Christmas and lots more...

Dec. 24th, 2009

Love it when they're nice to each other!!
(Back track just a little) Dec 23rd, 2009 my cute nephew
Grant Alan Ugarte
was born.
can i just say I was a little jealous that she was done being pregnant, just a little.
RJ and his new baby brother.
Christmas Eve at Grammy and Papa's
Dallin in is dress up clothes Eric and Larissa got him.

My awesome parents.

All the boys got matching pj's that said Big Brother since they will all be big brothers.

Dallin

Bryant

Grammy and her boys.

I love Bryant's face.

Dec 25th, 2009

Breakfast at Grandma GiGi's. They boys loved playing with all her
cool bikes for her bears.

Silly Dallin

Dallin thought he was being sneaky and found some candy and went to go hide in this closet to eat it, to bad mommy caught him.

My brother Marc gave his girlfriend a ride on my Uncle's cool Harley, he was loving it!

Then Christmas day we went up to see my other grandparents that live in Prescott. It is a tradition to go shot guns, I don't usually go and I kept to my tradition and didn't go again this year. It's way to cold out for me!

But it looks like they had some fun.

Unfortunately Corey wasn't able to be with us on Christmas this year, which was very stressful and I don't think I will be doing that again, ever!

So...

Santa come on Dec 26th, 2009

It was nice to have him home the day after Christmas, but the feeling was a little different. The boys loved all their new toys. They were pretty spoiled this year.

They are lucky to have so many people that love them! They got so many great gifts!

While Corey was away on Christmas Eve he went shopping and got the boys a couple small gifts and he bought me a couple things, even though I told him not to. One of the things he got me was perfume. I had been out for a while and loved the gift very much. The boys wanted to put some of it on also. They crack me up! One other thing he got me was a snack pack from the airplane. It was hilarious. I love my husband and his creativity, it seems to be getting better the older he gets. He didn't have wrapping paper so he used some old flight sheets to wrap the gifts. He's awesome! It was by far the coolest wrapping paper ever!

"Right here mom!"

Bryant's turn.

Then Corey and the boys gave Max the dog a bath, he needed one bad!!!

Sunday night we went out to my Grandparents again to visit with some family that had come into town and Bryant played a game of pool.

Then Monday night we headed over to Corey's parents house in Queen Creek to have a family get together.

A rare moment between Bryant and Ella, but very cute!!

Oh the trouble they will find...

SO some of you out there might think I'm a terrible mother after viewing these photos but trust me I didn't teach them these things and do not encourage it by any means. Ok well I guess photographing the actual scene is kinda encouraging but I just thought I should document the things my children do so that someday I can show them how absolutely crazy they, and maybe I were.

Yesterday they decided to figure out how to climb the chain link fence around our yard. Long gone are the days of feeling safe about the kids running out front without leaving the yard.

Mr.B at his best, he is CRAZY!!! Then the other day I made Corey help me clean out the laundry room, it was getting very bad. We pulled everything out and organized it all and now it looks magnificent!!! Anyways... When we were pulling everything out Corey hands me his fishing spear gun and says put this somewhere where Dallin won't find it. So I thought I hid it pretty well but no. The kid LOVES guns and this one was way cool and just had to be found. He played with it all day and even chose to stay home from the park to play with it because Mom certainly wasn't gonna let him take it to the park. We finished cleaning the laundry room and Corey had put the gun way up high on the top shelf way in the back where Dallin couldn't get it. After all it is a spear gun and has a sharp end. The next day we were looking for Dallin and could hear a faint call for "Mommy, I need you!" over and over. We finally found him in the laundry room on the top shelf holding the spear gun. He had climbed all the way to the top shelf by himself cause he somehow saw the handle of the gun sticking out. When Corey and I came into the laundry room he says, "It's not ours, No it's mine now." What a little stinker!!!

I just think this is a funny picture of Dallin jumping, it makes me laugh!!

They were supposed to be showing me their muscles.

Our ward had a Christmas party this past Saturday and we went on a hay ride and sung Christmas carols. The boys LOVED it!!

Don't mind the messy face, he really enjoyed his dinner.

The family

Then the other day Corey was by far the best Dad EVER!! He took the boys and the dog on a hike, then he set up his flight simulator and let them have at it with flying the planes, how cute is that!?! They loved it!

Then he made their fort just a little cooler! Now they can talk to each other from inside and on top of the fort.

I sure love this man, he's the best!

Last Friday we went to my parents to have our annual cookie decorating party. Corey was so creative and fabulous at decorating the cookies, I mean look at this little guy! Hehe;)

The boys sure enjoyed it too!

We went to the train park in Scottsdale last week and had a blast.

Temple Lights and more

Last night my family and I went to see the temple lights. It was tons of fun and the boys loved everything about it! We were sad that Corey couldn't be there but we had fun anyways!!

My boys are getting so big!

Cousins
Silly Bryant

Boys will be boys

Like Papa like Grandboy

Quiet Toys...

A while back at church a nice sister in the ward noticed the struggle I was having with my children and offered up some of her quiet toys for my kids to play with. These toys were awesome and the boys loved them and it kept them quiet and busy for quite a while. So after that Sunday I was determined to get myself some of those amazing quiet toys. All it was, was a board with holes around the edges and a shoelace tied to one of the holes so that the child can thread the shoelace through each hole. Takes quite a bit of concentration and patients for the child to get it done and they love doing it over and over. So with my Sundays being as they are... Corey hardly ever there and two crazy boys all by my lonesome I was like I said determined to get me some of these fun boards. The other morning I couldn't sleep and stayed up thinking about all the cool boards I could make with some scrap wood we had outside. So that morning when Corey, who was home, got up I told him my plans and put him to work cutting the wood for me. I drew some funny cut outs on them and he went to work again cutting out these odd shapes. I drilled the holes and then glued this cute paper, that I already had, on to them and now all I need to get is the shoelace and they're complete. I made a few extra for my cute niece for her birthday. I know her mom will enjoy these "quiet toys" for church too!!!

Help!!!!

Ok so Corey and I have been talking and...

the name of our unborn child just doesn't feel right.

I'm just glad we talked about this before he was born. Apparently we both felt the same way but were to afraid to say something to the other, glad we got that of our chest!

SO......

Any suggestions??

Look what we had for lunch!

Delicious!!!

Corey likes to make these wonderful smoothies for us, aren't we so lucky!

Recipe:

Spinach
Strawberries

Blueberries

Blackberries

Banana

Cucumber &

Water

Look at that face, he's pretty excited to get some of that goodness!
This is what we also ate, cucumbers w/ salt, oranges and water.

And these were the results...

Then last night...
We went out to my grandparents house in Prescott and the boys did a little of this..

(like father like son)

So that my little brother could do this for his sweet girlfriend for her birthday.

We all pitched in and helped a little. My grandparents are so cute!

oh and the boys played outside in the little bits of snow they had.
It was a bit cold.

And then...

This is often what our bed looks like in the morning!

Somethings got to change!

and this is just a funny picture of Bryant trying to balance on a stool while coloring at Grammy's house. It was pretty funny to watch.