It's Broken?

I don't know what is is about my kids, but I swear we spend WAY too much time at the Dr. office. The event that caused our Dr. visit this time involved Jess and the ladder to the bunk beds. Lets just say he didn't quite make it to the top....instead he fell off braking his arm on the way down. He is so cute about it though. He keeps telling everyone...."broke it". So he officially broke his arm on his 18th month birthday. What a cute boy with is bright blue cast!
I just had to post this picture of him...the other day he got into some chocolate and went to town. I guess he was going to use the sponge to clean himself up.

Kade just finished his first year of Jr. Jazz and he kicked butt. He was quite the scrappy little player! He did a really great job and I was so proud of him.

Chase, Kade, and Joey

With all of this nice weather we have had, we couldn't resist playing out on the desert after school. Here are Kade and Chase:

Jess is super tough!

Gotta love boys!

What we've been up too

Can I just say that I live in the most beautiful place in the whole world! This past week we have really enjoyed our surrounding and each other....and we only had to drive 20 minutes from our house.
Our first adventure was up to Joes Valley one day after Kade got home from school. We loaded up our sled and our snow clothes and headed out for a hike up to the coolest waterfall ever.

On our way the boys thoroughly enjoyed the snow. They rolled in it, the threw it, they ate it....they LOVED it.

While on our hike we came upon this fun little hole in the rock, so the boys had to pose with their heads sticking out.

Finally the end result of our hike. Amazing isn't it.

Our next adventure was out to the desert to check the cows. This adventure was definitely exciting because we got stuck! This is something that we are very used to in our family. Kyle seems to get us in a pickle quite a bit. This time, we had to have Kyle's cousin Kash come and pull us out.

It took Kash about a hour and a half to get to us. Kade was determined to dig us out while we waited for Kash.

As you can kind of see, the back tires are not touching the ground at all. Even though we only saw 3 cows and spent most of the day stuck, we had a good time and made a fun memory with our boys.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! Can you believe that it is 2012? Weird! We had a great time ringing in the new year by going sledding around Buckhorn Reservoir. The kids had a blast getting pulled around and dumped off the sled.

We had a nice camp fire that Kade help make

After a few hours of sledding, we all headed over to Groggs for dinner.

And then off to the bowling alley

Superman is quite the little bowler!

The next day Kyle took us all ice fishing up to Willow Lake. We ended up getting skunked, but it was a nice ride and it made for some cute pictures of my boys!

Hanging in the ice fishing tent

I can't wait to see what 2012 brings!

Christmas and more

Christmas came and went super fast this year, but we still enjoyed every minute. We were able to visit with Santa several times this year. The first time was at the Castle Dale town party. Here are the boys with Santa.

Our quick picture with Santa...Jess didn't even cry.

Around the first part of December we ventured high into the mountains to find some snow for sledding. Jess LOVED it can't you tell.

I don't know if you can see it very well, but the day before picture was taken, Tyce crashed on his bike and tore up his entire face. Poor thing!

Now for Christmas. My mom always throws a way fun party to kick on the Christmas season. It is always so much fun and is always jam packed with activities. This year we played survivor and we started off at the farm with a shooting contest. Tyce and Kade were pretty good little shooters.

After the adults shot their clay pigeons, we took the party up to the elementary school for some more fun games and a super funny talent show. Here is Jess just being his dang cute self.

Kade and Kelsey participating in the three legged race

Doesn't Kyle look like a stud!

After playing at the elementary, we headed to my moms for yummy food and presents. My mom gave us all "The Pass of All Passes". What a cool present!!

Christmas Eve:

For Christmas eve, we started the day at Grandma Reid's for a caroling party and then we headed out to Buckhorn Reservoir for my Grandma Hansen's party. The kids had a ball being pulled around the reservoir behind the 4-wheelers (and I had a ball trying to dump them off the sled). It was the perfect day for sure.

Here we are caroling for my Grandma Reid's party

Our last stop on Christmas Eve was at Kyle's mom's house to re-enact the nativity. Kade made a wonderful donkey!

Here are the kids waiting patiently to open their Christmas jammies

All the grandkids on Kyle's side.

Christmas morning was priceless! I just love the look on my kids faces when they see what Santa brought for them. Here is Kade with a few of his presents.

Tyce was SO excited that Santa brought a batman cave! He started clapping when he saw it.

Jess was excited too. He loved his bouncing moo cow and train the most!

Tyce got this little 4-wheeler from Santa and he had so much fun hauling Jess around the yard.

We had such a merry Christmas and we were sad to see it end so fast. We hope that you all had as much fun as we did! Happy new year!