, huh?

Big day at church

Kennady was asked to sing a little solo part in the song the Primary is singing in Sacrament Meeting today, so we've been practicing. The first line she'll sing on her own, then the other kids will join in for the rest. She's way braver than I was at 6- there's no way you could have gotten me up in front of that many people! Yeah Kennady!

Happy Halloween

It was a relatively easy costume year. Yeah!! Cydnee announced last week she wanted to be a pumpkin, andTif lucked out at the fabric store and was able to find just a scrap of orange, green and black fleece to make this cute and easy costume. All the rest were either borrowed or remnants of past Halloween costumes. We did buy Spencer's spy hat and Austin's nerd pants (a great D.I. find). Anyway, they seemed to be happy with how it all turned out and enjoyed a great evening trick or treating.