December 2019: Tyler's month of birth and getting ready for Christmas

Our tree is up and READY FOR CHRISTMAS!

Grayson's art work was chosen for the district art fair so we went to support him! He is soo happy and loved. He is having a great year at school. They had an ugly sweater day and I had just the ugly sweater. Tyler hates this sweater but I refuse to get rid of it; it's so comfy! I got my hair done and had a beautiful view of the Ogden Temple while I waited!

 

One day Nolan goes, "Say cheese! Take a picture like you're in love!"... he took a wonderful picture that I'm grateful to have!

For Tyler's birthday we saw Star Wars IX and has HuHot for lunch! We even sat in the luxury lounger! Yessssssss! Despite some hate the movie has received, we did enjoy it! We recently watched them all again and were pleased with our efforts! Shout out to my mom and sisters for being willing to hang with the kids during her visit with us!  Tyler loves these Whoopie Pies with cream cheese frosting so that's what he got! I hope he had a nice day, because he deserves it! He is the favorite person of all the people at home (me and the kids). We would be lost and unhappy without him in our lives!

 

He had worked so hard this year to be better for himself and for us! We are blessed to call him our own! 

He used some health money from work to buy a gym membership for December and January because... Winter. I don't wanna be the one to tell him about second winter... any takers? He is putting the TV to good use, but finding that Halo is only fun with Tommy... only 9 months to go and he will be home! He also used the snack wrappers a church one Sunday to makes some pretty cool sculptures. 

 

Our furnace... broke.... well, kind of. APPARENTLY, you are supposed to change the filter... more often than we did. This can make the furnace angry! However, because we are clever and capable adults, some youtube research led us to some things to try. We tried them and voila! Fixed furnace!

Here's a cute picture of the children that didn't freeze due to our ingenuity! 

Last year created our family tradition of making cookies and treats for those we love! This year did NOT disappoint! We had Lynn for a couple of days while he family looks for a new house and we were glad for the help!

 

 

 

 

 

Santa came to visit us again! My children are skeptical (Santa sure looks and sounds an awful lot like dad), but I reminded them to just enjoy the magic! JUST. ENJOY. THE. MAGIC!

 

 

We took most of the people to ride the train and see the lights a Temple square. The train is usually the kids' favorite part. Temple square will be very different before we are able to go again! It wasn't too crowded because we decided to go on a Thursday. My recommendation? Go. On. A Thursday.

 

 

Lyla sure loves all these new babies in our Swamily. If you ask her... she does NOT want a baby.... SHE'S the baby. Good thing too, she will not be getting one.

 

Look at these people! We are so blessed! 

Now, on to Christmas! 

Until next time...

November 2019

November wasn't quite as busy as I expected! The weather stayed a little warmer than usual and we still spend a fair amount of time outside! Tyler ran the Turkey trot 5k and we had hot chocolate while we waited.

 

 

We had our first big glasses mishap. A couple days after fresh lenses (without scratches), the whole side completely popped off! Cue frustrated mom. Our eye doctor is in Logan and it usually takes about a week for repairs.... now that he is older and MUCH more verbal, we are on the hunt for a doctor in town. 

 

Mitch and his family decided to leave us forever in the next couple of months. As they are getting ready to move they gave the kids a going away present. A fish tank! It came with a goldfish named Goldie.... It's been a while since we've had one. I've been assured that this requires little to no cleaning..... we will see! We took the kids to Petco and let each one pick a guppie. Grayson got a red one... named Reddy..... Nolan got a blue one named...... Blue...... Lyla picked a yellow one and the boys were SURE she chose to name it... Bleh.... Tyler picked one and named it Cobra. Just keeping it real here!  I always catch them on the counter checking out the fish.

Papa Murphy's had a 50% night and we got the kids their own pizzas to make. They were very self-motivated and did most of the work on their own! 

 

Disney+ came out and this is how I feel about it....

We are really enjoying it so far! There is soo much to choose from that it's difficult to decide where to start! 

My children are constantly doing things that make me laugh! Lyla just wants the people to give her space. Grayson is just a goofball who wants to do all the big kid things! Nolan is always creating a new way to play with all the office supplies. Usually it's some time of aircraft. This day, it was prisoner restraints. 

 

I only have the picture of Grayson... but you can literally shoot your eye out with a bb gun! Who knew?! I did not understand, the idea seemed impossible... APPARENTLY..... the bb can bounce back! Nolan got a small welt on his cheek from one bouncing back! We will be more careful in the future!

As we go ready for Thanksgiving the snow decided to fall. We left a day early to skip driving through a storm and it was a GOOD decision! We got a total of 18 inches in about two days! We came home to soo much snow! We were in Idaho with my family for Thanksgiving this year. They had almost no snow compared to the amount we came home to! Nolan built a snowman with snow at my moms and Tyler had to shovel off the car at home! 

 

Rolls are the boys' favorite Thanksgiving food! Tyler caught my mom and gramma resting after all their hard work!

 

Lyla was so very tired because a nap was missed. We played Tenzi and Grayson was so thrilled that he could play the game too! 

 

We got our Black Friday game on! I found most of my AWESOME deals (a hoverboard) before Black Friday, but we still decided to buy a giant TV. The price was right.. so why not? To us, it is huge! 

 

We also decided to do this 10 year challenge everyone is talking about. We bought our first 42in tv in 2011 for MORE $$$$ than the 65in this year. Technically it's only 8 years... and we had to have Grayson take the picture... but enjoy! We took those pictures on a digital camera, look at the flashbulb and red eyes!

 

 

Next, we got our Christmas tree ready for Christmas! We are excited!

The Christmas season comes next!
Until next time...